Background to the news
Sudanese intri
by Sol I. Littman
The revolt and counter revolt in the Sudan continues to intrigue the analysts. Some experts are.even speculating that there was no genuine coUp d'etat against General Jafar an-Numeiry in spite of the bloody execution of left wing officers which followed.
The Jewish Observer and Middle East Review suggests-. "A close reexamination of the week's events make it quite possible that Numeiry, having penetrated the circle plotting against himself, tempted them into showing their hand prematurely, and then struck back at the appropriate moment."
Suspicion was aroused by the very ease with which Numeiry was supposedly deposed. The whole coup took less than 45 minutes to accomplish. All strong points in Khartoum were seized in 20 minutes. Numeiry was placed under house arrest. , Meanwhile, Lt.-Col. Nur was in London for medical treatment, when he received word that he was to return to assume the post of premier. This news came to him via the Iraqui News Agency rather than by cable from his own followers. Nur and his colleague Major Faroiik Osman Hamadallah decided to catch B.O.A.C.'s weekly flight to Khartoum, only to be intercepted by Libyan warplanes in midair.
Passengers on that B.O.A.C. flight were deeply impressed by the courage and gallantry of the two Sudanese Leftists. They urged the plane's crew to surrender them rather than risk the lives of the other pas-sengers.
Numeiry quickly sent to the gallows all of the leading trade union and Communist Party leaders in the Sudan. Abdel Khaleq Mahgoub. the .58-year old ("omniunist Party secretary general, was a widely respected intellectual who refused to grovel before Gen. Numeiry and denounced his mock trial. Mahgoub's private life was free of blemish and he played an important role in achieving Sudan's independence.
Moscow was slow to protest; so slow that most observers are convinced that Russian indignation con-.stitules a token condemnation designed to reassure turopean Communist parties. It was certainly too late to have any effect on the execution of the Sudanese Communist.
Ironically. Mahgoub had been a faithful supporter of the Soviet Union throughout the years of the Sino-Soviet split. But he was already dead before the Kremlin chose to object to his hanging.
The Arab "Sociahst" states, brought into power by military leaders are split down the middle in regard to the Sudan arrests and massacres. Egypt has supported Numeiry"s actions while Iraq and Algeria have denounced him. The spht is apparent inside Egypt as well. Pre.sident Sadat initiated an immediate inquiry into the Egyptian Workers' Federation after it had is.sued a plea for clemency on behalf Sudanese trade union leaders facing execution.
Western European communists also made themselves heard. The French communist newspaper L'Hu-manite insisted the time had come for communists to stop ignoring the reactionary nature of Arab regimes merely because they^serve Soviet political purposes. «
L'Unila, the Italian communist paper, and the Al-geri.m weekly Africasia. accused Egypt of becoming the bulwark of conservatism in the Arab world. It is to he hoped that the re-examination of Arab actions by the ideological left will continue.
A silent tug of war between the U.S. Catholic church's desire for government financial support of parochial schools and the organized Jewish community's commitment to the separation of church ind state has begun. Informed obsenrers claim that there has been a considerable deterioration of Catholic support of Jewish causes. A recent U.S.A. national campaign to obtain signatures of Christian religious leaders on a "Statement of Conscience" on the plight of Soviet Jewry met with considerable Catholic indifference. Only one Cardinal signed the statement. Jewish national agency leaders suspected that the CathoUc hierarchy had discouraged the project.
This sign of coolness by Catholic leadership was interpreted to be a response to the indifference of the Jewish community to the anxieties of. the Catholic community for the survival of their parochial school .system.
Catholics, like Jews, feel their survival threatened and see Catholic schools as the only means to ensure that survival. With the exception of the Orthodox groups in the United States, all of the major Jewish agencies, supported the recent decision of the -U.S.Supreme Court to strike down tax aid to any forin of religion-linked school system.
Informal discussions between Catholic and Jewish leaders have been candid. The Christian spokesmen confirmed the slackening of interest in Je\yish causes. They, insisted that they would continutv to support the Jewish community's efforts on behalf of Israel and Soviet Jewry because of the evident justice of the Jewish cause. However, they pointed out that enthusiasm, under the, circumstances, would be hard to maintain. '
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Washington. - Rabbi Jay Kaufman, executive vice-president of B'nai B'rithi died last Thursday at Washington Hospital Center. He was 52.
