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Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, May 9, 1975
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NO. 19
Hussein’s Olive Branch
Could Have Hidden Thoms
Ford Talks with Sadat, Rabin
Seen as Hope for New Accord
Israelis Viewed with a certain
amount ol skepticism Jordanian
King Hussein's protestations of
peaceful intent this week.
Hussein, both on nationwide
television and in what was called
by his aides a “major foreign
policy statement," claimed to be
speaking for Egypt and Syria as
weli as his own country in offering
Israel peace in return for Arab
land seized during the 1967 war
and "a recognition of the rights of
Palestinians in their homeland”
South Carolina’s military
college, the Citadel, was the scene
of Hussein’s remarks as he spoke
of heightened responsibility for
Arab countries as a result of their
recent economic emergence.
Although Hussein yrelerred to
“realistic and constructive new at
titudes (in the Arab leadership),”
Israeli sources noted that
Hussein's country and other Arab
nations remain bound by the
agreements reached at Rabat to
the terroristic Palestine Liberation
Organization of Yassir Arafat.
HI AS will Aid Cambodian Resettlement
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jewish
communities throughout the
United States will participate in
the resettlement of 123 of the 1000
Cambodian refugees arriving in
this country within the next several
days, according to Gaynor I.
Jacobson, executive vice-president
of United HIAS Service.
To date, a number of Jewish
communities, including New York
City; Chicago; Philadelphia; Los
Angeles; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Atlan
ta; new Haven, Conn.; and Des
Moines, Iowa have agreed to par
ticipate in this humanitarian
program. Others are expected to
join shortly, Jacobson said.
HIAS, along with Catholic,
Protestant and nonsectarian
voluntary agencies, is taking part
in the resettlement of Cambodians
at the request of the U. S. State
Department.
As the worldwide Jewish migra
tion agency, HIAS will seek the
cooperation of local Jewish com
munities in accepting families for
resettlement. Participation in the
resettlement of non-Jewish
refugees is not new to HIAS. In
1972, the agency resettled several
hundred Moslem and Hindu Asian
Ugandans, expelled from Uganda
by President Idi Amin. The Cam
bodian refugees are mainly
Buddhists and Catholics.
"Dick” Rich Dies, 73; Headed
SE’s Largest Department Store
Richard H. Rich, guiding light
of the department store bearing his
family name, for the past twenty-
five years, died Thursday, May I
in a Houston. Tex., hospital He
was 73 years of age.
Private funeral services were
conducted in Westview Cemetery
by Rabbi Alvin Sugarman.
Mr. Rich had been a member at
the Temple, which Atlanta
pioneers of his family had helped
establish more than a hundred
years ago.
x Though not an active partici-
Four Hurt As
Tornado Hits
Omaha Temple
OMAHA — The rabbi of Tem
ple Israel in Omaha and 20
youngsters in a class he was con
ducting escaped serious injury
when Tuesday’s tornado hit the
building.
Rabbi Sidney Brooks said about
four children received cuts and the
building was heavily damaged
when the tornado knocked out all
windows, damaged the ceiling and
burst the water mains.
pant in the congregation, he was a
supporter on a broad level of many
Jewish movements along with his
fantastic leadership contributions
to civic and cultural institutions of
the city.
At one time he had been in
volved in the top leadership of the
newly formed Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund of the late I930's
and in 1940 served as a general
campaign co-chairman.
He continued as a contributor,
along with a foundation represen
ting the store itself.
Ten years, or so, ago, he in
itiated an annual breakfast at
Rich’s for executives in support of
the Jewish Welfare Fund cam
paign. He continued to spearhead
this activity until ill health forced
his virtual retirement from the top
store management.
Rich had also participated in
large gifts to the construction of
the Jewish Community Center in
the 1950’s, and later to the expan
sion of the facilities. He had also
personally made a sizeable con
tribution to development of Camp
Barney Medintz.
It was “Dick" Rich’s grand
father Morris who founded Rich's
in 1867 He at the time borrowed
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Of
ficials here said Monday that they
were not concerned by the fact that
President Ford’s meeting with
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
next month will precede his
meeting with Premier Yitzhak
Rabin or that Rabin has been in
vited to come to Washington while
Ford will meet the Egyptian leader
in Salzburg, Austria — neutral
ground. They recalled that most
past meetings between American
Presidents and Israeli Prime
Ministers have been held in
Washington.
The Rabin-Ford meeting
scheduled for June 11-12 was con
firmed by simultaneous an
nouncements in Jerusalem and
Washington. The White House an
nouncement said that Ford had in
vited Rabin “for discussions of
matters of mutual interest and in
order to strengthen the friendly
ties between the two countries.”
The official announcement of the
Ford-Sadat meeting in Salzburg
June 1-2 was made by the White
House last Friday.
