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VOL. 52 NO. 51
DECEMBER 12, 1974 - KISLEV 28
Kissinger Appeals To Congress To Keep
Jackson - Mills - Vanik Legislation Intact
Newsies Sale This Saturday
When the Charity Newsies hold their 68th Annual
Newspaper Sale for funds to clothe needy school
children this Saturday, December 14, more than three
huhdredfNewsies will be selling papers on street
conifers' all over the city and county. All money
received from the papers, and from donations made to
Charity Newsies at any time of the year, is used 100
percent for charity.
Over 10,000 needy school children of Franklin County
are outfitted with winter clothing every year by the
Newsies, plus many emergency cases are handled
throughout the year where in addition to clothing, the
families are given food, coal and blankets.
• Administration expenses for the Newsies operation
are'Merlvetf from the yearly motorcycle races sane.-.
-ti()ited .by .jthe AMA,and. held .at the Ohio State
W'tisrotirtdsf        -"'   '*'
Some of the Newsies from this area who will be
selling papers are shown above. From left to right,
they are: George Monroe, 636 N. Dawson Ave.; Chuck
Weigand, this year's president and Chuck Bell, 7207
Scioto Darby Road. Not present when the pictures
were taken were: Dr. Ben Caplan, 92 S. Cassingham
"Road; Marvin Glassman, 360 N. Columbia Ave.; Dr.
(Russell Lieberman, 2420 Dover Road; Abe Orendorff,
187^§..,Stan,wood Road; Harry Silberstein, 148 S.
RBjtiingtpn.'Road;'. Rabbi Nathan Zelizer, 166 N.
(Jissady Ave.; Al Solove, 918 Francis Ave.; Louis
Berliner, 509 N. Cassady; Charles B. Margulis, 26 S.
Hampton; Herbert L. Fenburr, 2742 Bryden Rd. and
Bert Charles, 2548 W. Lane Ave.
By Joseph Polahoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger appealed to
Congress Dec. 3 to keep the
Jackson - Mills - Vanik
legislation intact in the
pending Trade Reform Bill
and not engage in
questioning that may
jeopardize what he
described as "a satisfactory
compromise" that had been
achieved "on an un¬
precedented and ex¬
traordinarily sensitive set of
issues." He said it was "now
essential to let the provisions
and understandings of the
compromise proceed in
practice." The Secretary,
who read a prepared
statement and submitted to
questioning before the
Senate Finance Committee
Dec. 3 was referring to the
exchange of letters between
himself and Sen. Henry M.
Jackson (D. Wash.) on Oct.
18 in which an understanding
was reached that the Soviet
Union would "hot TfampeFoF
restrict the emigration of
Soviet citizens including
Jews, in return for which the
Soviet Union would be
granted U.S. trade benefits
and credits. The Finance
Committee approved the
Trade Reform Bill with the
understanding that the
Senate would not act on it
until Kissinger submitted
himself to questions from the
committee, ' a proviso
requested by Sen. Harry
Byrd  (Ind.,  Va.).   In  his
prepared statement,
Kissinger revealed that the
"basis" for his correspon¬
dence with Jackson arose
from his conversations with
Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko in Geneva
last April in Cyprus last
May, and Moscow last July.
Under questioning by
various Senators, he said he
had also discussed the
matter with Soviet Am¬
bassador Anatoly Dobrynin,
and that Soviet Communist
Party Secretary Leonid I.
Brezhnev had made
"analogous statements" to
former President Nixon, to
President Ford and to the
Secretary of State Kissinger
also conceded, under
questioning, that the un¬
derstanding on emigration
with the Russians depends
principally on "faith."
In his prepared statement,
however, he emphasized
that "there will be ample
opportunity    to   test   in
practice what has been set
down on paper and to debate
these matters again for
stock - taking foreseen in the
legislation" which requires
the President to report to
Congress on Soviet
emigration practices, The
only "paper" involved,
however, is Kissinger's
exchange of letters with
Jackson. The Secretary,
emphasized that there is no
"formal agreement" bet-
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New Mideast Conflict Imminent
Unless Negotiations Take Place
U.S.S.R. Circumventing U.S. Accord
LONDON, (JTA)-Soviet
authorities are being ac¬
cused of various forms of
harassment, intimidation
and isolation to prevent Jews
from applying for exit visas
to go to Israel. According to
Jewish sources in the Soviet
Union, these methods,
exemplified in one instance
by .malpractice and bribery
charges brought against Dr.
Mikhail Stern in Vinnitsa,
Ukraine, are being used to
circumvent the Soviet un¬
dertakings, cited in the Oct.
18 exchange of letters bet¬
ween U.S. Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger and Sen.
Henry M. Jackson, to end
harassment and allow Jews
and others to emigrate. Dr.
