World Teachers' Meeting Asks UN to 'Abrogate' Zionism Vote

NEW YORK (JTA) — The World Confederation of
Organizations of the Teaching Profession, an organi-
zation of teachers from nearly 80 nations around the
world, adopted without opposition a resolution calling
for "the immediate abrogation" of the United Nations

Political Party
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A Ghanaian
Columnist's
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Commentary
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resolution of last November which equated Zionism
with racism. There were 16 abstentions.

The teachers' resolution expressed the assembly's
"indignation" at the UN statement which, it said, "in

forrr ulating a definition of Zionism, equated the
struggle of the Jewish people for the respect of their
rights as a nation to a form of racism, risking thereby
an aggravation of the situation in the Middle East and
justifying the continuation of the conflict."

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August 27, 1976 .

Israel Believes Partitioned East
Lebanon to be Annexed by Syria

Egypt Ceases P.E.N.
Israel Expulsion Bluff

By MAURICE SAMUELSON

LONDON —

In the face of widespread disap-
proval, Egypt has decided not to go ahead with an
attempt to expel Israel from P.E.N., the international
writers movement whose annual congress is meeting
in London. In addition, Egypt has sent only one of its
original four-man delegation.
Earlier, the Egyptian PEN center had announced
that its team would be headed by Dr. Anis Mansour, a
leading writer known for his anti-Jewish articles in the
Cairo press, and would include Nursi Saadeddin, a di-
rector of the state information office. In reply to a comp-
laint from PEN secretariat about Dr. Mansour's writ-
ings, the Egyptians had also announced their intention
of calling for the expulsion of the Israeli PEN club from
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JERUSALEM — (JTA) — Syria is on the verge of annexing eastern Lebanon, Defense Minis-
ter Shimon Peres told the Third World Conference of Jewish Lawyers convening in Jerusalem
Tuesday. Lebanon was in fact paritioned among the Moslems, the Lebanese leftists, the Christ- _
ians and the Syrians, he said. The Syrians are governing southern Lebanon, and they have moved
all the custom signs.
As far as southern Lebanon is concerned, there is a political vacuum, which the so called
Lebanese Arab Army (a splinter pro-PLO group) tried to fill, but the farmers are the ones in
control of the situation. Thus, Israel was continuing contacts with the Lebanese Arab Army — at
its request — but Israel was glad to have the opportunity to assist the farmers on a human level.
As far as Israel was concerned, Peres said, she had no intention whatsoever to cross the Lebanese
border, "The only internationally recognized border with an Arab country."
Peres ruled out the possibility of a Soviet intervention in Lebanon. The Soviets have a policy of
avoiding direct involvement, Peres said, and he did not believe they would all of a sudden change that
policy. Besides, he added, "I don't believe the Syrians will invite the Russians."
The scope of Israeli help to refugees from Lebanon's civil war reached a new level Morday -
when Dovev on the border became an official border post with all the facilities and Israeli
personnel assigned to a border checkpoint, similar to arrangements at the Jordan River bridges.

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'GOP Israel Planks Are Strong Ford Vielnis'
Fisher Declares, Denying Arab -Appeasement

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Speculation that President Ford's loW key reference to the Middle East in his speech accepting the
nomination at the Republican Convention in Kansas City may have been an appeasement to the Arabs for
the strength of the pro-Israel planks in the party platform was ridiculed as inconsistent with realities by Max
M. Fisher, who is one of the President's closest advisers on Arab-Jewish relations.
Congressman Marvin Esch, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, alsoTejected the
interpretation. He told. The Jewish News on Tuesday: "I can't subscribe to a view of appeasement. The
President and the Republican platform are inseparable and our desire to see Israel secure and prosperous
remain firm."
Fisher told The Jewiih News in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that any view other than the
absolute positive in relation to the President's commitments to Israel is erroneous.
"The Republican platform is Ford's platform," Fisher stated. "I have conferred with the President for so
many years that I know the steadfastness of his commitments and the firmness of his attitudes. Talk of peace in
the Middle East could-not mean apeasement and it doesn't in relation to
Ford and his party's platform."
Fisher's explanatory statement was in reference to a report from
Washington by JTA correspondent Joseph Pollakoff who reported in-
terpretations of Ford's speech in the following dispatch:
President Ford made two references to the Middle East which ap-
The Jewish News has learned
peared designed to placate Arab governments irked by the support
that a group of 80 Jews from
pledged to Israel in the Republican election campaign platform.
communities throughout the
Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz was among the 50 diplomats who
country will meet with Democ-
accepted the State Department's invitation to travel in a chartered
- *c presidential candidate
plane to Kansas City for the concluding events of the tumultuous
ny Carter on Monday, in At-
convention but most of.the Arab countries turned it down.
lanta. The Detroit participants
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have not been announced.

Carter to Meet
Jewish Group

A Lebanese child is examined by an Israeli army
dentist at the temporary first aid station along the
Israel-Lebanon border.

Ulpan Behind the Iron Curtain

Despite attempts to liquidate religious feeling in the USSR, Russian
Jewish activists seek to learn and transmit their ancient heritage. In photo-
graphs obtained by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, Leningrad Jews
at left hold a halla and winecup to celebrate the Sabbath in an apartment;
4– Lev Schachnovsky, Russia's top Hebrew ulpan teacher, leads a class in
classical Jewish texts in his Moscow home.

The National Conference on Soviet Jewry has reported that the family of
the late'Col. Yefim Davidovich has received permission to emigrate to Israel
and that Maria Slepak, who divorced her husband Vladimir in an effort to
gain permission to leave Russia, has been denied permission to emigrate.
(See Story on Page 24)

