THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 15, 1975 13
Mexican President Echeverria Sends Minister to Cairo to Promote Mideast Talks
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Mexican President Luis
Echeverria climaxed his
four-day visit to .Israel by
apparently confirming a re-
port that his goal in sud-
denly dispatching his For-
eign Minister, Emilio
Rabasco, to Cairo last week
was to try to promote a
face-to-face meeting be-
tween Israeli and Egyptian
leaders. The report was cars
ried in the Jerusalem, Post.
Echeverria, speaking at a
preSs conference, said he
t.iad sent Rabasco to Cairo
an effort to take a step
forward . . . in negotiations
that are possible between
Israel and Egypt."
Echeverria told newsmen
here that he had found a
"very favorable, positive at-
titude" on the part of Pre-
mier Yitzhak Rabin and
Foreign Minister Yigal Al-
Ion with whom he held polit-
ical talks. Rabin, Allon and
Defense Minister Shimon
Peres are Israel's team for
the negotiations for a sec-
ond Sinai interim accord.
The Mexican President
also told the press confer-
ence that he had found Ra-
bin ".open to negotiations,
open to dialogue and to the
exchange of ideas." He
said it was as a result of
British Churches Write Draft
on M.E.; Israel Is Stressed
LONDON (JTA) The
British Council of Churches
has produced a document on
the Middle East, which, ac-
cording to news sources, is
the British-Anglican contri-
bution on this subject in
advance of the forthcoming
assembly of the World
Council of Churches in Nai-
Newsman Due
at Bond Event
robi—the supreme body of
the Protestant and Anglican
faith.
It is understood that the
British church is producing.
its own draft documents to
counter material emanating
from the World Cou'hcil of
Churches' head offices in
Geneva. Recently British
church publications have
attacked the Geneva center
as having left-wing bias,
condoning so-called libera-
tion movements and use of
power.
• The World Council, it will
be recalled, gave a million
dollars to "Arab refugee
organizations," and there
was no way of knowing
whether the money reached
the PLO. In the 1930s the
World Council's counterpart
gave nothing to Jewish refu-
gees from Nazism.
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ROBERT M. EVANS
Robert Mayer Evans, for-
mer CBS correspondent and
bureau chief in Moscow, will
be gu-est speaker at the
Cong. Beth Achim Tribute
Dinner honoring Dr. and
Mrs. William M. Stoler 7
p.m. Aug. 24 in the syn-
agogue. The dinner, held on
behalf of Israel Bonds, will
be the occasion for award-
ing the couple the David
Ben-Gurion Award.
A graduate of Yale Uni-
versity's law school, Evans
joined CBS in 1960 and re-
ported from Russia, the
South and Washington. In
1971 he made a series of TV
news film features in Israel
for Westinghouse Broad-
casting and has worked un-
der the auspices of -the Is-
raeli Foreign Ministry
creating programs for his
own nationally syndicated
TV series:
During the Yom Kippur
War, Evans reported on key
aspects of the war.
. Dr. Stoler is co-chair-
man of the medical divi-
sion of State of Israel
Bonds. Mrs. Stoler is an
active member of the worn-
en's division.
Cocktails will be served at
6. Eric Rosenow will provide
music for dancing. For -res-
ervations, call Bonds,
968-0200., 4
•
i
The Mideast document
contains an entire section
entitled "Through Jewish
Eyes" and it says, "The
Jews as the people of God
came t6 inherit a land
promised by God." It re-
capitulates Jewish history
and suffering from reli-
gious prejudice and politi-
cal anti-Semitism, and
stresses the centrality of
the land of Israel in Juda-
ism as evinced in the
phrase: "Next Year in
Jerusalem."
The Anglican document
goes much further than the
Catholics' on the Jews. It
sees Israel as "the place
aimed at providing both a
secure home for fugitives
from persecution and a focal
point for the Jewish sense of
peoplehood."
Looking at the Mideast
through Arab eyes, the An-
glican authors maintain
that "the British under the
Mandate tried to reconcile
the irreconcilable." In sur-
veying Arab. attitudes, it
notes their wish to oblige Is-
rael to return to the 1949 ar-
mistice lines.
They also noted "the Ar-
abs accepted neither the le-
gality of the political parti-
tion of Palestine, nor the
establishment of Israel, and
resorted to force to prevent
it."
his political talks with
Rabin and Allon that he
had sent Rabasco to Cairo
to see if a similar attitude
existed there.
Echeverria and his party
had been in Egypt for four
days before coming to Is-
rael. He said "If Rabasco
finds the same favorable
attitude .. we will have
been able to contribute in a
tangible way to this first
step forward."
Mexican officials, react-
ing to the discrepancy be-
tween the Jerusalem Post
report on Echeveria's inten-
tions and his phraseology at
the press eernTerence, said
later that Echeverria ap-
peared "not to be contradict-
ing the Jerusalem Post ac-
count of his intentions in
sending Rabaso." However,
the officials appeared reluc-
tant to depart, in their on-
the-record statements, from
Echeverria's exact wording.
Israeli officials confirmed
that Rabin had reiterated to
Echeverria his readiness to
meet with Sadat "any time,
any place."
Following an official din-
ner for him, Echeverria
spoke of Israel's "right to
live in stability and secu-
rity" and of the shaky state
of world peace which must
be-strengthened in the Mid-
east and elsewhere. He
stressed the need to
strengthen the United Na-
tions and also emphasized
the very warm relations ex-
isting between Israel and
Mexico in many fields.
In a communique issued
at the close of the Rabin-
Echeverria meetings, the
two leaders said that, in
reviewing the interna-
tional situation, they
shared in the belief that it
was indispensable that all
states intensify their ef-
forts to ensure an era of
justice in the world. The
communique said "The
time is now opportune for
an immediate peace settle-
ment between Israel and
her neighbors."
Echeverria declared that
Israel should withdraw
from the occupied areas and
solve the Palestinian prob-
lem "morally and equita-
bly."
He asserted that secure
borders were not attained
solely by territorial means
in this era of modern war-
fare. He told the assembled
guests at the President's
Jerusalem home that to re-
turn the occupied areas
would be a step toward
peace.
Echeverria was award-
ed an honorary degree in
philosophy by Tel Aviv
University in a ceremony
in the university's Mexico
building. Prof. Ben. Sa-
char, president of the Uni-
versity, greeted the Mexi-
can leader. Dr. George S.
Wise, chairman of the Is-
rael-Mexico Friendship
Association and founder of
the university, spoke
A wise man, with a schol-
ar's education, excels a pro-
phet with his inspiration.
—The Talmud
Some of the students crit-
icized pictures of Echeverria
embracitg Arafat. Echever-
ria replied that the embrace
was a "gesture of courtesy"
and that he was acting to
prevent the exclusion or sus-
pension of Israel from the
UN. The demonstrating
students then warmly ap-
plauded the Mexican leader.
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