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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1982 PAGE 2
Kissinger Visit
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Continued from Page 1
upon Israel with all the past relationships the
two nations had as allies but suggested that the
U.S. and Israel “work-out” their differences
because as it is now is “not a healthy situation.”
Dr. Kissinger gave high points and a place in
“history” to the Carter Administration for their
pursuance and achievement of the Camp David
Peace Accords.
He said the “death of Sadat has removed one
of the great men” and has “been a great blow.”
He said the return of the Sinai April 25 will
create “a new period” in Middle East relation-
ships.
Dr. Kissinger said: “I believe the Middle East
issues should not be tied to the Palestinian
issue.” He added “The U.S. has been correct in
pushing harder ... a process is more effective
than (by) trying to enforce a solution which might
fail.”
Asked again about pushing the Russians har-
der — as was done in 1972 when we knew
President Nixon carried over 250,000 petitions to
the Soviet Union asking for freedom of exit for
Jews, Kissinger said he believed that we could
accomplish more by quiet diplomacy than by
putting public pressure on the Soviet Union.
The current administration has, previous to its
assumption of offices and since, made the
Soviet Union its prime target of outbursts again-
st its officials and its policies.
Dr. Kissinger left the press conference.
“It’s been a long time since we’ve seen each
other,” he said in passing.
A long time indeed.
Special Efforts In Maryland To Stop
Growing Number Of Racist Incidents
BY DAVID FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON [JTA] -
The State of Maryland and
Montgomery County [Md.]
are trying to stop the
growing numbers of inci-
dents aimed at Jews, Blacks
and other minority groups
by involving all elements of
the community in an effort
to combat bigotry.
This was stressed as
Montgomery County Exec-
utive Charles Gilchrist re-
ceived the Torch of Liberty
Award from the District of
Columbia - Maryland Region
of the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith. The
award, presented at a
luncheon at B’nai B’rith
headquarters here, com-
mended Gilchrist for taking
the lead to try to eradicate
racially, religiously and eth-
nically motivated violence
and vandalism in his county,
a suburb of Washington.
“Silence condones,” Con-
stance Biems, chairperson of
Maryland Governor Harry
Hughes, Task Force on
Violence and Extremism,
said. “To speak out (against
incidents of bigotry) does
not inflame.” Biems said that
in appointing the task force,
which includes the three
branches of the Maryland
state government and coun-
ty and local officials. Hughes
said he did not want a report
or proposals for new legisla-
tion.
Four EEC Countries Ready
For Sinai Peacekeeping Force
BY DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
The Foreign Ministry re-
ceived letters from the
Ambassadors of Britain,
France, Italy and Holland
stating those countries’
readiness to participate in
the Sinai peacekeeping
force. Officials here said the
letters would be studied by
the Cabinet at its regular
meeting on Sunday but
gave no other response.
The letters are not identi-
cal. But all refer to the
“clarifications” each of the
four powers sent to Secre-
tary of State Alexander
Haig on November 26 in
which they stated: “We all
recognize that the function
of the Multinational Force
and Observers (MFO) is as
defined in the relevant
Egyptian-Israeli agree-
ments.”
That initial statement was
acceptable to Israel. But on
the following day the four
governments simultaneous-
ly released statements in
which they linked their
participation to the Euro-
pean Economic Community
(EEC) ministers’ Venice
declaration of June, 1980,
which Israel flatly rejected.
The Venice declaration call-
ed for the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization to be
associated with the Middle
East peace process.
On December 3, Israel and
the U.S. published a joint
statement establishing that
participation in the MFO
was to be based solely on the
Camp David accords and
asked the four European
powers to endorse it.
No Specific Endorsement
It was learned that the
letters received contained
no specific endorsement but
carefully avoided reference
to other EEC positions.
Thus there was no apparent
linkage between their offer
to contribute to the MFO
and the elements to which
Israel objected.
Observers here said it was
no coincidence that the
letters arrived on the eve of
Haig’s visit to Israel. The
Secretary of State met with
EEC foreign ministers in
Brussels recently, before
coming to the Middle East.
He said in Cairo that the
four powers had confirmed
to him that they would
participate in the MFO.
According to the observers,
the letters would be found
satisfactory from Israel’s
point of view.
Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen
To Settle In Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM [JTA] -
Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of
Rumania is planning to
settle in Tel Aviv, it was
reported by Yediot Achron-
ot. The paper said this
“emerged from” a luncheon
given in Rosen’s honor in Tel
Aviv by Rafael Kotlowitz,
head of the Jewish Agency’s
Immigration and Absorption
Department. At first, ac-
cording to Yediot, Rosen will
divide his time between Tel
Aviv and Bucharest. At the
luncheon, Rosen stressed
that Jewish religious life in
Rumania is conducted “open-
ly and above board” without
any of the restrictions that
are enforced elsewhere.
Involving The Public,
Government Officials
Instead, administrative
changes are being made as
the need is found for them,
Biems said, and the task
force is trying to involve
both the public and govern-
ment officials in the pro-
blem. She said the task force
right now is trying to alert
local officials to be prepared
for the problem when it
begins to recur, probably in
the spring.
Biems had particular
praise for the Baltimore
County police which, she
said, are treating such
incidents with the same
“severity” as major crimes
such as rape and murder.
