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VOL. 53 NO. 5
JANUARY 30, 1975 - .SHEVAT 18
The World's Week
NEW YORK (WNS) - The Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry has reported that an anti-Semitic book is,
being widely circulated in the Soviet Union in which
the author, Vladimir Begun, intimates that the Jews
must be destroyed to save humanity. Six Minsk Jewish '
activists have appealed to Soviet intellectuals of all
nationalities to condemn the book, titled "The
Creeping Counter-Revolution," which they say is
nothing more than "a new version of the 'Protocols of
Zion.'" The activists said that Begun's tract contains
"epithets against Israel that would make even' the
Nazis envious."
JERUSALEM (WNS) - Sen. Charles Percy (R. 111.)
has warned Israel that it could not count on American
support if Israel launched .a pre-emtive attack. Percy,
who was described by the Foreign Ministry as "a true.
friend of Israel" told newsmen that American public
opinion has changed and "it is no longer Israel right or
wrong, but only when Israel is right." He said that
virtually all of the Arab leaders he has met on his tour
of the Mideast accepted "Israel's sovereignty and
right to peace and security."
LONDON (WNS) —. Dr. tfahum Goldmann,
president of the World Jewish Congress, believes that,
Israel's existence is not in danger, that there is no new,
holocaust around the corner and the world which had a
bad conscience over the -Holocaust no longer exists,
This is what he told, the Board of Deputies of British
Jews in stressing that "We are now entering a new era
iri Jewish life." He said world Jewry must be alive to
these changes and to the way they affect Israel and the-
diaspora. '
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, (JTA) — The Alamo may be
a shrine and a monument to Texans; but to a sheikh
from Saudi Arabia it might) just be a nice present for
his son.. According to the San Antonio News, Sheikh
Masoud Al-Sharif Al Hamdan wrote to a lawyer in
Texas explaining that his son learned how to fly in San
Antonio and while there used to visit the Alamo and
became enchanted with it. "Please contact the proper
people," the Sheikh wrote, "and see if we can buy it. I
want to present it as a gift to my son." The lawyer said
he would write the Sheikh to explain the problem in¬
volved. "I'll suggest to him to think of something else,
maybe a Texas ranch, to present to his son/' the
lawyer said. Someone suggested that it might be nice
if the ranch-had a little oil well on its property. The'
sheikh's son was in Texas under a program for foreign
1 officers training at American military bases. Four Air
Force bases and Fort Sam Houston are located in the
area.
President Ford Will Seek Removal 01
"Restrictive" Measures In Trade With U.S.S.R.
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -  '
President Ford said Jan. 21
that he would seek removal
of "restrictive" measures in
the new trade law and the
Export-Import     bank's,
lending powers in discussing
the  Soviet government's
cancellation of its 1972 trade
agreement with the United
States. He did not specify, at
his  news  conference,  the
measures he was' planning'
nor the reasons for the Soviet
rejection of the agreement.
The President also said that
the United States feels that
the danger of war in the
Middle   East   is    "very
serious" and that to avoid '
war the United States was
"maximizing!'    its
diplomatic   efforts   with
Israel and the various Arab
states. Ford also said, with
regard to the Middle East,
that the U.S. is supplying
arms  to  various  Mideast
states for. their internal
security   as  well   as   to j
maintain an "equilbrium" in '
the area. The'issues raised
by Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger's comment, in a |
recent magazine interview,
that the United States did riot
rule out use of force in the
Middle   East   if   it   was
threatened by strangulation
by Arab oil policies, came up
at the news conference. Ford
said   "we   will    go    to
Congress"    before    any
measure of commitment of
military force was made in
the Middle East. When he
was asked whether he or
American industry. He said
at the same time that the
U.S. would not consider
force as a means of bringing
down the price of oil.
President Ford, after
several days of hedging,
publicly     supported
Kissinger's statement but
insisted that the Secretary
had made it In reply to "a
very hypothetical question."
During his press con¬
ference last week, Ford
again defended Kissinger's
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Simon Memorandum May Give Credence
To Kissinger's View On Use Of Force
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
Treasury Secretary William
Simon may have supplied
the specific circumstances
that Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger omitted
when he said in a Business
Week interview earlier this
month that the U.S. would
not rule out the use of force
to secure Middle East oil
sources. In a secret Jan, 14
memorandum to Congress,
made public Jan. 23, Simon
said that any- sudden cur-'
tailment of American oil
supplies by more than one4
million barrels a day would
"clearly threaten to impair
our national security", and
"decisive aqtion is essen¬
tial." Kissinger had said in
his '.interview that military
force;would not be ruled out
in exireme circumstances
such ass a cut-off of oil that
threatened the
"strangulation'.'    of
Goldman Under Heavy Attack
By Yitzhak Shargil
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Only
three weeks before the
opening in Jerusalem of the
sixth plenary assembly of
the World Jewish Congres,
Dr. Nahiim Goldmann, WJC
president, found himself
embroiled Jan. 14 in one of
the most bitter controversies
of his long career in Jewish
affairs. The storm centered
around recent interviews
with Dr. Goldmann
published   in. the   Paris
newspaper Le Monde and
other media in which the 80 -
year - old one - time
president of the World
Zionist Organization in¬
dicated that he believed
Israel should, and indeed
eventually will have to,
negotiate with the Palestine
Liberation Organization. Dr.
