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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday april 30, 1973 israelis confident of future continued lives in the new desert City of Arad and led the town s first demonstration against 1 housing problems. But the hebrew language has been restored to everyday use the jewish people Are being Ingal Herd As the Bible said and Tel Aviv is a thriving City. Amaz jewish people have lived in what now is Israel since about 1200 by. The land has been conquered by various other countries. The modern zionist move to create a Homeland in Palestine was led by or. Claim Weizmann. It was Given impetus by the bal our declaration of Britain in 1917, Home land for the jews in pales Tine. Aft the first world War Palestine came under Brit i s h mandate. But about four fifths of the land was detached in 1922 to form trans Jordan now Jordan. In 1947 the United nations general Assembly voted to partition Palestine into two Independent Stales by oct. Israeli and Arab. When Britain pulled out Palestine and David Ben Gurion proclaimed Israel Independent May 14, 1948 the anniversary Date because of the jewish Calendar the Sale had no real government no civil service no official a r m y. It was bankrupt. Thousands of homeless jews were arriving. Arab troops invaded from Egypt Jordan Syria Lebanon Iraq and saudi Ara Bia. Israel was armed Only with smuggled guns. I was working on a farm i but i spent the War making it tips and bullets in fac says Donia Rosen. Cath e r Young jews went from the in ships into a talc. Jews won Llie War merely. The Arab state be tame a part of Jordan. With food rationed and immigrants jammed in Lens Israel had jews then 2.8 million now the israelis began building apartments and schools r planting Trees developing industries and organizing Floe of the world s crack armed forces. Towns and settlements stand where there was Only desert before 1948, and the have planted so Najuch greenery that the Cli mate is changing becoming More humid. Fought in the War and Trio cd to Beersheba in says Herbert bin yugoslav jew now were 50 families and Beersheba was an abandoned Arab town. Only Arab stayed behind As a Coffee maker for the israeli military governor. My wife and i were As signed to a iwo room Arab House with a mud floor no doors no windows no 1 water or sanitation no electricity. At the time we had immigrant living in tells outside today Beersheba boasts its own University and a population of most housed in trim apartment buildings. New immigrants move straight into modern an. Industrial com Lor chemicals and Tex tiles has replaced the tents. Bedouin arabs of the sur rounding desert arc being gradually housed in apart ments. There was no butter and Little meat when i was says Amir. Six of us lived in a House in the Sand dunes North of Tel Aviv now the cily s most fashionable Quarter. Amir s russian father was a construction labourer then and his Mother worked in a textile factory. In 1961, they bought an apartment and a motor Scooter. Now the father runs his own dry Good factory. Amir a reporter for the Maaris newspaper is pay ing his Way through univer sity in Jerusalem where he shares an apartment. He drives a 13 year old car that Cost him in 195s Isreal won another War the Suez Campaign. Amir and his baby sister went into the shelters for Arab air raids tha never came. T h e israeli kidnapping trial and execution of nazi War criminal Adolf Eich Mann in 1962 made Amir aware of what other jews had endured. We were numbed. At school we stopped playing at lunchtime to hear the trial on the radio. We were All about 13." As Day after Day of testimony recalled the Gas ovens we began to understand w h y our parents feared for our sur hanging e i c h m a n n could t atone for Ger Many s says miss Rosen but West Germany was doing its Best. Since 1952, Bonn has Given about 50 billion Marks some Sis billion to jewish War victims. Like All israelis Over 18, Amir was in the military during the lightning War of 1967 and he headed ground Crew at an air Force base. We worked and worked without a Stop. Loading bombs refuelling at three times the Normal Speed. The planes just came and went came and went. In six Days it was Israel lost 803 men in the War the arabs about Israel emerged holding Square Miles of Arab land Western Jordan part of Syria the Gaza strip and the entire Sinai Peninsula with its egyptian Oil Wells. Fighting resumed in 1968 on the Suez canal and the Borders and Israel lost an other 827 soldiers and Civi lians. With the ceasefire of 1970, most of the guns fell silent. Israel s main Challenge at 25 is to attain peace with the arabs. Militarily they know Israel can defend it self but a peace agreement seems no closer than it was 25 years ago. Nixon aides resign continued have total support from me in getting this Job since the bugging the water Gate Case has widened into broader charges of political espionage. The president Drew a distinction in describing the resignations of Ehrlichman and Hal of my closest wends and trusted assistants in the White that of White House counsel Dean. Nixon said he had today re Quested and accepted Dean s resignation but made no