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AUGUST 2, 1973 - AV 4
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U.S. Vetoes UN. Mideast Resolution
JERUSALEM (WNS) — Informed sources have
revealed that the government has reversed itself and is
now barring Israeli firms from importing sement from
trie Soviet Union. The reason for the change, according
to the. sources, is that it was felt that it would
be unwise at a time when Israel was pressing the
Soviet Union for unrestricted Jewish emigration and
might hamper the .aliya campaign. Meanwhile the
Soviet newspaper Izvestia charged the report was an
Israeli plot to damage the Soviet Union's relations with
the Ar3.h ststcs
| JERUSALEM (WNS) — Premier Golda Meir told
ithe Knesset that comparing the situation of the Jewish
'people and thai of the Palestinian Arabs was a
,"complete distortion". She said Jews around the world
'live outside their homeland since Israel is the only
• country "where the people of Israel can live in Jewish
) independence." Mrs. Meir said the Palestinians can
. express their nationality in Jordan and reiterated her
' view that there is no room for a third state between
Israel and Jordan. Mrs. Meir also said Israel would
1 never negotiate with the Arab terrorist organizations.
•i      JERUSALEM (WNS) — Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren
| speaking at the  63rd annual  convention of the
American Mizrachi Movement, said diaspora Jewry
faces the greatest assimilation threat in its history. He
said in many regions of the U.S. 40 percent of Jewish
youth intermarry. He also decried the lack of religious
courts in the U.S. Goren said the battle of "Who is a
Jew" is to a certain extent a battle over the integrity of
the Jewish people in the diaspora. He told the delegates
to the convention that if they were concerned about the '
religious situation in Israel they should settle here
, "and join thousands of religious' Jews indetermining
klhe character of the country,"
UNITED NATIONS,
(JTA) -- The United States
vetoed on July 26 an eight-
nation Security Council draft
resolution that deplored
Israel's occupation of
territories taken in 1967.
Thirteen of the 15 Council
members voted in favor of
the resolution. The People's
Republic of China did not'
participate in the vote.
Huang Hua, the Chinese
Ambassador, explained
later that he did not par¬
ticipate in the vote because a
resolution must "strongly
condemn" what the termed
the Israeli-Zionist clique for
prolonged aggression, must
ask for immediate and total
withdrawal, and call for the
restitution of the rights of the
Palestinians. The draft had
cited "respect" for the
"rights and legitimate
aspirations of the
Palestinians."
,' The resolution drafted by.
Guinea, India, Indonesia,
Kenya, .Panama, .Peru,
Sudan"and Yugoslavia also,
expressed "serious concern
at Israel's lack of
cooperation" with Dr:
Gunnar   V.   Jarring,   the
special representative of
Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim. After the vote,
US Ambassador John Scali
said the draft resolution was
"unbalanced" and
"unrealistic" and the U.S.
had vetoed it because the
draft would have un¬
dermined Resolution 242.
Scali said he was "deeply
disappointed by the outcome
of this debate" and noted the
resolution, instead of
focusing on agreement, was
more concerned with
judging the past. He
reiterated that Resolution
242 is the only measure
agreed on by all the parties
in the Mideast dispute and
remains the framework for.
solving the conflict.
"Casting a  veto  is  never
easy," Scali explained, but
pointed out that it was
necessary in view of the
"unbalanced and partisan
resolution." Scali had at¬
tempted before the last
session to have the
resolution modified so that
the U.S. could abstain rather
than veto.
Israeli Ambassador Yosef
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Gallery Players, Center Workers To
Sponsor National Playwriting Contest
Report Reverse Discrimination Continues
In College Admissions And Employment
1 New York, N.Y. —
! Reverse discrimination in
college admissions and
employment is continuing
despite U.S. Department of
Health, Education and
Welfare bans on quotas and
preferential treatment.' •
This is what represen¬
tatives of a group of national
Jewish organizations told
HEW Secretary Caspar W.
Weinberger at a meeting in
Washington, D.C. (July 18),
to discuss the federal
government's affirmative
action program in higher
education.
Opening the meeting for
the organizations -which
included—Agudath Israel of
America, American Jewish
Committee, American
Jewish   Congress,   Anti-
Reports Soviet Harassment
Of Jews Has Not Changed
NEW YORK, (JTA) —
Nicholas Scoppetta, the
city's Commissioner of
Investigation, who,,recently
returned from a trip to the
Soviet Union, said on July 26
that he found' that despite
Soviet Assertions to the
contrary, certain Jewish
scientists and others who
wish t6 emigrate have been
subjected'to loss of jobs,
police surveillance and
harassment, and even im¬
prisonment . for minor in¬
fractions. At a City Hall
news conference, Scoppeta
cited the cases of Dr, David
Asbell of Moscow, a
chemical engineering
professor, and Dr. Boris
Rubinstein of Leningrad, a
physicist, who were among
the Jewish intellectuals he
met with while in the Soviet
Union. He said that both
academicians lost their
university positions im¬
mediately after filing ap¬
plications to emigrate to
Israel, apparently in
retaliation for doing so.
