24 Friday, January 25, 1980 The 1980's Are Here! FOR YOUR NEXT CADILLAC THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Falashas, Energy Among NJCRAC Plenary Topics PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin of Israel has pledged his government's cooperation with the newly formed Committee on Ethiopian Jews of the National Jewish Relations Community Council Advisory (NJCRAC) in a cable to its annual assembly last week. Daniel Shapiro, chair- man of the committee, said that his committee's "prior- ity task" would be to bring the plight of Falasha Jews to the attention of the American people and to facilitate their exodus to Is- rael. Rachamim Elazar, a Falasha now studying at Tel Aviv University, spoke at a plenary session of the assembly and described the current situation of Falasha Jews. He said their num- bers have been reduced SEE ME! TIM AUDETT • Sales & Leasing at AUDETTE CADILLAC 1100 Orchard Lake Rd. at Northwestern W. 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In an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Yanowitz said that the major issue for the 1980s may be caused by the energy shortage in the U.S. "Such a shortage may ef- fect dramatic changes in the U.S., especially if surpluses are not shared to elevate the economically disadvan- taged," he said. "If there is less oil per capita, who will bear the burden?" he asked. With "less pie to divide up," he predicted greater social stress than in the recent past. Asked if he felt this could lead to a re- surgence of anti- Semitism in America, Yanowitz said, "Through the years I have been an optimist on anti- Semitism. I do not view it as a real threat." He said he does anticipate possi- Reading matter to expand your mind. A pleasant atmosphere to discover in. All the time you would ever need . ■ IA Dal 10 to 10 — Friday & Saturday until 11 — Sunday 12-9 29209 Northwestern Hwy. (Just North of 12 Mile) 353 - 6762 ble "heightened ten- sions" but does not foresee a wave of overt anti-Semitism. Yanowitz stressed that disassociating Israel from the energy crisis will be a major task for the American Jewish community. "We must consider the energy problem as a national issue in which we have a broad interest," he said. He said that NJCRAC's Israel Task Force has asked the Council of Jewish Fed- erations (CJF) for $2 mil- lion for the specific purpose of an interpretive project on Israel. Yanowitz noted that this is more than the entire current budget of NJCRAC. He acknowledged in that connection that the CJF is pressured by other needs. But he said he hoped they would see this project as "the priority we think it is." Another vital task for the American Jewish commu- nity, Yanowitz said, will be to emphasize that Israel and America have broad com- mon interests. "Americans don't see this picture and it needs to be stressed. We must emphasize each coun- try's respective national interest as well as their common interests," he said. Opposing Views on Energy Policy White House domestic policy chief Stuart Eizenstat and Democratic Senator Howard Metzen- baum of Ohio clashed shar- ply on the nation's energy problem in separate ap- pearances before the NJCRAC. Eizenstat outlined a three-point program to meet the nation's energy crisis through "rational" oil pricing, stepping up the production of alternate sources of energy and encouraging conservation. He defended decontrol of oil prices as the country's "best hope" to halt the de- cline in domestic oil prod ic- tion, arguin -; that it would encourage nroducers to find and develo new sources of oil. Metzenbaum, a member of the Senate Committee on Energy ai!d Natural Resources said the Carter program was "doomed to failure because it relies on vol- untary participation rather than mandatory controls." He said price decontrol was a "cruel" policy that would hurt the poor and middle- income groups most seri- ously, increase inflation and transfer $1 trillion to the oil companies over the next 10 years — "most of which they would keep." The Ohio Democrat as- serted that in the first nine months of 1979, when price decontrol was largely in ef- fect, U.S. oil production ac- tually declined by 5 percent. Eizenstat said the windfall profits tax would- provide enough funds to launch an intensive pro- gram to develop synthetic fuels such as gasohol, whose production should rise percent of the energy used rapidly to some 1.8 billion in the U.S. by the year 2000 omsefrtoh yn mettih gallons a year by the mid- would come c f sun. s, the t. zenbaum said the such as liquefied coal, would Metzenbaum windfall profits tax bill, now provide the equivalent of in a joint Senate-House con- one million barrels of im- ference committee, would ported oil daily by the end of probably wind up at around this decade, Eizenstat said. $228 billion, with the result Oil shale —"there's enough that the oil companies to equal three Saudi would get to keep some $750 Arabias," the White House deersai od0,- 000 wbouldea arr billion in windfall profits oa t i h an- ls daily over the next decade. The White House by the end of the decade, he The spokesman said that predicted. •• • under the Administra- tion's energy plan, Detroiters Attend domestic oil production NJCRAC Sessions — which had been declin- Jewish Community ing — would remain con- Council Executive Director stant during the 1980s. Alvin L. Kushner and staff Combined with reduced member Allan Gale repre- consumption and the in- sented Detroit at the creasing use of solar NJCRAC sessios. energy and other alter- Kushner was the pre- nate sources of energy, senter at a workshop Eizenstat said, the United entitled, "Arab Propaganda States will be using 4.5 and Propagandists: New million barrels per day Trends and Countermea- less of imported oil 10 sures." Kushner was also years from now. elected to the NJCRAC Administration plans, he executive committee. said, include legislation re- At a dinner honoring out- quiring the nation's electric going NJCRAC president utilitiesto switch to coal or Theodore Mann, Detroit re- other fuels in at least 50 ceived one of six certificates percent of the plants where given to Jewish community they are now using oil. He councils having passed said the use of solar energy their 40th anniversaries. in the U.S. had tripled since The Jewish Community President Carter took office Council of Metropolitan De- and predicted that some 20 troit is in its 43rd year. State of Union Address Deals With M.E., Rights, Memorial WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Carter pledged to "continue to work vigor- ously for a comprehensive peace in the Middle East" in his State of the Union me"- sage. He also said he wool . urge Congress to ratify out- standing human rights treaties and conventions and would proceed, in coop- eration with Congress, to "establish an appropriate memorial" to the Six Mil- lion Jews and other victims of the Nazi Holocaust. The President made th pse points in his 75-page rr es- sage, submitted to Congr. ss on Mr nday and presented n abbreviated form to a joi'it session of Congress We i- nesday night. With respect to the Mid- dle East, the President noted that at the cere- in( vies that followed the Ca: -p David agreements in Septembr - 1978, Premier Menahei Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt repeated their "pledge to work for au- tonomy on the West Bank and Gaza." In that connection he observed that since the Camp David Accords "Egypt and Israel have been working to com- plete this part of the Camp David framework and to provide an oppor- tunity for the Palestinian people to participate in determining their future. I strongly support these efforts and have pledged that we will be a full p ne a g r tontieartii o n ntshe autonomy The President added, "At the same time, I have. rein- forced America's commit- ment to Israel's security and to the right of all nations in the area to live in peace with their neighbors within secure and recognized fron- tiers." On human rights, Carter said: "I will continue to press the Senate to ratify five key human rights treaties. • the American Convention on Human Rights; thz. Convention on Racial Discrimination: the United Nati )ns Convention on Civil a td Political Rights; Ecormmic and So- cial Rights; and the Genocide Convention. The President referred to rte Holocaust memorial in toe section of his message dealing with the District of C olumbia. He said: "Last year, I received and approved the recommendation of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, which I established to assess how our government might of- ficially recognize, for the first time, the tragedy of the Holocaust. I will shortly be developing a council of distinguished Americans to develop ways to implement the commission's proposals. "The council and my Ad- ministration will work closely with the Congress as we establish an appropriate memorial to the Six Million Jews and the millions of other victims of Nazism during World War II."