14 Friday, February 1, 1980 CASH • • THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Presidential Candidates Reply to Magazine on M.E. Yeshiva University in Los Angeles. The replies appear in the January-February is- sue. questionnaire The Highest dollars paid covered a wide range of sub- for your diamonds. jects, including affirmative 0 gold. or antique action, state aid to parochial ietveln;!!! schools, and Soviet Jewry. But they focussed primarily CALL FOR on the Middle East. APPOINTMENT Neither Carter nor 851-7333 those seeking to replace L:sc by 5:ate of M:ch him in the White House responded directly to the entire questionnaire. They sent the magazine supplementary state- -)1 ments and prepared texts. Carter said he "will work diligently to bring us still closer to Israel because close U.S.-Israel ties are in the moral and strategic interest of both our nations." While asserting his commitment to "an undivided Jerusalem" he did not indi- cate whether this meant that Jerusalem should be Israel's capital or if it should belong to Israel. On a Palestinian state, he reiterated what he has stated on previous occasions — that such a state would be "a destabilizing factor in the Middle East and would not serve the interests of the United States." Sen. Edward Kennedy • (D-Mass.), who is challeng- ing Carter for the Demo- cratic Presidential nomina- tion, also advocated close U.S. ties in his statement to Jewish Living. Kennedy ob- served, "The security of Is- rael is indispensable to the security of the United States." He cautioned that "We cannot and must not trade the security of Israel CreociveJenelef5 for a barrel of oil" and called in the Franklin Plaza for $350 million more in , (Northwestern at 12 Mile Road economic assistance to Is- Southfield rael in the coming fiscal year. Daily 10-6 356-2525 Of the eight President- Thurs. 10-8 ial hopefuls queried, only ••••• ••••-•••••••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ton • 14,i JEWELS • TH. ran,.. . * • 4111 °6.1 ‘1),MX0Xtilifr. NEW YORK (JTA) — President Carter reaffirmed the "moral and strategic" value of close U.S.-Israel ties and said he was com- mitted to "an undivided Jerusalem" and opposed to a Palestinian state in re- sponse to questions submit- ted to Lim and seven other Presidential candidates by the magazine Jewish Liv- ing. The questionnaire was compiled by the editors of the bi-monthly and by Rab- bis Abraham Cooper and Daniel Landes of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies at CASH FOR DIAMONDS GOLD PLATINUM JEWELRY SEE US FIRST FOR THE TOP DOLLAR fdentnim •••• . • ; , •• • • • • ANNUAL : DRAPERY CLEANING SALE 21.1 /0 • OFF Limited Time Only FOR SAME HIGH QUALITY SERVICE AND WORKMANSHIP Call for Appointment I We Remove & Install I D DRAPERY RAPERY CLEANERS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • V7S4 • 891-1818 a: • Suburban Call Collect • • • • •• • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• •••• • • • • • • •• • , • • former Texas Gov. John Connally expressed vie- wpoints not calculated to appeal to Jewish voters. Connally replied to the questionnaire by submit- ting the text of the con- troversial address he de- livered at the Washington Press Club last fall which infuriated Jews by link- ing a solution of the Palestinian problem to America's need for an as- sured oil supply from the Middle East. Connally said, "Except for minor border rectifica- tions," Israel must with- draw from the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights, all of which would be demilitarized. According to Connally's plan, "Israel will be permitted to lease military strongpoints in each of these areas." He added that "the United States should maintain a strong military presence in the vital area, including major Air Force components . . In discussing the future of Jerusalem, Connally men- tioned several "Workable al- ternatives," including "Arab or Israeli sovereignty based in residential pat- terns (or) a dual sovereignty for the entire municipal region, with individuals de- ciding which passport they prefer to carry .. .." He cited acceptance of UN Security Council Resolution 242 as the criterion for talk- ing with "the Palestinian leadership." Of all the candidates, only former California Gov. Ronald Reagan had no answer for the ques- tion "Should U.S. offi- cials have formal contact with Yasir Arafat's PLO." Six others either answered "no" or said the U.S. should not negotiate with the PLO unless it recognizes Is- rael's right to exist. The six are Rep. John Ander- son (R-Ill.); Sen. Howard Baker (R-Tenn.); 'Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. of California; a Democrat; former UN Ambassador George Bush, a Republi- can; Kennedy and Carter. Anderson stressed that the U.S. should not try to impose a solution in the Middle East because such a solution would "tend to un- ravel, leaving all the parties worse off." On the question of moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, he