THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, April 24, 1981 5 Outraged srael, U.S. Publics Condemn Arms for the Saudis (Continued from Page 1) 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, SAY IT WITH TREES 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. 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OF STATE POLICE 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 ■ prices. 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