Is the Israel-USSR Rift Nearing An End?
Encouraging signs of an impending resumption of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Soviet Union were
seen in the apparently friendly 90-minute meeting held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York Sept. 25 by the
foreign ministers of Israel and the USSR, Yigal Allon and Andrei Gromyko.
Diplomatic sources believe the quickness with which the Soviets responded to Allon's request for a meeting, and
the feelers both sides have been making in recent weeks were strong indicators of improving relations between the two
countries.
Israeli spokesmen were publicly cautious about the developments, but the speed of Gromyko's response and the
extraordinary length of the meeting were seen as Soviet indications of interest in beginning a dialogue. Experts said
the Kremlin appeared to be re-examining its Mideast position in the wake of the new Sinai accord between Israel and
Egypt that was negotiated by the United States.
A detailed story about the meeting and its implications appears on Page 14.
YIGAL ALLON
ANDREI GROMYKO
Felix Frankfurter
as Jurist
and Dedicated
Supporter of
Zionist Cause
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Ford-Senate Dispute May Slow
Implementing Israel-Egypt Pact
Knesset Rejects Likud Motion
To Renounce Sinai Agreement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Knesset voted 46-33 Monday to reject a Likud
motion that Israel renounce its agreement to an American presence in Sinai
under the terms of the Israeli-Egyptian interim accord. The vote followed a vig-
orous debate on the issue between Defense Minister Shimon Peres and Likud's
Shmuel Tamir during which Peres revealed that a Likud official had written
privately to an American congressman contending that the American presence
meant that American blood might be shed to protect Israel.
The dramatic dislosure obviously shocked many MKs as they listened in
silence to the text of the letter Peres said was sent by David Nor, chairman of
the "young guard" of Likud's Herut faction.
The letter claimed that "most Israelis oppose the interim agreement which
has been forced upon us by Dr. Kissinger." It went on to allege that Kissinger
was offering Israel "compensation" in the form of a large aid package and the
American presence which was in fact "American lives to defend our lives." The
letter warned that American blood might be needlessly shed.
Peres' disclosure obviously caused acute embarrassment to Herut leader
Menahem Begin who left his seat to consult in whispers with his party lieutenant
Haim Landau. Other Herut MKs seemed shamed by the revelation of the hith-
erto unpublished letter.
In his debate with Tamir, Peres strongly rejected the Likud insinuation that
the government had asked for the American presence because it wanted
"American boys" to defend Israel. He said the idea of stationing American
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Soviet Jewry Rally is Set
For Oak Park Saturday
Oak Park's City Council has declared Saturday as "Simhat
Torah Solidarity Day with Soviet Jewry," and Council member
Charlotte Rothstein will present a proclamation at the 8:30 p.m.
outdoor mass rally at Major Park sponsored by the Jewish Com-
munity Council of Metropolitan Detroit.
The Jewish Community Council says the event will be held
"for citizens of the metropolitan Detroit area to express their con-
cern for the fate of Soviet Jews, and as a protest to the Soviet
Union for ignoring the international accords on human rights it
signed at the recent conference in Helsinki, Finland.
The rally will begin at 8:30 p.m. with a flashlight proces-
sion from the parking lot of Cong. B'nai Moshe at 10 Mile and
Church to the park at the corner of Church and Northfield.
Scheduled to participate in the program are: Lewis Gross-
man, president of the Jewish Community Council; Joseph Bale of
the Council's Committee on International Concerns; Rabbi Moses
Lehrman of Cong. Bnai Moshe; Rabbi Joel Poupko of the Bnai
Brith Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan; and De-
troit musician Abraham ben Zeev.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday
adopted without dissent a resolution calling on President Ford to "inform" the panel of
all the assurances and undertakings by the United States related to the Sinai accord. The
resolution, proposed by Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-NY) was approved by a vote of 14-0.
The motion followed President Ford's warning to Congress to set today as the dead-
line to approve the stationing of American technicians in Sinai, but it appeared that
neither the House nor the Senate would be willing or able to meet this demand.
In a letter to Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott, Ford said further delay
"will prevent a lessening of the risks of war." Egypt and Israel, the President also
wrote, had agreed in Geneva Sept. 22 that "the first step in the implementation of
the basic agreement under the timetable" they negotiated is scheduled to be taken
Sunday, when Egypt is scheduled to regain the Abu Rodeis oilfields.
The process will not begin, however, until the Congress has acted on the proposed
U.S. role in the early warning system," Ford's letter said. "Delay in Congressional action
will, therefore, delay implementation of the basic agreement. It will risk causing the
length and difficult negotiations on the entire five-month implementing timetable to be
reopened. It will prevent a lessening of the risks of war. If for any reason the agremeent
should fail, the responsibility would be heavy indeed."
"All relevant paper's and all U.S. commitments related to the agreement have been
submitted to the appropriate committees of the Congress," Ford's letter continued. "If
action is not completed in the coming week the U.S. will be in the position of holding up
implementation of an agreement which two key Middle Eastern countries have signed as
a signficiant step towards peace."
With both the Senate and House divided on the extent the American commit-
ments to Israel and Egypt should be made available to Congress and how much
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Controversy Over
WZO-Agency Head
Involves Golda Meir
JERUSALEM — Some Labor Party
leaders are reportedly trying to convince for-
mer Premier Golda Meir to accept the presi-
dency of the World Zionist Organization,
thus allowing Leon Dulzin to become chair-
man of the executives of the Jewish Agency
and WZO.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin said he was
postponing a final decision on proposing
Haifa Mayor Yosef Almogi for the office for-
merly held by the late Pinhas Sapir pending
consultations with Zionist and Jewish
Agency leaders from abroad attending this
week's meeting of the Jewish Agency Board
of Governors.
Dulzin is the Jewish Agency treasurer,
and has taken over Sapir's position until a
permanent successor is named. He received
the endorsements this week of former
Foreign Minister Abba Eban, and American
The rally will conclude with music and dancing similar to the Jewish leader Abraham Feinberg, president
Soviet Jews' celebration of Simhat Torah. In the event of rain the of the Weizmann Institute board of gover-
program will be cancelled. nors.
Center and NCJW Urge
Jewish Singles Support
Recommendations to improve the lot of the Detroit Jewish
community's young adult single members (age 18-30) were read
last week at a meeting of representatives of the major communal
agencies, synagogues, temples, women's organizations and the
young adult groups.
The recommendations, made by a subcommittee composed of
members of the Jewish Community Center's college-age and
youth committee and the National Council of Jewish Women,
came as a result of a study of the singles' social needs, conducted
during the summer by Ron Feinberg, a research assistant in
Wayne State University's office of institutional research.
During the study, members of the constituent groups of
the Michigan Jewish Young Adult Council, local rabbis and
more than 300 young adults in the community were inter-
viewed. (The young adult council is an umbrella organization
made up of representatives of the various singles groups. Its
major function is to act as a clearing house so that activities
of one group do not conflict with another. However, it also
sponsors its own social events, such as dances, two of which
were already held this year.).
First of the recommendations, read by Helen Naimark,
chairman of the college-age and youth committee, was that the
community give "full support to the MJYAC as a primary step in
order to put it on a firm basis so that it can support and encourage
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