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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
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VOL. L
I Section, 24 Pages
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, February 7, 1975
25c A Copy
NO 6
Kissinger: “No ” To PLO Mideast Oil Haunts White House
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger reiterated publicly Mon
day that he has “repeatedly” said
“there is no possibility of
negotiations (by the United States
with the Palestine Liberation
Organization) as long as the PLO
does not recognize the existence of
Israel.”
After addressing a National
Press Club audience for the first
time in his career, Kissinger said in
response to questions that if he did
not believe “that there were some
possibility of progress in further
negotiations, I would not, obvious
ly, go to the Middle East.”
He added, "of course, any step
that is taken should only be con
sidered as an interim step toward a
final peace and that all of the other
nations in the Middle East will
have to participate in a negotiation
for a final peace."
Kissinger made those responses
in relation to his forthcoming visit
to Israel and Arab countries in the
Mideast and after he was asked
whether it will be “possible to have
another military disengagement"
in the Sinai without “further
progress with Syria on the Golan
Heights."
Asked to explain how the U. S.
could ship war-planes to the Arab
countries in view of a possibility of
a renewal of the oil em
bargo, Kissinger referred to" his
remarks on criteria for sales of
arms at his news conference last
week which included whether U.S.
has an interest in the stability and
security of the countries concern-,
ed.
However, he said Monday that
in view of the various balance of
payments considerations those fac
tors also were “in our interest but
the controlling decision is not com
mercial." The controlling decision,
he said, “is a political one."
Kissinger’s formal speech to the
National Press Club was devoted
entirely to the energy problem and
contained no direct references to
the Arab-Israeli conflict. It ap
parently was intended to support
President Ford’s energy
program which is running into
strong opposition in Congress. The
Secretary warned that unless
“strong corrective steps" are taken
in American energy consumption,
"a future embargo (of oil) would
have a devastating impact on
American jobs and production.”
He warned that economic dis
tress “is fertile ground for conflict,
both domestic and international,"
adding that while the situation "is
not yet so grave" it “threatens to
become so.”
He forecast that the U. S. would
have proposals on February 5 to
the International Energy Agency
on Consortiums to offset the
dependence on imported oil. He
said higher prices for oil would be
forthcoming and that production
of synthetics "can never compete
with the production costs of Mid
dle Eastern oil.”
Parley On Domestic Woes
by ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Spector of Mideast oil haunted the White House Conference on
domestic and economic affairs which brought President Gerald Ford to
Atlanta Monday to explain the government’s program for several hun
dred Southern leaders.
for our policies .... We awoke in
1975 because of the embargo but
afterwards we were lulled back into
sleep.
In Zarb’s words, the ad
ministration's program — tax on
imports with the chips falling
where they may in increasing gas
prices and spin-off raises in allied
fields — is intended to impel the
American economy to make
decisions in the next ten years
about consumption and investment
matters and to develop new
resources, new wells, coal, solar
and atomic sources, leading to
supplying our own energy.
Emphasis on the energy crisis
permeated most of the
proceedings, particularly the Town
Hall type of dialogue at the con
ference, including the President's
brief speech a few minutes after
arrival in the Georgia capital, a
breakfast for regional media
representatives and a talk before
another convocation of leaders in
training persons for employment.
The finger was put on the energy
crisis by Frank G. Zarb, Federal
Energy Administrator, who dis
claimed the Arab oil embargo as
the beginning of the U.S. energy
crisis.
W e lost our energy independence
in I960, he declared. The Arab
boycott brought it suddenly in
focus. No use looking for the devil
now. We need to play the ball
where It is today.
That’s the size of the problem. If
we permit our dependence on
foreign oil to grow until we import
40 to 50 percent, we can no longer
retain our independence.
The inference went beyond
matters involving energy, as he
continued.
We will have to ask other nations
Director Yadlin Visits Atlanta
For Aliy ah Month Briefings
by VIDA GOLDGAR
“We feel every Jew should con
sider the option of being part of the
total Jewish experience gained by
living in Israel,’’ explained
Yehoshua Yadlin, director of the
Israel Aliyah Center in North
America.
Yadlin was in Atlanta recently as
a prelude to Israel Aliyah Month,
which will be observed from l*urim
to Passover.
Yadlin’s Center in New York
oversees 17 regional offices in the
United States and Canada, such as
the Aliyah Center in Atlanta.
