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THE JEWISH NEWS
A WeekIN Review
Commentary, Page 2
of Jeicish Events
Editorial, Page 4
VOL. LXXII, No. 19 17515 W. Nine Mile. Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per-Year: This Issue 30c
January 13, 1978
Weizman Convenes Cairo Talks
in a Middle East 'War for Peace'
.
New Settlement Policy
Splits Begin's Coalition
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Knesset's Foreign Affairs and
Security Committee voted 14-9 Tuesday to approve a
government plan to establish four new settlements in the
Samaria region of the West Bank, proposed by Minister of
Agriculture Ariel Sharon. The committee acted on the
matter after the Democratic Movement for Change (DMC)
exercised its right under the coalition agreement to refer
disputes over settlement policy to that Knesset body.
The DMC is opposed to the establishment of the settle-
ments.
Sharon told the committee, in the course of a heated
debate, that the four settlements were located on barren,
uncultivated land far from Arab population centers and did
not require the expropriation of privately-owned Arab land.
He admitted, however, that some Arab-owned land had
been seized by the army for military purposes—a legal
form of expropriation—with the intention of turning it over
to civilian settlers later.
The Israeli Cabinet approved a compromise resolution on
Sunday calling for strengthening of the Rafah settlements,
but the resolution did not mention new settlements.
The session was also significant in that it was the first
time a motion submitted by Begin was defeated by the full
Cabinet. Begin had proposed that Sharon be designated
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan's deputy at the political
committee talks. Ordinarily such a proposal by the Premier
would have been tantamount to a fait accompli.
But the Cabinet rejected Sharon's participation in the
political committee partly because of his hawkish views.
Opponents also argued that if Sharon is _appointed to the
committee. why not other ministers who are no less
qualified,
The rejection of Sharon and the unsatisfactory com-
. promise on the Sinai settlements constituted a double blow
to hard-liners in the government. The Cabinet's moves were
explained by observers as a reaction to the widespread
publicity over what was described in the media as Sharon's
new settlement plans for Sinai and partly to anti-Sharon
sentiment among the Agriculture Minister's colleagues.
There is also a growing feeling among ministers that any
extreme measures now could jeopardize the momentum
toward peace.
The Jewish National Fund said Monday that it would
continue its ground-breaking work in the Rafah salient in
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TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, in Egypt for the joint Israeli-
Egyptian military committee sessions, told reporters, "We are facing another war, not
an easy one, the war for peace. We hope that like in all previous wars, we shall be
victorious in this one as well."
When he left Ben-Gurion airport Wednesday at the head of the Israeli military
delegation, Weizman said there would be "difficult moments" during the negotiations
but that they would not "prevent us from striving toward the main goal so important to
us and the Egyptians alike, peace."
Just before the meetings began at Al Tahara Palace in Heliopolis, just outside of
Cairo, Israel released the five-point proposals that it is submitting to Egypt. The
proposals are:
Phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces from Sinai, designation in the Sinai of
.areas of liThited forces and armaments, demilitarized zones and the presence of
FgER WEIZMAN
United Nations forces, maintenance of Israeli settlements in Sinai and the determina-
tion of their status, the status of Israeli airfields in Sinai and control or security measures.
In his opening address, Weizman reiterated those points and called on Jordan, Syria and Lebanon to join in the
peace talks. He said that the senior military officers assembled in Cairo were undertaking a great mission—the
termination of wars and the construction of peace for the benefit of the entire region. Weizman said Israel was
seeking an arrangement that will permit the continued existence of its settlements in the border area and the proper
protection of them.
Weizman and Chief of Staff Gen. Mordechai Gur, who is a member of the Israeli military delegation, briefed the
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee
before leaving for Egypt. According to their summa-
tion, the deliberations of the military committee will
focus on two central issues: how to reach a peace
agreement with Egypt under conditions that will not
jeopardize Israel's security and how Egypt would
react were Israel to become embroiled in hostile acts
with other Arab countries.
Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young has declared Monday
Weizman and Gur told the MKs that the opening
as "Sinai Hospital Day" in recognition of the hospital's 25th
positions of both sides are wide apart. Both sides
anniversary.
strive for peace, but in entirely different ways, Weiz-
In his proclamation, Mayor Young noted that the hospital
was organized after nearly half-a-century of dreaming and
man said. He said he could not guarantee that an
planning by the Jewish Hospital Association and he con-
agreement will be reached at Cairo but he was con-
gratulated the administrators, staff and volunteers "on
vinced, by his three meetings with Sadat in the past
their 25th anniversary of dedicated service to the citizens of
month, that there is gOod will on the part of both
metropolitan Detroit and the nation."
governments.
It has grown from a 210-bed community hospital to a
Weizman and Gur insisted that according to the
nationally recognized 625-bed medical complex.
government's peace plan Israel's security require-
The proclamation noted: "Since its doors opened "Sinai
ments can be ensured even if Egypt regains sover-
Hospital has grown by leaps and bounds adding new wings,
eignty over all of Sinai. Given the sophistication
increasing services, acquiring modern equipment for re-
and
mobility of its arms, Israel can afford to agree
search and treatment of diseases and attracting some of the
to Egypt's return to the old international borders,
best specialists in the medical field.
Weizman said. But he stressed that Israel would
"Sinai Hospital of Detroit has gained a national reputa-
continue to control certain positions in Sinai, both
tion for its effectiveness in the treatment of the sick, in
military installations and civilian regions.
research and prevention of disease and in the dedication to
During the interim period, which Israel says must
medical education... -
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Monday Proclaimed
`Sinai Hospital Day'
72 U.S. Law Deans, '100 Profs Back Sharansky
PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—The deans of 72 law schools in the United States.
including Puerto Rico, have signed a resolution deploring the actions of the Soviet
Union in the case of Anatoly Sharansky. The resolution, which was also signed by
more that 100 law professors, was sent to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev.
The signatories charged that the Soviet government has held Sharansky
incommunicado since March 15; that no counsel has been provided or permitted to
the imprisoned human rights activist; that on Dec. 15 the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet "in a special, secret decree applied only to Sharansky, has extended for an
additional six months his incommunicado investigation and interrogation despite
the absence of any express provision of law or constitution authorizing such
action"; and that the Soviet government "will give no assurances that Sharansky's
trial, if one is held, will not be secret."
The resolution, which was adopted at the recent annual meeting of the
Association of American Law Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, said all these actions
"run counter to the Rule of Law, minimum standards of justice and Declaration of
Human Rights, the International Covenant of Political and Civil Rights, and the
Helsinki Final Act."
ANATOLY SHARANSKY
The resolution, written by Dean Peter J. Liacouras and Prof. Buton Caine of the
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Nazi Interview Cancelled;
Store Protests Continue
.
WTVS-Ch. 56, the public television station in Detroit, cancelled
a 30-minute interview with local and national members of a Nazi
group. the National Socialist Movement. because the Nazis made
threats against blacks during the interview.
James Christianson, Ch. 56 general manager, said the Nazis'
statements violated the station's guidelines "for what is accept-,
able to be shown and said on a public access program."
The show was scheduled to be aired last night on "It's Your
Turn," which allows community groups to state their views. One
of the Nazis said his group would either ship blacks back to
Africa "or plant (bury) them." Another displayed a poster which
said "Nigger Beware." One of the Nazi spokesmen was William
Russell, who opened a Nazi bookstore on W. Vernor in Detroit
several weeks ago.
Community groups in the west side neighborhood have contin-
ued sporadic picketing against the store.
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