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Church Raps Mideast Policy 0RT Meet p,anne
H BY DAVID FRIEDMAN
Q NEW YORK (JTA) Sen.
\0 Frank Church (D. Idaho)
accused the Ford Adminis-
tration of viewing progress
toward peace in the Middle
East as meaning concessions
>i only from Israel and as being
•K ambiguous on its stand
S toward the Arab boycott.
“Israel has become a
C5 symbol of America’s com-
^ mitment to principle,” he
^ said. “America’s ability to
£ withstand the temptation of
H purely economic gain, to
H recognize that there are
p shared values w'hich these
£ two people are committed
and which are every bit as
co tangible - and more impor-
tant - than pieces of
tij machinery.”
Church, who is a candidate
^ for the Democratic Presi-
W dential nomination, had to
t"1 be in Oregon on May 19. But
his speech was read by his
wife, Bethine, to more than
300 persons attending the
20th anniversary dinner of
Bar Ilan University at the
Pierre Hotel at which Mrs.
Jane Stern of New York,
was installed as the first
woman chairman of the
American Board of Over-
seers.
Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein,
chancellor of the university
located in Ramat Gan and
president of the Synagogue
Council of America, said he
believed Bar Ilan was the
first Jewish university to
have a woman as head of one
of its corporate bodies and
“certainly” the first religious
institution to do so. Bar Ilan,
which was founded by a
group of American Jews, is
the only religiously-oriented
university in Israel.
Church’s speech warned
that the “fantastic” econo-
mic power being accumula-
ted by the oil-rich Arab
states “has become a source
of undue pressure for a
settlement which is not at all
equitable but merely one-
sided.”
He said the Administration
has also seen progress in the
Mideast as Israel’s willing-
ness "to make significant
concessions without parallel
moves on the part of the
Arab state.”
The Idaho Senator stressed
that “the legitimacy and
existence of Israel cannot be
bartered away. Quiet diplo-
macy notwithstanding, we
must declare in unmistak-
able terms that there can be
no peace in the Middle East
without an open and explicit
acknowledgement (by the
Arabs) that Israel exists, it
will continue to exist and it
has every right to exist.”
Church said the danger
now is that “the more
extreme Arab partisans will
come to believe that conces-
sions can be won from the
U.S., involving the security
of Israel, by taking the most
uncompromising position.
After all, the PLO now has
access to the most presti-
gious international forums
without having yielded an
inch in its intransigent
opposition to the very
esixtence of a Jewish State..
We must leave the PLO and
its supporters no doubt that
some things are not nego-
tiable, specifically Israel’s
right to exist.”
Church, whose Senate sub-
committee on Multi-national
Corporations released last
year a list of the American
firms on the Arab boycott,
said that President Ford and
some Administration offi-
cials have attacked the
boycott while other Admini-
stration officials have been
against doing anything to
counterattack it.
“One has to question
whether an Administration
so torn by international
dissention really has the will
to stand up for principle or
merely knuckles under to
economic pressure by big
American corporations
anxious to cash in on the
Arab oil bonanza,” he said.
The Dallas-Fort Worth
Region of Women’s Ameri-
can ORT has scheduled its
third annual planning con-
ference for Wednesday,
June 2, in the main building
of the Jewish Community
Center of Dallas.
The conference will begin
at 9:15 a.m. at the Center
and end at 2:30 p.m. The
purpose is to preview the
forthcoming activities of the
Region for the year 1976-77.
The day will also offer an
opportunity for incoming
officers of chapters in the
Region to develop insight
into their new posts. Newly
installed Region President
Edith Axelrod urges all new
ORT board members to
attend the conference.
ORT, the Organization for
Rehabilitation through
Training, is the largest
private non-governmental
vocational training agency in
the world. Its purpose is to
teach skills and trades to
needy Jewish men, women
and children, thus freeing
them from dependence on
charity.
Further information about
the conference can be
obtained by calling Mrs.
Doreen Robinson, 234-5205,
or Mrs. Barbara Rudoff,
233-0260, Chairwomen of the
Day.
Israeli Equipment
To Be on Display
W.H.O. Rejects Health Report
GENEVA (WNS) A re-
port by a special three-
member World Health Or-
ganization committee on
Israeli health care for the
Arab population of the West
Bank was rejected by the
WHO.
The WHO annual assembly
voted 65-18 in favor of a
motion sponsored by India
to shelve the report without
considering it.
Among those voting to
reject the report were
Rumania, Senegal, and Indo-
nesia who had supplied the
experts for the study. The
United States, Canada,
Japan and most West
European countries voted
against the motion. France
and Italy were among 14
nations that abstained.
Israel had at first refused
to allow the committee to
come into the country but
then said they could carry on
their investigation on an
individual basis.
The report found there had
been a “slow but steady”
improvement in health con-
ditions on the West Bank
since 1967 and cited better
treatment and prevention of
illness and a decrease in
communicable diseases. But
it said nursing care was
“inadequate” and there were
deficiencies in the supply of
drugs, instruments and
equipment.
The report also said there
had been appreciable in-
crease in the number of
hospital beds. The Israeli
representative to WHO,
Eytan Ron, denounced the
entire proceedings as a
“kangaroo court.”
Meanwhile WHO adopted a
resolution by a 57-16 vote
demanding that Israel allow
the committee to investigate
health conditions on the
West Bank or face expul-
sion. Dr. S. Paul Erlich, the
American representative,
denounced the resolution for
discarding “whatever”
health concerns may origi-
nally been embodied in this
question.”
TEL AVIV (JTA) Is
rael’s battle-tested com-
munications equipment,
considered the best in the
world by many experts, will
go on display in the U.S. at
the annual electronics and
communications exhibit of
the Armed Forces Com-
munications and Electronics
Association next month
under the auspices of the
U.S. department of Defense.