He and Rami Dromi, regional
director in Atlanta, outlined the
cooperation they can offer to in
terested individuals and
organizations.
Special programs which will be
available to any organization, syn
agogue or even home meeting will
include speakers and resource peo
ple knowledgeable about housing,
education, employment and any
other questions regarding life in
the Jewish State.
Asked if there are particular
types of persons Israel is seeking
for Aliyah, Yadlin replied,
“Generally speaking, Israel is very
get elsewhere . . . who are yearning
to be part of the total Jewish ex
perience and share in the making
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The President departed from his
prepared speech to assert:
"Across America as well as on
Capitol Hill, there is a growing
national consensus on the crucial
nature of the energy problems and
on a willingness to accept
hardships to solve them. This, in
itself, is a giant step forward.
He noted allocations in his
fabulous budget set before
Congress only a few hours earlier
for research and development of
new resources of energy designing
to ultimately make America in
dependent.
The president added: “Equity,
the third point. Yes, it is true that
we will have higher energy costs,
but the truth is we will return in tax
rebates or tax reduction the money
that is collected because of higher
energy costs."
Ford noted the $52 billion
deficit would have horrified him as
a Congressman and horrifies him
as president.
Ford was accompanied to
Atlanta by a congressional delega
tion of five, including Senator Her
man Talmadge and Representative
Elliott Levitas.
James T. Lynn, Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development,
and Secretary of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare Caspar W.
Weinberger lead nine high ad
ministration leaders to Atlanta for
the conference.
Others included L. William
Seidman, assistant to the President
for economic affairs; Thomas S.
Kleppe, administrator. Small
Business Administration; Michael
Duval, associate director of the
Domestic Council; William J.
Baroody, assistant to the president
and director. Office of Public
Liaison; Stanley S. Scott, special
assistant for minority affairs; H.
R. Crawford, assistant HUD
secretary.
At times the dialogue achieved
heated dimensions as represen
tatives exchanged views about
urgent problems facing the "po
folks" and middle class Americans
caught amid the crossfire of infla
tion and unemployment.
The Conference was co
sponsored by the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce, Georgia CIO-AFL,
Atlanta Business League, Com
munity Relations Commission,
Labor Council,. Urban League,
Central Atlanta Progress, Georgia
Press Association, Junior League,
League of Women Voters,
N A A CP. Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
Among the Jewish leaders
spotted in the audience were Rabbi
Alvin Sugarman, Joel Goldberg
and Mrs. Ed Elson.
The Regency Hotel, where the
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Record For Atlanta
YADLIN
DROMI
interested and urgently needs a
broadening of its Jewish popula
tion base. One of the lessons of the
Yom Kippur War was that we
realize there are just not enough
Jewish people there to shoulder
and confront all the challenges
Israel is facing.
“We would like to develop a
viable economy and have a
creative Jewish culture. This is a
function of numbers. “But," he
added, “the purpose of our work
here is not as much to recruit
Jewish people who may be willing
to listen to the needs of Israel, but
first and foremost to serve those
individuals and families to whom
Israel is a meaningful concept and
who would like to get something
more from their life than they can
$8 Million Allocated To UJA
From Federation Funds
The United Jewish Appeal the Federation annual campaign: agencies received $74,600 Ten
received a record $8,101,812 B’nai B'rilh Youth Organization, national community relations
allocation from the nearly $10 Bureau of Jewish Education, agencies received a total of $81,-
million dollars raised through the Hebrew Academy, Hillel- 990. Thirteen national service and
1974 Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation, Jewish Children’s Ser- cultural agencies received $68,035,
Federation Campaign, it was an- v 'ce, Jewish Community Center, and fifteen religious agencies,
nounced this week by Sidney Feld- r' • ■ . • „ «_
man, AJWF president ( am P ai S" Inauguration P. 10
This comprises 82% Of the total Women’s AJWF Activities P.12
raised, the highest results in the Campaign Appeal P. 13
history of the annual drive. —
In addition, 61 additional local, Jewish Family and Children's $14,375.
national and overseas agencies Bureau, Jewish Home, Emory- The 1974 campaign expenses
were beneficiaries. Judaic Studies, University of were 1.6% of the total raised and
Funds totaling $667,963 were Georgia — Hillel Foundation and 'he year-round Federation
distributed among the following Yeshiva High School program expenses were 1.35% of
local agencies which benefit from An additional nine overseas > he campaign.