Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1976 Page: 5 of 24
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Washington to Paris Flight
Begins New Supersonic Era
The Concorde supersonic
- ra is to begin for U.S.
' ‘avelers on Monday, May
Li. On that date, Air France
intends to begin scheduled
service of the 1400 mph
aircraft between Washing-
ton’s Dulles and Paris’ CDG
Airports, cutting travel time
between the U.S. and
y urope in half.
* Air France flight 054 will
depart Dulles thrice weekly
on Monday, Thursday and
Saturday, at 1 p.m. and
arrive in Paris at 10:50 p.m.
the same evening. The
westbound flight, AF053,
till depart CDG every
( .ednesday, Friday and
Sunday, at 8 p.m., arriving
in Washington at 5:50 p.m.
The Concorde flying time of
3 hours 50 minutes is less
than half the current west-
' iund subsonic time of 8
| urs 25 minutes for 707’s
Lid 7 hours 55 minutes for
747’s. The fare of $830 one
way and $1,657 roundtrip
represents the current
subsonic first class fare plus
a 20 percent SST surcharge,
subject to government
proval.
ihe 1 p.m. departure from
Dulles and direct connec-
ts ns between National and
ij dies Airports make
(t ncorde transatlantic ser-
vice a practical reality for all
major U.S. cities in the East,
South and Midwest. The
choice of an 8 p.m. west-
bound schedule from CDG
will enable late afternoon
Cm mrtures from major Eur-
cl ;an cities to connect with
Concorde service to Dulles
where a 5:50 p.m. arrival
will permit travelers to
reach East Coast and Mid-
west destinations at con-
venient evening hours.
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extended beyond the flight
itself to include new speed
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For Concorde flights
departing from Washington,
special check-in and transfer
facilities will be provided
both from downtown and
between National and Dulles
Airports. Transfer limou-
sines to connect with Con-
corde will depart both
National and the Air France
offices at 1120 Connecticut
Ave., N.W., at 11:30 a.m.
Flight check-in facilities
will also be provided at the
downtown location. Similar
transfer services from
Dulles to National and
downtown will operate
immediately after the
arrival of Concorde.
Air France has established
a special Concorde reserva-
tions service to give imme-
diate satisfacton to all SST
flight requests and related
land arrangements. The
direct number for this
special Concorde service is
in New York (212) 421-6280
and in Washington as well as
throughout the continental
U.S. (800) 223-5487.
Special deluxe land pack-
ages in Paris, the Chateaux
Country and the French
Riviera are also being
offered to meet the needs of
the U.S. Concorde passen-
ger.
The U.S. launching of
Concorde service comes
after four months of success-
ful commercial operations
between Paris and Rio de
Janeiro which began on
January 21. Load factors on
this initial route have
averaged near 70 percent.
During the first month alone
Concorde carried 1,137
passengers between the
French and Brazilian cities.
A second Concorde route
between Paris and Caracas
began operations in April.
He who hath compassion
on his fellow-men, will re-
ceive compassion from God.
—Talmud
Family Agency Helps Prison Inmates
At both Dulles and CDG
Airports, special Concorde
ground staff will expedite
check-in and transfers to
ca .necting flights. The
l:M?st Concorde pre-flight
cneck-in time will be re-
duced to 20 minutes.
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(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
More than 1000 Jewish
men and women inmates of
eight prisons in New York
State sought and received
help from Jewish Family
Service counselors in the
period between 1970 and
1975, according to a report
by the agency. The agency’s
social rehabilitation division
provides help to the Jewish
criminal, to the ex-criminal
and to his family during both
his incarceration and post-
prison adjustment. A
spokesman said the vast
majority of Jewish criminals
are men.
The spokesman reported
that the number of Jews in
prison has been declining
steadily. One explanation
offered is that the criminal
justice system is now more
concerned with lawbreakers
involved in highly visible
and dangerous street crimes
than with “white collar”
criminals - those whose
offenses include writing of
bad checks, embezzlement of
funds and similar crimes.