refer ence to having forced the parture of Ehrlichman and Hal deman. In fact his statement suggested they had initiated the step. He said i know that their decision to resign was difficult my Deci Sion to accept it was difficult but 1 respect and appreciate e attitude that led them to the time was March not of Cru 3 put. Of land Urban Washington the unite Stales has nearly 2.3 billio acres of land. More than 63 be cent million acres non federally owned Rural Ian and Millio acres is federally owne about 3 per cent 61 Millio acres is in Urban and built a areas. Product growth due Bonn a 6 per cent i crease in West Germany Gross National product is or dieted for 1973 in contrast i 1972 s Rise of 1 per cent. Highest interest rates l. Paid by any Manitoba Deposit institution Why should you Settle for anything less than the highest guaranteed investment certificate interest rates for a five year period in at fort Garry Trust you won t have to. J port Garry Trust for full information Call our office at Portage at Smith 947-1667 Portage at collegiate 888-4861 saturday Selkirk at Mcgregor 589-7311 saturday 1181 Pembina Highway 452-3533-Fopen saturday Brandon office 727-2481 saturday Deposit insurance corporation five years. Effective immediately Nixon id special consultant Leonard Armant will take on Addi Mal duties As counsel to the and will continue acl g in this capacity until a per Anent successor to or. Dean named Nixon said garment present the White House in 1 matters relating to the Margalo invest ligation and will port directly to Ziegler said Haldeman and Girlie Man had asked to Confer Ith Nixon at Camp David d., where the president has Cen since Friday and met ill him there sunday. The press Secretary said Kleindienst and garment also let with Nixon at Camp David i sunday. In discussing the departures f Ehrlichman and Haldeman Ixon said i emphasize that neither the i Mission nor the. Acceptance their resignations at this me should be seen by anyone s evidence of any wrongdoing y either an ass urn on would be both unfair and Ary. The fresh allegation came As a wide Varilly of Public figures urged Nixon to appoint a Politi Cally Independent prosecutor in lilo Case and vice president Spiro t. Agnew warned that Republican election chances will suffer if watergate is still dangling by the end of next year. Although Agnew said he has total Confidence in the pres ident s Dolce Minalio to resolve the affair he said that result Tion must come reasonably soon because the Case is being Dis cussed As a coverup and it s eroding j Nixon meanwhile up Cal Llie night at his Camp David -md., Retreat. He summoned his per Sonal Secretary indicating he May be preparing a major announcement and is reported to have conferred with Allor Ney general Richard g. Klein Dienst. Sources on the staff said presidential aides just below top rank arc urging Nixon to fire a number of their chief of staff h. R. Haldeman and chief Domestic adviser John Ehrlich Nan. T w o Republican senators Charles h. Percy of Illinois and Lowell p. Weicker or. Of con increased the pressure on the president to move decisively on Wale Gale. Oul get pm Weicker said of White House aides who canadians support that might have been these were other watergate developments National chair Man Hubert Strauss proposed to a meeting of democratic Gover nors that the party buy National television time to discuss the Case. Initial reaction was Cool. Call for a special water Gate prosecutor was made by the National governing Board of the Ripon society a Liberal re publican organization. New York times says Haldeman and Ehrlichman will meet with Federal prosecutors this week to discuss what if any roles they had in watergate and the alleged coverup. Continued founded. Throughout association Ach of these men has Demon rated a spirit of selflessness and dedication that i have Selom seen equalled. Their contributions. To the work of this administration have been enor ions. I greatly regret their speaking of Kleindienst said the former attorney general acted in actor dance with the highest Stan Ards of Public service and Egal ethics. I am accepting his designation with regret and Vith deep appreciation for his dedicated service the 52-year-old to this and Richardson once a Law clerk to the late us r c m e court Justice Felix Frankfurter served As . At Orney for Massachusetts and As that state s elected attorney general. He had moved to the Pentagon just a few weeks ago after serving As Secretary of health education and welfare. In his letter of resignation Kleindienst said he acted with deep regret and after Long and searching he told Nixon that assistant attorney general Henry Peter sen and two other Justice department officials including watergate prosecutor Earl j. Sil Bert made disclosures to him on april 15 that dictate this decision at this those disclosures informed me for the first he wrote that persons with whom i had had close personal and professional associations could be involved in conduct violative of the Laws of the United Kleindienst 49, received sen ate approval As attorney general last june after the Lon Gest confirmation fight for a presidential nominee in memory. He was sworn