Rabbi Kaufrhan had been chief administrative officer of the' B'nai B'rith since May 1965. Death was attributed to pneumonia. He had lieen ill for several moniths.
Previously he had served for eight mrs~inj^ew York as vice president ofthe Union of American Hebrew C^igre-gatlons, shaifing in the executive direction ofthe ceii-tral body of Reform Judaism in the United States.
He and his wife, the former AvivaGootmafa of Cincinnati, were living in Jerusalem during the Arab siege of that city in 1948.
Rabbi Kaufman joined the staff of the Union of American Hebrew. Congregations in 1948 as assistant to the president and director .of UAHC's regional program. When in 1957 UAHC established the professlontj office of vice president, Rabbi Kaufman was elected to the post.
He was a fbuiiding member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and chaiiTnan 6t the Jewish edu-cation^pbmmittee of the World Conference of Jewish Organ- . izations.
He is survived by bis widow; two sons: Gideon, a graid-uate studetit at The George Washington University Law School, and Joshuai, a senior at the University of Mary- ; land; a daughter^ Abigail, a high school seniori
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Bormann alive in Paraguay, Israeli journalist claims
New York. - The world's most wanted Second World War criminal Martin Bormann, Hitler's former deputy and private secretary, is living in poor health on a ranch in the Parana River region of Paraguay near the Argentine border, according to Zvi Aldouby, an Israeli journalist.
Aldouby, who is completing a biography of Bormann after seven years of research, claims to have nearly captured the Nazi in Spain 10 years ago and to have served three years in a Spanish jail after the attempt failed.
(In August 1961 Aldouby and . a Frenchman were jailed by a Spanish military tribunal on a charge of "attempting to create a subversive movement in Spain". The prosecution alleged that they had atteihpted to kidnap Leon Degrelle, the Belgian ex-Nazi collaborator).
Mr. Aldouby told theJCNS correspondent that Bor-mann's ranch is situated among 14 German "colonies" mainly inhabited by former Nazis or their sympathizers.
Bormann has bought off the Cuchilleros, the local Mafia, who serve as a security screen. He recently underwent a successful cancer operation and his appearance has been changed by facial surgery.
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Hitler's former deputy fled to South America with marks and valuables worth aboiit $150 million, of which some $120 million represented his master's private fortune and the rest an allocation for overseas Nazi German intelligence operations.
According to Aldouby, the Paraguyan Government, headed by General Alfredo . Stroessner, are hospitable to the 50,000 Germans and their "gauleiter" Borinann be- ; cause of the vast sums of money they have brought to the country.
For this reason, Pai aguay disclaimed knowledge of Bormann during West German's extradition attempts in 1959, 1961 and 1965.
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Aldouby also told the JCNS correspondent here: '' I hope that my biographical data will help in providing the legal evidence for the long Ixit essential extradition procedure".
West Germany is still offering $30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Bormann who was sentenced to death in his
absence at the Nuremberg trails after the Second World War,
Aldouby is the author of the Shattered Silence, a book just published on the life of Elie Cohen who was executed by the Syrians in 1965 on charges of spying tor Israel.
His story is also to be filmed in Israel.
Soviets aid to increase if war renewed-Dayan
Tel Aviv. - President Sadat's threat that Egypt would resort to military action if the present deadlock in the Middle East conflict was not broken politically by December "should be taken seriously", Moshe Dayan, the Israeli defense minister, said In a television interview last week.
If a new Middle East war did indeed break out and the Arabs lost it, there would be even greater Soviet involvement in the area as a result of the Soviet-Egyptian treaty signed in Cairo at the end of May.
Dayan then said that the continued flow of Soviet aircraft to Egypt compared with the "trickle" coming to Israel flrom the United States was tilting the balance against Israel.
Nevertheless, he declared: "I believe that, if there is a war, we shall win if it is waged the right way".
In answer to a question about whether the Jordanian Army's action against Arab terrorists in Jordan had put Israel in a better position to negotiate with them, Dayan replied: "I do not regard the Palestinians as partners to any negotiations".
Fasting, demonstrations and arrests marked Tisha b'Av in at least tour main cities of the Soviet Union last week. Details were given to Zeev Ben-Shlomo, the JCNS correspondent on East European Affairs, by witnesses in two of the cities in a series of telephone calls maide from London.
