Broomfield Guiding Administration Sinai Pact Fight
WASHINGTON- — Rep. William Broomfield (R-Mich.) has been
named floor manager in the House by the Ford Administration to win
Congressional approval for the Israeli-Egypt interim agreement in Sinai.
The major stumbling blocks to approval have been opposition to the U.S.
personnel in the Sinai to man electronic warning stations, and the cost of
U.S. aid to Israel and Egypt.
Some Administration spokesmen have been linking the proposed sale
of 14 Hawk surface-to-air missile batteries to Jordan with the proposed
Sinai package. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, however, said the
Hawk sale was between Congress and Jordan, and that he is prepared to
offer a compromise on deployment and delivery that is now being consid-
ered, "but must be acceptable to Jordan."
Several congressional leaders, including Presidential hopefuls Henry
M. Jackson of Washington and Morris K. Udall of Arizona have issued
statements supporting the interim Sinai accord. Udall dismissed as
"simplistic" the analogies drawn by some critics, including Senate Major-
ity Leader Mike Mansfield, between the positioning of Americans in the
Sinai and in Vietnam.
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September 12, 1975
Ford Meets Jewish Spokesmen
In Effecting Middle East Policy
Harris, Dr. Fill Named
'76 Campaign Chairmen
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Special significance is being attached to President Ford's rare, personal
invitation to meet with 33 American Jewish leaders for 40 minutes at the White House last Monday
afternoon. Ford received their support on the issue of stationing American technicians in Sinai under
terms of the new Israeli-Egypt interim accord.
Attending the meeting in the Cabinet room, at which Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was also
present, were representatives of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,
headed by chairman Rabbi Israel Miller, and Max M. Fisher, chairman of the Board of the Governors of
the Jewish Agency. Fisher, a personal friend of the President, said he had arranged the meeting.
Miller said Ford told the group that "a large supporting majority in Congress" for the techni-
cians to man an advance warning radar station between the new Israeli and Egyptian lines in Sinai
"would help the atmosphere for peace" and that the Jewish leaders concurred.
Fisher maintained that the pact was good for America and good for Israel. He conceded that there
certainly are risks involved but said that "one of the great things" about the interim accord is that there
will be time for further negotiations.
Kissinger, at a State Department press conference Tuesday, minimized "Soviet objections" to the
accord, defended the proposed presence of American technicians in Sinai as essential to monitor the
agreement and contended that it was not "detrimental" to the Soviet Union or "advantageous" to the
United States."
' He minimized the PLO threat to shoot at Americans in Sinai, noting that the technicians would be
between Israeli and Egyptian forces, surrounded by UN forces in an area with no population. "Once
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MERLE HARRIS
DR. LEON FILL
Dr. Leon Fill and Merle Harris will be co-chairmen of the
1976 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund. The an-
nouncement was made at the Detroit Service Group's 26th an-
nual Stag Day at Knollwood Country Club Tuesday by Jewish
Welfare Federation President Mandell L. Berman.
They succeed Richard Sloan and Arthur Howard, chair-
men of the 1975 Campaign which raised $18 million for the
nearly 60 beneficiaries of the AJC-IEF.
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ticipated in the 1975 Prime Minister's Mission in Israel.
Merle Harris has been active in Detroit's Jewish com-
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Family & Children's . Service, he is currently a governor of
the Jewish Welfare Federation and a director of the DSG.
Harris led the major gifts effort during the emergency
campaign following the Yom Kippur War. He was the pre-
campaign vice-chairman in 1972 and 1973.
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sion, which preceded the outbreak of hostilities.
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Leadership Award for young communal leaders, Harris is a
past trustee of the Jewish Vocational Service and Community
Workshop and a former member of Federation's executive
committee.
(See Stag Day story, Page 44)
United Jewish Appeal Given Initial Start With
$13.6 Million in 1976 Commitments Secured at the
Prime Minister's Mission in Israel.
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