THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS State Department PLO Policy Blasted by ADL, Republicans NEW YORK — The Brock said. "It is a fact Anti-Defamation League of The PLO are terrorists." Bnai Brith has accused the He said the U.S. policy U.S. State Department of should be "quite clear acclimating the American and simple — no to ter- people to the "smiling false rorism." side" of the Palestine Liber- Recalling Ambassador ation Organization and Robert Strauss' statement "creating a misleading im- on the NBC "Meet the pression" of its terrorist Press," program that "I will think about that along the character. In a joint response to a de- way" when he was asked partmental explanation for whether he would like to sit a visa approval to Shafik down personally and talk to Al-Hout, a PLO propagan- Yasir Arafat, the head of dist who lectured in several the PLO, Brock said, "The U.S. cities recently, ADL's least we can ask this Ad- two top leaders declared, ministration is not to send" "this State Department de- Straussto talk with the PLO cision was unwise and re- until the PLO accepts Is- rael's existence, UN Secu- grettable." Maxwell E. Greenberg, rity Council Resolution 242 ADL's national chairman, and "rejects terrorist tac- and -Nathan Perlmutter, tics." national director, were Brock addressed the reacting to letters each re- Jewish Federation Council ceived from Hodding Carter in Los Angeles. "UnfoTtunately," Brock III, assistant secretary of state. Carter stated that said, "there are some in the while the PLO is regarded State Department who are as a--"proscribed" organiza- now actively attempting to tion for which visas are re- use" Strauss and his posi- stricted, a waiver was given tion as a mediator and con- in the Al-Hout case because fidant to the President "to he is a "moderate" within promote Arabist attitudes. This must be resisted. the PLO. corre- Under the circumstances, I In their spondence to Carter, the am skeptical of the role the ADL leaders observed Administration is asking his use of the term Bob Strauss to play. "moderate" suggests the "Similarly, this Ad- ludicrous classification ministration should in- of moderate terrorists.' sist that rejectionist Al-Hout has never spo- Arabs — such as the Sy- ken out against the ongo- rians, the Saudis, the ing PLO policy of killing Jordanians — begin innocents," and that he face-to-face talks without therefore shares 'moral any concessional pre- responsibility for such conditions from Israel. murders. The U.S. must not pro- Carter's statement that vide any further tangible the visa approval - for Al- inducements until we see Hout does not change stand- their active participation ing U.S. policy against in the peace process. It is negotiation with the PLO time we used our lever- until it accepts Israel's right age," Brock said. to exist was also challenged anwhile, the Arab, Me by the ADL officials, who Third World and Soviet declared "in a subtle way, it blocs voted at the UN Con- begins to do just that." ference on Trade and De- By providing the PLO velopment last week to pro- with a U.S. platform, said vide aid to the ,PLO. Greenberg and Perlmutter, "we are conveying a mes- sage to the PLO (as did Am- bassador Andrew Young several months ago when he TEL AVIV (JTA) — The referred to PLO representa- Justice Ministry has tives at the U.S. as 'decent recommended the early re- men') that our policy is not lease from prison of Terry firm." Fleener, 24, an American Republican National woman serving a five-year 1—)Committee Chairman Bill sentence on charges of spy- Brock declared Sunday ing for a Palestinian ter- night that the Carter Ad- rorist organization. ministration "has no firm It also recommended the policy with regard to the release of Ludvina Jannsen, PLO." 26, of Holland, on a "The word terrorist is a six-year term o n similar word which has (Car- charges. A ministry ter's) administration spokesman said Fleener finds hard to use when could be freed by the end of speaking of the PLO," June and Jannsen in Sep- tember, both for "good con- Court Decision duct." Ms. Fleener, a former NEW YORK (JTA) — Kuwait Airlines stewardess The American Jewish Con- from Texas who admitted to gress hailed last week as "a the charges before she was major victory for religious freedom and church-state sentenced 15 months ago, has been the subject of re- -separation" a decision by presentations by the U.S. the United States Supreme Court holding unconstitu- government on the highest tional a New Jersey law levels. On May 14, Secre- providing special income tary of State Cyrus Vance tax deductions for parents asked Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir to take ac- who send their children to tion for her release. sectarian schools. Friday, June 8, 1919 11 in your mail box today. , It is with much sadness, nostalgia, regret, and mixed feelings that we announce this unpreced- ented decision. It was a tough decision for us to make after so many years, but is had to be made. 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