Cohen, Drachler Named Federation Associate Directors
Samuel Cohen and Sol Drachler have been appointed associate directors of Detroit's Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration. The announcement was made by Federation executive vice president William Avrunin following con-
firmation by the organization's executive committee last week.
Cohen and Drachler have been assistant directors of the Federation staff for _ the past decade. Cohen's
primary responsibilities have been in the areas of budgeting, social planning and agency administration. Drachler
has been director of Federation's annual fund appeal, the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund.
During these years, the Detroit Jewish community has made major strides in the implementing of new
facilities for agency services and in fund-raising.
Under Drachler's direction, the first Israel Emergency Fund was formed immediately following the Six-Day
War. Since then, Detroit's solicitation efforts have increased, until the 1974 AJC-IEF, in an emergency campaign,
raised a total of $23,910,000 to aid the humanitarian agencies which are the Campaign's beneficiaries.
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Sadat More Positive With Peace
Gesture; Gets French Arms Deal
Percy Israel Policy
Hit by Chicago Jews
CHICAGO (JTA)—Jewish leaders here responded
angrily Wednesday to remarks attributed to Sen.
Charles H. Percy (R-I11.) which they characterized
as a "shocking change of policy" toward Israel.
The senator, just returned from a tour of Israel
and Arab countries, was quoted as saying that Israel
was intransigent, that PLO chieftain Yasir Arafat
was "relatively speaking, a moderate" and that
Israel could not count on American support if it
launched a pre-emptive war in the Middle East.
Percy's remarks, at a breakfast meeting with
journalists in Washington Sunday, drew an angry
response from Maynard I. Wishner, chairman of the
public affairs committee of the Jewish United Fund
which represents 36 Jewish organizations in the
greater Chicago area.
Wishner said Jewish communal leaders were
"shocked and dismayed" by Percy's views and "are
requesting an urgent meeting with the senator for
clarification of the statements."
Sen. Percy, whose pro-Israel voting record in
the Senate and public statements on many occasions
earned him the reputation of being a staunch friend
of Israel, was quoted as saying that Israel leaders
were "unrealistic" if they thought they could avoid
contact with the PLO.
"We cannot suppoit Israel right or wrong," he
told the group. If Israel was responsible • for a new
war in the Middle East "it is not clear that United
States support would be with them," he said. He
PARIS (JTA)—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat this week completed a three day official visit
to France during which he concluded a major arms deal, negotiated for increased Franco-Egyptian eco-
nomic and technical cooperation and, above all, managed to partially break loose from the pressure ex-
erted on him by the world's two super-powers, Russia and the United States.
At his press conference, prior to his departure Sadat also said that a turning point in Middle Eastern
relations has now been reached and "this is the first time in 26 years that peace is possible." He added
that neither Egypt nor Syria have the slightest intention to renew their war with Israel. "I can frankly
speak for Syria as we have unified command with the Syrian Army," the Egyptian said.
He added that guarantees should and could be given to facilitate the peace pro-
cess. He said that he would welcome French troops on the Israeli-Egyptian border
but on condition that "such forces be stationed on both sides of the frontier: in
both the Sinai and in Israel proper." The Egyptian president stressed, however, that
the situation remains explosive. Replying to a question, he said that Egypt will do all
it can to reach a peaceful solution through political means but said that "my patience
is not unlimited."
He said "that to defuse the explosive situation" Israel should start by under-
taking a partial withdrawal on all three fronts: the Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan.
It was a bleak three days for Israel as the Egyptian president not only man-
aged to erase the biterness created in France by the oil crisis and the recent terrorist
attacks, but left Paris assured by President Giscard d'Estaing, "You will always find
France at your side with all the technical and economic means it possesses." During
his two meetings with Giscard, the Egyptian president obtained France's agreement to supply him with
the warplanes and other weapons which the Soviet Union stopped delivering 14 months ago, at the end of
the Yom Kippur War.
The Egyptian shopping list was practically endless. According to reliable sources, Egypt has
ordered or is negotiating for 48 to 120 warplanes. Some of the planes will be the new highly sophisti-
cated Mirage F-1. Egypt has also ordered, according to these reports, a small number of training planes
jointly manufactured by France and West Germany.
The Mirage F-1 is currently being considered by Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Norway, and
is considered by military experts superior to the U.S. Phantom-4 used by the Israeli Air Force.
Egypt also ordered helicopters, a wide range of missiles, ground to ground anti-tank rockets and
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Soviet Jews Blame Credits
for U.S. Trade Pact Rejection
n
MOSCOW—A group of Soviet Jews has contended in a statement
1„—, Congressional ceilings on credit and not the emigration provisions
in the recently enacted trade agreement with the United States caused
the Russian government to break the agreement earlier this month.
The statement, signed by more than 100 Jews from nine cities,
appeared to be part of an effort by would-be emigrants to disassociate
themselves from the death of the 1972 trade agreement.
"No matter what the reasons were," the statement said, "the
failure to achieve a trade agreement between the U.S.A. and the
U.S.S.R. has nothing to do with the emigration of Jews from the
U.S.S.R."
Soviet officials have insisted that the trade agreement was not
accepted both because of the emigration conditions and because of
credit limitation.
The Jewish statement was signed by persons in Moscow, Lenin-
grad, Odessa, Vinnitsa, Kishinev, Tbilisi, Riga, Tallinn and Vilna. It
bore the names of many known activists, though some others were
apparently missing.
In Washington, Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) strongly
reaffirmed justification for the trade law linking U.S. trade benefits
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Israel Cautious
Over New Oil Find
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Oil geolo-
gists drilling in the Ramallah re-
gion of the West Bank say they
are about to tap a reservoir of oil
estimated to contain seven billion
barrels, 100 times Israel's annual
oil requirements.
The news touched off a slight
rise in oil shares on the Tel Aviv
stock exchange, but investors with
past experience of oil finds that
failed to materialize are acting
with caution.
The director of the oil explora-
tion and investment department of
the Treasury said that plans are
ready to develop the Ramallah site
if positive results are achieved.
He added, hOwever, that it would
take more than a year to raise the
necessary money to start working
the site.
S oviet Immigrants in Detroit
Part of National HIAS Effort
Seventy-four Soviet Jews came to the Detroit area through the
HIAS Resettlement Service arrangement during the last six months of
1974. Once here, they are helped by several Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion agencies to adjust to life in their new land.
Resettlement Service provides them with housing and the
basic necessities for living which they may not have been permitted
to bring with them. Sinai Hospital's Shiffman Clinic gives them medi-
cal care and the Jewish Vocational Service and Community Workshop
helps them to find employment. They are invited to be members of the
Jewish Community Center and to participate in the ulpan-type Eng-
lish comprehension program there.
Nationally, increased emigration of Soviet Jews to the U.S. and
Canada was the major concern of United HIAS Service in 19'74.
Their annual report said 20,634 Jews left the Soviet Union in 1974
and 3,490 requested and received HIAS assistance to come to the
United States, an increase of more than 2,000 over 1973.
An additional 500 HIAS-assisted Soviet migrants emigrated to
countries other than the United States, including Canada and Australia,
New Zealand, Latin America and Western Europe.
While the total number of Jews allowed to leave the Soviet Union
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