▪ t Sen. Javits to Address ZOA Convention NEW YORK----Senator Ja- Weism an, president Of the Menacing Arab Offensive Brewing in Latin America cob K. Javits, senior U.S. senator from New York and and influential member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Herman L. By MORTON ROSENTHAL Director, Latin American Af- fairs Department of the Anti- Defamation League of Bnai Brith. Hated \o. I in the tome in and ...el. oil before ■ From $49.50 QUIST TYPEWRITER CO. INC. 1717 STEPHENSON HWY. (North of Maple) TROY • 689-8000 Zionist Organization of America, will address the opening session of the 77th ZOA national convention 8 p.m., June 27 at the New York Hilton Hotel. The gathering will conclude June 30. Mrs. Ruth Tekoah, wife of Yosef Tekoah, Israeli Am- bassador to the United Na- tions, will speak to wives of delegates and women dele- gates at a special ZOA wom- en's committee luncheon 12:30 p.m. June 28. IliiiiiliMIIIMMimiffilminifiliimilliiiminninimmiiiiiiiimiimmiiiimiIIIIIE = = _ = — =, = mimm MM. MM. MEMO Featuring the ALL NEW WINDSOR and TUXTAIL ALSO PRINCE EDWARDS Min MEMO 1■0 MEM IMM1 ■IIMM ALL COLORS AVAILABLE MMI MEM FLARED PANTS, RUFFLE SHIRTS IN ALL COLORS Rentals • Sales Fittings Volare Boots in Black, Brown and White Group Rates for Weddings and Proms Tuxedo Sales & Rental Men's Clothing MEI =MI MEM ME D IM= NM I MN. OM= ■ It =Mb 1=111 •• ■ • Complete Line of Men's Suits and Sportcoats 1 26 S. Woodward Ilst Block S. of Maple on Woodward) Birmingham, Mich. (Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.) Lebanese Foreign Minister Fouad Naffah's ability to bring Argentina and other Latin American states closer to the Arab positions was due in large measure to his use of the threat of oil and the promise of investment capital and trade. Naffah assured his hosts that "no underdeveloped country that backs the just cause of the Arab world will suffer from an energy short- age." He also held forth the prospect of the Arab states directing some of their vast amounts of capital into Latin America, a region _ from which local capital flees be- cause of political instability and high rates of inflation. This hope was reflected in the inaugural remarks of the new Brazilian president w h o spoke of the "solid bonds of friendship" which link Arabs and Brazil as he cited the "voluminous and growing capital resources of the Arab world" as a possible source of much of the $4,000,000,000 in investment capital needed in 1974. The Arab states with a population of 130,000,000, are seen as important new mark- ets, by the Latin American THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS governments. Last year, the foreign ministers of Brazil and Egypt met in Cairo to sign a Brazilian-Egyptian trade agreement. On the same day that the Lebanese minister was feted in Buenos Aires, the Argentine govern, ment dispatched a 40-man delegation to Libya, led by Jose Lopez Rega, the minis- ter of social welfare and close confidant of General Peron. The delegation in- cluded the secretary of press and broadcasting, the sub- secretary of foreign com- merce and officials of the state-owned petroleum cor- poration. In Tripoli, Lopez Rega assured the Libyans that the revolutionary ideas of the Arab world and those of Argentina were very simi- lar and used the occasion to announce that Libya and Ar- gentina would exchange am- bassadors. The Libyan prime minister, Abdul Sallaam Jallud, promised the delega- tion that Argentina would receive "priorities over other nations" in its dealings with Libya. event. Among the accom- plishments cited were the importation of Libyan petro- leum and liquefied gas; the sale of Argentine farm pro- ducts; scientific and cultural exchange; links between the two governments' official news agencies and the open- ing in Buenos Aires of the Arab-Libyan Argentine bank to place investments in Ar- gentina and other Latin American countries. Latin America's large Arab population, mostly Lebanese Christian, is also being mobi- lized by means of a recently created network of umbrella organizations in each country linked to the coordinating organization in Sao Paulo c a 11 e d FEARAB-America (Federation of Arab Entities of the Americas). The FEARAB structure is trying to involve the continent's 3,000,000 Arabs in a 15- point program that calls for Arab purchase of mass media to influence public opinion and the creation of financial entities which will advance the Arab cause. Strong em- The Libyan mission was phasis is also being given to acclaimed a great success cultural exchange and tour- in Argentine government- ism. sponsored newspaper adver- The Arab offensive is aimed tisements and posters which at Latin American Jewry as featured photos of Col. Qad- well as Israel. Efforts