Alan E. Schwartz to Receive 1974 Butzel Award
Alan E. Schwartz, prominent Detroit business and community leader, will receive the 1974 Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award.
The award, given annually since 1951, is the highest honor conferred Iby Detroit's organized Jewish community. It is presented in memory
of Fred M. Butzel, a Jewish Welfare Federation founder and for many years Detroit's leading philanthropist.
The award presentation will take place at the 48th annual dinner meeting of the Federation Oct. 21, at Cong. Beth Achim, announces Mandell
L. Berman, Federation president.
Schwartz was president of the Jewish Welfare Federation from 1969-1972. He is currently chairman of Federation's executive committee. He is
also a board member of the United Jewish Charities and other Federation member agencies.
Schwartz is a vice chairman of the United Foundation, a director of the Michigan Cancer Foundation, and a member of the advisory board of
the Metropolitan Detroit Chapter of the March of Dimes.
He is active in state politics and civic affairs. Besides being co-chairman of Governor Milliken's campaign finance commttee in 1970 and again
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this year, Schwartz is chairman of the governor's council for economic expansion for the state of Michigan.
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Tragedy of
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October 11, 1974
60,000 USSR Visas Speculated
U.S. Aid to Israel
Despite y Vacillations
Chopping Feared
By MURRAY ZUCKOFF
JTA News Editor
NEW YORK (JTA) — A rebellious and generally anti-
administration Congress has succeeded in slashing for-
eign aid grants ranging from fertilizers to military hard-
ware to several countries in the past three weeks.
The defiant Congressmen have contended that the cuts
are aimed at those nations which have violated the civil
rights of their own citizens and those countries which have
used U.S. military hardware.
The chopping spree is beginning to concern many sup-
porters of Israel.
Will the .1..ongressional-administration conflict bottle
up all foreign aid programs for an indefinite time, thereby
holding back additional aid to Israel while the Soviet
Union continues to arm Syria?
Can the arguments raised against giving aid to those
countries who violate the territorial integrity of their
neighbors be applied against Israel in its defensive actions
against terrorist strongholds in Lebanon? Can the anti-
Israel congressional bloc, muster sufficient support to turn
the tide against Israel?
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — A sudden threat of rupture between Secretary of 'State Henry
A. Kissinger and three key senators over the Soviet emigration policy issue has been resolved by
reformulation of the agreed exchange of letters 'between President Ford and Sen. Henry M. Jackson
(D. Wash.), according to Capitol Hill sources. However, the "acid test" of whether the administra-
tion or the Congress will be the final judge of Soviet compliance or non-compliance with its assur-
ances remains undecided and continues to block administration-congressional agreement.
Under an agreement Tuesday between Kissinger and Sens. Jackson, Abraham Ribicoff (D
Conn.) and Jacob K. Javits (R. N.Y.), President Ford's letter to Jackson will" setforth Soviet assur-
ances and he will agree with Jackson's interpretations of them. In his response to Ford, Jackson will
state guidelines on congressional expectations from the Soviet Union. Previously, a-third letter was
to have been in the exchange. This would have had Ford writing Jackson to affirm Jackson's views
of the President's first letter.
Regarding the contents of the letters that have yet to be written, a Capitol Hill source said
"nothing has changed and everything is the same" as before Kissinger's charge at his news conference
late Monday. The secretary declared then that the administration was being put in a position of
"guaranteeing" Soviet assurances on free emigration of Jews and others and an end to Soviet harass-
ment of prospective emigrants.
"All that has happened," the source said, "is that the contents of the third letter will now be
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in the President's first letter."
Capitol Hill sources appeared satisfied that the reformulation preserves congressional intent
"A prince ... a great man . . . has fallen in
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World Jewry Mourns Death of Zalman Shazar
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By GIL SEDAN
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Shneur Zalman Shazar, Israel's third president, was buried in the presidential
cemetery on Mt. Herzl Monday in funeral services attended by thousands.
There were no eulogies at the graveside--in accordance with the wish expressed by the late Israeli scholar-
statesman and because it is customary not to deliver eulogies during the Sukkot season. But many of those
present, including members of President Shazar's own generation, could not refrain from saying a few words in
memory of the man who had symbolized so much in the history of Israel.
Former Premier Golda Meir stood by the grave with a solemn expression. There were many young people
as -veil, most of them dressed in the black garb of Chabad hasidim, the movement with which President Shazar
associated.
They had maintained as vigil of prayer at Hadassah Hospital during President Shazar's final illness. They
stood by his coffin reciting psalms.
At a special cabinet meeting in memory of the late president, Premier Yitzhak Rabin declared, "The story
lazar's life was an unbelievable mixture of all that was good and beautiful in Jewish life in the last 100
y, :s. On the roots of hasidic Judaism and the Chabad, Shazar grew a wide tree that embraced the whole world."
Former Chief Rabbi Isser Yehuda Untermann praised Shazar as "an enormous strength guarding the fundamentals
of Judaism."
The former president, who would have been 85 Sunday, died at Hadassah Hospital Saturday. His coffin lay
in state at the Binyanei Haooma, the Jerusalem convention hall, where thousands of citizens filed by.
Later it was taken on an army Command car escorted by Knesset guards to the grounds of the presidential
residence where psalms were read by a military chaplain. Prof. Ephraim Orbach of Hebrew University, a close
friend of the former president, recited the kadish as requested in President Shazar's will.
His successor, President Ephraim Katzir, spoke briefly.' Katzir received a message of condolence from
President Gerald Ford, who said: "Israel's deep sense of loss at the passing of President Zalman Shazar is shared
by Americans everywhere. Journalist, scholar, patriot and poet, he was both a man of action and a man of con-
templation, embodying the 'best qualities of his people."
'President Shazar was the first Israeli chief of state to be interred in the presidential plot on Mt. Herzl. The
late President Chaim, Weizmann is buried in his home town of Rehovot, and the late President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
is buried in the West Jerusalem cemetery where he had asked to be interred.
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