Officials here said, however,
that Israel had been informed in
advance of that announcement
that President Ford intended to
meet with Sadat and Rabin. The
officials would give no details of
Premier Rabin’s schedule during
his two-day visit to Washington or
whether he would meet with Presi
dent Ford more than once. They
•said they firmly believed that the
U.S. would adopt no final
positions before Ford’s meeting
with Rabin.
The officials said the Cabinet
woujd schedule its "political
debate" as close as possible to
Rabin’s departure date for
Washington. That indicated that
the debate would be held after the
Ford-Sadat meeting in Salzburg.
Ford's meetings with the heads
of the governments of the two prin
cipal antagonists in the Middle
East conflict are viewed by
observers here and in the U.S. as
an indication that the United
States was renewing its diplomatic
efforts to obtain some sort of
second-stage accord between
Israel and Egypt before the
Mideast peace conference is
reconvened in Geneva.
Those efforts broke down when
the bilateral talks conducted by
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger were suspended last
March 22, prompting President
Ford to order a reassessment of
U.S. Middle East policy. It was
regarded as significant that the
President, not the Secretary of
State, will spearhead the new in
itiative.
Ford will fly to Europe later this
month to participate in a meeting
of NATO government chiefs to be
held in Brussels May 29-30. He
will also meet with Austrian
Chancellor Bruno Kreisky in Salz
burg. The President will be accom
panied on his trip by Mrs. Ford.
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — An El Al
plane that landed before dawn
May 2 at Ben Gurion Airport
brought with it the coffin of one of
the victims of the Johannesburg
Consulate tragedy — security of
ficer Giora Raviv.
Because he was killed in the line
of duty he was given military
honors. Mr Raviv, 26, was one of
four people killed when David
Protter seized the Israeli Con-'
sulate General last Monday. Dur
ing that time, the gunman also
wounded 32 pedestrians.
Shortly before the coffin was
brought down, Mr. Raviv’s wife,
who is pregnant, and his daughter,
arrived at the airport accompanied
by Gen. Rehavam Zeevi and Gad
Dror, an El Al representative who
Ford’s meeting with Sadat and
Rabin confirm what observers here
and abroad have been pointing out
for some time — that neither the
United States, Egypt nor Israel are
particularly enthusiastic about
resuming the Geneva conference
without some prior agreement
between the disputing parties. The
U.S. on the diplomatic defensive in
many parts of the world since its
Vietnam debacle, is apparently
hopeful of a diplomatic success in
the Middle East before it sits down
at Geneva where the Soviet Union
enjoys equal status as a co-
chairman of the peace conference.
Meanwhile, well placed sources
here said that they had no
knowledge of reports from
Washington that June 24 has been
fixed as the date for a brief session
of the Geneva conference. The
sources said that this issue would
“no doubt” be discussed by
Secretary Kissinger and Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
who are due to meet shortly to dis
cuss the Geneva conference.
happened to arrive at the Con
sulate during the siege and was
taken hostage. It was reported that
Dror engaged Protter in lengthy
conversations and reportedly per
suaded the gunman to release the
children who were being held
hostage and later to release the
other hostages.
Funeral services for Mr. Raviv
were held at Mount Herzl
Cemetery where he was buried. It
was reliably learned that Mr
Raviv was killed by a karate chop
by Protter, a karate instructor.
Afterwards Protter riddled Mr
Raviv’s body with bullets from his
machinegun. Meanwhile, Protter,
who was arrested and may face a
charge of murder, twice tried to
commit suicide in his prison cell.
Johannesburg Victim Buried
| Zionist Region Receiving Boost,
| ZOA President Tells Parley
What could well prove a shot in
the arm for “Zionism" in the
Southeast got a renewal emphasis
in Atlanta April 26-27 at the
largest and most enthusiastic an
nual convention of the Southern
Region of the Zionist Organiza
tion of America in recent years.
The renewal was given impetus
by a spirited speech by Rabbi
Joseph P. Sternstein, ZOA presi
dent. of Roslyn Heights, Long
Island. N Y.
There is no erosion in US-lsrael
relations, he asserted, nor in
American public opinion.
Zionists must stand fast, he said
There must be no more “shuttle
diplomacy”, Washington un
derstands this. The American peo
ple understand this. The world
must know, he asserted, that they
cannot with impunity thrust Israel
into oblivion like a babe in a lion's
deg
As long as Israel is armed and
alerl, there will he no war, he con
tinued
Support of Zionism is the
reason it is imperative to enroll
every loyal Jew in our ranks.
Zionism is the very essence of
the Jewish people today, he added
How else explain the motives why
young Russians today want to
leave and settle in Israel.
‘‘Zionists have to speak
militantly today," Dr. Sternstein
asserted.
More to the point of ZOA
renewal, he pointed to the
appearance in ZOA ranks of
young leadership taking over the
thrust of “this organization."
“We have just chartered a new
region in Anchorage,” he reported,
"and a new district is in the offing
in Puerto Rico."
If and when, this will come un
der the aegis of the Southeast
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