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JAW FINDS SOLUTION TO ARAB-'ISRAELI WAR IN MOSCOW
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Call me controversial.
Some reporters would do that!
I'm speaking about the prima donnas who spend most of their titpB
bending elbows and digging for the cherry or onion at the bar instead Of
digging into a story and finding the "meat' in it and presenting it to the
public for their own evaluation regardless of the effect on one'ssaftty
or continuance of press credentials certification.
I soon discovered on the presidential Summit to Moscow that some
reporters would not engage in conversation too long because they
thought they were "being watched by the KPGU" and they assumed I
was "hot" with the Russian Secret Service. Thus, discretion was the
better part of valor. It was easier to evade an association and not upset
the applecart. This did not apply to all newsmen. The preponderance
are hard-working journalists who dedicate themselves to long hours of
waiting and writing for a byline that often is forgotten when not printed
repetitively. This story is about one of these men and it was "made in
Moscow" because that's where it takes place.
You may remember (for those who have read these earlier reports)
my argument with A. Chakovsky, editor of the Soviet Literary Gazette
and one of the highest ranking members of the Communist party, a
presidium member and one of the U.S.S.R.'s leading propaganda ex-
perts.
Briefly, Chakovsky distorted a question I presented. Used it as a
lead-in for a diatribe against Jews which brought a planned and canned
laughter response from a bunch of hirelings who were purposely planted
or whose value easily allowed them to subject a suffering people to
ridicule.
When Jim Michener called it, "Ridiculous. You are making a joke
out of a serious problem. I won't stand for it!" and stormed outoL
session, I had grabbed the mike, labeled thfe distortion for wbat it was
and after taking several members of the higt\ ranking cultural committee
on in a few fast rounds of infighting, including their chairman, Ivan I.
Udaltsov, I received several apologies for the distortion. This is some-
thing that rarely happens in the U.S.S.R. Moscow based reporters
interviewed have said that it never has happened before in their re-
petorial stints in Moscow. \
Moreover, Chakovsky was asking for more. We had another engage-
ment outside the hall and he was beaten. I'm not going to allow Jews or
Americans to be denigrated. And I'm not going to allow prop set-ups
and fabricated twists to be used to aid in planned acts of ridicule. If
they want to stage their little sessions a la Goebbels they have to do it
without distorting my questions.
The Soviets know this and perhaps hate me for it. That's their busi-
ness. One of their men, after the above encounter, who had been quite
congenial with me prior to the battle, was writhing at me. He couldn't
do anything physical to me at the moment so he looked at my bright
red jacket, shook a finger at me and yelled, "You! You Red Jacket,
you!"
I wanted to tell him that the "Red Jackets were coming!" Not
dealing in, personalities but rather in issues, I smiled at him and
dismissed the remark. But I knew I was "hot" in their eyes since they
suffered a humiliation from a Jew who wouldn't run scared or one who
simply did not agree that there was no Jewish question or "problem"
in the Soviet Union.
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THE SOUTHWEST’S LEADING ENGLISH-JEWISH WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
READ BY MORE THAN 20,000 EACH WEEK
VOLUME XXVI NO. 24 THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1972 16 PAGES 20^ PER COPY
Leaders Assail
Dacey Times Ad
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council
refused to comment on the results of its emergency meeting June 7 on a full-page anti-Israel
advertisement in the June 6 New York Times. The ad, headed “A Letter to the President,”
was taken by Norman F. Dacey, of Southbury, Conn., who described himself as chairman of
Volunteers for Nixon in 1968, director of psychological warfare operations for Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower in World War II, broadcast commentator and ‘‘a reasonably patriotic
American
Advising Nixon that he was
now “ashamed of the position of
my country in the Middle East,”
Dacey wrote of Israel’s “pure
aggression” and “ruthless” expul-
sion of Palestinians, its “brutal
physical torture of Arab prison-
ers in Israel,” its “strictest cen-
sorship” of foreign reporters, its
“gross violations of the Geneva
Conventions and its “sweet-talk-
ing” of the United States into
granting its “every wish” mili-
tarily. ‘The knowledge that my
country’s moral and material
support of this politico-military
monster is all that keeps it going
is a matter of shame and embar-
rassment to me, Mr. President,”
he wrote. Dacey declared he was
“convinced that if you (Nixon)
continue your present foreign
policy of blind support for Israel
which in the UN has isolated us
from the rest of the world com-
munity, there won’t be any
United States, economically
sound or otherwise.” This he
said, was because “with consum-
mate skill and cunning, the Israeli
government which we have im-
posed upon the peoples of the
Middle East is turning its con-
flict with the Arabs into a con-
frontation between our country
and Russia,” and “If they cannot
have their way, they are quite
prepared to spark an Armaged-
don which will destroy us all.”
