THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Probe of UNRWA Operations
Suspends U.S. Contributions
WASHINGTON (JTA)—
The Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. last week,
put a brake on increasing
U.S. contributions to the
United Nations Relief and
Works Agency (UNRWA)
which supports Palestinian
refugees, pending its in-
vestigation of both
UNRWA's operations and
the propriety of higher U.S.
contributions. The con-
sensus of the committee
was that the U.S. has borne
a disproportionate share of
the burden for too long.
A preliminary report, pre-
sented by Sen. Patrick J.
kary (D-Vt.) showed that
---Ahe U.S. has contributed at
least 70 percent of
UNRWA's funds over the
past 20 years. It also
showed that Israel has con-
tributed more than most of
the Arab countries toward
supporting the Palestinian
refugees. including Arab
countries with the greatest
oil - wealth.
Two subcommittees of
the Foreign Relations Com-
mittee were to look into the
agency's use of the funds it
gets from 62 countries and
report to the full committee
this week.
The action came after
several committee men-
bers, most prominently
Seri. Hubert H. Humphrey
(D-Minn.) and Richard
Stone (D-Fla.) expressed
serious concern over the
continued and increasing
American contributions.
The Administration had
asked for $26.2 million for
UNRWA in the current fis-
cal year which equals its
regular contribution for last
year. But in 1976 the U.S.
gave $12 million more in a
special payment for a total
of $38,770,000. Sen. Edward
Kennedy (D-Mass. ) moved
to increase the amount re
JNF Board OKs
Budget in Millions
NEW YORK—The Jewish
National Fund Board of Di-
rectors in Jerusalem ap-
proved an IL 374.5 million
budget, it was announced
by 1VIeyer Pesin, president
of the JNF of America.
The new budget will en-
able the JNF to • play a
major role in "the real Zion-
ist tasks" facing the nation,
according to Board Chair-
man Moshe Rivlin. The
budget figure indicates a 25
percent rise. over last year.
and Rivlin said he hoped
that a quicker rate of in-
crease in income in future
years would enable the
JNF to expand its efforts
even faster.
The majority of the proj-
ected budget, IL 272 mil-
lion. is earmarked for land
development through recl-
amation and afforestation.
Work during the coming
year will be a first step in
the new Five Year Plan.
Twenty-five new
settlements, already approv-
ed by the Israeli govern-
ment and the Jewish
Agency, will be prepared
by JNF heavy equipment
teams this year. Long
range pains call for 80 new
settlements in the next five
years and 180 by the end of
the decade.
quested by the Adminis-
tration to equal last year's
total.
Meanwhile. Israel's Am-
bassador to the United Na-
tions. Chaim Herzog, said
Monday that the decision
by th-. UN Economic Com-
mission for Western Asia
(ECWA) to accept the Pa-
lestine Liberation Organiza-
tion as a full member "is in
flagrant defiance of UN
rules and practices govern-
ing regional commissions."
The ECWA decision was
reported to have been made
Sunday at a meeting in
Amman. Jordan. It is
subject to approval- of the
UN Economic and Social
Council (ECOSOC) cur-
rently in session in New
York.
Nixon Complained
of Jews on Staff -
NEW YORK (JTA)—
Hitherto unpublished tran-
scripts of Watergate tapes
reveal that former Presi-
dent Nixon was worried
that - Jews on the White
House staff were leaking in-
formation to Jewish report-
ers and complained to his
press secretary, Ron Zieg-
ler, that he_ was surrounded
by Jews, the New York
Daily News reported.
According to the News.
Nixon, "talking about the
tapes of conversations he
had with his one-time coun-
sel, John Dean. told press
secretary Ron Ziegler
"...and I talked about
Jews...I said we're not
going to-there's now a Jew-
ish seat (on the Supreme
Court)...I said I've got
them all around me. I've
got Kissinger and I've got
(Herbert) Stein..uh, and I
said, and I pointed out our
Jewish friends-even on our
White House staff-leak to
Jews. But Dean says,
there'll never be a leak out
of me. I just don't know
how to leak."
NV. German Youth
Set Dachau Parley- ,
Populace Protests
BONN (JTA.)—Plans by
the youth wing of the ex-
treme right-wing National
Democratic Party (NPD)
to hold its annual confer-
ence and a parade in the
town of Dachau on Satur-
day have met with strong
protests.
Dachau's M'ayor has de-
scribed the planned event
as "in bad taste" and said
the local council would ''do
everything legally possible"
to _prevent it from being
held.
