THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 14 Friday, July 11, 1975 Congress Committees Approve Favored Status for Romania t*****-A-******1 * ; * Austin . * i * • galleries : * * * 3500 Original ' * * Oil Paintings 1 t Jr' and Graphics * . * _, By Leading American ig' _j and European Artists Featuring Original Graphics By Jt t Norman Rockwell _, .4r and LeRoy Neiman A" ,/,_ Open 7 Days Weekly * Northland and Eastland Center ************** WASHINGTON (JTA)- The Senate Finance Com- mittee unanimously ap- proved Wednesday Presi- dent Ford's request for most favored nation trade treat- ment of Romania. It was followed by a 14-2 vote by a House trade subcommittee in favor of most favored na- tion status for Romania. Most favored nation sta- tus will allow Romania tar- iff rates 50 percent below those levied on other corn- NEW CADILLAC? BUY OR LEASE FROM ANDY BLAU in BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 RES. 642-6836 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM munist countries except Poland and Yugolsavia. The Senate and• House actions followed informa- tion provided by govern- ment officials that Romania has eased its emigration restrictions on Jews and others. Under the terms of the Jackson-Vanik amend- ment incorporated into the 1974 trade reform act U.S. trade benefits to communist countries are contingent on their emigration practices. Both the full Senate and the House must approve a normal trade policy with Romania before the reduced tariffs become effective. The Senate has until Sunday to act. Complaints from Jewish groups, borne out by U.S. officials, indicated that Romania had tightened its emigration policies this year, reversing its past relatively liberal policies. In the first five months of 1975, fewer than 400 Jews left Romania for Israel compared to an average of 300 a month in 1974 ac- cording to U.S. sources. But information from Bucharest this week indi- cated that emigration was once more on the rise. Ac- cording to the State Depart- ment, 237 Jews left for Is- rael in June, bringing the total for the first six months of the year to 616. In addi- tion, informants said. 303 were scheduled to leave in July and Romania has ap- proved exit visas for 2,000 Jews so far this year for Is- rael and 954 applications by Romanians who want to go to the U.S. A Romanian government official has confirmed a "BUY A SOMETHING GET A SECOND SOMETHING FREE" SALE! Pick out what you want from our spe- cial fashion selec- tion of top quality, brand name mer- chandise, then pick again: mix or match with anything up to the same price free. LIVONIA 17134 Farmington Rd. 522-8772 MT. CLEMENS 28777 Hoover 573-7320 47 Cass Avenue 468-0125 Adrian Mall 263-5921 WEST BLOOMFIELD TROY BELLEVILLE Pine Lake Mall 4319 Orchard Lake Rd. 851-8119 Somerset Plaza 2842 W. Maple 649-1344 Lake Wood Shopping Ctr. 2047 Rawsonville Rd. 485-2114 YOU CAN USE YOUR MASTER CHARGE OR BANKAMERICARD Gliga told the American group that in his view the country's emigration policy and official approval and support of a multitude of Jewish religious and cul- tural institutions qualify it for U.S. designation as a most-favored-nation in for- eign trade. Such status, which lowers tariff barriers, is being sought by Romania to offset its balance of trade deficit with this country. Other Romanian govern- ment officials also attrib- uted the reduction of emi- gration during the first five months of this year to tech- nicalities. Some blamed the government's preoccupation last fall with the Commun- ist Party Congress and the national elections for slow- ing the bureaucratic ma- chine. United States representa- tives in Romania told the ADL group that in addition to the slowdown in permit- ting Romanian Jews to emi- grate to Israel, exit permits to go to the United States have also fallen off. They said it was difficult to ascer- tain a precise reason but speculated that it was due "to some unknown domes+ situation - and not SovL. pressure. Epstein said it was learned that while Romania has open diplomatic and trade relations with Israel — it is also one of the most outspoken supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization, which has an office in Bucharest, and the Pales- tinian movement for "self- determination." Romania, while not de- pendent on Arab oil for domestic energy, has be- come a center for petro- chemical processing and needs Arab oil in order to increase its industrial de- velopment and • export ca- pacity.. Rabbi Moses Rosen told the group that during his 27 years as Romania's Chief Rabbi he had been instru- mental in the emigration of the 350,000 Jews — approxi- mately 80 percent of the to- tal Jewish institutions in Romania, he declared, are evidence of the difference between the treatment of Romanian Jews and those in the Soviet Union. He cited such community projects as a Talmud Torah, a Jewish youth movement, communal kosher kitchen facilities, kosher meals-on- wheels and housing facili- ties for the elderly and in- firm, dental and medical clinics, a bi-weekly Romani- an-Jewish-Hebrew newspa- per, publication of Yiddish books, and synagogues in 18 of the 70 officially-recog- nized Jewish communities. In addition, he said, Roman- ian Jews have freedom of contact with world Jewry. W. German Government Urged to Extradite Nazi War Criminal ADRIAN WARREN drastic drop in Jewish emi- gration so far this year, but attributed it to "a technical situation" and assured a vis- iting Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith dele- gation that there has been no change in his country's policy. Meeting with ADL lead- ers in Bucharest. Vasile Gliga, deputy minister of foreign affairs, noted with pride that some 350,000 Romanian Jews have been permitted to emigrate to Israel since the establish- ment of the Jewish state and said that the. recent drop in numbers should not be read as a change in Ro- mania's liberal "reunifi- cation of families" policy. The League delegation, led by Benjamin R, Epstein, national director, and made up of 33 individuals from 14 states and Canada, were in Romania — the only Com- munist bloc country that maintains diplomatic and trade relations with Israel —for four days of meetings with government and Jew- ish community leaders. VIENNA (JTA) — The Austrian Jewish Students Federation called on the West German government to take immediate steps for the extradition of Nazi war criminal Walter Kutsch- mann who has been living in Argentina since 1947 under the alias of Pedro Ricardo Olmo. Kutschmann was ar- rested in Buenos Aires after his identity was exposed by Simon Wiesenthal, head of the Nazi war crimes docu- mentation center in Vienna. But he was released after six hours and, according to Wiesenthal, has gone under- ground. There was nd explanation of why the Buenos Aires au- thorities released him. Wiesenthal provided documents indicating Kutschmann's responsi- bility for the murder of 20 Jewish university profes- sors and their families in Lwow, Poland, on July 4, 1941, a crime previously attributed to another for- mer West German, Theo- dor Oberlaender. The Federation of Aus- trian Resistance Fighters held Oberlaender responsi- _ ble but the actual killing: apparently were carried out by Kutschmann, who was, at the time, an SS officer and leader of a Gestapo unit. According to the Students Federation, Kutschmann was also directly responsi- ble for the murder of 2,000 other Jews in Lwow. Aid to Delinquents GENEVA "I know of many boys and girls who were considered outside so- ciety and were returned to normal life by ORT educa- tion and the personal atten- tion given to them by our or- ganization," said Mrs. Magda Grossman, chairman of Women's Israel ORT, in calling upon more Israeli women to take part in ORT activities. —