She added that the partici-
pation of Baltimore County
in the investigation of such
incidents includes removing
swastikas and crosses from
the scene and alerting
neighbors to the problem.
Alvin Steinberg, a mem-
ber of the National Execu-
tive Committee of the ADL
who presented the award to
Gilchrist, noted that the
ADL reported that anti-
Semitic incidents in the U.S.
doubled in 1981 over 1980.
But, he said, in Montgomery
County, where there were
25 racially, religiously or
ethnically motivated inci-
dents in 1980, there w«
100 in 1981, including
which were clearly
Semitic.
Steinberg also warr
against silence and stress
that Montgomery County,
under Gilchrist’s leadership
has been trying to involve all
sections of the community in
the problem. Gilchrist, who
was praised for stressi
last year that the cou^
would not condone si
incidents, noted that
entire community is commit-
ted to standing” by the
victims of bigotry. He said
some 400 people are mem-
bers of a committee that
speaks to support perscra
victimized by vandals. ■
S.W. Leaders To Hear Moynihan-Dinitz
At UJA Regional In Houston, Feb. 5-7
Simcha Dinitz, former
Israeli Ambassador to the
United States, and Senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan of
New York, will be the
featured speakers at the
United Jewish Appeal
Southwest Region Leader-
ship Conference, February
5-7, at the Houston Oaks
Hotel in Houston. UJA
National Chairman Herschel
W. Blumberg and Robert E.
Loup, the National Chair-
man-designate, will also
address key sessions of the
conference.
The three-day conference,
bringing together leaders
from Jewish communities in
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana,
Arkansas and Kansas, will
focus on an intensive analy
sis of current issues facing
the American Jewish com-
munity at home, in Israel
and throughout the world.
Conference Chairman
Sandra Weiner of Houston
made the announcement as
she outlined major segments
of the program, “which will
prepare Southwest leader-
ship to return home and
complete the most success-
ful fundraising campaign in
our history.”
Congressman Tom Lantos
of California, the first and
only Holocaust survivor
elected to the United States
Congress, will speak on the
latest events in Washington
as they pertain to world
Jewry.
The weekend’s program
includes an intensive series
of seminars and workshops
on all aspects of managing a
successful campaign, includ-
ing worker training, public
relations, and Washington,
New York and Overseas
Missions. Other conference
session participants will
discuss “Campaign Problem
Solving,” “Developing
Young Leadership,” “Wo-
men’s Division Program-
ming” and “Small City
Campaigning.”
Special presentations will
include an analysis of the
current Middle Eastern sit-
uation and a musical per-
formance by Jewish mu-
sicians who have recently
come to the United States
from the Soviet Union. In
addition, Dr. Aryeh Nesher,
Director of UJA’s Operation
Breakthrough, will conduct
a special, by-invitation-only,
worker training session on
“Big Gifts Solicitation.”
Project Renewal, the mas-
sive social rehabilitation
program for Israel’s dis-
tressed neighborhoods, will
be the subject of a plenary
session, update reports and
community consultations.
Dinitz is Vice President of
the Hebrew University®
Jerusalem and served as
Israel’s Ambassador to the
United States from 1973-
1978. Prior to that he served
four years as Director of the
Prime Minister’s Office
der Golda Meir. He was!
active participant in
Camp David meeting
Prime Minister Begin and
President Carter.
Moynihan has served four
American presidents
was the U.S. Ambassador
the United Nations fr
1975-1976.
UJA National Vice Chair-
man Julius L. Levy, Jr. of
New Orleans, is Chairman of
the UJA Southwest Region.
BY HUGH ORGEL
TEL AVIV [JTA] -
Ultra-nationalists determin-
ed to block Israel’s with-
drawal from Sinai next April
claimed a “victory” after the
government reached a com-
promise with Gush Emunim
militants in northern Sinai
to halt the dismantling of
buildings and equipment
slated for transportation to
relocation areas inside Isra-
el.
According to the agree-
ment, Jewish Agency work-
ers at Moshav Haruvit will
remove parts of a green-
house already taken down
but will not dismantle any
other structures. Hanan
Porat, of the ultra-nation-
alist Tehiya faction who has
demonstratively moved to
Yamit, hailed the compro-
mise as “a great victory.”
Squatters in northern
Sinai, mainly yeshiva stu-
dents, began reassembling
green house frames to pre-
vent their removal. The
\
Sinai Settlers Claim^
"A Great Victory"
squatters spokeswoman,
Elie Weitzman, said, “Thi^
a great victory. We h^
stopped the disgrace
withdrawal from Sinai.” The
squatters warned Gen. Haim
Erez. commander of the
southern region that they
would forcibly resist any
attempt by the army to h^lt
their activities or remH
them from the area.
Army units are at the
scene but have not interfer-
ed with the squatters
despite a government ruling
recently that all settlers
must be out of the region
March 31. The area is to
returned to Egypt by A_
26. This would leave only
three weeks to remove
houses and equipment. But (
the Jerusalem Post reported I
that a secret agreement has \
been reached with the
Egyptians to allow Israel
remove all structures
facilities from Yamit
elsewhere in Sinai after the
final withdrawal date in j
order to avoid clashes with
the settlers.
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