Bnai Mitzva Service for Three Detroiters at the Western Wall Christian-Jewish Ties Advanced at Jerusalem Inter-Faith Meeting Report by Dr. Carl H. Voss, Page 69 Commentary, Page 2 Story on Page 72 Volunteers to the Fore in Allied Campaign • Detroit's 275th Year THE JEWISH NEWS Unorthodox Approach to Inter-faith Dialogues and a Local Reminiscence Commentary Page 2 VOL. LXIX, No. 4 Page from Story of Detroit Christians' Support for Zionism A Weekly Review 9 Editorials Page 4 of Jewish Events 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c April 2, 1976 Communist Rakah Inspired Riots Condemned Israel's Arabs, Jews are United In Reject' n of e Conspirators By YITZHAK SHARGIL and WILLIAM LANDAU Extremists Merge Forces in Threats to U.S., Israel in New Lebanese Crisis Extremists in the Arab terrorist ranks this week merged their forces against the Christian community of Lebanon and in the process reacted again with threats to Israel and to the United States. Yasir Arafat, jointly with the Communist George Habash and the Moslem army rebel Ahmed Khatib reiterated their threats to Israel and combined it with a warning that if the U.S. intercedes they would sink the 6th Fleet. At the same time, United Nations Secretary General Kurt Wal- dheim for the first time made a direct appeal to the Security Council on the situation. He sent a letter Tuesday to Council President Thomas S. Boya of Benin calling the Council's attention to the con- flict in Lebanon. Waldheim did not directly ask for a Council meeting but it was understood that he hoped the Council would act on behalf of the Chris- tians in Lebanon. Waldheim said that he is convinced that a ceasefire in Lebanon has now become even more urgent, given the magnitude of the tragedy and the implication it carries for endangering the wider peace in the Middle East. A UN spokesman said • that Waldheim's letter was in accordance with Article 99 of the UN Charter by which the Secretary General may bring to the attention of the Council any matter which may threaten international peace and security. TEL AVIV and JERUSALEM (JTA) — Life returned to normal in Israel's Arab towns and villages Wednesday. But in the aftermath of Tuesday's violence, druing the first Arab general strike in the history of the state, many Israelis — Jewish and Arab — were seriously questioning the long cherished values of democracy and unlimited freedom of speech. The wisdom of extending the protections of democracy to agitators and inciters to violence was challenged in many newspaper commentaries on Tuesday's events, which claimed the lives of six Arabs and caused injuries to 31 Arabs and 38 Israeli soldiers and policemen. Some editorial writers wondered why no action was taken against the pro-Moscow Rakah Communists and other radical elements who were known for weeks to be agitating for a general strike. An Arab leader, Tarek Abdul Hai, chairman of the Kalansuwa town council, charged bluntly Wednesday that Israel's democracy was at fault for protecting inciters and other negative elements. He contended that the "silent majority" of Israeli Arabs opposed the strike and demonstrations but were compelled to cooperate with the strike organizers be- cause Israel failed to protect the loyal majority. The lack of protection undermined those Arab elements who wanted to maintain law and order and strengthened the radicals who are hostile to the state, Hai said. - Police Minister Shlomo Hillel said much the same thing at a press UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Palestine Libertion Or- conference in Jerusalem. He ex- ganization deputy observer at the UN, Zehdi Labib Terzi, pressed regret over the loss of lives said that a letter was sent to the president of the Security and injuries, which he said was the Council urging him to "assume its responsibility" to resume result of a campaign of incitement by discussion on Arab demonstrations in Israel and the West a subversive minority. Many local Bank. If a veto is cast in the Council the PLO said it will leaders seemed to agree that if pro- seek an emergency session of the General Assembly. Communist elements had not incited Although the PLO itself cannot call for a Council meet- ing, Terzi said the PLO's call will be backed by other Arab Arab youths to attack soldiers and states. He described the riots of the Arabs in Israel as police, the incidents of violence could PLO Seeking New Riot Debate in UN Council "unarmed uprisings against the appropriation of land by the Israel government." (Continued on Page 56) Watergate Reporters Cite Nixon's Obsession With 'Jewish Cabal' and told the President that the bureau's methods of weighing statistics were normal procedure that had been used for years. Later, there was another suspected 'Jewish cabal' in another department." Woodward and Bernstein wrote that Nixon also expressed obsessive hatred toward "academics" and "goddam Ivy Leaguers," though he "did, in fact, continue to approve appointments of academics, even Ivy Leaguers and Jews." They said that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns, "himself a Jew, was convinced that Nixon was not truly 1 anti-Semitic. "There were, however, ugly strands of prejudice in the man, Burns had con- cluded. The President really didn't have much love for humanity, Burns believed. Why should Nixon love Jews any more than Japanese or Italians or Catholics? Nixon regularly employed epithets for whole sections of mankind, he knew." But Woodward and Bernstein said Burns was disturbed that "if the President perceived that Jews or Israel or anyone else, for that matter, got in his way, he was pre- pared to stomp on them." According to the authors, Burnsmvividly recalled" a Nixon "tantrum" in 1973 over the Jackson Amendment. "Burns watched Nixon very closely on that occasion and he was im- pressed by the President's fury. Burns felt that Nixon was saying that Jews might suf- ARTHUR BURNS fer for thwarting his will." RICHARD NIXON NEW YORK (JTA) — Former President Nixon's obsession that there was a "Jewish cabal" out to "get" him distressed Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger who "was con- vinced that the President was anti-Semitic,-" according to "The Final Days," the new book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein excerpted in the current issue of Newsweek magazine. According to the authors, the young Washington Post reporters who cracked the 'Vetergate scandal, "As the son of German Jews who had fled the Nazis, he (Kis- inger) was particularly sensitive to what he regarded in Nixon as a dangerous brand of anti-Jewish prejudice born of ignorance. He saw in the President an anta- gonistic, gut reaction which stereotyped Jews and convinced Nixon that they were his enemies. The remark by Nixon which most often unsettled Kissinger was well- known to the President's close associates: `The Jewish cabal is out to get me,' " Woodward and Bernstein wrote. The authors stated that- "Late in 1971 Nixon had summoned the White House per- sonnel chief, Fred Malek, to his office to dis- cuss a 'Jewish cabal' in the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 'cabal,' Nixon said, was tilting economic figures to make his Administra- tion look bad. How many Jews were in the bureau? he wanted to know. "Malek reported back on the number HENRY KISSINGER