Power of Tongue
to Make or Break
Political Aspirants
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M. E. Delusions:
Fallacies About
Palestinians
Exposed Factually

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October 22, 1976

rael Slur Stirs National Dispute;
Kissinger, Ford Defend Aid Policy

Nobel Prizes in Economics,
Medicine Won by U.S. Jews

NEW YORK

(JTA) — Two leading scholars, Dr. Milton Friedman of
Chicago and Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg of Philadelphia, both Jewish,
were announced in Stockholm as 1976 Nobel Prize winners. A third
winner was Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek.
Friedman, 64, an internationally-
famous economist who teaches at the
University of Chicago, was awarded
the Nobel Prize for economics. The
Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden
cited his achievements in the fields of
consumption analysis, monetary his-
tory and for demonstrating the com-
plexity of stabilization policies.
Described as the foremost conser-
vative economist in the U.S., he was
an economic adviser to Richard Nixon
in the 1968 Presidential campaign.
Friedman, whose parents had emig-
rated from Austria-Hungary, was hon-
ored recently by the educators' division
of the Jewish United Fund of Chicago
"for outstanding service in the teach-
DR. MILTON FRIEDMAN
ing of economics" and was guest
speaker at two annual meetings of the
financial and investment division of the
JUF.
Blumberg, 51, a member of the staff
of the Institute of Cancer Research in
Philadelphia, and Gajdusek, 53, who is
associated with the Laboratory of
Central Nervous Systems Studies at
the National Institute of Health in
Bethesda, Md., received the Nobel
Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
Blumberg is also a professor of
medicine and human genetics at the
University of Pennsylvania and pro-
fessor of anthropology at Temple
University. (Continued on Page 5)

Nobel Prize for Bellow

DR. BARUCH BLUMBERG

Annourfcement was made in Stock-
holm, Thursday morning, as this
issue was going to press, that Saul
Bellow was awarded the 1976 Nobel
Prize in Literature.

Ford Repeats Support,
Notes 'Global Interests

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President
Ford Tuesday reinforced his support of Is-
rael with a statement on Israeli-American
relations in the wake of the storm over Gen.
George S. Brown's remark that Israel is "a
burden" on America.
"The President believes the relation-
ship between the United States and Israel
is based on strong and mutual political,
economic and military ties," the White
House said quoting the President. "A
strong and secure Israel is stretegically
important to the global interests of the
United States."

Kissinger Says Israel
Is No Burden to U.S.

NEW YORK (JTA) — Deviating from
his address at the 50th anniversary dinner
of the Synagogue Council of America at the
Essex House Hotel in New York Tuesday
evening, Secretary of State Henry A. Kis-
singer denied that Israel was a buiden on
the U.S. in the allocation of military aid.
Kissinger told the JeWish leaders that
"the challenge of American foreign policy is
to live up to America's moral promise while
fulfilling the practical needs of world or-
der.
"Peace progress and justice will not be
securely won for America or Israel unless
they are embedded in a peaceful progres-
sive and just international order," he said.
"The Jewish people know that survival re-
quires unending struggle, but they know as
well that peace if it is to be more than a
prophet's dream, must restore' the consci-
ence of mankind made real by the concrete
efforts of all peoples and all nations."
Referring to Israel-Arab negotiations in
the Middle East, Kissinger said, "The be-
ginnings of mutual trust — never before in
evidence — are emerging. Some Arab
states for the first time are openly speaking
of peace, ending a generation of conflict."

Presidents Conference
Demands Firm Action
Nullifying Gen. Brown

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
White House said that President Ford
considers the matter of Gen. George S.
Brown's derogatory comments about
Israel and other countries to be
"closed" in view of Brown's statement
at a press conference with Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the
Pentagon Monday.
However, the Conference of Presi-
dents of Major American Jewish or-
ganizations declared in a statement re-
leased after a special meeting in New
York Tuesday that "the Jewish com-
munity does not consider the matter of
Gen. Brown to be closed" and de-
manded that the President censure
Brown and repudiate the views he ex-
pressed.
Speaking in Tampa, Fla., last
night, Democratic Presidential candi-
date Jimmy Carter challenged Presi-
dent Ford to "show some leadership".
by formally reprimanding the chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for his
statement that Israel is a military
"burden" to the U.S.
The statement was contained in an
interview Brown gave to Israeli writer
and cartoonist Raanan Lurie, which will
be published shortly by King Features
Syndicate. The interview was conducted
last April.
Brown acknowledged the remarks
attributed to him but sought to put
them in proper context and em-
phasized that he was "wholehear-
tedly" committed to safeguarding the
security and survival of Israel and

(Continued on Page 40)

Newsmen at White House . . . Sociability, Policies in Ford Image

Allesident Gerald Ford's Ground Rules for Israel,
His Position on Jerusalem's Status Redefined

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
WASHINGTON, D. C. — White House magic has its allurements when representatives of religious and
ethnic groups are invited by the President. It inspired a response from editors of Jewish newspapers in 42
communities who were invited by President Gerald Ford to meet with him on Oct. 14. It was a sharp contrast
with a similar call from Jimmy Carter's campaign office in Atlanta two weeks ago to editors to share a session
- with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at a Boston airport motel, when
editors from only eight cities appeared in response to a last minute call for a meeting with the Democratic
candidate for President.
At the latter, because the Jewish leaders _under the chairmanship of Rabbi Alexander Schindler
monopolized the meeting, only one question by a Jewish editor had time for a response from Carter. At
President Ford's White House conference it was entirely a Jewish newsmen's session that was extended from
an alloted half hour to 35 minutes of questions.
Commencing with "ground rules" covering his major policies affecting United States-Israel policies, the
President summarized his views with this declaration:
"First, there will be no imposed solutions as far as the Ford Administration is concerned. There will be no
instances upon any one side of concessions. There will be the closest consultation between the Ford Administra-
tion and the government of Israel. In the interval — interim, I should say — there will be very substantial military
and economic assistance to the government of Israel.
(Continued on Page 6)

President's Israel Policy
Restated to Jewish Editors

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Ford disclosed
to about 50 editors of American Jewish newspapers at
an unprecedented 35-minute questions-and-answers
session in the White House last week that two of the
four weapons systems he agreed to provide to Israel
"have not yet been delivered to our own forces."

He said that the systems are "very sophisticated
in their application and development" and that "it
may take some time" before they are actually turned
over to Israel.
The President added, "I hope this development
will lead more to deterrence than to utilization for
war" and that he also hoped "both sides" would realize
this, a reference to suggestions from his questioners
that Arab countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, might
now request similar weapons.
(Continued on Page 11)

