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Israel Territorial Clarification
Expected; State Dept. Denies
Withholding Delivery of Arms
Capitulation to Arabs
Rescinded by Mobil Oil
The Mobil Oil Corporation has rescinded all in
structions to its tanker fleet suppliers which had
the effect of capitulating to the Arab economic boy-
cott of Israel.
In an exchange of correspondence . between
Herman J. Schmidt, executive vice president of
Mobil Oil, and Arnold Forster, chairman of the
anti boycott committee of the Conference of Presi
dents of Major American Jewish Organizations,
e_.company declared that "effective immediately"
considerations in supplying prod
u c ts
ucts to our ships are that these products meet our
traditionally high requirements of quality, avail
ability and reasonableness of cost." In other words,
the company told Forster, its ships' chandlers are
authorized to purchase Israeli or "Jewish" products.
The anti boycott committee held a series of
meeting's with Mobil representatives to protest a
pro-
company directive to ships chandlers which pro-
hibited "any products of Israeli origin or seeming
to have Israeli or Jewish connections."
heMobil
directive under question cited the
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Libyan government's intention to fine and black-
list vessels carrying- "illegal" products and cited
15 so .considered by the Arab country. The prod-
ucts listed included fruit juices and produce from
Israel and also such items as Swedish matches and
empty Brazil beer bottles, both of which carry six-
pointed stars as trademarks, and Trinidad Orange
Juice which uses a six-pointed leaf on its wrapper.
The six:pointed Star of David, the symbol used in
Israel's flag, is not limited to Israel.
Tile new instructions, Forster said, have been
sent to all Mobil suppliersand the company is
taking ads in some 100 Jewish newspapers, explain-
ing that "There is no Mobil 'boycott.' " The adver-
tisement appears on Page 14 in this issue.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The government has deceided to comply with an American request for a
more detailed statement of its territorial claims than has been forthcoming up to now, the JTA learned
his
from reliable political sources. The American request was put to Foreign Minister Abba Eban at Af-
State
William
P.
Rogers
and
White
House
National
Security
meetings last week with Secretary of
fairs Adviser Dr. Henry Kissinger.
Eban is expected to convey a statement'on territorial principles to Rogers when he returns to
JTA learned. He was reportedly empowered
Washington from his current visit to Latin America, the
to
the American request after consulting with
to do so by Premier Golda Meir, who decided to accede
inform the U.S. that its territorial demands as
her closest advisers. Political sources said Israel will be
guided exclusively by strategic considerations
far as future borders with Egypt are concerned will
considera-
but no such undertaking will be given with regardto borders with Jordan where "historical
tions are much more profound."
Political circles here said the U.S. has become entangled in conflicting promises to Israel and
Egypt from which President Nixon must now extricate it. They said the President will have no
choice but to tell President Anwar Sadat of Egypt that the U.S. is neither able nor willing to force
Israel to commit itself to total withdrawal from the occupied territories without prior negotiations be-
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tween the two parties.
These circles discount the view that Israel's refusal to make such commitments have increased
the pressure on Sadat from his military leaders. They contend that Sadat now has has a freer hand
than before because he is no longer bound to a cease fire expiration date. However, they concede that
pressure may be applied by the Egyptian military as June 5, the fourth anniversary
of the on Six-Day
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war, approaches.
N.Y.C. East Side Synagogue
ire
Damaged by Vanda s
NEW YORK (JTA)—An historic 78-year-old Orthodox
synagogue in the Lower East Side, serving mainly elderly
ffered an estimated
with limited incomes, suffered
congregants wi
$50,000 damage last weekend when vandals ransacked the
congregation and left in their wake three fire-scorched
rooms..
According to Irwin Goldman, president of Cong. Beth
Haknesses, the vandals were apparently dissatisfied with
the damage they had wrecked on the large, brick sync-
gogue. They returned again Monday night to destroy and
abuse the prayerbooks, taleisim and other religious
articles which had been preserved from the fire.
Goldman told the JTA that the most distressing ele-
ment of the entire incident was that many of the 60 daily
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Communst
i Congress May Dde
Fate of Emigration Pleaders;
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Report Georgian Jews Harassed
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Soviet Jews arriving here Monday
night told newsmen that the future of Jewish emigration
from Russia depends on the outcome o the Communist
which opens in Moscow at f the end of this
month. Only after the congress will it be possible to
ascertain what the Soviet attitude toward Jewish emigra-
tion will be, they said.
The number of new arrivals was not disclosed. But it
was apparently a large group coming from Moscow, Odes-
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Council of Jewish Women's
Enlist
Volunteers
Comb
Community
to
3,000
29th National Convention
30,000 Contributors to Allied Jewish Campaign
A campaign that is certain to break all records for generosity in the Detroit Jewish
community will commence next Thursday evening when the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund drive will be launched at the dinner meeting at Cong. Shaarey Zedek.
Martin Agronsky, noted TV and radio commentator, will be guest speaker.
With more than $9,000,000 already subscribed in pre-campaign activities, the an-
ticipated new measures of giving are expected to boost the total far above the $12,000,000
mark of last year's drive. Requesting double giving, national leaders are pleading for vast
sums to assure support for Israel's needs and in defense of the nation that is confronted by
newly menacing war threats.
The volunteer workers' aim is to enroll at least 30,000 contributors to the drive
and they will strive to enlist at least 5,000 more donors who did not contribute last year.
Volunteer workers still are being enrolled and those desiring either to contribute
without waiting for the soliciting volunteers to contact them or who wish to work for the
drive are asked to call WO. 5-3939.
Meyer Fishman and Max Shaye. as co-chairmen of the current campaign, appealed
for community cooperation in. raising the standards of giving and in assuring the widest
support from workers and givers and expressed confidence that Detroit's role again will be
one of leadership for the entire country.
Opens Here Sunday Evening
With approximately '700 delegates registering this morning for
the sessions of the 29th biennial convention of the National Council
of Jewish Women, many of the country's most prominent leaders
and the outstanding Jewish women leaders will be here for delibera-
tions on major issues of importance to the United States, Israel and
world Jewry.
This is the first time that a NCJW biennial will be held in De-
troit since 1932.
The sessions will mark the retirement from the presidency of
Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner who has held the major office in the organ-
ization since 1967.
Mrs. Weiner will preside at the opening session of the conven-
tion Sunday evening at Hotel Statler. A reception honoring Mrs.
Weiner will follow the evening's program.
Guest speaker at the opening session will be Sol M. Linowitz,
U. S. ambassador to the Organization of 'American States, currently
chairman of the Urban Coalition.
All sessions will be held at the Detroit Hilton Hotel, and plenaries
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