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AMSTERDAM, (JTA) M *‘A
spokesman for the Dutch
Foreign Ministry, reacting to
reports that followed the open
ing of a Palestine Liberation
Organization office In Brussels,
the PLO would shortly also open
an office in The Netherlands,
said that no such request had
been made by the PLO. The
standpoint of the Dutch govern
ment >00 this issue remains un
changed, he said. Netherlands
Foreign Minister Max Van Der
Stool some time ago, raplyinr to
a parliamentary question, stated
that the Dutch government will
not allow the PLO in The
Netherlands as long ai. the
organisation does not recognize
the right of Israel to exist.
i.WALTHAM, Mass. - -
Novelist Saul Bellow, winner of
the 1976 Nobel .Prize for
Literature, has accepted s poet
to teach next fall at Brandeis
University.
Brandeis officials also said
Prof. Alexandra Bellow will be
the Jacob Ziskind Visiting
Professor of Mathematics for
the same period as her husband.
A native of Rumania she has
been a math professor at
Northwestern U, since 1967.
JERUSALEM (JTA) •
1506 high school students in 18
schools in the Matte Yehuda
region near Jerusalem will begin
this week an educational project
on “Jews in the United States.”
The project, sponsored by the
International Cultural Center
for Youth in Jerusalem, in con
junction with the Ministry of
Education and Culture and the
regional council, is the first of its
kind in Israel. Its purpose is to
impart to students a better
knowledge of American Jews,
their history and their cultural
background,
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) -
Despite the mass severing of
diplomatic relations with Israel
by Black African states after the
Yom Kippur War, Israel main
tains diplomatic representation
in Africa.
This emerged qver the
weekend in a wire service dis
patch quoting Ariel Aran, Israeli
Consul General in Montreal, aa
saying he would soon take up a
post in Abidjan, Ivory Coast aa
Israeli interest officer at the
Belgian Embassy there.
It was learned here that such
Israeli officers serve in a large
nntnber of African countries.
Although the arrangement is not
widely publicised, it is a matter
of routine.
VOL. LII. One Section, 20 Pages Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, December 3, 1976 NO. 48
Thaw Possible In Relations
Between Israel, African States
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
thawing in relations between
Israel and the African states
appeared Monday to be one of
the outcomes of Premier Yitzhak
Rabin’s attendance at the 18th
conference of the Socialist Inter
national in Geneva last week.
Rabin, who returned to Israel
early Mooday morning made
special mention of his talks in
Geneva with President Leopold
Senghor of Senegal.
He stressed that it was the
first official meeting between an
Israeli Premier and a Black
African head of state since the
Yom Kippur War when moat
African governments severed
diplomatic ties with Israel.
Rabin did not disclose details of
the meeting. He said they had
exchanged opinions and es
timations but did not deal “with
concrete matters.”
; Other sources in the Israeli
U.S. Won't Commit To
Soviet Jews Threatened Suggested Peace Plan
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Soviet
authorities are threatening to
start criminal proceedings
against Vladimir Lasaris and
Emma Sotnikova, editors of an
“unofficial” periodic*!, “Jews hi
the USSR,” the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry
reported.
The NCSJ cited an appeal
from Prof. Alexander Voronel,
Dr. Rafal Nudelman and writer
Ilya Rubin, Soviet Jewish ac
tivists now living in Israel, who
said that the “only guilt” of the
two was their hope, to “realize
the right to develop a national
culture of the Jewish people, a
right formally guaranteed by
the Sovipt Constitution.” The
NCSJ said there was “great ap
prehension” among Moscow’s
Jews about the threat of
proeecution of the two editors.
In related development!, the
Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry reported that Rimma
Yakir, wHe of Moscow activist
Yevgeny Yakir, has been
threatened with a trial for
parasitism. The SSSJ also.
reported that Boris Fiahkin, 48,
a Moscow economist, has receiv
ed permission to emigrate after
staging -a three-day hunger
■trike with Lev BUtshtein.
Owe. 8 Honor—
MRS. REV A EPSTEIN, who
will be honored at Sdtochtor
School benefit. Story m page
17.
WAHINGTON (JTA) - The
United States continued this
week to avoid becoming publicly
committed to any suggested for
mula for approaches towards
peace in the Middle East,or to
become involved openly in
resolving the situation in
Southern Lebanon which con
tains threats to Israel’s security.
The U.S. “Remains committed
to maintain the peace process” in
the Middle East, State Depart
ment spokesman Frederick
Brown said Monday after noting
that over the past several weeks
“a number of participants” have
expressed comments on the
“need for new moves" in the
area. ...
