Israel, Soviet Jewry Figure Prominently in GOP Plank (Continued from Page 1) providing Israel "with support essential for her security" and maintenance of "our tactical forces in Europe and the Medi- terranean area at adequate strength." But the plank makes no reference to proposals by wit- nesses that the U.S. recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and transfer the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerualem, as the Democratic Party convention did in June. Declaring that "all persons" have the "right" to emigrate from any country, the platform declares "we are fully aware of and share the concern for the plight of Soviet Jews with regard to their free- doms and emigration." association did not testify at the hearings on resolutions but a state- ment was submitted by S. Elly Rosen, association executive direc- tor. Rosen said he had testified to a House subcommittee in June 1971 concerning "the existence of more than 800.000 poor Jews in the United States and to the discrimi- nation they faced in dealing with existing Office of Economic Op- portunity community action (po- verty I programs." Ile said two government reports subsequently confirmed "the lack of participa- tion by the Jewish poor in their programs." But one year later, he said in the statement, "nothing has been done to remedy this in- justice." the Arab-Israeli conflict on an in- terim or final basis." Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird recommended United States -nzintenance of a military balance en- - n the Middle East until "an -luring settlement" was reached in the area Testifying before the full Republican resolutions com- mittee. Laird, like Secretary of .ate William Rogers in his testi- mony, did not mention the Soviet reduction of its military presence in Egypt. Strong endorsements to the Nixon administration policy in the Middle East, with emphasis on continued U.S. support for Israel and for freedom of Soviet Jews to emigrate marked the statements presented to the Renublican reso- lutions committee by Sen. Jacob Javits, New York senior senator, md Mark Tullis, a Boston Uni- e-ity law student. In other issues of concern- to Previously, Dr. Henry Kissinger, J ewish communities, the platform the President's adviser on national reaffirms the party's support for security affairs, had said only that "voluntary prayer" in "public 71 Jewish Delegates, Alternates the subject was "mentioned." Sec- retary of State William P. Rogers places," strongly opposed by many at Republican Convention , tewish organizations. "Scatter- only last Monday confirmed that Jewish delegates and alternates s ■ te" housing such as proposed in at the Republican Party's conven- the subject "was discussed" at the the Forest Hills, Queens, N.Y., tion aggregated 71 or less than 3 Moscow summit meeting. The Mid- sections is denounced. In apparent per cent of the 2,696 representa- dle East and Soviet Jewry ele- -eference to "scatter-site housing," tives from all parts of the United ments, along with a pledge to help it is declared that "we strongly op- States. "multilateral organizations focus" •are the use of housing or commun- This percentage is almost in pre- on aircraft hijacking and interna- ity development programs to im- cise proportion to the Jews—an tional crime, were contained in the itme arbitrary housing patterns on estimated 6,00e,000—in the coun- platform's foreign policy section if- twilling communities. Neither do try's total population of 210,000,000. released by the platform commit- e favor dispersing large numbers Jewish representatives at the tee on Aug. 18. o f people away from their homes Democratic Party's convention here Rep. John Rhodes of Arizona, I neighborhoods against their in June totaled "300-plus," accord- platform committee chairman, oil We do believe in providing ; ing to that party's national corn- held a news conference Friday communities, with their full con- I millet., of the 3,018 delegates and at which he made public the sent. L,i.nilanee and cooperation, alternates, or about 10 per cent. foreign policy planks. He was with the means and incentives to The Republican statistic was de- asked by Jewish Telegraphic iincrease the quantity and quality rived from a delegate and alter- Sgency correspondent Joseph leiusin• in conjunction with pro- nate list prepared by the