said he does not pre- sently support such a move but could see it as part of a future "larger set of ac- tions." Discussing arms sales, Anderson said that weapons should be sold to Middle East countries "only if there is a compelling military re- quirement consistent with our own national security interest." He added that Is- rael's ability "to maintain the regional military bal- ance" must be considered. Baker said the U.S. com- mitment to the security of Israel is fundamental to the security of the U.S. He added that he strongly sup- ports the Camp David proc- ess and that the U.S. can as- sist the maintenance of peace by fostering economic development in the Middle East. On the matter of arms sales, Baker said his deci- sion would be based on "the degree of commonality of interest between the United States and the recipient country and whether the sale will enhance or degrade the stability of the region." Brown mentioned the relationship between energy and the U.S. role in the Middle East. "Until the U.S. can develop its energy independence, the country's leadership must recognize that Is- rael is the foremost democratic and stabiliz- ing political and military presence in the Middle East," he said. Brown added that on both "moral grounds" and "the self-interest of the United States," he advocated con- tinuing and strengthening the commitment to Israel. Reagan, who presented his views in the form of a xeroxed copy of an article published in the Washing- ton Post, expressed the need for close U.S.-Israel ties. He observed that Israel is "per- haps the only remaining strategic asset in the region on which the United States can truly rely." He added that ". . . if Ad- ministration policies should serve to weaken Israel . . . a determined barrier to Soviet expansion in the region would have been withdrawn. . . ." Black Paper Nominates Flirting With PLO as Boner of the Year' (Editor's note: The fol- lowing editorial ap- peared in the Jan. 26 edi- tion of the Michigan Chronicle, under the headline "Boner Of The Year.") Among the top nomina- tions for Boner of 1979 has to be the ill-advised, lameb- rained overtures made to leaders of the Palestinian Liberation Organization by the leaders of such venera- ble black organizations as the NAACP, the Southern Christian Leadership Con- ference and Operation PUSH. The widely reported meetings between PLO leader Yasir Arafat and our best known civil rights spokesmen were at best an embarrassment and at worst an abandonment of what the civil rights strug- gle is all about. Symbolically, it was as if Dr. Martin Luther King and Lester Maddox (or Bull Connor) were to embrace publicly and acknowledge that both sides are, after all, good old boys fighting for the same cause! The whole thing was a ridiculous bid to arouse some notice by leaders who have been watching their own ranks thinning or dis- appearing every year. The civil rights move- ment will regain some mer- ited respectability when — and only when — one of its constitutive organizations picks out a specific and measurable goal (whether it's passing a certain piece of legislation or the election or dbfeat) of a specific con- gressman. If not this, then a major campaign (like get- ting blacks registered to vote) and sticks with that one great task for a reason- able period of time instead of jumping around from issue to issue like a frog on a frying pan. , The once powerful, coor- dinated civil rights move- ment is today all over the map, proclaiming "what we won't stand for" or how "we're gonna hold our enemies accountable." And the world laughs at us.•They know that kind of rhetoric is as full of hot air as it was when the Kingfish used to mouth it on the old Amos 'n Andy show. The most potent evidence of our bankruptcy was that historic liaison this fall with that old terrorist Arafat. We do not claim that U.S. blacks should not have their own international agenda. And we don't think our priorities should always coincide with those of the administration in Washing- ton. But we do state quite plainly our resentment of this stupid bid to grab head- lines in the name of our people. Thank goodness abso- lutely nothing came of Op- eration Goof. Board of Rabbis Names President NEW YORK — Rabbi Judah I. Washer, of Teaneck, N.J., was elected president of the New York Board of Rabbis 99th- annual meeting last month. Rabbi Washer has been the spiritual leader of the Jewish Center of Teaneck since 1953. He is a graduate of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College, and holds a Doctor of Religious Educa- tion degree from the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh. Elected with Rabbi Washer were: Rabbi Morris S. Friedman, Rabbi Nor- man Kahan and Rabbi Haskel Lookstein; vice presidents; Rabbi Gunter Hirschberg, Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal and Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, secretaries; and Rabbi Louis C. Gerstein and Rabbi Joseph P. Sternstein, trea- surers.