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, Washington (JTA)—A State Department spokesman, has indicated that Secretary of State Dean Rusk will probably meet with Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin this week to discuss arrangements for the negotiations that President Johnson-directed Mr. Rusk to open with Israel for the sale of American supersonic military aircraft to that country. But a Washington columnist considered an authority on U.S.-military affairs charged that the Johnson directive was a "stalling ploy" prompted by election-year politics and expressed doubt that Israel would receive the jet planes from this, Administration. According to Robert J. McCloskey, the department spokesman, the Rusk-Rabin meeting would probably deal with such details as when and where to begin actual negotiations and at what "level theTalk^shbuId Tie conducted. Other department officials have explained.that detailed deliberations were necessary, to establish Israel's needs with respect to the number and type of jets and terms and conditions of sale. Israel has requested 50 F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bombers, considered to be the best fully operational aircraft of its type in the American arsenal, President Johnson's announcement directing negotiations did not specify what type plane was involved but observers here are virtually certain that hejiad the Phantom in mind. i ,

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Political Stall „ , , .Col; Robert S. Allen, a syndicated columnist who is known'to have access td the highest U.S. military circles, claimed that the Johnson announcement was "largely window dressing" and actually means very '—little. Colonel Allen, who has long advocated the supply, of Phantoms to Israel, noted that there was nothing in the President's announcement that "commits.him to approve the sale . . . He did not even put a time, limit on the duration of the so-called negotiations." . '.. V The columnist pointed out that "as the President has only three more months in office, it would not be too difficult for the State Department to prolong negotiations beyond that.time. The election is one monthoff and on the basis of Johnson's record on this issue, the odds are against his authorizing a sale." Colonel Allen said the President's announcement was made under political pressure for some sort of gesture. ' • ' The sale of Phantom jets to Israel has been urged by Vice President g y T M. Nixon, the Democratic g Hubert H. Humphrey and- Richard arid" Re- ; President's authorizing of an export license for the planes." publican Presidential nominees, and by leading Senators and Representatives of both parties. Colonel Allen wrote, "there is virtually; nothing to —ncgotiate'7~r7Airthairsta^ds"in~thelvay~of~aT^aIes agfephieninOKe"''

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Hebron YoufhMahhed Mrs. Morris Grossman to Be Cited As Grenade Suspecf At Israel Bonds Women s Lunched

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Police reported that a 17-year-old Hebron High school student has confessed to throwing the hand ^grenade- that injured 47 Israeli civilians visiting the Patriarchs' Tomb in Hebron last week. The youth, identified as Addin Rashid Geit, was apprehended within 12 hours after the incident. Defense Minister Gen. Moshe . 1 Dayan told newsmen that punitive measures were likely to be taken, against several other. Hebron residents known to have . cooperated with young Geit. — The grenade was tossed over a six-foot wall*and exploded on steps leading to the tomb which is located within the compound of the Ibrahimi mosque.' Twen-' ty-one of the injured remained - in hospitals. Eight of them underwent emergency s u r g e r y . Hadassah Hospital in_

men that stricter security measures would be taken to safe-' guard tourists, and worshippers in Hebron. He said that guards would be. posted on the roofs around the tomb site. Several I s r a e l i ' n e w s p a p e r s warned against acts of reprisal by Israeli youth for the H e b r o n grenade incident.

Mrs. Morris Grossman, prominant civic leader in Omaha and Council Bluffs, will be the hon-. ored guest at the "Family Affair" Israel Bond luncheon of •the Women's Division. The 12:30 p.m. 1 luncheon will be held at Beth El Synagogue, Wednesday, November 6. r