Mrs. Zinaida Solodovnik-Qva told Ben-Shlomo what banned in Kiev on Sunday when ten people, including her husband, Ovsey Rabin-ovich, were arrested atBabi Yar, a huge ravine outside Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, where the Nazis massacred more thaii 70,000 Jews in 1941.
Mrs. Solodovnikova said that 10 Jews decided to spend the Tisha b'Av fast at Babi Yar in protest against the refusal of the Soviet authorities to grant their ai^lica-tions for exit permits to Israel. Many of the group, including Rs^inovich, have parents and other close relatives there.
The fosters arrived at Babi Yar at 8 o'clock in the morning. At first, said Mrs. Solodovnikova, they were unmolested, but at noon police arrived firbm Kiev and arrested them all on the spot.
TAKEN TO PRISON
They were taken to the Lukianovska prison in the city and later nine were sentenced to 15 days in jail (m a charge of violating public order. When relatives visited the prison in an attempt to find out what had happened, the police relteed to give details ofthe charges against the detained people.
The 10th person, 66-year-old Mrs. Tatiana Velednit-skaya-Leychenko, was treed. The Kiev informant gave the names of those jailed as follows: Ovsey Rabinoyicb (her husband); Yevgeny Lantseter; Aron Nayvelt;NatanRemem-nik; Leonid Taverovsky; Leonard Zingerman; Isaac Greidinger; Abraham Rabin-ovich; and Igor Raiz.
In VUnius (Vilna), the Lithuanian capital, there was a sit-down strike as well as fasting. In another teleiAone conversation, Ben-Shlomo was informed that 300 people went to near-by Ponary(Pan-erai), where the Nazis executed Jews during the Second World War.
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The demonstrators walked the 4-1/2 miles to Ponary from Vilnius on Sunday morning, • only to find when they reached their destination that the police were blocking their way 300 yards from the graves of the executed Jews.
The 300demonstrators immediately sat down where they were. Some recited prayers, while others — leaders of the Vilnius community — delivered speeches commemorating the martyred Vilnius Jews.
The crowd then observed 30 minutes' silence as a mark of respect for the dead.
YELLOW STAR
Then, all 300, many of them with the Yellow Star sewn on their clothes, began to walk back to VUnius. When they reached the first tram stop along the way, the police ordered them to finish their journey by tram, but they refused.
The police then arrested eight of them, butletthemgo two hours later after having taken their documents away from them and told them to report at the October district People's Court in VUnius oh Monday at 11 o'clock.
They duly reported at the court on Monday and were fried on a charge of refusing to comply with police orders. Two Jews called Golub and Sher were sentenced to 15 days' imprisonment; Mrs. Druker, a sick woman, to ten days; Mulik Tsvizon and Raivich to ten days; Zandhendler and Jacob Vestanetsky to eight days; and Monasevich to a fine of one-fifth of Ms monthly salary.
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On Sunday, the Georgian Jews, who are adevoutcommunity, fasted and also visited the Jewish cemetery in TbUisi, the Georgian capital, and irecited prayers.
On Monday afternoon a large group went to the building of the Georgian Communist Party central com-niittee and staged a sit-in, their second within a month.
The reason for Monday's sit-in was dissatisfaction with the outcome of their first one. On that occasion a middle-rank official of the cenfral committee came and spoke to them about the reasons for the authorities'delay m replying to their applications for exit permits.
Dissatisfied with what he told them, the Georgian Jews decided to sit-in again oh Monday. This time two leading central committee officials came to speak to them — A. G. Koronadze, the head of the central committee's adminisfrative department, and D. V. Gorgokhia, the head of its propaganda department.
GEORGIANS' SIT-IN IN TBIUSI GETS RESULTS
Georgian Jews not only fasted on Tisha b'Av, but also organized a demonstration against the authorities.
Lazar Moiseevich Lub-arsky, a Moscow Jew, who was in TWlisi on Tisha b'Av, told the JCNS Special Correspondent on East Euro-
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At first the two officials asked the demonstrators to send a delegation to their offices, butthe Jews refused. After a heated altercation the officials agreed to speak to the demonstrators there and then.
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In Moscow a group* of 16 Jews who went to the permit-issuing office, to appeal to a senior official called Vierenov against refusal of their applications, were all -arrested but later released.
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