senators Act
WASHINGTON — Senators George McGovern and Gaylord Nelson announced they will cosponsor legislation to kill part o'
pending bill that limits deductions on charitable bequests.
to Protect Tax
The amendment will delete a provision of Senate Bill 3378 (Section 504) which permits such
estate taxes only if used mainly within the United States or its possessions.
Deductibility
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bequest, to he deducted from
"The provision in question was put into the bill in one of the early drafts and was left in the final bill as an oversight,
McGovern said. "There was no intention by the sponsors to discourage contributions abroad." Sen. Nelson introduced the original me-s-
ure with Sens. McGovern, Humphrey. Kennedy and 10 others. The amendment being introduced would not discriminate on tax deduction..
between charitable bequests for philanthropies at home or abroad.
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Imperative
Action for
Justice
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the Voice of
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August 25, 1972
UN Asked to Act Against New
Repressive Measures by USSR
Gaza Mayor Wins Jordan OK
for Equal Treatment of Visitors
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Mayor Rashid El-Shawa of Gaza. who returned
Sunday from a mission to Amman. told Defense Minister Moshe Dayan
Sunday of the steps Jordan had agreed on with him to bring its treatment
of visitors from Gaza into line with its treatment of West Bankers.
EI-Shawa, who led a delegation of 40 notables to Amman and con-
ferred with King Hussein, reported that he had been granted 3,000 pass-
ports for Gaza Strip students who want to study at Jordanian universities
The mayor said he also had obtained permission for Gaza citizens to cross
into Jordan without special entry visas from the Jordanian government,
although each must hove a letter of recommendation from the Gaza munici-
pality.
As a good-will gesture, EI-Shawa said. Hussein released 14 wom-
en arrested during the Jordanian civil war of September 1970 and prom-
ised to pardon 18 men sentenced to death for their part in the aborted
terrorist uprising against the government.
Under another arrangement, El-Shawa said, Gaza citrus dealers
will be allowed to deliver their produce to Jordan in their own trucks
instead of having to transfer the goods to West Bank trucks.
EI-Shawa's efforts to link the Gaza Strip with Jordan continue to be
greeted with coolness in some Arab quarters.
The mayor, however, denied that he has worked for the annexation
of the strip by Jordan. "I only said Gaza and the West Bank shared a
common destiny," he explained.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Defense Min-
ister Moshe Dayan disclosed Israel
has spent IL 1,300.000,000 ($325,000.-
000) during the past five years to build
a military foundation in the occupied
areas. He said that more than half
of that sum had been spent in the
Sinai Peninsula where a network of
roads, airfields, and army installa-
tions have been built for quick de-
ployment of Israel forces should the
need arise. He spoke at a graduation
ceremony for the staff and command
college.
Moshe Dayan
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McGovern Rejects Arab
Propagandist's Support
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen. George Mc-
Govern declared here Sunday that "I repudi-
ate and reject the alleged endorsement" of his
candidacy for the presidency issued by M. T.
Mehdi of New York, secretary-general of the
Action Committee on American-Arab Rela-
tions. Sen. McGovern said he did not seek the
support of the Arab propagandist's organiza-
im "and refuse to accept it."
The senator added that Mehdi "well knows
that my views on the Middle East are diametri-
cally opposed to his. I therefore regard his
'endorsement' as a cynical attempt—by him
or by someone whose bidding he does—to em-
harrass me and discredit me with Americans
of all creeds who believe as I do that the
cornerstone of American policy in,the Middle
East must be the survival of an Israel that is
militarily secure and economically sound."
The senator added, in his statement, that
- the votes I
have cast and the statements I
have made on Israel are a matter of public
record. Mr. Mehdi cannot he ignorant of them.
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UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Yosef
Tekoah protested Monday against the "new repressive measures decreed by the
government of the Soviet Socialist Republic against Jews who desire to reunite with
their families and their people in Israel." Tekoah presented Marc Schreiber, chief
of the UN Division of Human Rights, with a letter denonuncing the new charges ai•
"so exhorbitant a tax" on those who wish to leave the Soviet Union that "they vir-
tually deprive Jews of their fundamental human rights to do so." He asked that the
letter be transmitted to Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, who is abroad, and to
member states of the General Assembly.
