Rally for Cambodians Sunday Major Endowment Campaign See Story on Page 8 Reaching Out for the Truth: Three Factors in Black-Jewish Relations Authoritatively Defined Commentary, Page 2 United Jewish Charities - Jewish Welfare Federation Story on Page 10 HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events VOL. LXXVI No. 10 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15.00 Per Year: This Issue 35c Annual Jewish Book Fair: A Festival Human Factor in Diplomacy Editorials, Page 4 Nov. 9, 1979 Democrat and GOP Chairmen Reject the PLO, Back Israel NEW YORK (JTA) William Brock and John White, charimen of the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively, reiterated their parties' commitment to a "secure and peaceful" Israel, rejected any dealings with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and urged the Jewish community in America to stand behind their respective parties in the 1980 Presidential elections. Brock and White spoke Monday night at the Jewish Community Relations Council General Assembly at the Summit Hotel here and answered questions from the audience., In another political move, it was learned that President Carter has selected diplomatic trouble-shooter Sol. M. Linowitz, who was instru- mental in negotiating the Panama Canal treaty, to replace Robert Strauss as special ambassador to the Middle East. A White House official said, however that there would be a "transition period," the length of which still has to be worked out. SOL LINOWITZ White House officials said that the President will name Strauss chairman of his re-election campaign committee. The 61-year-old Texan has been special envoy to the Middle East for only six months but was unable to devote full time to that job as he was serving simultaneously as the President's chief trade negotiator. Democratic chairman White told the New York audience that when the Democrats convene in NevG York next year "there will be a renewed commitment" to Israel's security and economic prosperity. Brock, ex- pressing the same commitment to Israel on the part of the Republicans, said that "Israel- is essential" to America's security because Israel is strategically important to the United States. According to Brock, the security of Israel cannot be separated from the global balance of power, the same way that you cannot separate the U.S. security from the balance of power." Therefore, Brock warned, if the U.S. is not militarily stronger it will be an "uncertain ally" to Isriel. While White reiterated the Administration position that there will ROBERT STRAUSS be no U.S. dealings with the PLO until it recognizes Israel's right to exist and United Nations Resolution 242, Brock said that the "increasing strength" of the PLO in the international arena is due, in part, to the fact that this nation (the U.S.) did not speak clearly on the issue" of not dealing with the "terrorist" PLO. He added that it seems to him that "there has been enough contacts" with the PLO already on the part of Carter Administration officials. White retorted to that by referring to a report published by a private panel, the Atlantic Council, suggesting informal U.S. contacts with the PLO. White said members of the panel were mostly Republicans from former administrations. Asked about the issue of Jerusalem, White said he believed the Democratic Party will include in its platform of 1980 a commitment to transfer the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as it did in the party's platform of 1976. Brock rebutted by pointing out that the Carter Administration has pressured Canada not to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He said his feeling is that if the Israelis want Jerusalem as their capital they should be the ones to decide it. Meanwhile, political analysts in Washington speculated that the, replacement of Strauss by Linowitz indicated that President Carter will not attempt to take the "hard decisions" in the Middle — The Detroit Jewish Book Fair opens at 8 p.m. Saturday at the main Jewish Community Center. For a complete list of the week-long Book Fair events, see Page 7. (Continued on Page 5) The New Left Flirts With Israel's Enemies Teachers, UHS Settle ■ By ROBERT ST. JOHN Special to The Jewish News WASHINGTON — It was a nice wedding, except that the bride didn't show up. For three days last week hundreds of Israelis and American Jews, plus a scattering of other people, listened to speeches about peace in a large hotel ballroom a mile or,two from the White House, sponsored by an Israeli magazine with an iconoclastic political slant. Most of those present were dedicated to the proposition that the PLO should be recognized, or at least made a part of the peace negotiations, or at least talked to. However, the PLO spokesmen who had been invited to the ballroom never appeared. And if there were any Arabs among the 700 people at the opening session they were lost in the crowd. And of the 31 speakers at the various sessions, only five were Arabs. Nahum Goldmann, former president of the World Jewish Congress, was not pre- sent because, the chairman announced, he had broken a leg. Mendes France, former (Continued on Page 6) ST. JOHN ••• Negotiations between United Hebrew Schools and its teachers, which began in the spring of 1978, were suc- cessfully concluded Oct. 19. The new contract covers the 1978-1979, 1979-1980 and 1980-1981 school years, with the teachers receiving basic salary increases of seven percent, six percent and seven percent, respectively, for those years. In addition, the teachers will receive a one percent bonus during this school year. The contract also defined sick leave benefits and tenure policies and the UHS agreed to pay the entire cost of health insurance premiums. According to Rose Kay, president of the United He- brew Schools board, "The negotiating process does work, even though it sometimes take a little longer.", (Continued on Page 11)