- ---- ,____ _._. ~_ - .. ·•·-..---~--L :,.:::;~ :..::.;:;::::::=::::::::= =:::::c::::===== ;::;-=:= ==cr-::::,::-=:::::==_=__= _;;-::;. _:;;-;;..c;., ::_c;;;._ _ - _____ ....~ .,..,... ••• ./ - - --- - 1--- - R.I. JEWISH HISTORICAL ASSOC, 130 SESSIONS ST. I PROVIDENCE, RI 02906 UN ESCO Press Officer· Resigns in Disput~ PARIS: The information director · when UNESCO adopted several of UNESCO, an American Jew, has resolutions condemning Israel and submitted his resignation, attacking excluding it from the organization's THE O NLY ENGLIS H-JE W/S H W EEKLY IN R. /. AND SOUTHEAST MASS . the anti-Israeli actions of the · European grouping. Mr. Blocker is Unired Nati'ons over the last 13 said to have been under pressure, as months. chief information officer, to soften VOLUME LVIII, NUMBER 42 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1975 20¢ PER COPY the impact of the anti-Israeli actions foel Blocker, said in a letter to in his dealings with reporters .. Am a doe-Mahtar M ' Bow of Senega l, the director of the 'United Mr. Blocker has also been telling Nations Educational, Scientific, associates and friends here that he and Cultural Organization,t hat he had received several offers, direct was quitting because of the General and indirect, to accept other, less­ Assembly resolution · passed · last sensitive posts at the organization. month equating Zionism with Some,of the offers were said to have racism, as well as earlier anti-Israeli confe directly from Mr. M'Bow. All actions by UNESCO. The agency of the offers were said to· have been has its headquarters in Paris. The made before the resolution on resignation becomes effective · Zionism was approved. December 31. He has held the post In effect, Mr. Blocker will be for nearly two years. learning the organization three A UNESCO official confirmed weeks before the expiratiqn of his that Mr. Blocker's letter had been contract. No a nnouncement has received by the director general, but · been made concerning his declined to release Mr. M' Bow's replacement. reply to Mr. Blocker. The officials said the director general expected to In hi s letter to Mr. M' Bow, Mr. meet with Mr. Blocker this week . Block,, explained his reason for leaving. The text of the letter, made The official said that he was available -to correspondents here, familiar with the situation of Mr. says the resolution on Zionism was Blocker. The official said that Mr. "an unaccepta ble violation of both Blocker had been advised by official the spirit and the letter of the l letter in October that his contract United Nations Charter. "This would not be renewed. The official resolution, as you must know, is not noted that the United Nations an isolated instance," the letter says resolution o n Zionism had been "it clim axes a whole year of similar adopted -by the General Assembly decisions, take n in the United in New York in November, after Narions itself as well as in its Mr. Blocker was said to have specialized agencies, that call into received the letter terminating his question the very constitutional contract. bases of international cooperation. , Mr. Blocker, who is 43 years old, Nor is there any reasonable expec­ has a current contract that expires tation_that such policies will cease Jan. 20. io be adopted in the near future." CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION is received by Jacob N. Temkin, center, Vice President of Temple Emanu-EI_from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America for "his outstanding work and leadership on behalf of the Mr. Blocker has been telling close Mr. Blocker, a former reporter Seminary." The ceremony took place at the recent annual breakfast meeting of the RJ,ode Island Friends of the associates, however, that his dispute with 1',{ewsweek magazine and CBS, Seminary, held at Temple Emanu-El. Attending were, left to right, E. Morton Percelay, Rabbi Joel A. Zaiman, Jack with the organizatio n. a nd Mr. has told friends that he intends to Temkin, Manfred Weil, and Lawrence L Suttenberg' Chairman of the New England Friends of the Seminary and M' Bow began in November 1974. return to journalism. guest speaker. which he said was increasing. Woman Elected President Finance Ministry Asks Health Ministry officials said there would be cutbacks in services, Less U.S. Dependence departments closed and that the _ Of Staff at Butler Hosp. hospital-building program would The Butler Hospital Staff and is chairwoman or the Com­ T EL AVIV: In an effort to reduce agreement on them. be suspended. Education Ministry Association has elected its first mittee on continuing Education of political dependence on the United Officia ls said the proposed sources said classes would have to woman president. Wilma S. Rosen, the Brown University Medical States and help slash the nation's national budget for 1976-77 be