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AJWF Campaign
Nears *3 Million
The 1976 Atlanta Jewish Welfare Campaign neared the $3.million
mark this week as campaign leaders and workers geared up for ef
forts aimed at taking the drive to its f7 million goal.
“We stand now at the crossroads of our 1976 campaign,” said Bur
ton Epstein, general campaign chairman. “We have already traveled
the distance from campaign meetings to Pace Setters and at this
point we have raised more money than at the same time last year,
but a great amount of work remains to be done.
"When we give, when we make personal commitments, we strive
to sustain not only the agencies of Jewish life, but to insure involve
ment for our future,” he said. “Our goal is the unity of the Jewish
people for the sake of the Jewish people.”
Epstein called upon all workers to complete their cards by April
14, before Passover. He asked that all efforts be doubled in the next
two weeks to assure the success of the Campaign.
United Nations Developments
Scranton’s
Statement
by DAVID FRIEDMAN
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA) -
William Scranton, the new
United States Ambassador to
the United Nations, said March
23 that Jewish settlements in
Israeli-occupied territories were
an obstacle to negotiations for
peace in the Middle East.
Scranton’s statement, his first
major address to the UN, was
made during the second day of
the Security Council meeting on
the turmoil in the West Bank
and East Jerusalem. Although
he stressed that he was restating
long-term United States policy,
this was the first time the U. S.
had publicly stated at the UN
any 1 objections to Jewish settle
ment in the occupied territories.
Some observers saw this as a
shift in U. S. policy, if not in sub
stance then at least in tone.
It was recalled that when
Scranton presented his creden
tials last week to Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim he told
a press conference afterwards
that the U. S. wanted to work
well with the Arab countries. “I
think you will find I am very
open and ready to work with the
Arab countries, as I have always
been,” he said. The Israeli Mis
sion to the UN had no comment
on Scranton’s statement.
Quoting from the Geneva
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VOL. LII ONE SECTION, 24 PAGES Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, April 2, 1976 NO. 14
Arab Strikes, Demonstrations
Leave 5 Dead In Riotous Wake
U.S.
Vetoes
Resolution
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA) -
The United States vetoed March
25 a Security Council resolution
— approved by all other 14
Council members — which
deplored Israeli policies in
Jerusalem and in the ad
ministered areas.
The vote ended a four-day
urgent session of the Council
which was marked by the first
direct debate between Israel and
the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
The session had been asked by
Libya and Pakistan, the Coun
cil's Islamic-members. William
W. Scranton, the new U. S. am
bassador to the UN, described
the resolution as unbalanced.
It had been worked out by
Council third world members in
talks with Arab and other
Islamic countries and the Com
munist powers. Voting for it
were Benin, Guyana, Panama,
Pakistan, Libya, Tanzania, Bri
tain, China, France, Italy,
Japan, Rumania, the Soviet
Union and Sweden.
The resolution deplored
Israel’s “failure to put a stop to
actions and policies tending to
change the status” of Jerusalem
and called on Israel to refrain
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NAZARETH — Five rioting
Israeli Arabs were killed Tues
day in the wake of strikes and
demonstrations promoted by
Israel’s Rakah Communist par
ty.
Reports said 38 policeman
were injured and 31 Arabs
hospitalized. There were 285
demonstrators arrested by
police.
The agitation which preceeded
the rioting centered in Nazareth,
which is governed by a Rakah
Mayor. Nazareth youths had
earlier warned merchants to
close their stores on Tuesday or
suffer the consequences.
Earlier in the week, the
mayors and heads of local
councils of 35 Galilee towns
voted against supporting the
strike.
Strikes were called to protest
government expropriatibn of
rocky, unused land in Galilee
which it wants to use for Jewish
and Arab development projects.
The housing development pro
ject calls for buying land both
from Jews and Arabs.
Israeli Arabs were urged to
join the strike on radio broad-
casts from the PLO and
Damascus.
Though a relatively small
number of Arab workers joined
in the strike, fewer than 20 per
cent according to a radio report,
there were about a dozen Arab
villages involved.
Rioters fired guns at police in
Taibiya, burned police cars in
Tira, and attacked the Arab
mayor of another village when
he made an attempt to stop the
Woodward, Bernstein Report Nixon
Believed ‘Jewish Cabal’ Out To Get Him
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Former
President Nixon’s obsession that
there was a “Jewish cabal” out to
“get” him most distressed
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger who “was convinced
that the President was anti-
Semitic,” according to “The
Final Days,” the new book by
Bob Woodward and Carl Berns
tein excerpted in the current
issue of Newsweek magazine.
According to the authors, the
young Washington Post
reporters who cracked the
Watergate scandal, “As the son
of German Jews who had fled the
Nazis, he(Kissinger)was particu
larly sensitive to what he re
garded in Nixon as a dangerous
brand of anti-Jewish prejudice
born of ignorance.
He saw in the President an an
tagonistic, gut reaction which
stereotyped Jews and convinced
Nixon that they were his
enemies. The remark by Nixon
which most often unsettled
Kissinger was well-known to the
President’s close associates: The
Jewish cabal is out to get me,’ ”
Woodward and Bernstein wrote.
The authors stated that “Late
in 1971 Nixon had summoned
the White House personnel
chief, Fred Malek, to his office to
discuss a ‘Jewish cabal’ in the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The
‘cabal,’ Nixon said, was tilting
economic figures to make his
Administration look bad. How
many Jews were there in the
bureau? he wanted to know.
Malek reported back on the
number and told the President
that the bureau’s methods of
weighing statistics were normal
procedure that had been used for
years. Later, there was another
suspected ‘Jewish cabal’ in
another department.” .
Woodward and Bernstein
wrote that Nixon also expressed
obsessive hatred toward
“academics” and “goddam Ivy
Leaguers,” though he “did, in
fact, continue to approve ap
pointments of academics, even
Ivy Leaguers and Jews.” They
said that Federal Reserve Board
Chairman Arthur Burns,
"himself a Jew, was convinced
that Nixon was not truly anti-
Semitic.
There were, however, ugly
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demonstration.
Police Minister Shlomo Hillel
issued an order to his forces
after the deaths forbidding
further shooting unless lives
were threatened.
Elsewhere, unrest was evident
also, as two prominent West
Bank Arabs were expelled to
Lebanon for their role in helping
organize recent riots on the West
Bank.
An investigation has been
ordered into the hasfe with
which the deportation order was
carried out, 15 minutes before an
application against the deporta
tion was to be heard by the High
Court Justice.
Both deportees were can
didates in the April 12 West
Bank municipal elections. One,
Dr. Ahmed Hamzi Natshi, a
Hebron surgeon, was given a
reasonable chalice of besting the
incumbent Mayor Sheikh
Mohammed Ali El-Jabaari.
Jabaari has been accused by lef
tists and PLO sympathizers of
collaborating too readily with
the Israeli authorities. Jabaari
protested the expulsion of the
two men and said again he
would not run in the election.
In Jerusalem, Mayor Teddy
Kollek protested the arrest by
police of about 50 school girls
and three teachers in an Arab
high school in East Jerusalem.
The girls, according to police,
had burned tires and set up road
blocks.
Much unrest in the country
came after an Israeli court rul
ing that Jews could pray at
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount,
traditionally reserved for
Moslems. The decision was not
enforced by police and it was
later overturned by the Supreme
Court.
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THE UNITED Jewish Appeal has published ‘‘The Fifth Cup,”
a special text designed to complement the “Huggadah.” It refers
to the traditional Seder, during which four cups of wine are con
sumed, while a fifth cup is poured, but remains untouched: that
is the Cup of Elijah, and it is a symbol of hope.