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Atlanta, Ga., Friday, February 18, 1977
VOL. LI1I
NO. 7
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Carter for arift-bo
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Vance requests Senate defay
Bella Abzug to spark
AJWF pace setters
Bella S. Abzug, New York’s
controversial and eloquent former
congresswoman, will be the
keynote speaker for the Atlanta
Jewish Welfare Federation’s
Pace Setter* Dinner on March 5.
The event m«rfcs several firsts
for the Pace Setters Dinner, ac
cording to chairmen Ely
Freedman. Clyde Rod bell,
and Dr. William Sehattow.
-This is the first time we have
had a woman as t the mate
speaker for a Pahs Setters
Dinner, and this wiH' be a
couples event cm a Saturday
evening at the Peachtree Plasa
Hotel.
The kosher dinner will begin
with a cocktail reception at 7:30
p.m. and is open to all who con
tribute 81500 or more to the
men’s campaign.
Congresswoman Absug was
elected to Congress in 1970,
representing New York City’s
20th Congressional District.
Born in the Bronx, her first
political volunteer work was as a
member of a Zionist pioneer
youth group. She attended
public schools in the Bronx and
studied at Jewish Theological
Seminary and Hunter College in
New York City, from which she
received a B.A.
Ms. Absug was president of
the Heater student body and
from there went on to Columbia
editor of the Columbia Law
Review. After obtaining her law
degree in 1946, she immediately
became involved in labor law,
tenants’ cases, and early civil
rights cases.
Activity in political and social
movements for change has been
the Congresswoman’s lifelong
style.
For additional information
regarding the Pace Setters
Dinner call the Federation office
at 873-1661.
by JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON, (JTA)
President Carta- has strongly
endorsed federal legislation to
combat Arab boycott methods
that .discriminate against
American companies doing
business with Israel or those
owned by Jews or which hav<e
Jews in management positions.
Carter, who had stated in his
election campaign that he op
posed boycotts directed against
American citizens, elaborated on
his views during a touf of the
Department of Commerce. The
President stressed the need for
federal legislation in the in
terests of uniformity. He
poiqted out that while New York!
has a “strorof anti low*
New Jersey has "a weak one to
ittsfttnsrSrjs
bypass New York, come into
New Jersey and can dis
criminate against Jewish
citizens accordingly."
Carter made clear the distinc
tion between a primary boycott
and' secondary and tertiary
boycotts. According to the of
ficial White House transcript of
his remarks, he said that
“primary boycott is perfectly
acceptable in international af
fairs.” He noted that the U. S.
has a primary boycott against
Cuba and “it is perfectly alright
for the Arab countries to say we
are not going to trade with
Israel. But it does create a
problem that I hope to eliminate,
which is for the Arab countries
to say to us ‘you cannot trade
with Israel and altw^rade^with
He declared that "This, in my
opinion, violates the
No‘Jewish James Bond,'
says Simon Wiesenthal
Constitutional rights of Jewish
citizens. It also is completely ob
noxious to me in a society like
our own” built on principles of
non-discrimination in race,
religion or sex. The President
noted that “We now have several
bills that have been introduced
in the House and Senate” and
“we have a cohesive group of
businessmen and labor leaders,
many of whom happen to be
Jewish, who are wording on the
principles that ought to be in
cluded in an anti-boycott law.”
He was apparently referring
to the Business Roundtable, an
organisation composed of chief
executives of 170 major
rarest sn
chairman of the board of the
DuPont Ga. The organisation
B’rith for the purpose of ex
changing views on efforts to
reach a mutual accommodation
with respect to Arab boycott
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by VIDA QOLDQAR
Called by some the “Jewish
James Bond,” by others a
“Jewish Don Quixote,” the man
who has spent the past 30 years
relentlessly tracing Nazi
criminals, says he is neither.
Simon Wiesenthal says his
dedication is rather toward en
suring that future generations
learn the lesson of the Holocaust
by the most effective methods.
He termed himself “neither a
spy — nor a dreamer.”
Now, at 68, Wiesenthal,
famous as the “Nazi hunter,”
has embarked on a tour of
American college campuses to
warn young people that “what
has happened once can happen
again,” and that “nobody knows
but that the murderers of
may be born today...
ctims may not always
Sunday evening in Atlanta,
Wiesenthal issued his warning
to « mixed student and general
audience that packed the 1500-
seat Glenn Memorial
Auditorium at Emory Universi
ty.
Contributing, perhaps, to the
James Bond image, was the
heavy security surrounding
Wiesenthal. At least two doeen
security people guarded the
visitor here in the “hospitable”
South. Travelling only the few
s| House and
Emory’s Cox Hall where he din
ed with 150 patrons of the lec
ture, streets were blocked,
security cars formed a motor
cade and a helicopter hovered
just overhead. Constantly
vigilant men with walkie-talkies
were at every door. Later at
Glenn Memorial, two agents
moved almost to his side when
the speaker invited questioners
to join him on the podium.
Wiesenthal apparently is Ss
“hunted” as those he “hunts.”
Earlier in a private interview
— Turn To Page 20
At Secretary of State Cyrus R.
Vance’s request, Senate hearings
on legislation to combat the
Arab boycott have been re
scheduled to follow Vance's one-
week trip to the Middle East.
Spotlight on 5th District Race
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