62 Friday February 6, 1981

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Mischa Mischakoff Dies,
Was DSO Concertmaster

Lipschutz Reveals Kreisky Urged
PLO Aid to Release U.S. Hostages

By WILLIAM SAPHIRE

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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Shortly after Iranian milit-
ants seized the U.S. Em-
bassy in Teheran on Nov. 4,
1979, and took 60 American
hostages, Chancellor Bruno
Kreisky of Austria made
strenuous efforts to induce
the United States to utilize
the Palestine Liberation
Organization as the in-
strument for their release
and thereby extend at least
de facto recognition to the
terrorist organization.
The revelation of Kreis-
ky's machinations, the U.S.
consultations with Israel
that immediately followed
and the Carter Administra-
tion's ultimate rejection of
the PLO channel, are de-
tailed in an article by
former White House coun-
sel Robert Lipschutz, who
President Carter dis-
patched on a secret mission
to Vienna on Nov. 10, 1979,
to speak with Kreisky.
The article, just released,
also discloses that Israel
was consulted in the early
days of the hostage crisis as
to whether a rescue attempt
was feasible — and con-
cluded that it was not — and
that the U.S. had a "private
channel of communication
with the PLO" established
sometime previously "-with
Israeli concurrence."
According to the
Lipschutz account, three
days after the embassy
seizure he was contacted
by a New York attorney
and friend, Leon Char-
ney, who also _ knew
Kreisky and was told that
the Austrian chancellor
had invited him (Char-
ney) "and someone else
who could speak for the
,„ American government"
to come to Vienna to dis-
cuss the hostage situa-
tion "and that such a trip

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might be productive
toward releasing the hos-
tages." Charney also was
the "personal attorney
and confidant" of the
then Israeli Defense
Minister, Ezer Weizman.
President Carter
authorized Lipschutz to
make the trip. Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance in-
structed him to report
through Assistant Secre-
tary of State Harold Saun-
ders who headed the Ameri-
can Iran Task Force.
Lipschutz had his first
private meeting with
Kreisky at the latter's home
on Nov. 11, accompanied by
Charney and the U.S. Am-
bassador to Austria, Milton
Wolf. Subsequent meetings
were attended by Austria's
Ambassador to Lebanon,
Dr. Herbert Amry whom
Kreisky described to
Lipschutz "as a man with
the most knowledge about
and best relationship with
the PLO' who "would serve
as a consultant to us and as
liaison with the PLO."
At the initial meeting, ac-
cording to Lipschutz,
Kreisky insisted "that if
anyone in the world could
persuade (Ayatollah Ruhol-
lah) Khomeini to release
the American hostages,
that person was Yasir
Arafat, leader of the PLO
and, that the United States
should do business with
Arafat."
In that connection,
Kreisky pointed out that
the PLO had taken the lead
in training Khomeini's
guerrillas and military per-
sonnel "and that the PLO
and the militants who
seized the embassy virtu-
ally were interchangeable.

Further, he reminded us
that Arafat and the PLO
were practically the only
ones who openly befriended
Khomeini and his people
while they were in exile
from Iran," Lipschutz
wrote.
"What Kreisky did not
remind us of were these
facts (although I was
quite aware of them) that
Kreisky himself was the
leading advocate among
European leaders for
recognition of the PLO;
that the PLO obtains
practically all of its arms
from the Soviet Union;
that Arafat at that very
moment was conferring
with Russian leaders in
Moscow . . . and that the
Soviets stood to profit
greatly from friction be-
tween Iran and the
United States . . ."
Lipschutz wrote that he

Israeli Stock
Sales Swell

TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
wave of selling swamped
the Tel Aviv Stock Ex-
change for the third con-
secutive day Wednesday as
thousands of shareholders
rushed to unload stocks that
had soared by an average 32
percent last month. As
stocks, particularly indus-
trial shares, plummeted,
some observers likened the
panic to Wall Street's
"Black Thursday" in 1929.
The selling wave may
have been triggered by
rumors of an impending tax
on capital gains from the
stock market transactions.
They were promptly denied
by the treasury.

Electorate Grows

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
number of eligible voters in
Israel has grown by some
300,000 since the last elec-
tions were held in May 1977
as a result of young people
reaching the voting age of
18 and immigration.
The electorate now stands
at 2,438,886 and is expected
to increase by 70-80,000 by
the time Israelis go to the
polls this year.

There are more than
150,000 members of Bnai
Brith Women.

remained non-committal.
Meanwhile, Kreisky made
arrangements for Charney
to fly to Israel to meet with
Weizman.
"Weizman called together
a meeting of his top military
and intelligence advisers to
discuss all possible plans by
which the American hos-
tages might be rescued.
Weizman and his advisers
concluded that they could
see no way to conduct a suc-
cessful military mission to
rescue our hostages."
As for the Austrian-PLO
proposition, "Weizman told
Charney that any quid pro
quo approach by the United
States to the PLO, even re-
lating to the Iranian hos-
tage matter, would be a
serious indication to the Is-
raelis that the United
States government did not
have sufficient resolve to
fulfill its commitments and
that U.S. 'capitulation' in
this regard well might have
a terminal effect on the
peace treaty proceedings
because the United States
commitments in the
Egyptian-Israeli process
are so vital — even though
Israel fully recognized that
60 American lives were at
stake in the Iranian situa-
tion," Lipschutz wrote.
On Nov. 14, Lipschutz
spoke with Saunders by
telephone from Vienna
and was told that about
an hour earlier the deci-
sion had been reached
and 'the project had been
wrapped up.' Saunders
advised me as follows:
that the decision had
been made to pursue only
the private channel of
communication with the
PLO which had been es-
tablished months earlier
with Israeli concurrence,
and not the public. chan-
nel urged by Kreisky."
(ple author does not
elaborate on the nature
of the "private, :channel"
or "Israeli 'Concurr-
ence.")
That there would be no
public recognition of or quid
pro quo with, the PLO; that
I should explain this deci-
sion to Kreisky, express our
appreciation for his assis-
tance and advice, and try to
keep the Kreisky connec-
tion warm but not hot."

