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VANCOUVER, B.C., FE\
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Mrs. A. Cristall head UJ.A.
$IPNEY ZACK
Chairman for the 1967 Men's United Jewish Appeal Campaign will be Sidney Zack, it was announced this week by chairman of the permanent U.J.A. committee, L. J. LeFohn.
Mr. Zack has been active in all Si^as of conimunity life, and is currently the president of the Zionist Organization of Canada, Pacific Region. He held the chair-manshijp of U.J.A. Men's Division in 1963.
Mr. LeFohn has also announced that Mrsi Alex Cristall is chairman of Women's Division for the 1967 U.J.A. Campaign.
Mrs. Cristall has also been a prominent leader in Jewish community life, and was chairman of Women's Division* in 1964.
In making these announcements'Mr. LeFohn hailed the fact that bolii Mr. Zack and Mrs. Cristall have come forth to lead the tJ.J.A. for a second term. He stated that '*their past experience will do much towards enabling them to lead the 1967 campaign to its greatest record ever." ;
The Vancouver United Jewish Appeal canapaign is conducted for overseas purposes only.
MRS. ALEX CRISTALL
Storms damage
TEL AVIV—Rains, snow and floods last week isolated several communities. Army engineers moved into southern Israel to build emergency bridges and helicopters stood by to handle evacuations.
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Youths denounce
TEL AVIV—Youth groups from all parties in Israel, except the Communist and ultra-orthodox Agudat-Israel, signed a manifesto condemning emigration from Israel as "desertion in a time of trial". Emigration rose sharply last year.
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Improve services
JERUSALEM—Israel's Tourist Ministry has established measures to improve service to tourists including committees to police various tourist industries, hear charges and complaints and take disciplinary actions. Failure to maintain quality of service in hotels and other tourist facilities can now result in downgrading.
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Israel-Dutch trade
TEL AVIV—Israeli and Dutch firms have negotiated an agreement for mutual co-operation to supply know-how and exports to third countries. A 17-member Dutch trade delegation also agreed on largo-scale purchase of Israeli — quality goods, mainly fashions.
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VANCOUVER —The CBC "Sunday'* s h o \y: interviewers came out second best as they met their match in a highly skilled politician who made the impression he sought on most viewers, according to the statement is5ued here by Canadian Jewish Congress following televised interview last '^edkeM 6^ Von Thadden, cohtiroversial leader of the extremist National Democratic Party of West Gerr many.
Live interview with Von Tliadden originally sdieduled for the! CBC "Sunday" show had been changed to a taped telecast made in West Germany by interviewers Larry Zolf and Bob Hoyt. The politician described his party as a '^normal right-wing party with a strong conservative direction" which differed from the recent de^ scription of the NDP within W^t Germany itself when Interior Minister Paul Luecke had called it "neo-Nazi". Over 3,000 demonstrators marched in front of Toronto CBC studios as the taped interview
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was going on, while in Montreal, V5 demonstrators carried signs of protest outside the CBC.
Combin^ed protests of Canadian Labor Congress, Canadian Jewish Congress and other groups had resulted in substitution of a taped interview with Von Thadden instead of a live appearance.
Subsequently, UBC A.M:S. Special Events Committee scheduled Von Thadden to speak on campus Jan. 31 then retracted their invitation. Proposal that the West German NOP leader be invited to Victoria University was also vetoed last weekend by the University of Victoria Students Council "because of lack of funds".
Complete text of ^ the Canadian Jewish Congress statement issued in VancoiiviBr this week by Dr. Roy Waldman, chairman of the Joint Community Relations Committee of Congress and B'nai BVith, over the UBC invitation to Von Thadden is as follows:
"The announcement that Adolf Von Thadden had been invited to speak to UBC students confronted the local Jewish Community Relations Committee with a highly delicate problem.
"Should we refrain from any comment or action so as to avoid giving the event any additional publicity? Should we protest vigorously and organize a protest meeting, as was done in Toronto in condemnation oi the CBC interview of Von Thadden? Or, should we simply state our position when invited to do so?— and to do it on a reasoned, unemotional appraisal of whether this type of person should be offered, free, a platform in which to present his philosophy.
"The position we took was the
third. The Canadian Jewish Con-griess official statement, reprinted in The Jewish Western Bulletin (Jan. 20), represents a rational approach to the problem, and served as our guide in the action we subsequently took.
"This statement was given to the press, and served as a basis for comments and observations made in response to questions asked us by the newspapers. On the invitation of Channels 2 and 8 the C.J.C. point of view was presented by Dave Freeman. That Mr. Freeman was to be an able spokesman was self-evident;
"The interview of Von Thadden on the "Sunday" show proved that a skilled politician is easily the match of interviewers, and can make the impression he desires on his audience. In this Mr. Von Thadden was most successful. Thoijgh he failed to convince the politically sensitized, there is little doubt that Les Wedman's comment "What was all the fuss about?" (Sun, Jan. 23) would find agreement among most viewers.
"Congress cannot claim any credit for the cancellation of the scheduled appearance at UBC. As far as we know the student in charge of the arrangements, after careful thought, reached his own decision to cancel the engagement. We hope that this decision was applauded in student circles.
"We are pleased that no organization or individuals took it upon themselves to organize protests GT to plan violent action. We believe that the matter was dealt with in sensible fashion by the organization designated by the Jewish community to deal with such problems—the Joint
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Community Relations Committee of Canadian Jewish Congress and B'nai B'rith."
SYRIAN SABOTJ^URS coming through Lebanon planted several mines in Dishon village on Friday night, Jan. 13. One of them the following morning kiUed a young soldier watching a football match while home on leave. The four saboteurs left leaflets boasting that they were members of the Abdul Khader el-Huseini gang carrying out revenge for certain Arab defeats. Dishon is in the hiiis west of the Hulla basin and about two kilometres from the Lebanese border. Eighteen-year-old Yosef Cohen of Dishon was fatally wounded by explosion of an anti-tank personnel mine. A civiUan member of the local soccer team, 17-year-old Clement Sheish, was wounded by the same mine. He is seen here being taken to hospital in Safad. Meanwhile preparations were being finah'zed at press time for the first meethig between Israel and Syria since 1958 when the Israeli-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission last convened.