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Jewish Republicans Gather in Support of Reagan,
Uphold Party Platform on Israel, Soviet Jews Issues

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF

Jewish Telegraphic agency
and The Jewish News
White House Correspondent

Priminent Jewish Repub-
licans from coast to coast
enthusiastically pledged
support to Ronald Reagan's
Presidential candidacy and
voiced satisfaction with the

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Party's plat-
Republican Party's
form planks related to his
support for Israel and Soviet
Jewry.
They expressed their
views to the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency in an inter-
view Tuesday at a special
social gathering as two of
the party's top foreign af-
fairs strategists re-
emphasized the Reagan out-
look towards Israel as a
strategic asset against the
Soviet thrusts towards the
Middle East's oil fields and
communication lanes.
In his address to the con-
vention in the Joe Louis
Arena Tuesday night,
former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger alluded to
Soviet diplomatic and- mili-
tary support to the PLO.
Warning against Soviet ex-
pansionism in the Middle
East, Kissinger observed
that "terrorists are financed
and trained by the Soviet
bloc" and warned the West
would not survive if this is
permitted to continue.
In his news conference
with some 400 reporters
Tuesday morning he had
stressed opposition to a
Palestinian state and to
the European Economic
Community's suggestion
of Associating the PLO
with the peace process.
Between Kissinger's ad-

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dress and his news confer-
ence, Richard Allen,
Reagan's chief foreign af-
fairs adviser who served in
President Nixon's National
Security Council, told
foreign corresponsents
covering the convention
that the European initia-
tives in "the declaration of
Venice" was "not helpful"
towards settling Arab-
Israeli differences.
He stressed American
recognition of Israel as a
valuable component in the
strategy of off-setting
Soviet leverage in associa-
tion with radical Arab
organizations.
In line with the Republi-
can platform, Allen spoke of
U.S. cooperation with
"moderate" Arab states as a
Reagan principle. He said
the platform does not say
Jerusalem should be under
Israeli sovereignty since
that woudl be prejudging
the issue that, he said,
should be decided by
negotiation between the
parties.
The Republican plat-
form was attacked by the
National Association of
Arab Americans (NAAA)
Tuesday at the conven-
tion site at a sparsley
attended news confer-
ence. In a long statement
presented by Minor
Geprge of Cleveland, a
member of the Ohio dele-
gation to the convention
and a former NAAA
president, the NAAA
argued that without deal-
ing with the PLO, as the
Republicans have as-
serted,-"The U.S. cannot
expect to effect a com-
prehensive peace in the
area."
"The fact that virtually
every Palestinian acknowl-
edges the PLO as his sole
legitimate representative
makes this part of the plank
patently absurd." The
statement quotes former
U.S. Ambassador to Saudi -
Arabia James Akins that
"the only Soviet claim to
influence in the Middle East
is its support of the Arabs
against Israel expan-
sionism."
The NAAA statement
that was mainly devoted to
Israel policy on West
Bank-Gaza issues came
against a background of
continuing threats by PLO
leaders in Beirut, Damas-
cus and the United Nations
in New York and by the
West Bank Mayors cam-
paigning in America that
"the Zionist entity" will be
wiped out. •
While the NAAA state-
ment was being made
available to about 13 per-
sons attending the NAAA
news conference — nine of
them Jews — dispatches
from Copenhagen reported
Leila Khaled, a PLO expo-
nent of terror who was in-
volved in two PLO hijack-
ings 10 years ago, of telling
the second world conference
of the United Nations De-
cade for Women in De-
nmark: "We speak to the
world with words, but to the

