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VOL. LI
One Section, 12 Pages
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, August 15, 1975
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NO. 33
Bronfman Heir Still Held;
Report $ 4.5 Million Sought
NEW YORK — The
whereabouts of Samuel Bronfman
II were still unknown Thursday
as reports that a $4.5 million ran
som had been demanded for his
return.
The 21-year-old son of Edgar
Bronfman, Seagram liquor com
pany chairman, has been missing
since early Sunday morning.
Young Bronfman, oldest of five
children, was graduated from
Williams College in June.
Refusing to disclose the contents
of a letter received by the family, a
spokesman said the family was
assuming it was a bona fide com
munication. The spokesman would
not confirm the ransom figure.
Edgar Bronfman is North
American chairman of the World
Jewish Congress. He is active in
the Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies of New York,
president of the Samuel Bronfman
Foundation, and a trustee of the
National Urban League.
The kidnapping occurred in sub
urban Westchester County, New
York, where Samuel Bronfman
made his home with his mother,
Anne Margaret Loeb.
Young Bronfman was named
for his late grandfather, Samuel
Bronfman, founder and president
of Distillers-Seagram Ltd., Mon
treal.
Pinhas
Jewish
Sapir Dies at 68;
Agency Chairman
Pinhas Sapir, former finance
minister of Israel and presently
chairman of the Jewish Agency,
died Tuesday, Aug. 12, at the age
of 68.
Sapir was felled by an apparent
heart attack during a synagogue
ceremony at Moshav Nevtaim in
the Negev. He died at the Soraka
Medical Center in Beersheba.
Sapir had visited Atlanta at least
a dn/en times, most recently less
than six months ago. At that time
he was in the United States on
hehalf of the alivah program and
attended a special meeting at the
home of Ben Rabinowitz. On Sun-
Mid-East Mood Optimistic;
Kissinger May Try Again
(From JTA Reports!
Amid speculation that Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger would
return on or about August 20 to
resume his shuttle diplomacy
between Jerusalem and Egypt, op
timism was high fora second-stage
interim agreement in the tnid-East.
Kissinger met in Washington for
two hours on August 10 with
Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz
to receive Israel's reply to Egypt’s
latest proposals. American Am
bassador Hermann Eilts was to
meet the following day with Egyp
tian officials in Cairo.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin declared
there was “movement" toward
completion of an agreement but
that several "key issues" remained
unsolved.
Meanwhile, several Israeli
cabinet ministers cautioned
against the optimism reflected by
Israeli media, saying ‘the opti
mism was not borne out by the
facts as they now heard them.
These views were reported mainly
from the “hawkish" wing of the
Cabinet. The Cabinet unanimously
approved the Israeli responses
which had been forwarded earlier
through Washington.
One “hawk" said he felt the
"movement" by Egypt referred to
with enthusiasm by some Israeli
Nazis, Jews Close Booths
At Wisconsin State Fair
MILWAUKEE (JTA) — The
local Nazi Party and the Zionist
Organization of America have
both agreed to close their booths at
the Wisconsin State Fair after
visitors engaged in bitter
arguments with the Nazis last
Thursday, the first day of the fair.
Officials of the fair said dis
cussions with organizers of the
Nazi booth began after a
Milwaukee man jumped across the
table at the booth and allegedly
tried to strangle one of the Nazis.
Fair officials in a separate meeting
with the organizers of the Jewish
booth asked them to close their ex
hibit as well.
The ZOA, which had its booth
at the opposite end of the exhibit
hall, agreed to close its booth
Friday, the same day the Nazis
closed theirs, because its booth
had been set up primarily to
counter the Nazi exhibit.
The i ZOA booth, which was
operated jointly with Milwaukee
chapters of Concerned Jewish
Citizens, showed films and slides
of Nazi atrocities against Jews. A
number of Jews and Blacks hurled
insults and epithets at the Nazis as
they strolled past their booths.
Earlier in the week State At
torney General Bronson La
Toilette and Wisconsin Civil
Liberties Union Executive Direc
tor William Lynch ruled that clos
ing the Nazi booth would be an in
fringement of free speech. The rul
ing was made after local county
supervisors and state represen
tatives had urged the State Fair
Board to void the fair's contract
with the Nazis.
Fair officials subsequently
issued a statement saying the
Nazis had agreed to close their
booth “for the good of the State
Fair."
day morning, the world-renowned
figure attended a gathering at
llillel House on the Emory cam
pus.
In spite of the fact that he was
then suffering from Bell’s Palsy,
Sapir had insisted on keeping the
rigorous schedule which had been
set.
The former cabinet minister was
well acquainted with Atlanta's
Jewish leadership, having met with
various persons on their missions
to Israel and on his trips to New
York and to Atlanta.
Less than two months ago,
Atlantans Mike Gettinger and
Larry Frank attended the
deliberations of the Jewish Agency
Assembly as that body discussed
the total expenditures for the com
ing year. Sapir took the major role
in guiding the Agency's direction
during those Jerusalem discussions.
Gettinger reported that Sapir
constantly stressed the partnership
between Israel and world Jewry.
“He was a man who devoted all of
his energy in behalf of the Jewish
people," Frank added.
A key figure in the administra
tion of former Prime Minister
Golda Meir, Sapir turned down
appeals by the ruling Labor party
to succeed her when she resigned in
April, 1974.
A member of the “old guard"
Mapai, Sapir was considered a
dove, who advocated returning oc
cupied territory to the Arabs in ex
change for peace.
Sapir was born in Poland in
1909. He came to then Palestine 20
years later and became one of the
most powerful political leaders in
Israel
Surviving are his wife, three
children and several
grandchildren.
officials was more imaginary than
real. There had been a climbing-
down — but from positions which
had been deliberately formulated
to be excessive and near-
ridiculous. Wide gaps still remain
ed on crucial issues, this “hawk"
insisted. Listing some of these, he
noted:
Israel and Egypt are still far
apart on the question of an Israeli
presence at Umm Hashiba, the
main Sinai listening station; Egypt
still rejects Israel's proposal for a
substantial American force at
Umm Hashiba and other stations;
Egypt prefers a small American
contingent with severely limited
functions; Egypt insists on a small
force of its soldiers being stationed
inside the Mitle and Gidi Passes;
Egypt demands that its front line
be advanced several kilometers
east of the present buffer zone
(which Israel has rejected); and
Egypt still demands a wider cor
ridor along the Gulf of Suez coast
than Israel has offered.
Climaxing a four-day visit to
Israel, Mexico’s President Luis
Echeverria apparently confirmed a-
report that his goal in suddenly
dispatching his Foreign Minister,
Emilio Rabaso, to Cairo on
August 8, was to try to promote a
face-to-face meeting between
Israeli and Egyptian leaders.
Meanwhile, former Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan, speaking
at Kibbutz Givat Haim Friday
night, declared that Israel should
seek simultaneous agreements
with Egypt, Syria and the Soviet
Union or remain in her present
position.
Dayan said Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger's step-by-step
approach will not bring a solution
since it is only a withdrawal
followed by a temporary cooling-
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Sapir. on one of his many visits to Atlanta, chats with Israeli Consul
General Moshe Gilhoa.
Hillside View of Beautiful Haifa
ISRAEL’S third largest city helps solve its own problems. Story on
page ten.