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to approve the draft without
Tuesday night's Cabinet
qualifications.
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Naor told newsmen that political waters in Israel.
the contents must remain The government was
unpublished for the time expected to come under
being so as not to prejudice severe attack from Labor
the delicate diplomatic
Alignment leader Shimon
efforts still to follow. Peres at Thursday's special
According to sources. the
Knesset session for rushing
working paper provides for headlong toward Geneva
a united Arab delegation.
without prior "coordination
including Palestinians, to of policy" with the U.S.
participate in the opening of Dayan's reply was fore-
the Geneva Conference.
shadowed at his airport
Negotiations would follow press conference when he
between Israel and multi- returned from the U.S.
Tuesday.
party Arab delegations on
such issues as the West
Bank. the Gaza Strip and
Dayan Asks
the refugee problem. Sub-
Israel's Foreign Minister
stantial bilateral negotia-
tions aimed at final peace Moshe Dayan found a Jew-
treaties would be conducted ish community united in
between Israel and each of purpose on Israel's behalf
the neighboring Arab states during his recent "mission
of peace" in the U.S.
individually.
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"Dayan on Tour." which
A question arose at
'78 PONTIACS
Tuesday's State Depart- took Dayan to Chicago.
ment briefing as to whether Atlanta, Los Angeles and
the U.S. considered Israel's New York in three days.
position to have -hardened" was arranged by the United
in view of Dayans repeated Jewish Appeal to call atten-
assertions that Israel tion to the desperate need
excludes the PLO from any for cash. The goal is $300
role in peace negotiations million on pledges made
and rejects the extablish:
ment of a Palestinian state.
The Department's chief
spokesman. .Nodding Car-
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
ter. replied. "I for one
would not make the charac-
(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)
terization 'hardened' in any
The great United Nations
of these cases, including will probably not grieve
Israel." His implication was over the passing of Meyer
that neither Israel's position Weisgal in Israel. He died
nor that of the Arab states Sept. 29 at the age of 82.
He was the man who built
have hardened although the
the Weizmann Institute
question did not refer to the up
of Science in Rehovot, the
Arabs.)
science research center in
PLO's
position Israel, one of the greatest in
(The
remained as hardline as the world. Since he was a
ever. Permitted to address Zionist and was helped in
the UN General Assembly building the institute by
Tuesday despite protests other Zionists, and since,
from the U.S. and Israel. according to the United
resolution, Zionism
Farouk Kaddoumi. head of Nations
is racism—well—he was a
the PLO's political depart- /racist, according to their
ment said his group would way of thinking!
continue its "armed
It's too bad, they will say,
struggle" against Israel. that we have such racists ! -
The fact is—we Jews are
"Let it be crystal clear, no
peace without the Palesti- a little of a peculiar people
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nians and no Palentinians and so was Weisgal. Just
ONE MILE SOUTH OF PONTIAC STADIUM
without the PLO." Kad- think a moment. When Jews
finally did succeed in estab-
doumi said.)
lishing a nation, they rushed
right away to outdo Har-
vard and Oxford. But we
can't help it. We must have
Torah—learning. Weisgal
had been editing leading
ANTIQUE-CONTEMPORARY-MODERN
American Zionist pub-
CUSTOM BULLIARDS DESIGNS
lications and as soon as the
Zionists won their victory,
he dropped everything, went
and bought a ticket to
Jerusalem.
The United States also
established a scientific
research institution early in
its history—but not so early.
It was President John
Quincy Adams who first
urged Congress to recognize
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The foreign minister con-
tended that "coordination of
policy" with the U.S under
the previous Labor govern-
ment was largely a myth.
He cited President Carter's
endorsement of the idea of a
Palestinian homeland in his
Clinton. Mass. speech
immediately Yitzhak Rabin
last March.
Davan refused to divulge
details of the working
paper. He would say only
that it contained assurances
that the U S -Soviet joint
declaration of Oct. 1 is not a
prerequisite for Middle East
peace talks and that Sect=
rite Council Resolutions 242
and 338 remain the sole
basis for reconvening the
Geneva Conference.
