6 • Triday, June 12, 1981 EXCALIBUR Hair Styling Salon GUY MINNELLA International Hair Styling Award Winner 353-4848 Call for your appt. 24901 Northwestern Suite 111 Heritage Bldg. S.W. Corner of Evergreen THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Congress Pushing Bills to Make Wallenberg a Citizen . WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bill granting honorary United States citizenship to Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who re- scued 20,000-50,000 Hun- garian Jews from the Nazis, was recommended for ap- proval last week by two sub- committees of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Rep. Tom Lantos (D- Calif.) who sponsored the bill, noted that this would be only the second time Congress has granted hon- orary citizenship to a for- eigner. The only other such grant was to Winston Chur- chill. The bill also calls on the Soviet Union, which is be- lieved to be holding Wal- lenberg ever since he was arrested by the Red Army in Budapest in January 1945, to reveal • Wallenberg's AAA Lawn Sprinkler Inc. whereabouts and to free him. Lantos, who himself was rescued by Wallenberg when he was 16 years old, told a joint meeting of the subcommittees on Europe and the Middle East and human rights 'and interna- tional organizations, that Secretary of State Alexan- der Haig has assured him that President Reagan sup- ports the legislation. The Administration did not send a representative to last week's hearing. In- stead, Richard Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Rela- tions, sent a letter in which he said the department does not object to the bill. But, he noted, giving Wallenberg honorary citizenship, "does not confer on the United States any new interna- tional legal right, duty or privilege on which basis to confront the Soviets on their indefensible incarceration of Wallenberg." However, he stressed that the action "would serve to underscore the seriousness in which the American gov- ernment and people view Soviet behavior in the Wal- lenberg case." Fairbanks added that the U.S. plans to "continue to express our concern over the Wallenberg case at eyery appropriate opportunity and to continue to cooperate with the government of Sweden and all other in- terested parties to obtain a clarification of Wallen- berg's fate." Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) in supporting the bill, read a letter from Rabbi Abraham Cooper, of the Simon Wei- senthal - Center for Holocaust Studies at Yeshiva University of Los . 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He said Wal- same life and liberty he lenberg's example had a brought to so many others," "multiplying" effect be- he said. cause other embassies Another Congressional began to follow his lead in witness, Rep. Millicent helping Jews and began is- Fenwick (R-N.J.), said that suing documents to help Wallenberg "was in this Jews leave. He noted that terrible century . . . an his wife, Mrs. Annette Lan- example of a hero in the an- tos, was saved by Por- cient classic mold." She said tuguese papers. Mrs. Lantos founder an, he saw people suffer and acted regardless of their chairman of the Interna- tional Free Wallenberg religion. Lantos noted that grant- Committee testified that ing Wallenberg honorary the Swedish diplomat "gave citizenship would show a deep comfort not only posterity that the U.S. did through his rescue efforts something to help the vic- but also through the tims of the Nazis. "He acted realization that there was for the conscience of our at least one man out there in country and now we must the free world who heard and responded to our cry of act for him," Lantos said. While the Soviet Union anguish." She told the Jewish Tele- claims that Wallenberg died while in prison there, graphic Agency that the Lantos said he believes he is Jewish community needs to alive because many inde- do more to speak up for Wal- pendent witnesses have de- lenberg. Declaring that there is scribed seeing a Swedish "an enormous amount of prisoner in Soviet prisons. Lantos described Wallen- evidence" that her brother remains alive and impris- oned by Soviet authorities, the sister of Raoul Wallen- berg, the missing Swedish hero of the Holocaust, last JERUSALEM (JTA) — Unfted Nations Security week called on Americans to continue their efforts to Israel, Egypt and the U.S. Council Resolution 242." Israel's chief delegate, force the Kremlin to release opened another round of talks in Jerusalem Tuesday David Kimche, director information on his fate. on the multinational force general of • the Foreign Addressing a New York and about observers Ministry, opened his re- meeting of the American scheduled to police the -marks with a reference to Jewish Congress' Met- peace in the Sinai after Is- the sensitivities felt by both ropolitan Council, Nina rael's final withdrawal next sides on the matter of Wallenberg Lagergran said Jerusalem: April. On the multinational that only international The location of the talks — Jerusalem — was consid- force, he said it should serve pressure would force the ered significant because in as an effective safety valve Russians to reveal the truth her brother. the past Egypt has refused through which disputes about Mrs. Lagergran, of Stoc- to conduct official negotia- concerning the. Sinai de- ar- kholm, was in this country militarization tions in Jerusalem. rangements could be venti- to testify at the Congres- The Egyptian refusal sional hearings. - lated. applied to these talks too — The American Jewish The U.S. team is headed until President Anwar Congress, which has given Sadat acceded to Premier by State Department strong backing to the bill, Senior Aide Michael Menahem Begin's request reiterated its support of the at the Ofira summit last Sterner, who has said he measure at the meeting and Thursday that the talks be hopes this present round, again urged all its members due to go on until today, held in Jerusalem. to write to their representa- The Egyptian Chief will see the conclusion of tives in Washington telling Delegate Taha Shasha, an agreement on the them of their interest in the mandate. began the session with a force The three teams include legislation. Bnai Brith In- public statement to the effect that the presence of military and legal experts ternational has also his team in Jerusalem who are working on the de- endorsed the legislation. "should not be construed tails of the force's deploy- as affecting the well- ment, its functions, and the known and firm Egyp- privileges and immunities tian stand on Jerusalem. it will have. Among countries men- FOR YOUR ommonos & "We consider that all un- PRECIOUS JEWELS ilateral actions and laws tioned as possible partici- taken by Israel with a view pants in the force, alongside Sedge; Pz.;igdelie to altering the status of the United States, are Au- Scott Jerusalem are null and stralia, New Zealand, 755 W. Big Beaver Rd. void. They wilrnot affect the Canada, Fiji, Nepal, Argen- (16 mile at 1-75) final status of the Holy City. tina and Italy. Troy, Michigan 1 Arab Jerusalem remains Phone: Women persuade men to part of the West Bank occu- 313-362 -4500 I pied by Israel. It is, there- do good as well as do evil — fore, subject to the Geneva but they always persuade convention of 1949 and to them. Angeles urging the Foreign Affairs Committee to de- mand of the government full documentation of the Wallenberg case. Cooper charged that the State De- partment and other gov- ernment agencies had only released about 80 percent of the documents in the case. The ',committee also re- ceived a statement from former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie which out- lined the background of the Wallenberg mission. Wal- lenberg, then a young busi- nessman, was sent to Hun- gary. by the Swedish gov- ernment and the request of the U.S. War Refugee Board. Lantos said he hoped Congress would be able to adopt the legislation by July 9, the 37th anniver- sary of Wallenberg's arrival in Budapest. He said he has 275 co-signers to his resolu- tion. Sen. 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