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The Souther
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Vol. XLV Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, August 7, 1970 Two Sections—12 P* / *'
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View From Washington
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WASHINGTON (JTA» — Of-
ficial Washington indicated, that
it believes the first small step
has been taken toward an event
ual peaceful settlement of the
Middle East conflict. The ap
proval by Israelis Cabinet on
Friday of Secretary of State
William P. Rogers’ proposals for
a 90-day. cease-fire and negoti
ations under the aegis of United
Nations peace envoy Gunnar V.
Jarring, was greeted here with
a sense of 'relief that the first
obstacle to peace may have been
overcome although the final goal
remains as distant and elusive
as ever. The Rogers’ proposals
were accepted earlier by Egypt
and Jordan with apparently thin
backing from the Soviet Union.
The U. S. government is now
awaiting Israel’s official reply,
the text of which is being draft
ed in Jerusalem. It is not ex
pected to M. received here how- .
ever before Wednesday. Presi
dent Nixon- set the tone of cau
tious optimism at a press brief
ing Friday at the San Clemente
summer White House. Emerging
from a two-and-a-half hour
meeting with Secretary Rogers,
Mr. Nnqon announced Israelis
acceptance. But he warned, "We
have a long way to go. This is
only a first step.” In effect,
Mr. Nixon was saying that the
American initiative has only set
the stage of Arab-Israeli ne
gotiations, not arranged a settle-
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Tfte developments «o far are
regarded as a personal triumph
for Secretary Rogers and his
credo of “quiet diplomacy.” It
was Mr. Rogers’ proposals to Is
rael and the Arab states, coupled
with a plea to “stop shooting and
start talking” that is credited
with having breached the Mid
east impasse for the first time
since the June, 1967 war. The
Nixon administration apparently
succeeded in winning Soviet co
operation through firm warnings
to Moscow of the disastrous con
sequences of a confrontation.
Jerusalem was apparently satis
fied with American assurances
that the cease-fire would not be
used to expand Soviet SAM-2
and SAM-2 missile sites in the
area. Th? U. S. assurances were
said to have been based on pri
vate messages from Moscow and
Cairo. Twice in his press brief
ing, Mr. Nixon stressed that the
cease-fire would not be used by
either side to gain military ad
vantage.
On Thursday night, President
Nixon, in a late evening news
conference televised from Los
Angeles, reassured Israel that
accepting the U. S. peace plan
posed no danger that “by enter
ing negotiations her position
might be compromised or jeo
pardized in that period.” In an
effort to allay Israel’s fears that
the 90-day cease-fire would be
used by Egypt and the Soviet
Union to build up their military
forces, Pres. Nixon asserted that
one of the conditions of the U. S.
plan was that “there will be a
military standstill” during the
cease-fire period. He added: “I
indicated cm July 1 in a tele
vision broadcast . . . the position
of this government insofar as
Israel’s security is concerned
and our commitment to main
tain the bgluce of power in the
MSeest.”oBSr York Yftw•'eta-
respondent Hedrick Smith said
that Israel was told by the U. S.
in June that its request for more
Phantom jets was being held in
abeyance until the cease-fire has
run its course.)
Israel’s acceptance of the
Rogers proposals was hailed by
two Senate leaders. Democratic
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield
expressed gratification because
the proposals offered an opening
ndw and possible opportunity
later. He added, however, that
Israel had little choice but to
accept. The Montana Democrat
used the word “squeezed” to
describe Israel’s position, an ap
parent reference to its reliance
cm the Nixon administration’s
willingness to provide Israel
with more combat lets. Sen.,
Jacob K. Javits, of New York,
a ranking Republican member
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said Friday that Is
rael’s move “opens the door to
Mideast peace.” He said that
President Nixon’s statement
that there would, be no military
build-up in Egypt during the
cease-fire had made the differ
ence in Israel’s acceptance. He
said, *T feel that the backing
given to President NixOn’s basic
Mideast policy declaration of
July 1 by 71 senators .'. . was
a vital element in enabling the
President to give these assur
ances.” Sen. Javits was one of
10 senators who wrote and cir
culated the letter supporting
President Nixon. With Israel’s
official acceptance s(ill awaited,
there was no indication here
when the 90-day cease-fire
would be put into effect. Sec
retary Rogers originally prop
osed the period July 1-Oct. 1.