Elkana Caspi, director of
Tadiran, Israel’s largest
manufacturer of electronics
and communications equip-
ment, announced May 19
that some 100 of his firm’s
products comprising 30
sophisticated communica-
tions systems, would be on
view in Washington be-
tween June 7-10.
Tadiran will have the
largest display of any
foreign company participa-
ting in the exhibition, Caspi
said. He claimed that his
company will be the only one
to display equipment al-
ready tested under combat
conditions. He said Tadiran’s
systems are 8-30 years
ahead of any others in the
field.
Caspi explained that Tadi-
ran’s basic know-how was
American. The company is
owned jointly by General
Telephone and Electronics
and Koor Industries of
Israel. It specialized in
control command communi-
cations systems, either sta-
tionary or mobile, which are
used on the surface or in
aircraft. Tadiran has re-
cently increased its sales to
foreign countries and is
seeking new markets over-
seas, Uaspi said.
I
Soviet Jewry National Conference
Reaffirms Support for Amendment
WASHINGTON (WNS)
Eugene Gold, newly-elected
chairman of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
has reaffirmed strong sup-
port for the Jackson-Vanik
Amendment to the 1974
Trade Act which links U.S
trade benefits for the Soviet
Union with the easing of
Soviet emigration restric-
tions on Jews and others.
“It is the law on the books
and we must support the
law,” Gold said at a luncheon
ending the NCSJ’s two-day
board of governors leader-
ship assembly. But he said
the NCSJ would support
“flexible interpretation of
the law” if there was “Soviet
compliance with the human
rights of Jews.” Gold’s
predecessor, Stanley
Lowell, said the campaign
for Soviet Jewry will be
“long and hard, but it is clear
that American Jews and
Christians are prepared to
shoulder that responsibility
for as long as necessary.”
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.
Wash.), co-author of the
Jackson-Vanik Amendment,
assailed President Ford and
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger for their opposi-
tion to the legislation and for
their effort to get Congress
to delete it from the trade
bill or water it down.
California Gov. Edmund J.
Brown, Jr., a candidate for
the Democratic Presidential
nomination, said he favors
hard bargaining with the
Soviets on American wheat
and technology to secure
free emigration for Soviet
Jews. But he said he had
mixed feelings about the
effectiveness of the Jackson-
Vanik Amendment.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan
group of eight Senators have
urged Congress to set up a
permanent advisory group
that would continuously
monitor the treatment of
Jews in the Soviet Union.
The group will also ask
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly
Dobrynin for information on
the current status of 30
Soviet Jews who met with
16 Senators in Moscow last
summer.
The Senators who launched
the program at a breakfast
hosted by Sen. Jacob K.
Javits (R. NY) included
Hubert H. Humphrey (D.
Minn.), Abraham Ribicoff
(D. Conn.); Patrick Lahey
(D. Vt.), James Buckley,
(C-R, NY) James McClure
(R. Idaho), Charles Percy (R.
111.), and Charles Mathias (R.
Md.).
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem,
Israeli Foreign Minister
Yigal Allon told the Knesset
that 20 Soviet Jewish
scientists and professionals
were summoned to police
stations near their homes
and told to find jobs or be
punished even though they
had been fired from then-
jobs for applying to emi-
grate to Israel.
★★★★★★★★★
A man without a wife is
without joy, without bless-
ing, without happiness.
—The Talmud
' Credible' Initiative Israel Needed
Before 1977, Says Mendes-France
BY EDWIN EYTAN
PARIS (JTA) - Pierre
Mendes-France has warned
Israel that it must come up
with a “credible” peace
intiative before the end of
this year or face an imposed
solution after the American
Presidential elections which
could possibly amount to a
“new Munich.”
The former French Pre-
mier, who returned recently
from a visit to Israel where
he conferred with its lea-
ders, stressed, in an inter-
vew published in Nouvelle
Observateur, that no solu-
tion to the Middle East
conflict can be found unless
“the Palestinians have the
same right as the Israelis to
be independent, to have a
country and to decide on
what concerns them without
any foreign intervention.”
Mendes-France, one of the
three Jews who have served
as the Prime Minister of
France, predicted that “As
soon as the Lebanese crisis
is settled and the American
elections are over, Israel will
have to face a terrible end of
term. This is why I hope
with all my strength that
Israel will take the initiative
to avoid a new Munich. An
Israeli offer is far preferable
to an imposed solution even
if both are similar” (in their
terms), he said.
According to the French
statesman, “Israel must
create a new situation” and
“to achieve this, it must
make a significant gesture”
such as “telling the Pales-
tinians that there are no
obstacles to their freedom
and their rights.”
Mendes-France criticized
both sides in the Middle
East conflict - the Arabs for
proclaiming their desire to
destroy Israel and Israel for
establishing settlements in
Arab territory.
Continuing to propose
nothing clear and credible,
nothing which can give hope
that a solution is possible, is
handing over the situation to
extremists, fanatics and
irresponsible people who
content themselves with
recalling sufferings and
martyrdom,” he warned.
The former Premier, who
negotiated France’s with-
drawal from Indo-China in
1955, observed that “There
is no example of a people
fighting for its independence
and failing to win it” during
the past generation.
He referred to Indo-China,
Algeria, Madagascar and
Angola. He warned that the
next American Administra-
tion, no matter who wins the
election, will “not bother
with subtleties” and will
impose a Middle East
solution, probably with the
Soviet Union’s help.
Sources close to Nouvelle
Observateur, a liberal
weekly, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that
Mendes-France regarded his
interview as an 11th hour
appeal to Israel and world
Jewish opinion by a person
whose pro-Israel sentiments
are beyond question.
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