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Jackson Discounts Ford Remarks:
Claims 60,000 'Bench Mark' Figure
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Symington Tells UN Unit
`Nuclear Weapons in 111.E.'
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Sen. Stuart Symington (D.-Mo.)
said Monday nuclear weapons have been placed in the Middle East.
He made the disclosure in an unexpected departure from the
text of a statement he was reading at a meeting
of the General Assembly's First Committee
(Political Committee), which is discussing the
subject of "Non-Proliferation and Related Nu-
clear Issues.",
Symington, a member of the U.S. delegation
to the 29th annual session of the General Assem-
bly, said, "With respect to proliferation of nu-
cleat,- weapons around the world, it is no longer
a secret that they are placed in Europe, in the
Middle East and the Far East." He did not
identify the nations that have placed the weap-
SYMINGTON
ons in those regions or the countries in which
they are located. The senator told reporters late-r that the the infor-
mation he disclosed had already been released by the Pentagon
The U.S. delegation was apparently taken by surprise by
Symington's disClosure. A delegation spokesman declined to com-
ment on it and refused to give reporters copies of the transcript
of Symington's remarks that contained his departure from the
text. Symington also said, in his departure, that the U.S. nuclear
stockpile is equivalent_to 615,300 Hiroshima bombs.
Conflicting reports on the agreement reached by the President and Congress on the
Jackson Amendment to the U.S.-Soviet trade package were quashed this week by Sen.
Henry M.. Jackson. News media concern about President Gerald Ford's "clarification"
statements Monday were dismissed both in Israel and Washington. Reporters were upset
by Ford's statement denying that a set number of Russian emigrants (60,000) would be
permitted to leave the USSR. It was believed Ford's statement was made as a courtesy to
the Russians, prior to Kissinger's trip to Moscow this week. (See Commentary, page 2).
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Commenting on Ford's statement, Jackson said, "With the
Soviet assurances conveyed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to me to end harassment
and intimidation of those seeking to emigrate, and with the number of visas rising to corre-
spond to the number of applicants, I believe that more than 60,000 persons will emigrate
each year. -
"The 60,000 figure mentioned in my letter is a benchmark, 'a minimum standard of
initial compliance' to be used by the Congress and the President in judging the good faith
of the Soviets in the transition from their present restrictive policy to the future liberalized
policy to which they are committed by the assurances in Secretary Kissinger's letter."
Jackson stressed, "This figure is not a quota" and that in his judgment "if the agree-
- ment is implemented in good faith, the actual number will exceed 60,000 per annum since
there is abundant evidence of a current backlog in excess of 130,000 and the agreement
calls for the number to rise to correspond to the number of applicants."
However, Jackson pointed out that neither the word "Jew" or "Jewish" appears in
the legislation and Kissinger's letter on. Soviet assurances says that applications for emigra-
tion will be "non-discriminatory" as regards "the place of residence, race, religion, national
origin and professional status of the applicant."
A high Israeli official insisted Monday in Jerusalem that the U.S.-Soviet understand-
Fedetation Marks Progressive Year of Continuitr_at Annual
Meeting; Anniversaries Planned; Alan Schwartz Honored
Continuity as a mark of duty to humanitarian needs marked greater Detroit Jewry's services on the overseas,
national and local scenes, in the reviews of the year's achievements presented at the annual meeting of the Jewish
Welfare Federaion, Monday evening, at the Cong. Beth Achim. -
Presentation of the annual Fred M. Butzel AWard to Alan E. Schwartz by Max M. Fisher, the recounting of
the 1974 fund-raising and social service activities by Mandell L.' Berman, Federation president, and a look ahead
at plans for the observance of the 75th anniversary of the United Jewish 'Charities and the 50th anniversary of
Federation were primary on the agenda.
Berman, in his repott on the state Of the communal services, took into account the success of the 1974 Allied
Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund which raised a total of $24,000,000 under the co-chairmanship of William
Davidson and Lewis Grossman, and introduced the co-chairman of the coming campaign, Arthur Howard. His
co-chairman, Richard Sloan, was in Israel as a member of the United Jewish Appeal mission.
Mrs. Philip Marcuse, with George M. Stutz as co-chairman of the committee planning the JWF and UJC anni-
versaries, gave an outline of programs to be pursued. (See editorial, Page 4).
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In his annual message, which supplemented the published report distributed at the dinner meeting, Berman
save an overview of the community's aims to pursue tasks to alleviate want and to elevate cultUral aims and the
1.andards of the community.
In the course of his address, Berman expressed the Jewish community's role as a partner in a great effort
with the United Foundation. He pointed to the assistance given to newcomers from Russia and the many other
achievements, including the efforts to speed construc-
tion of the new Jewish Community Center.
Federation Executive Vice President William
A vrunin complemented President Berman's address
in which he outlined forthcoming plans for action, in
fund raising and in planning the activities of the edu-
cational, recreational and social services agencies.
He stated: "Federation is shaped out of the pat-
tern of American democracy with a central concern
of people for each other and a- full respect for the
pluralism of our differences. It must, and it does,
have plenty of room for organizations and for indi-
viduals to do their own thing while we learn to do
more and nitre together.
Butzel Award winner Alan E. Schwartz, center, greeted
"We are fortunate in Detroit that each genera-
at annual Jewish Welfare Federation meeting by Federa-
tion has appreCiated this and has added its personal
tion President Mandell Berman, left, and Max M. Fisher,
imprint to the community character and the commu-
who made the presentation.
nity personality." (Continued on Page 9)
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Protestant, Catholic, Jewish
Clergy Speak "outAgainst
Syria's Treatment of Jews
WASHINGTON—Leading Protestant, Catholic and Jew-
-ish clergymen joined last week in calling on the State
Department to use America's new diplomatic ties with
Damascus to win free emigration for the 4,500 Jews of
Syria.
In separate statements at a news conference the Rev.
David Hunter of the National Council of Churches, Father
Edward Flannery of the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops and Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg of the American
Jewish Congress urged that the government raise the
issue with Syrian officials as a matter of human rights.
Dr. Hunter, deputy general secretary of the National
Council of Churches, traced a long list of discrimination
recounted by escaped Syrian Jews, including restrictions
on their movement, employment and business activity and
what he called "the daily danger of indignities, harrass-
Ment, violence, arrest, detention without counsel, torture
and murder."
Dr. Hunter declared, "I was distressed 'whenPresident
Nixon and Secretary Kissinger, during their visit to Syria
and other Middle East countries, made no public reference-
to this violation of human rights, but I was willing to wait
on the assumption that if peace could be attained, it would
provide an even better platform for safeguarding the
rights of the Jews in all the Middle East countries.
But there is an end to that kind of waiting, to that
kind of gambling away of the rights of other people. This
shameful situation needs to become the open concern of
the American people and of people anywhere who are
concerned about human rights. VVe have been silent long
enough."
Father Flannery, executive secretary of the Secretariat
for Catholic-Jewish Relations of the National Conference of
Catholic Bishops, told the news conference, "It is clear
V' ' (Continued on Page 56)