combined and school lunch M .D., staff psychiatrist at Butler School Section on Psychiatry a nd deficit in the ba lance of payments, represents a 5 percent reduction programs cut back. Hospital and assistant professor at Human Behavior and the Rhode Israel's Finance Ministry luis when the effects o f inflation are The Finance Ministry proposals Brown University, will succeed Island District Bra nch of the prese nted to the Cabinet a n austeri­ figured in, though the total fi gure is were defended in a new s Eufrocino Beltran, M.D., who serv­ American Psychi atric Association. ty budget. The budget, which comes $3 billion higher than the current conferenece in Jerusalem by Arnon ed as president during the 1973-75 Dr. Rosen is a consultant psy­ to nearly $12 billion, has been budget. Gafni, the ministry's Director term. chiatrist lo Brown University and proposed for the fi scal year begin­ After the budget proposal was General. He said the budget was The Butle r Hospital Staff the Rhode Isla nd School.of Design ning April I. m ade by Finance Minister part o f a program to reduce the Association, formed in 1962, is as part of the Butler Hospital Con­ Submitted along with it was a Yehoshua Rabinowitz, Police deficit in the balance of payments composed of 152 physician sultation Program, and is a member three-year econo mic plan which Minister Shlomo Hillel protested from the current total ofS3.7 billion members. Only seven of these are of many profess ion a l would reduce services, raise prices, against the allocation for his to $2 .8 billion by 1978. women. orgaini zations, including the Rhode lengthen the work week, and make ministry as inadequate. He rose in The deficit is being covered large­ Dr. Rosen earned her B.A. and Island Medical Society. Recently, jobs mo re scarce. The proposals Parliament to warn tha t there ly by aid and loans from the United M.D. from Temple Medical School. she was elected a fellow in the came under sharp attack within the would be sha rp reduction in the ef­ States. Mr. Gafni said the three­ Internship was taken at Albert American Psychiatric Association. Cabinet, which fai led to reach fi ciency of his force to fight crime, yea r progra m was meant to Ein s tein Medical Cente r in decrease the deficit " a nd thus Philadelphia, and residency was decrease economic and political completed at Temple University. Tourist Boycott Brings ~esults dependence." Furlher trai ning was taken at MEXICO C ITY: The Mexican organi zations represented here to­ Nov. 10. The major cause of the deficit has Philadelphia Psychonanalytic Government "in no way identified day would wait to see how Mexico Today's meeting seemed to been an increase in military Institute. Zionism with racism," despite its voted on a United Nations declara­ climax a quiet reversal in position procurements to S2 billion from She is cert ified by the American vote to that effect at the United ti on on women before deciding by Mexico since the Nov. 10 vote. $700 million a year since the Middle Boa rd of Psyc hia try and Neurology Nations in November. This is what whether to recommend the lifting of At the United Nations last week, East war of October 1973. Mexican President Luis Ec heverria the tourist boycott. That declara­ for example, Mexico unexpectedly Mr. Gafni said the budget es­ WEAPONS SHIPPED? AlvareL told representatives of tion, currently before the General abstained in a vote on a resolution timates were based on an assump­ T U NIS ( ZI N S): The press major American J ewis h Assembly, also contains an article condemning Israel for an air attack ti on that the United States reports tha t the Lefti st leader of the organizations last week. The group describing Zionism as racism. on Palestini an refugee camps in Congress will approve the Ford Ad­ Moslem terror groups in Beirut said later that the Mexican The chai rman of the 16-member Lebanon. m in istrat ions request for S 1.5 has accused Israel of " par­ President also promised that future delegation, Seymour Graubard, For the last five days, Mexico's billion in .direct assistance to Israel ticipation" in the Civil War in Mexican votes at the UN "cannot national chairman of the Anti­ Foreign Minister, Emilio 0 . and its request for S755 million in Lebanon. The leader is coAvinced be misi nterpreted or misunderstood Defamation League o f B'nai B'rith, Rabasa, has also been visiting Israel security support and assistance. that the Christ,an a rmed forces arc as equating Zionism with racism or said that he was "entirely satislied" in order to clear up, in his words, The Finance Ministry's economic using Israeli weapons. Viewers con­ opposing the national aspirations of with the result of the luncheon "certain mis understandings" plan is meant to reduce private con­ firm that they have seen Christians the Jewish people." meeting with Mr.