Stehij 56, who was to have
gone on trial Dec. 2, had his
trial'postponed to Dec. 10
' becauseofillness.,Heissaid
to be suffering from'
tuberculosis and internal
bleeding in addition to a
heart conditon. The
physician has been charged
under clause 168, sect. 2 of
the Soviet Penal Code which [
deals with bribery and,
carries a maximum penalty
of death. He has also been
charged under clause 143 of
the Ukrainian Penal Code
which carries a maximum
penalty of ten years im¬
prisonment and exile for up
to five years. The allegations
against Dr. Stern, which
Jewish sources say are
, totally unfounded, claim that
he took bribes from patients
to provide them .with
generally unobtainable
drugs. s
Another unsubstantiated
charge that he had
deliberately     poisoned
patients in order to treat
them was dropped by the
authorities following a
world-wide protest. Jewish
sources said that Dr. Stern
was arrested last May
because his sons had applied
for emigration visas. His
case is seen "as an attempt by
Soviet authorities to in¬
timidate other Soviet Jews
from applying for visas, the
implication being that if they
do, members of their
families could be arrested on
trumped - up charges, the
sources-said. Although Dr.
Stern has been under
detention for six months, his
defense lawyer, - A.
Axelband, of Moscow, was
given'his file only on Nov. 25
a week before the trial was
. scheduled to start., Last
weekend nearly 1000 British
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New York, N. Y. — A new
Mid-East conflict appears
imminent unless
negotiations between Israel,
the Arabs, including the
PLO, take place soon - and
there can be no peace
without a solution to the
Palestinian problem.
These were some, of the
-.opinions-.-expressed in the .
course of a discussion bet¬
ween Sana Hassan, an
Egyptian Political Science
student at Harvard and Dr.
Arthur Hertzberg, Adjunct
Professor of History at
Columbia University as part
ot a symposium sponsored
by the Academic Committee
of the American Section of
the World Jewish Congress
at Brooklyn College. The
participants differed sharply
on whether such negotiations
first require a PLO aban¬
donment of terrorism and
the recognition of Israel as a
State or whether the Israelis
must assume the "risks for
peace" by talking with
Arafat without preconditions
on the problem of the
Palestinians.
The symposium was held
before an overflow audience
of 500 students, professors
and a number of the
University's Arabs and
Palestinians studying at the
School. Chairman Israel
Singer, in his introduction,
explained that these forums
were part of the World
Jewish Congress'
"Outreach" program to
place before Jewish students
and academics both the
existing and projected
concerns facing the Jewish,
community here and abroad.
The World Jewish
Congress represents Jewish
communities in 65 countries
with headquarters in
Geneva, The American.
Section is an umbrella of 17
major Jewish lsodies in¬
cluding the three branches of
Judaism.
Both Ms. Hassan, the
daughter of a former
Egyptian Ambassador to the
United States and the UN,
and Rabbi Hertzberg, who is
also the President of the
American Jewish Congress
stone of the ,-WJC's 17
American affiliates) agreed
that there are Palestinians
with problems, thai there
are real Arab - Jewish issues
and that the existing conflict
represents not so much a
wrong versus a right, but as
it was once described by the
late first President of Israel,
Chaim Weizmann, as a right
versus a right.
"I think that in the final
end, recognition must be
granted, but that Israel must
start negotiations without
that recognition," Ms.
Hassan asserted. "It has
nothing to lose; the alter¬
native appears to be a pre¬
empted strike, and this will
solve nothing at all.
I recognize the difficulty
Israelis have in dealing with
people they consider
terrorists and murderers,
but they are not the first
nation to .have to overcome
this repugnance, such as the
British in dealing with the
Mau-MaU or the United'
States in finally dealing with
the Viet Cong."
She felt that Arafat in his
U.N. address had to still talk
about a multi-lingual secular
state since he could not offer
"his only bargaining card,
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Rabin Sees 7 Lean Years
JERUSALEM (WNS) -
Israelis have been told by
Premier Yitzhak Rabin' that
their country faces "seven
lean years" and Israel's
future depends on whether it
can emerge from them
unscathed. He said it would
take that long for the effects
of the Arab oil weapon to be
overcome in the United
States and Western Europe.
Rabin also said that Israel
has to decide whatiprice it is
willing to pay for a further
accord with Egypt before
Soviet Communist Party
Secretary Leonid x I.
Brezhnev visits Cairo in
January since it is in Israel's\
interest to prevent further '
Soviet influence in Egypt.
Rabin's remarks were
contained in alengthy in¬
terview published in
Haaretz.
Rabin acknowledged that
President  Ford  was  in- ■',
terested in avoiding a crisis'
with the Arab oil producing
states   because   Ford   is
concerned with the success
of his economic policies
during the next two years.
The Premier stressed that it
did no good to exaggerate
the power of American
Jewry and denounced
Likud's urging for "calling
on American Jewry" every)
time Israel faced a crisis.
Rabin called Gen. George S.
Brown, chairman of the
Joint Chief of Staff, one of
Israel's strongest sym;
pathizers and said Israelis
must beware of creating a
situation in which the anti-
Israel, anti-Semitic
allegations such as' Brown
made recently becomes the
rule rather than the ex¬
ception.
'Later Rabin in a talk to
3000 Tel Aviv high school
students " said Israel was
prepared to offer substantial
concessions to the Arab
states in the interest of a
peace settlement but in no
case ~would it return to its
pre-1967 borders.
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