The Association of Vic-
tims of Nazism-League of
Anti-Fascists said this "ter-
rible provocation"must be
prevented.
The NPD said it would
not "bow to the dictates of
the Communist association
of Nazi victims:* The state-
ment concluded by saying
that "neither the NPD nor
its youth wing were respon-
sible for the Dachau concen-
tration camp." For the
NPD, Dachau was - a Bava-
rian town like any other.
Friday, May 6, 1977 29
Ethnicity, Changing Life Styles Affect Families, Authors Assert
This is the conclusion
reached by Joseph Gior-
dano and Irving M. Levine
of the American Jewish
Committee's Institute on
Pluralism and Group Identi-
ty in an article titled "Car-
'ter's Family Policy: The
Pluralist's Challenge," pub-
lished in the current issue
of the. Journal of Current
Social Issues.
The Giordano-Levine ar-
ticle is one of 20 essays in a
special issue of the Journal
devoted to an analysis of
the contemporary Ameri-
can family and its prob-
lems. The issue was co-
sponsored by 15 organiza-
tions, including Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish groups,
-.as well as organizations con-
cerned with education and
human relations.
In their article, Giordano
and Levine indicate their be-
lief that the Carter Adminis-
tration's efforts on behalf of
the American family will
benefit from lessons of the
past.
While the family policy
agenda has not yet fully jel-
led." they state. "there is
already an aspect to it that
is decidedly different from
other 'liberal' policy pack-
ages. Instead of the single-
minded emphasis on
sweeping programs. there
_is a recognition that much
that was tried in the 'Great
Society' failed because the
programs were not
sufficiently tuned into the
tremendous diversity of the
American public. Programs
were not culturally com-
patible with clients in their .
method of operations. and
usually polarized black and
White ethnic groups."
-
While pointing to the po-
tential power of developing
coalitions of ethnic, reli-
gious and regional group-
ings around family con-
cerns. the authors also
warn of some of the dan-
ger..
"The task of getting
agreement on family policy
is already highly politicized
and polarizing," they state,
"because of what people
perceive as continued gov-
ernment interference in
their daily lives. The Mon-
dale-Brademas Child and
Family Services Bill ran
into a storm of highly organ-
ized protest, mostly by
right wing extremist
groups, but also by ordi-
nary Americans who fear
too close an intermingling
of family and government."
On the other hand, they
point out, there is liberal
dissent as well as conserva-
tive opposition to a national
family policy.
"There are some liberals
who view concern about the
family- as support for con-
servative politics and
thoughtlessly reject it on
ideological grounds. Others
feel that support of families
will reduce individual free-
dom. Radicals believe that
the family is dying and new
alternative life styles are
needed to insure individual
freedom and self-fulfill-
ment."
The authors predict that
these various *dissenting
voices will increase in in-
tensity as the nation moves
toward a wider public de-
bate on national family pol-
icy. But they urge that such
dissent be balanced against
the views of the majority of
Americans who, they say,
"hold a more traditional
view."
The special family issue
of the Journal of Current
Social Issues also includes
articles by Amitai Etzioni,
Columbia University; Ed-
ward _Shorter, University of
Toronto; Walter Bruegge-
mann. Eden Theological
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Rabbi, Lawyer
New York—Alexander
Scheiber, chief rabbi of Hun-
gary, and Bernard S. Segal,
jurist. will be honored by
The Jewish Theological
Seminary of America at the
commencement concluding
the school's 91st academic
year.
Scheiber and Segal will
each receive the honorary
degree of doctor of letters,
during the seminary's 83rd
commencement exercises
May 15, at the Park Avenue
Synagogue, New York City.
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Petro-Dollar Financed Arab
Periodicals Flooding Paris
NEW YORK (JTA)—
Paris has become the base
for a new group of Arabic
periodicals financed by
petro-dollars and aimed at
Arab intellectuals living in
the French capital and in-
dustrialists and business-
men in Arab countries, the
Antwerp-based magazine
To The Point - International
reported in its recent issue.
The largest of the new
magazines is Mostakbal
(Future a weekly pub-
lished and edited by Nabil
Khoury who edited ✓ Hawa-
dess in Beirut before he
fled the Lebanese civil war.
According to Point Inter-
national, Khoury is fi-
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emirates and enjoys the po-
litical support of Khaled El-
Seminary; Eugene Bianchi,
Emory University; Sheila
Collins, Joint Strategy and
Action Committee; and
others.
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