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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
Vol. XLIV Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 19, 1969 No. 38
NAACP Raps Nixon s Failure
To Nominate Jew To Court
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People said
that its opposition to the ap
pointment of Federal Judge Cle
ment F. Haynesworth Jr. to the
United States Supreme Court
was based in part on President
Nixon’s apparent break with the
tradition of naming at least one
American Jew to the highest
court in the land.
The NAACP board of directors
said in a resolution released here
that it objected to Judge Haynes
worth not only on the basis of
. 'his “lamentable record in civil
rights matters” and his generally
ar.ti-labcr rulings in the past. In
addition to those considerations
is the “refusal of the President
of the United States to fellow the
tradition of his eminent pred
ecessors, beginning with the late
Woodrow Wilson, of recognizing
the vast political and social con
tributions, particularly with res
pect to our legal institutions,
made bv Jewish Americans,” the
NAACP said.
“To recite the names of Jus
tices firandeis, Cardozo, Frank
furter, Goldberg and Fortas is to
recount major developments and
contributions to the legal and
political structure of the United
States over the past half cen
tury,” the resolution continued.
“Equally able Jewish lawyers,
judges and professors are among
us.”
“It was a sad blow to the as
pirations of all Americans for full
participation of all of our people
in the affairs of Government
when the President of the United
States failed to appoint a Jewish
American as he filled not only
one but two vacancies in the last
three months,” the NAACP said.
“We fear, or at least we suspect,
that this cavalier treatment of a
group of persons who have been
in the forefront of the fight for
protection of the rights of all
Americans is thought to be jus
tified because, after too long a
denial, a Negro American has
been appointed to the Supreme
Court of the United States. If
this be the political reasoning,
we refuse to accept it. We refuse
to permit such cynical politics to
require us to compete with our
fellow defenders of the rights of
all people for a place on the Su
preme Court of the United
States.”
Says Civil Rights
Commission Is
‘Jewish Dominated’
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Domingo Reyes, a staff mem
ber of the United States Civil
Rights Commission, resigned
from the Commission saying
“the Jewish-dominated Com
mission is black-oriented to
the almost total exclusion of
the Chicano (Mexican-Amer-
ican) and the American In
dian.” Mr. Reyes said he had
been harassed by the Com
mission and deprived of his
civil rights. He had served in
the capacity of assistant to
the director of the Commis
sion's Mexican-American Di
vision. According to Mr.
Reyes, Howard A. Glickstein,
the Commission’s director-
.designate, required that he
quit unpaid positions with
ouside civil rights groups be
fore bring pprm'tted to mod
erate a New York-based
radio program. A Commission
spokesman denied Mr. Reyes’
charges.
5 New Security Council Members
Not to Change Stance on Israel
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—Five new nations are to be
elected to two-year terms on the 15-member United Nations Security
Council, beginning next January. From Israel’s point of view, the
make-up of that body, which it regards as demonstrably pro-Arab,
will not change.
According to informed sources Syria, Poland, Burundi, Nicaragua
and Sierra Leone are the leading candidates to replace Algeria, Para
guay, Hungary, Senegal and Pakistan, the Washington Post reported.
The election of Syria, Poland and Nicaragua by the General Assembly
this fall is regarded as virtually certain because each has been en
dorsed by the requisite geographical groups. Tanzania and Togo
are contesting the election of Burundi and Sierra Leone which have
been endorsed by the foreign ministers of the Organization of African
Unity.
Link Meir's Visit With
Bilateral Talks at Ul\
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Visit of Israel’s Premier Goldi
Meir beginning Sept. 25 is being linked with pending top level
bilateral United States-Soviet talks at the United Nations on the
Mideast, State Deparment sources said. The presence of Mrs. Meir
in the United States will be “exploited” in an effort to advance a
settlement or at least to damp down hostilities, the source said.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers will meet with Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei A. Gromyko both before and after Mr. Rogers
and President Nixon meet with Mrs. Meir.
State Department sources voiced hope that the presence in
the U. S. of Mrs. Meir and Mr. Gromyko simultaneously may
create an indirect dialogue conducive to a better understanding
between the Arabs and Israel and the U. S. and Soviet Union than
now exists.
Preparatory to the Gromyko-Rogers meeting in New York,
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin is expected to meet in
Washington with Joseph J. Sisco, Assistant^ Secretary of Slate for
Near East Affairs, within the next 24 hours.
Officials here hope that new momentum for the bilateral and
Big Four initiatives may be achieved through discussions between
President Nixon with Mrs. Meir. The Stale Department is deeply
concerned-about the possibility of an accidental escalation of the
Israel-Arab confrontation in the Mideast. The Nixon-Rogcrs-Meir
agenda will depend to a large extent on the Rngcrs-Grompko talk,
it was predicted.
5 UN Council Members Would
Abstain On El Aksa Measure
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
^JTA)—Five members of the Se
curity Council let it be known in
advance of Tuesday’s meeting
that they would abstain from
voting on the Pakistan resolution
which called for Israel to abro
gate all measures and actions it
had taken “to alter the status of
Jerusalem” and reaffirmed “the
established principle that acqui
sition of territory by military
conquest is inadmissible.”
