Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1974-04-04

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VOL. 52 NO. 14
APRIL 4, 1974 - NISAN 12
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Report Says U.S. Insensitive To
Human Rights For Sake Of Detente
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
United States foreign policy
is insensitive to violations of
human rights in other
countries according to a
report released here:Match
27 by the Subcommittee on
International Organizations
and Movements of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee.
Specifically the report ac¬
cused the State Department
of ignoring repression in the
Soviet Union for the sake of
detente, sharply questioned
the efficacy of the Nixon
criticized the U S Senate for
refusing to ratify the United
Nations convention against
genocide. The report,
prepared by the sub¬
committee after a series of
.Administration's  policy  ofS?15- hearings   last   year,
''quiet diplomacy" as a   recommended that the State
means of rectifying human
rights     violations,     and
f^^^ Dayan In U.S. With Israel s i
as^ott^^e t)(\A pcrsovjafty cowjeowtof ^ypft Plans For Syriari|Disen|a|entint
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Attempts To Place Black Jewish
Children In Foster Homes Fail
NEW YORK, (JTA) - The
Jewish child Care
Association has been trying
for more than a year to place
five Black Jewish children in
Jewish foster homes, so far
without success, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency learned
on March 27. A JCCA source
told the JTA that its last
mailing of 1700 letters in
mid-Jan. to rabbis,
congregations and Jewish
organizations in the New
York metropolitan area
seeking   homes   for   the
youngsters, drew, not a
single response. Neither did
advertisements the child
care agency' placed in
Jewish newspapers and
periodicals, the source said.
But Bob Coleman; director
of the department for social
justice of the Synagogue
Council of America told the
JTA that the SCA working
jointly with .the Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies has
met with some success. He
said 2-3. white Jewish
- families   had   expressed
interest in accepting the
children and were currently
under investigation as
prospective foster homes.
The case involved five
children of Mrs. Grace
Kutchera - boys aged 6-10 -
who is a Black Jewish
convert, a divorcee and lives
in the Bronx. Because of
personal problems, she
placed .the boys with the
JCCA for temporary foster
care in Feb. 1973. According
to Mrs. Kutcheraj the two
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WASHINGTON (WNS)
Israeli Defense •Minister
Moshe  Dayan  will  spend
about a week in the United
States     meeting     with
Secretary of State Henry A.^
Kissinger, members of theA
Senate   Armed   Services^
Committee and other top
Administration officials  to
present  Israel's  plan  for
disengagement with Syria. It
is believed that this plan is
modeled closely after the
disengagement ■■ accord
reached with Syria  last
iJahusryAVwh Diayan left^
Israel Thursday for the U.S>
he told reporters that pie
plan hie was carrying was
approved • by the Israeli
government but declined to
say what it was. "I carry
with me a signed map, but I
will not open it here," he said
at Ben Gurion Airport. "I
shall do it before Kissinger."
But less than 24 hours before
his departure major aspects
of   Israel's   plan   were
described in the press. These
included Israel's withdrawal
from the enclave in Syria
captured during the Uom
Kippur War but no change in
the 1967 Six-pay War lines,
the creation of three zones in
the 20-kilometer wide Yom
Kippur  enclave,   and   the
thinning out of military
forces far a depth of 20
kilometers on both sides of
the  disengagement  zones.
Along with these military
considerations, the plan also
-Department":'   "upgrade
considerations   given   to
human rights in determining '
Soviet-American? -relations"
and called on the, Senate to
consent to ratification of the
-genocide pa<ftAfhe report
was   supported   by   sub¬
committee chairman Rep. -
M.Fraser X&Minn.) and  .
seven, other members of the '
11- member  panel.  Three
other   members,   however,
declined to accept all or part
of the rieport. ...'-■
*.     -w      ■•.,_> -   .   .^       The report stated in part;
however, on the part of the   .^g state Department too
Syrians. -IsraelL leader?,. often has taken the position,
.entertain.Uttle  hope, that -that  human   rights   is   a
Syria will accept Israel's  .domestic matter and not a
plans since Damascus has   reieVant  factor   in   deter-
rejec^dvrimilarones.inthe   mining: bilateral relations.
