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An Error Admitted by Carter Called 'Honest Mistake

(Continued from Page 1)
Secretary of State
Vance on Tuesday took re-
sponsibility for the foul-up.
In a statement to the press,
the State Department's
chief spokesman, Hodding
Carter, said:
"The secretary of state
accepts responsibility for
the failure in communica-
tions. I'm not going to go
into it further nor am I
going into technical or staff
procedures in which the
failure occurred. The
statement is simple on this.
The secretary accepts the
responsibility for the foul-
up."
Asked why the Ad-
ministration took more
than 46 hours before an-
nouncing its repudiation
of the Security Council
vote, spokesman Carter
replied, "It was a matter
of internal deliberations"
about which he was not
going to discuss. Some 10
hours before the
Presidential statement
was made the State De-
partment was publicly
defending all aspects of
the resolution.
Reporters
appeared
highly sceptical that a fail-
ure of communications was
basic to the foul-up. They
questioned whether the
Presidential election and
protests against the resolu-
tion were factors. Hodding
Carter refused to 'be drawn
into discussions on this. He -
said at one point, "The
President is speaking here
to his own consideration
what should or should not
be in it (the resolution).
Answering reporters
questions at a press confer-
ence at the U.S. Mission to
the United Nations,
McHenry said on Wednes-
day that the U.S. will not
initiate C
- hanging the reso-
lution because "there are no
provisions in the Security
Council for changing the
vote."
McHenry said that as a
result of the incident, he be-
lieves his task at the U.N.
will be "more difficult" now.
He said he expects more de-
bates on the issue of Israeli
settlements, reiterating, in
response to a question, that
Israeli settlements in the
occupied territory are "con-
trary to international law
and are obstacles to peace."
Political reverberations
in the Jewish community
continue over the United
States vote.
Theodore Mann, chair-
man of the conference of
Presidents of Major Ameri-
can Jewish Organizations,
told an emergency meeting
of the organization that the
conference would be writing
to President Carter to com-
plain about the resolution,
including its call for dis-
mantling the Jewish set-
tlements on the West Bank,
its reference to "Palestinian
territories" and its call for
sanctions against Israel.
Mann said the U.S. vote
for the resolution was
"unacceptable to all
segments of opinion
within American Jewry,"

a fact that he said he
thought the White House
quickly realized Monday.
Mann called the incident
a demonstration of "quite
extraordinary incompe-
tence in an extraordinary
situation."
Meanwhile, a 30-member
delegation from the World
Jewish Congress-American
Section was in Washington
for previously scheduled
briefings with the State De-
partment and the White
House. President Carter
met with them in a meeting
that was not on their origi-
nal agenda to try to reas-
sure them that there was no
change in U.S. policy
toward Israel.
Members of the delega-
tion said after the meeting
that Carter was emphatic in
describing the U.S. vote in
the Security Council as a
mistake.
Jack Spitzer, president of
Bnai Brith, called on Carter
to "publicly repudiate" the
Security Council resolution.
This should be done he said,
because "the resolution does
serious harm to the peace
process and because the
White House now conceded
that some of the resolution's
sections are inconsistent
with American policy."
While welcoming the
subsequent explanation
from the White House,
Spitzer said that if the
Administration believes
that the call for dismantl-
ing Israeli settlements on
the West Bank "was
neither proper nor prac-
tical" and disagrees with
all references to
Jerusalem, "the United
States must now move to
formally disassociate it-
self from the resolution."
Sen. Edward Kennedy
(D-Mass.) denounced the
Carter Administration for
the U.S. vote which he de-
scribed "as a shameful mo-
ment in the diplomatic his-

Judge Refuses
to Deport Nazi

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The case for the deportation
of a 68-year-old Latvian na-
tive now living in Balti-
more, for alleged war crimes
against Jews was turned
down by a U.S. immigration
judge for lack of substantial
evidence last week.
Judge Emil Bobek ruled
that none of the govern-
ment's witnesses satisfac-
torily identified Karlis De-
tlays as being the same man
they saw participate in the
execution of Jewish resi-
dents in Latvia during
World War II. Although De-
tlays conceded serving in
the Nazi-organized Latvian
Legion during the war,
Bobek ruled that lying
about this on an application
for a U.S. visa in 1950 did
not warrant Detlav's depor-
tation.
Detlays has admitted
that he lied about the mem-
bership, but denied all other
charges against him, in-
cluding several reports that
he had beaten Jews between
1941 and 1943 in Latvia.

tory of our nation" and a re-
versal of past policy.
Kennedy, who is seeking
the Democratic President-
ial nomination, was the first
Presidential aspirant of
either party to react to the
U.S. vote.
Kennedy's statement
said: "By joining the latest
UN attack against Israel,
the Carter Administration
has turned its back on the
single democracy, the most
stable government, the
most vital strategic asset
and the closest ally of the
U.S. in the Middle East. To

condemn Israel, as the Car-
ter Administration has
done, in voting for this one-
sided resolution, is to pre-
judge the negotiations
called for in the Camp
David accords, to under-
mine the possibility of a just
and lasting peace and to
give aid and comfort to the
enemy of our friend and
ally, Israel."
Rep. William S. Broom-
field (R-Mich.), ranking
Republican on the House
Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee, denounced the UN
resolution.

Broomfield was espe-
cially critical of references
in the resolution to East
Jerusalem.
"It always has been my
view and the policy of our
government that East
Jerusalem should be con-
sidered indivisible," Broom-
field said.
"I remain deeply commit-
ted to the security and
well-being of Israel. That
should continue as the
foremost consideration in
determining U.S. policy in
the Mideast," Broomfield
said.

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