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Percy and Javits Co-Sponsor
Senate Tay-Sachs Measure
WASHINGTON — Senator
Charles H. Percy (R. Ill.)
has joined Senator Jacob K.
Javits (R. N.Y.) in sponsor-
ship of legislation to estab-
lish a national program for
the diagnosis, control and
prevention of Tay-Sachs dis-
ease.
The bill would create Tay-
Sachs screening and counsel-
ing programs, on a voluntary
basis, at a one-time cost of
$3,000,000. T h e program
would then become self-sus-
taining.
Tay-Sachs disease can af-
fect one in 30 Jews in the
U.S. of East European origin
and one in 300 of all other
Americans. It is now possible
in the earliest weeks of preg-
nancy to identify a Tay-
Sachs fetus.
Infant victims of Tay-Sachs
disease require hospitaliza-
tion for about 24 months,
after which they die. Sena-
tor Percy said, on cosponsor-
ing the legislation, that "We
must act now so that more
children can be spared this
terrible disease."
Sen. Percy Tested Soviet Media
With Views on Human Rights
WASHINGTON — Senator Soviet radio and television in
Charles H. Percy (R-Ill.) said Washington last month was
that an interview he gave edited to remove his remarks
about limitations on human
rights in the Soviet Union.
In an interview with Pro-
fessor Valentin Zorin about
the visit of Leonid
Brezhnev to the U.S., taped
and filmed in the senator's
NEW YORK (JTA) — The office on June 26, Percy said,
Zionist Organization of Amer- "There is a strong demand
ica will move its national in our country, and we tried
headquarters this fall from to explain this to Mr. Brezh-
the building it has occupied nev, for an extension of
for the past 20 years to a human rights — freedom of
building at 4 E. 34th St. The movement, freedom of emi-
five-story structure, costing gration, freedom of all minor-
$875,000, to be known as the ities, whether they be Jews
ZOA House, "will be a na- or otherwise — Evangelical
tional center of Zionist activi- Christians we are deeply con-
ties," according to Herman cerned about, and obviously
L. Weisman, ZOA president. the peoples of the Ukraine
"Its acquisition, during the and the Baltic countries."
When the Percy interview
celebration of the ZOA's 75th
Jubilee Year, enhances the was carried on Radio Moscow
image of Zionist and Israel- with Russian translation on
oriented activities and is an June 28, however, this state-
ment was not broadcast.
In an interview with Radio
Liberty, on June 22, Percy
had made a similar state-
ment which was broadcast to
the Soviet Union by Radio
Liberty facilities in Munich
on June 27. In this interview,
-Percy mentioned "the right
that all people should have
for freedom of movement"
and said "we are concerned
about any people any place
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MRS.
GOODMAN
MR.
in the world that might not
affirmation of faith in the have the freedom of choice of
abiding value of the Zionist movement and that would in-
idea for the future of the clude those in the Baltic
States."
Jewish people."
Percy also pointed out the
The purchase of the mid-
town Manhattan building was discrepancies in the figures
made possible by two gifts given by Brezhnev on Jewish
totaling $250,000 from Jacob emigration from the Soviet
and Libby Goodman of New Union.
York. Jacob Goodman, a. ZOA
Commenting on the two
leader for more than four interviews, the senator said
decades, is an honorary vice- that "the need to continue
president of the ZOA.
funding for Radio Liberty
Weisman said that the and its sister station Radio
building, which comprises Free Europe is well illustrat-
more than 27,000 square feet ed by the edited presentation
of floor space, will include of my remarks on Radio
an auditorium, display and Moscow. We must still make
exhibit areas, a decorative efforts to get objective re-
reception area, hoard and porting through to the peo-
meeting rooms, facilities for ples of the Soviet Union and
the organization's administra- Eastern Europe."
tive and publications offices,
Percy said he realized that
speakers' and artists' bureau, Soviet media would probably
national women's committee, edit his remarks to eliminate
and public affairs, aliya, his statement . on human
youth, tourism, world Zionist rights. "But I thought it
affairs and technical depart- would be a good test of the
ments.
objectivity of Soviet media,"
he said. "For that reason I
Building Dedicated
welcome the Interview."
JERUSALEM — Nineteen
Senator Percy is the prin-
families of advanced grad- cipal sponsor of S. 1914, the
uate students will soon make Senate bill to authorize con-
their home in the Charles E. tinued assistance to Radio
Smith Family Residence Liberty and Radio Free
Building, which was dedi- Europe. The principal Demo-
cated on the Hebrew Uni- cratic sponsor is Senator
versity's Mount Scopus cam- Hubert H. Humphrey of
pus.
Minnesota.
Goodmans' Gift
Makes Possible
New ZOA Site
ulb right's Criticisms Rejected by Many Leaders
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has attacked it on past oc-
casions but not in such
scathing terms as those he
used July 11. "Learning to
live together in peace is the
most important issue for the
Soviet Union and the United
States, too important to be
compromised by meddling—
even idealistic meddling—in
each other's affairs," Ful-
bright said.
