Editorial

Every Link Counts . . . Every Person Missing
Must Join the Ranks . . 10,000 to Be Enrolled in
Emergency Tasks Are Vital to Israel Security

Do Newspapers
Need Guidelines
to Assure
Truthful
Handling of
News About
Middle East?

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Editorial

Vol. LXIV, No. 26

Some 10,000 members of the Greater Detroit Jewish communities are yet
to be enrolled in the 1974 Allied Jewish Compaign-Israel Emergency
Fund . . . Record-breaking results will be short of the mark necessary
for unity in Jewish ranks unless and until every Detroiter is enrolled
in the ranks of Israel's supporters and defenders . . . In the remaining
10 days before the formal closing of the drive, it is vital that all missing
links be unified anew for the great humanitafian effort now being
exerted here. It is urgent that •all who have not given do so NOW and
that they GIVE MORE GENEROUSLY THAN EVER !

THE JEWISH NEWS
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A Weekly Review

Some Vital

Factors About

Israel's Future

and Arab-Israel

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of Jewish Events

Commentary
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Syrian Threat Speeds Cabinet Crisis Solution

Dayan, Peres, NRP Join Meir
Cabinet; Golan Threat. Grows

Congress Cautions Administration

Not to OK Loans to Soviet Union

WASHINGTON .(JTA) — The House of Representatives is asking the
Nixon administration not to commit itself to any loans from the Export-
Import Bank to the Soviet Union "before the Congress has had an oppor-
tunity to debate and act on the entire question of credits to the Soviet
Union.
A resolution to that effect already bears the signatures of 220 repre-
sentatives, more than half the membership of the House.
The resolution specifically mentioned applications for a $49,000,000
loan by the Soviet Union for natural gas exploration in the Yakutska area
of Siberia.
Noting that the Ex-Im Bank's board of directors will meet soon on
the application, the resolution states that "any favorable • commitment"
would be "totally irresponsible."
It pointed out that the "overwhelming will of Congress" was forcefully
expressed" in the adoption of a 4-1 margin of the Mills-Vanik bill which
links trade benefits and credits to the USSR with the easing of Soviet
emigration policies.
The resolution was introduced-jointly by Reps. Les Aspin (Wis.); Rich-
ard Ichord (Mo.) and John Dent (Pa.), all Democrats.
Treasury Secretary George P. Schultz proposed to the Senate Finance
Committee Monday that compromise language be worked out in •the
Trade Reform Act to resolve the conflict between trade with the Soviet
Union and the latter's restrictive emigration pOlicies.
Schultz was the first administration figure to testify before the
comittee, which held four days of hearings on the -trade reform bill, em-
bodying the Jackson Amendment.
Schultz did not say either in his prepared statement or in reply to
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Campaign in Final Stages;
2 Functions on. Agenda

With the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency 'Fund
tasks in their final stages, arrangements have been completed
for the two final functions.
The drive ends officially with a dinner, at the new Temple
iseth El, March 18.
The concluding workers' report meeting will be held at
the United Hebrew Schools headquarters on •'12 Mile Rd. 10
a.m. Sunday, with Yael Dayan, daughter of Israel Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan, as guest speaker. Miss Dayan's literary
works include three full-length best-selling novels.
Reservations for the report meeting on Sunday and the
kosher-catered dinner meeting at Temple Beth El on March
18 are being taken at the Jewish Welfare Federation, WO 5-3939.
William M. Davidson and Lewis Grossman, campaign co-
chairmen, stated that several thousand potential contributors
are yet to be solicited -and that the contacts will not be inter-
rupted until all prospects have been enrolled for participation
in the "most urgent philanthropic undertaking in Detroit Jewry's
history."
A campaign medium being formed for the AJC-IEF is
the Wayne State University faculty committee. Detailed story
on Page 3.

Israel's cabinet crisis was resolved speedily Wednesday when an urgent meet-
ing held in camera Tuesday acted on reports of newly menacing threats to Israel
from massing of troops by Syria on the border leading from Kuneitra to Damascus.
There was an immediate reversal of previous opposition attitudes to the proposed
Golda Meir minority government plan, and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and
Transport Minister Shimon Peres, membersof the former Rafi section of the Labor
Alignment, agreed to remain in the cabinet.
The National Religious Party also assumed a role in a new cabinet, thus end-
ing the Meir government's minority status. The seriousness of the newly developing
situation was taken into account by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who con-
ceded in a statement in Washington Wednesday that the Syrian-Israeli negotiations
are still in the uncertain and shaky stage. (Story on Page 45). Dr. Kissinger an-
nounced, however, that the negotiations for disengagement on the Golan Heights
are to commence in Washington in about two weeks.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Tension along the Israeli-Syrian cease-fire line was de-
scribed Wednesday as the most severe since the Yom Kippur War. Israeli forces
on the Golan Heights were reportedly alerted to deal with a possible Syrian attack.
While earlier in the day civilian traffic on the heights was reported normal, by eve-
ning it was restricted td settlers. Sightseers and other outsiders were advised to
leave the area.
The tension resulting from the massive Syrian army buildup was also notice-
able on the Syrian side. Syrian soldiers were seen wearing combat helmets, and air
force jets streaked over the forward positions throughout the day but did not cross
the demarcation line.
Meanwhile Likud leaders Menahem Begin and Elimelekh Rimalt said after a
meeting with Premier Golda Meir Wednesday evening that the situation on the Syrian
front was serious. They complained that they should have been informed of it im-
mediately after Tuesday night's cabinet meeting. But they did not agree with some
journalists who claimed that the Syrian scare was a political gambit to allow De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan to reverse his decision not to serve in the cabinet
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without losing face.

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British Labor Government
Position on Israel Studied

LONDON (JTA) — Given that Britain's influence in the
Middle East is minimal these days, t'-e. change of government
is not of decisive significance for Israel. Nevertheless, Britain
is a member of the Security Council; she is still among
the largest of the medium-sized powers; and her exit from
Europe is not yet an accomplished fact. Also, there are
important military and civilian items which Israel can buy
here with profit, and there are import-export relations be-
tween the two countries useful to both.
Labor's record on Israel, while in opposition, is a. good
one. With the exception of a few enemies of Israel, the party
has voted against the arms embargo. The new prime minister,
Harold Wilgon, paid a visit to Israel not long ago, and the
foreign secretary, James Callaghan, was there recently.
Nearly 100 members of the parliamentary Labor Party are
members of the Labor Friends of Israel. The cabinet includes
a number of proven friends, too, such as Edward Short, Peter
Shore and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. But all this is based
on the record of the opposition in regard to Israel. And we
know from experience that oppositions of whatever color
are invariably nicer to Israel than government. Even Sir
Alec Douglas-Home used to be quite friendly when he was
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