U. S. officials reportedly plan a
new round of talks in Cairo,
Amman and Jerusalem, possibly
beginning this week. They will
Concentrate oh winning - the three
governments’ approval of Previ
ously outlined detailed proce
dures for enforcing the cease
fire.
View from Israel
JERUSALEM—Although offic
ially the six Gahal party mem
bers have withdrawn from the
cabinet, the party members
have continued to hold extend-
Advance Staffers Arrive Next Week to Help
Materialize National JWV Auxiliary Convention
By Adolph Rosenberg
The advance echelon of staff
workers will begin arriving in
Atlanta next week to begin the
phenomenon of what will
emerge shortly thereafter as a
national convention.
Delegates will begin treking
to Georgia’s capital city the
weekend of August 11-12 as pre
lude to the stream expected to
arrive the following Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday for the
“big events."
In ibis case, staff and dele
gates win assemble in logistical
fashion for the national conven
tion of the Jewish War Veterans
of America.
By now, most reservations are
practically at hand from as far
away as Los Angeles on the one
hand and many east coast cities
on the other for this particular
convention heralded as the be
ginning of the Diamond Jubilee
Year, or seventy-fifth anniver
sary of the oldest of America’s
service organizations.
Heralded as vacation interests
are glamour trips to historical
Stone Mountain and a big league
game with the Braves in Atlan
ta stadium. The Stone Mountain
event will be an all-day outing.
The baseball game, which prob
ably will draw the larger num
ber of delegates and family
members, will likely have a last-
minute surge among delegates
who win be teakttg the feet
variety of Atlanta entertainment
for the vacation type of fun the
national JWV convention has
come to be.
On the serious side, delegates
will be engaging in some pretty
hot politicking to choose the
next national commander. This
individual is expected to be one
of the two candidates who have
already entered the arena and
begun to gather counts among
delegations well in advance.
The two veterans who will
seek the popularity count in the
polls are Albert Schlossberg of
Boston, now national editor of
the JWV national publication.
His opponent is Jerry D. Cohen
of Staton Island, who has per
formed a yoeman’s Job of
achievement as a member of the
national executive committee,
the group’s guiding body.
The program will deal with
other inter-organkational mat
ters at a variety of sessions.
Three of the special speakers
who will deliver major ad
dresses at various points of the
convention are:
Dr. William Wexler of Sa
vannah, international president
of B’nal B’rtth and the current
president of the impact-policy
organisation of U. S. groups—
the organisational presidents.
Daniel James Jr, Department
assistant la the Department of
southeastern regional headquar
ters In Atlanta.
Alfred Schwartz and Elliott
Goldberg are co-chairmen of the
convention for the host com
munities which will provide
leaders in many areas for ac
tivities expected to turn the con
vention from a paper plan into
the kind of event brimming with
the esoteric quality known as
“southern hospitality.”
In decades past, a national vet
erans convention always had a
parade as an activity highlight.
For some time now, the JWV
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too
ed briefing
sions on its role, — measures
now before ine Jewish state. It
just might ’mean the coalition
government might be retrieved
from disaster.
Meanwhile, Golds Meir told
the Knesset that Israel would
not withdraw from all the Arab
territory captured in 1967 and
that her country is ready- to ne
gotiate despite doubts about the
sincerity of Arab leaders.
View from UN
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
The formalities of laying the
basis for peace negotiations be
tween Israel and Egypt and Jor
dan began here' Monday as Dr.
