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plan could have harmful effects
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• Volume LXIX - Number 27 September 29,1977 - 17 Tishrei 5738 Houston, Texas 2nd Class Postage Paid 25 cents per copy
Congregation for
Reform Judaism
September 30th
On the evening of
Friday, Sept. 30, Rabbi
Wolfgang Hamburger will
be installed as the new
Rabbi of the Houston
Congregation for Reform
Judaism. The ceremony
will be conducted by the
past president, Meyer Ka-
min. Services will begin
at 8:15 p.m.
- RABBI HAMBURGER
by Gil Sedan Arab leaders on the West Bank
JERUSALEM, (TA) — The They would meet with the Israeli
Cabinet has agreed to an Ameri- delegation only for the opening
September 24, 1977: I’m de- exactly when the documents were
parting Mehr Abad International requested.
Airport (Tehran). The double The allegations were brushed
jointed bus that feeds passengers aside by CIA director Adm. Stan-
to waiting aircraft passes planes field Turner and Dayan. Turner,
from Rumania, Pakistan, Ger- appearing on the ABC-TV pro-
many. A MAC (U.S. Military Air gram “Good Morning America,”
Command) cargo plane waits on said the Liberty incident was an
the ramp as an El Al 747 touches action of the Six-Day War that
down on its morning flight from was not malicious and was satis-
Tel Aviv. A short distance from factorily explained by Israel.
my KLM Super DC-8 a handful of Dayan, who spoke to reporters
passengers board an Iraqi airliner in the presence of Secretary of
resembling a 737. State Cyrus Vance just prior to
Airborne less than ten minutes their meeting at the State Depart-
I begin to see below dusty rose ment, told the JTA that Israel had
colored ridges blending down to not known the Liberty was an
the browns and sombre blue greys American ship. We were at war,
of wastelands which make up a he said, and the attack was a
large portion of Iran. And I mistake by the Israeli Air Force,
wonder if the hand of the Sha- “We not only apologized,” but
hanshah and the national econo- agreed to indemnify the U.S. for
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WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A standing community service at a
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) testimonial dinner on November 6
official told the Jewish Tele- at the Shamrock-Hilton, Houston,
graphic Agency that the American Irving Pozmantier, past president
Palestine Committee withheld in- of Congregation Beth Yeshurun, is
formation in its possession that general dinner chairman,
was "considerably at variance" The dinner in Turboff’s honor
with the accusations it published will help support B'nai B’rith
against Israeli Foreign Minister Youth Services which has a $10
Moshe Dayan in an advertisement million annual budget. The
in the New York Times recently. 500,000-member Jewish service
The pro-Arab group charged organization offers a wide range
that the June 8, 1967 Israeli air of cultural, religious, counseling,
attack on the U.S. Navy intell i- and civic activities for young
gence-gathering ship Liberty off people throughout North America ।
the Sinai coast was personally and abroad.
ordered by Dayan, then Israel's B'nai B’rith Hillel Foundations
Defense Minister, although he was serve students on over 340 cam-
aware that it was an American puses, including the University of
ship. Houston, Rice University, the
The Committee said its charges University of Texas, Texas A & M
were based on three CIA docu- and Southern Methodist Univer- Jewish Federation of Houston,
ments obtained under the Free- sity. He is past vice-president of
dom of Information Act Denis The B'nai B’rith Youth Or- North Side Lions Club and a
Berend, deputy press chief of the ganization conducts programs for member of B’nai B’rith, Zionist
CIA, told the JTA, however, that teenagers in communities through- Organization of America, and the
attorneys for the Committee had out Texas and the B’nai B’rith Houston Hillel Advisory Board.
received four documents from the Career and Counseling Service Turboff is also active in numer-
L -ap-sicpznc . CIA but cited only three of them, assists thousands of young people ous community building cam
yfM mmhm.gm •aT. T—-g Those documents, he said, were and their parents each year. paigns, including such projects as
4 ODSGSSGC WAEEE PaCa5 “unfinished, unevaluated, raw in- Turboff, active in a broad scope the Lubavitch Center, Beth
“ telligence." He described the of civic and philanthropic activ- Yeshurun School, the new Jewish
4m mame"emHe evmeE fourth, unused, document as ities, is vice-president of the Hous- Home for The Aged, Klein Re
•• “more finished intelligence" that ton Jewish Home for The Aged treat and the J.B. Goldberg B’nai
“actually was an accounting of and serves on the board of Con- B’rith Senior Citizens facility for
by Yitzhak Rabi Israel can “endanger the progress what transpired in the attack” and gregation Beth Yeshurun, South which ground was broken last
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA) - of the critical talks now taking was “considerably at variance” Texas Hebrew Academy and the month.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United place” in New York between with the other three.
Nations, Chaim Herzog, told the American officials and foreign Although the ad claimed that
General Assembly that die Arabs’ ministers of Mideast countries. the American Palestine Commit-
desire to accumulate anti-Israel Herzog’s warning came in the tee had "just received” the docu-
resolutions “is apparently in- wake of the inclusion on the ments, Berend told the JTA that
satiable,” and warned that the Twentv^ix) the first three were given to the
"obsession” of the Assembly with _ (Conterone"-- group’s lawyers last july and the
fourth was released to them three
weeks ago. He could not say
AJCommittee’s Annual Meeting highlights...........Page 5
Meals-On-Wheels needs drivers, badly! ..........2-.- 11
Ira Hirschmann was in Houston with Tracey Kadmon..... 13
It’s About Time by Dr. Ariel Bar Sela................ 19
Singles Scene by Harry Vitemb........... 20
Teen Community............................. 23
Shmoosing by Ruth Rosenfeld....................25
can plan that would allow Pales- ceremonies. Negotiations would
tinians to attend the Geneva con- begin at subsequent sessions when
ference as part of a pan-Arab the Arab delegation split into na-
delegation on condition that their tional groups for bilateral talks
presence is limited to the cere- with Israel. The Palestinians then,
monial opening session and that presumably, would be members of
no members of the Palestinian one or another delegation, most
Liberation Organization are in- likely the Jordanian. Israel has
eluded. The compromise formula said in the past that it would deal
which President Carter suggested with Palestinians who are part of a
to Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan Jordanian delegation.
at their White House meeting, was In accepting the plan, Israel is
reportedly approved 10-1 at the known to have insisted that there
Cabinet meeting. Only Agriculture be no change in Security Council
Minister Ariel Sharon was op- Resolution 242 to make it accept-
posed. able to the PLO. Informed sources
According to the plan, the here said U.S. officials told Dayan
unified Arab delegation consisting that an Israeli rejection of the
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