Goldmann also disclosed
several attempts by third
parties to arrange a meeting
between himself and PDO
chief Yasir Arafat which he
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Kissinger considered the
United Nations charter
prohibition of the use of force
against the- territorial in'
tegrity of another state, in
mentioning military in¬
tervention in the Middle
East, the President replied
he did not know whether
Kissinger had considered
that point. He added that the
question of such intervention
posed to Kissinger was a
hypothetical one and that
Kissinger had given .the
proper answer. "If a country
is being strangled," the
President said, "That
country has the right to
protect itself against death."
Whin he was asked whether
another Arab oil embargo
would be "strangulation,"
the President said "not of
the kind in 1973."
Discussing Soviet-U.S.
detente, Ford said that "in
my judgment detente will be
continued, broadened and
expanded" because it is in
the interest of the Soviet
Union and ' the United
States." The President said
he was "disappointed" by
the Soviet cancellation of the
trade agreement. He said he
hoped to work with the
Congress to .eliminate the
problems in the trade law
which "may have
precipitated the Soviet
Union action." When he was
asked whether his comment
on restrictions referred to
Sen. Henry M. Jackson's
amendment regarding the
emigration of Soviet Jews,
Ford said he did not want to
get into a dispute with
members.of Congress but
that the restrictive
measures in the trade law
and on the Export-Import
bank, and the limitation of
aid to Turkey by the
Congress had been "harm¬
ful" to him in the execution
of foreign policy.
Sadat Repeats Ultimatum To Israel
PARIS, (JTA) -,
President Anwar Sadat ol
Egypt, in an interview
published Jan. 21 in Le
Monde, , repeated his
ultimatum to Israel to come
up with major concessions
on all Arab fronts — i in¬
cluding recognition of and
negotiations with the PLO —•
within the next three months
or face a new war;
denounced the Soviet Union
for failure to deliver military
and economic aid to Egypt
and for opposing even
limited military action
against Israel; predicted
that' the U.S. will soon
recognize the .PLO; and
praised Henry A. Kissinger
as the shrewdest^ most
moderate and most honest
U.S, Secretary of State in 20
years. In his far-reaching
interview, the Egyptian
leader was especially harsh
toward the Soviet Union and
said the alleged reneging by
Moscow or arms deliveries
may lead Egypt to break off
the Soviet-Egyptian friend¬
ship pact.
His hard line toward Israel
was similar to his remarks
published in the Beirut
newspaper,. An Nahar, a
week ago but was even more
explicit as to what Israel
must do to avoid war and
what it could and could not
expect in return. Sadat
declared that Egypt will
make no concessions
whatever for Israel's return/
of the" strategic Mitla and
Gidi passes in Sinai and the
Abu Rodeis oil fields because
"I have nothing to offer.for
the restitution of a territory
which belongs to us right¬
fully." He said Israel must
return the Golan Heights
"which Have always
belonged to Syria"1 and the
i West Bank. Israel must
recognize' the Palestine
Liberation Organization and
negotiate with it, Sadat said.
"No peace is possible in the
Near East as long as the
Palestinian problem is
resolved. It is ridiculous to
use the argument of
terrorism to refuse all/
negotiations with
PLO...SO saying, I
assure you that Washington
will not wait much
before recognizing the
PLO." Then, should Israel
refuse to comerw the con¬
ference table'with the PLO
"only the path of war will
remain," Sadat said. He also
said that "IF they (the
Israelis) stubbornly con¬
tinue ; wanting the Golan
Heights, we are going in
escapably towards a new
war." Sadat asserted that if
Israel failed to meet his
deadline "I would demand
an immediate meeting of the
Geneva Conference. ...If
I Israel refuses to negotiate a
global settlement (at
Geneva) we would have no
other recourse but war."
He stressed, however, that
he preferred a peaceful
solution. Asked if far-
reaching concessions from
Israel in return for total
peace would bring about
normal diplomatic relations
with the Arab countries,
Sadat replied, "I am ready
to conclude a peace
agreement with Israel and to
respect commitments
stemming from such an
agreement. However, I think
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Panovs Practice For Debut
PHILADELPHIA — Galina and Valery Panov, the
ballet stars who were (allowed to emigrate from the
Soviet Union last year, practice for their upcoming
American dancing debut in Philadelphia. Their per¬
formance had to be postponed to Feb. 4 due to a muscle
pull suffered by Valery. •
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