Dayan warned. however
against any illusions that
the two-power statement
will not cast its shadow over
Geneva. He said the U.S
and the USSR have taken a
mutual stand on the Middle
East and. even worse from
Israel's viewpoint. follow a
joint policy with regard to
procedure
.
for Cash on Tour After Pact
during the 1977 campaign.
and funds raised will help
meet Israel's social and
humanitarian needs.
Detroiters present at the
Chicago meeting were Paul
Zuckerman, UJA honorary
general chairman; Ruth
Broder a member of the
executive committee of the
UJA National Women's
Division; and Elaine Krohn,
a member of the Jewish
Community Council execu-
tive committee.
As for financial support—
for housing. schools. absorp-
tion of immigrants and
other needs—Israel contin-
ues to depend on American
Jewry through local UJA
campaigns. said Leonard R.
Strelitz. UJA general chair-
man. In Detroit, leaders of
the 1977 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign-Israel Emergency
Fund this week held an -
"Operation Recovery" tele-
thon to mobilize as much
cash as possible.
Weisgal-- Salesman of Immortality
Institution.
Weisgal and Adams came
from different backgrounds,
but both had one common
characteristic—a great
respect for learning.
Adams, of course, came
from a more affluent back-
ground. The Adams family
was of the American aris-
tocracy. Weisgal was the
son of poor Polish Jewish
immigrants. As a boy he
sold newspapers on the
streets.
There was a kind of exu-
berant roughness about
him. You always knew
when Weisgal was around.
One time on a ship with Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, Weisgal
said he was going to com-
municate with America. A
friend asked Weizmann if
that meant Weisgal was
going to communicate by
radio with the American
mainland. "Weisgal doesn't
need a telephone," said
Weizmann. "If he just talks,
they will hear him in
Chicago."
He was a man of many
facts. First of all, he distin-
guished himself as editor of
The New Palestine. He
made that paper a virile
force for Zionism. At that
time, his job was to con-
vince the American Jews
not to answer the Arabs.
The Arabs were too busy
then trying to sell land in
Palestine to the Zionists.
Weisgal was also a suc-
cessful theatrical producer,
producing the Bible spec-
tacle, "The Eternal Road"
with the cooperation of Max
Reinhardt, Franz Werfel
and Kurt Weil. He directed
"The Romance of a People".
at the Chicago World's Fair.
He was also a star fund-
raiser. Few could match his
ability to extricate money
from the rich for good
causes. Many stories are
related of his genuis in that
direction. One time he
asked a rich man to have
dinner with him at a restau-
rant. The rich man then
responded to his appeal by
writing a.check for $25,000.
Weisgal looked at the
amount of the check. "The
meal has already been paid
for," he said, tearing up the
check. He would accept no
piddling amounts.
So he got the financing of
the Weizmann science cen-
ter. Weisgal didn't regard
himself as a fund-raiser. He
thought of himself not as
one soliciting for charity but
as a businessman who gave
something in return. The
rich donor might have a hall
or building named after him
in return. What greater
honor could there be than
association with an
institution fostering scien-
tific progress.
"I sell immortality,"
Weisgal liked to say. He
was a salesman of
immortality.
Nazis Attacked
ST. LOUIS—Frank Collin
of Chicago. national direc-
tor of the Nationalist Social-
ist (Nazi) Party. was one of
about a dozen persons who
received minor iniuries last
Saturday as picketing Nazis
were attacked by pipe and
pole-wielding counter dem-
onstrators in fro-nt of the
suburban Florissant City
Hall. Two persons were
arrested by police.
The Nazis were picketing
City Hail to protest the
refusal of the community to
grant a permit for a Nov. 19
rally at the Florissant Civic
Center. The Nazis said they
would go ahead with the
rally anyway.
In San Jose. Calif.. six
members of the American
Nazi Party were pelted with
eggs last Saturday by mem-
bers of the anti-Nazi Equal
Rights CoMmittee in St.
James Park.