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NEW YORK (JTA)
Eugene Sattler, a member
- of the public relations staff
of the American Jewish
Committee for the past 20
years, died Jan. 28. He was
59.
Born in Bayonne, N.J.
and educated at Rutgers
University, Mr. Sattler de-
voted his entire working life
to Jewish causes. He began
his career as a writer for the
Zionist Organization of
America and became man-
aging editor of its magazine,
Israel's Tnuatron dance group recently earned American Zionist, in 1953.
Subsequently, he worked
first prize at an international dance festical in West
for the Israel Bond Organ-
Germany. Organized by the Hapoel sports association
for dancers aged 12-19, the group is based in Ramat ization before joining the
AJCommittee staff.
Hasharon, near Tel Aviv.

Renowed concertmaster
of the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra and other orches-
tras in the U.S. and Eastern
Europe, Mischa Mischakoff
died Feb. 1 at age 85.
Born Mischa Fischberg in
Proskurov, Russia, the vio-
linist changed his name
after emigrating to the U.S.
because many violinists at
the time were surnamed
Fischberg.
In 1913, he won a gold
medal at the St. Petersburg
Conservatory and in 1917
he became concertmaster of
the Petrograd Orchestra.
Later, he was concertmas-
ter of the Warsaw Philhar-
monic and the Bolshoi Op-
era.
Mr. Mischakoff was the
concertmaster of many
orchestras, including the
New York Symphony,
1924 to 1927; Philadel-
phia Symphony, 1927-
1930; Chicago Symphony,
1930-1937; NBC Sym-
phony Orchestra, 1937-
1952. From 1940 to 1952,
he was on the faculty of
the Juilliard School of
-
Music.
He came to Detroit in
1952, and was the cop z_
certmaster of the DSO until
his retirement in 1968. A
year later, he came out of
retirement to become the
concertmaster of the Balti-

MISCHA MISCHAKC

more Symphony.
In addition he flew to Bos-
ton once a week to teach. He
still spent his summers at
Chautauqua, where he was
concertmaster for 40 years.
He continued to teach,
privately and at Wayne
State University. He reg-
ularly appeared as a sol-
oist with various com-
munity orchestras. Mr.
Mischakoff own e d three
Stradivarius violins in
addition to other rare vio-
lins he collected.
He leaves his wife, Hor-
tense; two sons, Paul and
Matthew of Saline; a daugh-
ter, Anne of Evanston, Ill.;
three sisters in Florida and
one granddaughter. Inter-
ment Michigan City, Ind.

Writer Andrew Shonfield

LONDON (JTA) — Sir among the best known of
Andrew Shonfield, a promi- which is "Modern
nent economist, editor, Capitalism" published in
writer and academician, 1966 which was recognized
as an authoritative work on
died Jan. 23 at age 63.
At the time of his death he economic issues related to
was a professor of economics the broader needs of society.
Shonfield was associated
at the European University
Institute in Florence, Italy with the Royal Institute of
and had homes in London International Affairs from
1961-1977 and served for a
and Florence.
Sir Andrew, who was time as its chairman. He
knighted in 1978, was a son was also a member of the
of the late Rabbi Victor Social Science Research
Schonfield, a noted Hebrew - Council and of the Tri-
scholar and pedagogue who Lateral Commission. Dur-
founded and was spiritual ing his career he was eco-
leader of the Union of Or- nomic editor of the Observer
thodox Hebrew Congrega- and foreign editor of the Fi-
nancial Times.
tions in Britain.
Sir Andrew attended
the Nita Yeshiva in Raymond Cedar
Czechoslovakia as a
Raymond J. Cedar, an
youth and completed his engineer with Ford Motor
education at Oxford Uni- Co. in Dearborn for 25
versity. Although not an years, died Jan. 11 at age
Orthodox Jew, he was 52.
regarded as a talmudic
A native Detroiter, Mr.
scholar.
Cedar was transferred to
He was the author of sev- Eden Prairie, Minn., two
eral books on economics, years ago. He was a pilot.
Mr. Cedar is survived by a
Weizmann's Son son, Kenneth of Boston,
Mass.; a daughter, Nancy of
Dies in England
Kalamazoo; two brothers,
LONDON — Benjamin George and Jon of Los
Weizmann, son of the first Angeles, Calif.; a sister,
president of the state of Is- Gloria Winter of Troy. 1
rael, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, one granddaughter.
died Jan. 7 at age 73.
The younger Weizmann Veil Visits
was born in Manchester, Holocaust Site
England, and educated at
BONN (JTA) — The
Cambridge and at the Sor-
president of the European
bonne.
He led a quiet life and did Parliament, Simone Veil,
not participate in Jewish or visited the West Berlin
general affairs. He served Jewish community and laid
with the Royal Artillery a wreath in honor of the vic-
tims of the Holocaust. Her-
during World War II.,
He is survived by a son, self an inmate of Auschwitz,
David, who works for the Veil warned against the
danger of anti-Semitism.
BBC.

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