Friday, August' 10, -1979
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Carter Explains Linking Palestinians to Civil Rights Drive
American Zionist . Organization-
previous
Presidents have been di- American Section, de-
rected toward the resolu- clared: "President Carter
tion of long-standing dif- will lose the confidence of
ferences by peaceful the American Jewish
means rather than community if he tries to
through death and de- equate the Palestinian
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cause with the U.S. civil
struction."
Responding to the rights movement. It
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President's remarks, the makes a mockery of the
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Conference of Presidents of civil rights cause and dis-
Major American Jewish torts the opportunities
Organizations said in a for the Palestinian
statement: "We are dis- people to solve their
mayed and disappointed problems by negotiating
that the President should with Israel. The Palesti-
even think of the civil rights nians stood in their own
movement, characterized way — not Israel."
by non-violent means and
Bertram Gold, executive
seeking the liberties that
our Constitution promises vice president of the Ameri-
to all Americans, in the can • Jewish Committee,
same breath as the obscene stated that "Carter does an
acts of a terrorist gang injustice to the U.S. civil
which seeks through violent rights movement when he
means to eliininate the likens the Palestinian issue
to it. The civil rights move-
Jewish state.
"Moreover, in terms of the ment never resorted to the
rights of the Palestinian acts of terrorism against in-
Arabs there can be no doubt nocent people that so char-
that they enjoy a higher
standard of living, longer
life expectancy, greater
opportunity for education
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
In an effort to clarify
President Carter's recent
remarks in The New York
Times, Presidential Press
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Secretary Jody Powell told
reporters at the White
House: "The President's
comment with respect to the
American civil rights
movement and the Palesti-
nian` issue related to a
specific point in the Camp
David accords, namely Sec-
tion A, West Bank and
Gaza, Paragraphs 3 and 4.
"The President made the
point that he felt the right of
return was important to
Palestinians as a matter of
principle, even though
many would not choose to
exercise it, as certain rights
are important to certain
black citizens as a matter of
principle.
"References to the civil
rights movement in the con-
text of the Palestinian issue
underscores the personal
views of the President and
the position of the American
government, in total opposi-
tion to terrorism and vio-
lence. The American civil
rights movement was and
continues to be successful
largely because it is and
continues to be non-violent.
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parallels between these two
disparate movements,
either in tactics or in objec-
tives," the institute said ina
letter signed by Bayard
Rustin, president, and
Norman Hill, executive di-
rector. Their letter stated:
"Whereas our civil rights
movement demanded the
rights of the black minority
to participate on an equal
basis within the overall
society, the Palestinian
cause — as represented by
the Palestine Liberation—,
Organization — is not
terested in securing rights
for a minority. Instead, it
openly seeks the destruc-
tion of Israel.
In short, while we in the
civil rights movement
fought for reforms which
would strengthen and pro-
tect the rights of all Ameri-
cans, the PLO supports a
program which denieOthe
_just rights of Israel and its
citizens."
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rights."
Major black organiza-
tions have assailed
President Carter's state-
ment comparing the Pales-
tinian cause with the civil
rights movement as "in-
appropriate, unfortunate"
and "a disservice to the
entire movement."
"The historical back-
ground of America's civil
rights movement was first
and foremost based upon a
solidly non-violent, non-
terriNrist approach," said
Horace W. Morris, execu-
tive director of the New
York Urban League.
The A. Philip Randolph
Institute, in a letter to the
White House, said
President Carter had
"left us confused and dis-
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treaty, the bases must be
completed within three
years. For that reason,
the government-
sponsored bill bans the
right of the Bedouins to
appeal the confiscation
of their land, a process
that could seriously
delay work on the air-
fields. The Bedouins
would be offered corn
pensation, however, and
the right to appeal this
offer if they consider the
offer to be insufficient.
At a press conference,
Justice Minister Shmuel
Tamir said that the public
committee would include a
representative of the gov-
ernment, a retired judge
and a representative of the
Bedouins. He promised the,
Bedouins they could settle
in agricultural settlements,
as they have asked for.
Tamir said the requisi-
tioning of land at Tel
Malhata resulted from the
peace treaty. Israel, he
noted, had to find a re-
placement for the Eitam
and Etzion airfields in Sinai
"otherwise our planes
would have to be stalled."
He added that there is
"therefore a supreme na-
tional need to take the area
needed to build the base."
Tamir argued that the
compensation the govern-
ment is offering the Be-
douins was fair and liberal
and double that offered by
the previous government.
WZO, Jewish Agency Study
Two Cost-Cutting Procedures
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The World Zionist Organ-
ization Executive is about to
invest $60,000 in a com-
puter that will monitor all
telephone calls from WZO
and Jewish Agency head-
quarters in an attempt to
cut down soaring telephone
bills. The Executive be-
lieves the computer will
more than pay for itself
within one year.
Rabbi Presses
According to Yediot Ac-
hronot, the WZO and
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Agency spend al-
in Beard Lawsuit most $1 million a year on
WASHINGTON — Rabbi telephone calls. A Jewish
Alan M. Kalinsky, who sued Agency spokesman said
the Air Force over its ban on that figure was inaccurate
beards, wants to keep his but could not say what the
suit alive despite a soften- correct amount i* Appar-
ing of the service's regula- ently the computer is in-
tended to find out. It will re-
tion.
The lawyer for Rabbi cord the extension from
Kalinsky, David J. Butler, which the call is made, the
said he is not satisfied with length of the conversation
the Air Force announce- and the number called.
The WZO Executive de-
ment that chaplains in the
reserves may wear beards cided on a number of other
for religious reasons. He money-saving measures in
said he still seeks a judge's response to the organiza-
ruling that a previous pro- tion's difficult financial
hibition violated the rights situation. United Jewish
of all personnel wearing be- Appeal and United Israel
Appeal income for the
ards for religious reasons.
months April-June repor-
tedly fell by $19 million
compared to the same
period last year.
The Executive hopes to
save some 20 percent in
WZO expenditures by
cutting down on tele-
phone calls, its car pool
and manpower. In prin-
ciple, it will hire no new
employees unless ap-
proved by a special
committee headed by di
rector general Shmut
Lahis.
Leon Dulzin, chairman of
the WZO and Jewish
Agency Executives, has also
asked the savings commit-
tee, headed by Jewish
Agency Treasurer Akiva
Levinsky, to check the
number of WZO emissaries
overseas and reduce it by
half.
The Jewish Agency now
maintains some 500 emis-
saries abroad at an annual
expense of about $17.5 mil-
lion. This constitutes some
50 percent of the Agency's
operating budget. Each
emissary is estimated to
cost $35,000 a year.