The executive committees of Jewish Welfare Federation and United Jewish Charities, at a specially convened
meeting on Monday, voted unanimously to appropriate the sum of $85,000 toward the Wilkes Barre, Pa., relief fund,
to assist sufferers from the flood disaster.
The allocation from United Jewish Charities emergency funds was made in response to pleas for help from fed-
erations throughout the country issued by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, requesting 52,000,000 in
relief for the thousands affected by the disaster.
Other allocations to the relief fund announced this week include Philadelphia. 5125.000: Los Angeles. $115.000:
(See editorial on Page 4)
Cleveland, 585.000: Baltimore, $60,000: and St Louis $35.000.

Federation Allocates
$83,000 for Sufferers
in Wilkes-Barre Flood

'Jewish Devices'
Unnecessary
in Politics

Federation Aid
to Flood Victims

Israel
Philharmonic

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Rogers Reaffirms U.S. Stand
for M.E. 'Active Negotiations'

WASHINGTON (JTA)--Secretary of State William P. Rogers made
it clear that the United States government position on the Middle East has
not changed since November 1967. Calling for "active negotiations" be-
tween Egypt and Israel, he told a news conference Friday that he saw talks
toward an interim agreement to reopen the Suez Canal "a prospect for a
successful beginning to a complete solution in the Middle East." He also
made it plain he still favored his Dec. 9, 1969, stand for no more than
minor changes in the pre-Six-Day War borders.
Rogers said the United States thinks that talks toward a canal
agreement "provide maybe the most bright prospect for progress in that
area." He said he would not comment "at this time" on the significance
of the Soviet withdrawal, but observed: "We do believe that the decision

Senate-House Con ferenee
Adopts Senator Jackson's
Aid-to-Israel Amendment

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Extension of military sales
credit to Israel for 15 months beginning Oct. 1 was accept-
ed by House members in the Senate-House conference on
the Defense Procurement Act. The extension, proposed by
Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash.),
was voted by the Senate 10 days ago,
76-9, as an amendment to the act.
The House, which did not consider a
similar amendment when it was adopt-
ing the act, will vote on the Jackson
measure after the conferees complete
action on the act as a whole. This
is not expected before late next week,
but is expected before Congress re-
cesses for the Republican National
Convention.
Expectations are that the Jackson
amendment will encounter no difficul-
ties in either chamber and will be
signed into law by President Nixon, the JTA learned.
The measure calls for "unlimited" credit to Israel in
extension of the authorization voted by Congress when it
accepted in September 1970, a Jackson amendment calling
for military sales credit to Israel of $500,000,000. That
authorization expires Sept. 30. While the new measure
calls for "unlimited" credit through Dec. 31, 1973, a Jack-
son aide indicated to the JTA that in practical terms it
guarantees authorization of up to $300,000,000 in the current
fiscal year, ending next June 30.
The Nixon administration had asked for that amount
in the foreign military aid bill, which the Senate rejected
last month. Lt was because of this rejection that Jackson
offered his new amendment.
In a statement to The Detroit Jewish News upon the
adoption of his amendment by the Senate-House confer-
ence, Senator Jackson wrote:
"I am pleased that the House of Representatives
through its conferees accepted my amendment to the
Defense Procurement Act providing military credits to
Israel. The effect of the action of the conference is to
guarantee that the Jackson amendment under which Israel
will continue to receive vitally needed arms including
Phantom aircraft will remain the law of the land for at
least another 15 months.
"In responding as it did, both the House and the Senate
have reaffirmed the view of the Congress that the security
of Israel is vital to the security of the United States.
"I would hope that President Nixon, upon signing the
procurement bill now containing the Jackson amendment,
would move at once to conclude the arrangements under
which Israel is to receive $300,000,000 in military credits
this year."

was made by Egypt as a matter of internal affairs."
Asked whether Israel can afford to make greater concessions in a
territorial pullback with Soviet forces absent from the Suez canal, Rogers
replied: "I would not want to make comments. That is a matter for the
government of Israel to decide."
Rogers denied he was backing away from endorsement of direct
negotiations between Israel and Egypt. He noted that in Kuwait recently,
"I did say that I understand it might be difficult for Egypt to engage in
direct negotiations to begin with and we would hope that, if that was the.
case, that at least they would start in these proximity talks or some other
way. In other words, we are very convinced that active negotiations, so

