Keating Slated for Israel Ambassadorship
In This Issue:
Special Passover
Reliable Washington sources stated this week that former U. S. Senator Kenneth B. Keating is
slated to be the next U. S. ambassador to Israel.
After his defeat for re-election to the U. S. Senate from New York by Robert Kennedy, Keating
was ambassador to India and was elected to a judgeship.
Keating would succeed Walworth Barbour, who is retiring from the Israel ambassadorship, a
post he has held for 11 years.
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Terrorists Bomb Three Cities;
Israeli Arabs Major Sufferers
S. Carolina Honors Salvador
First American Jew Who Held
Elective Representative Post
Special to The Jewish News
COLUMBIA, S. C.—With all of the 124 members of
the South Carolina House of Carolina as backers, a con-
current resolution was adopted proposing commemorative
stamps for five American Revolution patriots, four of
them foreign-born. The names proposed include Francis
Salvador, the first Jew to die for American independence
in the Revolutionary War. The other three are Count
Casimir Pulaski of Poland, Major Gen. Baron De Kalb
of Germany and Sgt. William Jasper of Ireland.
Francis Salvador came to this country in 1773, and
only a year later he was elected a member of the first
Provincial Congress of South Carolina, the first American
Jew to become an elected representative of a popular"
assembly.
Born in London in 1747, son of Jacob Salvador, he
stemmed from a family of distinguished Portuguese Jews
who changed their name from Jessurun Rodriguez to Sal-
vador.
He inherited a large fortune, but the wealth dissipated
with the decline of the Dutch East India Company and
as a result of a Lisbon earthquake. He decided to seek his
fortune in America, settled in South Carolina in December
1773 and became a successful planter and landowner.
Within a year he was the owner of a plantation of 7,000
acres.
He became a passionate patriot and was associated
with such rebels as Pinckney, Drayton, Rutledge, Ham-
mond and Laurents.
Named to the South Carolina Provincial Congress,
Dec. 19, 1774, he became an active member of the assem-
bly committee starting with the term that commenced on
Jan. 11, 1775. He met a tragic death on Aug. 1, 1776—only
three years after coming to this country, and was buried
in Charleston. (Continued on Page 5)
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Police are investigating a series of terrorist bombings in Jerusalem, Nablus
and Hadera Friday. The only casualties occurred in Hadera where three persons were slightly
injured when an explosive charge detonated on a bench in the bus terminal. They were treated at
a hospital and discharged.
No one was injured when a bomb exploded in a Jerusalem park near the Town Hall. In
Nablus an explosive charge found attached to a bus was dismantled before it went off. The bus was
employed carrying local Arabs to and from jobs in Israel. Although scores of Arabs were rounded
up for questioning in each of the incidents, only one arrest was reported.
Police are holding Rashdi Darwish Mahmoud of Nablus who has reportedly confessed to
placing the explosive charge on the bus. He is also suspected of involvement in other acts of sabotage.
Police have eye-witness descriptions of two suspects in the Hadera bombing. One was
described as a taxi driver and the other as a man seen leaving a plastic bag on a bench in the
bus station shortly before the explosion.
Police Minister , Shlomo Hillel said the apparent aim of the terrorist acts was to disrupt the
trend toward normal relations and co-existence between Israelis and Arabs from the administered
territories, particularly those working in Israel.
Hillel observed that Arabs suffered more than Israelis from these sporadic acts of violence.
He said that 28 Jewish soldiers and civilians were killed by terrorist acts since the 1967 Six-Day
War compared to a death toll among Arabs of 240 in the same period.
An Israeli army patrol found and dismantled several mortar shells found on the Golan Heights
Monday night which were set for firing by an improvised launching device. The shells were found
east of Ramat Magshimim settlement.
Despite the recent murder by Palestinian terrorists in Khartoum of one Belgian and two
American diplomats, Sudanese President Gaafar Numeiry said in London his country will continue
to support the Palestinians against Israel. Speaking at a press conference during his visit, Numeiry
termed the Khartoum incident "unforgivable" and promised that the perpetrators would be rigor-
ously dealt with. He did not indicate when their trial would begin.
Palestinian Mohammed Fuheid, 24, the Arab arrested at Heathrow Airport two months
ago and charged with possession of arms and explosives, Tuesday pleaded guilty to possession of
arms but denied charges involving possession of plastic explosives.
Explosives, a pistol and ammunition were found in the false bottom of a suitcase belonging,
to Fuheid when he arrived at Heathrow with a false passport. The trial continues.
Hungering Washington Protester
Across the street from the Soviet Embassy,
on 16th Street in Washington, 25-year-old Mark
Yampolsky sat in a black inflatable chair for the
second week, in a near state of collapse after
more than 10 days of a hunger strike, demanding
that the Soviet Union grant exit visas to his wife's
parents and his sister.
At the same time, his wife is conducting a
hunger strike in London, also across from the
Soviet Embassy.4The Yampolsky story was re-
lated to the United States Senate in a speech on
the Senate floor on March 29 by Senator Henry
M. Jackson. The accompanying deeply moving
text of the Washington Senator's expose of the
status of Russian Jewry throws light on the en-
tire tragedy for which Senator Jackson and '15
associates in the Senate seek solution through
the Jackson Amendment. -
Yampolsky challenged comments by Deputy
Secretary of State Kenneth P. Rush on the Soviet
Jewry issue. Speaking at the State Department's
foreign policy conference for news media repre-
sentatives last Thursday, Rush praised the Soviet
Union for its "commendable flexibility" on emi-
gration and predicted that anti-Semitism would
arise in Russia if Congress failed to grant most-
A, favored-nation trade benefits to the USSR.
Jackson, Describing USSR Jewry's Tragedy
Calls Reported Shift in Tax Policy 'a Fraud'
.
The Jackson Amendment on Freedom of Emigration: Remarks
by Senator Henry M. Jackson on U. S. Senate Floor, March 29.
Mr. President, last week there were hints from .Moscow that Soviet citizens wishing to emi-
grate would be granted permission to do so. The suggestion that Soviet citizens would at last be
given their freedom was whispered to Western journalists by unnamed Soviet "sources." A handful of
visas were distributed. The news was managed with unusual sophistication: the Soviets went so
far as to invite a television crew to the Moscow offices. where cut-rate visas were being issued to
educated Jews who had been waiting months and even years for permission to emigrate. And Victor
Louis, the Moscow "journalist" who surfaces like an oil slick whenever the Kremlin needs a PR man,
suggested in an Israeli newspaper that the Kremlin has decided to stop collecting the "education"
tax on emigrating Jews, but the law will remain on the statute books.
That was last week.
This week, Mr. President, one courageous family, scattered on three continents, is risking
starvation to obtain freedom and to make it clear to us what they already know: that there has
been no genuine movement 'toward a policy of free_ emigration in the Soviet Union, that families
are still being cruelly divided, and that, tax or no tax, there are innocent men and women in the
Soviet Union who cannot buy a visa at any price.
Mr. President, I want to speak for a moment about Mark Yampolsky and his family. And I
want my colleagues to know that as I speak Mark Yampolsky is standing in front of the Soviet
Embassy on 16th Street on the third day of a hunger strike; his wife, Eleanora, is in front of
the Soviet Embassy in London, also on a hunger strike; and Eleanora's parents and sister are ill,
perhaps gravely, after a six-day hunger strike in Novosibirsk, Siberia. The inhuman suffering that
these brave people have endured is sadly familiar. (Continued on Page 17)