THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Ford Hit for Asking Congress to Revise USSR Trade Plan
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Ford's call to Con-
gress to revise U.S. legisla-
tion to ease restrictions on
financial credits to the So-
viet Union unless it modifies
its emigration practices,
was criticized here by an
American trade union
leader.
"The average American is
not really interested in
trade with the Soviet Union
if that means it will cost the
blood of some of the people
in Russia," said Glenn E.
Watts, president of the
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Communications Workers
of America.
Responding to questions
on the President's - com-
ments in his "State of the
World" address, Watts told
a news conference that the
Soviet government had re-
pudiated its trade agree-
ment with the United States
last January because of the
"low level of credit" it would
get under the Export-Im-
port Bank law.
He said he "suspects"
that the Soviets would not
have raised the question of
emigration in the trade act
if the U.S. had been will-
ing to provide the Soviet
Union with $1 billion in
credits rather than $300
million.
Watts also said in respect
to the claim that the U.S.
legislation interferes with
Soviet internal affairs that
"our country in one way or
another has interfered in
the internal affairs of other
countries" for lesser rea-
sons.
Meanwhile, U.S. Trea-
sury Secretary William Si-
mon, who was in Moscow
last week to participate in
U.S.-Soviet trade talks, his
first visit to Moscow since
the Soviet government re-
nounced the 1972 trade ac-
cord last January, said in an
interview with Moscow Ra-
dio that "The government of
the United States intends to
continue efforts to remove
barriers hindering the nor-
mal development of trade
between our countries.
Above all this concerns the
limitations on credits for
Soviet-American trade."
In his discussions with
Soviet Trade Minister Ni-
kolai Patolichev, Simon
Govt. Panel Holds Hearing on Arab Boycott in U.S.
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith ad-
vised Congress this week
that both Congressional ov-
ersight of present U.S. laws
against discrimination and
new federal legislation are
necessary to counter the
Arab boycott's abuse of the
rights of American citizens.
"Both are needed to make
it unlawful for American
businessmen to comply with
discriminatory requests"
for Arab countries and "to
permit those hurt by dis-
crimination to sue for dam-
ages," David Brody, the
ADL's Washington director,
testified before the House
Subcommittee on Govern-
ment Information and Indi-
vidual Rights headed by
Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY).
Brody's views came ex-
temporaneously in response
to a request for suggestions
on how to meet the boycott
measures by Rep. Robert W.
Kasten Jr. (R-Wis), who
himself had attacked the
disdrimination being prac-
ticed against Jews through
the boycott and called for
national measures to re-
medy the situation.
The Abzug panel opened
hearings on governmental
policies and practices re-
lating to the assignment of
personnel both by the
agenscies or their contrac-
tors to overseas areas.
State Department and
Treasury officials testified
they were committed to a
federal policy of non-dis-
crimination.
'Rep. Sam Steiger (R-
Ariz.), the ranking Republi-
can on the subcommittee
and a Bnai Brith member,
agreed with the opposition
to the Arab blacklist of
business. concerns indenti-
fied with Israeli trade or
Jewish management and
also expressed opposition to
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featuring
discrimination within the
United States.
Rep. Abzug charged that
federal agencies which as-
sign personnel overseas
were in clear violation of the
1965 Civil Rights Act and of
Executive Order 11478, both
of which require govern-
rnent agencies to adopt a
strong affirmative action
program to assure equal
opportunity.
"Acquiescence to reli-
gious or racial discrimina-
tion by foreign countries is
a 'negative action' pro-
gram, not an affirmative
action program," she said.
The Arab boycott "is a
most repugnant example
of this kind of policy which
is alien to American prin-
ciples," Rep. Abzug
stated.
She also charged that the
State Department's so-
called quiet diplomacy on
this issue has been a com-
plete failure. "In the last 20
years," she noted, "there
has not been a single indica-
tion of a change in policy by
any of those countries
which the State Depart-
ment insists will be recep-
tive to diplomatic overtures.
It is time we started enforc-
ing the law instead of ex-
changing diplomatic nice-
ties."
Romanian Rabbi to Visit Peking
MELBOURNE (JTA) —
Rabbi Moses Rosen, chief
rabbi of Romania, plans to
visit Peking after he com-
pletes his current visit to
Jewish communities in Aus-
tralia.
. Rabbi Rosen is one of the
most senior representatives
of world Jewry to visit
China in recent years. Al-
though the visit is a private
one, Rabbi Rosen's position
as a member of the Roman-
ian Parliament will proba-
bly mean he will have the
opportunity for informal
meetings with Chinese offi-
cials.
, The rabbi, who is a mem-
ber of the governing council
of the World Jewish Con-
gress, will also visit Jewish
communities in Hong Kong
and Japan before returning
to Bucharest via Peking.
Rabbi Rosen has been vis-
iting Australia as a guest
speaker at commemoration
activities arranged by the
Executive Council of Aus-
tralian Jewry to mark the
30th anniversary of the Hol-
ocaust.
said the U.S. Administra-
tion "strongly opposed the
actions by our Congress
which interrupted the nor-
malization of our trade re-
lations with the Soviet
Union. The President has
committed himself to work
for the removal of current
restrictions at the earliest
opportunity."
Furthermore, Simon
stated, in preparing a legis-
lative proposal to remove
the current restrictions "we
shall have in mind both the
importance of removing ar-
bitrary ceilings on Export-
Import Bank credits for
U.S. exports and the im-
portance of eliminating the
unacceptable aspects of the
Jackson Amendment to the
recent trade bill."
Syria Now Has
Twice the Arms
of Great Britain
LONDON (ZINS) — Syria
now has twice the number
of combat airplanes and
more than twice the number
of tanks than does England,
said Winston Churchill, a
grandson of the famed En-
glish premier. All were sup-
plied by the Soviet Union he
said. Speaking in Parlia-
ment, Churchill pointed to
the greater danger to world
peace which results from
the massive rearmament of
the'Arabs by the Soviets. _
Carmel
Forests Increased
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Judge Will Get
Rights Award
NEW YORK — Former
Federal District Judge Si-
mon H. Rifkind, philan-
tropic and community
leader, has been named re-
cipient of the 1975 Herbert
H. Lehman Human Rela-
tions Award
Andrew Goodman, na-
tional general chairman of
the American Jewish Com-
mittee Appeal for Human
Relations which presents
the annual award, said that
Judge Rifkind is being hon-
ored "as the person who best
exemplifies those creative
achievements which charac-
terized Herbert H. Leh-
man's outstanding career in
public service."
Presentation of the award
will take place at a dinner
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of the Moreland Commis-
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