It is Israel, Dacey charged,
“which has brought a Communist
presence into the area.” The ad
also denounced the US govern-
ment for “spending an additional
$85 million it does not have to
finance the emigration of Soviet
Jews to Israel” while this coun-
try’s “huge deficit” hangs “like
an albatross around its neck.”
American Zionists’ “bitter oppo-
sition” to the bill, since with-
drawn, to provide 30,000
American visas for Soviet Jews
“unmasks the theatrical hand-
wringing over the alleged perse^
cution of Jews in Russia, reveal-
ing it as simply a political scheme
to build the population of Israel,” * __________
Dacey alleged. Adding criticism known, however, as the author
of “discriminatory” internal of the bestselling “How to Avoid
Journal of April 6, 1971, in'
which he scored its “deliberate
defiance” of the United Nations
in having “seized and annexed
the internationalized Holy City
of Jerusalem.” In a letter in the
Bridgeport (Conn.) Post last
week, he condemned Israel for
“war crimes” and for “torturing”
Arabs, “destroying” their homes
and “deporting them.” He
wrote then that he was not anti-
Semitic, but that the “second
greatest crime”-after Hitler’s
attempted genocide—has been
“Zionism’s unspeakable treat-
ment of the Palestinian people,
whose land they invaded.” Da-
cey’s Mideast views have been
quoted favorably Alfred M.
Lilienthal, the anti-Zionist Jewish
editor of Middle East Perspec-
tive, who calls him “the well-
known publicist.” Dacey is best
Israeli practices, he concluded
that the “intolerable” US
approach to the Mideast made it
necessary for him to “work
vigorously” to defeat the Presi-
dent he had helped elect.
Dacey, 64, has often written
and spoken against Israel since
1969, as in the Wall Street
Probate,” which angered many
lawyers. The New York County
Lawyers Association sued to pre-
vent distribution of the book
for “unlawful practice of law,”
but lost, and Dacey reaped “a.
million dollars’ worth of publi-:
city,” according to Dorothy
Beck, assistant director of the
United Jewish Council of
Bridgeport. _
Well, I've decided that the Jewish situation is a little more than a
"question" or "problem."
What it really is is an exclamation point!
************
Against this backdrop I attended the Command Performance of
"Swan Lake" that was ordered for President Nixon. This was a bold
brush stroke in a greater painting of history and one that may have well
ended in disaster, especially when a girl yelled "Freedom For Vietnam."
I had to leave as soon as the ballet was finished. Russian friends
(not Jewish) were waiting for me at their home for a small supper. I
had the directions but, following the Bolshoi, the area had been doubly
sealed and it was impossible to get a cab until the last official veichle
had cleared the area.
Then the Soviet Milita of Moscow, who prefer this title to Moscow
Police or "cop," tried to aid me in hailing a taxi.
If you ever think or thought that a New York hackie is rough try
Moscow. Most of these drivers are pleasent and efficient if they know
where they're going. But the specific idea is to try Hud get them to take
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AMBASSADOR RABIN^
Denies Remark He Prefers Nixon’s Re-Election
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., Yitzhak Rabin, angrily denied
Sunday that he had expressed a preference for President Nixon’s re-election in an interview
broadcast over the Israeli radio on the anniversary of the Six-Day War. He said his state-
ments, which appeared on the front page of the Washington Post were “misquoted” and
“taken out of context” and charged that the dispatch by Yuval Elizur from Jerusalem was an
“effort to cause great damage between the United States and Israel, between the American
and Israeli people and between the Jewish communities in Israel and the U.S.” Rabin also
expressed his “disgust” at the anonymous Israeli officials quoted in the story who reportedly
“expressed their view that this time the Ambassador may get a severe reprimand perhaps
even from Prime Minister Golda Meir.”
According to the Post story,
Rabin in the interview had
“indicated that he would favor
President Nixon’s re-election in
November.” He was reported
to have said “while we appre-
e support in the form of'
ords we are getting from one
camp, we must prefer support
in the form of deeds in the
other camp.” Admitting that
he had distinguished between
support in words and support
in deeds, Rabin denied that he
had related them to either
“camp.” Israeli sources here
noted that Rabin’s interview had
started with praise for President
Ti nan’s' support for Israel.
Rabin said that he was
quoted correetly in the Post as
saying that no other American
President had made such a far-
reaching statement committing
the U.S. to support Israel’s,
existence as the statement made
• by President Nixon upon his
• return from the summit con-
ference in Moscow. The Presi-f
dent said “Our summit ]con-j
versations about the Middle
East situation was also ifiill^
frank and extensive. I‘ reiterated
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