The Soviet Union’s introduction of military personnel into the Egyptian armed forces is “patently calculated” to test the strength of the United States commitment to its interests in the Middle East and to the survival of Israel, the National Council of Jewish Women asserted. “The Soviet Union seems intent on keeping that part of the world in crisis, thereby diminishing prospects for a political settlement, while gaining ever increasing political, economic and military influence in the area,” the statement said. The statement was one of several approved at a three-day session several days ago of the NCJW executive board held here. Other positions in the statement concerned the right to dissent, opposition to American intervention both in South Vietnam and Cambodia and equal right for all Americans now. The board denounced the expansion of United States military involvement into Cambodia and urged President Nixon to withdraw American military personnel from Indochina without delay. The statement cited the lives lost domestically because of “continuing polarization” of the American society, referring specifically to the killing of four students at Kent University, two at Jackson State College and the killings of blacks in Augusta, Ga.
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