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Friday, August 30, 1974-15

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Bnai Brith Joins Coalition to Push
for National Disaster Insurance

WASHINGTON — A coali-
tion of labor, civic and religi-
ous organizations sparked by
Bnai Brith has begun a na-
tionwide campaign for a fed-
eral disaster insurance pro-
gram that would automatical-
ly cover victims of all types

of natural catastrophies.
The Coalition in Support of
Comprehensive Disastor In-
surance Legislation that grew
out of two Bnai Brith-spon-
sored national conferences
met in the headquarters of
the American National Red
Cross to plan a letter writing
and data collection drive for
legislation stalled in Con-
gress.
The legislation would
create a national catastrophic
insurance fund to cover vic-
tims of windstorms, floods,
earthquakes, blizzards and
all other forms of natural
disaster. The fund would 'be
financed by a surcharge of
not more than 5 per cent on
real estate and personal
property insurance pre-
miums.
The legislation was intro-
duced early last year by Rep.
Daniel J. Flood ( D-P a . )
and Sen. Richard Schweiker
(R-Pa.) after the, 1972 dev-
astation of the East . Coast
by tropical storm Agnes, the
costliest storm in U. S.
history.
The Jewish community of
Pennsylvania's Wyoming
Valley suffered heavily from
the storm, with more than
1,400 families having their
homes or businesses and
community institutions dam-
aged or destroyed. Since then
other Jewish communities in
the midwest and south have
been struck by tornadoes and
flooding.
Bnai Brith's disaster com-
mittee aided in the recovery
of disaster victims. But ex-
perience showed that current
relief efforts by government
agencies and private organi-
zations weren't enough to
meet the needs.

Melamet Urges UN Recognize
Minorities' Right to Differ

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the rights of persons belong-
ing to ethnic, religious and
linguistic minorities.
Melamet said that the
World Jewish Congress num-
bered among its affiliates
Jewish communities in more
than 60 countries represent-
ing a variety of social, politi-
cal and economic systems.
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The Jewish experience,
Melamet said, showed that
for many minorities the fight
for equality had been won
and the fight now was for the
right to be different without,
on that account, forfeiting the
right to equality. Many mi-
norities viewed this right to
be different as essential in
their struggle to avoid be-
coming completely absorbed
into the dominant majority.
He suggested that this was
an area to be given closer
study.
Melamet expressed the
hope that Prof. Capotorti
would visit as many coun-
tries as possible and study
at first hand the tension or
dialectic between the major-
ity's demand for conformity
and the minority's demand
for the right to non-conform-
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Intelligence Analyst Isaac Stone,
Conducted Relief Project for DPs

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
While in the State Depart-
Isaa c A. Stone, a former ment, Mr. Stone prepared a
U.S. foreign service officer confidential three-volume his-
who headed the Berlin Docu- tory of U.S. relations with
ments Center containing ar- Bulgaria and also what is
chives of the German Foreign considered the most thorough
Office and the Nazi Party analysis ever made of the
after World War II, died forced repatriation of Russian
Aug. 22 at age 67.
prisoners of war to the Soviet
He had been living in Is- Union.
rael since 1970.
Following' his retirement
Mr. Stone, while in a U.S. from the foreign service, Mr.
army uniform as an intel- Stone served as associate
ligence analyst, was assigned professor of history at the
to the staff of Justice Robert University of Washington,
H. Jackson, U.S. chief coun- Arizona State University and
sel at the Nuremberg war the City University of New
crimes trials. Jackson award- York. For a number of years
ed him a special citation for he also had been a researcher
his services.
and teacher at the Library
While aiding in the trial he of Congress.
also conducted a one-man re-
Mr. Stone was born in Es-
lief project for hundreds of
tonia and emigrated to Bos-
persons in the DP camps in ton as a teen-ager. He worked
Germany. Soliciting food and
his way through Boston Uni-
clothing in the United States,
he personally distributed versity and Boston Hebrew
College and received his PhD
them with the aid of U.S.
in history from Harvard in
army volunteers. He also 1935.
helped locate relatives in the
United States for many of
the DPs.
$2,000 Lamp Stolen
For this service he was
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — An
Sapir Addresses
named "the tsaddik (right- 18th century bronze Macca-
eous one) of Nuremberg." bee lamp, valued at some
Argentinian Jews
That name was used in NBC's
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)- "Eternal Light" program $2,000, has been stolen from
the Jewish Historical Mus-
About 2,000 people attended broadcast March 23, 1947.
eum here.
a public meeting addressed
by Pinhas Sapir, chairman
of the Jewish Agency and
World Zionist Organization
Executives.
The meeting, which mark-
ed the 80th anniversary of
the Buenos Aires Jewish
community, was also ad-
dressed by its president,
Chaim Rajchenberg, and Is-
raeli Ambassador R a m
Nirgad.
S'apir, fully recovered from
the flu that had caused him
to cancel a tour of provincial
centers, declared that in the
aftermath of the Yom Kippur
War the Arabs will listen to
Israel's peace proposals and
expressed hope that a peace
agreement will be reached
soon. :
The former Israeli finance
Mr. and. Mrs. Abe Moss, left, are congratulated by
minister said that Israel de- Israeli television producer, Israel Amitai, at a special re-
sired economic independ- ception held recently in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
ence, even from the Jewish Moss where friends and fellow congregants of Cong. Beth
people abroad. He stressed Moses gathered to plan for the tribute dinner in the Mosses'
that efforts must continue to honor. The State of Israel Bonds Tribute Dinner, sponsored
further the immigration of by the congregation, is scheduled for Sept. 10 at the
Soviet Jews to Israel.
synagogue. For reservations, call the Bonds office 968-0200.

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of the Fourth Lateran Coun-
cil by which the Christian
world required Jews and
Saracens to be differentiated
from the rest of the popula-
tion by the quality of their
garment.
Showing how the inter-
action between the two fac-
tors brought about different
results in Islamic countries,
Melamet contrasted the Jew-
ish situation in Turkey and
Iran with that in some of the
neighboring countries in that
area.
Turning to Eastern Europe,
Melamet said that the posi-
tion of the Jewish communi-
ties of Romania, Yugoslavia
and Hungary was regretably
not duplicated in the neigh-
boring socialist states. He
mentioned that the Jewish
communities of Romania and
Yugoslavia w e r e affiliated
with the World Jewish Con-

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