THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 26, 1976 19
PLO Says it Is Willing to Accept a Divided Gaza, West Bank State
NEW YORK — Farouk
Kaddoumi, foreign affairs
spokesman for the Pales-
tine Liberation Organi-
zation stated Wednesday
that the PLO is prepared
to accept a Palestinian
state in the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank.
UN diplomatic sources
said it was the first time
the PLO had publicly ac-
cepted that position.
However, in London it
was reported that the
Palestin Liberation Or-
ganization is still dedi-
Israel Responds
to Peace 'Moves'
(Continued from Page 18)
port of Israel to "even-
-handedness" which re-
quires U.S. pressure for
_Israeli concessions to
satisfy Arab aspirations.
Morgenthau said there
can be no simple solution
to the problems of the
Middle East, only tem-
porary agreements and
the hope that another
military confrontation
can be prevented.
At the same time in Tel
Aviv; Gen. Mordechai Gur,
the Chief of Staff of Is-
rael's armed forces said
that Egypt still has not re-
ctified all of the violations
Israel says it has made of
the second interim Sinai
agreement.
He said that Egypt has
withdrawn the three mis-
sile launching sites it had
established east of the
Suez Canal in violation of
the September, 1975 Sinai
accord.
However, there is still a
dispute over Israel's
charge that the Egyp-
tians have 17 battalions
in their limited forces
zone, more than double
the number allowed by
the Sinai agreement.
Gur said Egypt has not
advanced militarily since
the 1973 Yom Kippur
War, except for the addi-
tion of some Mig-23 jet
fighters. However, he
said Saudi Arabia has be-
come an arsenal.
Meanwhile, Sadat was
asking a delegation of
U.S. Senators for "defen-
sive weapons" to protect
Egypt from an attack by
Israel.
cated to the destruction
of Israel as a state, ac-
cording to the PLO's
London representative.
Interviewed in the
magazine, "Events," Said
'Hammami added that he
did not mean Israel's "de-
struction by massacre"
but "I would love this state
to disappear. Nothing
would make me happier if,
instead, there were one
united secular state of
Palestine in which all Jews
and Arabs coexist in a
one-man, one-vote system.
That is what Palestinians
dream of — all of us."
While expressing con-
viction that there would
be another Middle East
war —"although I cannot
prophesy the date" —
Women Form Half
of Cardozo Class
NEW YORK — An
Upper West Side Man-
hattan mother of four,
active in local politics and
education issues . . . a
native of Morocco, who
has been a businesswo-
man, pharmacology and
literature student . . . a
Brooklyn reading
teacher, with graduate
degree in public law . . . a
black woman also study-
ing for her doctorate in
affirmative action . . . all
are members of the fiizst
class of Yeshiva Univer-
sity's Benjamin N. Car-
dozo School of Law, one of
the nation's newest law
schools.
The initial class of 300
at the school, which
opened its doors this Sep-
tember, is almost one-half
female — twice the na-
tional average of law
school classes, according
to figures from the
American Association of
Law Schools for 1975.
These women represent a
broad range of interests,
lifestyles, and career go-
als.
The 33 percent women
on the faculty is three
times as high as at law
schools around the coun-
try, on the average, ac-
cording to figures from
the American Associa-
tion of Law Schools Di-
rectory of Law Teachers,
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Hammami said the alter-
native was negotiation.
"However, real negoti-
ation appears to be im-
possible, at least for as
long as Israel refuses to
sit down with the PLO,
and the Arab states insist
that the PLO is the sole'
representative of the
Palestinians," he said.
Hammami was sure
that the Arab states
would never ditch the
PLO and appoint Palesti-
nian spokesmen accepta-
ble to Israel to get the
Geneva conference mov-
ing again.
"There is no serious
challenge to Yasir Arafat
or to the PLO. The PLO is
generally accepted by the
masses. The PLO and the
people are one and indivis-
ible." he said.
Meanwhile, the Bel-
gian government an-
nounced last Friday that
its authorization to the
Palestine Liberation Or-
ganization to open a per-
manent information
bureau in Brussels is a
routine affair and does
not constitute recogni-
tion of the PLO.
