The Southern Israelite
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Our 54th Year
VOL. LIV Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, July 21, 1978 NO. 2<??
Good vibe:
from Leeds*
by Jack Redaction
and wire service reports
Good vibes from the meeting at
Leeds Castle in England.
After only two days of talks
between Egypt and Israel,
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
was encouraged Wednesday to
report that ???Egypt and Israel
remain fully committed to
establishing a genuine peace.??????
Vance also indicated that he
???anticipates and expects??? another
round of talks in August. Several
sources speculated that the next
meeting will be held at the summer
home of Anwar Sadat in
Alexandria.
The Middle East peace talks got
off to a difficult start in England on
Tuesday, as Israeli Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan, Egyptian
Foreign Minister Mohammed
Kaamel and U.S. Secretary of
State Cyras Vane* opened two
ditys of tatics at a medieval cattle
35 miles south of London, aimed at
renewing the full scale negotiations
between Israel and Egypt that were
suspended last January.
The peace proposals of Israel
and Egypt are on the table, neither
acceptable to the other. After a 3'A
hour morning session, the
spokesman for the Egyptian party,
Hamdi Nada, seemed gloomiest.
He told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that Israel???s proposal of
limited autonomy for the West
Bank and Gaza Strip was
unacceptable because it
represented a denial of the right of
the Palestinian people to self-
determination and would
perpetuate Israel???s military
occupation of the territories in
violation of Security Council
Resolution 242. ???Our own
proposals are on the table and we
are waiting for Israel???s response,???
the Egyptian said.
But, he added, there was nothing
positive about Dayan???s attitude
toward the Egyptian suggestion
that the West Bank and Gaza Strip
be turned over to Jordanian and
Egyptian control respectively
while negotiations proceed on
security arrangements and
guarantees and on the future status
of both territories.
Naftalie La vie, spokesman for
the Israeli delegation, seemed
more conciliatory, though he
hardly exuded optimism. He said
the Egyptians had presented their
position in a ???sincere and
intelligent manner.???
Justice, Soviet style
Protests concerning the Shcharansky case continued to mount throughout the country. In
Washington, Shcharansky's wife, Avital, strongly opposed ???private diplomacy??? as the means to
seek alleviation of the plight of Soviet dissidents and Soviet Jewry and supported President
Carter???s intercession on her imprisoned husband's behalf.
Mrs. Shcharansky witnessed testimony from Jeremy J. Stone, a Princeton University
professor who is director of the Federation of American Scientists, before the House Science
and Technology Committee. Stone said the U.S. government should attempt to secure the
release of some leading Soviet dissidents like Uri Orlov, Alexander Ginzburg and Anatoly
Shcharansky ???through private diplomacy."
Stone advocated ???limits of responsible activism??? in the human rights area and said it is ???not
good??? for the U.S. to help ???individuals.??? He said he hoped Carter would not ???again associate
himself with an individual case.???
Responding to Stone???s claim that ???threats" will not stop the Russians ???being Russian" or
???permit all Jews who wish to leave to do so,??? Mrs. Shcharansky looked directly at Stone across
the witness table and told him his words reminded her of what was said 40 years ago during the
Nazi period. People said then, she declared, speaking in Russian, that ???Nazis will be Nazis??? and
individuals in Germany who protested disappeared. She said similar discussions were held then
and that ???President Roosevelt said, leave me alone about these personal cases. I am fighting
fascism in general.???
SPIRIT OF MOSCOW""???
Rabbi Simcha Freedman of Temple Adath Yeshurun in North Miami Beach is symbolically
imprisoned to protest the trial and imprisonment of Soviet dissident Anatoly Shacharanksy.
Mrs. Shcharansky is angry
NEW YORK???Seventy Soviet activists have signed a bitter
protest at the conditions suffered by scientist Grigory Goldshtein
who is en route to a hard labor camp in Archangel where he will
serve a year convicted on charges of parasitism.
His brother Isai and their mother Malka saw Grigory at a transit
prison in Riazan about 125 miles south east of Moscow some 60
days after his conviction. ???I was absolutely shattered,??? Isai told a
friend. ???Grigory was filthy, covered with lice and looked quite
terrible. I spoke to him through a glass barrier and he told me that
he was on starvation rations and he still has another 600 miles and
at least two more stops to go.???
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