Scoppetta,\who has sub¬
mitted a report on his trip to
Mayor John V. Lindsay, was
joined at the conference by
Manhattan attorney David
A. Goldstein, his former
colleague in the Manhattan
District Attorney's office1,
who accompanied him on the
two-week tour, from June 22
to July 4, and Stanley H.
Lowell, chairman and other
officials of the Greater New
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Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith and Jewish War
Veterans of the U.S.A. V-
Arnold Forster, associate
director and general counsel
of the Anti-Defamation
League, said "the situation
is worse today than it was a
year and a half ago" when
the same group of
organizations began to give
HEW documented examples
of distortion and misap¬
plication of its higher
education guidelines.
Reaffirming their total
dedication to the goal of
equal opportunity for all
people, they presented, 36
new examples of such
practices to Mr-. Weinberger,
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The Gallery Players in
association with the Cultural
Arts Section of the
Association of Jewish Center
Workers, will sponsor a
national playwriting contest
in .Commemoration of the
local' drama groups 25th
Anniversary Year, ac¬
cording to an announcement
by Harold M. Eisenstein,
association ' member" "arid '
Cultural- Arts Director at -
The Jewish Center, 1125
College, Avenue.
"A prize of $1,000", says
Eisenstein, "will be offered
for the best full length play
by the AJCW. The script
may be either a drama,
comedy ,or musical. .The
prize-winning play will''be '
produced nation-wide by
Centers with performing
arts facilities during the
1974-75 season."
A competent jury of
theatrical luminaries will be
chosen to make the prize-
winning selection. If no entry
is chosen, the award will
apply to the following "year.
Eisenstein states that the
original' plans for this con¬
test were conceived at a
recent AJCW international
conference 'in Montreal in
order to encourage
creativity and excellence in
the arts of the Jewish
communities throughout the
United States and Canada.,
"It is the vision of the AJCW
cultural arts section" he
says, ."that similar prizes
will be awarded in future
years in different areas of
the arts."
Interested local
playwriters are encouraged
to send their scripts to Mr.
Harold M. Eisenstein, Care
of (The Jewish Center; 1125
College Avenue, Columbus,
Ohio 43209) A suitable self-
addressed, stamped mailer
should be enclosed.
Urge U.N. Act On Terrorism
UNITED NATIONS
'(WNS) '— The ad hoc
committee on international
terrorism began discussing
means of combatting
terrorism. The United
States, Britain, France, and
Japan among others urged
prompt action to deal with
the problem. They par¬
ticularly stressed the need to
protect innocent persons
from violence. The U.S.
representative, W. Tapley
Bennett, said the UN must
grapple with the problem
and that measures to protect
human life would not conflict
with "self determination and
individual liberty." Tadashi
Ohtaka, the Japanese
representative, said the
recent hijacking of the
Japan Air Lines jumbo jet
stressed the seriousness of
the problem and the urgency
for adopting effective
measures at both the
national and international
level.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem,
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
said the hijacking of the jet
over Europe and its -sub¬
sequent destruction by the
terrorist in Libya proved the
futility of hijacking. He said
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Rabbi Warns "Superstar" May
Feed Anti-Semitism In Latin"
America, Italy If Translated
^NEW YORK (WNS) —
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum,
national • interreligious af¬
fairs director of the
American Jewish Com¬
mittee, has urged Universal
International; producers of
"Jesus. Christ
to give "the
Superstar,"
deepest con-
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sideration to 'the possible
implications" of making the
film available in' Spanish,
Portuguese and Italian for
Latin America and Italy in.
view of recent anti-Semitics
episodes in those areas.
Tanenbaum said that in
recent anti-Semitic incidents
in Argentina and northern
Italy "politically reac¬
tionary elements . . . used
the classic 'Christ-killer'-
canard against Jews fes. a
religious justification for
their exploitation of anti-
Semitism for ideological
purposes . . . Tanenbaum
made these points in a letter
to Universale president, H.
H. Martin. He also expressed
concern about the possible
anti-Jewish uses to which the
film may be put in Germany
and Austria as well as in the
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