8 ▪ December 12,1975 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Morton Gives Boycott Materials to Congress • • • We Make Our Own Glasses • • HEADQUARTERS FOR • LATEST DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED FRAME FASHIONS ID • PRESCRIPTIONS. FOR GLASSES ACCURATELY FII.LED 0 o• C C C C • Immediate Repair • Reasonably Priced _ ROSEN OPTICAL SERVICE 13720 W. 9 MILE nr. COOLIDGE OAK PARK, MICH. LI 7-5068 Hours: Daily and Saturday 9:30 Closed Wednesday 61 1%.4 0 kO ktt! 0 fl to 6 P.m. kt0 tuu uts suLp W 0.0 ite ILLP (Continued from Page 1) expose the documents. The aide also said the principle had been preserved that Congress and not the exec- utive branch is to deter- mine what material it has is to be released. Morton will probably re- main Secretary of Com- merce until Feb. 1 instead of at the end of this month be- cause his - successor-desig- nate Elliott Richardson, has returned to London to corn-. plete his commitments as the U.S. Ambassador there. Morton disclosed last week that the Department' of Commerce. has fined four American companies $1,000 each for failing to report de- mands by Arab countries to comply with their boycott against Israel. The companies are Agip U.S.A. Inc.; Inter-Equip- ment Co.; and the National Cash Register Co., all of New York and Continental Emsco Co. of Houston. Meanwhile, the Ameri- can Jewish Congress an- nounced that it was launching a nationwide campaign to require major U.S. corporations to tell their shareholders whether they are partici- pating in the Arab boycott of Israel or discriminating against Jews. Will Maslow, general counsel of the AJCongress, said at a press conference that the organization was invoking Security and Ex- change Commission regula- tions to seek information about "anti-Israel and anti- Jewish practices, if any" by approximately 100 publicly- owned American firms. Maslow reported that the AJCongress has purchased stock in General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Interna- tional Harvester and World Airways — each of which has been or will be re- quested to include a resolu- tion in the proxy statements they distribute prior to their annual stockholders' meet- ings calling for "a full writ- ten report to the sharehold- ers . . . on the company's policy toward compliance, tacit- or overt, with the de- mands of the Arab boycott." Maslow said those partic- ular companies were se- lected as the first targets of the campaign "because each of them is seeking business relationships Arab countries and corpori- tions, companies and indi- viduals and may be involved in illegal, restrictive and dis- criminatory practices." Jewish Quarter Empty in Beirut If you're not covered by an employer-sponsored retirement plan, we've got one that could save you a lot of money . . . and provide a tax shelter. 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To find out more about how you can provide yourself a tax shelter and build a substantial personal retirement fund in the process, stop in at any Lib- erty State Bank & Trust Office, We'll be happy to help put you on Easy Street. Member F.D.I.C. with $40,000 insurance per account. There's a Liberty State Bank & Trust Office In Your Neighborhood: Liberty State an & Ttust "Full Service Saturday Banking"* Waterford Township 4330 Highland Rd. Member FDIC West Bloomfield Township 6695 Orchard Lake Rd. Banking Hours: Monday Saturday 9:30-4:30 Friday 9:30-7:30 Other Offices: Clinton Township, Hamtramck `and Sterling Heights a Except in Hamtramck PARIS (JTA) — The_Bei- rut Jewish quarter stands empty and practically de- serted. Foreign travelers returning from Lebanon say the Jews fled the former -lively business center when fighting reached their area. Most of the houses were damaged in the fighting, shops were looted and sev- eral inhabitants wounded. These reports say one in- habitant, an elderly Jew, was killed by a sniper's bul- let. According to these re- ports, the fighting reached the quarter two weeks ago only as the cease-fire was practically enforced throughout the .rest of the city. Eye-witnesses say Phalange commandos en- tered the area -after being chased out of their former strongpoints. Within hours, fighting broke out between them and Moslem units. Those caught in the actual fighting could not leave the area and sought refuge in the synagogue building. The Lebanese paper Al Howadees reported that the first to reach the synagogue were members of the PLO, sent "on the personal in- structions of Yasir Arafat." The paper said Arafat wanted to show Lebanon and the world that the "Palestinians are not against the Jews — on the contrary." Jewish organizations_in Paris say they know of no PLO units sent to protect the refugees in Beirut syn- agogue but confirm that on Nov. 3 the PLO sent a truckload of food and a medical assistant to the building. Out of the city's former 1,700 Jewish inhabitants not more than a couple of hundred are left in Beirut proper. Most, of these, ac- cording to people in contact with them, also plan to leave Lebanon for good. Before the recent fighting broke out, some 4,000 Jews were believed to•have re- mained in Lebanon, most of them in Beirut. Some 6,000 Jews left the country after the Six-Day War in 1967 in spite of Lebanese govern- ment efforts to convince them to remain. The Lebanese press re- ported at that time that Minister of Interior Kamal Jumblatt — a pro-Palesti- nian — visited the Beirut synagogue in the Wadi Abu Jamil area and met Jewish community leaders to try and convince them that Le- banon's Jews have nothing to fear. Peres to Address UJA Confab NEW YORK — Shimon Peres, Defense Minister of the state of Israel will be the guest of honor at the 1976 United Jewish Appeal Na- tional Conference banquet Saturday in New York. The conference marks a week designated by the UJA as a period for American Je- wry to demonstrate their unity and strength on be- half of freedom and liberty. The theme of the confer- ence is "Proclaim Liberty," the verse from Leviticus which is inscribed on the Liberty Bell — "Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." Special festures of the event include the presen- tation of the first annual UJA David Ben-Gurion Award to author Elie Wiesel, and a premiere of a multi-media show created for the UJA, ent' tied- "Proclaim Liberty, which portrays 200 years of achievement and growth of the American Jewish community. In addition .to Defense Minister Peres, guest speak- ers appearing at the confer- ence include: Simcha Dinitz, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.; Chaim Herzog, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations; Leon Dulzin, act- ing chairman and treasurer of the Jewish Agency; and Moshe Rivlin, director gen- eral of the Jewish Agency.