party's Pnlakoff why the committee viding increased access to jobs for "Jewish Vote Division" and made platform did not recommend 'heir low income citizens." available to the JTA by Mrs. transfer of the U.S. Embassy to Esther Weinrott, the sculptor and In on appeal to the platform Jerusalem, a proposal made by wife of Judge Leo Weinrott of ',mom, last week, Richard the Republican House Minority Philadelphia. ' ■ toos. •Mermen of the National leader, Rep. Gerald Ford of Mrs. Weinrott. co-chairman with ,r1 Nov It't .Jewry. said Michigan, by ,the Republican as- Mrs. John Eisenhower of the •h.1 , pt,te than 80.000 applications sistant leader in the Senate, "Pledges to the President" organi- .olt Ittission .less are on file with Robert Griffin of Michigan and zation in Pennsylvania, and Mrs. the Soviet visa agency pleading for also by the Federation of Young Roslyn levit, also of Philadelphia, es It permits Nlaass said in 1956 Republicans. Rep. Rhodes re and a leader in the Pennsylvania were 450 synagogues in the plied that the platform commit. committee tb re-elect the Presi- I y11t and that number was r•- tee "did not document it" and dent, were ho sTdesses at a cocktail duced too in 1963 and 60 at pres- that "the amendment was not of- party given for the Jewish repre- ent fered on the floor and not acted sentatives at the Fontainebleau on." The JTA reporter also ask- NI 1' Mehili of New York, sec- Hotel by Max Fisher of Detroit, ed Rep. Rhodes whether Sen. retary general of the Action Com- friend of President Nixon. (•riffin and Rep. Ford had ap- mittee on American-Arab relations, Almost exactly half of the proved the draft in the commit told a platform subcommittee that states — 24 — have Jews among tee's platform and he replied President Nixon should invite their delegations. New York State that - not evervhody approved Egyptian President Sadat and Pal- with 20 out of 176 delegates and it and some part:- leaders "may estinian Arab guerrilla leader Vas- alternates has the highest num- not approve it.•' sir Arafat to the White House for ber. Pennsylvania with eight out On busing. the platform reemm a meeting "to develop better ties of 120 is second. Arizona, Con- mends commiting the party with the Arab people " That pro- necticut and New Jersey have "tit guaranteeing equality of educa• posal was not in Nicht- it's prepared four each, Massachusetts, Illi- bona, opportunity- and to complet- statement which said that the nois and Texas have three each; ing the process of ending de jure Arabs "are an independent people Michigan. Missouri and Okla- school segregation - but adds that who refuse being occupied by Zion- homa two each; and Alaska, Ar- ist .1e, Dosing for racial balance "fails its or British or French co- kansas, California, Delaware, 'fated objective—improved learn- iir sosiet mfitience.•' Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, opportionties—whii e it acinev- Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, Sen. John Tower of Texas, . results no one wants - division New Mexico, Ohio, West Virginia chairman of the Republican na- ✓ onimunities and hostility each have one. tional resolutions subcommittee between el:I.:ses and races. We Nlany Jewish Republicans are assigned to shape the foreign out Mom the neighborhood school con- in state and local poli- policy elements in the party's cept Both the American Jewish tics The three Massachusetts Jew- platform, who earlier reported- Committee and the National Coun- ish members are Frank Freedman, ly represented a pro-Arab group, cil of Jewish Women strongly fa- mayor of Springfield; Mrs. Rosa- later forecast planks favorable to sired busing as one tool to achieve lind Brooker, a lawyer who is the Israel and to Soviet Jewry. racial integration in the nation's Herman I. W•eisman. president public schools. - of thy Zionist Organization - • .,.urption of Bukharan Spokesmen for A.;iiilath Israel •Ame• of America and Torah l • mesorah ..... the Nixon ad- Jews Similar to Georgians • lib - the National Society '- on for a "policy of real- TEL AVIV (JTA)—The ministry as Hebrew Day Sohn ,-' istic military deterence" that he of absorption has announced that had advocated sup said was a major factor in the •x- it has made necessary arrange- port for non-public educational pulsion of Soviet forces from ments for the absorption of