Israelis we speak only with
weapons."
Meanwhile, warnings to
the Arab countries that an
oil embargo would be "a
hostile act" and to the
Soviet Union that Jewish
emigration is "a central is-
sue" in Soviet-American re-
lations remained parts of
the Republican platform
that was ratified at the
party's convention Tuesday.
Israel is counted upon in
the platform draft for coop-
eration with NATO and
Egypt against Soviet domi-
nation in the Middle East.
Besides language against
an embargo, the platform
draft also opposes the Aral?
boycott of American coni-
panics doing business with
Israel and frowns on deliv-
eries of weapons affecting
regional stabilityories.
Considering that officials
of major oil companies, con-
struction concerns and
other American businesses
with important commercial
interests in the Middle East
traditionally wield broad
influence in the Republican
Party, the platform's lan-
guage directed at the Arab
states is seen by observers
here as a high bid to friends
of Israel for support of
Ronald Reagan's President-
ial candidacy.
On Jerusalem, it says:
"Republicans believe that
Jerusalem should remain
an undivided city with con-
tinued free and unimpeded
access to all holy places by
people of all faiths."
The final draft retains the
segment against dealing
with the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization, saying
"with respect to an ultimate
peace settlement, Republi-
cans reject any call for in-
volvement of the PLO as not
in keeping with the
longterm interest of either
Israel or the Palestinian
Arabs."
The draft also declares
"we believe the establish-
ment of a Palestinian state
on the West Bank would be
destabilizing and harmful
to the peace process."

Applauding "the vision and
courage" of Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat, it
pledges "to build our rela-
tionship with Egypt in cul-
tural affairs, economic de-
velopment and military
cooperation."

Regarding Israel, the
draft says as previously
outlined: "The sover-
eignty, security and in-
tegrity of the state of Ir
rael is a moral imperativ
and serves the strategic
interests of the U.S. Re-
publicans reaffirm our
fundamental and endur-
ing commitment to this
principle. We will con-
tinue to honor our na-
tion's commitment
through political, eco-
nomic, diplomatic and
military aid. We fully rec-
ognize the strategic im-
portance of Israel and the
deterrent role of its
armed forces in the Mid-
dle East and East-West
military equations."
* * *
Activities in behalf of the
Reagan for President cam-
paign here were spurred by
a group of communityites
during the Republican Na-
tional Convention.
Under the title the Na-
tional Coalition for Reagan,
a cocktail party was ar-
ranged on Tuesday after-
noon by the following:
Theodore E. Cummings
and Max M. Fisher, honor-
ary chairmen; and Albert
Spiegel, Eli Jacobs, Max-
well Rabb, Fred Gottfurcht,
Bud Hockenberg, Irwin
Levy, Norman Braman,
Rita Hauser, Barney Bar-
nett, Sen. Rudy Boschwitz,
Alfred Taubman, Sen.
Jacob Javits and Robert
Gintel.
There also was a crecep-
tion for members of Con-
gress at which the following
were the hosts: Richard
Kaufman of Muskegon and
Paul Borman, Max Fisher,
Daniel Honigman, Edward
C. Levy, Jr., Alan Schwartz,
Phillip Stollman and
Taubman.

Suspect in Boy's Kidnapping
Set to Be Arraigned Sept.1

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
suspected kidnap killer of
eight-year-old Oron Yarden
has been identified by police
as Tzvi Gur — formerly
Gurewitz — of Natanya. He
was arrested last month
after part of the IL 2 million
($40,000) ransom money
was found in his possession.
He directed police to a
spot where the remains of
the child were found buried
in the sand dunes. The kid-
napping occured on June 8.
Gur, 33, was described as
coming from a good family
but was himself a high
school drop-out who never
held a steady job. Recently
he made a living as an illus-
trator.
His elder brother is an
architect and his, sister
and younger brother,
ironically, are employed

by the police as a legal
adviser and photo-
grapher respectively.
Gur will face a prelimi- ,
nary hearing in court on
Sept. 1, after the summer
recess.

Publisher Signs
Ezer Weizman

NEW YORK (JTA) —
Bantam Books has signed
former Israeli Defense
Minister Ezer Weizman to a
contract for a book on the
political and military situa-
tion in the Middle East and
its affects on Israel from
1977 to the present.

Israel's National Educa-
tion Law, passed in 1953,
transfered the responsibil-
ity for national education to
the government.