«???'• -yiflFTgW Me|r#When  charges  of  serious
-.expressed  pessimism , this   violations of human rights do
includes a demand that the
Israeli POWs in Syria be
returned as part of the
disengagement accord.
. Dayan's trip to the U.S. is
unlikely to produce any
substantial' movement
toward     disengagement,
yteek when $he told a
meeting!, of. the Hebrew
University Board of
Governors in Jerusalem that
there will be v"'-vCTy, very:
great difficulties in the
negotiations with the
Syrians." Her pessimism
was based on the daily
shellings fpr the past two
weeks of Golan Heights'
villages and all along the
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occur, the most the
Department is likely to do is
make private inquiries and
low-keyed appeals to the,
government concerned. It is
rarely known whether these
acts of 'quiet diplomacy'
have desirable effects.''The
State,Department admitted
that prodding by the House
prompted it to establish new
official positions with direct;
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Behind The Headlines
Superpowers Futher Apart On Mideast? KSE£
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by Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
Behind the cprdiality and
optimism outwardly
manifested by the principals
in the Soviet-American
latest conversations in
Moscow, the realism is that
the super-powers: are
probably further apart on
the Middle East situation
than at any time since they
yiere sending arms to their
allies during the Yom
Kippur War- In these con-
versations    .between
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger and Soviet leader
Leonid I. Brezhnev at the
Kremlin, the United'States
appeared plainly on the
defensive, if reports
received here from official
U.S. sources are correctly
assessed by American
government analysts. In
effect, Kissinger was telling
Brezhnev that if the Soviet
Union cannot lend its
cooperation in bringing
about a Syrian-Israeli
disengagement on the Golan
Heights, then perhaps he will
at least acquiesce in U.S.
efforts to achieve it. One
well-placed American
source in Moscow said that
active Soviet assistance
would be desirable but if that
is unobtainable then perhaps
Soviet toleration of
American activity would be
forthcoming. This implied
that the Kremlin holds /the
high cards as in the past on
whether high tension will
return .to the Mideast or
progress toward adjustment
of the Arab-Israeli conflict
will     continue.     Soviet
assistance was seen as not
necessary for starting
Syrian-Israeli "proximity"
talks since Israeli Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan was
due here March 29 and the
Syrians was expected to
arrive within the following
week. Where Soviet^
assistance may be needed is
to persuade the Syrians to
accept certain positions.
Despite the prospect of
indirect Syrian-Israeli talks
soon after Kissinger's return
from Moscow, deterioration
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WASHINGTON (WNS) — The Soviet Union appears
to have adopted a tougher attitude toward a settlement '
of the Middle East conflict, insists on a greater Soviet
involvement in Mideast activities aimed at a peace
accord, and is determined to pursue trade relations
with the U.S. regardless of the sentiment of Congress
to link trade with the easing of Soviet emigration
policies. This is how political analysts here sized up the
Soviet position after studying a communique by the
White House dealing with Secretary of State Henry AT
Kissinger's talks with Soviet leaders in Moscow. U.S.
government, officials, however, maintained a discreet
silence on the communique, taking their cue from
said he would not discuss his talks with
until he reported to President Nixon.
JERUSALEM (WNS) — The United Nations finally
confirmed Israel's charge that Egypt violated the
disengagement accord by introducing additional ar¬
tillery pieces into the limited forces zone east of the
Suez Canal. A crisis over the matter-appears, however,
to have been averted as reports from Cairo said the
Egyptians were prepared to remove the artillery.
NEW YORK (WNS) — Diplomats and specialists in
extremist forms of political and class warfare predict
an Increase in international terrorism. According to a
report in "The Inter Dependent," the monthly
magazine published by the United Nations Association
of the U.S., several factors are involved in this
prediction: the emergence of a Palestinian state as one
of the main ingredients in a Middle East settlement,
the relatively low cost and high effectiveness of
terrorist acts, world-wide inflationcausing unrest, and
the massive swing against the Left in South America.
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