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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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Friday, July 28, 1972
Jews Played Major Hole
In McGovern Triumph
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
JTA Washington Bureau Chief
MIAMI BEACH (JTA)—Jew
ish political leaders received
prominent roles with high visi
bility in Sen. George McGov
ern’s successful campaign to the
Democratic Party’s candidate
against Richard M. Nixon in the
Presidential election Nov. 7.
Sen. and former Gov. of Con
necticut Abraham Ribicoff nom
inated his “old and good friend”
McGovern at the party’s con
vention.
Ribicoff, long a stalwart for
liberalism, is regarded general
ly as a leading proponent for
social legislation by the Senate,
particularly on education and
welfare. Of the 18 speeches put
ting six candidates into nom
ination before the 3016 dele
gates, Ribicoff’s alone referred
to Israel..
The New Englander said
McGovern’s “leadership in end
ing the tragedy or Vietnam has
not reduced his determination
to protect the real interests of
the United States and the sur
vival of Israel in the Middle
East.” No one mentioned Soviet
Jewry, skyjacking or genocide.
Before the balloting began on
the third night of the conven
tion, Maryland Gov. Marvin
Mandel delivered a slashing 30-
minute attack on the Nixon ad
ministration’s record. That Man-
del was selected for this role
was construed by some as a bid
to attract attention to direct
opposition to the President by
a leading Jewish politician.
Both Ribicoff and Mandel
were mentioned in gossip at the
beachfront hotels as among pos
sible choices by McGovern to
be his running mate. After
McGovern triumphed on the
first ballot, Ribicoff and Man-
del were announced as members
of the party’s official delega
tion to formally inform McGov
ern of his nomintion.
Ribicoff is one of only two
Jewish Senators, and the only
Democratic one. Mandel is one
of three Jewish governors, all
of them Democrats. (The others
are Milton J. Shapp of Pennsyl
vania and Frank Licht of Rhode
Island. Licht was chairman of
his state’s delegation, which
cast all of its 32 votes for Mc
Govern. Previously, it also up
held the seating of the full Cal
ifornia delegation committed
to McGovern in the floor fight
on its credentials.) Mandel also
personally headed the Mary
land delegation, but it failed to
deliver a majority for McGov
ern, giving him 13 votes to 38
for Alabama Gov. George C.
Wallace.
Pennsylvania’s delega t i o n
gave Sen. Henry M. Jackson
86V4 votes and McGovern 81.
Maryland and Pennsy 1 v a n a
have large Jewish communities.
California, whose Jewish popu
lation is about one million, half
of it in Los Angeles, started the
McGovern triumph by casting
all 271 votes for him. New York,
which gave McGovern 263 of its
274 delegates, has more than
two and a half million Jews.
Massachusetts and New Jersey,
both with large Jewish com
munities, went for McGovern
too, the Bay State giving him
all 102 votes and New Jersey
a big majority, 89.
Robert Abrams, Bronx Bor
ough President, who joined in
speaking on behalf of a Jack
son-sponsored amendment to
the platform’s plank on support
of Israel against possible Soviet
pressures, identified himself in
announcing Nerw York’s big
vote for McGovern. These two
actions also increased Jewish
visibility in McGovern’s camp.
An indication of concern by the
Democratic National Committee
over possible defection to Pres
ident Nixon of normally Demo
cratic-supporting Jewish voters
appeared with the announce
ment of a meeting of Jewish
delegations to the Democratic
Convention to a seminar
Ribicoff, Rep.. Sidney Yates
of Chicago, and Howard Metzen-
baum of Cleveland, who had
campaigned as a Democratic
candidate for Senator from
Ohio, addressed the seminar.
The announcement said more
than 300 Jewish delegates were
attending the convention. Ac-
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Zionist Organization of Ameri
ca wound up its 75th jubilee
convention last week with a
series of resolutions directed
mainly at the US. The ZOA
urged the US government “not
to hesitate in using its veto” in
the UN Security Council in
order to “guarantee that justice
is done to Israel.”
A second resolution called for
the transfer of the US Embassy
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Herman L. Weisman was re
elected for a third consecutive
one-year term as president of
the ZOA.
The organization lashed out
at the UN as unfair and biased
cording to the announcement,
the meeting was planned to
“quell the widespread efforts to
use the question of American-
Israeli relations to cause polar
ization among Jewish voters.”
The purpose also was “to fully
elucidate the position of the
Democratic nominee on issues
of direct concern to Jewish
voters.” “Issues ranging from
the Nixon administration’s Mid
dle East policy to crises facing
American Jews on the domestic
front will be discussed,” the
announcement said.
Jews and Blacks worked
where the interests of Israel are
concerned and chided the US
indirectly for having abstained
when the Security Council
voted June 26 to censure Israel
for incursions against terrorist
bases in Lebanon. When the
US only abstains with regard to
a Security Council resolution
with which it disagrees, it
serves “neither the principles
of fair play nor the peaceful
objectives of American foreign
policy,” the ZOA resolution
said. “Unless the US exerts it
influence forcefully and stead
fastly in the UN, this organiza
tion will be threatened with
the same fate as the League of
Nations,” the ZOA warned.
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GEORGIA FLAG IN ISRAEI^-This official flag of the State of
Georgia flew in the array of banners which graced the recent
75th Jubilee Convention of the Zionist Organization of America
in Tel Aviv. The flag was presented (above) by Georgia Gov
ernor Jimmy Carter to a delegation from the Atlanta Zionist
District. Heading the group was Edward Krick, District president.
With him were Jack Mazier, Morris Smith, Sol Benamy, Harold
Marcus, I.ouis Geffen, Joe Franco, Morris Smith. Bernard Ilal-
pern and Adolph Rosenberg (not shown).
closely in the McGovern cam
paign and particularly in the
party’s administrative machinery
which set up the platform.
After Ribicoff nominated Mc
Govern, two who seconded were
Mrs. Valerie Kushner of Vir
ginia, whose husb and is
missing in action in Vietnam,
and the Rev. Walter Fauntroy
the District of Columbia Rep
resentative in Congress who
was a leading sponsor of the
Congressional Black Cau c u s
statement strongly supporting
Israel after the National Black
Political Convention in Gary,
Ind. last March adopted a res
olution to dismember Israel.
Jewish officials prominent in
the party’s administrative mach
inery at the convention included
Harvard Prof. Richard Neustadt,
chairman of the 150-member
Platform Committee, who led
the defense of the platform
during the all-night discussion.
He wa3 the chief architect of
the platform. Also on the
podium during the long debate
was the Platform Committee’s
executive director, Philip F.
Zeidman, who was bom in Bir
mingham, and now practices
law in Washington. The general
counsel of the party’s legal
staff is David Ginsburg, a Wash
ington lawyer.
Judy
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taurant and talked to Mrs.
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