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VOL. 54 NO. 14
APRIL 1,1976-NISAN 1'
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US. Vetoes Resolution Condemning Israel;
Scranton Speech Signifies No Policy Change
First Vote A 'No'
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UNITED NATIONS -- William W. Scranton, the new
U.S^Ambassador to the United Nations, casts his first
-vote iin the .Security Council against allowing, the
Palestine   Liberation   Organization   (P^O)   Jo
i participate in the Council debate on anti-Israeli unrest
in the" occupied West Bank. His was the lone dissenting
vote as the Council allowed PLO participation by a vote -
4rf 11 to 1 with 3 abstentions.   ' r   '
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UNITED NATIONS
(WNS) — A resolution of the
United Nations Security
Council which deplored Is¬
raeli policies in Jerusalem
and thfr administered areas
was vetoed by the United
States.
The vote on the resolution
followed four days of dis¬
cussions in which Israel and
the Palestine Liberation
Organization engaged in
direct debate for the first
time. The 14 to 1 vote fol¬
lowed a session -called by
Libya and Pakistan, the Is-
Jamic members of< the
Council, --over the unrest
which has flared in East
"Jerusalem, and the West
Bank in recent weeks. _ j;
., William M. Scrahton, the
new U.S. Ambassador to the
UN, called the resolution
unbalanced. , The draft
resolution had been -worked
out by third world members
of the Council in talks with
Arab and other Islamic
countries, and with the Com¬
munist powers. The sponsors
were, Benin, Guyana,
Panama, Pakistan and Tan¬
zania. Also voting for it were
Libya, Britain, 'China,
France, Italy, Japan,
Rumania, the Soviet Union
and Sweden.
The resolution deplored
' Israel's' 'failure to put a stop
to actions and policies
tending to change the status
of the city of Jerusalem." It
called on Israel to refrain
from actions against Arab
residents of the adminis-
Scranton Says Settlement Of Territories
Is Obstacle To Peace In The Middle East
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'UMTEDNATIONS (jtA)
*' -^William Scranton, the new
United States Ambassador
; to the United Nations, said
' Marr a ■ that Jewish settle¬
ments , jn  Israeli-occupied
territories'were an obstacle
- , to negotiations for peace in
-;' the Middle East. Scrariton's_
1'   statement, his first major
address at  the UN,  was
made during the second day
. of the Security Council meet-
"' ing on the turmoil' in the
West' Bank and East Jem-'
„ salem. Although'he stressed'
.   that"1ie was restating long-
term United States policy,
' this was the first time the
U.S,. had publicly stated at
the UN any objections to
-Jewish settlement, in the
occupied territories. Some
observers saw (his as a shift
in JJ.ST'policy, if not in sub¬
stance ihen at least in tone.
- It'was recalled that when
Scranton   presented   his,
, credentials  last   weekl to
Seirefary   General-  Kurt
" ""Waldheim he told a press
.  conference afterwards that
the U.S,;tfanted to work well
-wrth ,the Arab countries "I
. think yQu will find I am very"
' open and ready to work with
, prejudiced the'^outcpme^of
future negotiations;between^
the parties oh the.location of
'the borders of states in the
Middle East, - Indeed,, the
presence of these'-settle¬
ments is seen by myigovern-,.
ment as an obstacle to the
success of the negotiations
for a-just and final peace
between Israel and its neigh¬
bors."' Scranton, in criti¬
cizing the settlements in
occupied   territories,   said
' "Unilateral acts have been
taken that inflame the
public." c
However, Scranton re¬
jected charges by the Arabs
of religious discrimination
by Israel on the West Bank
and in Jerusalem. "Israel's
punctilious administration of
Klutznick Suggests Revision Of
Jewish Community Structures
PRINCETON, N.J. (JTA)
— A proposal that the Amer¬
ican Jewish community
explore ways of revising its
community' structures was
' advanced here by Philip M.
Klutznick, a former pres¬
ident'of B'nai B'rith and now
chairman   of   the   World
- Jewish Congress' Governing
Council- klutznick told a
-, nftfeab. *H'a»i (H   ilnnFoMirioo
relationships between Israel
and the USSR must inevi¬
tably have a determining
effect on Soviet attitudes and
reactions to the issues of
Soviet Jewry. The three-day"
conference, one of a series of
B'nai B'rith bicentennial
year programs^ was devoted
to the Jewish community's
"unfinished agenda." Its 150
some
 ^L^J^rjusMemY^^tetjJKrith Sonfererice of -' participants included soi
'hair greatly1 mjifenrizea meV^ewM'^^demicians^ai^d, '2*leadiiigJewishscholars
tensions," he^aid:-"'W^'are -' laymen' that present fepre*    ■ ■ '■ " 1-i —
lered territories, to respect
the inviolability of the holy
. places and slop alleged ex¬
propriation of Arab land and
■ the creation of Israeli settle¬
ments on such land.
Prior to his veto vote,
Scranton said the resolution
did not correspond to the
reality of the situation in
Israeli-held 'territory. He
said it was wrong to charge
that Israel intended to
change the religious charac¬
ter of Jerusalem. On the con-
Jlrary, Scranton" said,
"Israel's administration of
the holy places in Jerusalem
has literally and actively
minimized tensions "
He also said the United
Slates was seeking to
"regain momentum' in the ,
negotiating process to reach
peace in the Middle East"
and that the draft resolution
"would not help" such
efforts.
