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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 25, 1986
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Joe Kennedy II does an about-face
on $100 contribution from Abourezk
by Joseph Polakoff
fSI’s Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON—Joseph P
Kennedy II, who is running for
Congress in Massachusetts’ Eighth
District, first rejected but later said
he would accept a contribution to
his campaign by former Sen. James
Abourezk, chairman of the Ameri-
can-Arab Anti-Discrimination Com
mittee which has been conspicu
ously sympathetic to the Palestine
Liberation Organization for many
years.
This episode became known
April 21 when Abourezk, who is of
Lebanese descent and retired from
the Senate in 1980 after one term as
a Democratic senator from South
Dakota, revealed that he did a
favor for Sen. Edward Kennedy
(D-Mass.) by going to Teheran in
December 1979 to seek release of
American hostages held in Iran.
Sen. Kennedy at that time was try
ing to win the Democratic presi
dential nomination from President
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paign. The then-U.S. Sen. John
Culver (D-Iowa), and Theodore
Sorenson and Jan Kalicki, aides to
Kennedy, asked Abourezk to go to
Teheran. Abourezk has now re
vealed that his attempt failed
because the Ayatollah Khomeini
was not ready to release the hos
tages. They were freed after Carter
left office Jan. 20, 1981.
“I risked my career and my life,”
Abourezk wrote in his letter to
Joseph Kennedy criticizing him lor
having returned his $ 100 campaign
contribution. “I think von know
that 1 ran and won as a delegate (to
the Democratic convention) for
your father (the late Robert E.
Kennedy) in 1968.1 have supported
your uncles each time they have
sought national office, primarily
because of their courage-and that
of your father—in facing tough
and controversial issues.
In a statement in Boston, Joseph
Kennedy apologized for having re
turned Abourezk’s check for $100.
“In this instance," Kennedy said, “1
see a clear difference between Sen.
Abourezk’s personal contribution
and some of his political beliefs.
He added that if Abourezk was will
ing to re-submit his contribution,
“I would be quite honored to ac
cept.”
Kennedy is running for the seat
being vacated by Speaker Thomas
P. O’Neill (D-Mass.), who is retir
ing at the end of this session. Arab-
American organizations and or
members sympathetic to the PLO
have attempted in the past to con
tribute to both the Republican and
Democratic national campaigns,
but their money is believed to have
always been rejected.
Weinberger urged to bar soldiers
from membership in racist groups
NEW YORK—The American
Jewish Congress has called upon
Secretary of Defense Caspar Wein
berger to bar members of the armed
forces from participating in activi
ties of violent racist groups.
In a letter to Weinberger, AJCon-
gress President Theodore R. Mann
expressed dismay that soldiers and
marines in North Carolina are ac
tive members of groups like the Ku
Klux Klan and the White Patriots
Party, as reported in the April 15
edition of the New' York Times.
“We were particularly disturbed,”
Mann wrote, “to read that an army
spokesman stated that the military
was powerless to take any discipli
nary action against the soldiers
involved.”
Members of the armed forces
should not be permitted to partici
pate in the activities of “groups
engaged in violent acts of racial
hatred,” he said. Mann recalled
that the U.S. Supreme Court last
month rejected an Air Force offic
er’s request to wear a yarmulke
because it would interfere with the
armed forces’ mission to foster
“unity, commitment and esprit de
corps.”
Mann wryly observed that if “a
yarmulke undermines ‘unity, com
mitment and esprit de corps,’ then
surely active membership in groups
engaged in acts of violent racial
hatred is inconsistent with service
in the armed forces.”
Federal courts, he noted, have
upheld the government’s right to
dismiss an officer candidate from
the Reserve Officers Training
Corps because of membership in
the Nazi party.
American citizens, Mann as
serted. are entitled to feel that the
armed forces protect “democracy,
toleration, and equality,” which he
declared are political values em
bodied in the Constitution.
Armed forces members who be
long to organizations that reject
the authority of the Constitution
betray their military oaths, his let
ter went on.
“Members of the armed forces
who are Jewish, or black or His
panic have the right to demand
that the soldiers next to them
regard them as colleagues—not as
members of a despised and inferior
group,” Mann wrote.
Deploring what he termed “the
military’s laissez-faire attitude
toward membership” in violent
racist groups, the AJCongress head
asked Secretary Weinberger to take
steps “to insure that members of
the military are not permitted to
participate in the activities” of such
groups.
Rabin’s visit will include
discussions on terrorism
by Joseph Polakoff
I Si’s Washington correspondent
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al terrorism and Israel’s views
toward continuation of the United
Nations force in Lebanon (UNI-
F1L) are understood to be among
topics Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin will discuss with Vice Presi
dent George Bush and other top
Reagan officials when he visits
Washington for three days during
the first week in May.
His official agenda was sche
duled in connection with his accep
tance of attendance at a private
dinner here on May 5 with some 50
leaders of the Washington group
of the Israel Bonds organization.
Earlier that day he will confer at
the State Department with Under
secretary of State John White-
head.
At the White House on May 6 he
will first meet with officials of the
National Security Council and
later with Bush. He will confer for
almost three hours at the Pentagon
at lunch time with Defense Secre
tary Caspar Weinberger and after
wards with Navy Secretary John
Lehman. Before returning to Israel
May 7, he will meet in Washington
with members of Congress and
later attend gatherings of Jewish
communal leaders in New York.
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