I Genocide Convention Not Farcical in Spite of Sam Ervin's Tale-Bearing THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 Vol. LXIV, No. 24 [74 of Jewish Events Editorial Page 4 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper NOWI'' 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 Dutiful Community Faces Tasks Involving Philanthropy, Investments, Tourism $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c February 22, 1974 Israel Minority Government Eliminates Religious Golda's Links: Arabs, Liberals; Kissinger Travels for Syria Talks Late JTA Cables to The Jewish News By JOSEPH POLAKOFF JTA Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Nixon announced Pressed for action in order to facilitate successful deliberations by U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on his impending trip to Syria that Secretary to secure release of prisoners of war and assurance of an end to continuing of State Henry A. Kissinger will go to the Middle East, probably next fighting, Prime Minister Golda Meir Wednesday night informed Israel week, to try to establish disengagement talks between Israel and Syria. President Ephraim Katzir that she was forming a minority government. Mr. Nixon said Kissinger's objective was "getting talks started as soon as It is to consist of the 51 elected Knesset members of the Labor Alignment, possible." He described disengagement talks on the Syrian front as the the four members of the Independent Liberal Party and three members immediate problem in the Middle East. of the Arab List—one who was elected by the Bedouins and Villagers The President made the announcement to reporters in the presence group and two of the Progressive and Development Party. The total of 58 of Dr. Kissinger and the foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia — thus will be short of three for a majority in the 120-member Knesset. Ismail Fahmy and Omar Saquaf — with whom he had just concluded a Mrs. Meir informed the president that she had not yet organized 90-minute meeting in the Oval Office. Mr. Nixon said the talks covered her cabinet in the new coalition government. mutual problems regarding a permanent settlement" in the Middle East President Katzir, in his message of response to Mrs. Meir's long and "normal relations, economic and otherwise, with countries of that and explanatory letter informing part of the world." him of the formation of the minor- Neither the. President, Kissinger ity government, expressed the hope nor the two Arab ministers made "the government to be formed will any direct allusion to the Arab oil lead to peace." He gave her an embargo and all four declined to added week to form her new cab- answer reporters' questions. But inet. Saquaf remarked that "we feel There was an emerging possibil- hopeful something will happen soon ity that in spite of all rumors, con- for the benefit of the U.S., the flicting reports and Defense Minis- Middle East and the world as a ter Moshe Dayan's declaration that whole." he would not join a new cabinet Mr. Nixon did not respond when that he may be a member of the asked by the Jewish Telegraphit Meir government after all. In an Agency reporter if he had "any address to the General Zionist good news today." The question was Council plenary now in session in prompted by Fahmy's affirmative Menahem Begin: Jerusalem, Dayan pledged that he Moshe Dayan: reply when he was asked by a re- National Unity His Break With is ready to give all possible assist- porter Monday if he and Saquaf Demand Unheeded Golda Mended? ance in the formation of the new would have "good news" for the government. Mrs. Meir at the same President when they met with him. time implied that Dayan may have Israeli POWs for Outcry World Fahmy and Saquaf said they a place in her new cabinet. NEW YORK (JTA)—Fifteen American Nobel Laureates and other academicians and agreed with President Nixon's sum- The minority government was de- mation of their meeting but gave prominent figures in the world of arts and letters sent statements of concern to the Inter- cided upon when the National Re- national Conference for the Liberation of Israeli Prisoners of War in Syria which was held no concrete details. The President ligious Party insisted on strict Hal- indicated that Kissinger's trip to Monday in Brussels. The conference, initiated by the International Committee of Concern, akhic applications of religious is- was held at the Hilton Hotel there. _ the Middle East was at the express sues in the "Who Is a Jew?" con- Simone de Beauvoir, the French leftist writer and philosopher who was an organizer request of the two Arab foreign - troversy. of the conference, said that of the estimated 130 Israeli soldiers captured by the Syrians . ;riisters, who conveyed the wishes Dayan's declarations to the Gen- :he governments of Syria, Egypt, during the Yom Kippur War, only 25 of them may still be alive. eral Zionist Council were consid- -,---1-1..geria and Saudi Arabia on that Ms. de Beauvoir told a press conference that of the 130 POWs, "we are only certain ered especially significant in the subject at the Arab meeting in that 25 of them are still alive, because they have been shown by the Syrians a few times" course of the crucial political de- in newspapers, magazines and film. "The fact that the same group of prisoners are shown Algiers last week. (Continued on Page 5) 1 w a E (Continued on Page 10) repeatedly only deepens our worst fears," she said. (Continued on Page 48) Telethons to Reach Thousands in Final Stages of Emergency Campaign Final telethons of the 1974 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund will be conducted during the next two weeks, and campaign and division leaders will be call- ing thousands who have not yet contributed to ask for pledges to the 1974 campaign, William M. Davidson and Lewis S. Gross- man, campaign general chairmen, an- nounced. The telethon schedule for trades and professional divisions is as follows: Food and mercantile, Sunday, Feb. 24, to Tuesday, Feb. 26; industrial and automo- tive, real estate and building trades, and services-arts and crafts, Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 27 and 28; and professional, Monday, March 4 and Wednesday, March 6. Metropolitan division will do its calling Sunday, March 3, to Wednesday, March 6. Phoning hours for the trades and pro- fessional divisions are Sundays, 10 a.m.- noon, and weekdays 7-9 p.m. No calls will be made on Friday and Saturday. The women's division of the campaign has scheduled a post-Phonogift campaign. Calls will be made on Sunday, March 3, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., and Wednesday, March 6, 9 a.m.-12 noon and 6:45 p.m.-9 p.m. The junior division completed its two- week telethon efforts last night. Phoning for all sessions is done from the United Hebrew Schools, 21550 W. 12 Mile, Southfield. "Detroit's response to the needs of the 1974 campaign so far has been magnifi- cent," said Davidson. "However, vast sums are. required to meet the need of deprived Jews in Israel and to maintain our programs here at home." "During this telethon effort, we will be trying to reach the thousands of contribu- tors who have not yet been contacted by our AJC-IEF, so that they can fulfill their commitment to their brother Jews," said Grossman. Campaign associate chairmen for 1974 are Daniel M. Honigman, Arthur Howard, David S. Mondry and Irving Seligman. 1