r Death Penalty for Terrorists Held in Abeyance JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Israel cabinet has decided to maintain a standing order introduced in 1969 under which prosecutors are instructed• not to demand the death penalty for Arab terrorist killers. The cabinet discussed the issue Sunday after _a Knesset debate two months ago and in the light of some ministers' declared view that the death penalty should be employed in certain extreme cases. . Justice Minister Haim Zadok stressed that under the standing arrangement, the .cabinet could, whenever it wished, review a particular case before it came to court and rescind the standing order barring the death penalty request in that particular case. In fact, Zadok recalled, the previous cabinet did review the Lod - massacre case at the time and it then decided not to rescind the order and Kozo Okamoto, the surviving terrorist, was accordingly sentenced to life imprisonment as this; prosecutor had requested. In view of Zadok's clarification, which meant, the justice minister stressed, that the death penalty was held in abeyance and could be used when deemed necessary, none Of the ministers who had previously spoken out in favor of the death penalty for terrorist killers objected to the retention of the present standing arrangement. Among those who had suggested a reconsideration were Gideon Hausner, the Eich- mann prosecutor, nc v minister-without-portfolio, and Police Minister Shlomo Hillel. HE JEWISH NEW tlx4 A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper Vol. LXV. No. 22 -: 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 , $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c August 9, 1974 Paris Bombings, Resurgent Anti-Semitism, Stir French Liberty Lobby Escalates Anti-Semitism; ADL Issues Expose, Registers Protest NEW YORK — Liberty Lobby, the Washington-based far right propaganda apparatus which was charged by the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith last month with using its national daily radio program to peddle bigotry, has escalated its anti-Semitic cam- paign with the promotion and distribution of two notorious hate tracts, ADL charges. The two works, according to John L. Goldwater, chairman of ADL's national fact-finding committee, are "The Myth of the Six Million," a 119-page anonymous paperback, and a reprint of a 27- year-old fraudulent anti-Semitic pamphlet, "The ADL and Its Use in the Communist Offensive," written by Robert H. Williams, an anti-Jewish propagandist in the 1940s and 1950s. ADL, in a survey made public July 3 by Lawrence Peirez, chairman of the agency's national civil rights committee, had revealed that "This Is Liberty Lobby," a five-minute broadcast carried by more than 100 radio stations, was controlled by Willis A. Carto, a professional organizer of anti-Jewish groups and publi- cations and founder of the 16-year-old Liberty Lobby. In addition, Peirez had pointed out that the principal owners of the Mutual Broadcasting System, Mr. and 'Mrs. Benjamin D. Gilbert, have been regular financial contributors to Liberty Lobby since 1966 and that a recent contract signed by "This Is Liberty Lobby" with MBS would make the program available to the network's stations. Goldwater said that 33 MBS outlets have already begun carry- (Continued on Page 5) By EDWIN EYTAN PARIS (JTA) — A Gaulist deputy expressed concern over what he termed a "re- surgent anti.Semitism" in France and called for immediate police action against this develop- ing tendency. Deputy Pierre-Charles Kreig, acting in his capacity as a member of -the Paris City Council, demanded that the central police headquarters in Paris "take immediate and severe measures to quash an anti-Semitism long hidden and now resurgent." French concern over emerging new prejudices escalated after the series of explosions of Jewish community headquarters and French newspapers. The bombings were ascribed to neo-Nazis and to the Palestine Liberation Organization. But the latter, seeking to capitalize on the developing situation, charged that Zionists were responsible for the explosions and that they caused them in order to find cause for blame on the PLO. The Palestine Liberation Organization has said the three bomb attacks here this weekend are part of an American and Zionist plot to prepare the way for anti-Palestinian actions by the Israeli secret service in Europe. Over the weekend, explosions damaged the offices of the Central Jewish Welfare Organ- ization of France, the FSJU, and two right-wing and often pro-Israeli French newspapers. -The PLO offices here issued a communique Tuesday charging that the attacks are a Zionist maneuver to discredit the Palestinians and thereby "to prepare public opinion for a new Israeli aggression against the Arab peoples" in Europe. It said that recent anti-Semitic incidents in the French capital were part of this plot. The deputy head of the French criminal branch, Deputy Commissioner mire Jobard, is personally han- dling the investigation. Police circles said that gav- ernment instructions are to find the culprits "at whatever cost in manpower, time and energy." Gov- ernment circles here confirmed that Minister of In- terior Michel Poniatovsky has ordered a thorough in- vestigation and is being personally informed of all developments. (Continued on Page 6) Nixon's Linking of Jews With New Left Revealed in Newest Tape; Head of Bnai Brith Denies President Is Anti-Semite By JOSEPH POLAKOFF (Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.) WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Nixon his daughter to keep away from arts" during the 1972 campaign be- c...,:use the people in them were Jews and leftists, according to the transcripts of conversations released by the White House Monday. Nixon's statement was contained in the first of three recorded conversations he had with his then chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, in the Ovan Room of the White House June 23, 1972. The two were dis- cussing areas where Nixon's daughters, Julie and Tricia, could campaign and also the - possibility of harm to them from hecklers. The President then said: "For example —now the worst thing (unintelligible) is to do anything that has to do with the arts." Haldeman replied: "Ya, see that—it was (unintelligible) Julie giving that time in the museum in Jacksonville." To which Nixon then added, "The arts you know— they're Jews, they're left wing—in other words, stay away." Nixon then added, "Make a point,"and Haldeman replied, "Sure." Bnai Brith president David M. Blum- berg, Wednesday, issued a statement com- menting as follows on the transcripts of presidential conversations: "The President's unfortunate remarks read in the cold print of the transcript; is a sorry example of crude stereotyping. But weighed against his actual relations with Jews and the Jewish community— and on persona judgements drawn from several White House meetings with him— I find no evidence to charge Mr. Nixon of being anti-Semitic. In the context of the national trauma and the President's acknowledged complicity in the Water- gate scandal, this incident should not be inflated out of proportion. The real issue before the American people is the need to restore faith in our government—and ourselves." Last May the New York Times and CBS reported that in transcripts the White House turned over earlier Nixon had used ethnic slurs includiiig anti-Jewish corn- ments such as "Jew boys" in private talks with aides. This was at the time categorically denied by White House coun- sel J. Fred Buzhardt. Rabbi Baruch Korff, head of the Com- mittee for Fairness to the President, in a _ book published last month containing an interview with Nixon as well as the Presi- dent's answers to a series of questions, contained statements from Nixon denying that he was anti-Semitic. The President cited his vigorous political and military support of Israel and his appointment of Jews, including Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, to key posts in his, adminis- tration as proof to the contrary. Allon Comments on Nixon, Ford NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel Foreign Minister Yigal Allon said here Monday that the efforts to impeach President Nixon have not affected Israeli-American relations and that in his meetings with administration officials in Washington last week he found a "very functionable ad- ministration." Interviewed on the NBC-TV "Today" program, Allon said that while the im- peachment question is an American affair, Israelis "see in President Nixon a great friend." But he noted that Vice President Gerald Ford is also considered a friend of Israel. Allon said that while his meeting with Ford last week was a courtesy call, "it was of some substance, too," and "I found him very well informed and we had a very interesting talk about matters in the Middle East, that we could really ex- change views on that matter." Asked what would happen if Ford be- comes president, Allon said, "I don't see anything like a change in his friendliness when he becomes—takes a high office." (In Israel, Tuesday, the independent daily newspaper Haaretz said in an edi- torial that the latest Watergate disclo- sures means "we must gear ourselves for a period . . . where the American ad- ministration will play a secondary role in international politics.") (Related Story on Page 8)