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U .S., Romania Relate Trade Negotiations to Emigration
According to the provi-
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The State Department con- sions of the trade law, Presi-
firmed Tuesday that the dent Ford must report to
United States and Romania Congress on the trading
are negotiating a commer- 'partners compliance with
cial agreement in accord- the emigration provisions
ance with the Trade Reform and either house may reject
Act of 1974 that includes the the agreement if not satis-
Jackson-Vanik Amend- fied.
State Department spokes-
ments relating U.S. trade
benefits to the emigration man Robert Funseth said
practices of Communist bloc that the negotiations are
"proceeding satisfactorily."
countries.
The negotiations are taking
place in Bucharest where
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the American negotiating
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team is headed by U.S.
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Ambassador Harry Barnes.
Funseth said he did not
know when the agreement
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will be completed but
"understood" that negotia-
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The JTA learned from
other U.S. sources\ that the
terms of the trade agree-
ment with Romania have
been completed and that
the talks now concern as-
surances
from the Roman-
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According to these
sources, emigration from
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Romania falls into catego-
ries. One concerns. approxi-
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or holding dual citizenship
— the largest number of
such persons in any Com-
munist bloc country. The
second category concerns
Romanian Jews who want
to emigrate to Israel.
American sources de-
scribed Romania's record on
Jewish emigration as "up
and down." Romania is the
only Communist bloc coun-
try that maintains diplo-
matic and trade relations
with Israel. A sizeable flow
of Soviet Jews passed
through Romania en route
to Israel until the Yom Kip-
pur War. That channel was
closed and has not been re-
opened, the sources said.
The emigration of Ro-
manian Jews to Israel has
ebbed and flowed, but was
never entirely halted. One
source said. Jews were
leaving Romania all the
time. Another source said
there have been periods of
up to several months when
no Jews left Romania.
There are presently fewer
than 90,000 Jews in that
country, the U.S. sources
said. They described the
Romanian Jewish commu-
nity as an aging one with a
low rate of natural increase.
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There were 100,000 Jews in
Romania at the time of the
Six-Day War in 1967. Of the
10,000 who left since then,
most emigrated to Israel
between 1967 and 1973.
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memorial meeting for Dr.
Joseph J. Schwartz was held
at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
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Leaders of the Israel gov-
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Auditorium to hear Univer-
sity President Avraham
Harman eulogize Joseph
Schwartz as "the noblest
exemplar of the Jewish 'civil
servant" who served the
Jewish people through its
darkest and most glorious
periods.
Jewish Agency Chairman
One of Allied Van Lines Largest Haulers
Pinhas Sapir traced Dr.
Schwartz's career of service
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rope from 1938, in which ca-
pacity he was a central ,fig-
ure in the underground
rescue of Jews from the
Nazis, through his post war
leadership of the UJA as a
prime mover in the immi-
gration of Asian and North
African Jews to the new
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state, and to his role as the
man who turned Israel
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Bonds into a powerful tool
over the advice of econo-
mists and accountants who
insisted the idea would
never work.
Harman told of Mr.
Harry Abram
Schwartz's influence in the
'Fleet
Manager
establishment of the He-
brew University's Paul
Baerwald School of Social
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in his memory.
AARON LOPEZ
1731-1782
Merchant • Community Leader • Revolutionary Leader
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oday, if you go to Newport, Rhode
Island, you can visit the place called
"Lopez Dock," named after Aaron
Lopez, a power in Newport in the
years just preceding the Revolution. At the
time, Newport was described as a shipping cen-
ter that "New York can never hope to rival ..."
And Aaron Lopez, owner or part-owner of
many transoceanic and coastal trading ships,
was one of the leading citizens of the port's large
Jewish community.
Known for religious liberalism. the Rhode
Island city had become the home of a substan-
tial number of capable. well-educated Jews,
among the most affluent in the Colonies.
In 1752, from Portugal, came Aaron Lopez.
the Sephardic Jew described later by Ezra Stiles,
President of Yale University. as "a merchant of
first eminence: for honor and extent of com-
merce probably surpassed by no merchant in
America." In addition. Lopez was known as an
active force in cementing friendly relations
between faiths. He earned the respect of Chris-
tians, as well as Jews, and no ship ever left his
dock on either's Sabbath—Saturday or Sunday.
Lopez himself laid the first cornerstone of New-
port's famous Touro Synagogue (oldest in the
U.S. and now a national shrine ) in 1759.
During the War, the city suffered such heavy
losses that it never recovered. Neither did Aaron
Lopez who lost virtually all he had acquired
during his many years of successful trading.
When attempting to return to Newport after
independence was won. Lopez was tragically
drowned in a freak accident.
Ezra Stiles eulogized him with these words ...‘
He did business with the greatest ease and
clearness: always carried about him a sweetness
of behavior, a calm urbanity, an agreeable and
unaffected politeness of manners."
A fitting tribute to Aaron Lopez—one of
many Jewish-American patriots worthy of
remembrance.
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In strong sympathy with Revolutionary patriots.
Lopez was forced to flee Newport to Massachu-
setts when the British attacked.
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