Israel Will Compromise on Land, but Not on Security, Allon Tells UJA V-iEW YORK (JTA) — Is- rael's Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Alton reaffirmed that Israel is ready to negotiate with any Arab government at any time, anywhere in the world." Addressing more than 2,000 American Jewish leaders and guests at the closing banquet of the United Jewish Appeal's national conference which launched the 1973 campaign, Alton also declared: "We are ready to compromise on ter- ritory, but cannot and will not compromise on security. Tere is no problem, includ- ing the so-called Palestinian question, which cannot be solved by negotiations. More- over, no problem of any kind can be solved through hostili- ties, whether waged by ter-' rorists or regular armies." Alton, considered by many as one of Israel's leading doves, warned, however, that "new voices of warmonger- ing" beard recently in Cairo and Damascus "should now be taken seriously." He branded the Arab-in- spired resolution adopted Friday by the United Na- tarns General Assembly as "inflicting great damage on the prospect of peace" and assailed it as creating new illusions in Arab capitals that "can only strengthen Arab leaders in their beliefs that they can achieve their aims at the expense of vital and legitimate Israeli in- terests." Alton said that world ten- sions are relaxing , but that the lavish Soviet military equipment being given to Egypt and Syria "can only encourage the militaristic at- titudes of the Arab coun- tries." If 51/2 years after the Six-Day War there is still no peace in the Middle East, "it is not because of Israeli policy, but in spite of it," Alton charged. He asserted that Israel has made great strides in the im- provement of social stand- ards, with special attention to the under-privileged. After defense, education for Israeli Jews and Arabs "has the highest priority in the governmental budget," he stated. Allon stated that Israel is grateful to the Soviet authori- ties for granting exit visas to Jews to leave for Israel, but underscored that "we must unite in our efforts and mobi- lize world public opinion In order to persuade the Soviet government to remove all obstacles for the Jews" and to abolish the "shameful practice of ransom." The Israeli leader declared that the size of the immigra- tion will not be limited by any quota system and that Israel is meeting the chal- lenge of integrating all those who are arriving. Ile added that in addition to Israel's concern for Soviet Jews, the Jewish state "shall not rest until the last suffer- ing Jew from Iraq and Syria will be allowed to leave and live in freedom." Separate Peace With Jordan Possibly 'In Theory': Allon WASHINGTON (JTA) — Deputy Premier Yigal Allon of Israel said here Tuesday that there was the possibility of a separate peace between Israel and Jordan "at least in theory." Appearing on the NBC "Today" show, Allon would not confirm press reports that he had secret contacts last week with emissaries of King Hussein of Jordan in London. The reports were de- nied by Allon's office in Jerusalem at the time. At a press conference later Tuesday, Allon said there was not likely to be a new American peace initiative in the Middle East in the near future although the U.S. would continue to offer its good offices to the parties to reach an agreem Allon spoke following a two-hour luncheon meeting with Secretary of State Wil- liam Rogers. He said that Rogers "accepts, the view that the situation (in the Middle East) is so delicate that no premature steps should be taken." Asked by reporters when he thought the situation would not be delicate, Alton said "When bath sides ask the U.S. to mediate or when the U.S. invents a new idea." He cautioned that the U.S. should consult with both parties be- fore making any public an- nouncements. Alton suggested that nego- tiations for an interim agree- ment on the Suez Canal and an overall peace settlement could take place simultane- ously by two separate "teams." He added that Israel was ready to agree to proximity talks because of the internal domestic situation in the Arab countries, but observed that unless the final talks were face-to-face, the agree- ment that emerged would not be trustworthy. In London Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel said that Israel's position at present in the administered Arab territories is fully legitimate until there is a peace treaty signed which would alter the situation. Eban, appearing at a press conference at the con- clusion of the London meet- ing of the Socialist Interna- tional Bureau, made his re- marks in reference to the resolution adopted by the United Nations General As- sembly last Friday. He noted that even the General Assembly, where the Arab states have "an automatic majority" was forced to omit harsh clauses demanding immediate Israeli withdrawal from the territor- ies and implying sanctions for refusal. The Socialist International Bureau decided to reactivate its study group on Soviet Jewry to produce an up-to- date report on recent de- velopment. The bureau also decided to establish a special working committee to study the question of international terrorism. Eban said the study hoped to discredit the claim by Arab terrorists that they acted from lofty motives and to find means to protect large groups of trade union mem- bers endangered by terrorist acts in post offices and at airports. Earlier, Eban met In Costa Rica with President Jose Fig- ueres Ferrer who reaffirmed