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Brodhead's
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International Shams,
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Editorials, Page 4

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June 27, 1980

Groups, Women Protest
Meeting's Anti-Israel Agenda

Carter and Kennedy
Units Compromise
on Mideast Planks

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By JOSEPH POLAKOFF

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A package deal between the
Carter and Kennedy forces affecting the planks on the
status of Jerusalem, United States arms deliveries to Arab
states and U.S. voting in the United Nations averted a floor
fight this week over the Middle East section of the Demo-
cratic Party's platform being hammered out in Washington
by the party's platform committee.
On the Jerusalem plank, the supporters of President
Carter backed down and agreed to allow the plank of the
1972 and 1976 platforms to stand without qualification.
This states that the Democratic Party recognizes and -alp-
ports "the established status of Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel with free access to all its holy places provided to all
faiths. As a symbol of this stand, the U.S. embassy should
be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem."
The qualifying.,sentenceAcialis plank that was insisted
upon by the Carter forces last week and approved in the
platform committee's foreign policy subcommittee and the
task force that had reviewed it was modified and 'moved to
another part of the long Middle East section. This now
reads: "It is recognized that the Democratic. Administration
has to proceed with special care and sensitivity resulting
from its deep engagement in the delicate process of promot-
ing a wider peace for Israel."
Aides of Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts
who had fought this qualifying sentence considered
the shift as a victory. They said that it now does not
directly affect Jerusalem but is tied to the Camp
David peace process as a whole.
The Carter supporters also accepted the language of
Kennedy partisans that provides the U.S. should not de-
liver sophisticated weapons to Arab nations tl it might
endanger Israel's security. The Kennedy supporters offered
this in the light of the Saudi Arabian request for enhancing
the combat power of the 60 F-15 warplanes it has bought
from the U.S. and President Carter's promise to Jordan to
supply it with 100 tanks.
The Kennedy forces dropped their amendment that
would have had the U.S. pledging not to vote for resolutions
in the United Nations condemning Israel. This was seen by
Carter's backers as a jibe at the President for the U.S.
foulup on the anti-Israel vote in the UN Security Council
March 1.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The United States delegation to the World Confer-
ence of the United Nations Decade for Women in Copenhagen July 14-30 has
been instructed to devote their efforts to the urgent agenda of the conference and
not succumb to subversion by outside efforts to politicize the conference over the
issue of Palestinian women. The issues with which the U.S. delegation is to
concern itself are better health services, expanded education and increased
employment.
William M. Brodhead, U.S. Representative from Michigan's 17th District,
sent an urgent letter to U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie voicing his
concern about the upcoming conference. His letter stated:
It hag recently come to my attention that the Economic Commission
for Western Asia, in preparation for the United Nations Mid-Decade
Conference on Women, has prepared a report that grossly distorts the
conditions of the Palestinian women. Israel is not a member of the com-
mission, and it is my view that the report is a thinly-disguised effort to
politicize the Mid-Decade Conference and inflame anti-Israel sentiment.
WILLIAM BRODHEAD
This action
•. is • clearly reminiscent of the Mexico City conference five years
ago, at which anti-Israel elements manipulated the proceedings to their own ends. The U.S. should not
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countenance similar action this year.
"I urge that the U.S. delegation to the Mid-Decade Conference be instructed to oppose all efforts to
divert the conference from its stated purpose, which is the examination of the status of women around the
world and the effort to find ways of addressing women's needs in such fields as employment, health, and
nutrition. The cause of world harmony cannot possibly be served by permitting the conference to fall away
from these important concerns."
Four Congresswomen sent a similar letter to Muskie, urging that he counter attempts to raise the
Palestinian issue at the conference. The four are Elizabeth Holtzman (D-N.Y:), Beverly Byron (D-Md.),
Marjorie Holt (R-Md.) and Gladys Spellman (D.Md.). •
Esther R. Landa, immediate past president of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW)
and a member of President Carter's Advisory
Committee for Women, has been named to the
U.S. delegation. Landa said that the official U.S.
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position is "to keep the conference focussed on
the substantive issues" and "to discuss them
from the perspective of women of the whole
GENEVA (JTA) — Luis and Helena Haimovitz, an
world."
elderly Jewish couple, were told here last week that
The problem of the Palestinian women's issue
their daughter, Alexandra, died after being tortured
comes
as a result of the United Nations General As-
in a prison in Argentina. The Haimovitzes, who im-
sembly voting on a document calling for the addition
migrated to Israel from Argentina several years ago
of three issues to be discussed at the conference: apar- •
and now live in Rehovot,- came to Geneva to seek
theid, Palestinian women and refugees. As these
information about their daughter from officials of the
United Nations Human Rights Commission which
additions were agreed upon by the General Assem-
has a special committee that investigates : cases of
bly, the removal of any one is also under its jurisdic-
missing persons.
tion. According to Landa, the Assembly will not con-
Their daughter, a high school student,' was ar-
vene before the conference, and even if it did, its
rested in Cordoba, Argentina in 1976 and has not
members would probably not agree to combine the
been heard from since. She was a member of the
Palestinian women's issue with that of- refugees in
"Youth for Guevara" movement which supported the
general.
late Latin American radical leader Che Guevara.

Tortured Woman
Dies in Argentina

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iiParisian Jews Terrorized in Nazi Attacks

PARIS (JTA) — Inhabitants of the Jewish district of Saint Paul have been living in fear following an attack staged
neo-Nazi commandos last week. Some 40 commandos wearing helmets and arm bands with swastikas attacked
shops and passersby in the "pletzl," the Jewish district, to the shouts of "kill the Jews."
Witnesses said that many of the attackers had swastikas painted on their cheeks and elderly people thought they
were reliving the dreaded wartime era when Jews wererounded up by the Gestapo and French militiamen tobe sent to
Nazi death camps.
Minutes after the attack, members of the Jewish defense organization (OJD) clashed with commando members
who were armed with iron bars. Each time the leaders of the commandos blew their whistles their men shouted "down
with the Jews, kill them," one terrified witness said. Police took some time to intervene after a severe clash between the
commandos and OJD militants.
The extreme right-wing European Federation of National Action (FANE) is suspected of being respon-
sible for the attack. FANE, composed of about 50 militants, is considered the most radical of the right-wing
organizations. It is believed to have been set up by dissident members of the Fascist New Forces Party
(PFN).
Inhabitants of the Saint Paul district, known as the Jewish Ghetto of Paris though it has lost much of that aspect
since the Holocaust, live with the fear of other neo-Nazi attacks. OJD militants are patrolling the streets of the district
day and night and have sworn that any new attack will not go without bloodshed for the neo-Nazis.
An OJD spokesman said the time when Jews were victims of pogroms and extermination measures is over. "We
are well organized. If they come again they will pay a high price," the spokesman said.

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Extremist Group's Lawsuit
Against ADL Is Dismissed

NEW YORK — A Texas district court judge has dis-
missed a $6 million lawsuit brought against the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith by the Washington-
based, right-wing Liberty Lobby.
According to Maxwell E. Greenberg, ADL's national
chairman, the case was dismissed following the refusal of
Willis Carto, Liberty Lobby's founder and leader, to appear
in a Texas court to submit to interrogation by ADL's attor-
neys.
Liberty Lobby, which Greenberg called "the
largest and best-financed right-wing, anti-Semitic
apparatus in the country today," filed the suit in`1976.
The group, he said, falsely charged that ADL and the
Mutual Broadcasting System had joined together to
remove Liberty Lobby's daily broadcasts from Mutu-
al's radio network. The suit was filed in Texas because
one of the radio stations was located in Waco.
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