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VOL.55 NO.32
AUGUST 11,1977-AV 27
Begin Welcomes Sadat's Mideast Proposals
Begin Meets With Rep. Devine
During his July visit to the United States, Israel's
• Prime Minister Menachem Begin met personally with
Ohio Congressman Samuel L. Devine. They are shown
above during their July 20 meeting in Washington, D-.C.
INS Promises To Move
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Against Nazi Criminals
;• By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
The U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization. - Service
(INS), under heavy Congres¬
sional pressure to speed the
investigation and- deporta- ,
tion' action against more
than 100 alleged Nazi was
criminals living in the
UnitedStates said Aug. 3 it is
on firmer ground now to
' expedite     proceedings
against them.
The promise to do so came
at a House subcommittee
hearing that followed on in¬
vestigation started last April -
by the General Accounting
Office (GAO) whether offi¬
cials of the Justice Depart¬
ment,, the parent agency oi
the INS or other U.S. offi¬
cials deliberately blocked
action against the alleged
Nazi" criminals. -The GAO is
an arm of Congress.  '
.Under questioning by Rep.
Joshua  Eilberg  (D.  Pa.), •
who described the, INS role
over the past 25 years as
"disgraceful," the new INS
commissioner,   Leonel   J.
Castillo, told the subcommit¬
tee that the files of the Nazis
will be opened both to the
GAO and to the subcommit- -
tee's own personnel. Castillo ,
testified   that   new   proce-
- dures had been set up that ,
will bring "all existing files"
and   materials   connected'
with the Nazi war criminal
program" from .New York
and other district offices to
the    central    office    in
Washington. '
"From now on," he said,
"the review of these files will
be accomplished by at-,
torneys rather than investi¬
gators." ,-,,
' In' addition, the subcom¬
mittee received a statement
submitted by the State, De¬
partment's deputy adminis¬
trator for security and con¬
sular affairs, John H.
DeWitt, that "sound stan¬
dard procedures and effec¬
tive working' relations have
now been developed" to ob-
• tain testimony. DeWitt said
that the "Soviet government
has made a serious effort to
be co-operative and helpful"
although "the Soviets do not
have a full appreciation of
our   evidentiary   require-
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By Gil Sedan
(Copyright, 1977, JTA, Inc.)
JERUSALEM, (JTA) -
Premier' Menachem Begin
said Aug. 3 that he welcomed
proposals for a preliminary
meeting of Middle East
Foreign Ministers under
American" auspices this fall
"to prepare the ground" for.
reconvening the Geneva con¬
ference.
The proposal was unveiled
by President Anwar Sadat at
a press conference in Alex¬
andria Aug. 2 following two
days of talks with U.S.
Secretary of State Vance.
The Egyptian leader''re¬
portedly rejected certain
American proposals re-,
garding the nature of a Mid¬
dle East peace and the pace
of Israeli withdrawal from
occupied Arab territories.
Begin,   interviewed   by
Israel Radio, described the
' idea of a foreign ministers' ■
meeting as "very construc¬
tive." He said that he had, in
fact, made the very same
, suggestion during his visit to
Washington last month but
■would, not criticize Sadat lor
claiming credit.
' Now that Sadat has agreed
-that ..Egyptian Foreign
Minister Ismail Fahmy and
Israeli Foreign Minister
Moshe-Dayan would sit at
. the same table, "This is
something to welcome,"
Begin said.
■ Sadat's idea was accepted
by Vance who appeared with
the Egyptian president at
their televised news con¬
ference-Vance said he would
try to persuade Syria, Jor¬
dan and Israel to join Egypt
in a working group that
would   meet-  under   his
auspices in Washington and
New York next month.
Vance indicated that the
task of these meetings would
be to remove the obstacles to
the Geveva conference. The
most formidable of these ap¬
pears to be Palestinian re¬
presentation. Israel has
categorically rejected PLO
participation in any peace
talks.
.Sadat, who has said he had
alternatives in mind to deal
with ■ this issue, disclosed
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that during his talks with
Vance he received a mes¬
sage from PLO chief Yasir
Arafat reminding the Arab
states that they -had agreed
at their 1974 summit meeting
in Rabat that the PLO was
the sole legitimate represen¬
tative of the Palestinian peo¬
ple.
The PLO executive com¬
mittee, meeting in Beirut,
issued a statement de¬
manding independent repre¬
sentation for their group at
Some Skepticism Expressed
Over Intent Of Sadat's Proposal
By Yitzhak Shargil
TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Pre¬
mier Menachem Begin's
professed' satisfaction; with
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat's proposal -for a Mid¬
east foreign ministers'
meeting under U.S. auspices
to precede the Geneva con¬
ference is not shared by
some circles in Israel. Those
circles in fact take the pes¬
simistic view that .Sadat's
proposal is little more than
an Arab ploy to gain time to
prepare for a military show¬
down with Israel.
Begin described Sadat's
-idea Aug! 3 as "very con¬
structive" and especially
welcomed the Egyptian
leader's reported remark
that he had no objections to
face-to-face, talks between
the Egyptian and Israeli
foreign ministers.
