Kissinger Confronts His Critics at Senate Hearings

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The Kissinger hearings ad-
journed until today when the
Senate committee will hear
a series of witnesses gener-
ally opposed to his nomina-
tion.
These will include the
Liberty Lobby, a Washington-
based extreme-right-wing or-
ganization that has been
linked with anti-Semites and
hate mongers in the past;
the Federation of Arab
Am e r i c an Organizations,
based in New York; the
Washington-based Americans
for Democratic Action
(ADA); the Lawyers Com-
mittee on American Policy in
Vietnam, based in New York;
and the American Friends
Service Committee of Phil-
1phia.
yen. Scott said he believed
most of these witnesses are
"responsible people, some
from the far right and some
from the left spectrum" and
that he didn't expect any
hate witnesses. The senator
added, "When I hear wit-
nesses expressing venomous
points of view, I usually go
after them to expose their
motivation. I expect to make
them very sorry for indulg-
ing in such tactics."
The Liberty Lobby has
been sending out a flyer
headed "Emergency P.S."
in which it urges the recipi-
ent to "contact your two sen-
ators" to oppose confirma-
tion of Dr. Kissinger and to
"send a generous contribu-
tion to Liberty Lobby which
will devote every radio pro-
gram to Kissinger beginning
Sept. 4." Liberty Lobby
broadcasts on 81 radio sta-
tions in the U.S.
The flyer urges that Dr.
Kissinger not be confirmed
because "plenty of native-
born Americans would make
a good secretary of state"
and that "he (Kissinger) is
recognized as being pro-
Soviet and pro-world govern-
ment" and his appointment
"is a slap in the face of the
oil-rich Arabs who know
where his loyalties really
lie."
The foreign relations com-
mittee disclosed last Friday
that it had received 339 com-
munications, all but one of
which opposed Dr. Kissin-
ger's nomination.
About half of them attacked
Kissinger as a Jew, a Zion-
ist and an agent of interna-
tional Jewish finance. Some
disparaged his German ac-
cent.
A committee staff official
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that the anti-Kis-
singer communications were
about 50 per cent from right-
wing and 50 per cent from
liberal and left-wing sources.
Some were from persons
"obviously mentally d i s-
turbed" while some came
m poiltical science stu-
ts who questioned Dr.
- .ssinger's foreign policies
and his appropriateness to
be in the cabinet because of
Watergate implications, the
official said.
Dr. Kissinger told the Sen-
ate committee last Friday
that although he is "emotion-
ally connected" and person-
ally "pained" by Soviet Jew-
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supports granting most-fa-
vored-nation treatment in
trade with the Soviet Union
without insisting that the So-
tviet government relax re-
strictions on emigration.
The United States, he said,
should not be dependent on
changes in the "domestic
structure" of another country
in its foreign affairs.
Adoption of such a princ-
iple, he said, would mean
"we shall find ourselves
massively engaged in a 1 I
countries" a n d "constant
American involvement every-
where."
Sen. Henry M. Jackson
(D. Wash.) declared Monday
that Kissinger is dead wrong
in refusing to insist that the
Soviet Union lift emigration
restrictions in return for U.S.
trade benefits. "He is just
stuck with a stupid admin-
istration policy which they
made last year," Jackson
added.
Jackson spoke at a joint
news conference at the Cap-
itol with Dr. Leonid Taras-
suk, a former curator at the
Hermitage Museum in Len-
ingrad, who recently emi-
grated to Israel.
Sen. George S. McGovern
(D., S.D.) drew a parallel at
the hearings with the Nazi
destruction of the Jews and
Soviet repression. "When the
Nazis were slaughtering Jews
in Germany," he asked Dr.
Kissinger, did he think U.S.
policy should have been di-
rected against halting it al-
though that was an internal
policy too?
"In the 1930s," Dr. Kis-
singer replied, "I was part of
that persecuted minority, so
I am not insensitive to that
situation."
As a historian, he said, he
believed that if the free na-
tions had taken action to curb
Nazi aggression that would
have been an effective ac-
tion. But Dr. Kissinger said
that in the case of the USSR
he f e 1 t t h a t reducing the
danger of war and "forcing
the Soviet Union in a cooper-
ative system" may "over a
period of time mitigate their
system."
Sen. Frank Church (D.,
Ida.) observed that the U.S.
has given $28,000,000,000 in
weapons free to foreign na-
tions since World War II and
asked Dr. Kissinger if mili-
tary grants were still neces-
sary. Kissinger replied that

it depended on individual
cases and cited Jordan as a
nation whose stability it was
important to maintain. Jordan
has received $60,000,000 in
military grant aid from the
U.S. over the past year.
Dr. Kissinger said, in his
initial appearance before the
committee, that the U.S.
"basic policy" toward Israel
has not changed.
Dr. Kissinger told the com-
mittee that if confirmed by
the Senate he would meet
with Israeli and Arab diplo-
mats at the United Nations
General Assembly in New
York soon after it opens Sept.
18, "to see what concrete
steps can be taken" toward
a negotiating process between
them.
Mr. Nixon, in his press con-
ference Sept. 5, said he had
instructed Dr. Kissinger "to
put the highest priority" on
efforts to settle the Middle
East deadlock. Dr. Kissinger
has said that he hopes to visit
the Middle East but no date
has been set for such a visit.
(Observers in Jerusalem
noted that Kissinger may con-
centrate on getting negotia-
tions started between Jeru-
salem and Cairo prior to any
negotiations between Israel
and other Arab states. They
viewed the Jerusalem-Cairo
approach as an aim in itself
even if there are no practical
results from this first phase
of negotiations.)
Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.,
N.Y.), referring specifically
to M r . Nixon's television
news conference remarks in
which he linked the energy
situation w i t h the Middle
East political conflict, asked
whether "they represented
any change toward Israel or
to the A r a b states." Dr.
Kissinger responded that the
U.S. position is that "we
cannot substitute for nego-
tiations between the parties."
However, the United States,
he said, "would be helpful if
the parties move toward some
accommodation," a n d the
"President's view is that both
sides must move."
Sources here said that Dr.
Kissinger reaffirmed U . S .
support for Israel at a meet-
ing Monday night with Israel
Ambassador Simha Dinitz.
Dinitz left for Jerusalem
Tuesday f o r consultations
with his government.
Senate sources indicated
today that Dr. Kissinger's

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confirmation as secretary of
state was virtually assured.
However, it may be delayed
pending further clarification
of his position on U.S. policy
in Southeast Asia and his in-
volvement in w i r e taps,
sources said.

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