Jewish Book Fair Marks 25th Anniversary
Current Observance Set for Nov. 13-22
The annual Jewish Book Fair, sponsored by the Jewish Community Center together with more than a score
of cooperating organizations, will be held at the new Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, Saturday
evening through Nov. 22. Prominent authors will address many of the sessions and books of Jewish interest, in
English, Hebrew and Yiddish, will be on display and available for purchasers.
Book Fair Calendar on Page 21
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Truth About Israel-South Africa Relations
Vilifications' at UN Are Exposed
By AJCongress' Call 'for-
Zionist Congress Delayed
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The World _Zionist Organization
Executive recommended official]: Tuesday that the 29th World
Zionist Congress be postponed because of the Congress Court's
ruling last week that elections must be held for delegates. The final
decision rests with the Zionist General Council. The Zionist Execu-
tive plenary will meet in London later this month at which time a
new date for the Congress will be discugsed.
The Congress had been scheduled to open in Jerusalem on Jan.
17. The postp' cement recommendation was adopted unanimously
with one abstention by Yosef Klarman, head of the WZO's youth
aliya department, who contended that it was possible to hold the
Congress in January as planned.
The Congress Court overruled a decision by the Zionist General
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YORK — The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid was accused
NEW YORK
Monday by the American Jewish Congress of singling out Israel for its "minuscule"
arms sale to South Africa while ignoring the "massive arms traffic" through which the
Pretoria government has imported more than $1 billion worth of weapons from France
and other countries since the 1963 UN embargo on arms shipments to the apartheid
regime.
In a 36-page study submitted to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, the AJCon-
gress charged that the UN Committee had adopted a "double standard" in fighting
apartheid.
The Committee's purpose, the AJCongress said, was "not to combat racism but to
vilify Israel."
In a covering letterto Dr. Waldheim, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, president of the AJCon-
gress, said his organization did not seek to "justify, condone or otherwise excuse" Israel's
recent contract to sell six armed corvettes to South Africa.
"Any traffic in arms with the apartheid regime is to be condemned," Rabbi
Hertzberg wrote, adding: "We condemn it in the case of Israel as we do in the case of
every country — including our own
United States — that sells arms to the
Vorster government.
"Within the context of South Africa's
huge arms purchases, however, Israel's
ve
role is dwarfed into the insignificant and
Sen. John Glenn
JERUSALEM (JTA)
inconsequential. It is this double stan-
(D-Ohio) said Tuesday that "Israel probably
dard of morality that the enclosed report
had her own reasons" for not allowing him and
seeks to document and expose."
fellow Senators to visit its nuclear reactor at
Rabbi Hertzberg cited in particular a
Dimona. The former astronaut told newsmen
"Report
on the Relations Between Israel
he thought the press had overblown the im-
and
South
Africa" issued by the UN
portance of the Senators request to see the
Committee on Aug. 19. He called it "a de-
plant during their visit to study the sale of two
ceitful exploitation of the abhorrence of
nuclear reactors to Israel.
apartheid that all decent men and women
"We did not make this a key item that all
our nuclear relations with the Mideast and
feel."
with Israel in particular were going to hinge
The American Jewish Congress study
on any visit we make to Dimona," Glenn said.
cited an estimate by the authoritative
He said the purpose of the senators trip to
Stockholm International Peace Research
Israel and other countries in the region was to
Institute
that from 1963 through 1975
discuss problems of "mutual interest." He said
South Africa imported weapons and other
he was much more concerned with reaching
Glenn Says Media
O rp I a yed Di mona-
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`VoteWill Not Blunt UNESCO Attack'
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The decision by UNESCO's General Conference Monday paving the
way for Israel's return to the international organization -does not mean that Israel will not be
attacked at the meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, according to Dr. Shlomo Avineri, director general of
the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Avineri, who heads the Israeli delegation to the conference, said that while the Arabs ap-
peared relatively moderate in their opposition to Israel's return, they may still seek anti-Israeli
resolutions concerning archeological digs and what they claim is the "deteriorating state of
education in the occupied territories."
The UNESCO General Conference voted 70-0 with 14 abstentions to allow each of its five
regional groups to decide its own membership. The Soviet Union and several Arab states were
among those abstaining. Avineri noted that the Soviet Union had failed in an attempt to require
that the vote in a regional group be unanimous.
The 36-member European region is expected to vote next week to allow Israel to rejoin it. The
UNESCO General Conference two years ago voted to bar Israel from the European group.
The decision on Israel as well as rejections of proposals by the Soviet Union to assert state
control over international news organizations and by Iraq to equate Zionism with racism is
expected to bring about a restoration of United States contributions to UNESCO. The U.S. refused
to pay the $38 million it owes for 1975-76 because of Israel's ouster.