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The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Our 54th Year
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, April 7, 1978
NO 14
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From ‘Annie Hall' to Atlanta
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Tony Roberts, in Atlanta for Alliance Theatre's production
of "The Taming of the Shrew,” talks about his acting career
which includes his movies and friendship with Woody Allen.
(See story, page 8.)
AJWF sponsors
Peres appearance
Dealing with the subject matter
the American Jewish community
has uppermost in its mind, Shimon
Peres, leaderof Israel'sOpposition
Party, will address the Atlanta
Jewish Community at 7:J0 p m.,
Sunday. April 9. at the Ahavath
Achim Synagogue
The special community event,
sponsored bv the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare F e cfe ration, will
in;- tatc Atlanta’s celebration of
Israel’s J')th Anniversary as we
paytrib tc to the campaign leail
and woi <ers.
Peres is expected to present a
briefin." to the community on the
current Mid-East situation His
commei s will include prospects
for peace, the West Bank,,recent
Begin-Carter discussions,
concessions and settlements.
As Israel's Minister of Defense,
Peres stated. “I see the Jewish
people struggling against the
current ..against all the currents.”
This remains his vision today, as
leader of the opposition. One of
the youngest of Israel's new
genera m of major political
leaders the highly articulate.
Harvard-trained Peres moved
bold' against the prevailing
current in his own country at a
critical point in his career.
Shimon Peres
As Minister of the administrated
areas after the Six Day War, he
dealt with complex rehabilitation
problems of Arab refugees.
His Defense Ministry post,
1974-1977. climaxed a military and
political career which placed
Shimon Peres at the center of
Israel’s defense establishment in
which he had been involved most
of his adult life. In 1977 he became
acting Prime Minister following
the resignation of Yitzchak Rabin
A reception will follow the
program
Atherton talks tough
State Department has
conference in Atlanta
by Jack Geldhart
In an apparent attempt to defuse
charges that U S. policies in the
Mideast are not always clearly
defined, the State Department
held a conference on “The U.S.
National Interests in the Middle
East” in Atlanta Wednesday.
The conference, attended by
over 400 interested observers, is
the first of three to be held this year
(the others will meet in Detroit and
Los Angeles).
The conference was not billed as
a problem-solving session but was
instead a sort of “town-hall”
meeting in which individual
workshops attacked such knotty
problem^ as “Israel’s Position in
the Middle East.” "Inter-Arab
Politics,” ‘'Business Climate in the
Middle East and U.S. Anti-
Boycott Legislation" “The Politics
of Energy,” and "U.S. Arms Sales
Policy in the Middle East.”
Each workshop was led by a
government representative and
moderated by local “experts.”
Lively give-and-take punctuated
most sessions but the "big gun" of
the conference was Alfred L. according to Atherton is threefold:
Atherton Jr., recently designated "the nature of peace; withdrawal
by President Carter as from occupied territories in
Ambassador-at-Large in the conjunction with security
Middle East. Athert,On ha^
achieved a measure of fame as the
American diplomat who flies back
and forth between Israel and Egypt
carrying messages and strategies
designed to keep peace
negotiations going.
Atherton delivered a major
address which was a comprehen
sive analysis obviously designed to
send signals to parties in the
Mideast negotiation, particularly
Israel. V
Atherton carefully outlined the
historical background of the peace
negotiations, pessimistically
concluding that “the effort to
transform those moments of vision
into a dynamic process of
reconciliation through negotia
tions has come face to face with the
reality that the underlying issues
which have blocked progress for so
long are still there—that hard
decisions involving fundamental
premises and policies arc
ultimately unavoidable."
The “core of the dispute"
arrangements that will make
'recognized boundaries -also secure
boundaries; and resolution of the
Palestinian problem."
Atherton made clear the State
Department's position that Israel
must now respond to Sadat’s visit
to Jerusalem. "We believe the
point has (jome,” he said, “w here
painful compromises haveto be
made if the promise of peace is
not to be lost.”
He also implied that the”painful
compromises” are mostly Israel's
to make as the next step in the
peace process, particularly a
reevaluation of Israel’s
interpretation of UN Resolution
242 concerning withdrawal from
the West Bank and Gaza
“To be concrete,” he said, “we
have a basic difference with the
Israeli government over the
applicability of the withdrawal
principle in Resolution 242. .. All
the governments' concerned,
including the government of Israel.
See Conference, Page JO.
Are Nazis a growing problem?
Frank ( ollin, national director of the National Socialist (Nazi) Part) of America, is shown as he
angril) points and shouts back at anti-Nazis who jeered the group's recent parade in St. Louis. A 90-day
court order is now in effect, restraining the group from staging their long-planned April 20 parade in the
predominantly Jewish community of Skokie. III. (See page 4 for column on the rise of neo-Nazism.)