( Coatirsed on Pram $)

Israel's Supporters Prevail at Republican
Hearings, but Pro-Arabs Make Inroads

Senator Tower !leads Committee Pressing Pro-Arab Poo•
lion ... AFL-CIO Strongly Backs Israel ... .4merican Jew-
ish Committee Appeals for School Busing . . . Orthodox
Jewish Group Asks Federal AM for Non-Public Schools

MIAMI BEACH (JTA)—Spokesmen for two national
Jewish organizations urged the Republican platform
committee Monday to draft planks recommending con-
tinuing United States support for Israel and mainte-
nance of American power in the Mediterranean to
offset Soviet military strength there. The spokesmen
were Felix Putterman, executive director of the Jewish
War Veterans, and Prof. Howard Adelson and Dr.
Marnin Feinstein, both of New York, president and
director of public affairs, respectively, of the United
Zionists-Revisionists.
Another group testifying before platform subcom-
mittee seven, headed by Texas Sen. John Tower, the
American Committee for Justice in the Middle East,
proposed that the United Nations impose a settlement
in the area with the help of U.S. pressure on Israel.

Futterman testified in place of JWV Commander
Jerome Cohen, who is presiding at the JWV national
convention in Houston. Putterman described "a mod-
ernized, efficient and vigilant U.S. fleet in the Medi-
terranean" as "the linchpin in the free world secur-
ity system. " He called Israel "a reliable and invalu-
able ally worthy, by any standards, of continued
American confidence and support."
Putterman said the Soviet Union was continuity , to
use four Egyptian ports, despite the recent Egyptian
ouster of Soviet military personnel, as well as ports in
Lebanon, and others "soon to open in Iraq and another
in India." Futterman said that "by contrast," the U.S.
Sixth Fleet had not a single port" in the Middle East.
Reading Commander Cohen's prepared statement, Put- a
Lerman continued that the JWV recommended use of
"liberty ports" for U.S ships and personnel in Lebanon.
Egypt and Israel.
Prid. Adelson urged the Republicans to have the U.S.
"remove the Middle East from the bargaining table" in
U.S.-Soviet negotiations. He said that the official U.S.
policy since 1570 "has served the United States ex-
tremely well, crediting U.S. policy for the expulsion of
U.S. influence in the region. Besides maintaining
Israel's "deterrent strength" at "maximum efficiency."
the ZioniSt.Revisionist statement added, "it is equally
Soviet personnel from Egypt and "strengthening" of

important" to encourage Israel's economic and saes-
tific development to help absorb the thousands et new-
comers entering annually. The statement described the
Zionists-Revisionists as a movement which "lavers a
strong Israel, non-Socialist in organization with a free
economy and an open social system." Rep. Glenn Davis
of Wisconsin congratulated Adelson and Feinstein for
their "good, strong statement."

Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird recommended.
Tuesday American maintenance of a military balance
in the Middle East until "an enduring settlement" is
reached in the area. Testifying before the full Repub-
lican resolutions committee, Laird, like Secretary of
State William P. Rogers in his testimony Monday, did
not mention the Soviet reduction of its military presence
in Egypt.
Laird. in fact, did not name any Middle East country.
In a single paragraph devoted to the Middle East in his
prepared statement, the chief of the American defense
establishment said:
"We should continue our efforts toward a stable
peace in the Middle East. Until the adversaries in that
region come to an enduring settlemeht of their dif-
ferences. we should continue to supply whatever arms
and equipment arc needed to maintain a military bal
ante for the purpose of preventing a new outbreak of
hostilities in that part of the world."
At a news conference. Laird mentioned the cease
fire along the Suez as among the foremost foreign policy
achiesements of the administration and credited Rogers
and President Nixon in that order for it 'I he United
States has been providing Israel. Jordan and Lebanon
with military support in the form of credits and grants.
he said Israel has received by far the lion's share of
this support allocated to the area. •
While not mentioning the Soviet penetration in 'the
Middle East, Laird pointed out that the United States
and the Soviet Union "are now and will remain for
some Um- . if not adversaries. then at least political
military opponents with different global policies." This
expression echoes President Nixon's views set forth
in his foreign policy reports to Congress.
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