THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 26, 1974-9 Classified Ads Get Fast Results Al's Foreign Car Service SPECIALIST IN VOLKSWAGEN AND PORSCHE CARS CALL 548-3926 548-4160 541-9704 1018 W. 9 Mi e Rd. Alfons G. Rehme FERNDALE, MICH. Between Live nois ; & Pinehurst Nixon OKs Half of $2.2 Billion as an Outright Grant to Israel By JOSEPH POLAKOFF Chief, JTA Washington Bureau WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Nixon has made "an initial determination" Prescription Optical Co. 26002 COOLIDGE Hwy OAK PARK 5433343 on the division of the $2,200,- 000,000 emergency aid fund for Israel and granted $1,- 000,000,000 of it to Israel as a gift, the White House an- nounced Wednesday. The remaining amount in the fund will be used as credits to Israel at "conces- sional rates of interest" un- less the President decides otherwise. 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ADD 5100 or more any time. stressed to the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency that "initial determination" means Presi- dent Nixon can review the circumstances of Israel's re- quirements between now and June 30 and could grant more of the money to Israel rather than offer it as credits to the Israeli government. June 30 is the last day of the U.S. fiscal year and dis- position of the emergency fund. The amount was pro- posed by Congress last Octo- ber after the Yom Kippur War and adopted in Decem- ber by Congress, which stipu- lated, however, that the President could provide up to $1,500,000,000 to Israel as gifts. Congress also directed that slightly less than $18,000,000 of the fund will be used to meet the U.S. share of the cost of the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East for one year. The "concessional rate" of interest on any credits from the fund, Warren said, is 3 per cent. The credits would have a long grace period for repayment, but he said he did not know the number of years. Last week, the U.S. Secur- ity Council had recommended to the President that he allow between $900,000,000 and $1,- 000,000,000 to Israel as a gift. The U.S. Wednesday moved unilaterally toward defusing Palestinian hostility by ask- ing Congress for special funds for aid to refugee re- settlement and development projects. At the same time the White House asked financial assist- ance to Jordan for the corn- ing fiscal year, requesting $250,000,000 for economic aid for Egypt and the usual $350,000,000 for Israel, of which $300,000,000 is in credits. The money for the refugees was requested as part of a "special requirement fund" of $100,000,000 for the foreign aid program of $5,180,000,000 beginning July 1. This fund, President Nixon informed Congress, is to help meet new needs that may arise in the Middle East. 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Seven Mile DOWNTOWN 139 Cadillac Square I NORTHLAND 22180 Greenfield / SHELBY 51111 Van Dyke Red Tape It doesn't take long to bring a Jew to "justice" in a Sov- iet court, news reports have shown all too graphically. But it can take forever to file an appeal on his behalf. Cincinnati student Sheldon Benjamin was told a bizarre story in a phone call from friends of Kiev activist Alek- sandr Feldman. Feldman w a s sentenced last Nov. 23 in a secret trial to 3 1/2 years for "malicious hooliganism," after he made clear his desire to live in Israel. Subject to back- breaking work in the labor camp, he protested—and was put in solitary for 55 days. Meanwhile, in Kiev, his lawyer, I. Yezhov, sought to obtain the documents of his case to draw up an appeal. He was told the documents were in the Ukrainian Su- preme Court, so he went there, and was informed the documents were in Moscow. The authorities suddenly forced Yezhov into retire- ment, in a procedure taking six hours. Feldman's brother Leonid then went to Moscow for the documents and was told they were back in Kiev. With great difficulty, the family obtained another 1 a w y e r, who went to Kiev. "The doc- uments are back in Moscow," she was told. Journeying to the capital, the lawyer was informed the -documents had been sent back to Kiev. Rushing there, she was again told, "no documents." Concerned for Feldman's deteriorating health, the lawyer traveled to the labor camp. The commandant promised her a meeting with the prisoner's relatives on March 29. On the appointed day, the relatives arrived. "I don't have the authority to grant you the meeting," the commandant told them. Feldman's fiancee Tanya Chernoshova W a s arrested for "stealing" when she at- tempted to board a train to the labor camp, then was told later it was a "mistake." According to t h e SSSJ, Feldman's friends are ex- tremely concerned lest his experiences become the norm of treatment of other Jewish prisoners. Letters of encouragement to him were urged, at the following address: USSR; Ukrainian S S R. ; Chmelnits- kaya Oblast; Stepetovsky Rayon; •Celo Klementovichi; Uchr. MX 324/98; barrack 32; Feldman, Aleksandr. about the Egyptian aid was what they were reading in the newspapers Wednesday. "This was held close to the vest at the White House," one official told the JTA. Some speculated that the secrecy was to enable the President or the secretary of state to spread the glad tidings to the Arab govern- ments before it became pub- lic knowledge. The funds also will give Dr. Henry A. Kiss- inger more political leverage, it was suggested, when he meets Arab leaders starting Sunday. "The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you and to your de- scendants after you I will give it."—Gen. 35:12.