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Senate colleagues lionize Javits as political legend by Joseph Polakoff ISPs Washington correspondent WASHINGTON—Jacob Ja vits, a Republican champion of liberal causes throughout his illus trious Senate career, was laid to rest Monday. He was a moving force behind the civil rights move ment and countless other causes that ultimately, established him as a national political legend for stu dents of Jewish life and the Ameri can Dream. At the funeral service at the Cen tral Synagogue in midtown Man hattan, Senate colleagues of both parties eulogized him. Other nota ble Americans sat with 1,500 oth ers who mourned the loss of the unique personality who rose out of New York’s East Side to become a liberal Republican and serve longer than any other New Yorker in the U.S. Senate — 24 years. About 200 persons stood outside police lines during the service. Conservatives and liberals, ty coons of the business world and labor unionists joined in the trib ute to Javits, who died at 81 in West Palm Beach, Fla. of a degen erative nerve ailment commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, after the famed first baseman of the New York Yankees who suf fered from it. Eulogists at the Reform syn agogue of Moorish design in cluded Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Daniel Patrick Moyni- han (D-N.Y.), Charles Mathias (D-Md.), Alan Simpson (R- Wyo.), New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and Javits’ son Joshua and daughter Carla. Joshua and Carla, their sister Joy and their mother Marian Javits sat in the front pew with other family members. Violinist Pinchas Zuckerman and an ensemble from the New York Philharmonic led by Zubin Mehta played selections from Bach and Haydn. Among those at the synagogue were former Presi dent Nixon, Attorney General Edwin Meese, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Sen. Al phonse D’Amato (R-N.Y.), who Jacob Javits defeated Javits in the Republican primary that ended his senatorial career; John Cardinal O’Connor, former Rep. Bella Abzug, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-Kan.), Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), Lowell Weicker R-Conn.), Gary Hart (D-Col.), and David Rockefeller, the bank er; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, pub lisher of the New York Times; Vic tor Gotbaum, the labor leader; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Kurt Vonnegut. Joshua Javits read a passage from a Hebrew memorial prayer that his father had asked him to read. The prayer told of how the living are like Moses who behold the Promised Land but cannot enter. Carla Javits recalled her father saying: “1 feel a curtain going down. I'm not afraid. My eyes are wide open. I only wish I had another 20 years.” Cantor Richard Botton chant ed, “El Mole Rachamim,” when the doors of the Ark were opened to expose the Torahs within it. David Seligson, the congregation’s rabbi emeritus, recited the 23rd Psalm. Kennedy said, “Few of us have done as much to make America equal to its dream” than Javits, while Simpson said the illness that had crippled him (Javits) “could have imprisoned a lesser man,” but in Javits “the spirit soared.” A legislative assistant to Javits for 13 years from 1964 to 1977, Patricia Connell Shakow wrote in the Washington Post that on his 80th birthday when a reunion of staffers was held, Javits rose pain fully from his wheelchair to speak to them. “You are my legacy to the next century,” he said. “And after I'm gone I want you to do three things for man. Love your country. Don’t be afraid to stick your neck out. Take a chance on the young, as I once took a chance on you.” For all his prominence and power as a senator, a congressman and a former attorney general of New York State, Javits never for got his heritage. In countless bat tles in the Senate and outside, Jav its aided the needy and defended Israel. On one occasion at a private breakfast with this reporter during a particularly difficult time for Israel regarding the sale of arms to a hostile Arab neighbor, Javits noted that another Jewish senator was supporting President Carter's position to bring about the sale. "He doesn’t have the same upbringing that you and I had,” he said about the senator who must remain unnamed. "Maybe he’ll realize the fundamentals as the debate goes on. If there is doubt, we must help Israel. 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