He implied that Jackson's
idealism itself is flawed by
being selective. Referring to
the Washington law-maker's
frequent invocation of the
United Nations Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
as a basis for his amend-
ment, Fulbright noted that
the Universal Declaration
establishes not only the right
to leave a country but the
right of return.
"The latter right is in-
voked by the displaced
Palestinians who are denied
repatriation to their former
homes within the territory
of Israel. Is the right of the
Palestinians to return to
their homes from which they
were expelled any less fund-
amental than the right of
Soviet Jews to make new
homes in a new land?" Ful-
bright asked.
He added, however, that
even though he opposes the
Jackson Amendment and
would continue to oppose it
even if it were broadened
"to redress a wider range
of the world's injustices,"
pressure could be applied
even to big countries like
the Soviet Union to change
their domestic policies.
"If the Russians want our
trade badly enough, they
will bend to the Jackson
Amendment: they largely
have already," Fulbright
said referring to the fact
that Jews are leaving the
USSR at the rate of 30,000
a year compared to only
1,000 permitted to leave in
1970. But, Fulbright said,
"At most it is a victory for
the rights of a small fraction
of the millions of persecuted
people upon the earth, and
they are by no means the
worst persecuted."
The Jackson-Fulbright ex-
change came on the eve of
hearings by the Senate per-
manent subcommittee on in-
vestigations, chaired by Jack-
son, which is taking up
"negotiations and statecraft"
in connection with the Eu-
ropean Security Conference.
strategic weapons talks and
other U.S. and Western dis-
cussions with the Soviet
Union.
The subcommittee heard
Prof. Leopold Labedz, a
Polish-born British Jew who
is editor of Survey, a journal
of East-West studies publish.
ed by Oxford University
Press. Labedz, who has been
a visiting professor at Stan-
ford University since 1971,
attacked Fulbright and others
who have called the Jackson
Amendment an anachronism
of the cold war.
Prof. Labedz said that one
of the "few Western suc-
cesses" in the history of
negotiations with the Soviet
Union is the current re-
luctant Soviet permission
given to some of the Jewish
citizens to emigrate to Is-
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rael. "It has demonstrated
that persistence pays when
the Soviet leaders need
something and an appropri-
ate pressure is applied,"
Labedz said.
Jewish Groups Charge
Fulbright Appeases
Despotism, Oppression
NEW YORK (JTA) — Two
national Jewish organiza-
tions accused Sen. J. William
Fulbright of "disdain" for
the moral considerations of
U.S.-Soviet trade relations
and "appeasement" of "to-
talitarian despotism and op-
pression." The American
Jewish Congress, in a state-
ment by its president, Rabbi
Arthur Hertzberg, and Har-
old Ostroff, president of the
Workmen's C i r c 1 e, de-
nounced the Arkansas Demo-
crat's speech last Wednes-
day attacking the Jackson
Amendment.
Rabbi Hertzberg declared
that "Senator Fulbright's
statement betrays an ignor-
ance of the most important
facts concerning the emigra-
tion policies of foreign gov-
ernments" and "displays a
depressing disdain for the
most significant moral con-
siderations of American-
Soviet trade relations.
He said that "The fact is
that only the Corn munist-
bloc countries deny their
citizens the right and op-
portunity to emigrate . . ."
Ostroff accused Fulbright
of raising the "spectre of an
American brand of appease-
ment." He charged that Ful-
bright's "allusion . . . to the
plight of Palestinian Arabs
and comparing them to the
plight of Soviet Jews" is "an
effort to light the fuses of
Arab terrorism and extin-
guish the flames of hope for
Soviet Jews."
The Workmen's Circle
president added: "For a man
who applauded the actions
of Governor (Orville) Fau-
bus at Little Rock (Ark.)
and who has remained mute
about Wounded Knee, his
own dismal record on civil
and human rights hardly
qualifies him to lecture the
77 senators and 185 House
members who support the
Jackson Amendment . . . His
opposition to the ratification
of the Genocide Convention
is strange for a man who
talks about detente in this
world."
Fulbright's speech was
also assailed by Rabbi Sam-
uel Kenner, chairman of the
Soviet Jewry Committee of
the Jewish Community Coun-
cil of Metropolitan Boston.
"For such a powerful voice
in Congress on the immoral-
ity of this nation's involve-
ment in Southeast Asia to
now propose that moral con-
cern by this nation's Con-
gress for the freedom and
human rights of all those
persecuted who seek to leave
their prison (not only the
Jewish people) . . . is to
deny the moral premise on
which this nation was found-
ed," Rabbi Kenner said.
Britain to Propose
Action on Hijacking
LONDON (JTA) — Great
Britain will propose the with-
drawal of overflight rights
from countries condoning hi-
jacking at a special assem-
bly of the International Civil
Aviation Organization (ICAO)
in Rome next month.
This proposal was disclosed
to the JTA by Alderman Mi-
chael Fidler, MP, who made
available a letter from
Michael Heseltine, MP, min-
ister of state for aerospace.
The letter was written in
the aftermath of Fidler's dis-
cussion in Washington earli-
er this year about measures
on hijacking with members
of Congress and the admini-
stration.
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