his support for Israel's Mid- dle East policy. It was the first visit of an Israeli foreign minister to Costa Rica. Eban spoke on the Mid East to the 57-member Costa Rican Parliament, and talked ministry with agriculture leaders about the possibility of applying Israeli technical assistance to developing dairy f a r m i n g in Costa Rica's southern region. Figueres, whose National Liberation Party is a mem- ber with Israel's Labor Party in the Socialist International, replaced a conservative lead- ership in the 1970 elections in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. Lawmaker Cautions Against Shift In U.S. Policy LOS ANGELES (JTA)- Sen. John V. Tunney (D. Calif.) said here Sunday that Israel "is at an international pinnacle" in its foreign re- lations because she enjoys American support and the options of her principal ad- versaries "have been pro- gressively narrowed." But, he cautioned, "Israel faces only one significant danger as we move into a new year. That is a shift in American policy." The California lawmaker, addressing the Southern Area Jewish Federation Confer- ence of Greater Los Angeles on the subject of "Israel's Role in the World-1973," observed that the danger of an American shift stemmed precisely from the outstand- achieved by ing success American support of Israel and Israel's own policies which have all but eliminated the possibility of a military confrontation as a viable option for Israel's Arab neighbors or the Soviet Union. Tunney noted that even the Soviet Union appears "to have concluded, at least for now, that the price they had to pay for their continued interference in the Middle East was toe high in terms of the American reaction It provoked." However, Tunney contin- ued, a feeling among Ameri- can foreign policy makers that America must continue to act as a problem-solver throughout the world could lead to trouble in the Middle East because it "would stimu- late those in the Arab world and perhaps elsewhere who would seek to add tension and uncertainty to the affairs of the region." Yevtushenko Lied; Soviet Bias Is Official,' Emigre Charges .ttlY JOSEPH POLAKOFF • JTA Wa•hingtoe nu Chief WASHINGTON (JTA) — Yevgeni Yevtushenko, Soviet poet-playwright, told "a ter- rible lie" when he asserted there is no official anti-Semi- tism in the Soviet Union, says Dr. Yuri Glazov, philologist and Orientologist who recent- ly emigrated to New York from Moscow via Rome. "Yevtushenko knows he is not speaking the truth," Gia- nni said in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agen- cy in Washington. "Ile con- tradicts what the himself said Bahl Yar ten years ago." Yevtushenko deplored anti- Semitisrn in a celebrated poem after visiting the site of the massacre of Jews and others outside of Kiev by the Nazis in World War II. Recently, however, in a widely publicized interview in Playboy magazine, he said anti-Semitism doesn't official- ly exist in the Soviet Union. Glazov was interviewed im- mediately after be had parti- cipated in a panel discussion on the "Democratic Move- ment in the USSR" at George Washington University before an audience of about 1,000 meetly academicians In the Washington a rea. Two-thirds of the Russian dissidents are "of Jewish or- igin," and "Jew hunting" has increased in the last two years, Glazov said. "Every- one with Jewish blood — half-Jew. quarter-Jew — is the object of that treatment." The situation of the Jew "is now unbearable," Glazov add- ed. "They are not allowed to leave or live. Not all Jews are eager to leave immediately although they know they will face that crucial point. I don't know any Jew who is not 52—Friday, Dec. IS, 1972 tutions for political reasons and also for his Jewish ori- gin. He had signed several pro- tests including the Appeal of 12 Soviet Intellectuals against the Suppression of Iluman Rights in the Soviet Union. "At the end of everything I understand that I am a Jew," he said. "I was ready for ex- ile when I got the visa to Israel." 10 Kiev Jews Write Nixon: Appealed Twice for Ilelp but Received No Answer LONDON (JTA)—Ten Kiev Jews have written to Presi- dent Nixon congratulating him on his re-election but complained that they never received replies to their pre- vious letters appealing for his help in their efforts to obtain exit visas. The text of the letter was made public by the 10 Jews who signed it. The letter noted that some Jewish families in Kiev re- cently received visas. "Their hasty release coincided with the height of your election campaign. But we, unfor tunately, remained among those who only saw others leave." Expressing understanding of Nixon's "efforts directed toward the establishment of business contacts with the Soviet Union," the writers observed that this "may be- come an objective factor in- fluencing the fates of the Jews of Russia who are fighting for their right to repatriate." Tekoah Gives Waldheim Appeal from 230 Soviet Jews UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah Monday gave Secre- tary General Kurt Waldheim THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS an appeal from 239 Soviet thinking of leaving. Anti- Semitic policy is on the state level, Jews are breaking their brains on what to do." Glazov, who is 42 and speaks English well, left Moscow with his half-Jewish wife and their children last April with visas to go to Is- rael, he told JTA. Following their arrival in Mine, Glazov said, "I thank- ed the Jewish Agency" and after three months in Italy he and