The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1969 Page: 1 of 18
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SINCE 1908 ... THE VOICE OF SOUTHWEST JEWRY
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Israel Denies Building of Nuclear
Bombs; Says Story Pure Fabrication
Nasser Changed Mind When Moscow
Called for Strict Observance of
U.N. Cease Fire by All Parties
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Shelling Takes Large Toll i
Staging Area; 8 Guerrillas Killed
Communities of Bohemia and
Moravia. was reported to JTA by
Jan Kolar director of Cedok, the
Czechoslovakia Travel Bureau
He reported that Mr Fuchs said
JERUSALEM (JTA)-Foreign
Ministry officials vigorously
denied this week foreign press
its
1967
R. W. ASKANASE
... a report of significance
Annual Center Dinner
Meeting Te Be First
Event in New Quarters
The Annual Dinner meeting
G^ech Jewish Community Unduely
Pressured from Outside; May Call
Off Millenial Celebration July 9-14
Continued on Page 14
U.N. Observers Te Stay;
Says Changing U Thant
ROME (JTA)-Secretary
General U Thant said here this
week that the situation in the
will not be the first notion to
introduce such weapons into the
Middle East. The denial here
corresponded word for word
with a similar denial issued here
last January when the National
Broadcasting Co. reported that
Israel had built or would soon
build nuclear weapons.
The Montreal Gazette story,
written by Peter Lust, its foreign
affairs specialist, said that
existence of the alleged bombs
was discovered by a group of
Der Spiegel journalists, the
Gazette described the bombs as
20 kiloton atomic bombs similar
to those dropped on Hiroshima
Continued on Page 15
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subsequently rescheduled for the
summer of 1969, apparently
with Government sanction. The
decision to cancel it again was
reportedly taken at a meeting of
apparently sent regrets to
originally scheduled to take
place in the summer of 1968.
were cancelled when the Czech
number of Jews abroad who had
been invited to the cancelled
celebrations. The existence of a
letter of regret signed by
Frantisek Fuchs, president -of
the mediation efforts of Hassan will also be given.
al-Kholy. a personal envoy of Invocation and benediction
Continued on Page 15 will be given by Rabbi William S.
Malev, spiritual leader of Cong.
The millenium celebrations, the Federation of Jewish
Arab-Israeli war. It was the Jewish community decided
truce with A short report by Leon P Beck,
Suez Canal shelling was again
started by Egyptians who
concentrated on an area north of
Qantara and south of Port Said
at the Mediterranean entrance to
the canal. He said Israeli return
fire silenced Egyptian guns on
the outskirts of Port Said and hit
the Only road linking Port Said
with the mainland. The Egyptian
port, which has provided an
anchorage for Soviet warships, is
separated from the mainland by
a marshy lagoon.
Harassing fire from Egyptian
gunners delayed evacuation of
United Nations personnel from
their battered observation post
near Qantara to a new post 30
miles inland today, Israel said.
Three attempts to effect the
move were prevented by
The^A HERAL
- HOUSTON, TEXAS MAY 15, 1969-^1Y AIL
Beth Yeshurun.
Since this annual meeting is
the first following the recent
completion of the new $3
million Center, it promises to be
an exciting evening for all who
attend.
The dinner will be catered by
Mrs. Rose Friedman, and the
couvert is $5.75 per person.
Reservations are still being taken
though the Center office and
should be made immediately.
nuclear bombs. They called such
reports "speculative,
unauthorized and unfounded."
The report in the Montreal
Gazette which was re-published
in the London Evening Standard
was attributed to an as yet
unpublished article in Der
Spiegel, the West German'
weekly.
The officials said such reports
"crop up from time to time" but
that "Israel is not a nuclear
state." The Government's policy
remains, they said, that Israel
compromise at Israel's expense.
Public saturation with Vietnam
has spilled over into the Middle
East crisis
The Minnesota Democrat
appeared to have forgotten the
strong pro-Israel stand he took
during last year's presidential
campaign. His many Jewish
supporters would be dismayed at
the number of conservative
Republicans and reactionaries of
both parties who lined up for
Israel on the latest
declaration while the idol of
the liberals withheld his
signature.
Sen. Edward M Kennedy, of
Massachusetts signed So did
Sen. Edmund Muskie, the
running mate of Hubert H
Humphrey Indeed, over half the
WASHINGTON-When Sen Senate and most of the House
Eugene McCarthy refused to sign sided with Isracl. But . Sen
a Congressional declaration McCarthy, backed by Chairman
supporting the Israeli stand J.W. Fulbright of the Senate
against imposition of a Foreign Relations Committee
Soviet sponsored Big Four and other prominent doves was
settlement” on Israel, a new not moved by Israel's peril
development was dramatized There were exceptions Rep
American liberals have grown Allard Lowenstein, New York
tired of militarism and war Sen. Democrat, •• prominently
McCarthy reflected a growing identified with the New Left and
mood favoring negotiation and the peace movement It was
arbitration that would Lowenstein who helped start the
Middle East was deteriorating
but he did not intend to pull
United Nations ceasefire
observers away from the
embattled Suez Canal zone Mr
Thant spoke to newsmen after
meeting with Pope Paul VI He
said the United States, the
Soviet Union. Britain and France
had a special responsibility to
act urgently He said the Four
Powers should work to put into
effect the November, 1967
Security Council resolution on
the Middle East
to postpone without fixing a
new date—the millenium
celebration "after scrutinizing
the preparations to dignify" its
Continued on Page 10
significant in that it omitted the
usual invective against Israel and
implied a rebuke to President
Gamai Abdel Nasser who has
justified Egyptian military
action at the canal on the
grounds that Israel was
fortifying the Canal's east bank.