^Announcement of the luncheon plans was made by Mrs. Mor-.. ris C. Fellman, Israel Bonds W o m e n ' s Division Chairman, who lauded Mrs. Grossman's achievements in behalf of Israel. "No one deserves this tribute more than Lena Grossman," said Mrs. Fellman. "Her outstanding leadership and devotion have been, an inspiration to all of tig in our work for Israel. Through her devoted efforts she helped spur the economic upbuilding of the State of IsraeLduring, one o l j h e :inost New Yol-k (JTA)—The Amer- and use a gun against another momentous periods in history." ican Jewish Congress urged an man in a cause that he regards Israel Bond Leader amendment to the-National Se- as morally wrong," the AJ ConMrs. Grossman/who• celegress said. The organization lective Service Act that would brated her 70th birthday in Sepexempt from military service supported amendments to the tember, has' visited Israel five persons who oppose a particular draft law that would allow con- times, most recently last April, war on the basis of ethical or scientious objectors "as wide'a A •life-long activejworker in"-be -varietjrus possible ofnoh-purii- Half of her' community and her Mrs. Morris Grossman tive. alternate forms of service." people, Mrs. Grossman was the danger list, Twenty-one of the ligious convictions. :. A resolution adopted by the recipient of the highest honor Sisterhood and a ' member of victims were members of a tour Israel Bonds' Award, The Wom- B'nai B'rith Women, Council of group organized by the Israel AJ Congress' national governing council alleged that the present an of Valor Award, in recogni- Jewish Women, Pioneer W o n v o Nautical College in Acre and tion of the sales of over, $100,000 one was a non-Israeli tourist draft law resulted in "discrimination" against" those whose obin bonds. She is a past chair- en* Bikur Cholim and Eastern fdentified as Esther Cohen, 32 ., . .f jection to service in war was man of the Women's Division Star. of Panama. .... . ./ Sponsor and Chen campaigns She was, one of the organizers Iii a radio interview Gen. Day- not based on a generally recogNew York (JTA)—A leader of and also'served as Women's Di- of the Council Bluffs Chapter of an urged Jews to contiriue to nized religious system of ethics. visit the shrine which was reThe resolution said the refus- Reform Judaism rebuked "that vision* Chairman in 1955 and Hadassah which she served aa portedly filled with worshippers. al of the Selective Service Sys- alarmingly large segment of the 1961. president' for three terms. She Gen. Dayan, who visited the tem to recognize the right of electorate * which seems deter•Because Mrs; Grossman is a served for two terms as Wornsite of the explosion, told news- conscientious objection on non- mined to counter its sense of mother, grandmother, s i s t e r , en's,Division Chairman of the religious grounds was "incon- political hurt by not casting a sister-in-law and a u n't," the Jewish Philanthropies" of Counsistent with democratic prin- Presidential vote this y e a r . " Israel Bond committee decided cil Bluffslrand_in 1959 as chairciples." It also "runs counter to Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, to make the theme ofthisjyear man of Ih6 j¥omen's Division of ouf*nationahand religious-prin- -president-of-the-Uniori of-Amer- - notTOily a celebration of:Israel's lhe~ Omaha Jewlshr Philanthrociples to compel a man to carry lean Hebrew Congregations,- 20th' anniversary, but also a pies campaignT "~ : , urged Americans to o b s e r v e "Family Affair" for women of • Reservations for the "Family "the eleventh commandmeilt— all ages and interests to attend Affair" luncheon honoring Mrs. 'Thou shalt not cop out." • • v in honor of Grossman. -.... Grossman may be. made with' '• Rabbi Eisendrath said it was ..• Mrs. Grossman is a. member* members of the Women's Israel of the boards ofthe O m a h a "she«ri stupidity and petulance" Bond Committee or with the Isto "protest by rioninvolvement Chapter of Hadassah, Beth El • relBond Office, 341-1177. „, _ . . ,,_,,. which is no protest at all." He Sde Boker, Israel (JTA) s a i d t h o s e w £ 0 r e f u s e t o ,<take Scores of friends and admirers a h a n d i n Correcting the real flocked to this tiny desert town o r \ i m a g i n e d ^m%s wit hin the this, week to pay t r i b u t e . t o - b o d y p o l i t i c -. w e r e a k i n t o David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first . < U l £ e ^elf-styled liberals who Prime Minister who celebrated w i t h d r a w f r o m t h e c i v i i r j g h t s his 82nd birthday by lecturing^struggle because they have been on Biblical subjects at the Srfe \ ^ A > frightened or rejected Boker school, .., by black extremists." BUENOS AIRES (JTA) —The. Was unresponsive to Jewish ap Speaking in the school which . __^_ Jewish community of Argentina peals to officially repudiate it. overlooks the grave of his wife, deeply-concerned-over-the in-™ He-said -that- Nazilike*, journals" -Sam Bcber, Park Forest, Il- 'Paular Mr.- Ben-G^ar Ko n dis- September Big Month .is creasing manifestations of anti- are freely circulated in Buenos linois community planner and coursed on Moses, David and For Israel Immigration .Semitism in this c o u n t r y to Aires and cemeteries .are desed e v e l o p e r , has contributed - Elijah;:" % link the-fire that de- crated. Recently, 25 swastikas $100,000 toward Uic creation Jerusalem (JTA)—The Jewish which they $2 Moses was right, he declared, million I s r a e l i were painted on the walls of the of a B'nai B'rltli youlli camp when he said* that the Jews are Agency announced that- about stroyed'a trade exhibition at the Buenos Jewish cemetery in the town of In the middle west. .The camp a genuine and unique nation. 4,000 immigrants had arrived in Aires fair grounds two weeks Tablada. will be operated, t^ the B'nal Then, applying the Biblical les- Israel during September, the • ago. The DAIA, Argentine Jew- • Dr, Goldenberg maintained B'rIUt Youth Organization for sson in an oblique criticism of largest n u m b e r in a single ry's central representative body, that the destruction of the Isq leadership training and Inthe Government of his political month since 1065. held an extraordinary session raeli pavilion'was not an isoformal Jewish Education. It foe, Prime Minister Levi EshAryeh L. Pincus, Jewish Agen- attended by delegates from the lated I n c i d e n t but part of a wilL-augment facilities used kol, Mr, Ben-Gurion said: "Is- cy chairman and head of Us im- provinces, to consider the prob- chain of events. He took sharp for (his purpose at BBYO's. rael-has all the characteristics migration department, said the fem> ' issue with iast week's 6tateCamp B'nal. B'rlth, at Star- of a unique nation. We have a largest single group consisted Dr. Isaac Goldenberg, presi- ment by Minister of Interior Dr. light, Pa. Mr. Bcber, a former iinlqqe army. What we need Is a of 800 settlers from' the United ednt of the DAIA, said the anti- Guillermo Borda 'who said tha Omahan, Js. the founder of special and extraordinary Gov- States. About 500 immigrants S e m i t i s m in Argentina was evidence was insufficient to conAZA, the boys' component of ernment. Without such a Gov- came from Prance and 170 from . more active this year than in clude that* the fire was the re: the 45,000 member BBYO. ernment we'shall not sult or"crimipal'iacts}'p • - B r i t a i n , ' " - . ; - . • J • > ; " ' • • •: • ' • : - * » y i . 1967 but that the Government

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