in three Days later. Throughout the 24 Days of hearings on his nomination to succeed John Mitchell Liberal democrats centred their attack on what they described As the Nixon administration s lies with big business. Specifically they Attim plod to discredit Kleindienst s denial that he played a role in Settle ment of three Anli Trust suits against International Telephone and Telegraph corp., the ninth largest business in the United Stales. Meanwhile a f o r m e r lop White House aide who says he had no prior knowledge of the watergate Case is reported to have urged a Speed up in the illegal bugging. Charles w. Colson once pres Dent Nixon s special counsel also is said to have recruited Young men to pose As Homo sex Lal supporters of the presiden Ial Campaign of senator George Mcgovern dem. Colson who repeatedly has denied any prior knowledge of i 11 g a 1 wiretaps or political sabotage and cited a lie Detec Tor test As proof is quoted As asking a colleague in february 1972 when the hell Are we going to get this bugging plan the source of the new allegations reported in time Maga Zine and the Washington Post was said to be Job Magrudor former no. 2 Man in the Nixon re election Campaign. The Posl quoting highly re liable says Magrudor has told his Story to Federal prosecutors it says Frederick Tallue a principal Campaign Deputy to former attorney general John Mitchell manager of the Nixon re election Effort confirmed Colson made such a Call to Magrudor but believed May be implicated. Percy urged Nixon to report o the country exactly. What he new about illegal espionage and alleged High level a templs .0 cover it up the two senators appeared on he Abc s issues and answers. Percy said he will introduce a Resolution this week empower ing Nixon to appoint a Specia prosecutor in the Case subject to Senate confirmation. A similar Call came from democratic governors meeting in Huron Ohio. Time Magazine said career lawyers in the Justice depart ment Are urging the Man in charge of the attorney general Henry Peter follow the Lead of Klein Dienst and disqualify Himsel because of the possibility h would be asked to testify if an White House aides Are put 01 trial. Meanwhile time says to convicted watergate conspire White House aide g. Gordon Liddy and e. How Ard the office o los Angeles psychiatrist Lewi Fielding after being told he a refused to give the Fri in for mation on a patient Danie Ellsberg. Time says Liddy and Hun were receiving All Fri report on the Ellsberg Case. Ellsberg s on trial for releasing to news papers the top secret pc Tago Lis Lory of . Involvement Vietnam. The Magazine says Liddy an Hunt were hired to Trace the leak of the Pentagon Pap i their alleged involvement that Case was first reporte Friday in a memo from the juice department. Or. Fielding told an Ellsberg spokesman that nothing a geared to have been taken by River area retaken phenom penh a the cambodian government report today that it retook a stretch the Mekong River Bank Cross from phenom penh and filled 52 insurgents in repulse in n attack 40 Miles North o kor wat ill the Northwest Art of the country. The cambodian comma Iso reported its troops took the offensive against the insurgent t two other Points South of the capital and beat Back an attack t a third Point. The command said govern ment forces routed insurgent orces from the Village of Are khat on the East Bank of the Mekong two Miles from phenom end and reoccupied the rive Bank in that area. However the anti government forces Sti controlled Long stretches of the Iver in the capital area. . B-52s and fighter Job cars bombed sunday Alon a eight mile stretch of the a Bank but no air strikes wer reported there sunday night. Fighting was reported in the Northwest for the first time in year. The government said i rooms scored a Brilliant victry in repulsing an attack a urday night at Choy Nean Nuon 40 Miles North of the angkor ruins and 33 Mill South of the tha Border. In addition to 52 insurgent killed the command said communists were capture while government casualty were seven killed and Nin wounded. At Taco provincial Capit 39 Miles South of phenom pen that has been encircled f months the government said i troops counter attacked South the City sunday night to wid their defensive perimeter. The command also said i troops were continuing Oner tons to retake Setbon about Miles South of phenom penh Highway 30. The command said Gover ment forces also repulsed attack on Tram Uhnar a provincial capital 24 Miles South of phenom penh. Probably was off course but re fused to sign a statement re Lieving the Viet Cong of blame. The Canadian ices Dele a m in Saigon released the test a statement Given to the vict ing in Quant Tri by col. W. Macleod of Kingston ont., and of the Canadian team at be. It said we Are of the View that the action of the crash and the sent location of helicopter 5 Are one and the same. We fuse to sign any statement because we consider requests r such statements improper id totally unacceptable. Now feel in a position of Ever to join with our col Agues in completing our re it to the Gen. Mcalpine said that the let Cong s provisional revolt onary government wish to it stipulations