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Will to Live
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Editorials, Page 4
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May 23, 1980
Muskie Rules Out European
Intercession in Can David
Country-and-Bible Station
is Serving Tree Lebanon'
METULLA — Nestled in a remote corner of the southern Lebanese
frontier enclave of Major Saad Haddad's "Free Lebanon" forces, is a
reinforced concrete bunker whose looks belie its-purpose. What could be
taken for a military emplacement is actually the home of a most
unusual radio station.
WORD, the station's call-letter name, is the source of a rhythmic
flow of Nashville favorites, interspersed with regular newscasts in
English and Arabic and one-minute Bible readings every 15 minutes.
"People out in the villages of Marjayoun and Klea are humming
John Denver and Johnny Cash songs. It's a remarkable thing to see,"
says Chuck Pollak, the station's 28-year-old manager. "And we have
heard from foreign correspondents all over the Mideast saying they
enjoy our special brand of music and religious format."
(Continued on Page 5)
TOE WACE
Of IPQPE
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said
Tuesday that Egypt and Israel have no choice but to deal" with the six
"hard central issues that stand in the way of a genuine agreement on
autonomy" for the West Bank and Gaza Strip and that "obviously they are
not going to be settled by May 26," the target date set by the Camp David
accords.
The former Senator from Maine said at his first press conference at the
State Department since assuming its helm, that the Western European
countries should not "dilute" the Camp David peace process because there
is "no better prospect" for a peace agreement.
MUSKIE
The Western European countries, notably Great Britain,
France and West Germany, have indicated that they would seek to set aside the Camp
David formulas and take the lead at the United Nations by amending Security Council
Resolution 242 which underpins the Camp David accords, if May 26 passes with no
agreement on autonomy.
It would be a disservice to the stability in the area to the prospect of the further rallying of
support for the results of this process if we were to back off or if initiatives are taken by other
countries which would undercut this process," Muskie said. Resolving these issues, he said, "is
going to require time, persistence, encouragement and prodding."
The Se6retary of State added, "I understand, of course ., that those who have not been involved
in the Camp David process, including
our European friends and the moder-
ate and more radical Arab countries,
are dissatisfied with the process. But
NEW YORK (JTA) — For the third consecutive year
nothing that has been proposed, as
the resolutions committee of the national convention of the
far as I can see, holds out a better
American Red Cross (ARC) has rejected a resolution urging
prospect for coming to grips with the
the International Committee of the Red Cross to im-
six fundamental questions on the
mediately admit Israel's Magen David Adorn (MDA) to the
issue of autonomy anymore effec-
League of Red Cross Societies.
tively than these talks."
Mark Powers, of the Harrisburg, Pa., chapter of the
Muskie said "land," "settlements"
Red Cross, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he will
resubmit the resolution next year.
and "security" are among the six
Powers said the resolutions committee refused to ap-
"tough issues" but did not list the.
prove the resolution for the 1980 convention which was
others. However, a senior State De-
,
The American Red Cross
Won't Press MDA Case
.
Gary Hull, WORD Radio, south Lebanon
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Strong Support for Israel Repeated
by Presidential Hopefuls at AIPAC
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Assurances of their strong support for Israel's security and tributes to
its strategic importance in the Middle East to the United States were reiterated by the five President-
ial candidates to some 600 Jewish leaders from most of the 50 states.
- Addressing the 21st annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
'AC) were Independent John Anderson (R-Ill.), Vice President Walter Mondale for President
Li-ter, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), Ray Cline for George Bush and William Casey for Ronald
q_rran, in that order. All drew varying applause. .
a former State Department and CIA chief who now is at Georgetown University, sum-
marized their remarks with, "We all love AIPAC and Israel."
Mondale stressed that "the one crucial difference" between Carter and the other candi-
dates is "not on promises but in offering performance" and asked that he be "judged on the
record" which he said was of "unprecedented performance." He noted that since Israel's
birth 32 years ago, the U.S. has provided it with $22 billion and the Carter Administration
has allocated half it.
Referring to the Egyptian suspension of the autonomy talks, Mondale said that there is "no
breakdown" in the negotiations and that "May 26 is not chiseled on concrete. It doesn't have to b'e the
target date" for agreement to be reached. "Those who criticize" Carter, President Anwar Sadat and
Premier Menahem Begin, he said, should "turn their criticism on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Groner to Lead Opposition
Against Women Ordination
From JTA Dispatches
NEW YORK — Rabbi Irwin Groner of Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Southfield,
has been named one of four national chairmen of a group of 100 Conservative
rabbis opposed to the ordination of women as
rabbis by the Conservative movement. The
group will be known as the Halakhic Fel-
lowship of the Rabbinical Assembly.
Rabbi David Feldman of Brooklyn
said the fellowship was organized last
week hours after delegates to the Rab-
binical Assembly, meeting in Kiamesha
Lat. N.Y., approved by a vote of 155-115
a resolution endorsing ordination of
women, the first RA convention to take
such action.
The delegates, after hours of heated de-
bate, also called on the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America (JTS) faculty senate,
which voted last Dec. 20 to approve an in-
definite suspension of action on the ordina-
RABBI IRWIN GRONER
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