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in Fight Against Pro-Arab Bias
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Aspen Institute for
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after being informed by the
State Department that Mil-
son, a reserve officer in the
Israeli army, had served as
an aide to the military gov-
ernor of occupied Arab ter-
ritories in 1977. No other Is-
raeli was subsequently in-
vited.
Slater,
E.
Joseph
president of Aspen, denied
that this was due to pres-
sure from Beirn but other
sources said Beirn had pro-
tested to Aspen against in-
viting any Israeli.
The alleged threat by
Beirn to withdraw his foun-
dation grant to Aspen was
said to have been in re-
sponse to a resolution
drawn up by the Aspen
board of trustees objecting
to interference by the foun-
dation in its Middle East
programs. The resolution
affirmed that Aspen would
have "absolute control" over
the choice of participants.
The East-West Founda-
tion was established by
the Fluor Corp., a con-
struction and engineer-
ing firm said to have bil-
lions of dollars worth of
business in Saudi Arabia.
According to the AJ-
Committee, John Fluor,
its chairman who is also
chairman of the board of
the University of Califor-
nia, tried to use corporate
funds to influence USC's
Middle East center in
similar pro-Arab ways.
The Aspen Institute is
headed by Robert 0. Ander-
son, chairman of the Atlan-
tic Richfield Co. Its stated
purpose is to bring together
business, educational and
government leaders at
seminars on public affairs.
Israel Pleased Boycott Firm
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dispute with the. East-West
Foundation over the latter's
alleged injection of anti-
Israel bias into the funding
of Aspen's Middle East
studies program.
The Aspen board has
charged specifically that
Christopher Beirn,
president of the non-profit,
tax-exempt East-West
Foundation, threatened to
terminate an annual
$600,000 grant to Aspen un-
less it withdrew its invita=
tion to an Israeli aca-
demician to participate in a
seminar on "The Arab
World in Transitioh."
Ira Silverman, director of
special programs of the -AJ-
Committee, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that
the foundation's action was
"another example of deplor-
able attempts by the Arabs
and their representatives in
the business world here to
subvert academic institu-
tions for their political pur-
poses."
He said the AJCommit-
tee has "full confidence in
the integrity of the Aspen
Institute, with its long
tradition of intellectual
Interchange with Is-
raelis, among other
scholars, which will con-
tinue." He said the "AJ-
Committee has been in-
volved in regular contact
with Colin Williams, di-
rector of Aspen's Middle
East program, and we
know him to be commit-
ted to fair practice."
Aspen invited a Hebrew
University professor of
Arabic literature,
Menahem Milson, to par-
ticipate in the seminar but
withdrew the invitation
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
An Israeli official expressed
gratification last week that
an American company
which allegedly has com-
plied with the Arab boycott
in the past will be one of the
prime contractors in the
construction of two U.S.-
financed air bases in the
Negev.
Dan Halperin, assistant
director general of . the
treasury, said that Israel is
fully aware of the past re-
cord of the Perini Corp. of
Framingham, Mass., which,
he claimed has done much
work in Arab countries and
signed contracts with them
that contained boycott
clauses.
(.A Perini Corp. spokes-
'man said in New York that
his firm has "never vio-
lated" -U.S. anti-boycott
legislation.)
Halperin noted that by
its participation in the
construction of the Negev
air bases, Perini would
j3e violating the Arab
boycott rules that
tolerate selling to Israel
but balk at any physical
presence.
"We sincerely hope that
Perini's contracts in the
Arab world will continue to
flourish and will not be af-
fected by its involvement in
the Negev bases work," he
said. "Our view has always
been that companies can
and should do business with
both Israel and the Arab
states."
Meanwhile, Coca-Cola,
which was expelled from
Egypt in 1967 for doing
business in Israel, began
bottling its product again in
Egypt and is setting up an
Alexandria plant to man-
ufacture the extract used in
Coca-Cola.
Coke remains on the Arab
boycott list, and Egypt says
it is still honoring the
boycott, despite its peace
treaty with Israel.
But the Egyptian gov-
ernment had adopted a
selectively relaxed atti-
tude toward the boycott
even before the treaty
was signed, entering into
agreements with other
blacklisted companies.
Coca-Cola is now doing
business with eight of the 21
Arab League nations, in
spite of the boycott. Those
countries are Egypt,
Morocco, Tunisia, Djibouti,
Somalia, Mauritania,
North Yemen and Algeria.
Israeli Novel Gives Realistic
Account of Plot to Kill Dayan
The plot to kill a high
ranking Israeli official is
the theme of "Phoenix," a
recent release from the New
American Library (also a
Signet paperback) that is
climbihg the best-seller
lists with sales of mroe than
one million copies to date.
The book, by Israeli
writer and artist Amos
Aricha and co-authored by
Eli Landau, tells the story of
a Libyan leader's plan to
have Moshe Dayan assassi-
nated when he fears that
Egypt and Israel are about
to negotiate a peace treaty.
Three European profes-
sionals are hired to carry
out the various aspects of
the plan, with the killer col-
lecting $3 million.
"Phoenix," as he is code-
named, goes through a mul-
titude of disguises as the
novel reaches its exciting
conclusion. He appears as a
jazz pianist, an IRA revolu-
tionary, and even a bearded
Hasid on Brooklyn's East-
ern Parkway.
Although the story is
entirely fictitious, the
authors chose to use the
names of real world lead-
ers and political events to
create an authentic, fic-
tional background.
Both authors worked
with Dayan when he was
editor of "Hayom Hazeh,"
an Israeli newspaper.
Aricha is married to former
Detroiter Gail Burkow, wl
was a columnist at the
Jewish News while attend-
ing Mumford High School
and the University of
Michigan.
Orthodox Jobless Reported
Among Hard Hit by Inflation
NEW YORK (JTA) — Or-
thodox Jews completing the
Kolel (post-graduate
yeshiva study) are among
those hardest hit by rising
inflation in the New York
area.
In a recently completed
study by Project COPE, the
career guidance and job
training agency of Agudath
Israel of America, Orthodox
Jews were found to be un-
able to 'take advantage of
new jobs opening in man-
agement and related fields
because the entry level sal-
ary did not meet subsistence
level living requirements.
Rabbi Menahem
Lubinsky, director of Proj-
ect COPE, said that a typi-
cal entry level salary of
$13,000 for a family of four
is "far below" that needed to
maintain basic living ex-
penses. Rabbi Lubinsky
added that his agency has
opened a special desk to deal
with the hardship cases.
Project COPE also as-
sists the wives of the
Kolel students in finding
better paying careers in
order to support their
husbands and families.
Project COPE also aims to
retrain and place Orthodox
Jews, often supporting
large families, who are em-
ployed in low paying jobs
often within the Jewish
educational system. Or-
thodox Jews maintaining
unprofitable -- small
businesses and professional
practices will also benefit.
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