The Belgian govern-
ment's communique
stressed that "juridi-
cally" Belgian legislation
does not prevent a foreign
organization from
operating a bureau if its
activities are not con-
trary to local laws. These
bureaus have no diploma-
tic status.
Several organizations,"
including the Belgian
Movement for Israel,
which is headed by Min-
ister of State Pierre
Zwermeylan, have al-
ready protested against
the government's deci-
sion.
The Belgian Foreign
Ministry's spokesman told
a press conference that the
PLO bureau will be au-
thorized to fly the Palesti-
nian flag but said commer-
cial organizations do the
same.
He indicated that a
basic difference between
the PLO bureau in Paris
and the one due to open in
Brussels is that "France
has granted it semi-
diplomatic recognition,_
while we do not.'
From
Washington
came reports that despite
State Department re-
peated protestations it is
not having contacts with
the Palestine Liberation
Organization, except for
security purposes of the
U.S. Embassy in Beirut, a
high PLO official has
been given a U.S. visa to
enter the United States
and he is opening a prop-
aganda office in
Washington for the ter-
rorist group.
The PLO official given
the visa for a period not
publicly specified is de-
scribed as Sab_ri Elias
Jiryis, a Palestinian-born
Arab who left Israel in
1970 and entered the U.S.
last month with a
Sudanese passport.
According to a news re-
port published in
Washington and in New
York, the State Depart ;
Election Shows
Less Prejudice
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
The election of Howard
Metzenbaum to the Se-
nate from Ohio increased
the number of senators
who are Jewish to a re-
cord of 5, and the number
of Jews in the House to 22.
There are two Jewish
governors.
According to the New
York Times the best evi-
dence that anti-Semitism
is a dwindling factor in
American life is the elec-
tion of senators in Ohio
and Connecticut and gov-
ernors in Pennsylvania
and Maryland, all states
with small percentages
. • of
Jewish Voters.
thodox Jewish commu-
nity.
But the question re-
mains how the country's
highest court interprets
the language of a 1972
amendment to the 1964
Civil Rights Act that re-
quires employers to make
`'reasonable accommoda-
tion" to the religious
practices of workers as
long as their business is
not subjected to undue
hardship.
In the Hardison case, a
U.S. district court ruled
that TWA had complied
with the law in attempts to
resolve Hardison's prob-
lem. The U.S. Court of Ap-
peals disagreed and
suggested that a company
as large as TWA could
have resolved the conflict
in a manner satisfactory to
the complainant.
The Supreme Court is
expected to render a deci-
sion before it recesses
next summer.
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U.S. Supreme Court to Hear
Case of Sabbath Observer
WASHINGTON (JTA)
— The U.S. Supreme
Court announced that it
will hear another case
on the issue of how far an
employer must go to ac-
commodate the religious
observances of an
employee.
The case involves
Larry Hardison who was
fired by Trans-World Air-
lines in 1969 for refusing
to work on Saturdays.
Hardison belongs to the
World Wide Church of
God,'a Christian sect that
observes the Sabbath
from sundown Friday to
sundown Saturday.
On Nov. 2, the Supreme
Court split 4-4 in an almost
identical case involving a
member of the same
church who had sued the
Parker Seal Co. of Berea,
Ky.
The split decision had
the effect of affirming a
lower court decision in
favor of the complainant
but was inconclusive as a
legal precedent.
Nevertheless, it was
hailed by the National
Jewish Commission on
Law and Public Affairs
(COLPA) which had filed
a brief with the Supreme
Court on behalf of the Or-
ment knew he was coming,
that he headed the Israel
section of the PLO in
Beirut and is a member of
the Palestine National
Council, the PLO's top
body.
The PLO office for
Washington was formally
registered with the Jus-
tice Department last
Friday with the authori-
zation of Yasir Arafat,
the PLO chief, according
to the reports. In his re-
gistration, Jiryis said he
received $10,000 Oct. 18
from the PLO headquar-
ters in Beirut to organize
an "information office" in
Washington.
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