^ VOL. XXXV, No. 32, ELUL 20, 5728
VANCOUVER)
rEMBER 13, 1968
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UAR artillery viras deployed In odvance
. TEL AVIV—Egyptian artillery was deployed well in advance for a concerted attack all along the Suez Canal demarcation line and was waiting only for a pretext to commence firing, Israeli military circles indicated. The pretext came on Sunday when Israeli sappers detonated a mine found on a road near the canal's East Bank. The evidence of considerable advance planning for the attack is the swiftness with which the Egyptian guns were brought intc action on the entire 103 mile front.
Israel scores U.N, failure to condemn UAR anack
JERUSALEM — Sharp disappointment was expressed by Israeli Foreign Ministry circles over U.N. Security Council failure to condemn Egypt for ceasefire violations, the second of which last Svmday resulted in death of 10 Israeli soldiers and wounding of 17, three of them critically.
The Council was emergency session
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called into
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Sunday evening on Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah's urgent request to deal with "premeditated, large-scale and unprovoked assault in flagrant violation of the ceasefire." Sole resulting Council action was a consenus statement read out about one o'clock in the morning by Ambassador George Ignatief f of Canada, Council president.
SMASH ARAB BOMB GANG
JERUSALEM—Premier Levi Eshkol congratulated police and security services this week for speed with which they smashed the Arab gang responsible for bombing outrage in Tel Aviv bus depot last week in which one man. was killed, some 70 injui«d. The Premier also praised those who had protected innocent Arab citizens from attacks by ''hoodlums" thereby preventing any widenine^ of rioting against Arabs by infuriated Jews.
The arrested saboteurs war feissed as well to all but two of tlie recent bombing outrages in ^drnsalem.
—Air Canada pboto.
STARTING first official visit, Israeli Ambassador to Canada Arieh Esh'el and Madame Tam-ar Eshel are~welcomed at Vancouver airport. Pictured (from left) are Mrs. Morris Miller; Myer Wine, Co-Chalrman Israel Bond drive; Mrs. Blossom Wine, Chairman Women's Division; Madame Eshel; Morris M i 11 e r, Co-Chairman Israel Bond drive; and Ambassador EsheL
The statement deplored loss of lives and enjoined both Eg^pt and Israel "strictly to observe the ceasefire called for by the Security Council's resolutions." This had been the British representative. Lord Caradon's suggestion.
Reports read at the emergency session by Secretary-General U Thant came from Lt.-Gen. Odd Bull, head of ceasefire observers. They assessed blame on Egyptian gunners for starting the artillery exchange, the most severe since last October. Gen. Bull's reports also blamed Egypt for delays in accepting a ceasefire.
In Washington, State Department sources said that motivation for the admittedly heavy Egyptian fire remained obscure but American diplomats tended to discount Russian involvement to divert world attention from events in Czechoslovakia.
During U.N. Proceedings, U.S. Ambassador George Ball said that representatives of Jordan and other Arab states several weeks ago had taken the position that their Government had no responsibility for acts of terror in areas occupied by Israeli forces.
The United States refused to accept such a disclaimer, Mc, Ball said; because every gcwermnent is respqnsi*>le for the conitrol of it&^oWn popUlatioiiu Mtd riot only its official armed forces. If this is the case for the West Bank of Jordan, a heavily populated areai it is far more the case for the East Bank of the Suez Canal, an
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REACHES HAiFmr lUlAltK
Eshel opens record Bond drive
Three major inaugural functions last weekend laimched the 1968-69 State of Israel Bond campaign with an initial record of Bond subscriptions that pushed the tally of purchases and pledges past the 50 percent mark of the total objective.
Sparking the events was the presence here of His Excellency Israeli Ambassador to Canada, the Honorable Arieh Eshel. Marking his initial official visit to Vancouver, Mr. Eshel was accompanied by his wife, Madame Tamar Eshel.
Opening luncheon of the Women's Division heard Mrs. Eshel speak with forcible eloquence on Israel's situation. Mrs. Myer Wine, chairman of Women's Division, presided.