large facilities, one proposal calling for Egypt. mailt. four proposals fur numbers of Bukharan Jews now pax credits (or parents of chil- ' reaching agreement on a just and arriving in Israel, using patterns dren in non-public schools. The durable peace in the Middle East." of settlement similar to those used platform suggests "the granting of lie called for direct negotiations in settling Georgian Jews. income tax credits" as one way to between the parties; recognition Natan Peled, minister of absorp- provide such aid. that a durable peace cannot be at-' tion, made this statement while An appeal from the Association tamed by ' - nations not directly in- visiting the Lachish area and the of Jewish Anti-Poverty. Workers to volved"; opposition to a "no-war, Shderot township, where new im- the Republican Party to adopt "a no-peace" situation; and a declara- migrants are currently being set- program designed to include the tion that the U.S. will not "itself tled. alienated masses of white poor" or in conjunction with anybody The Bukharan Jews will be sent Americans, including many Jews, else , directly or indirectly, seek I to regions where they can form was considered by the party's reso- favor or endorse the imposition of their own communities, very much lutions committee in drafting its any terms or prior conditions for like the communal centers set up platform, the JTA was told. The the negotiation and settlement of ' for the Georgian Jews. only woman member of New Bed- ford's City Council and a state committeewoman, and Mrs. Aileen H. Belford, of Fall River, also a lawyer and a state committee- woman, who was for seven years assistant attorney general of Mas- sachusetts. The Missouri delegation's chair- man is Lawrence K. Roos, chief executive of St. Louis County. Al- fred J. Fleischer, St. Louis, is the state party's finance chairman. The vice chairman of the Minneso- ta delegation is Rudy Boschwitz of Minneapolis, a national GOP com- mitteeman. Among Connecticut's representa- tives is Mayor Julius M. Wilensky of Stamford. Arizona's group in- cludes Republican state chairman Harry Rosenzweig and state fi- nance chairman Burton Kruglick. A Kentucky delegate is Theodore H. Lavit, a lawyer from Lebanon who is a county chairman. Michigan sent Alfred A. May, head of Michigan's 1st Congres- sional District, and David Laro, Flint, a county chairman. Mrs. Sari Reingold of Henrietta, Okla., near Tulsa, leads Okla- homa's 2nd Congressional district. Perhaps the leading Jewish fig- ure in the Republican convention organization is Mrs. Ellie Selig of Seguin, Texas, chairman of the all- important credentials committee. She is deputy state chairman of Texas, where she has been living for 27 years. Mrs. Selig, a native of Spring Valley, N.Y., is the wife of Marvin Selig. Martin Feldman, New' Orleans' lawyer, is secretary of the Louisi- ana delegation. Some Jews holding state or municipal offices who are repre- senting their states at the conven- tion include: Philadelphia Dis- trict Attorney Arlen Specter, New' York State Senator Roy B. Good- man, Pennsylvania State Senator Robert Rosner, Phillip D. Kalten- bacher, of the New Jersey Legis- lature and Robert F. Silverstein, of the Charleston, W.Va. city council who is president of that city's Jewish la Federation. California's sole Jewish repre- sentative is Albert Spiegel, a Bev- erly Hills lawyer. Ohio's only Jew- ish delegate is Saul G. Stillman, a state committeeman and chairman of the county board of electors which embraces Cleveland. Alas- ka's delegation includes Moe Ka- dish, who left Los Angeles four years a-go to establish a ladies' retail clothing store in Anchorage and is now the party's state finance chairman. Alaska has only 190 Jewish souls, Kadish told JTA. From Nebraska is Dr. R. N. Greenberg, a physician who was formerly a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. THE DETROIT JEVASH HEWS 24—Friday, August 25, 1972 ARNOLD LAKIND CHILD PHOTOGRAPHY 557-1227 Open Again On Sundays Noon till 4 Coutour Looks. Women's Fashion Apparel Jost o little Different' h ow. • • suOtin6arc THURS. & FRI. NITES TILL 9 OTHER DAYS 9:30-5 Coolidge at 9 Mile, Oak Park j AyCi E lE" 3895 Y1I 1 2 MU ROA: 4 blocks E of Greenfield Open Oath" 10.5 • 542 4504 JUST ARRIVED IN TIME For The High Holidays Dresses — Skirts — Blazers — Blouses — Rib Tops — Etc.