Gunnar V. Jarring, the United
Nations special Middle East en
voy initiated his round of talks
with Secretary General U Thant
and his top aides. The Swedish
diplomat also met with United
States Secretary of State Wil
liam P. Rogers for what a UN
spokesmen termed an “over
view of the Middle East situa
tion.” Mr. Rogers, who had been
weekending at the summer
White House in San Clemente,
California, flew into New York.
A UN spokesman said tho meet
ing between Mr. Rogers, Dr.
Jarring, Mr. Thant and Under
secretary Dr. Ralph J Bunche
was at the request of tho Sec
retary of State. Rumors had been
rife during the day that Mr.
Rogers felt his peace plan, ra
ther than any proposal bv the
Big Four, should be the guide
line for Dr. Jarring resuming
Ml peace mission. Emerging
from his meeting Mr. Rogers was
asked if he resolved his differ
ences with Mr. Thant as to
whose instructions should guide
the ambassador. The Secretary
of State replied only that he had
no differences with Mr. Thant
over Ambassador Jarring. Until
now, the Swedish diplomat has
taken his instructions from Mr.
Thant and his peace mission ac
tivities have been mandated by
the Security Council. The role
of the Big Four is to find a
guideline for reactivia ting the
peace mission but the guideline
has to first be approved by Mr.
Thant as “positive.”
While Di. Jarring is in New
York he is also expected to meet
with the ambassador/of the Big
Foiir powers and .those of Israel,
Egypt and Jordan. It was learn
ed that Dr. Jarring will “call”
Israeli Ambassador Yosef Te-
koah but there was no indication
that the two officials will meet
immediately. UN spokesman said
that there is no “time table” for
Dr. Jarring’s stay in New York.
One source noted that the dura
tion of his stay here will “de
pend on what happens during his
talks (here) ami developments
in the Middle East” But while
M here, the Swedish diplomat
is expected to explore three
areas concerning the pext step*
in the Mideast peace settlement:
the size of the Wotted Nations
Truce Supervision
(UNTSO) to supervise the
fire; the duration of the cease
fire; and the locution for the
peace talks. Any one of these
elements, observers here said,
could stymie actual peace ne
gotiations for weeks, if not for
months. Another problem that is
bound to slow the guars in tne
machinery of peace talks is
whether the cease-firs or the
tnUf will take place first or
whether they will coincide. On
this question, Israel was the
only nation of those who accept
ed the U. S. peace plan that
stated affirmatively that it will
appoint at the appropriate time,
a representative for peace ne
gotiations without prior condi
tions, under the auspices of Am
bassador Jarring, within the
framework of Security Council
Resolution 242, mid with the ahn
of reaching a binding contrac
tual - agreement.” *
Continuing its statem ent,
which the government of Israel
issued last Friday accepting the
U. S. initiative, Israel noted:
“Israel’s position in respect of a
cease-fire on all sectors, Includ
ing the Egyptian front, on the
basis of reciprocity, in accord-
mice with the resolution (242)
of the Security Council, remains
in force. Taking into account the
clarifications provided by the
government of the United
States, Loud is prepared to sub
scribe to the proposal of the
United States concerning a
cease-fire for three months at
least on the Egyptian front.”
Observers here said this state
ment came closer to spelling out
the sequence of a cease-fire fol
lowed by talks than that issued
by either Egypt or Jordan. Egypt
did not spell out the sequence
and Jordan, a few days after
Egypt announced its acceptance
of the U. S. plan, announced
merely that it would accept
what Egypt accepted and reject
what Egypt rejected.
View from Arabs ■
LONDON (JTA)— Egypt and
the Soviet Union appeared de
termined not to allow new diplo
matic efforts for a negotiated
Middle East settlement to
founder on the intransigence of
some Arab states. Hie Iraqi gov
ernment’s hard line opposition
to Egypt’s and Jordan’s accep
tance o fthe latest United States
peace initiative was sharply
criticized by President Gamal
Nasser in a message to President
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, or Iraq.
Iraq has also been criticized in
the Soviet press.
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