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Expel four Aitdis
TEL AVIV—Resulting from investigations into recent Tel Aviv bus depot bombing, four prominent Arab leaders from East Jerusalem and Hebron were served with papers and expelled across Allenby bridge to Jordan for fomenting hostilities leading to bombing outrages in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Czech delegation
JERUSALEM—A 10-man delegation from Czechoslovakia arrived unexpectedly to attend the international congress on poultry raising in which a Rumanian delegation is also participating. Soviet representative previously announced has not yet arrived.
Hijocking convention
JERUSALEM—Israel's Cabmet has ratified 1963 Tokyo draft convention on aerial crimes which c»bligates signatories to prevent and take action against hijacking of commercial aircraft. Israel will be seventh signatory. Twelve are needed to become effective international law.
Bomb shelters
TEL AVIV — Schools at two Beisan valley settlements, Yar-dena and Bet Joseph, were closed until adequate bomb shelter,arrangements can be made to protect the children. They were among four settlements undergoing serious shelling last week.
Ot^dh&rg heads AK
Community alerted over serious problem of youngsters experimenting witit drugs
The growing malady within the general community of teenagers experimenting with and using marijuana and other drugs has infected Jewish youngsters in Vancouver. A letter from the Jewish Community Fund and Council circulated throughout the community last week revealed the seriousness of the problem. I The letter; prepared by Dave •^Barrett, executive director of the |Jewish Family Service Agency, land sent to all Jewish faniilies fehere imder the signature of Joe ^ Segal, president of the Jewish Community Fund and Council, noted that the letter was not being sent out "to alarm, frighten or emotionally agitate the conr-jnunity. It is being sent as a frank statement on an existing Jnd very real social problem." The letter, which delineated he severe legal penalties for rug abuses, noted in part:
"We don't know how many youngsters are using marijuana; we do know that a larger percentage of youngsters from age 12 up are aware of the terms used by those people who are associated with the use and distribution C'f marijuana. Not all youngsters are experimenting or using marijuana, but it is estimated that 15 percent of our younger population has been experimenting with or using marijuana; this would mean approximately 200 Jewish youngsters. This problem is not confined to yciir neighbor's child. Every child is exposed to the possibility of use and temptation of use of marijuana."
Mrs. Nat Bent, a graduate criminologist from the University of California and a Probation Officer with the B.C. government, was appointed to chair a committee of Jewish professionals and lay people under aegis of the Jewish Community Fund and i
Council. The committee is expected to present a concrete pro posal of action within the next few days.
In an interview with The Bulletin this week Mrs. Bent noted that there were general community agencies that worked primarily with known heroin addicts but that there is no body to assist marijuana users, and certainly none to prevent the spread of its use to other youngsters.
The Jewish community is likely to be asked to introduce treatment and preventative measures, which they would be pioneering here. The Toronto Jewish com-mimity is reported to be attempting to grapple with the problem. They have rented a trailer with a social worker in it, parked right in Yorkville and working out of Yorkville with the children who are using drugs or are close to using drugs.
Mrs. Bent advocated that parents must make themselves aware of everything their children are dcdng, even in their own homes and even if this means some invasion of privacy. Underlining the grave consequences of using drugs, she said there is a tremendous burden that someone carries from the moment they have been arrested on any criminal charge, "and from my experience it is even more serious when it becomes a drug charge."
Mr. Barrett described the problem as not a Jewish youngster's problem and not a Gentile youngster's problem, "but rather a community problem in which some Jewish youngsters are caught up.
Mr. Barrett told The Bulletin that a youngster with an emo--tional problem needs the same kind cf service as a child who (Continued on Page 15) See COMMUNITY
ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG, former Secretary of Labor^ Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations^ became 14th President of the American Jewish Committee, pioneer human relations agency. Mr. Goldberg was elected at a special nieetinir of the agency's Board of Governors, held at its national headquarters here. He succeeds Morris B. Abram, President since 1964, who is taking office as President of Brandeis University. Mr. Goldberg is now an attorney in New York. He visited Israel last July for the first time since the Six-Day War.
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