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Israel Suspends Censorship Rule for Newspapers Publishing Leaks
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The government agreed late
Tuesday to hold in abeyance
for the time being a pro-
posed measure that would
impose severe criminal pen-
alties on news media pub-
lishing information classi-
fied as secret.
The retreat from the cen-
sorship bill, that aroused the
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ire of the press when the tee would oppose the gov-
cabinet endorsed it Sunday ernment.
followed a lengthy meeting
Justice Minister Zadok
between Premier Yitzhak insisted Wednesday that the
Rabin, Justice Minister government had not
Haim Zadok and coalition changed its position but
members of the • Knesset's agreed to suspend action on
foreign affairs and security the censorship draft bill
committee which would because the press had be-
have had to approve the come more amenable to vol-_
measure.
untary restraints. He said
It was announced instead the cooperative attitude of
that the government would the press was not in evi-
try to reach an understand- dence when he and Premier
ing with the press to volun- Rabin met with editors last
tarily refrain from publish- week and attributed the
ing classified information change to the threat of pen-
leaked from cabinet meet- alties.
ings or other high level
He said efforts would be
sources.,
Almogi Is Elected
Political observers said
the government had been to Two New Posts
forced to back down when
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In
it discovered that it could
not expect a majority of two formal moves, Yosef Al-
the Knesset committee to mogi was elected a member
support its proposed mea- of the Jewish Agency Board
sures. In fact, a delegation of Governors and acting
of newspaper editors met chairman of the Agency
with committee members Executive. He formally re-
for more than two hours signed as mayor of Haifa.
Tuesday to voice their ob- The Board of Governors was
jections to political censor- convened in special session
by its chairman Max Fisher
ship.
of Detroit, to elect Almogi a
They expressed willing- member in place of the late
ness to consider other possi- Pinhas Sapir.
ble steps to prevent publica-
Fisher was not present,
tion of sensitive information but two overseas members
on.a voluntary and ad hoc were: Sam Rothberg of Peo-
basis. Apparently their lob- ria, Ill., here as head of the
bying effort was successful. Israel Bond mission, and
Mapam members of the Michel Topiol of Paris.
After the Board of Gover-
committee said they would
not support the measure. nors met, the Agency Exec-
The National Religious utive convened under the
Party and Independent Lib- chairmanship of Ezra Shap-
eral Party were wavering iro. The Jewish Agency As-
and it was virtually certain sembly, which convenes
that the eight Likud mem- here in July, is empowered
bers on the 22-man commit- to elect Almogi chairman of
the Agency Executive.
Cleaver: Arabs
Own Slaves
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Former Black Panther Eld-
ridge Cleaver who returned
from exile in Algeria to the
U.S., said that Arabs are
slave owners.
"Many Arab families keep
one or two black slaves to do
their. menial labor. Some-
times they own entire fami-
lies," he wrote in a guest col-
umn in the San Francisco
Chronicle.
"Having lived for several
years among the Arabs, I
know them to be one of the
most. racist peoples on
earth," he said.
made now to reach an un-
derstanding with the press
but if they proved fruitless
the censorship measure
would be revived. He said
it was not withdrawn but
merely suspended and was
still technically before the
Knesset Committee.
The measure would bar,
on penalty of criminal pros-
ecution, publication of se-
cret communications be-
tween the Israeli
government and other gov-
ernments and information
on secret meetings between
Israeli officials and officials
of countries that had no dip-
lomatic relations with Is-
rael.
Persons who provided
such information would be
liable to sentences of up to
15 years imprisonment and
persons who published it
would face jail terms of up
to seven years.
Moshe Zak, a senior edi-
tor of maariv and chairman
of the editors • committee,
said the editors were pre-
pared to offer the same kind
of voluntary cooperation
last week as they are now.
He contradicted Zadok's
version of events claiming
that the Government was
forced to back down when it
realized, from the outcry at
home and abroad that polit-
ical censorship would do Is-
rael more harm than good.
The editors are propos-
ing in effect that the gov-
ernment inform them in
advance of highly secret or
sensitive diplomatic moves
and request that this infor-
mation be withheld from
publication.,In each case,
the editors committee
would decide whether the
request was valid. In the
past, government requests
not to publish certain in-
formation almost always
met with a positive re-
sponse from the editors.
The editors object to
blanket agreement with the
government to prior censor-
ship of stories covering a
wide area of Israel's foreign
relations.
There are, however, wide
differences between the var-
ious newspapers and it is
not clear whether the edi-
tors will be able to reach
unanimous agre.ement on
voluntary restraint. This
factor is expected to figure
in discussions with the gov-
ernment.
Rep. Bella Abzug Denies Bias
Exists in Women's Movement
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Rep. Bella Abzug (D.-NY)
strongly rejected a claim
that there was an anti-Sem-
itic or anti-Israel trend in
the women's liberation
movement.
"I know of no evidence of
it and if there were evi-
dence, it (anti-Semitism)
would be crushed," she told
some 100 women attending
a day-long conference on
Zionism sponsored by the
American Zionist Federa-
tion at. the America Israel
Friendship House.
Rep. Abzug, a leader of
the feminist movement, Was
challenged on the anti-Sem-
itism issue after she spoke
about the International
Women's Year Conference
in Mexico City which she at-
tended as an official con-
gressional observer. She
said the clause in the
"Declaration of Mexico"
calling for the elimination
of Zionism was not a femin-
ist measure but was
adopted by delegates who
represented governments,
not women, at the United
Nations-sponsored confer-
ence in Mexico City.
Several women told Ab-
zug that they had found
a-nti-Semitic and anti-
Zionist ideology expressed
at local feminist meetings.
They charged that Juda-
ism was being blamed for
oppressing women.
"I have never seen or
heard what you described,"
Rep. Abzug replied, noting
that she has a- strong con-
sciousness both as a woman
and a Jew and would recog-
nize any anti-Semitic trend:
She said there are probably
anti-Semites in the women's
movement just as there is in •
society as a whole but
stressed that the move-
ment's leaders such as
Karen DeCrow, president of
the National Organization
of Women, have strongly
condemned the anti-Zionist
moves by the United Na-
tions General Assembly.
Faye Schenk, president of
the AZF, said if the women
who raised the question
found an anti-Semitic trend
in local organizations, it was
up to them to oppose it per-
sonally on the local level.
Rep. Abzug said that
"World Plan For Action"
which was adopted at the
Mexico City conference was
a good plan and should not
be condemned along with
the separate "Declaration of
Mexico."
She noted_ that many
women delegates were
unhappy with the anti-.
Zionist resolution, which
only Israel and the U.S.
opposed, but were captives
of their government's or-
ders.
Rep. Abzug and Mrs.
Schenk urged efforts to res-
cind the anti-Zionist resol-u-
tion at Mexico City and the
ones later adopted by the
UN General Assembly. Mrs.
Schenk called the anti-Zion-
ist statements of the "Dec-
laration of Mexico" an "ugly
blemish" on th; Interna-
tional Women's Year. She
called on women to fight
these "nefarious doctrines"
by which the UN has been
"polluted" by the very rae,
ism which was synonymous-
with Nazism.
to Leave UN
If Israel Is Ousted'
'U.S.
BONN (ZINS) — Daniel
P. Moynihan, U.S. Ambas-
sador to the UN, is quoted in
an interview carried by the
West German weekly, Welt
am Sontag, as saying that if
Israel is excluded from the
UN the U.S. will also walk
out.