THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Ford Hit for Asking Congress to Revise USSR Trade Plan • 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 • _4 • 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 CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK CULTURAL COMMISSION in association with THE RABBI MORRIS ADLER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION cordially invites you to attend a COLLOQUY AMERICA'S JEWS: THE 70's AND BEYOND SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1975 • 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 Friday, April 18, 1975 21 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. 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