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 Ben-Gurion and the Bible: Spiritual Inspiration From Israel's Stateman 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. THE JEWISH NEWS A Commentary Page 2 Weekly Review of Jewish Events Imperative Action for Justice in the USSR the Voice of the Oppressed Editorial Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper VOL. LXI, No. 24 -141 "- 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c 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 (Continued on Page 5) 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. (Continued on Page 5i r 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 (Continued on Page 24 , (('ontinued on Page II) 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