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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
36 January 9, 1976
NBC Deleted Ford's Response to Question on 'Jewish Pressure'
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
spokesman for NBC-TV said
this week that a segment of
the interview with Presi-
dent Ford dealing with pres-
sure from American Jews
and others was cut from its
three-hour survey of Ameri-
can foreign policy Monday
night because of editorial
judgement that there were
more important segments to
include within time limita-
tions. "There was no other
reason," the spokesman
stressed.
A White House spokes-
man said that what parts of
the interview were to be
used is "something totally
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up to NBC" and the segment
"may have been edited out
for whatever reason they
may have had."
The deleted segment was
Ford's response to a ques-
tion from the NBC special
program's anchorman, John
Chancellor, who asked for a
comment on "some of the
pressure groups we find
both within the United Na-
tions and as you see these
pressure groups in foreign
affairs, thinking, for exam-
ple of the influence of
American Jews, of the
growing influence of Arabs,
of various groups."
Ford replied that U.S.
foreign policy will not be
determined by any "highly
articulate or very tightly
organized pressure group
of any kind" that is unre-
presentative of American
society as a whole.
During Monday's pro-
gram, the major example of
ethnic pressure shown 'was
the successful effort of
Greek Americans to con-
vince Congress to block aid
to Turkey following Tur-
key's invasion of Cyprus.
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Kissinger said that this
pressure was harmful to
U.S. policy and may have
lessened chances for a set-
tlement of the Cyprus crisis.
The program dealt with
Soviet Jewish emigration in
the context of detente. John
Dancey, the NBC corre-,
spondent in Moscow, said
the Jackson/Vanik amend-
ment had "dashed" the So-
viet Union's hopes for ex-
panded trade with the U.S.
But he noted that "the num-
ber of Jews leaving the So-
viet Union had dropped off
sharply in the last year.
Ford also mentioned the
drop in Jewish emigration
as due to Congressional ac-
tion. •
A vice president of the
U.S.-Soviet Trade and Eco-
nomic Council said the
"Jackson Amendm
ent isn't
working at all" and has re-
suited in the U.S. losing
"almost $2 billion of busi-
ness" to, the Germans, Japa-
nese and others.
On the Middle East,
Chancellor noted that Is-
rael may no longer be able
to rely on its air superior-
ity and "that a future war
would be decided by tanks
on the ground. There's
also the chance that how-
ever strong the Israelis
may be in the air, the Ar-
abs may be stronger."
Chancellor continued,
"Saudi Arabia for example
has contracted for an air
force buildup costing more
than $1 billion. The contrac-
tor_— the U.S. — is helping
to build up more and more
Arab forces. We are doing it
As for the General As-
sembly, Moynihan said, "I
think the time has come
when we should seek as
much as possible to deal
with as few things as possi-
ble in the General Assem-
bly."
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Israel Pessimistic
of U.S. Military Aid
TEL AVIV (JTA) — For-
mer Communications Min-
ister Aharon Yariv who re-
cently returned from a six-
week visit to the United
States, said the Israel stood
a good chance of receiving
all or most of the military
aid it has requested from
the U.S. last year but
warned that it could not
expect the same level of as-
sistance to be forthcoming
this year.
Yariv, a former chief of .
military intelligence who
held the rank of general be-
fore he- retired from the
army last year, went to
Washington last month on
behalf of Premier Yitzhak
Rabin.
His mission was to ex-
plain Israel's defense needs
to U.S. Congressmen in both
houses and especially mem-
bers of key Congressional
committees.
He added that he could
not say the aid would be
approved because of his ef-
forts, but that they did no
harm. He said there was a
good chance that Israel's
requests would be approved
without any serious cuts.
But he cautioned that Israel
would not be able to make
so large an arms request
this year.
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In an interview by Edwin
Newman with Daniel P.
Moynihan on the usefulness
of the United Nations, the
American ambassador to
the world organization said
that the U.S. should distin-
guish between the General
Assembly and the Security
Council "which is pretty
close to indispensable to for-
mulating foreign policy.-
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The 'old song, "I've been
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Jewish youth from the Dias-
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overseas youth would be at
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