State Dept. Spokesman Echoes Russ Anti-Semitism
Threat; Sisco Dismisses Oil Issue as M.E. Danger
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Deputy Secretary of State
Kenneth D. Rush indicated on
March 29 that the U.S. Con-
gress will grant trade bene-
fits to the . Soviet Union and
that the Soviet government
will set aside its education
tax on Soviet Jewish emi-
grants.- At the same time
Rush cautioned that Congres-
sional refusal to grant the
trade benefits unless the So-
viet Union rescinds its emi-
gration restrictions on i t s
citizens may set off a wave of
anti-Semitism in Russia and
reduce present emigration.
Addressing 600 American
media leaders at the State
Department Foreign Policy
Conference for Editors and
Broadcasters, Rush made
his statement in response to
relationship between the
Jackson-Mills-Vanik propos-
als in Congress and U.S.-S'o-
viet trade.
"There is a grave danger,"
he said, "that we might be
pressing too hard legislative-
ly bringing about a counter-
productive reaction in Russia,
producing anti-Semitism and
reducing emigration. We
think that the best way is
not to limit granting of MFN
(most favored nation) bene-
fits to the lifting of the exit
tax. We hope and expect' a
very responsible attitude on
the part of Congress. We
hope to go forward with the
proposed MFN treatment for
Russia and at the same time
that this tax will be waived
by the Russians. This I can-
not forecast at this time, but
I am optimistic."
Rush's references to the
danger of anti-Semitism echo-
ed remarks at the Soviet-
American Trade Conference
here a month ago by the di-
rector of the Institute for
U.S. Affairs at the Soviet
Academy of Science in Mos-
cow, G. A. Arbatov, who de-
clared in response to ques-
tions by the JTA that if So-
viet-American relations were
not "normalized," anti-Semi-
tism would arise in the U.S.
and the Soviet Union.
Speaking of the Soviet gov-
ernment's "commendable
flexibility" on the subject of
emigration, Rush pointed out
that in 1970 about 2,000 Jews
left the Soviet Union while
last year 32,000 had emi-
grated and that this year
emigration was at the rate of
3,500 per month.
The JTA has been inform=
ed that in January and Feb-
ruary the Jewish emigration
totaled 5,000 persons which
represented a drop of about
1,000 from the total of the
corresponding two - m o , n t h
period last year.
While conceding different
opinions on the future of So-
viet emigration, Rush said,
"what we want is to do what-
ever we can to create fret
emigration of Jews — educa-
ted or poor or uneducated."
But he' felt that the way to
do it was not on preventing
MFN. Rush was a substitute
speaker for Secretary of State
William P. Rogers who is ill
with laryngitis.
Fears in the U.S. that the
Arab-Israel conflict is jeo-
pardizing future imports of
Middle East oil.and creating
gasoline and fuel shortages
were dismissed by Assistant.
Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs, Joseph
Sisco, in his address at the
Foreign Policy Conference
for Editors and Broadcasters.
He said that while there will
be "flux" in the relations be-
tween the U.S. and Middle
Eastern oil-producing coun-
tries, he "seriously doubted
that the mutuality of interest
between the producer and the
consumer would in fact be
jeopardized" by the • Arab-
Israeli dispute.
He cautioned the.600 Amer-
ican Media leaders not to
"overdraw the implications"
of the Arab-Israeli conflict
and current petroleum short-
ages.
Sisco, who is the govern-
ment's top specialist on the
Middle East, commented that
"it is not in the U.S. national
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interest to be overly reliant
on any one area or source."
He forecast some future dif-
ficulties, however, but ex-
pressed the hope that "ad-
justments" between the pro-
ducers and consumers of oil
could• be made. According to
Sisco, "the U.S. has the re-
sources to meet future needs,
both for security and econom-
ic reasons including the bal-
ance of payments factor."
Sisco reiterated the U.S.
position that an interim ac-
cord between Israel and
Egypt to reoperi the Suez
Canal was the best means
to move toward an overall
Middle East settlement. He
upheld Israel's refusal to
commit itself to a total with-
drawal from Sinai before en-
tering negotiations with
Egypt, a precondition insist-
ed on by Cairo.
Sisco observed that the
Israeli and • Arab govern-
ments possess different views
on the meaning of negotia-
tions. "Our Arab friends un-
fortunately, think of negotia-
tions as capitulation," he
said. "To the Israelis, they
are much more than a pro-
cedural device. To the Is-
raelis, negotiations would
mean that for the first time
. . . the adversary is willing
to sit down with them and
really talk out the prob-
lems."
Is r a el circles expressed
satisfaction with Sisco's com-
ments on the energy crisis.
Observers deduced f r o m
this that the U.S. administra-
tion is aware of the long-term
dangers of dependence on
Mid East sources and would
plan to overcome them by
developing local alternatives.
On the other hand, Sisc o
seemed to imply that in the
immediate future America's
mounting dependency on Arab
oil was going to be a problem.
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WASHINGTON — James
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sored trip this month.
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Teacher of the Year, will
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