16 Friday, July 23, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Mondale's Record Clean on Israel, Soviet Jewry
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Walter F. Mondale, the 48-
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Minnesota farm belt who
Jimmy Carter named as his
Vice Presidential running
mate has an unblemished
record of support for Israel
and for the civil rights and
right of emigration of Soviet
Jews.
Mondale's political men-
tor was Sen. Hubert H.
Humphrey (D-Minn.),
whose Senate seat he filled
when Humphrey became
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Vice-President in the ad-
ministration of Lyndon B.
Johnson in 1964. He has
consistently shared
Humphrey's strongly sup-
portive views on issues of
concern to American Jewry
during his 12 years in the
Senate. Mondale was one
of the 76 Senators who
signed a letter to President
Ford on May 21, 1975,
urging the Administration
to end its pressure on Israel
during the period of
reassessment of the U.S.
Middle East policy.
Six months earlier, he
was among the 71
Senators who sent another
letter to Ford supporting
Israel and rejecting the
PLO. In 1973, Mondale
was a strong backer of
legislation that provided
Israel with $2.2 billion in
emergency assistance
following the Yom Kippur
War.
Mondale supported the
amendment to the Foreign
Trade Act authored by Sen.
Henry M. Jackson (D-
Wash.) that linked U.S.
trade benefits to the Soviet
Union with an easing of
Soviet emigration policies.
Most recently, Mondale op-
posed an amendment to the
Foreign Aid Bill by Sen.
James Abourezk (D-SD)
that, in effect, would have
cut off U.S. aid for Israel.
Of the six Senators Carter
was considering for the Vice
Presidential nimination,
Mondale was the only one to
vote against the retention of
Air Force Gen. George_ S.
Brown as chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff after
Brown reiterated his allega-
tion that U.S. Jews exert
undue influence over
Congress.
Mondale was born in
Ceylon, Minn. Jan. 5, 1928,
the son of the Rev. and Mrs.
Theodore Sigvaard Mondale
and was educated at the
University of Minnesota
and the University of
Minnesota Law School
where he received his law
degree. He was appointed to
fill Humphrey's unexpired
Senate term after serving
for four years as Attorney
General of Minnesota.
He was elected to the
Senate in 1966 and re-
elected in 1972.
In a related development,
Carter apparently believes
that his selection of Mon-
dale as his vice Presidential
running mate may lessen
WALTER MONDALE
doubts about his candidacy
among Jewish voters.
Mondale may also be used
to discuss matters of con-
cern to the Jewish com-
munity during the cam-
paign which opens on Labor
Day.
Evidence for this came
last week when Mondale
praised Israel's rescue of
hostages in Uganda in the
only mention of the Jewish
state in the acceptance
speeches by Carter and his
running mate.
"Israel, always the bul-
wark of liberty, has set an
historic example for free-
dom-loving peoples around
the world by its bold and
brave mission in Uganda,"
the Minnesotan said to the
loud cheers of delegates and
others who packed Madison
Square Garden for the final
session of the Democratic
National Convention.
In speeches largely
devoted to domestic issues
and a promise to return
government to the people,
both Carter and Mondale
spoke of the need to com-
bat terrorism.
Mondale's praise of Israel
came after he said that the
United States rejects "the
idea that this nation Must
sit by passively while
terrorists maim and murder
innocent men, women and
children. In the early years
of the 19th Century this
nation defeated the Barbary-
pirates and guaranteed
freedom of the seas. In the
final quarter of the 20th
Century we must defeat the
new breed of pirates and
guarantee freedom of the
skies."
Just before the concluding
convention session began
the Greater New York
Conference on Soviet
Jewry held a rally outside
Madison Square Garden at
which members of the New
York delegation par-
ticipated. Bronx Borough
President Robert Abrams,
GNYCSJ chairman, said
that whoever is elected
president in November
should be urged to use his
influence to help Jews
emigrate from the Soviet
Union. He said the issue of
Soviet Jewry should not be a
partisan matter.
Abrans noted that while
the Democratic platform
does not specifically men-
tion Soviet. Jews "the fact
that it speaks of the need for
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answered unless he puts his
whole soul into it.
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freer emigration from the
USSR reflects a commit-
ment to those Jews who are
eager to leave the Soviet
Union."
Rep. Bella Abzug, a
member of the Democratic
platform committee,
agreed that support for
Soviet Jewry was in the
platform. Another plat-
form committee member,
Daniel P. Moynihan,
former U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations,
declared that "the
Jackson Amendment is in
the platform" although he
did not specify how.
The issue of Soviet Jewry
is expected to get more
specific attention during the
upcoming election cam-
paign.
Only hours before Carter
won the Democratic
nomination for the
Presidency one of his top
aides met with members of
the New York delegation to
the convention and
representatives of the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry in an attempt
to reassure them on the
former Georgia Governor's
stand.
Stuart Eizenstat, an,
Atlanta, Ga. Jew and
Carter's issues director, who
met with the group con-
cerned with Soviet Jewry
last week; told them that
Carter accepts the
Democratic Party's plat-
form.
Eizenstat read a state-
ment made by Carter in
May in which the
Georgian said: "I would
keep the right of Soviet
Jews to emigrate to other
countries as one of the pre-
eminent considerations in
all of my negotiations with
the Soviet Union. In my
private discussions, in
trade negotiations and in
other' relationships we
would discuss mutual ad-
vantages between their
country and our country."
Carter said one of the ad-
vantages he would seek is
the emigration of Jews
from the USSR.
Carter, in public
statements, has said he
prefers quiet diplomacy in
seeking emigration for
Soviet Jews. But one source
said that while Carter_
wants to carry out persona
diplomacy, it does not mean
he would be un-willing to
use pressure such as the
Jackson-Vanik Amendment
if he felt it was necessary.
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