UNITED NATIONS (JTA)--Secretary General Kurt Waldheim met with President Nixon in Paris ov
topic of their discussion was the Middle East, a United Nations spokesman reported.
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(Reports from Paris state that the Middle East was also the main topic discussed when Mr. Nixon met with the Soviet President
Podgorny).
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who arrived at the UN Monday for a special session of the General Assembly on Wor
economic problems, remarked, "The solution to problems before the session is possible only on the basis of respect for the principles
sovereignty and independence of states, big and small.
The Security Council voted Monday to extend the mandate of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF).
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Golda Resigns ...Irrevocably
Cannot Carry On Any Longer,' Israel Prime Minister
Tells Labor Party; Action Not Linked to Dayan's Status
•
Cash Collection
of AJC-IEF Gifts
Is Inaugurated
A concerted effort to collect payments
on pledges to the Allied Jewish Campaign-
Israel Emergency Fund will be made
during the coming weeks. Mandell L.
Berman, president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, announced that the • cash
mobilization campaign is headed by
Louis Berry and I. William Sherr.
Berman said the cash effort complies
with an appeal by the Jewish Agency
for Israel for funds to maintain the hu-
manitarian programs it finances through
the United Jewish Appeal, which is the
major beneficiary of the AJC-IEF.
The UJA has set a national goal of
$250,000,000 in cash collections by the end
of June, the cash mobilization campaign
chairmen stated. They said: "We will do
our best in the next several weeks to
collect payments to help fill the urgent
need for cash. There will be special bill-
ings and telethons asking people to pay as
much as they can on their 1974 pledges."
According to statistics released by the
' Jewish Agency, the current inflation rate
in Israel is 26 per cent. Attributed to the
world's economic situation as well as the
after-effects of the Yom Kippur War, the
rise in the cost of living also affects the
cost of services and programs financed
by the Jewish Agency.
The Jewish Agency is currently pre-
* paying for construction of housing for
immigrants and underprivileged Israelis.
Construction costs are rising 3.2 per cent
per month.
Israel's political crisis grew to such immense proportions that Prime Minister Golda Meir
announced in Jerusalem on Wednesday that she will tender her resignation at the cabinet meet-
ing on Thursday evening.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported that she had told the Labor Party leaders, at a
have reached the end of the road. I can-
meeting in Tel Aviv that " my decision is irrevocable. I
not carry on any longer. The matters are not linked to Dayan but to me personally."
The announcement, JTA reports, came after the Labor. Alignment was unable to
resolve factional differences over the question of whether Defense Minister Moshe Dayan should
resign.
Opposition to the Meir government, expressed in many protests and demonstrations, were
primarily directed at Dayan, with demands for his resignation. Resentment was especially created by the exonera-
tion of Mrs. Meir and Dayan in the Agranat Commission's partial report which resulted in the resignation of Gen.
David Elazar, army chief of staff, and several of his subordinates. Until Mrs. Meir's announcement on Wednesday
it was expected that the crisis would be resolved by a reshuffling of the cabinet which would remove Dayan as
head of the ministry of defense but would give him another post in the cabinet. Nevertheless, there was a feeling
that the Meir government was due to topple soon and that a new election was imminent.
Widespread outpourings of sympathy for Gen. Elazar and the reported combined demands by Deputy
Prime Minister Allon,
Labor Minister Itzhak
Saxbe's Explanation of Accusatory
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Remarks Fails to Appease Protesters
ley for Day an's res-
ignation added to the
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Attorney General William Saxbe has issued a
mounting confusions in
statement which a spokesman termed a "clarification" of his comment last
Wednesday that "Jewish intellectuals" were "very enamored of the Com-
a crisis that began with
munist Party" during the McCarthy era. In his "clarification," Saxbie said
the Yom Kippur War.
he had "long felt there was a great deal of anti-Semitism in the Communist
While Premier Meir re-
witch hunts of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Much of it was directed at
portedly called in the
some highly visible Jewish intellectuals who were considered sympathetic
three cabinet ministers
to Russia."
and rebuked them for
Saxbe added that "because of the Soviet posture toward the issues of
adding to the rising dis-
importance to Jews, this is no longer the case today and I believe this
content among Israelis,
change can best be seen by the totally different type of individual involved
the demonstrations
in the terrorist groups now operating." The attorney general's original
comment evoked sharp criticism from Jewish leaders and congressmen.
against the government
Representatives Robert Drinan (D. Mass.) and Elizabeth Holtzman (D.
N.Y.) demanded that Saxbe repudiate his remarks. Drinan, a Roman Catholic
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Dutch Radio Networks Accused
of Nazi Collaboration in WW
STERDAM (JTA)—A book by a Dutch television journalist
mg the Dutch radio networks of collaboration with the Nazis
during the occupation (1944-45) is causing a sensation throughout the
Netherlands. The book, by Dick Verkijk, is due to go on sale the end
of this month. Excerpts have appeared in several papers.
Verkijk, who was a child during the occupation, did several years'
research on the 750-page study of the networks' attitude during the
occupation. In the book, he shows most networks and their employes
willingly collaborated with the Germans, including many well-known
names still in the business today.
Verkijk's book received a sharp attack from a former Dutch re-
. sistance leader and government official, 70-year-old Dr. Jaap Burger,
who criticized the book for "being based on abstract research by a man
who during the occupation was too young to bear any responsibility."
Terrorists
Hit Again
in Israel
Eight children and eight ad-
ults were murdered by infil-
trating Arab terrorists in the
Kiryat Shemona settlement in
northern Israel Thursday morn-
ing.
The three terrorists who
launched the murderous assault
were killed by the police.
The Arabs blockaded a school
building, demanding release of
100 terrorists under arrest.
Apartment buildings were at-
tacked by the terrorists and an
explosion was reported in one
of them.
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U.S. Service Charged With Guilt
in Nazi Criminals 'Stay in the U.S.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—At least 38 alleged Nazi war criminals
are being allowed to remain in the United States because the U.S.
immigration service has neglected to move against them, according
to Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman (D. N.Y.). She made the charge in testi-
mony before a House immigration subcommittee.
She told the JTA Tuesday that the U.S. Immigration and Naturali-
zation Service had subsequently admitted to her that it had done
virtually nothing over a period of nine months to institute deportation
proceedings against the alleged war criminals.
They have not interviewed a single witness in any of the 38 cases,
Rep. Holtzman told the JTA. She said she is asking for a complete
report on the status of the investigation and for a detailed timetable
for action against each of the 38 persons.
Under the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Act, any alien or
naturalized citizen is subject to deportation if their entry into the U.S.
was based on false statements. There is no statue of limitations on
deportation, Rep. Holtzman noted. She said that some of the alleged
war criminals have been in the U.S. almost 25 years and that 25 of
the 38 have become naturalized citizens.