THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Carter Assures Jewish Leaders
U.S. Won't Deal With the PLO
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Carter personally
repeated assurances to
American Jewish commu-
nity leaders that the United
States will not deal with the
Palestine Liberation
Organization until the PLO
accepts Israel's sovereignty
and right to exist in peace.
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This assurance came at a
White House meeting in
which apparently the Ad-
-. _ ministration sought to allay,
'Jewish community ap-
prehension following an-
other upsurge in anger by
the leaders that followed
remarks by Andrew Young,
U.S. 'Ambassador to the
United Nations, in which he
said the U.S. should deal
with the PLO whose repre-
sentatives at the UN he
found to- be "friendly."
The White House invited .
Theodore Mann, chairman
of the Conference of
Piesidents of Major Ameri-
can Jewish • Organizations,
and other Jewish leaders to
the meeting that Mann
later said "primarily" was
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to discuss the Iranian situa-
tion.
Carter, Mann, and Ed-
ward Sanders, the
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President's special assis-
tant on Jewish and other
matters, met privately for
10 minutes before they
entered into a discussion
that lasted for another 80
minutes with the 14 other
Jewish leaders and Vice
President Walter Mon-
dale, .Zbigniew
Brzezinski, the National
Affairs Security Adviser;
his deputy, David Axon;
William Quandt, the Na-
tional Security Council's
Middle East specialist;
and Harold Saunders,
Assistant Secretary of
State for the Middle East.
, Meeting with reporters
on the White House
grounds, Mann said under
questioning that "we were
assured by the Administra-
tion" its position not to have
dealings with the PLO
"stands regardless" of
Young's statements in New
York.
American Jewish leaders
blasted Young for remarks
they termed as favorable
toward the PLO. President
Carter was urged to dis-
sociate his Administration
from the views expressed by
Young in an interview pub-
lished in Interdependent,
the organ if the United Na-
tions Association of the
United States.
Some demanded the
envoy's removal and others
also criticized the State De-
partment for contending
that Young's observations
represent his own views.
Young was quoted as
saying that the PLO has
"tremendous influence"
in the Arab countries,
that the basic reason for
the absence of any U.S.
link with the PLO is that
Israel is opposed to it and
that the PLO's UN obser-
vers are "very skilled
politicians and very intel-
ligent, decent human be-
ings" who have acted as a
"moderating influence"
in the UN.
Mann declared, "We are
deeply disturbed by Ambas-
sador Young's remarks,
which appear to condone the
philosophy and tactics of the
group of murderers that
calls itself the Palestine.
Liberation Organization.
We cannot believe that
Young's remarks represent
either the enduring inter-
ests or the current policy of
this Administration, espe-
cially in light of the
President's characteriza-
tion of the PLO as compar-
able to Nazis and the Ku
Klux Klan."
Maxwell -E. Greenberg,
national chairman of the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith, made public a
letter to Young in which he
charged that the envoy has
"apparently" made a deci-
sion to support a PLO cam-
paign designed to make the
terrorist organization a
regular member of the
United Nations."
He said he was "aghast"
that Young, a religious
minister and representative
of the U.S. government,
would call "spokesmen for
murderers 'decent human
beings.' "
In Washington, Jack J.
Spitzer, president of Bnai
Brith, declared that the
500,000 members of . the
Jewish service organiza-
tion hoped Young was
not attempting to "lay the
groundwork for U.S.
recognition" of the PLO.
Julius . Berman, president
of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of
America, and Fred Ehrman,
chairman of its Israel"
Commission, assailed the
"double standard which
Ambassador Young applies
on issues of human rights
throughout the world."
They urged the Administra-
tion to condemn the crimes
of the PLO "in the same
harsh terms that Ambas-
sador Young applies to the
other tyrannical entities
throughout the world, and
to discipline or remove"
Young for "the irreparable
damage that he has already
done to America's prestige."
Beatrice S. Tannenbaum,
president of Hadassah,
noted that Young, as a civil
rights leader, "advocated
non-violent action and the
goal of brotherhood and re-
conciliations" and asked
how he reconciles this with
the PLO's record of interna-
tional murders.
In telegrams to Carter
and Young, Rabbi Joseph
Sternstein, president of the
American Zionist Federa-
tion, stressed that "despite
State 'Department dissocia-
tion with Young's view-
point, the fact remains that
as a representative of the
United States, the ambas-
sador has a duty to reflect
and promote national policy
in all of his public state-
ments. . . ."
He charged that
Young's statements have
"given new strength and
legitimacy to this gang of
murderers (PLO), un-
dermining established
American policy."
Richard Maass, president
of the American Jewish
Committee, welcomed 'the
State Department's
"prompt disavowal" of
Young's statements as "the
minimum step the Ad-
ministration should take."
In a telegram to Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance, Ivan
J. Novick, president of the
Zionist Organization of
America, asked whether
Young's remarks reflected
the views of the Adminis-
tration and whether Young
was "attempting to influ-
ence. the Administration to
change it's policy and cater
to the PLO."
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