mPm ASKS DRIVE TO SAVE HIM STOP
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PARIS—Leopold Trepper, World ar 11 master spy, has asked his ife and sons to stop campaigning for his release from Poland be-li^ause   there are  "other, more 'Important causes than mine,'^ the Weekly Nouvel Observateur re-wrted.
According to Bernard Guetta, he journalist who interviewed Trepper, the former chief of the Red Orchestra" the Soviet es-lionage network in Western Surope during the German oc-itipation, told him "Now is not e time to struggle for me." Trepper has been seeking an
exit visa in order to join a son in Israel but Polish authorities have withheld it on grounds that Trepper, who is nearing 70, still possesses vital secrets. His wife Elisabeth and two of his •' sons are presently in Copenhagen. They have been seeking for months to arouse world opinion to bring pressure to bear on the Polish government to allow Trepper to leave.
According to Nouvel Observateur, Trepper said he didn't want members of his family to take risks. "If anybody has to fight and take risks it will be me," he was quoted as saying.
Israel 25th fetes begin Sept. 26
NEW YORK—The lighting of a 25-branch candelabra at the International synagogue at Kennedy Airport Sept. 26 will mark the beginning of the year-long American observance of Israel's 25th anniversary, Jacob Stein, chairman of the American committee for Israelis 25th Anmversaiy Celebration, announced here. The candelabra will be lighted by an independent torch, lit two days earlier in Jerusalem by President Zahnan Shazar in a ceremony opening the IsraeU celebration. Stein said that, following the New York ceremony, independence torches dispatched from Israel will be distributed to 100 communities in the United' States and Canada, These torches will be used in opening local celebrations. The lighting of the candelabra will be part of an original ceremony depicting Israel's 25 year his-tory.The creation of Israel art shows and other exhibits that can be sent to North America for showing in museums, libraries and other public places is being considered. Stein expressed the hope that more communities than ever before would sponsor Independence Day Parades on the order of the annual New York parade. The year-long program will reach its cuhnination on May 6-7, which is the actual date of the 25th anniversary.
!,000 USSR citizens Wish to join relatives in West, Hias reports
NEW YORK^The United Hias irvice helped 3,174 Jewish im-ligrants. and refugees resettle in le United States during 1971 ac-sording to the annual report of le  Jewish immigrant aid agency ["eleased recently by Gaynor I. lacobson,   its   execitive vice->resident.
The report noted that the aid recipients came from countries if Europe, North Africa and the [iddle East and from Cuba and :hile.
Hias assisted more than 45,000 pther Jews with various problems elated to immigration and re-ettlement, the report said.
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JERUSALEM—Citizens of Israel have been given a .month's amnesty in which they can turn in an estimated tens of thousands of unlicensed illegal weapons in private hands, largely souvenir cbllectofs and including Six-Day War souvenirs. Recent ra&h of unsolved armed robberies resulted in July 2 Cabinet decision to pass new stiffer laws against possession of unlicensed weapons.
These included helping persons reach countries of temporary asylum and assisting aliens in the US with naturalization or adjustment of status problems.
Hias also aided in the prevention-of deportation and jeopardy in various cases and in the location of relatives through its world-wide location service, the report said.,
It rendered resettlement assistance in Latin America to migrants who arrived in prior years; aided in documentation, counselling of relatives and migrants and intervened with government officials on behalf of prospective migrants and aided their relatives and sponsors.
The report noted that a significant development in 1971 was the resettlement by Hias of 265 Jews from the Soviet Union, double the number of the previous year. Of that number, 214 were helped to come to the US, 24 to Canada and the rest to other areas.
Jacobson's report said a further increase in the arrival of Soviet Jewis in the US is expected owing
to the favorable climate here toward the admission of Soviet Jews.
Jacobson said his organization remains alert to the situation of Soviet Jewry and is making every
effort to assist requested family reunions in the US and other Western countries.
He said Hias has a current caseload of 5,000 persons in the USSR
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who wish to join relatives in the West.
The agency has assisted 800 Iraqi Jews who left that country to join relatives in Western countries, he said.
Florida bars biased land devekpers
MIAMI — Land developers who discriminate in their sales practices or advertising will face stiff penalties as the result of new regulations passed by the Florida Division of Land Sales, it was announced recently by the Florida office of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League.
The ADL several months ago had urged the Division of Land Sales to apply its authority against land sales companies found to be discriminating against persons because of their religion, race or national origin.
