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Struggle for Inheritance: Sapir in Lead,
Dayan, Alon as Golda's Possible Heirs
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
• TEL AVIV—Leaders of the
Israel Labor Party were sur-
prised to hear that Pritne
Minister Golda Meir had al-
ready prepared a , small
apartment for herself in Kib-
utz Revivim (for the priod
after her retirement fom the
premiership), where her
daughter and family live.
"After many years of pub-
lic service, I deserve leave
to enable me to take care of
my grandchildren", Mrs.
Meir maintains.
After leaving office, Golda
intends to follow in the foot-
steps of David Ben-Gurion.
who has withdrawn to Kihutz
Sde Boker.
The leaders of the Labor
Party are trying to induce
Golda Meir not to leave her
post, and to head the party
list at the next elections to
the Knesset,
"We have to avoid a strug-
gle for the inheritance at any
price" they maintain. As'
premier, Golda Meir has
found a common language
with U. S. President Richard
Nixon. He has made several
promises to her, and there-
fore it is important for Israel
that she continues to head
its government after Nixon's
expected re-election.
Golda reacted with sar-
casm: "A person should
leave office when wanted to
stay and not when no longer
wanted".
The majority In the Labor
Party leadership Is against
Moshe Dayan as
for the premiership as suc-1
cessor to Golda. They hope
that Mrs. Meir will agree to
stay in office at the last min- 1
ute. If this does not happen.!
they intend to exert pressure
on Pinhas Sapir to accept
the premiership. Sapir main-
tains that he would not ac-
cept such an offer and that
he would not even join the
new Government after elec•
lions. Friends of Sapir are
afraid that should he be-
come premier, his opponents
in the party and from out-
side would embitter his life ,
as happened to the late pre-
mier Levi Echkol,
Meanwhile there is a hit-
ter controversy between the
two chief contenders for the
premiership, Moshe Dayan
and Yigul Alon.
The rumors said that Yigal
Mon, who heads a govern-
ment committee for security
abroad, had to share a cer-
tain amount of the responsi-
bility for the tragic events
in Munich. It was clear that
this was the first shot in the
battle of the premiership.
By coincidence, another
commission recently sub-
mitted a report to the gov-
ernment about cutting ex-
penses in government de-
partments, with regard to
publications and advertise-
ments in the press. The com-
mission proposed to concen-
trate all publications and
advertisements in a central
governing body in the mini-
stry of education, headed by
Vice Premier Yigal Mon.
Dayan immediately reacted
in the cabinet, that the Is-
rael army' will continue to
be responsible for its publi-
cations and advertisements.
When Mon asked him what
would happen if the govern-
ment passed another resolu-
tion, Dayan declared: "You
are not the government and
I shall not abide by such a
resolution". Alon -retorted:
"But if the government will
decide otherwise?" to which
Dayan replied: "Then with-
out me".
This - sharp controversy
was considered a sign of in -
creased tension between the
two main contenders for the
"inheritance".
"PREFERRED AND WELL QUALIFIED"
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PROSECUTOR TOM PLUNKETT HAS SERVED
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32 Hillel Directors Announce
Their Support for McGovern
BOSTON (JTA)—A state
ment by 32 Hillel directors
from across the country re-
leased here by Rabbi Albert
Axelrod of Brandeis Univer-
pressed ongoing concern "for
their fellow Americans who
have been too long denied
Justice and equality," the
Hillel directors declared:
"Today, they, and we, are
under attack—not by the ex-
treme leftists, and not by
who are attempting to push 'self-haters,' but by those
the American Jewish com- Jewish organizational offi-
munity into the camp of cials who announce that dedI-
cation to Israel and Jewish
President Richard Nixon."
The 32 signers statedthey concerns dictates a vote in
were "acting as individuals" November for four more
and endorsed Democratic years of President Nixon."
Party presidential candidate
The statement warned that
Sen. George McGovern.
the endorsement by the Jew-
Noting that Jewish youth ish "organizational officials"
have long been identified appears to be persuading "a
with civil rights and peace growing number of young
movements. for Israel and Jews that a commitment to
Soviet Jewry, and have ex- Israel and a commitment to
peace and justice may. in
be mutually exclusive.
Leaders Didn't Think fact,
Where the extreme left failed,
the Jewish Nixonites may
of Special Problems
well succeed."
sity deplored "the activities
of those Jewish spokesmen
in Election: J. Shapi
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr.
Judah J. Shapiro, president
of the Labor Zionist Alliance,
told his organization's nation-
al executive committee that
Jewish organizations and
leaders had apparently fail-
ed to consider the unique
problems of the Jewish voter
in this election.
The directors urged the
American Jewish community
"not to abandon its tradi-
tional social concern, not to
abandon its duty to improve ;
the world unto the Almighty,
not to a ba nd on its own,
youth."
Rabbi Johanan said: "How
foolish is the man who, hav-
"The many coordinating' ing consorted with a harlot,
bodies t that exist in Jewish gives alms to a beggar
on
or ganizational life should the way out, and then says
have the wisdom months be- to himself, 'If it had not
been
fore the nominating conven- God's will to offer me atone-
tions to consider the most ment for my- sins, He would
suitable stance of the Ameri- not have sent me this chance
can Jewish community dur- to do charity.' God an-
ing the election period on is- swers, 'Learn from the Pro-
sues here and beyond," Dr. verbs: "The wicked shall
Shapiro told the Labor Zion- not be unpunished." ' " —
ists meeting here.
Bera kot, 13a.
D—Friday, Nov. 3, 1972
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
RE-ELECT PROSECUTOR
TOM
PLUNKETT
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