are dafi, General Peron and being made to force a rup- Lopez Rega. An issue of the ture in business relations be- Peronist weekly, Las Bases, tween Arabs and Jews. An was devoted to the Libyan Uruguayan journalist, Carlos Maria Guttierez, reported an Friday, May 31, 1974-11 alleged meeting between a Libyan diplomat and the Uruguayan Commander-in- Chief during which the Libyan offered to provide Uruguay with all the oil it needed if the Jewish mem- ber of the cabinet resigned. The Argentine Jewish com- munity was greatly distressed when Minister Lopez Rega returned from Tripoli and convened a special meeting for Arab diplomats and Ar- gentine Arabs. He told them, according to the Buenos Aires daily, La Prensa, that the mission's work had been helped by the efforts of earlier unofficial Argentine Arab delegations but that the Libyans' objections to the re- ligious identity of certain in- dividuals in the Argentine government had put the mis- sion at a disadvantage. (The Minister of Economy, Jose Gelbard, and some of the members of his staff are Jewish.) In Brazil, a lead- ing Jewish journalist was dismissed because of Arab pressures, which have also resulted in more - sympathe- tic reporting of the Arab cause in the government cen- sored press. 4 '0;64v 0.0 oft The anti-Semitic thrust of Arab propaganda is evident in publications of both right and left. The general line is that the Arab states, as members of the Third World, are allies of the Latin Ameri- can people in their war against imperialism, that Is- rael is a tool of imperialism and Zionists, i.e., Jews are disloyal to the countries in which they live, The Arab line was clearly articulated in Buenos Aires during a Feb. 27 broadcast of "Jour- nalists' Roundtable" on a government owned station. There is no right to strike Miguel Cosma, correspond- ent for an Arab paper, linked against the public safety by . kkYmatoi 1:414cle:S• "political Zionism" to mo- anybody, anywhere, any time. 1 FTC ...Ott:MAR..."..14:::. nopolies that have no na- —Calvin Coolidge. . . . . ..... . ..... Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. tional sentiment, but merely seek wealth so as to "main- tain domination over all humanity." A second panel- ist was Jacques Scyzoryk, who calls himself a Jew of the "Mosaic religion" and said he opposed the "anti- social and anti-Christian Ju- daic religion." He claimed that Zionist commandos were poised to set up a Jew- ish state in Argentina and charged that Jewish capital- ism impoverished the coun- try. Although the Arab offen- sive poses a serious threat to Israel's relations with Latin American nations, an Arab victory is by no means certain. The political contest has been fought for a quarter century and many of the fac- tors that have determined Latin American governments' pro-Israel or neutral policy still pertain. Among them are Israel's technical and agri- cultural assistance programs, which have won many friends, and great admiration for Israel's courage and re- sourcefulness. There are other factors working against the Arabs. Latin American nations, seeking to free themselves from United States pressures, are unwilling to bow to Arab pressure. This sentiment was expressed by a member of the Uruguayan national security council who, upon hearing Libyan oil black- mail demands warned that if we yield on this point now, we may next be asked to give up our sovereignty. Planning Minister Moises Cohen retained his post in the Uruguyan Cabinet; so too, did Minister Gelbard in Argentina. Las Bases quoted Ministed Lopez Rega as hav- ing told the Libyans that, "In Argentina there are no Arabs nor Jews. There are Argen- tines." The Arabs' precipitous in- crease in the price of oil has aggravated the region's per- sistent problem of high in- flation and is undermining the developing nations' tenu- ous economic advance. The Latin Americans' growing resentment was not lessened by Fouad Naffah's conten- tion that high oil prices are due to "an international in- flationary situation" and that Arab states are only receiv- ing "a small part of the in- crease." Latin. America need not even depend upon Arab oil. Brazil gets most of its oil from Nigeria and Iran. Vene- zuela has already guaranteed preferential oil supplies to Central American nations. South America can soon be self-sufficient because Peru, Ecuador and Colombia are now tapping vast, newly- discovered oil fields. The Arabs must also con- tend with well-organized Jew- ish communities, whose pop- ulation is about 850,000. Be- cause of Arab-inspired anti- Semitic activity, principal cities now have professional- ly staffed human rights of- fices• which uphold the dignity of Jewish life and expose the myths of those who would destroy it and the state of Israel. .