20 Friday, October 15, 1976

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Ford Pledges Continued Support for Israel,
Soviet Jewry; Assailed for Debate Statements

NEW YORK (JTA) — people, mostly Jews, that
President Ford pledged to there will be "no imposed
an audience of about 3000
solution and no one-sided
concessions" in the Mid-
dle East, that his ad-
ministration will con-
tinue to support a strong
Israel and that he would
personally continue to
raise "again and again"
the issue of Soviet Jewry
at meetings with Soviet
leaders.
Ford spoke outside the
Joel Braverman High
School of ithe Yeshiva of
Flatbush in the heart of
the heavily Jewish-
populated Midwood sec-
tion of Brooklyn. Follow-
ing his 10-minute ad-
dress, the President vis-
ited the Center for
Holocaust Studies at the
yeshiva and conferred
with a group of Jewish
leaders inside the build-
ing.
There were no inci-
dents but loud heckling
erupted during the Presi-
dent's brief address from
members of the Jewish
Defense League and the
Student Struggle for
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Soviet Jewry.
The President declared
that "Israel's strength en-
hances the prospects of
peace" in the Middle East
and claimed that Israel's
future is "brighter" now
than before he became
President. He referred to
Israeli Premier Yitzhak
Rabin as "my personal
friend" and cited recent
remarks by Rabin that
Israeli-U.S. relations have
never been better.
He pledged that his
adminstration will con-
tinue to support and fight
for Israel at the United
Nations and would op-
pose any attempt to oust
Israel from the world or-
ganization.
Ford also pledged that
the U.S. would fight • in-
ternational terrorism
and referred to Israel's
"heroic" rescue of hos-
tages at Entebbe Airport
...... Beth Achim, Sept. 4
JERRY BLAIZE — S'fld .
in Uganda last July 3.
Young Israel, Sept. 4
JAY JUBAS — Oak Park
He signed into law
legislation which pro-
Beth Moses, Sept. 4
HAROLD MONBLATT — Lathrup
vides new penalties for
.Shaarey Zedek, Sept. 4
AARON OZROVITZ — S'field
attempted murder or
Beth Shalom, Sept. 4 st ,
MICHAEL WHITE — Hunt. Wds
kidnapping of diplomats,
in an effort to "deal more
Temple Israel, Sept. 10 X / '
DAVID GOLUMBIA — Wham
effectively with the
Zedek, Sept. 11
STEVE GREENBERG — Hunt. Wds
menace of terrorism."
Shaarey Zedek, Sept. 16
SAUL RUBE —
Ford reaffirmed his' op-
position to the Arab
Beth Moses, Sept. 17
TERRY BRICKMAN
boycott, declaring ".I have
Temple Israel, Sept. 17
GLENN SAPERSTEIN — S'field
not and will not tolerate"
Beth Abraham-Hillel, Sept. 18 \
KEVIN COPLEY — Oak Park
discrimination on religi-
ous grounds brought into
Temple Israel, Sept. 18
DAVID JARVIS — S'field
American
life. He 'refer-
Beth Shalom, Sept. 18
STUART SCHWARTZ — W. B'fld
red to his order to the De-
Temple Beth El, Sept. 18
GARY WEINER — S'field
partment of Commerce to
disclose the names of
DAVID & CHAIM WOLFSON, Oak Pk. Dovid Ben Nuchim, Sept. 18
American companies
that, in the future, com-
ply with Arab boycott
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demands. He described
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that order as "strong
executive action against
the boycott."
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He said his administra-
tion has been pressing for
movement on the issue of
the rights of Soviet Jews,
noting that he had raised it
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Ford said he was
"against quotas in hiring
and education" and that
"individual merit Must be
rewarded."
Ford sought to explain
to the more than 150
Jewish community lead-
ers -why his administra-
tion sells arms to Saudi
Arabia, what it intends to
do to increase the rate of
Jewish emigration from
the Soviet Union and how
it is combatting the Arab
boycott.
According to an ob-
server at the meeting,
from which the press was
excluded, when asked
about the extensive U.S.
arms deals with Saudi
Arabia, Ford replied that
the U.S. was acting "in a
responsible way."
He declared that "the
Ford Administration can
sell arms to allies that are
Arab nations. We are bet-
ter served by the U.S. sel-
ling them arms than
another country selling
them arms,By so doing we
can control the utilization
of such arms since we have
the capability of stopping
them."
Asked why he had not
made his boycott order
retroactive, Ford replied
that he could not change
the rules in the middle of
the game.
On the subject of peace
negotiations, Ford de-
clared that "the PLO will
not be a participant in
any future conference on
peace in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the White
House has invited mem-
bers of the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency and the
American Jewish Press
Association to a three-
hour briefing with Presi-
dent Ford scheduled for
Thursday-.
President Ford's asser-
tions on the Arab boycott
brought promises of action
from the White House and
the U.S. Department of
Commerce and bitter de-
nunciations of him from
angered and amazed Con-
gressional proponents of
tough anti-boycott legisla-
tion.
The critics 'described
Ford's claims on anti-
boycott measures as "in-
credible," "astounding"
and "a gross distortion of
the truth. -
A Commerce Depart-
ment spokesman advised
the media that it will not
release any names of
companies which have
aided in the Arab boycott,
but that the department
at a later date will "make
public boycott reports
that we receive in the fu-
ture and these reports
will have information as
to whether the business is
complying with the
boycott request. -
Rep. Benjamin Ro-
senthal (D-N.Y.), who
with Rep. Jonathan Bin-
gham (D.-N.Y.) had co-
authored tough anti-
boycott measures in the
still-born Export Ad-
ministration Act,
charged that Ford's
statement about the act
was "a gross distortion of
the truth."
"An incredible blun-