The premier, speaking at a
ceremonial occasion at Kfar
Habad, reiterated his san¬
guine view. He told his audi-;
ence that next month
Israel's foreign minister will
meet in Washington or New
York with three or four
foreign ministers from the
.neighboring countries.
But circles here seized.
upon a report in the semi¬
official Cairo newspaper Al
Ahram as an indication that
the Egyptians are back¬
tracking on the idea of face-
to-face talks. Al Ahram.
quoting an official Egyptian
source, said the aim of the
preliminary meeting was to
ensure the continuation' of
consultations between the
-Arab foreign ministers and
U.S. Secretary of State
-Cyrus"Vance on one hand
and the Israeli foreign minis¬
ter and Vance on the other.
This was interpreted as
meaning that the Arabs will
not talk to the Israelis but
that each side will take
separately to the Americans.
The circles who view the
Sadat proposal as a .trap for
Israel cite what they consi¬
der the discouraging results,
so far. of Vance's-current
visit to Middle East capitals.
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Cols. Jewish Federation Announces 77 Allocations
The Columbus Jewish Federation has allocated a to¬
tal of $2,324,486 to local, national and overseas agen¬
cies. In announcing the allocations, Federation presi¬
dent, Ernest Stern said: "Weare'nrpud that, as a re-"
suit of 1977 United Jewish Fund Campaign, we are able
to meet the requests for Israel, for our own Columbus
- agencies, and for those national agencies serving all
Americans."   ■    .,.' .-•
The funds aJIOcated, according to Lawrence D.
Schaffer, vice-tprJBsjdeht otthe Columbus Jewish Fed¬
eration andcKaMhan.of the Allocations Committee, in-'
elude $732,674 for local Jewish agencies' in Columbus,
. $53,300 for national'Jewish agencies and a total of
, $1,538,512 for the United Jewish Appeal, through both
the regular campaign and the Israel Emergency Fund.
"In many ways the campaign process is only mean¬
ingful as it relates to the budgeting allocation proc¬
ess," sajd Stern, "since raising money is only ai value if ■
it is effectively disbursed. Beginning during the winter
months, while the campaign — under the atk-general
chairmanship of Irving Schottenstein — was still under
way, the Allocations Committee — under1 the chair¬
manship of Larry Schaffer and his co-chairman Myer
Mellman — developed a pre-campaign formula, which
subsequently was utilized by the four budget commits
Ernest Stem
Lawrence D. Schaffer
tees in making the allocations."
The budget committees studied the needs of agencies
in Columbus, nationally, and throughout the world, and
the members of the committees worked over a period
of months to prepare a budget that would equally re¬
flect the commitment of the Columbus Jewish com¬
munity to Israel and to the needs of our local agencies.
The, Capital Needs Budget Committee, under the
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all Arab and international
levels dealing with the Mid¬
dle East and the Palestinian
issue. The proposed meeting
of foreign ministers would
by its very nature exclude-
the PLO since it would be
limited to sovereign states.
Observers here and abroad
said that chances for such a
meeting'hinged on its accep- - -
tance by Syria.
The idea of preliminary
talks to work out the basis of
a peace agreement to be
reached at Geneva ori¬
ginated with Secretary of -
State Henry Kissinger
during his Middle East diplo¬
matic efforts in 1975.
Begin's  ~*'peac'e'  plan."
which he presented to Prest ,,v
dent Carter at-their White,-
House meetings July 19-20  ■"'
and later made, public in
part, suggested three alter- •* ;
natives to resume the politi¬
cal momentum in the Mid-'
east. These were: resump¬
tion  of- the  Geneva  con¬
ference — Begin suggested   -
Oct. 10 as a likely date;. '■
bilateral talks to be held in -
Middle East] capitals or on
neutral ground along the .
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H.U.D. Director't
To Be Keynote At
Cornerstone Setting
Paul G. Lydens, director
of the Columbus area office
of    the   Department   of  ,
Housing and Urban Develop¬
ment will^ be the keynote
speaker at the cornerstone .
setting    ceremonies    of
Heritage Tower — Jewish   \
Community Senior Citizens
Housing this Sunday, August .
Hat 1:30p.m.
Prior to joining the Colum-   ,
bus office in 1974," Lydens
was   the   deputy   commis¬
sioner   of   the   Federal
Housing Administration and       I
director of the H.U.D! Rehar
bilitation Housing Division.-
In April,' 1972 the achieve¬
ment of this division was to
develop   an   industry   of
housing rehabilitation which
resulted from an initial $40'
million effort to one of over '
$3 billion in just over a two- .
year period. ■ <
A native of Sandusky, Ly¬
dens attended Ohio State
University and Hope _
College,^ where he earned a
bachelor of arts degree in
political science and speech
in 1960.
Lydens and his staff were
responsible for the final ap-, -
proval of Heritage Tower —   '
Jewish  Community  Senior
Citizens Housing which is
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Heritage Tower Cornerstone Setting To Be This Sunday
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