Chaim   Herzog,   Israel's'
ambassador^ lauded the veto
and called it "an effort to
(contintmooHPACEw
gratified that the Supreme
Court of Israel has upheld
the Israeli government's
position" against allowing
Jewish prayer.on theTemple
Mount, On the question of
Jerusalem, Scranton de¬
clared: "the United States
position could not be clearer.
Since 1967 we have restated
here .. .,and to the govern¬
ment of Israel that the future
of Jerusalem will be deter¬
mined only through the
instruments of negotiation,
agreement- and accom¬
modation. Unilateral at¬
tempts to predetermine that
future have no standing."
Jewish Groups Criticize 60
Minutes Syrian Jewry Report
NEW YORK (WNS) - The
-American Jewish Congress
and the Committee for
Rescue of Syrian Jewry Ijave
denounced Mike Wallace's
1 follow-up report on Syrian
Jewry broadcast on CBS-
-_.. „„,.. „ -,_-..      . .T-    TV's ",60Minutes" program.
the Arab countries, as I have T/he' Rescue. Committee has
r ^ "always been," he said. The-* til'"i « «n"»nias™* »>'^ ♦»«»
1    ' Israeli Mission to the UN had
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no comment-on Seranton's-
statements
Quoting from the Geneva
Convention, Scranton said:
"Clearly then, _ substantial
resettlement of' the Israelis
civilian population in' occu¬
pied'- territories^ ^infcluding
'East Jerusalem^"is illegal
under the convention and
cannot be considered to have
filed a., complaint wtyh the
National News Council
saying that """Wallace has
once again failed ,to portray
the true picture of the suffer¬
ings of the 4500 Jews forced
to remain in Syria." Rabbi
Joseph Harari,.., the. com¬
mittee's executive director,
said Wallace's comments
showed "more concern''
with defending the'ordinal
broadcast on Syrian Je_wry
13 months,ago which was
condemned by many Jewish
organizations as a "distortion
.of facts. H&rari said Wallace1'
repeated 'his earlier slate-
■ment that ''Jews are sus¬
pected as a possible' fifth
column."" Harari said
Wallace went even further
when he declared that ''most
governments, even our own,
would.consider these people >
as potentially dangerous to '
the national sequrity.''
Rabbi Arthur 'Hertzberg,"
president of the AJCongress,
charge'd   that   Wallace's
followup program sought "to
support.. .claims of Syria's' -
benevolent   treatment'-' _ of-'-
Jews^ He said the~prdgramJ
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sentative bodies, "are not
always adequately staffed or
provided with the capacity to
-study a problem before
acting on it." He suggested
"reexaminations of present
institutions" to determine
ways of better reflecting a
Jewish community con¬
sensus on political issues.
Klutznick stressed that he
" was emphasizing studies "in
light of our changing needs,"
but was not advocating
"abandoning what now
exists" until the validity of
any proposed change had
been adequately surveyed.
Asked by a member Of the'
audience whether the time
had come to consider ire-
establishment of a formal¬
ized      representative
assembly such as the Amer¬
ican Jewish Conference that
existed briefly in the" post-
World War II era, Klutsmick
replied that any judgment *
would bepremdture. "There
may be a need for creating a '
new   structure    or    for
'strengthening   and   broad-
' ening the purposes of exist¬
ing'ones,"   he said. *Any
change,  he added,  "must^
take into account the Volun¬
tary  character of Jewish *
communal life.'' Klutznick--
illustrated   his   thesis   by
" citing —-and questioning —
, the advisability of separate
i, national   "roof   organiza¬
tions" that now deal respec¬
tively with Jewish concerns
' relating to Israel and Soviet
Jewry. The two matters, he
declared,   have   become-
"inextricably' linked as a
-singlejwlitical issue" in that
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WASHINGTON (WNS) - George Bush, director or
the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been asked
by the Senate Select Committee studying U.S. intelli¬
gence activities, to provide a "full report" on the CIA
"leak" alleging Israel has 10 to 20 nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, the Committee's chairman, Sen. Frank
Church(D. Idaho) said in a television interview'that
the remark on the Israeli weapons was the "biggest
goof in the way of leaks that I can imagine, biggest that
I have ever seen in Washington." Church, a candidate
for the Democratic Presidential nomination, called on
- President Ford to look into the "leak," saying, "I have
not even heard of a reprimand from the President."
Meanwhile, Arthur Kranish, the science writer who
reported'that a "senior" CIA official said Israel had 10 -
to 20 nuclear weapons "ready and available for use",
' said he -was asked to resign from the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics whose
members including Kranish attended the luncheon
where they got the CIA briefing. Kranish said he is
considering "legal action" against the CIA but would
not elaborate. In Jerusalem, Premier Yitzhak Rabin
told his Cabinet that Israel "is not a nuclear power and
will not be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons
in the Mideast" •      - '
WASHINGTON  (WNS)  — A proposal  that the
General   Electric  Company's   board .of  directors,
"provide a full written report to the shareholders" on
the company's ^'policy toward compliance, tacit or "«
' - overt, with the demands of the Arab boycott" is being
opposed by the board. The proposal was submitted by
Irene Weinberg, who owns 20 shares of GE stock, for
consideration at'the annual meeting of GE in Kansas
City, Mo. inApnl. Both Kleinberg}s proposal and the
board's opposition -were published in the company's
notice of the meeting. The board told shareholders that
"your company lias long and substantial commercial
relations with all the countries of the Middle East,
i including Israel and the Arab countries." The directors
> said  the  proposal  "is misdirected and counter- -
productive*" The American Jewish Congress which u
- has been seeking a statement on the boycott from -
major U.S.''companies said Weinberg is a member of
the AJCongress. "   (■-*.   ,
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