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Kissinger Defines

Heritage Relating

to His Appointment

Dr. Henry Kissinger's appointment as
secretary of state elicted comments re-
lating to his Jewishness. Arabs cried out:
"He is a Jew and a Zionist." Kissinger
defined his heritage, vis-a-vis his new
government role, at his press conference,
as follows:

The President has repeatedly stated that the Middle East is an important area,
and perhaps the most dangerous area, and I will pursue, under the President's direc-
tion, those policies which are considered necessary. and in the past that has sometimes

meant a less than restrained profile.
I'm asked to conduct the foreign policy of the United States and I will conduct
the foreign policy of the United States, regardless of religious and national heritage.
There is no other country in the world in which a man of my background could be even
considered for an office such as the one to which I have been nominated, and that
imposes on me a very grave responsibility which I will pursue in the national interest.

(World reactions to Kissinger appointment in stories on Page 5)

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Sports Arena

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in World of
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August 31, 1973

Israel Asks Just Action by UN Agency

ICAO Confronted With Long List
of Unpunished Arab Hijackings

U.S. Would Oppose ICAO
Measures Against Israel

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Deputy Secretary of
State Kenneth Rush told a delegation of Jewish lead-
ers here that the United States would oppose any
punitive measures against Israel at the general
assembly of the International Civil Aviation Associa-
tion (ICAO), according to Rabbi Israel Miller. a
member of the delegation.
Rabbi Miller, acting chairman of the Conference
of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organiza-
tions, said the delegation met with Rush to express
the concern of the American Jewish community
over any such measures before the ICAO, a spe-
cialized UN agency.
The possibility of such action by the ICAO
stemmed from a resolution adopted unanimously
by the UN Security Council on Aug. 15, condemning
Israel for its Aug. 10 interception of a Lebanese air-
liner.
The resolution called on the ICAO to consider
the Security Council's action in discussing at its
general assembly measures to safeguard interna-
tional civil aviation against such incidents.
A similiar condemnation of Israel and request
to the ICAO general assembly to consider the Is-
raeli interception was approved unanimously at a
meeting in. Montreal on Aug. 21 of the ICAO general
council. The meeting was a special one requested
by Lebanon.
Rabbi Miller expressed satisfaction with Rush's
statement and added that the deliberations in Rome
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—Israel moved this week to block expected attempts by Lebanon and other
Arab states and their allies to have the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) impose sanc-
tions against it for the Aug. 10 interception and diversion of a Lebanese airliner, which Israel believed
at the time had terrorist leaders aboard.
The Israeli moves coincided with the opening in Rome of the ICAO's extraordinary assembly
and diplomatic conference to consider collective international measures against hijackers.
As the Rome meeting got under way, the Israeli Embassy here released a background paper list-
ing 11 episodes of air piracy between 1968 and 1972 in which, it said, the ICAO called to take steps
against offending member states. Six of the incidents were planned and executed by terrorist organization
headquarters in Beirut according to the Israeli paper.
Israel's fear of possible one-sided moves stemmed from the fact that the 128-member ICAO,
like the United Nations of which it is an agency, is susceptible to pressure from the Arab states.
The ICAO extraordinary assembly, which will continue until Sept. 21, is considering two specific
proposals for amendments to its 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, the agency's
founding statute. Both amendments, one submitted by France and the other by Britain and Switzer-
land, agree that contracting states should be obliged to arrest hijackers, put them on trial or extradite
them.
They agree further that the state to which the hijacker has brought an aircraft must help the
airliner continue its journey and must give all necessary assistance to passengers and crew.
The amendments differ on the penalties to be imposed on states that fail to ratify them within
a certain time limit.
The French version would deprive such a state of ICAO membership. The British and Swiss
proposals would only deprive them of voting rights in the extraordinary assembly and general council.
However, the British proposal adds as a further penalty for non-compliance the banning of air
traffic of an offending state through the territory of ICAO member states.
The Israeli background paper charged that "Lebanese attempts to dis-
cuss the imposition of sanctions on Israel has no foundation, contradicts
Terrorists
the Chicago Convention and constitutes an effort to misuse this specialized
agency of the UN as yet another forum for political warfare against Israel."
Paid Off
The paper noted that only the UN Security Council, under the char-
by Airlines ter, may impose sanctions. It recalled that the Security Council's Aug. 15

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Soviet 'Culture . Belied in Hostility to Visiting
Israeli Athletes, Brutality Toward Russian Jews

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Deputy Premier Yigal Allon expressed bitter indignation over the harassment of the
Israeli team that participated in the World University Games in Moscow last week.
Welcoming the sportsmen home, Allon said the hostility shown the Israeli athletes and the brutal treat-
ment of Russian Jews who came to root for them amounted to abuses unfit for a nation that considers itself cul-
tured
Allon's remarks were the first official reaction by an Israeli leader to the events in Moscow that aroused
the ire of Jews all over the world.
Allon said that Russia should not be the site of the 1980 Olympics.
The deputy premier said there was "nothing more cynical" on the part of the Russians than their invi-
tation to El Fatah chief Yassir Arafat to attend the games as a guest of honor of the Soviet government.
"As commander of El Fatah, Arafat is also commander of the Black September which was responsible
for the massacre of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich," Allon said.
Adin Talbar, who headed the Israeli delegation to the games in Moscow, reported that KGB (Russian
secret police) agents attacked Jews who came to the University Games village to say goodby to the Israeli
athletes as they left by bus for the airport.
He said the KGB men grabbed the Jews, heat them up and dragged them away. "We felt very badly
that these Jews should suffer for us. All the way home we thought of them. Their only crime was that they
wanted to give us some presents," Talbar said.
Talbar blamed the International Federation of University Sports, the committee that organized the
games, for permitting the harassment and for not sending the observers they promised.
(The Soviet Embassy in Washington charged that the stories about the harassment of the Israeli ath-
letes were "fabricated" by "Zonists," who have launched a "slander campaign, trying to compromise the hold-
ing of the Universiade" in the Soviet Union.)
The athletes had attended Sabbath services in the Central Synagogue in Moscow, where they were greeted
with exuberance and enthusiasm by Muscovite Jews.
Yair Frishman, manager of the Israeli volleyball team, said the visit to the Moscow synagogue afforded
many Moscow Jews their first opportunity to meet and speak with Israelis. The visiting athletes exchanged
postcards, pins, emblems and other small gifts with the Moscow Jews. Many asked them to convey greetings to
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relatives already in Israel.

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Rabbis Wine and Kaplan
Support Manifesto by 120
Rejecting Religious Dogma

Rabbi Sherwin Wine of the Society for Humanistic
Judaism is listed among the 120 religious leaders, phil-
osophers, scientists and writers whose names appear on a
document issued this week criticizing religious dogmatism.
The document stresses that humans alone must solve
problems that affect their existence on earth.
Dr. Paul Kurtz, editor of the Humanist, prepared the
drafts for Humanist Manifesto II. Humanist Manifesto I
was written in 1933 by the late John Dewey.
Signatories to Humanist
Manifesto II include Prof.
Mordecai M. Kaplan, Prof.
Joseph L. Blau and other
noted leaders.
The new statement de-
clares: "No deity will save
us; we must save our-
selves." Highlights in the
manifesto include the fol-
lowing:
"We believe that tradi-
tional dogmatic or author-
avian religions that place
revelation, God, ritual or
creed about human needs
and experience do a dis-
service to the human
species.
RABBI SHERWIN WINE
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