der," was the way the
President's anti-boycott
remarks were described
by Rep. John Moss (D-
Calif.), chairman of the
House Subcommittee on
Oversight that caused a
subpoena to be issued
against former Corn7- ----,
merce Secretary Rogers
Morton for refusing to
disclose to ,Congress
thenames of companies in
the boycott. Moss de-
clared that Ford "used"
Morton to block the sub-
committee from getting
Arab boycott reports
until a subpoena was is-
sued for him.

A joint statement by
Sen. William Proxmire
(D-Wis.), • chairman of the
Senate Banking Commit-
tee, which handled the Ex-
port Adminstration Act
legislation, and Sen. Har-
rison Williams (D.-NH), a
co-author of-the anti-
boycott provision in the
measure, charged _Ford
"seriously misled the
American people" when he
"tried to claim" that he
backed measures to curb
the Arab boycott."
Ford also was criticized
at the Capitol on his
claims about the
Egyptian-Israeli Sinai
agreement being put in
the public domain and on
foreign aid to Israel. Sen.
Clifford Case (R-N.J.) was
recalled as the leader in
the drive to have the
Sinai agreements made
available to the Congress
and that it was Sen.
Frank Church (D-Idaho)
who moved to have them
declassified for public
knowledge.
It also was recalled that
76 Senators wrote Ford
last May to get "a reluc-
tant President" to pro-
vide foreign aid for Israel
during the time the Ad-
ministration was en-
gaged in a "reassess-
ment" of its Mideast pol-
icy.
In New York, two major
American Jewish organi-
zations commented on
the recent Ford-Carter
debate on U.S. foreign
policy and defense.
Bertram'-H. Gold, execu-
tive vice president of the
American Jewish Commit-
tee, said the AJCommittee
"is heartened by the firm
position of both candidates
in the Presidential de-
bates in opposition to the
Arab boycott of American -
businesses that trade with
Israel or that deal with
companies engaged in
such trade. -
But Seymour Grau-
bard, national chairman
of the Bnai Brith Anti-
Defamation League, said
that President Ford's
comment regarding Ad-
ministration efforts to
get strong and effective
anti-boycott legislation
through the Congress "is
not in accord with the
facts" because "Ad-
ministration spokesmen
have consistently op-
posed adoption of effec-
tive anti-boycott legisla-
tion."
Another criticism came
, from Congressman James
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