Burton Young, chairman of ADL's executive committee, said the League is "very pleased by
BY TfiE INITIATIVE of the Lubavitcher Sebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who after the Six-Day War set up an organization in Israel to care for the widows and orphans, 42 children (above lower photo) orphaned by the war and subsequent hostilities were feied in the fifth such communal Bar-Mitzvah celebrations since the war, m Kfar Chabad, the Lubavitcher village near Tel Aviv. Among the 5,000 r^ests were prominent rabbis, government and military^ dignitaries, including Chief of Staff David Elazar, (above right) talking with Rabb: Israel Leibov, director of the Lubavitch Youth organization m Israel, and Mrs. Shifra Colombovitch, a Kfar Chabad widow (who directs the Rebbe's organization for the widows and orphans) Generals M. Piron, Chief Chaplain of Israel's Defense Forces, M. Hod, R. Zeavi, A. Adajn^d Y. Ironi, director of the Defense Ministry. Above left is one of the Bar-Mitzvah boys Gil Halamish who delivered an emotion-filled speech in behalf of the Bar-Mitzvah boys. The boys were showered with gifts from various Israeli industries and a pair of Tefillm for each from the Lubavitcher Bebbe, In addition to the cable sent by the Rebbe from New York mes^ges were also received from Premier Golda Meir, Moshe Dayah and hundreds of other well-wishers.
this forthright action by the Division of Land Sales" which licenses land developers and reviews their advertising and sales practices.
Young said the ADL had received numerous complaints during the past six months which pointed to discriminatory practices by some land developers against potential purchasers who are Jewish.
He said in one case ADL had filed a complaint with the federal department of housing and urban development, charging a developer with violating provisions of the 1968 Civil Rights Act by advertising residental property for sale "for (Christian people."
Young said the firm agreed to cease such discriminatory advertising.
Arthur Teitelbaum, ADL's regional director, said the League's office continues to receive complaints about developers who use "code language" in their adverti-
sing, such as "highly restricted" or "churches nearby".
Teitelbaum said "it is a technique which dates back many years and is frequently used to discourage Jews and others from making inquiries."
He said these complaints are just part of a larger picture of housing discrimination against Jews and other minorities, "which remain a serious problem throughout Florida."
The new regulation prohibits firms under the Division of Land Sales' jurisdiction from refusing to sell a person subdivided land because of his religion, race, color or national origin.
It also prohibits the adertising of such property in a manner which ". . . indicates any per-ference, liniitation, or discrimination based on religion, race, color or national origin, or any intention to make such a preference, limitation or discrimination."
France threatens arms embargo against Libya
PARIS — Reports of plans by Libya and Egypt for some kind of merger arrangement brought a hint here recently that the French government might extend to Libya its six-year-old embargo on arms shipments to belligerents in the 1967 Six-Day War.
The French government decided to take another look at future sales of Mirage planes to Libya if such an arrangement is formalized.
France announced in the fall of 1970, when it announced it would sell 110 Mirage jet fighter planes to^ Libya, that the issue of arms
sales to Libya would be reviewed if Libya became a belligerent in the Mideast conflict.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Libyan leader Mouammar el-Qaddafi reportedly plan to sign some form of agreement in Benghazi shortly.
The French indicated that this development led to a decision to. keep the matter open.
Observers said the implication of the French action was that the arms embargo would be applied to Libya if it became an active Mideast belligerent by joining in an Egyptian-led Arab federation.
GERMAN JEWS PROTEST VENUE OF PEACE AWARD
BONN—The West German Central Council of Jews is contesting a decision of the German Book Trade Committee to transmit the committee's 1972 Peace Award, awarded posthumously to Polish-Jewish intellectual Janusz Korczak, to the Warsaw Korczak Committee. The Central Council is against giving the $3500 prize money to a Polish organization "as long as Jews are being discriminated against in Poland," a Council official said.
Korczak, a teacher and poet in Poland, volunteered in 1942 to accompany Jewish children to the Treblinka gas chambers. He was chosen for this year's peace prize by the German Book Trade Committee, which a^^ards the prize annually to an outstanding international personality for his contributions towards peace. Since Korczak has no living relatives, the committee decided to give his prize money to the Polish body, established in Korczak's memory.
However, that decision has drawn strong protest from the Central Council of Jews, which is suggesting that the money be given to the Korczak Conrmtiittee in Germany, the International Red Cross for the sufferhig children of Bangladesh, or to XJNICEF.   .. . "
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