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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE April 25, 1986 Buon Appetito featuring delicately seasoned Northern Italian cuisine meat, chicken, fish, vegetarian & pasta dishes lunch and dinner bar and wine list Paper Mill Village (corner of Johnson Ferry & Paper Mill Rds. 5 min. inside 1-285 former location of Governor's Inn) Reservations Accepted Closed Sunday Private banquet room 951-2417 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 Passover Greetings C OLDBERG REALTY INC. 1252 W. Peachtree St., N.W.—Suite 417 Atlanta, Georgia 30309 892-3005 THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS The Magic of Walt Disney World Kosher Accommodations by Hyatt Now you can have the Kosher facilities you require with the service you demand k all in the heart of Central Florida., right next to the Magic Kingdom. 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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 WASHINGTON Internation- Big Bargains Big selection of over-stocks ond ware house clearance items. 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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. Patronize our Advertisers they help bring you The Southern Israelite