THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 24, 1981
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Outraged srael, U.S. Publics Condemn Arms for the Saudis
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Senate Armed Services
Committee, showed report-
ers a letter he had received
from former Secretary of
State Edmund Muskie and
former Defense Secretary
Harold Brown. The letter
said the Carter Administra-
tion was "favorably dis-
posed" to the sale but had
made only a "tentative con-
clusion."
The Conterence of
P-^sidents of Major Ameri-
ewish Organizations
ha. called on its 34 national
member agencies to launch
an "intensive" campaign- di-
rected to the White House,
the State Department and
Congress against the Re-
, agan Adminsitration's pro-
posed arms package to
Saudi Arabia.
Howard
Squadron,
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chairman of the conference,
released the text of a tele-
gram he had sent to mem-
bers of the Presidents Con-
ference urging them to or-
ganize a letter writing and
mailgram campaign "to ex-
press deepest concern" over
the arms package.
The Rabbinical Coun-
cil of American asked Or-
thodox rabbis in the U.S.
to discuss the Saudi sales
in their sermons for the
concluding days of
Passover this weekend.
The council said petitions
would also be distributed
at many synagogues.
The Reagan Administra-
tion decision came on the
heels of last week's State
Department admission that
it is also considering the
sale of an additional 10,000
TOW anti-tank missiles to
the Saudis. Saudi Arabia
already has 5,000 of the
U.S. weapons.
The Administration re-
portedly debated over the
weekend whether to split
the sale of AWACS planes
and the F-15 equipment
into two packages.
Secretary of State Ale-
xander Haig and Richard
Allen, President Reagan's
national security adviser,
reportedly supported split-
ting up the package with
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Weinberger opposed. It was
Weinberger, reportedly,
who pushed through the
National Security Council
the decision, over Haig's op-
position, to combine the
AWACS and the enhance-
ment material. The decision
was made April 13 just prior
to Haig's recent trip to the
Middle East.
Sheikh
Ahmed
Yamani, the Saudi oil
minister, said over the
weekend that the U.S.
had promised Saudi
Arabia the weaponry as a
package. "We got a prom-
ise from the government
that it will be done and
we think it will be done,"
Yamani said on NBC-
TV's "Meet the Press" on
Sunday. He said that "not
to my knowledge" was
there any discussion by
Haig while in Saudi
Arabia about a post-
ponement of the sale.
In an interview with
ABC-TV Friday, Haig said
Congressional disapproval
of the sale "would represent
a grevious setback in
American relationships
with Saudi Arabia." Also it
was reported on Friday that
a State Department official
said that Haig believes that
the Israeli's "have a legiti-
mate complaint" about the
AWACS because the U.S.
did not tell them about it in
advance.
The Isareli government
did not strenuously oppose
the sales to Saudi Arabia
until the AWACS planes
were concluded in the pro-
posal.
An Associated Press sur-
vey taken over the weekend
found 65 Senators who indi-
cated concern over the sale
of the AWACS. Forty-five
said they are inclined to
vote against it. The AP
found only 20 Senators
favoring the sale.
The Administration
may postpone making
the proposal official until
late this summer to avoid
adding a new con-
troversy to the Congres-
sional battle over the Re-
agan economic plan,
which is the Administra-
tion's first priority. Some
observeis claim the an-
nouncement will be post-
poned until after Israel's
June 30 election because
the Administraion does
not want to give Begin an
election issue.
Yamani, in his television
interview Sunday, said such
a move would be "interfer-
ing" in Israel's election and
would help Begin.
On "Meet the Press,"
Yamani also called the
Egyptian-Israeli peace
treaty a "dead end street."
He said that the Saudis
agree with the U.S. that the
Soviet Union is a threat to
the Mideast but consider
the Israelis a "much
greater" threat because the
"Israelis are the entry of the
Soviets to the area."
Yamani also put a
damper on one of the Ad-
ministration's major rea-
sons for pushing the
AWACS sale. The Pentagon
reportedly believes that the
AWACS will have to be
Protests Hit Nomination
f Liberty Lobby Counsel
WASHINGTON — The
Reagan Administration is
reviewing its nomination of
Warren S. Richardson to a
high-ranking post in the
Department of Health and
Human Services.
The American Jewish
Committee and the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith have attacked the ap-
pointment, along with a
number of Congressmen,
because Richardson was
formerly general counsel
and chief lobbyist of the
right-wing Liberty Lobby,
which is anti-Jewish and
anti-black.
Rep.
William
M.
Brodhead (D-Mich.) wrote a
strong letter of protest to
President Reagan. He
stated in part:
"The Liberty Lobby,
where Mr. Richardson
served for four years as gen-
eral counsel, has a long and
virulent history of irrespon-
sible attacks on the Jewish
community in this country
and around the world. Its
most recent endeavor has
been its attempt — through
its surrogate, the Institute
for Historical Review — to
rewrite the political history
of this century, laying the
blame for two world wars on
members of the Jewish faith
and denying the very exist-
ence of the Holocaust.
"It is simply outrageous
that a person who has been
involved with so malignant
an organization is now
being given serious consid-
eration for an influential
government position. My
constituents are appalled at
this grotesque turn of
events and I share their
feelings in every respect."
manned by Americans for
the near future giving the
U.S. an entry to stationing
troops in Saudi Arabia. "We
think it will invite a Rus-
sian presence in the area,"
Yamani said.
But Yamani also
stressed in the interview
a position that is certain
to be taken up by those
who believe the Saudis
should get the arms they
want because of their oil
exports to the U.S. He
claimed that Saudi
Arabia was responsible
for the present glut in oil
throughout the world
and declared that Saudi
Arabia would not raise
its prices or reduce its
production until other
members of the Organ-
ization of Petroleum Ex-
porting Countries
(OPEC) lowered their
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When asked about the be-
lief by some American ex-
perts that oil consumption
is declining and that from
now on Arab oil power will
decline, Yamani replied
that is "wishful thinking."
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