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What's the
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May 10, 1974

Israel Submits to Far-Reaching Withdrawals

Map. Submitted for Syrian Consent
Includes Abandonment of Kuneitra

Nazi-Hunter Arrested in Germany;
Mrs. Klarsfeld's Release Sought

PARIS (JTA)—The French Jewish community has sharply
condemned the arrest of Beate Klarsfeld by German authorities
near Munich and her detention without bail in a Cologne jail until
her trial which is expected to take place in July. The avowed Nazi
nunter was arrested on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day while
attending a demonstration at the site of the former Dachau concen-
tration camp to protest against the Bonn parliament's delay in
ratifying an extradition accord signed three years ago with France.
mss. Klarsfeld is accused by German authorities of having
tried ..:- - 4:;e years ago to kidnap Kurt Lischka, former head of the
Gestapo ,• • Paris during the German occupation of France, and
bringing him to justice in France where a court sentenced him in
absentia in September 1950 to life imprisonment for war crimes.
Mrs. Klarsfeld was deported from West Germany and told she
would face charges if she returned.
In condemning West German authorities for her arrest and
incarceration, the French section of the World Jewish Congress
recalled that her fundamental aim is "the search for war crimi-
nals." The International League Against Racism, and Anti-Semitism
(LICA) called for Mrs. Klarsfeld's "immediate release" and has
set up solidarity committees to support her cause. The Association
of Former Jewish Deportees of France declared their solidarity
with tne anti-Nazi activist and in a communique called for her
release and demanded "the Nazi torturers be thrown in prison in
her place."
(In Jerusalem, Leon Duizin, acting chairman of the Jewish
Agency, called on West Germany to free Mrs. Klarsfeld. Duizin
said that her activities express deep humanism and solidarity with
the Jewish people. Tuvia Friedman, chairman of the International
Organization of Jewish Victims of Nazi Crimes, cabled West Ger-
man President Gustav Heinemann asking for his personal interven-
tion to free Mrs. Klarsfeld. Other Holocaust survivors organizations
and former members of partisan organizations now in Israel also
sent cables of protest to German Cnancellor Willy Brandt.)
(A large group of former concentration camp inmates and
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re i. tance fighters demonstrated outside the West German Embassy
Aviv demanding Mrs. Klarsfeld's release. They were joined
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, returning here from
Damascus Wednesday night, told reporters that while no agreement had been reached in
four hours of talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad, "some progress" has been made and
he would return to Damascus later this week.
His remarks seemed to confirm a report from Damascus quoting U.S. officials to the
effect that Kissinger was considering prolonging his current mission in the Middle East into
next week.
Extension of his stay in the region could indicate progress in efforts to effect a
disengagement accord between Israel and Syria, observers said. Kissinger went to Damasdus
with the latest Israeli proposals including a new map. He told reporters that "President Assad
in return conveyed to me some Syrian considerations which I am taking back to Israel."
He described his talks with Assad as "very good and very friendly."
Kissinger reportedly was to fly to Cairo Thursday for further talks with Egyptian
leaders. There were also reports that he would visit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
While no official disclosures have been made, it was reliably learned that the Israeli
plan Kissinger conveyed to Syrian President Assad goes a considerable way toward meeting
Syrian territorial demands while safeguarding the security of Israeli settlements on the Golan
Heights. According to the plan,
Does Schmidt Chancellorshi p
Israel would relinquish the
largest portion of Kuneitra,
ignit y Bonn Trend to Right?
the biggest township on the
BONN (JTA) — Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt has been
Golan Heights which it cap-
nominated to succeed Willy Brandt, who resigned May 6 after ac-
tured in the 1967 war but
cepting political responsibility for negligence in the Bonn espionage
would retain the town's east-
scandal, in which a Brandt aide, Guenter Guillaume, was arrested
ern
precincts, including a stra-
on April 24 on charges of spying for East Germany.
tegic road junction vital to the
Schmidt is a tough hard-liner on the right wing of the Social
protection of the Golan settle-
Democratic Party. Some observers fear his election as chancellor,
ments.
expected on May 18, will encourage a drift to the right in German
Israel would also withdraw
politics, and that Brandt's departure could bring internal political
instability.
from the villages of Amadiyeh,
Like Brandt, Schmidt, a good friend of Israel, is likely to con-
north of Kuneitra, and Sur-
tinue ,Brandt's "balanced policy" in the Middle East, developing
man, to the south, both scenes
relations with Arabs, but not at Israel's expense. This has been the
of heavy fighting in the Six-
hallmark of Brandt's Middle East policy since 1969.
Day
War. But Israel would re-
Bonn has been stunned by Brandt's resignation. Shock has also
tain
the three strategic hills
come from behind the Iron Curtain, with Communist countries
west of Kuneitra which it con-
blaming his departure on a personal campaign from the extreme
siders vital to the defense of
right in West Germany, especially from the Bavarian Cnristian
the Golan Heights. According
Social Union. Others see Brandt's resignation as an education in
democracy and courage for West Germans, who normally prefer to
to the reported new map, the

