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VOL. LJf One Section, 12 Pages Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, Jan. 31, 1975 NO. 5
WASHINGTON — Freshman Fourth District L.S. Congressman
Elliott l.edlas is sworn into the Ninety-Fourth Congress by House
Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma. Rep. letitas is a five-term veteran of
the Georgia General Assembly and Georgia's first Jewish Congressman.
Eban Will Address 1975
Pace Setters for AJWF
Atlanta's 1975 Jewish Welfare
Federation Campaign will be of
ficially launched Sunday, Feb. 16,
by former Israeli Foreign Minis
ter Abba S. Eban.
Eban will address a dinner
meeting for all Pace Setters at 6
p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, at the Stan
dard Club, according to Harvey
Jacobson, Pace Setters chairman.
“Eban, although no longer a
member of the Israeli Cabinet (but
still a member of Parliament)
remains his country's most ar
ticulate spokesman," said Jacob
son. "His oratory and familiar
voice have brought the elements of
logic and urbanity to the inter
national political scene." Eban is
currently serving as “distinguished
visiting professor of international
relations” at Columbia University.
The Pace Setters Dinner, an an
nual men's campaign event, is
open to contributors of $1500 and
over. The 1975 Federation cam-
— ptttgnwi 11 r-atse- funds -m -support -of
60 local, national and overseas
beneficiary agencies, the largest of
which is the United Jewish Appeal.
'Odessa File’
Is Not Fiction
PARIS (JTA) - The film,
"The Odessa File," based on the
novel of the same name which
depicts a world wide organization
of Nazi war criminals and former
SS officers, is not fiction but the
truth, according to Pierre Bloc,
president of the Committee
Against Racism and A n t i -
Semitism.
“We believe there are still about
1(X) war criminals who are free and
we want to lind them," Bloc said.
He cited as only one example,
Klaus Barbie, the "butcher of
Lyons" who is living in Bolivia
Bloc could not say whether the
Nazi network is as widespread as
the one described in "The Odessa
I ile."
"It is incontestable that a Nazi
organization exists and they have
money. We must not forget this
if we are to avoid it happening all
over again." Bloc said.
LONDON, (JTA) — Jews in
the Soviet Union contend that
Moscow’s repudiation of its 1972
trade pact with the United States
had nothing to do with the incor
poration of the Jackson Amend
ment linking trade and emigration
practices to the new U S. trade
law.
A letter stressing that point was
sent to Western sources over the
signatures of more than 100 Soviet
Jews from eight of the largest cities
in the USSR.
The letter stressed that there
was now “even greater uncertainty
regarding the fate of those Soviet
Jews who are striving to go to
Israel," but pledged to "continue
with even more determination to
fight for our right to emigrate."
The letter claimed that the
USSR withdrew from its trade
agreement with the U S. because
of the $300 million a year limit on
Export-Import Bank credits to the
Soviet Union imposed by the U S.
Congress.
The signatories claimed that the
limit was imposed “purely as a
result of the increased price of
crude oil and the attempt to con
trol its sale by the Arab states and
the role in maneuvering played
by the Soviet Union”
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
President Ford said Jan. 21 that he
would seek removal of “restric
tive" measures in the new trade
Taw and the Export-Import Trank's '
lending powers in discussing the
Soviet government's cancellation
of its 1972 trade agreement with
Foster Bubba Tickled Ivories for Flicks
MRS HATTIE RIVES, an
l ()\ Foster Grandparent, delights
children at the Georgia Retarda
tion ( enter with her piano playing.
Her in u s i e w a s o n e e I h e
background for silent unities and
taudetillc acts. See story on
Page II.
EDA Foster Grandparent Hattie
Rites tells anecdotes of her earlier
life when she played piano for the
silent films. Today, she brings jot
to the children of the Georgia
Retardation ( enter, protiding ex
tra care and attention to two
special children.
the United States.
He did not specify, at his news
conference, the measures he was
planning nor the reasons for the
Soviet rejection of the agreement.
The President also said that the
United States feels that the danger
of war in the Middle East is "very
serious” and that to avoid war the
United States was “maximizing”
its diplomatic efforts with Israel
and the various Arab states.
Ford also said, with regard to
the Middle East, that the U.S. is
supplying arms to various Mideast
states for their internal security as
well as to maintain an "equi
librium” in the area. The is
sues raised by Secretary of State
Henry A Kissinger's comment, in a
recent magazine interview, that
the United Slates did not rule out
use of force in the Middle East if
it was threatened by strangulation
by Arab oil policies, came up at
the news conference.
Ford said ‘‘we will go to
Congress" before any measure of
commitment of military force was
made in the Middle East. When he
was asked whether he or Kissinger
considered the United Nation's
charter prohibition of the use of
force against the territorial integri
ty of another state, in mentioning
miltary intervention in the Middle
East, the President replied he did
not know whether Kissinger had
considered that point.
He added that the question of
such intervention posed to
Kissinger was a hypothetical one
and that Kissinger had given the
proper answer. "If a country is be
ing strangled,” the President said,
“that country has the right to
protect itself against death ." When
he was asked whether another
Arab oil embargo would be
“strangulation,” the President said
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Former S.E. Israel Envoy
Shimon Yallon Dies at 64
Shimon Yallon, former Israeli
consul general in Atlanta, died
Sunday,. Jan. 29, in
Jerusalem. He came to Atlanta
in 1964 and remained for two
years, being succeeded by Zeev
TJortch. During ttrs Atlatira'ISnuTe”~
the Israeli consulate was upgraded
to a general consulate in recogni
tion of its expanding role in the
Southeast. Yallon and his wile lisa
were extremely well received in
Atlanta and throughout the
Southern states where they had
contact. His daughter Tivona,
named after the community of
Tivon, which Yallon had helped
found just outside Haifa, was mar
ried in the consul general's home
on Johnson Road
After a few years in an impor
tant post in Israel, he was assign
ed to Japan as economic consul,
serving until ill health forced his
retirement He would have been 65
years old in April.
Also surviving are a son Daniel
SHIMON YAI LON
and a second daughter Hannah.
The funeral was held Monday.
Mideast May See Kissinger Soon
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
visit by Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger to the Middle East is
“a very high likelihood" in
February, the State Department
said. It declined, however, to an
nounce any dates, saying that the
Secretary is discussing possible
dates in his close contacts w ith the
parties in the Middle East.
Department spokesman Robert
Anderson acknowledged that
Syria and Egypt were among the
countries with which Kissinger is
communicating. He also indicated
the Soviet government was includ
ed, but was not specific.
Israel had invited Kissinger to
make an official visit at his con
venience. Anderson said he had no
idea whether Kissinger and Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
would meet in the Middle east.
Gromyko is to visit Egypt next
month
Trade Pact “Nyet” Not Due to
Immigration Rider, Group Says