Speculated Observations on Israel Elections • Indelible Mark Left on Israel by Saul Bellow THE JEWISH NEWS VOL. LXX, No. 23 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 'Roots' , and the Facts of Life Editorials Page 4 f Jewish Events A Weekly Review Commentary Page 2 Federal Aid for Haverim Homes • $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30 0 February 11, 1977 Vocal U.S. Human Rights Stance Re-Affirmed by President Carter Quaker Conference Denied PLO Speaker WASHINGTON (JTA) — The government Tues- day barred the re-entry into the U.S. of Sabri Jiryis, an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, -on grounds that the PLO is a proscribed group under American law and because last fall Jiryis falsified in- formation in applying for a U.S. visa. At that time he came to the U.S. ostensibly to set up a PLO prop- aganda office in Washington. While here he engaged in private talks with Jews in Washington and New York. State Department spokesman Frederick Brown said, "We have decided not to seek waivers for Jiryis" to attend the American Friends Service Committee seminar this weekend where he was to be a featured speaker. The seminar is on "The New Imperative for Israel— Palestinian Peace." - -- Brown said, "We have occasionally allowed a PLO representative or people affiliated with the PLO to come to the U.S. But not for politiCal activity. In the case of Jiryis, if he were to give a speech at this Quaker meeting, that would be reasonably construed as a p6litical activ- ity. For that reason our recommendation was not in favor of the waiver." Brown. acknowledged, under questioning, that Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance's visit to the Middle East later this month in pursuit of progress toward an Arab-Israeli settlement "is one of the factors taken , into account" in the government's decision. Israel, acting through its Consul General in Philadelphia, Asher Nairn, has declined to participate in the conference. One of the speakers will be Gen. Matti Peled of the Israel Council for Israeli- Palestinian Peace. Nairn, in citing his reasons for declining the invi- tation, stated emphatically that Israel - believes the sole purpose of the conference is to provide the PLO a U.S. platform from which to speak. He also described the conference as "one-sided," adding that "all the cards are stacked against Israel." The invitation -to participate in the conference was contained in a letter (Continued on Page 8) - - WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Jimmy. Carter has reiter- ated his dedication to human rights in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. "I reserve the right to speak out forcefully on human rights," he told a press conference Tuesday in response to ques- tions on the imprisonment of the Soviet dissident author and poet Alexander Ginzburg. He said his remarks are "not intended as a public relations attack on the Soviet Union." Carter said, "I regret the fact" that the Soviet Union has "incarcerated" Ginzburg, but he observed that there has been "progress" in the Soviet Union and elsewhere on human rights. He said an example was that "The number of Jews permitted to emigrate (from the Soviet Union) in the last few months has in- Creased." But, the President stressed, "We've got to be firm and force- ful" and not "timid" on human rights. "I don't want to mislead the American people" and have them "expect overnight success" since it will be a tedious" process, the President added. ALEXANDER GINZBURG He said he opposed the concept of "linkage" of human rights with other issues between the U.S. and th6 USSR. He said that human rights "can be separated from atomic weapons and the reduction of forces in Europe." He said that an invitation to Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenytsin would not have affected U.S. arms discussions with the Soviet Union. "We can come out better if I am consistently and completely dedicated to human rights," he said. Former President Gerald R. Ford admitted this week in an interview that he made a mistake in not meeting TEL- AVIV (JTA) — Spain has Solzhenytsin after he was released from the USSR. The notified Israel that an Israeli pavill- president of the National Conference of Christians and ion will not be permitted at the ag- Jews, David Hyatt, urged President Carter last week to ricultural exposition in Saragossa at invite Solzhenitsyn to the White House "and bestow upon the end of March although Israeli him the highest award that can be given to such a person" companies will be -allowed to partici- pate under their own names. by the U.S. President "as a symbolic gesture" to The Spanish action, believed to be strengthen the morale of those "risking death in behalf of caused by Arab pressure, came as a human rights." • surprise since Israel was invited to Spain Cancels Israel Pavillion participate in the fair following the success of the Israeli pavillion at -an agricultural fair at Seville several months ago. Noting that Russian dissident Dr. Andrei Sakharov has stated that only the Christians of America can liberate $500,000 Federal Grant Assures 2 Additional Haverim Homes to- Provide for Area Retarded Additional housing facilities for the retarded in the Greater Detroit area were assured this week with the announcement of a $500,000 Federal grant for the projects sponsored under auspices of the Associ- ation for the Jewish Retarded. Harry Berlin, upon his election on Feb. 3 as pres- of the association, announced that the HUD iP gl ant will provide for the construction of Haverim Home Two and Haverim Home Three on a 2 1/2 acre site on the southwest corner of 14 Mile and Far- mington Rds. - !, The two new homes, Berlin announced, will be 12- bedroom facilities. In addition, each building will have two respite-care beds to provide for needy emergency cases. Haverim Home One is presently operated at 19735 Evergreen in Detroit. Morton Collins, retiring president of the associa- tion, addressing the annual meeting on Feb. 3 at the 10 Mile Rd. Jewish Center, called the HUD grant a notable humanitarian act by the U.S. government. Collins was named an ex-officio member of the newly-elected board of directors of the association. Berlin stated that the grant, funded under Section 202 of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development pro- gram, also is being made under section 8 which pro- vides for rent subsidies. The slate of new officers of the Association for Jewish Retarded, headed by Marry Berlin, includes: Sara Mittledorf, first vice president; Anna Slomovitz, second vice president; Evelyn Bider, corresponding secretary; Sylvia Weitzman, assis- tant corresponding secre- tary; Tess Resnick, re- cording secretary; Sylvia. Schane, treasurer; Ber- nard Sukenic,- financial secretary; and Ann Tanzman, tributes. The board of directors includes Sharon Alter- man, Manuel Brown, Manuel 'Feldstein, Ruth Golden, Louis Isaacs, Clare Kay, Meyer Pearlman, Leon Roy, Ann Sipher, Joseph Sisler, Joseph Tanzman and Norman Wachler, with Morton Collins ex-officio. HARRY BERLIN . (Continued on Page 5) Trifa to 'Absent Self ' from Church Council NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Jewish organizations have welcomed the suspension of Archbishop Valerian Trifa, who has been accused of instigating the murder of Jews and Christians in Romania during World War II, from the general board of the National Council of - Churches (NCC). The NCC's executive committee was informed Fri- day that the Orthodox Church in America has asked Trifa, of Grass Lake, Mich., to absent himself from all further meetings of the NCC's general board, until all charges against him have been dealt with by the courts. Rabbi Henry Siegman, executive vice president of the Synagogue Council of America, who shortly before the announcement made an unprecedented address to the NCC's executive committee, called Trifa's suspen- sion "an act of moral courage and responsibility. It is an expression of the Council's opposition to anti- Semitism and of its awareness that the HolocaUst re- mains a constant challenge to the religious conscience of all mankind." The American Jelkish Committee said that "in light of the record of Archbishop Trifa's unremitting anti-LSemitism and pro-Nazi activities, the American Jewish Committee had cause to hope' the National (Continued on Page 12)