Saying it is “probably
premature to comment” on
proposals, Brown noted that
“we agree such moves are
desirable” and “we are staying in
very close 6ontact with the
K vernments involved.”
wever, he indicated the U.S.
is avoiding comments on the
statements by Egyptian Presi
dent Anwar Sadat or Israeli
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and others.
Brown’s remarks came when
he was aakad for the ULS. view
on Rabin’s weekend statement
at the Socialist International'
Conference in Geneva
suggesting a conference on Mid
dle East problems on the model
of the Helsinki conference of
1975.
Brown said that the U.S. is
“not making any proposals” for
resolving the situation in
southern Lebanon regarding
Israel’s warnings that it will not
tolerate Palestinian terrorists or
Syrian military in that area
from which the Palestinians
staged raids on Israeli
settlements. Brown said the U.S.
is not “conveying” any proposals
or assurances but is only making
sure the viewpoints of the par
ties involved are clearly un
derstood. He also said that the
U.S. is supporting Lebanese
President Elias Sarkis’ es
tablishment of authority
throughout Lebanon.
delegation returning from
Geneva said that Senghor told
Rabin the African states had not
cut off all relations with Israel
but merely suspended them
“temporarily.” According to
these sources, further “contacts”
can be expected between Israel
and the African countries.
Meanwhile, it was learned
that former chancellor Willy
Brandt of West Germany, the
newly elected president of the
Socialist International, and
Premier Mario Soane of Por
tugal have accepted Rabin’s in
vitation to come to Israel in
February for the Lkbor Party
conference. Other European
leaders expected to attend as
guests of tiie party, include West
German Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt and Chancellor Bruno
Kreisky of Austria.
West Comnt’t
First Charter
U.S. To Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) - The
first charter flight from the
U.S. West Coast landed at Ben
Gurion Airport November 22
with 250 American passengers,
including Mayor Tom Bradley of
Los Angeles and his wife.
The passengers were greeted
by Minister of Tourism Moshe
Kol as they disembarked from
the World Airways jet. Hostess
es distributed Israeli hats.
Bradley said he hoped the
success of the first charter flight
would help strengthen Israel’s
economy by encouraging more
tourism.
$ BEHIND THE HEADLINES >
War By Other Means— Arab Propaganda Has New Twist
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by MURRAY ZUCKOFF
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has embarked on a
“new” policy or by some Israeli politicians searching for
platforms aa they prepare to run in next November’s
general election.
The media seems to be deliberately reporting only one
element of the Arab peace offensive while eitha* ignor
ing or minimizing the bellicose statements. The media
has also been one-sidedly depicting the Palestine Libera
tion Organisation as a revamped peace-oriented group.
The media, for example, failed for the moot part to
report that even as Sadat was cooingly telling a group of
Congressmen that he is ready for peace with Israel, he
also announced that he would ask the U.S. for additional
military hardware just in case Israel decided to get huf-
NEW YORK (JTA) — For the first time since the birth
of Israel in 1948, the Arabs are conducting a propaganda
campaign in the West that appears to be highly
successful. Their so-calied peaee offensive makes them
seem reasonable, enlightened and, above all, deeply
devoted and dedicated to peace with Israel. They seem to
have taken a propaganda monel from thefavorite recipe
of television’s famous purr-sonality, Morris the cat, and
stopped pulling their finicky act.
Israel, by contrast, is made to appear intransigent and
recalcitrant, resisting at every turn to avoid what the
SJnt .SS forpeacTIi not beiM helped by one- tj>e PLO’s “new image" at the United N.ttons, it for tbe hope> .
SSto SiT^orS, bTlIScSiSSraSja^t. in
theMiddL Eastwho report upon returning heme that PLO official was saying m Paris that hie organization
intends to step up activities inside Israel in a “war of
liberation.”
Nor has the media and some of the returning
Congressmen consistently related the Arab peace offen
sive with their intransigent organised hostile anti-Israel
positions at the UN, UNESCO and other world forums in
which they participate and where they are certain of
winning their points by the existence of an automatic
majority voting in their favor regardless of the issue.
The Role Of Economics
But there is, in fact, more to the peaee offensive than
the media’s juggling of news, the Congressmen's ap
parent seduction by the siren calls of the Arab propagan
dists and the belated criticism by Israeli politicians of
Israel’s caution but who were themselves leaders of the
pack before announcing their electoral
fact is that the Arab confrontation states, es-
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