The resolution also condemned
Israel for failure to comply with
previous Security Council reso
lutions opposing the integration
of East Jerusalem and called for
a Security Council meeting to
consider further action if Israel
continued its refusal to obey
these resolutions.
The five countries who dis
ci jsed in advance that they would
abstain from voting on this res
olution were the United States,
Great Britain. Finland, Paraguay
and Colombia. France and China
were reported to be undecided.
The American position was
spelled cut Monday morning by
Ambassador Charles W. Yost.
He stressed that “we have seen
no shred of evidence to support
the allegation that the act of
suspected arson which occurred
at the Haram-as-Sharif on Aug.
21 was ether than an individual
act, as demented as it was das
tardly.” He said it would be most
unfortunate “if the international
community, which itself shares a
deep interest in Jerusalem’s
shrines, were diverted from form
ulating a positive response to the
present situation by incitements
or allegations in support of other
objectives. This Council cannot
lend itself to such incitements or
allegations.” Mr. Yost expressed
approval of the Israeli measures
to investigate the fire and its
agreement to admit Moslem ex
perts in connection with repairs.
Mr. Yost told the Council that
“we do not consider that it is
appropriate or desirable so soon
again to reexamine and pro
nounce upon the status of Jer
usalem or to link the deplorable
lire in El Aksa to the whole tragic
Arab-lsraeli conflict.” He said
that the resolution before the
Council should have concerned
itself “directly and exclusively
with measures for the mainten
ance, repair and protection of the
Holy Places, including provision
for adequate participation of
Moslem representatives, but not
cne which again went over the
ground covered during our debate
last July.”
Ambassador Yosef Tekoah of
Israel appealed to members of
the Council “not to end the lib
erations” on a note that would
add to the controversies of the
Middle East. Our region has
enough hostility. It does not re
quire another injection of aorim-
oney. It pleads for voices of calm
and understanding.”
He said that the draft resolu
tion “is not conceived in that
spirit. There is no reason wtvat-
Accident in Bonn
BONN (JTA)—An Israeli diplomat was killed last week by a car
driven by an Egyptian diplomat in the Afghanistan Embassy who
represents Egypt’s interests in West Germany, police said. Egypt
has had no diplomatic relations with Bonn since West Germany
recognized Israel in 1965.
Dead was Jacob Tal, 44, the Embassy’s second secretary. Police
said he was struck in the suburb of Bad Godesbcrg while crossing
the street to his daughter’s house. The impact of the car hurled him
onto the sidewalk, injuring him fatally. He died en route to the hos
pital police said. The driver of the car was third secretary Ali Maher
el-Dali, who was slightly injured, police said. No political motive
of the accident could be established, the authorities said.
A special guard had been set up around the Afghanistan! Em
bassy last week following a telephoned bomb threat to its Egyptian
department. A spokesman said he believed the threat was a follow-up
to an attack earlier in the week against an Egyptian travel office in
Frankfurt. But there was no connection between the bomb threat
and the accident, the spokesman said.
ever to reiterate at this stage
known but strongly contested
views. It is what unites we must
seek and not that which separates
us. The resolution would exac
erbate the conflict without in
troducing a single constructive
element, a single impulse toward
understanding and cooperation
this on a matter on which under-
setanding is posssible and cooper
ation sorely needed. The eyes of
the world are again upon the Se
curity Council, in hope, in expec
tation that perhaps this time it
would find it possible to give en
couragement to those who do not
want to fan the flames.’’
Speaking for the Soviet Union,
Ambassador Yakov A. Malik gave
lull support to the Pakistan draft
resolution and demanded Israel’s
“unconditional and immediate
compliance” with its terms. He
said the Security Council must
state that Israel had moral and
political responsibility for the
El Aksa fire. The Soviet Union,
lie said, would have preferred a
stronger and even more direct
resolution.
Israelis Mark
Rosh Hashana
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israelis
celebrated the Rosh Hashana
holiday under sunny skies and
in relative quiet. The manner in
which the New Year was usher
ed in varied among individuals,
each celebrating according to hiB
oeliefs and inclinations.
Orthodox Jews gathered at
river banks and on the sea-shore
to perform the ancient rite of
“tashlich,” the casting away of
sins on the waters. Nearby thou
sands of family groups swam,
sun-bafhed and picnicked, obvi
ously grateful for the respite
from hard work and daily ten
sion. Prayer services were held
at Army camps and outposts
from the Golan Heights to Sharm,
cl-Sheikh conducted by Army
chaplains. But soldiers in many
posts were surprised and de
lighted by unexpected entertain
ment by some of the country’s
top artists of stage and screen.
The actress, Hanna Rovina, wide
ly known as the First Lady of
the Israeli theater, combined her
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An Israeli gunner zeros-in on a radar station somewhere in Egypt during the initial coordinated
“sea-air-land” raid into the beyond-Suez territory. This retaliation raid was the first of a series,
mostly air raids, as Lsrael military strategists seek to halt Egypt’s consistent cross canal, cease
fire-breaking bombardment.