Tekoah noted that until the beginning of 1971 the fee for an exit visa front
the Soviet Union was 40 rubles. Since then, he said, prospective emigrants had becri
charged 940 rubles, consisting of 440 rubles for the exit visa and 500 rubles for the
required renunciation of Soviet citizenship, a total equivalent to $1,128.
(The Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit has protested against
the new Soviet regulation which would force college-trained Jews to pay up to $25.-
000 in order to obtain an exit visa to leave the Soviet Union. In a wire to President
Richard Nixon, Council President Hubert J. Sidlow asked the President- to inter-
cede and speak out against the new regulation. Sidlow characterized this new tactic .
as a form of "ransom" and condemned it as another form of Soviet harassment toward
those Russian Jews who have expressed a desire to emigrate to Israel.)
Under the new regulations adopted Aug. 3, Tekoah
said, an immigrant with an academic education must pay
an additional surcharge which ranges from $4,800 for
liberal arts graduates to $26,400 for holders of a PhD
degree. Since, he added the earnings of individuals in the
above categories range from $133 to $330 a month, "It is
obvious that the new regulations are a grave blow to the
possibility of such persons exercising their rights to leave
the Soviet union."
Moreover, he continued, Jewish citizens of the Soviet
Union who apply for permission to emigrate, especially if
they belong to the aforementioned categories, are generally
dismissed from their work and assigned to menial tasks.
Tekoah declared that "the tenacious efforts of Soviet
Jews to vindicate their rights 'as Jews are one of the most
epic struggles for human rights of our time. This struggle
has earned the support of governments, international organi-
zations, public figures and general world opinion The latest measures of oppression
Strong Israel Plank, l'SSIt
Defense in Repultiliean Platform
Republican Party platform adopted at
the convention this week contains a plank on the Middle East which de-
clares that "we support the right of Israel and its courageous people to
survive and prosper in peace." The plank also pledges "help in any way
MIAMI BEACH (JTA)—The
possible to bring Israel and the Arab states to the conference table where
they may negotiate a lasting peace" as well as "economic and special re
fugee assistance to Israel."
The planks on domestic issues contain stands on which there are sharp
differences in the Jewish community. The platform states "it is irrevocably ,
opposed to busing for racial balance" in American public schools and
favored a system of income tax credits to aid "non-public as well as public
schools." But it also endorses the merit system of employment in the federal
civil service. Observers here said that; by logical implication, this meant
Republican opposition to the "quota" or "proportional representation" ap
proaches to aiding Blacks and members of other disadvantaged minorities
about which there is almost universal opposition in the American Jewish
community- .
It was generally understood that the recommendations of the Republican
platform committee reflect with little variance the views of President
Nixon
The Middle East plank also recommends that the United States
continue to "present the development of a military imbalance" by
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Sinai 'Dividing Line'
Proposed by Gen. Dayan
TEI. AVIV (JTA)—Defense Minister Moshe
Dayan has suggested that, pending permanent
peace between Israel and Egypt, the two coun
tries could live more securely with each other
in geographic relation to a dividing line some
where in the Sinai Peninsula.
Asserting at a graduating ceremony of the
army staff and command college that the key
to security for Israel is in the Sinai desert
by
he thought it would be possible to draw
mutual agreement between the two countries-
a temporary or permanent dividing line which
would give the populated areas of both coon
tries - a margin of security." -
Reiterating Israel's official position Ilia'
the cease-fire lines could tie exchanged only
for secure, or recognized and agreed boon
dare in a peace agreement. Gen. Dayan said
Israel also was prepared for an interim agree
ment and for "peace in stages." lie said als,
that Israel should strive to renew contacts..
even indirect ones. with the Arab states. esp..'
clan% with Egypt. a hich he said "holds the key
to peace and war" to get a peace settlement