The spokesman said Jewish
offenders usually are in the
latter category and fre-
quently are not sent to jail.
But in recent years, the
spokesman said, there has
been a slight increase in the
number of ' Jews impri-
soned for drug abuse.
Prison life for Jewish
inmates, as for inmates
generally, is a grim affair
but with a particular harass-
ment. As members of a
minority group, the spokes-
man said, Jewish inmates
are often forced into the role
of scapegoats. Because they
are often judged as a group,
rather than as individuals,
Jewish prisoners react by
tending to stick together.
The spokesman said that
one way this group feeling
manifests itself is in attend-
ance at religious services in
prison, a regularity of at-
tendance which for many of
them was a practice rarely
or never maintained “on the
outside.” One result is that
the Jewish inmates often
establish a relationship with
the prison rabbi who may
help the prisoner handle
problems in prison. But if
the inmate has concerns
about this family, he is
referred to a JFS counselor.
JFS counseling is pro-
vided to inmates in six
prisons in the New York
metropolitan area and to ten
correctional facilities in up-
state New York. Help is pro-
vided in face-to-face meet-
ings and via the mail. JFS
counselors maintain an ex-
tensive and continuing cor-
respondence with the pri-
soner and his family, which
concerns not only current
problems but also the need
for getting a job after
release.
The program at the prisons
consists of provision of
counseling services by a
specially assigned JFS
worker who visits Sing Sing
prison once each month and
other nearby institutions,
such as Walkill, Greenhaven
and Westfield women’s re-
formatory and prison, seve-
ral times a year.
JFS experts said few
experiences are more dis-
ruptive to family life than
the arrest and imprisonment
of a spouse, parent or child.
The family is left without a
breadwinner, the child with-
out a parent, the wife
without a husband. The
situation can be as bitter for
family on the outside as it is
for the family member in
prison.
Initially, many wives are
devastated by what consti-
tutes an instant crisis. They
feel betrayed and angry but
often are so overwhelmed
they are unable to express
their rage and feelings of
fear and betrayal. Through
individual JFS counseling or
by participation in a wo-
men’s group, the agency
tries to help these women to
express those feelings.
Many appear unable to
function or regress to a level
of complete helplessness.
Separation for these wives
can bring to the surface
deepseated feelings of inad-
equacy and dependency. The
wives may find they cannot
cope with the negative
reactions of other family
members and with an
unsympathetic and even
hostile community. The goal
of the JFS program is to
help such families as they
learn to deal with a radically
changed life situation, the
spokesman said.
The problems do not, of
course, magically disappear
with the return of the
prisoner to his or her family.
Former prisoners often suf-
fer difficulties in readjust-
ing to and reintegrating'
themselves back into normal
life. Their problems may
include inability to reestab-
lish themselves in their
homes and their communi-
ties. Their family may be
unable to accept a member
who has become a “strang-
er.” For the more isolated
ex-inmate with few or no
family ties, there are a
variety of special problems.
The spokesman said the
agency offers therapy to
help the ex-inmate and his
family through the severe
period of readjustment. It
offers psychiatric and psy-
chological testing and-
evaluation to make accurate
diagnoses and effective
treatment plans. The
spokesman said the JFS is
the only Jewish agency in
the metropolitan area which
offers this kind of rehabilita-
tion service, which was
started 50 years ago with
formation of the Society for
the Aid of Jewish Prisoners.
Since the Society’s incor-
poration into the JFS nearly
20 years ago as its social
Continued on Page 9
Professors Involved in Israeli Politics
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(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
JERUSALEM - The recent
sharp criticism voiced by
Prof. Yuval Neeman, till
recently advisor to the
Defense Minister, of Cabinet
policy, and by Prof. Michael
Bruno, soon to leave as
advisor to the Finance
Minister, of government
economic policy, sheds light
on a relatively new pheno-
menon on the Israeli poli-
tical horizon: the involve-
ment of academics in the
decision-making process.