The Soviet note blamed Israel
for "impeding" a settlement
based on the Security Council's
Nov. 22,1967 resoltuion but did
not spell out the Soviet-Arab
interpretation of the resolution
which is that Israel must
withdraw from occupied
territories fore any other
provisions are implemented. The
letter rapped Israel for its
opposition to the Four Power
Mideast talks now going on here
Continued on Page 15
Jewish community leaders in
Prague April 20. Mr Baum said
that "Jews of Czechoslovak
origin in the Western world will
be dismayed and disappointed at
this decision which deprives
them of an opportunity to
identify themselves with this
unique occasion and to revisit
the Jewish community of
Czechoslovakia and the country
of their birth " He said that
whether the decision was
prompted by the Czechoslovak
Government of its own accord
or under Soviet pressure, "it is
clear that neither cultural nor
economic relations can be kept
apart from the overall pattern of
the state controlled system "
in New York, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency was told
that the Council of Jewish
Religious Communities in Prague
Egyptian fire despite a promise of the Jewish Community
by Egyptians that they would Center, which will be held on
respect the UN insignia. On the Sunday, May 18 at 7 pm, will
fourth attempt, UN employees be the first one to take place in
managed to load their trucks, the new Center building
The observation post near In announcing the program
Qantara has come under almost for this annual event, Irvin D.
constant fire from snipers, Kaplan, Chairman of the Annual
mortars and artillery in the past Meeting, said, “We are extremely
few weeks. The building is a happy that with our wonderful
shambles and the UN asked for a new Center facilities we are now
transfer to a new site which was able to hold our Annual Dinner
allotted to them by Israeli Meeting in our own magnificent
authorities. The civilian building.” The dinner meeting
population of east Qantara was will take place in the
evacuated several months ago to auditorium
El Arish in the northern Sinai. Highlights of the program will
Reports from Beirut include election of officers and
monitored here over the Board members and a brief
weekend indicated that Annual Report by the Center's
Lebanese authorities were trying president, Reuben W. Askanase.
May 11 (JTA)-The Soviet
Union has called for strict
observance by all sides of the
UN cease-fire in the Middle East
and has pledged to make "all
efforts" to achieve a political
settlement of the Arab-Israeli
dispute. The Soviet stand was
stated in a letter presented by
Soviet Ambassador Jacob Malik
to Secretary -Genera I U Thant,
apparently in response to Mr.
Thant's April 21 warning to the
Security Council that fighting in
the Suez Canal zone amounted
to virtually open war. Observers
TEL AVIV, May 1 1
(JTA)-Three Israeli soldiers
have been killed and seven
wounded in clashes along the
Jordanian demarcation line and
in the Suez Canal sector since
Thursday, a military spokesman
reported. Eight Arab saboteurs
were killed in four separate
clashes Friday and Saturday as
guerrillas attempted to infiltrate
from Jordan.
Almost non-stop artillery
duels raged across the Suez
Canal from sundown Friday
until late Saturday afternoon.
Shooting was sporadic Sunday.
No Israeli casualties were
reported in the latest clashes but
two soldiers were killed and
three were wounded by
Egyptian shell fire Thursday.
The third Israeli fatality
occurred in a battle with
infiltrators near Umm Shurt in
the Jordan Valley north of the
Allenby Bridge, Friday.
Jordanian and Israeli troops
battled with tank guns, mortars
and machine guns north of the
Dead Sea Saturday.
The action followed an Israeli
commando raid into Jordan
Friday. The Israelis blew up 12
buildings at a guerrilla base at
Wadi Yabes, 15 miles south of
the Sea of Galilee. A military
spokesman said all of the
commandos returned safely to
their bases. Israeli sappers
demolished Thursday 10 houses
belonging to identified members
of sabotage rings in Nablus and
nearby villages. One house was
spared because it was feared its
destruction might have damaged
nearby structures.
An Israeli spokesman said the
LONDON (JTA)—A Czech
Jewish leader here expressed
belief this week that the Jewish
community in Czechoslovakia
was being subjected to
"increasing outside pressure"
and seemed “well on its way” to
the “isolation” experienced b
Jewish communities in other
countries in the Soviet orbit
Karl Baum, chairman of the
Council of Jews from
Czechoslovakia, commented on
the news reaching here that
celebrations marking the
1,000th anniversary of Jewish
settlement in Czechoslovakia
have again been cancelled. The
celebrations were to have been
held in Prague July 9-14 Mr
Baum said that a Czech Jewish
millenium exhibition which his
Council had planned to hold in
Britain under an arrangement
with the Jewish State Museum in
Prague will have to be cancelled.
So will a special supplement that
was to have been publisKed in
the London Jewish Chronicle
June 6
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