on the return of in helicopter which exonerate ice from any involvement in Amage with respect to its resent for that reason he said the investigating team scheduled spend tonight at the crash Ite might not be Able to bring by parts of the downed Heli Opter Back to South Vietnam be territory. A n indonesian delegation spokesman had said earlier Oday that the investigators in luding mechanics and surviving pilots had determined that he first Craft was still at the dual crash site. . Harsono chief of in indonesian delegation and temporary ices chairman told Viet Cong of two 1ccs team Sites unless conditions arc improved. They complained that ices learn members at an Loc in a South vietnamese controlled area North of Saigon and at Ben Hel in Northwestern Central Highlands Are unduly restricted in their movements and face unacceptable danger from continuing hostilities. They gave no details. Canadian officers said their delegations at a Loc and Ben Het had made no such com ices was asked to look into the plaints. A military committee of the indonesian charges. Another team site due co in the Central Border area Southwest of Plesku Wil be evacuated tuesday Cana Dian sources said because a malaria problem. Seven ices personnel have contracted malaria at due co the last five weeks the costs hard to count continued sources and the team Wil not return until measures Are taken to reduce Mosquito infestation. Explosions wreck train continued n ices meeting in Saigon Oday he believes that this Nuch deplorable incident could Lave been prevented if the two South vietnamese parties had Hown their sincerity in co operating Between themselves o guarantee the safety of ices personnel As stipulated in the Aris the indonesians also threat ened to pull their delegates out greek Monarch off coins Athens a new greek coins went into circulation sat urday which for the first time in 26 years not depict the Monarch s head. King Constantino living in self exile in Rome since his december 1967, is not shown on the new 20 drachmas 66-cent coins. Destroyed with an estimated loss of million. There was damage of untold millions to Jie railway Yard largest of its find in California. The bombs were in Roule from a naval ammunition depot at Hawthorne nev., to a san Francisco Bay shipping Point. They were to have been moved saturday to port Chicago calif., shipping Point for munitions to Southeast Asia. At least five More bombs exploded sunday. The explosion was described As the worst of its kind in Cali fornia since july 17, 1944, when an explosion Al port Chicago killed 323 persons. Most families were evacuated in Small boats and taken into the cily to stay with friends or relatives others look Adan Lage of the emergency accommodations. The water was High last Spring but it did t come up this said Carol Ashton. It was Only about six inches against our trailer. But now the water is up Over the bedroom furniture in a lot of John Shute said he expected the value of his trailer had probably been Cut in half by the floodwaters. There s about an Inch of scum in the water As every body s Oil tanks have emptied. It s All going right into the across the River at lower St. Mary a families sat on a Grassy Bank along the trans Canada Highway sunday As the water gradually Rose and Cut off Access to their Homes. Just 100 feet away. The major Road links to the East were Cut by the floodwaters sunday arid ramp weren t sure when Normal traffic flows would be restored. Traffic slowed to a crawl on the main Road link to Saint John 65 Miles to the South w he n Waters flowed across route 7 at Lincoln. Ramp kept one Lane of traffic open to vehicles capable of driving through up to three feet of water but there were Long lineups at each end As the bottleneck was crossed by the cars. Skylab test begins Cape Kennedy Fla. A launch Crews wednesday night began a lengthy count Down rehearsal in a final major test before the launching of the skylab space Stalion ., May 14 Alop a Saturn 5 rocket. The next Day at 1 ., the skylab 1 astronauts Charles Conrad or. Paul j. Weitz and or. Joseph p. Kerwin Are to ride into space aboard a Saturn rocket link up with the station and remain aboard for 28 Days. Canadians judged Best at Parade Norfolk a. Cap a Canadian forces marching unit from the Navy ship preserver was judged Best in its category saturday in a three hour Azalea festival Parade through Down town Norfolk. This was a filling prelude to the Coronation of Canadian Beauty Heather Macdonald As the 20th Queen of the festival. Miss Macdonald daughter of veterans affairs minister Dan Macdonald Rode on the float entered by the knights of pythias which was judged the most Beautiful of 115 entries. Thousands of spectators from As far away As Canada watched the Parade. Printing forgeries admitted Bonn renter a West German has admitted forging 400 paintings by such renowned impressionists As Monet and Renoir in the last five years launching an investigation. Into a possible International Art swindle. In a letter to an old Enburg newspaper this week Guenter Heitmann 49, said he produced the fake works for a West German Man who paid him each. 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