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JULY 27,1978-TAMMUZ 22
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Cabinet Rejects Return Of El
Arish As Unilateral Gesture
Community Forum On the ABC's Of
Desegregation Set For Mon., July 31
On Monday, July 31, the
Columbus Jewish Center,
Anti-Defamation League of
B'nai B'rith and B'nai B'rith
Women's Council of Metropolitan Columbus will
sponsors community forum
on the "ABCs of Desegregation," its meaning and
impact on-Columbus. The
forum will begin at 8 p.m. at
the Jewish Center auditorium. Since the issue of
school desegregation is
paramount in Columbus for
this coming fall, the
community is urged to attend to learn about what
public and private groups
are doing to ensure peaceufl
desegregation.
Speakers will be Tom
Moody, Mayor of Columbus,
discussing the city's role and
preparations; Dr. Joseph
Davis, Superintendent of
Schools, reviewing process
and preparation of the school
system; Rowland C. W.
Brown, Chairperson of
Metroplitan Columbus
Schools Committee, report-
, ing on the role and function
of this community coalition
in the desegregation
process; and Carol Lister,
■ Regional Director of the
Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Anti-
Dr. Joseph Davis
Defamaion League of B'nai
B'rith.
The
Judge
decision  of  federal
Robert    Duncari;
Dennis Mellman To Receive Therese Stern Kahn Award
By Barbie Selizer-Meyouhas
-JERUSALEM (JTA)-
The Cabinet, meeting for six
hours today, flatly rejected
the return to Egypt of El
Arish or any part of Sinai as
a unilateral gesture of good
,will to further peace negotiations but left the door open
for continued talks with the
Egyptians at the ministerial
level.
The Israeli gesture had
been requested by President
Anwar Sadat of Egypt following the inconclusive talks
betwen the Israeli and
Egyptian Foreign Ministers
and U.S. Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance at Leeds
Castle, England last week.
Reading a statement to
reporters after the cabinet
session, Begin said: "The
government authorizes me
to inform Mr. Sadat that
there cannot be any, .onesided move by any state and
there is nobody who can get
something for nothing."
■ Hesaid-that-farad'-wjts-
ready to negotiate such
matters "on the basis of
reciprocity." Begin also disclosed that he was sending a
personal message to Sadat
informing him of the
Cabinet's decision and
proposing new meetings
between Israel and Egypt in
Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria, Haifa or any other
suitable place.
The Cabinet decision, however, was not unanimous.
Deputy Prime Minister
Yigael Yadin^ who is also the
leader  of  the Democratic
Tom Moody
handed down in March of.
1977, called for system-wide
desegregation of the Coluriv-
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Dennis Mellman has been
selected as the 1978 recipient
of the Therese Stern Kahn
Award and will represent th.
Columbus Jewish Federation at the General Assembl>
of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds,
to be held in San Francisco,
November 8 to 12, it was announced today by Fred
Yenkin, chairman of the 1978
Young Leadership Award
Committee.
Mellman   is   an   active
member of the Federation,
.currently   serving   as   a
linember of tlje Board of'
trustees, as a member of the'
Movement for Change, was
among those favoring a
good-will gesture as a step
toward improving the
atmosphere between Egypt
and Israel. Defense Minister
Ezer 'Weizman voted with
the government. -
Response To
Sadat's Speech
Today's Cabinet action
was a direct response to
Sadat's   speech   in   Cairo
yesterday in which he
charged that the "expansionist ambition" of Begin
and his "greediness for
land" was "the only obstacle
to peace in the Middle East."
Speaking on national television on the eve of the anniversary of the 1952 officers'
revolt that deposed the late
King Farouk, Sadat declared:
"il   Israel   really   wants
peace,    peace    can    be
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B. Yenkin To Lead 1979
United Jewish Fund Drive
Bernard K. Yenkin has
been named general campaign chairman of the 1979
United Jewish Fund
Campaign of the Columbus
Jewish Federation, Columbus Jewish Federation President Ernest Stern has announced. "There is no doubt
<-that- human needs- locally -
and in Israel have reachpd
crisis proportions," said Mr.
Stern. "In accepting this
most challenging position,
Bernard K. Yenkin will be
calling on the leadership and
members of our Jewish community to accept their fullest
responsibilities."
The Federation (which is
the central organization of
the Columbus Jewish community) and its beneficiary
agencies are involved, on a
daily basis, in strengthening
and improving the quality of'
life   for   Jewish   people
Bernard K. Yenkin
locally, nationally and
overseas. The annual United
Jewish Fund Campaign
raises funds to support the
humanitarian needs of the
Jewish people. In addition,
the Federation is actively
engaged throughout the year
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Labor Alignment Concedes Personal
Attack On Begin Has Boomeranged
Dennis Mellman
Education   and   Culture
Budget Committee and as
chairman of the newly
formed Kiryat Shemona
Committee of the Israel Department. He was advisor to
the Young Men's' Division,
1977-78; co-chairman of the
1977 Young Couples Mission
to Israel; Chairman of the
Young Men's Division, 1976-
77; and Section chairman,
Young Men's pivision,1974-
76. In addition, Mellman
served as a member of the
United Jewish Appeal Young
Leadership Cabinet during
.1977-78.
; ; Wjthin the general Jewish:
lebmmunity,   Dennis  Mell-
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By Yitzhak Shargil
TEL AVIV (JTA)-Lead-
ers .of the opposition Labor
Alignment apparently had
second thoughts- over the
weekend about the wisdom
of their personal attacks on
Premier Menachem Begin,
especially references to his
.physical health and implications of mental instability.
As Labor and Likud girded
for what promises to be an
extraordinarily bitter and
vituperative foreign policy
debate, beginning tomorrow
in the Knesset, Alignment
leaders admittd that some of
the harsh personal remarks
made, at a Labor Party political forum Thursday, .may
have boomeranged. '
They indicated that in the
i [futurej ;Labor. will concentrate   Its   fire, on, , Likud
government policies rather
than on Begin himself. Labor
intends to present a motion
Of non-confidence in the
government at tomorrow's
Knesset session. The debate
will be. opened by Foreign
' Minister Moshe Dayan who
will report on this talks in
England last week with
Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mohammed Kaamel. Begin
will sum up the situation
from the government's point
of view. Former foreign
ministers Yigal Allon and
.Abba Eban will present the
.opposition viewpoint and
Eban will submit the no^con-
fidence motion.
The Labor Party forum
Thursday night was closed to
the news media. But, inevitably, details were leaked
to the press which published
unflattering - references, to
. the Premier that infuriated
Likud.
Labor's ire was aroused by
Begin's attacks on Alignment chairman Shimon
Peres for meeting with Pres-.
ident Anwar Sadat of Egypt
in Austria two weeks ago, his
veto of a meeting between
Peres and King Hussein in
London a few days later and
his announcement that he
will not grant visas to opposition officials who go abroad
to meet Arab statesmen.
Basis For .
Alignment's Ire
Former   Premier   Golda .
Meir said she could not recall a time when Labor-led
governments  had rejected
requests by  the Liberals,
Mapam or the Communist
Party  to meet anti-Israel^
personages, abroad.   "In "
many instances the Foreign
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