The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, August 19, 1977, Image 1

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Atlanta, Qa, Friday, August 19, 1977 by Oil Sedan JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Premier Menachem Begin said Monday there wae no political significance to the Gabinet’s declaration to equalize sendees for inhabitants of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Begin denied that it was the .first step in the annexation of said it was a positive decision, “if the West Bank, adding quickly it really intended to improve ser- that he bad apid in the met these vices provided to Wept Bank and territories need not be annexed. ^ (The Likud policy is that no'legal ' w'/^ Strip are an integral part' of Erets Yiarael.) i Begin described the decision is purely humsnltaria&’and he AjCand ADI protest herefore did not expect, any legative American reaction. Williams makes did we da this decision.” I Whether or net tl the new poliey.are by Vida Qokfatr Rev. Hosea Williams has < Hacks and SCLC chief fundraiser Stan Jew, here in / Levison one of the “rich ciiqalof ;£he nation” itaha ' « ' ' {. new Tors jews (wno mtfsy vdiqi rrm letter a Uttar Dr. paftm Willems’ am Responding to the remarks by principle Dr. 1 ^e’myprincii toward that i$ reported in the Atlanta Com Mv turn of August IQ. Williams ia one of the leaders of the Southern Chriptian Leadership Conference (SCLC) who veieed criticism of the NBC- TV dow drams “King," com memorating the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. According to the Constitution VTUIUUUVi MIC AUlBTKl^.dBW Committee’s co-chslrm Committee’s co-ch airmen, underpinnings of the William Epstein and Ted Fisher, Violence iaftrta a. mqpnmedd their dubleaanre in a physical...’ 7 letter to Rev. Joseph Lowery, ADL’s Southeastern SCLCs president.' They urged pan, Harris Jacobi Ibo condemned the ^decision, from the oppositlo lescribing it ha s rejection of Alignment’ KnessM ’alestin ian rights and a move Sand demanded that of Martin Luther King Jr., and Lowery in similar vain. Tern the historically 'warm See HOSEA, Page 22 cautieua ip bin reaction. He wants act VOL. LIU rH O O o a> JZ 3 O r t O “ •H > F, < -*-> ►3 <d r s 5 0 3 a> -p -h 3 V* D J3 ri C 0) r-H -H woo by Joaaph Polakott WASHINGTON (JTA) - The U.S. Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS), under heavy Congressional pressure to speed the investiga tion and deportation action against more than 100 alleged Nasi war criminals living in the United States, has said it Ja on firmer ground now to expedite proceedings against thsm. The promise to do so came at a House subcommittee hearing that followed an invortigation started last April by the General Accounting Office (GAO), oa whether officials of the Justice Department, the parent agency of the INS, or other UB. officials deliberately blocked action against the alleged Nasi crim inals. The GAO is an arm of ^Under questioning by Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D., Pa.), who described the INS role over the past 25 yean as "disgraceful.” the new IN8 commissioner, Leonel J. Castillo, told the sub- committee that the film .on the, Nazis will be opened both to the GAO and the subcommittee’s own personnel. Castillo testified that new procedures had been set up that prill bring “all existing files and materials connected with the NsM war criminal program” from New York and ether dis trict Afficeato Uw central office in Washington. “From now on," he said, “the review of thane files yrill he accomplished by at* r.tt.r th.n in- mtmwra. ? In addition, the subcommittee received a statement submitted by the State Department’s Deputy Administrator for Security and Consular Affairs, John H. DeWitt, that “sound standard procedures and effec tive working relations have now been developed" to obtain testimony. Ds Witt said that the "Soviet government has made a serious effort to be cooperative and help- fill” although “the Soviets do not have a full appreciation of our <vi<ih BneiNAfilli Pegs.22 »«,»,,,. by * Nasi w|yp