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VOL. 54 NO. 13
MARCH 25,1970 - ADARII23
ricari Corporations Send Assurances
Will Not Submit To Arab Boycott
NEW YORK (WNS) -
Twenty-two major Amer¬
ican corporations, including
General Motors, RCA and
Texaco, have sent the Amer¬
ican Jewish Congress assur¬
ances that ' they > will not
submit to the Arab boycott
demands. AJCongress 'pres¬
ident, Rabbi Arthur Hertz-
berg, welcomed the devel¬
opment but stressed that the
Arab boycott is still a threat
to American business with
hundreds of American com¬
panies still complying. He
added that meeting the boy¬
cott demands are banks
which continue to issue
letters of credit containing
boycott information. "The
banks are the one area that
have' been behaving quite
miserably," he told a press
conference. Hertzberg urged
Federal• Reserve Bank
Arthur Burns to enfor.ee his
policy that all commercial
banks "refuse participation
in letters of credit that
embody conditions the en¬
forcement  —  which  may
Heritage House Annual
Meeting Is This Sunday
Rebel Troops In Lebanon
BEIRUT — Large numbers of Muslims in Lebanon's
Armyr seeking an end to the dominant and favored
positions of Christians in the Army, have revolted and
joined a force called the Lebanese Arab -Army,
plunging Lebanon into another state of emergency.
At top, Lt. Ahmed Khatib (right), a leader of a band'
of rebel Muslim troops, reviews new recruits to his
force at Rashaya in southern Lebanon.
Below, Children flee heavy fighting near the northern
Lebanese city of Tripoli as rebel troops confronted
loyalist government soldiers.
' ' '    RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO
The Nominating
Committee of the Heritage
House Board of. Directors
has completed preparations
of the 1976 slate of nominees
to be presented at the Annual
Meeting this Sunday March
28th.
Edward Schlezinger,
Chairman of the Nominating
(Committee,, ,£tate44hat the.
committee' is pleased and
proud to place the names of
the following ladies and
gentlemen as nominees for
officers of the Heritage
House Board of Directors: J.
Maynard Kaplan,
President;   David Levison,
Ford Says He Will Sell Planes To Egypt
WASHINGTON (WNS) -
President Ford has made it
clear to Jewish leaders that
his. Administration will not
back down from its decision
to sell six C-130 troop trans¬
port planes to Egypt. Rabbi
Alexander M. Schindler,
chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organiza¬
tions, who led the delegation
of about a dozen leaders
which met with Ford for 85
minutes at the White House,
said that Ford asserted his
Administration's policy is
helping Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat in order to
encourage him and other
Arab moderates. Rabbi
Schindler added the Pres¬
ident said "over and over
again" that despite any dis¬
agreement with Israel, the
U.S. is committed to the
Jewish State. Schindler de¬
clared that the American
Jewish community is not
opposed to economic aid to
Egypt but opposes the pro¬
jected sale of the six C-130s
because it sees it as a "sym-
' bolic act" that will begin an
arms supply relationship be¬
tween the U.S. and Egypt.
Schindler noted that Israel
received $1.3 billion in arms
from the U.S. in 1975 while
the' Arab nations received
$14-15 billion, half of it from
'' the Soviet Union and the rest
fron\Westerrt sources.
<■• Rabbi'Schindler/said the
President did not indicate
whether the transport planes
would be sold to Egypt as a
military sale or as several
Senators have recom¬
mended a direct commercial
deal with the manufacturer,
Lockheed Aircraft Com¬
pany, thus avoiding a clash
in Congress. But Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger
has publicly stressed that he
believes it should be dpne
through a military deal.'
Kissinger told the Senate
Foreign Relations Com¬
mittee that the decision to
sell Egypt the C-l30s "can¬
not possibly affect the strate¬
gic balance with Israel."
Kissinger also told the
committee that Sadat's deci¬
sion,   endorsed   by   the
Egyptian Parliament, to
abrogate the 1971 Egyptian-
Soviet treaty of friendship
has "gravely weakened, if
not ended the Soviet connec¬
tion without asking anything
from us." But; in Jerusalem,
observers see the ■ Sadat
move as motivated; in part
at least,' by his desire to
sway American public opin¬
ion in favor of providing
' American arms for Egypt.
In New York, Mrs." Faye
Schehk, chairman of the
American Zionist' Feder¬
ation charged that "The
timing of this latest act is too
close to the scheduled United
States Administration
1 request for arms sales to
' Egypt not to be viewed as an
Egyptian attempt to involve
itself in American politics
for military gain." Dr.
Judah J. Shapiro, president
of the Labor Zionist Alliance,
said that despite the
Egyptian move "The United
States should not be a re¬
placement for the Soviet
Union in the supply of arms
to Egypt that could be turned
against Israel."
give effect to a boycott
against a friendly foreign
nation or may cause dis¬
crimination, against U.S. citi¬
zens or firms." Hertzberg
said the letters from the 22
companies demonstrated
that "it is simply not true
that major, American com¬
panies with world-wide
interests cannot stand up to
the Arab boycott." The
written assurances from the
companies- were "an out¬
growth of a nationwide drive
by the AJCongress to have
138 firms tell their share¬
holders whether they are
participating in the Arab'
boycott of Israel. Hertzberg
said that some 200 persons,
who own stock in major
corporations, have em¬
powered Will Maslow.
