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What Price
Caution in
Dealing With
the Middle East
Situation?

Commentary
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VOL. LXX, No. 2

Governor Jimmy Carter's message, Page 18.
President Gerald Ford's message, Page 56.

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and Communal
Educational
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Editorials
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of Joutish Events

A Weekly Review

Heartening
Year-to-Year
Transition

$10.00 Per Year ; This Issue 30c September 17, 1976

'S imon Anti-Boycott 'Misgivings'

Outweighed by 'Good' in Tax Bill

Daniel Honigman to Lead
Allied Jewish Campaign

Daniel M. Honigman has been named general chairman of
the 1977 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund, ac-
cording to Jewish Welfare Federation president Martin E. Citrin.
Honigman's selection was announced Wednesday at the 27th
Annual Stag Day of the Detroit Service Group at Tam O'Shanter
Country Club where the DSG celebrated its 50th anniversary.
He succeeds Dr. Leon Fill and Merle Harris, who chaired the
1976 Campaign for the 60 local, national and overseas, humanita-
rian beneficiaries of the AJC-IEF.
Honigman was co-chairman of the 1976 AJC-IEF and has
served as an associate Campaign chairman and pre-Campaign
chairman. He was chairman of the In-
dustrial and Automotive Division in
1969, when it was known as the Mechan-
ical Trades Division.
Honigman became active in the
organized Jewish community as a
member of the Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation Junior Division. He served as
Junior Division president in 1960. He
has been a governor of the Federation
and a board member of the Jewish _
Family Service.
He recently returned from Israel
as a member of the United Jewish Ap-
peal Prime Minister's Mission which
gave Jewish leaders a firsthand view
of the needs of Israel as the 1977 AJC-
IEF approaches.
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Esther Prussian, who has been
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associated with the Detroit Service
DANIEL HONIGMAN
Group since its founding 50 years ago,
was honored at the affair. Isidore Sobeloff, former executive di-
rector of the Jewish Welfare Federation also participated in the
event.
The Stag Day honored the workers in the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. There were presentations to past presidents of the Detroit
Service Group in honor of the 50th anniversary and presenta-
tions to the 1976 Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency
Fund officers and division chairmen.

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to The Jewish News

NEW YORK (JTA) — Treasury Secretary William E.
Simon said that despite misgivings on his part he would advise
President Ford to sign new federal reform tax legislation with
Arab boycott sanctions in it.
In a weekend radio interview with nationally syndicated
newspaper columnist Victor Riesel, Simon underscored the
need "for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East" as a
means "of meeting this boycott problem."
He told Riesel: "I believe that we've made great inroads in
this boyCott in the past year, and now we are in the process of
reversing and exacerbating the tensions by all of the de-
magoguery that has gone on with this debate. We are not going to
make this boycott any better. As a matter of fact, we are going to
make it worse by passing legislation like this."
Referring to legislation pending in Congress, Simon said
that "it was extremely wrong" to use tax policy to get across
WILLIAM SIMON
anti-Arab boycott sentiment. "It is not the vehicle to use — tax
policy — because it is impossible to administer something like an economic boycott.
They're using punitive measures denying tax credit, denying referral of corporate taxes
if one is participating in this boycott," he stated.
Simon said that "members of the Jewish community" have complained to him about
not doing business "in this Arab country or that Arab country and I've asked them if
they've tried. And they say we know it is not impossible."
Simon did not identify the mem-
bers of the Jewish community. Nor did
he identify Jewish firms he claimed
were dealing with Arab nations nor "a
top Jewish businessman" who Simon
said received "a big contract" recently
from an Arab nation.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Senate, by a
The Treasury Secretary also told
vote of 52 25, adopted Friday its foreign assis
tance appropriation bill of $5.4 billion that in-
Riesel that Jewish members of a joint
eludes the same amounts of aid previously voted
economic group of American and Is-
by the House for Israel and three neighboring
raeli businessmen which he heads
states.
"have no trouble getting visas, for
However, the Senate appropriations to other
example, to Saudi Arabia.
countries is $500 million higher than the House
Asked by Riesel whether Ford
total and includes expenditures for a hospital
would veto the legislation with the
ship and other special aid to Lebanon's war vie-
anti - Arab boycott proviso in it, Simon
tims.
Under the Senate and House measures, Is-
replied that "it would be premature to
rael is to receive $1 billion in military credits and
judge because the language has not been

Foreign Assistance
A pproved by Senate

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South African Jewry Evinces Liberalism in Crisis

By ANNA MORRIS

Jewish News South Africa Correspondent

(This is a report of an address given by Dr. Ellen Hellmann at the South Africa
Jewish Board of Deputies meeting Aug. 29. Dr. Hellman has a doctorate in social
lthropology and is past president of the Institute of Race Relations.)
The Jewish community, together with the whole of South Africa, particularly
white South Africa, is confronted with the problem of restructuring its race
relations. We face a situation of utmost gravity with our geographic and moral
isolation from the rest of the world almost complete. ,
During the past 10 weeks we have had ample evidence of the frustration and
anti-white feeling of young colored and black people — especially the educated
elite. There has been acknowledgment of the need for change, not only from
liberal organizations but from Afrikaner institutions, leading Afrikaans
businessmen, academics and editors of the Afrikaans press — all of whom are now
openly critical of the government and are giving a lead to new thinking.
At the recent Congress of the S.A. Jewish Board of Deputies, a resolution was
passed which described the Jewish community's recognition of the need for politi-
cal, economic and social change. David Mann, president of the board, spoke of the
undesirability of discrimination at the Prime Minister's dinner in Cape Town, and
again at the Deputies' meeting 10 days after the riots began.
The question is, what does change mean and what does it involve? Here, Dr.
Hellmann affirmed her faith that peaceful change was possible. Violent confronta-
tion could be avoided though the hour was perilously near midnight. Many voices
which had the world's attention had given up hope that South Africa would change

peacefully. Some believed that "only when the drums of war beat would the road to
freedom open," and wanted to precipitate confrontation as soon as possible.
Dr. Hellmann then examined changes which the government had effected in
recent years, some of them minor but some of them extremely important.
(Continued on Page 5)

Shown at the South African Jewish Board of Deputies meeting are, from left, Dr.
Ellen Hellman, board president David Mann, board chairman Julius Rosettenstein
and board secretary Aleck Goldberg.

