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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Joseph Churba, former
intelligence adviser to
the U.S. Air Force on the
Middle East, denounced
projected American arms
sales to Saudi Arabia and
other Arab countries as
"a dubious and irrespon-
sible legacy passed on to
President-elect Carter."
He said the sales were
based on a series of false
presumptions by the Pen-
tagon.
Churba resigned from
his Air Force post last
month after he was de-
nied future access to in-
telligence material. The
denial followed his out-
spoken Criticism of Air
Force Gen. George S.
Brown, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staffs for
Brown's assertion in a
press interview that Is-
rael was a military bur-
.
den on the U.S.
Churba made his re-
marks in an address to the
national executive com-
mittee of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America.
According to Churba,
"There is no sound mili-
tary reason for the U.S. to
sell Saudi Arabia these
new weapons systems."
He said "the emphasis on
enormous quantities of

. . . missiles is explicitly
designed as a response to
Israeli air power and a
.means of establishing an
offensive capability
against Israeli cities."
He suggested that the
sale of 1,650 "Maverick"
missiles might prompt
the Arabs to consider a
first strike against Israel
and tempt the Israelis to
consider a pre-emptive
attack.
Churba claimed there
was a "tilt" against Israel
in the Pentagon which
was based on false as-
sumptions. One of these,
he said, was.that Israel
retains an indefinite
qualitative superiority
over the Arabs and there-
fore does not need new
weapons.
A second is that the
Arabs are incapable of as-
similating sophisticated
weapons which "was pro-
ven grossly wrong in the
1973 fighting."
A third assumption,
"no less faulty," is that
the Saudis and Kuwaitis
would not transfer their
missiles to Israel's im-
mediate neighbors and a
fourth is that if the U.S.
does not sell the weapons,
the Saudis could buy
their equivalents
elsewhere.

THE "DROPOUT" ISSUE: Never in the history of
the organized Jewish community in this country has a
Jewish problem provoked such emotional discussions
as the issue now developing around the sensitive ques-
tion of the "dropouts" or "noshrim" as they are called
in Hebrew.
"Dropouts" are the Soviet Jews who are permitted
by the Soviet authorities to emigrate to Israel, but
who change their minds as soon as they leave Sovi , --
soil. They remain in Vienna or Rome and declare th,
they will wait for U.S. visas.
The issue is: should they be helped by American
Jewish agencies in Rome or Vienna to secure U.S.
visas at a time when their destination was to be Israel,
and should they be supported while waiting for such
visas?

WEIGHTY ARGUMENTS: Because securing U.S.
entrance visas is comparatively easy for Soviet Jews
when they reach foreign soil — the U.S. government
classifies them as "refugees from persecution" and
provides them not only with entry visa to the U.S. but
also with transportation to the U.S. — the fear exists
in Israel that the growing number of "dropouts" will
demoralize other Soviet Jews who do want to go 'to
Israel.
There is also concern that the Soviet government
may utilize the dropout situation as an eXcuse to stop
all emigraion, including the emigration of Jews who
are sincerely anxious to live in Israel. Soviet permis-
sion for Jews to emigrate to Israel is based on intern-
tional obligations which provide for re-unification of
families. The affidavits for such re-unification come
for the prospective emigrants from relaties in Israel,
as was the case with the "dropouts." For emigration to
the U.S. they would have needed affidavits from
American relatives.
There is aditionally the argument that those who
receive Soviet permits to emigrate to Israel and prefer
later to proceed to the U.S. and other countries are
acually prolonging the waiting time in Russia for the
many thousands of Jews there who intend to go to
Israel and to no other country.

PROPONENTS AND OPPONENTS: A number of
proposals to check the "dropout" phenomenon — but
not to stop . Soviet Jews from seeking emigration to the
United States — have been made by a group of Israeli
and American Jewish experts involved in Soviet-
ANDRE MARTIN
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Jewish emigration. The essence of these proposals is
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that Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union should be
PRINCETON'S
"BRUNO"
asked to make their choice known prior to their leav-
JOHN WEITZ
ing.
Specifically this would Mean that Soviet Jews who
wish to go to Israel should request in Moscow Israeli
visas through The Netherland Consulate which repre-
sents Israeli interests in the USSR, and those who
wish to go to the U.S. should request a U.S. visa from
the U.S. Consulates inthe Soviet Union. Those with
Israeli visas would then be assisted to go to Israel and
Christian Israel Committee
those with U.S. visas would be assisted to come to the
U.S. However, should a Soviet Jew with an Israeli visa
to Expand Lowdermilk Forest
decide — upon his arrival in Vienna or Rome — that he
SAN FRANCISCO — continue to expand the would rather go to the U.S., no assistance should be
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These proposals were presented by the group of
Committee for Israel has tree Dr. Walter Clay
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cisco office of the Jewish Forest in Israel to ac- cashing to leave the Soviet Union to settle wherever
National Fund that it will commodate picnic and they desire without endangering the emigration to
recreation facilities, ac- Israel; also as a safeguard that Soviet Jews would be
cording to Mrs. Mary helped to settle in any country for which they have
Rose Black, Chairman of obtained a visa. However, when they were discussed in
the Committee.
private, they met with considerable opposition on the
"We all realize that the part of some leaders of important Jewish organiza-
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Israelis are under great tions.
The opponents emphasize that it is a humanit
tension and fully need
whatever beauty and rian obligation on the part of Amercan Jewry to hE.
facilities for relaxation Jews to get out of "Soviet captivity" no matter how
that can be provided,'she they manage.to get out and where they may want to
said in a letter to Dr. Ab- settle. They also advance numerous reasons why
at the Same
raham Bernstein, Presi- ,Soviet Jews may not risk to apply for U.S. visas when
dent, Northwest Califor- they are still on Soviet soil; especially since they can
nia Council, JNF. obtain such visas after reaching Vienna or Rome, as
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The Lowdermilk Forest refugees.
is located in the north of
The opponents also foresee all kinds of complica-
ARNOLD MARoOLIS
Israel in the Galilee on
tions in forcing Soviet Jews to apply for U.S. visas
Mt. Turan and will be directly with the American Consulates in the Soviet
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used by students of the Union. One of the complications is that a request by a
Lowdermilk School of Ag- . Soviet Jew for an exit visa to the U.S. might not only be
ricultural Engineering at refused by thd Soviet authorities but would place the
the Technion in Haifa as a applicant in difficulties with these authorities and
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