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’.♦**«flh* •• jp >• 3 if President Jimmy Carter pays homage to 300,000 Jews who died in Warsaw Ghetto uprising at Polish monument dedicated to their memory. The Southern Israelite The Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry w Our 54th Year o OJ CM in Atlanta, Ga., Friday, January 6, 1978 NO. I O P r » o <u s o a> -p Ft V| £> Tt <U H W o Same song sung at Aswan meeting by David Landau JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Premier Menachem Begin urged President Anwar Sadat of Egypt not to ask the United States to put pressure on Israel when he met with President Carter at Aswan Wednesday. “I never asked the U.S. to pressure Egypt,” Begin saidv NBG head: Saudi sale signals “no change’ by Vida Goldgar National Bank of Georgia President Robert Guyton, in an exclusive interview with The Southern Israelite, said Wednesday there would be no restrictions on the bank's dealings with any country, including Israel, as a result of its imminent purchase by Saudi Arabian entrepreneur Ghaith Pharaon. Guyton clarified an earlier statement by Pharaon that seemed to indicate the Arab boycott could become a factor in bank policy. The statement according to Guyton, refered to Pharaon’s Saudi interests—not NBG. Pharaon had said last week, “We are restricted now from doing business with Israel by the Palestinian and boycott jjrobUins but once these are lifted, f don’t see any reason why I shouldn't be dealing with Israel." "1 think it is very clear we are not affected," Guyton said. “Our policy will not change from what it has been previously." Guyton did not deny that Pharaon’s majority ownership could enable him to make a major policy change: “If somebody owns 60 percent whatever he wants could happen. “But,” Guyton added quickly, “It couldn’t happen without clearing out the present management.... We don’t have any restrictions on us and I would expect that policy could never be changed.” Questioned further on the issue of the Arab boycott, Guyton said, “We couldn’t live with that kind of situation. It might be different in Saudi Arabia, but he (Pharaon) is in our country now and has got to have his investments managed in the way this country operates.” The proposed purchase by Pharaon of 120,000 shares of Bert Lance’s stock in Atlanta’s fifth largest bank has aroused some concern in Atlanta’s Jewish community—a concern that both Guyton and Pharaon seem anxious to alleviate. Guyton has personally been in touch with a number of the bank’s Jewish customers to attempt to assure them there would be no change in the bank's policies and practices. in the course of remarks to newsmen after a five-hour Cabinet meeting Tuesday. “With all friendship and respect, we (he and Sadat) are representatives of ancient and free peoples and we should conduct our negotiations as free men, without the need for any external pressure upon anyone," the Premier said. The Cabinet met in closed session, sitting, as a ministerial defense committee, and no information was given as to its deliberations. After Wednesday’s brief meeting between Carter and Sadat at Aswan, the two leaders met with newsmen at the airport. Although Sadat said the two shared identical views and had decided on specific steps for peace, Carter did not endorse the independent P,jksfi^ian state called for by Sadat and other Arab leaders. Saying true peace “must be based on normal relations between all the parties,” Carter also said “There must be withdrawal by Israel from land occupied in 1967,” and there must be secure borders for all parties. Carter also said “there must be a resolution of the Palestinian problem" insuring the legitimate rights of the Palestinians, andThe Palestinians “must participate in the determination of their future.” He did not refer to the PLO. Sadat had earlier said in an interview he was ready to re evaluate his stance on security measures to satisfy Israel, but would not compromise on the return of all Arab territories taken in the 1967 war on the question of self-determination for the Palestinians. During Carter’s earlier visit with Saudi Arabia's King Khaled, a similar statement regarding Israeli withdrawal and Palestinian self- determination was made to the president by Khaled. Israeli officials had expressed some anxiety over the Carter- Sadat meeting. Observers here expect Washington will seek to persuade Arab moderates and Israel to accept Begin’s plan for self-rule for the West Bank and Gaza Strip Arabs as a transitional step only that might lead to a great measure of independence for the West Bank with iSose ties to Jordan. Carter is believed to have tested that approach at his meetings this week with the Shah of Iran and King Khalid of Saudi Arabia. Sadat, in recent public statements, has indicated that it was acceptable-to him. But there is little enthusiasm here, especially within Begin’s inn^r circle, for the transitional idea or the link-with-Jordan aspect. Sources close to Begin point out that the present Israeli proposals do not cede sovereignty on the West Bank to Jordan but leave that issue open. The fear expressed here is that a West Bank federation with Jordan would inevitably vest sovereignty with See Aswan, page 22 AJWF forms new division Jack Freedman and Harvey Jacobson have been appointed chairmen of the Summit Division of the 1978 Atlanta Jewish Welfare Federation Campaign. According to Gerald Cohen, general Campaign chairman, “The Campaign committee saw a need to form a separate division which encompassed all $10,000 and over contributors. 'We are proud of the growth in the number of contributors in this area over the past few years and realize tha great potential for expansion.” Cohen continued “We have selected two of our top community leaders to head up this important division and we are confident that under their leadership we will realize our full potential." Both Freedman and Jacobson were participants in the Prime Minister's mission which visited Israel in August. They are both members of the Federation board of directors and have served in numerous campaign position^ in the past. Freedman is a past president of Atlanta Men’s ORT-and now serves that organization as its national chairman of membership. He is also currently secretary of the Jewish Community Center, and is president of the Federation-Hillel board. , Jacobson was vice chairman of the AJWF campaign and is a board member of the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Home. He served as a board member and officer of the Temple. See AJWF, page 22 New AJWF Summit Division chairmen Jack Freedman and Harvey Jacobson.