AJCongress' general
counsel, to act as their proxy
in seeking to have the com¬
panies adopt resolutions
asking, for this disclosure at
their annual stockholders
meetings. The AJCongress
has itself bought shares in
six corporations. Some of the
other companies thai gave
assurances to the AJCon¬
gress are American Brands.
Continental   Can,   General
(CONTINUEDON t-AGE 17)
Vice President; Leonard J.
Stern, Vice President; Mrs.
Joseph Schecter, Secretary;
Gerald M. Friedman,
Treasurer and Morris
Fleishman, Associate
Treasurer.
Nominees to be presented
for1 a three year term
expiring in 1978 as Board
.. Members.. are.:-_., Michael,.
Bloch, Mrs. TeifFinkefctein,''
Phillip Golding,' D.O.,
Eugene Gralla, Allen
Gundersheimer, Jr., Mrs.
Bernard L. Mentser, Melvin
Schottenstein, Myron
Shwartz, Alvin Solove, Mrs.
, Charles Talis, Sanford
Topolosky, Jack Wallick and
Raymond Wells.
' Nominee for an unexpired
two year term, expiring 1977
as Board Member is Robert
Kaynes.   '] '
Serving as members of the
1976 Nominating Committee
of .Heritage House fare
Morris Fleishman, Gerald
Friedman, Mrs. Jack
Resler, David Roth, Mrs.
Joseph' Schecter, 'Leonard
Stern and Sol D. Zell.
Continuing as Board
Members of Heritage House
■'are Alfred Friedman, Mrs.
Ben*, r Goodman, Martin
Hoffman,   Louis   Krakoff,
'.Mrs. Simon Lazarus, Meyer
' Mellman, Mrs. David Paine,
Mrs. Harry Polster, Walter
Robinson, Harry Schwartz,
Morris Skilken, Alan Weiler,
Leslie Wexner, William
Engelman, DDS, Don Erkis,
• N. Victor Goodman, Murray
Greenberg, Mrs. Morris
Groner, Herbert Grossman,
Jerome Knight, Mrs. Milton
Leeman,1 Louis Robins,
David Roth Alan Weinberg,
MD, and Mrs. Abe Wolman.
Sol Morton Isaac and Milton
Staub are continuing their
terms as Vice Presidents.
The   following   proposed
.      (CONTINUEDON PAGE 17)
The World's Week
WASHINGTON (WNS) - Senior officials of the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have estimated that
Israel has 10 to 20 nuclear weapons "ready and avail'
able for use," according to Arthur Kranish, editor of
the newsletter, "Science Trends." Kranish reported in
the Washington Post that he attended a "rare" and
"non-classified" briefing at CIA headquarters in
-Virginia- for some 150 members of' the.t-Amerieaifc,.
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. < CIA '
Director George Bush said that the CIA had "no
comment on any of the substantive information" in
Kranish's article and that il "any classified infor¬
mation might have been mentioned (at the briefing), I
accept full responsibility. I am delerminedit will not
happen again." Stale Department spokesman Robert
Funseth noted that the Israel government has said
"and I believe reaflirmed" that IsraeLwill not be the
first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, Rabin had toldia Cabinet meeting in Jeru¬
salem earlier that.Israel "is not a nuclear power and
will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons
in the Middle East." Rabin's comment was in reply to
a question from Religious Affairs, Minister Yitzhak
Raphael who asked if former,Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan's recent public urging that Israel acquire
nuclear capability had been coordinated with"the.* ~,
.Premier. Rabin replied it had not.
'.AMSTERDAM (WNS) - After months of denials,
the Iraqi Embassy has informed th£ family of Leon
Aaronson, a Dutch-born Jew, that he was hanged in
Baghdad last November. The'Netherlands'Foreign
Ministry sent a .formal note of protest to Iraq
expressing "deep shock and horror." Last November,
the Iraqi News, Agency reported that Aaronson. who
had worked as a male nurse with the Kurds, had been
executed as an 'alleged Israeli spy. The Iraqi
government later insisted that the sentence had not
been carried out, but inquiries by i the, Dutch
government and others were met by evasions and
refusals to produce Aaronson to confirm that-he'was-
alive.
WASHINGTON iWNS) - Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D.
Pa.'), chairman of the House subcommittee'on immi¬
gration, and Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D. N.Y.), a
subcommittee member, led off a four-month vigil in '
the House to focus national attention on the plight of
Soviet Jewish families forcibly separated from their
families. Fifty Congressmen are participating in the
vigil which will consist of three speeches each Week on
behalf of specific families. The congressmen stress the
purpose of the vigil is to have the Soviet Union keep the
commitment it made at the Helsinki Conference to
allow families to be reunited.
=~--Ot"J
Heritage House Annual Meeting Is March 28
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