THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 16, 1977 17
There is evidence that
when Christianity estab-
lished itself as the dominant
religion in the Roman Em-
pire, from the Fourth Cen-
Joint Distribution Committee Welfare Budget
Increased to Serve Varied Overseas Needs
NEW YORK (JTA)—The 450,000 men, women and
Joint Distirbution Corn-
children in some 25 coun-
mittee Dec. 7 adopted a
tries overseas during 1977.
$39,386,500 budget for 1978
Expenditures for the year
for wide-ranging health,
are expected to total about
welfare, educational and
$37 million, he said.
other programs overseas
In presenting the budget,
and elected Donald M. Rob-
Robinson informed the
inson of Pittsburgh as JDC
board . members that the
president, succeeding Jack
budget of almost every
D. Weiler of New York.
country shows an increase.
The largest single country
Weiler, a prominent real-
item is $8,900,000 for Israel.
tor, philanthropist and com-
If this figure were to reflect
munal leader, was elected
the JDC share of the ORT
chairman of the board of
(Organization for Rehabili-
directors. It is the largest
tation through Training)
budget since 1948 when JDC
vocational training program
income rose to $72 million,
in Israel, the budget for
Robinson said.
Israel would total over
Ralph I. Goldman, execu-
$10,500,000, Robinson said.
tive vice president, in a
Care of transmigrants,
year-end report, stated that
mainly from the Soviet
the JDC aided more than
Union, will require over $5
million Robinson noted.
However, he added, most of
that amount will be re-
funded by the U.S. Refugee
Program.
Another $3,500,000 will go
to Romania and Yugoslavia,
$3,500,000 will go far pro-
grams in Western Europe,
and Arabic speaking coun-
tries will get about
$2,500,000.
In his- year-end report,
Goldman told the board
members that one of the
major problems confronting
the JDC has been the grow-
ing number of Soviet Jews
waiting in Rome for visas
and travel arrangements to.
emigrate to the West,
mainly the United States.
"We based our planning
in 1977 on an average case-
load of 2,2 0 0 trans-
migrants," he said. "The
average by the end of the
year was closer to 3,000.
"The bottleneck in Rome
is very serious. The U.S.
government issues only 300
visas a month. The need is
for 500 to 800 monthly.
Those stuck in Rome carry
with them all the problems
of human existence, lacking
roots, language facility and
facing an uncertain future."
The backlog will necessi-
tate an increase in the budg-
et for Rome of about 20
percent, almost $1 million
Goldman indicated.
An Arab Political Expert Sees the PLO on the M.E. Sideline
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A
youthful southern Lebanese
specialist in Arab politics
glid American newsmen
;ghat Jordan has replaced
1- the Palestine Liberation Or-
. ganization in West Bank
considerations.
Arab politics," he said, "is
that the PLO now can be
pushed aside." He attri-
buted this largely to the
PLO's disaster in Lebanon
and Israel's refusal to deal
with it, which in turn affect-
ed U.S. policy.
Fouad Ajami, an assistant
professor of politics at
Princeton UniveVy, said
the Arab states' rr&solution
in Rabat in 1974 that estab-
lished the PLO as represent-
ing Palestinians everywhere
has been -superseded - by
events in the Middle East.
"The important change in
"King Hussein is back in -
the game as the trustee of
the West Bank and will be
the negotiator for the West
Bank, "Ajami said at a
-Israel Had Hand
in Sadat's Visit'
:
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Reli-
gious Affairs Minister Aha-
ron Abu-Hatzeira claimed
that the recent momentous
political events in the
Middle East were, to a
large extent, initiated by Is-
rael.
He also said the govern-
ment may make some sur-
prising moves in the future
aimed at strengthening the
hand of Egyptian_ President
Anwar Sadat and all moder-
ate elements in the Arab
world who want to make
peace with Israel.
Addressing a meeting at
Natanya, the minister
would not elaborate. but
hinted that Israel had more
to do with Sadat's visit to
Jerusalem than was gener-
ally acknowledged.
' He said the government
--' worked hard for five months
to prepare the ground for
the visit and observed that
it was not likely that Sadat
got up one morning and
suddenly decided "I am go-
ing to Jerusalem."
He said all the activities
preceding the visit took
place in secrecy. To a large
extent they were initiated
by Israel. In some cases
"we actually dragged oth-
ers," he said, and in some
the moves were made mu-
tually. He indicated, how-
ever, that the United States
had not been involved in
those moves.
breakfast meeting with cor-
respondents sponsored by
"Foreign Policy" magazine.
The PLO is "out." he con-
tended and this will become
apparent within "the next
few months." It is now
being "soft-pedaled" in
Arab politics. "The PLO
knows that," he said.
Ajami was expanding on
his article in the current
issue of Foreign Policy in
which he held that "a trila-
teral order" consisting of
Syria, Saudi Arabia and
Egypt" has come to prevail
in Arab politics" in 'the
wake of the Yom Kippur
War. -
The Arab triangle mem-
bers are at "different stages
of political evolution and no
common ideology can estab-
lish consensus among
them," but it has "a bal-
ance and a logic of its own.'
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