cling to the seats.

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Shehita Upheld by Federal Court as Humane Method of Slaughtering

NEW YORK—The unanimous decision
by a three-judge federal court upholding
the constitutionality of kosher slaughter-
ing (shehita) was hailed this week as "a
signal victory for religious freedom."
The suit, known as Jones v. Butz, was
regarded by court observers as the first
serious challenge to the Humane Slaughter
Act since its enactment in 1958.
The joint advisory committee of the
Synagogue Council of America and the
National Jewish Community Relations Ad-
visory Council—which intervened in the
case as defendants — said the federal
court's ruling "not only reaffirms that the
Jewish ritual method of slaughter is hu-
mane, but rejects the argument that the
federal humane slaughter law is a reli-
gious law forbidden by the First Amend-
ment."

In its ruling, the court accepted argu-
ments advanced in the brief filed by the
joint advisory committee that: (1) The
section in the law. defining Jewish ritual
slaughter as humane is based on uncontra-
dicted scientific evidence; (2) Its inclusion
did ,not constitute a law respecting an
establishment of religion; (3) The statute
is, in all respects, within the competence
of Congress in the exercise of its power
to enact all measures necessary and proper
to carry out the national policy of protect-
ing religious freedom.
The complaint came from a group of
eight taxpayers, the Society for Animal
Rights and the Committee for a Wall of
Separation Beween Church and State in
America.
Leo Pfeffer, special counsel for the
American Jewish Congress, served as at-

torney for the joint advisory committee
of the Synagogue Council of America and
the National Jewish Community Relations
Advisory Council. The committee com-
prises 12 national rabbinical, congrega-
tional and community relations agencies
affiliated with the Synagogue Council and
the NJCRAC, and 97 local Jewish commu-
nity councils across the country, including
Detroit's.
In its decision, the court held that there
had been "a persuasive showing" in the
course of the trial that "Jewish ritual
slaughter . . . was historically related to
considerations of humaneness in times
when such concerns were practically non-
existent."
The court also held that "by making it
possible for those who wish to eat ritually
acceptable meat to slaughter the animal

in accordance with the tenets of their faith,
Congress neither established the tenets of
that faith nor interfered with the exercise
of any other."
The decision was rendered by a three-
judge panel composed of former Appeals
Court Judge Henry J. Friendly, and dis-
trict Judges Edmund L. Palmieri and
Dudley R. Bonsai.

An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
is expected, according to Dr. Pfeffer. The
joint advisory committee will participate
in the case on appeal, he said.
Several Orthodox organizations repre-
sented by Nathan Lewin, attorney for the
National Jewish Commission on Law and
Public Affairs (COLFA), also intervened
in the case on behalf of the defendants
and filed a separate brief.