his family left for the United States. The scholar said he and his family are "under the care of lue Inter- national Rescue Committee," which is a private organiza- tion aiding Eastern European emigrants. Glazov warned against un- derestimating the "clever- ness" of Soviet officialdom on Jewish emigration. "They use double bookkeeping," he said, noting that the Soviet "makes one step towards the demand of international pub- lic opinion" on freedom for Jews and then imposes educa- tion taxes "that make it im- possible for Jews to leave." "I consider myself to be Jewish," Glazov said in re- sponse to a direct question on his identity, "but my ap- proach is synthetical" toward Soviet affairs. Asked why he did not go to Israel, he replied that he does "not exclude the possi- bility that in several years I will go to Israel. I am now deeply interwoven with the democratic political move- ment and I want to acquaint myself with Western culture!' Glazov described himself as a "half-assimilated Jew" who was expelled from the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1968 and banned from any employment in Soviet insti- Jews that was refused by the United Nations office in Mos- cow last Friday. The signers — from Moscow, Minsk, Wilna, Kiev, Novosibirsk, Leningrad, Kishinev, Khar- kov and Riga — charged the Soviet government with "violations" of the General Assembly's Declaration of Human Rights, which was 24 years old Sunday. A copy of the appeal was sent to Soviet Ambassador Yakov A. Malik. It asked Waldheim to establish a commission to investigate the Soviet "violations" as part of the UN's "noble task." Works of Jewish Poet Republished in USSR NEW YORK (JTA) — The first publication in five years in the Soviet Union of works by Osip Mandelstam, the late Jewish poet who was ostra- cized and exiled during the Stalin era, is seen by obser- vers here as further evi- dence that writers and poets victimized by Stalin will no longer be purged from So- viet periodicals. In addition, some obser- vers say, the literary rehabil- itation of Mandelstam and the late poet Anna Akhma- tova makes a return to Stalinism less likely than ever. It was noted that Mandel- stam's case is one of a dissi- dent poet, as opposed to a specifically Jewish one be- cause while he did not hide his heritage he expressly re- jected its traditions and lan- guages. His rehabilitation, there- fore, apparently has no re- lation to the current Soviet Jewry situation and the ris- ing demands for eased emi- gration. Born into an assimilated family, the Leningrad intel- lectual was arrested in 1934, charged with satirizing Sta- lin, and was later rearrested and exiled. He died in a labor camp around 1938 at the age of 47. Some say he was insane at the end. Two of his pieces appear in the new addition of the Poetry Annual (PPAA), key- ed to the 50th anniversary Dec. 30 of the Union of So- viet Socialist Republics. Artist and Writers Spotlight Plight of Soviet Jews NEW YORK (JTA) — At the first of a series of press conferences at which celebri- ties will spotlight the plight of Soviet Jews, a telephone call was placed to Dr. Leo- nid Tarassuk of Leningrad, who was fired as curator of the Hermitage after applying for a visa to Israel. Dr. Tarassuk's expressive and extensive greetings — "I thank all Americans. We know what you are doing for us. Thank you, thank you" — moved soprano Beverly Sills and other activists at the press conference to tears. The call was placed by Clive Barnes, dance and drama critic of the New York Times. The press conference was sponsored by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry and Artists and Writers for Peace in the Middle East (AWPME). Appeals were sent to So- viet President Nikon V. Pod- gorny and Culture Minister Ekaterina Furtseva above the signatures of the partici- pants at the press conference and tenor Richard Tucker. The United Nations office in Moscow has refused to ac- cept a petition from 239 Jews urging UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to investi- gate violations of human rights in the Soviet Union, it was reported here. Dr. Nahum Goldman, pres- ident of the World Jewish Congress, wrote to several Western European govern- ment leaders, to President Tito of Yugoslavia, Roman- ian Prime Minister Nicolae Ceaucescu, and to the gen- eral secretaries of the French and Italian Communist part- ies asking them to intervene with the Soviet government for an amnesty for Soviet Jewish "Prisoners of Con- science" and for permossion for them to go to Israel. The Jewish vigil across the street from the Soviet Embas- sy in Washington entered its third year Sunday. It was begun Dec. 10, 1970 —Human Rights Day—to pro- test Soviet treatment of Jews desiring to emigrate and to support Soviet Jews' rights to live as Jews. The demon- strators meet daily at noon on the steps of the Philip Murray Building, gazing si- lently for 15 minutes at the Embassy across the street. Numerous prominent non- Jews have joined the vigil occasionally, including the Rev. John Steinbruck, a Lu- theran pastor who comes al- most every day. The vigil has become a reg- ular stop for tourist buses. Hundreds of yeshiva stu- dents, led by Rabbi Haskell Lookstein, principal of the Ramat School, prayed and sang at the Isaiah Wall across from the United Na- tions and lit candles for Jews denied their right to abserve their religion in the Soviet Union, The rally was sponsored by the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry.