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Israel, Egypt Announce disengagement Agreemeni The agreement on the dliengagement knd tepvaUoo of the military (orcet of Israel and Egypt wai made limultaneouRly last Thursday In Jerusalem, Cairo and Washington. Tbt announcement in the United States was made by President Richard Nixon who appeared live on television from the White House. The President hailed the troop disengagement agreement as "the first significant step toward a permanent peace in the Middle East." He congratulated President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Israeli Prime Minister Golds Meir for "the veiy c«i-
stmcUve spirit" they had shown in reaching ah agreement. Nixon added that he did not underestimate the difficulties which lay aliead in settling differences between Israel and the Arabs. He said the United SUtes could be proud of its role in helping bring about the agreement between the two countries and singled out Secretary of SUte Menry A. Kissinger for special praise. The events leading up to the disenagaement announcement began early on Jan. 17 when Kissinger returned to Jerusalem from Aswan after his third set of talks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. He had nothing to say
on Unding at Ben Ciurion airport and drove off immediately with Eban for Jerusalem. -
to the Mitla and Gkli passes; Egypt to retain eight battalions — about 3,000 men — and 30 tanks but no SAM
missiles on the east bank of the Suez Canal; the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) to occupy a six-mile
corridor between the passes and the Suez Canal; Egypt to occupy the east bank up to the UNEF lines.
Several hours of meetings followed between Kissinger and ranking Israeli ministers which ended shortly before I p.m. At that time Eban told a radio interviewer that an announcement could be expected later in the day. According to unofficial and unconfirmed reports in Jerusalem released In Washiniton, the IsraeliEgyptian disengagement agreement calls for the following: An Israeli pullback
SERVING DES MOINES, Vol.UII-No.16
^COUNCIL BLUFFS. LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Neb., Frf., Jan. 2B, 1974
Historic'Firsts'Highlight Federation Annual Meeting
Aawar Sadat (left) greets Secretary Klssiager st the i;.8. diplanal arrives la Aswan. Egypt, far a rwHid of telks.
Omaha — On the eve of hi* visit to Omaha, Or. Moses Roseii, Chief Rabbi of Rumania, is again making national news headlines. Dr. Ko«rn will speak t" Ibc Omaha Jewish coromaatty at the annaal meeting of the Jewhk Federation of Omaha to be heM Sunday, February 3, 1174 at 3 p.m. it the new Jewish Cammnnity Center. When he first visited the United States in 1962, Dr. Rosen brought documentary evidence that Valeria D. Trifa, a Michigan Bishop had been a leader of the notorious fascist Iron Guard in Rumania and was the man who directed an anti-Semitic program m 1941. Trifa was exonerated by the
Justice Department which upheld his claim that he was A victim of communist slander. Rabbi Rosen is currently visiting the United Stales on a three week lecture tour, and by coincidence, the U.'S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Is again investigating charges that Trifa lied about his past. According to Rabbi Rosen, Trifa lied in telling immigration officials when he came to the U.S. that he left Rumania In 1948 to escape the communists. The rabbi said Trifa actually left Rumania in 1941 when he and other Iron Guard leaders escaped to Nazi C^rmany after (}en. Ion Antonescu who became^ Prime Minister with the help of the Guard, later turned on the organization. Rabbi Rosen said there are 123 graves In Buchareit of victims of the I»4I pogrom. Rabbi Rosen himself lived through the three days of horror — Jan. Zl-23 — and
Power Failure Darkens Israel JERUSALEM, (JTA) The lights went out all over Israel this week as hard pressed power stations gave ^ip to enormous pressures from the elements and from consumers suffering from a bitter cold wave. Another freezing storm hit many parts of the country, The electric company said its main power station at Tel Aviv had lost part of its power leading to a chain of other failures around the country. Telex and telephone lines were down in many area* and Bacratary Uislagar aad Israeli leaders leave a Jerasalem betel after dlscusshig the troop with- traffic lights were out In drawal alaa. WWHecivtary Klaslager (Zad left) areHaieha DIalts (left), Israeli Ambssiidor to many cities causing traffic tie-ups and near chaos. . (^ U/. Oapoty PrcMtsr Ylfal AUaa (csalar) aad ParalgB MWatcr Abba Eban (right).
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saM that several iiaws "I was In addition to the'addrcM put against the wall with a by Rabbi Rosen, new officers gun to my head. and members of the board of. "He said that Antonescu, directors of the Jewish ^although an ally of ^Mer, Federation of Omaha will be protected the Rumanian elected during the annual Jews. Nevertheless, hail ot meeting. •the 800,000 Jews in Rumania MeeUng HighllghU were killed in the holocaust. A (our of the new Jewish Rabbi Rosen said the Community Center will be regtainder were being held at 2 p.m. preceding the 3 prepared to be shipped to • p.m. meeting. their death when the invasion Morley Zipursky, president of the Soviet army saved of the Omaha Jewish them. Federation, urges all Since the war, aome 300,000 members of the community to Rumanian Jews emigrated to attend this very special anIsrael, making them the nual meeting. largest ethnic group in the "The meeting on February Jewish state. Rumania now 3 provides some unique haj some 90,000 Jews 'firsts' for Omaha Jewry," Zipursky said. "It will be the Britain Resunes first community event to be held at the new Center Arms Sales building. It will be the first To Mideast time, under the newly LONDON, (JTA) - adopted By-Laws, that all Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Federation members will be Douglas-Home told the House able to participate in the of Commons that Britain was election of Federation ofresuming arms deliveries to ficers and directors. In addition, the rare opportunity to the Middle East. In his address, the Foreign meet and hear the Chief Secretary welcomed the Rabbi of Rumania is vital to Israeli-Egyptian disengag- every Omaha Jaw." ement pact, which, he said, though it does not go so far as JCCtoOpen guaranteeing peace, certainly reduces very sharply Nursery SCIK)OI the danger of renewed lnFdlof74 military confrontations Omaha — A Nursery School between the two sides. In these circumstances, he to be held at the new Jewish said, the British government Community Center will open has decided to waive its in the fall of 1974. According previous ban on the supply of to the announcement made arms to the "battlefield this week, plans for the countries." This would seem Nursery School program are to apply to Israel and those now being developed and Arab countries bordering on details will be issued next it. Countries such as Saudi month. Those interested in Arabia were never considered "battlefield coun- receiving further informatfon tries" and were exempted about Die pVogram are asked to caU Carol at 342-lSM. from the previous ban.