Professors are all the
vogue in the administration;
Cabinet members seek them
out to adorn their offices.
Defense Minister Shimon
Peres was the first to urge
professors to serve the
nation in executive jobs. He
nominated several aca-
demies (Profs. Yehoshafat
| Harkavi, Saadia Amiel, Ye-
l hezkel Dror and Neeman) as
) his advisors. Peres also
I chose Prof. Pinkhas Zuss-
j man as the Director General
of his ministry.
Minister of Justice Haim
Zadok appointed Prof. Aha-
ron Barak to the powerful
and influential post of
Attorney General. Foreign
Minister Yigal Allon has
recently succeeded in con-
vincing Prof. Shlomo Avi-
neri to take leave from the
Hebrew University in order
to serve as Director General
of the Foreign Ministry.
Finance Minister Yehoshua
Rabinowitz called upon Bru-
no to function as his chief
consultant.
Though relatively recent,
the phenomenon is already
instructive: many professors
have quit their new jobs
after only a few months and
others have announced their
intention to quit. Three of
the professors serving at the
Defense Ministry returned
to the universities, claiming
that they had originally
intended to serve Peres for
only a couple of months. On
the other hand, Bruno
frankly announced that his
intention to leave his post in
the Finance Ministry April
1, was brought on by
differences of opinion with
Rabinowitz.
Asked to assess the ex-
perience of attracting aca-
demics to the government
service, Dror, a prestigious
public administration expert
at the Hebrew University,
says that professors who are
prepared to be integrated
into the governmental ad-
ministration must above all
acquire the virtue of pa-
tience. Dror points out that
implementing changes in the
functioning of any adminis-
trative organization is a
hard and frustrating pro-
cess. The academics, coming
to serve in the govern-
ment, must bear in mind
that their views and ideas
won’t be accomplished im-
mediately, says Dror.
When joining the govern-
ment administration, the
professors must abandon
their previous academic
approach: instead of tackling
systematically fundamental,
often purely theoretical
problems, the professors
take part in the all-too-
common “fire extinguishing”
policy (treating specific
problems as they arise);
instead ' of administrating
their schedule, as they
would like, they bow to
various pressures that dic-
tate their time-table.
The professors who join the
civil service learn of the
huge political price that
Israeli society pays to the
survival of the present
Cabinet. They realize that in
order to maintain the exist-
ence of the Cabinet, Premier
Yitzhak Rabin has had to
water down his plans to cut
the budget of the Defense
Ministry. They see how the
Cabinet has acceeded to
pressure applied by differ-
ent economic interest
groups (banks, trade unions,
industrialists) thus gnawing
away at its own economic
policy.
Some of the professors
were frankly stunned by
what they describe as the
incompetence of the public
administration to carry out
the Cabinet resolutions.
They became disillusioned
with the weakness of the
Cabinet as a governing and
integrative body. Some of
these academics have had
the opportunity to observe
closely the inner struggle
among the Cabinet members
for their shares of the
national budget. They
learned how the press is
used by the ministries to
achieve their political goals.
Above all, the professors are
disappointed at the seeming-
ly haphazard ways in which
the policy is laid down - so
differently from in the text
books.
The faults of the decision-
making process in the Israeli
government - as observed by
the professors - can be
described as a reflection of
the conventional procedures
in democracy. The disap-
pointment expressed by
some of them may be
explained as an expression
of the “splendid isolation” of
the academic community
rather than as a sign of
deterioration of low stand-
ard of Israeli politics. Yet,
the professors quote the
official declarations - made
by all the Cabinet members -
about the present emerg-
ency and the special mea-
sures needed to be taken in
order to cope properly with
the severe challenges that
Israel is facing. The way the
Cabinet and its administra-
tion are functioning contra-
dicts the official description
about the severity of the
present circumstances, the
professors sadly stress.
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