10 Friday, October 16, 1981
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
U.S. Denies Urging Israel to Quicken: Sinai Withdrawal
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The State Department de-
nied that the U.S. has been
urging Israel to make its
final withdrawal from Sinai
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Tuesday morning that the
U.S. is 'now trying to re-
inject some momentum"
into the Camp David pro-
cess.
Haig said, "We have been
able to do so, both in the
Sinai withdrawal schedule
and the provisions for that
and the resumption of the
autonomy talks and the
normalization talks which
will continue this very
month without any delay
despite President Sadat's
untimely death."
Fischer said he was
"not aware" that the sub-
ject of accelerating the
Sinai withdrawal
schedule "was raised"
when Haig met with Is-
raeli Premier Menahem
Begin in Cairo at Sadat's
funeral last Saturday.
Fischer said Haig was
stressing the need to "re-
inject some momentum,"
noting that the autonomy
talks which were moribund
since last year, will now re-
sume at the working level
Wednesday. Fischer said
that after these talks, the
U.S. will make an assess-
ment as to whether to up-
grade the level of its rep-
resentation at the talks.
Should this be done, how-
ever, the American rep-
resentative will be not
Philip Habib, President
Reagan's special envoy to
the Middle East. Fischer
said that when Habib re-
turns to the region, it will be
to continue his efforts in
Lebanon for which Reagan
brought him out of retire-
ment last May.
Morris Draper, deptuy
assistant secretary of state
for Near Eastern and South
Asian affairs, is now in the
region as a "prelude to
Habib's return," Fischer
said. Draper is visiting Is-
rael, Lebanon, Jordan and
Syria, according to the
spokesman. But he had no
explanation as to why
Draper was not going to
Saudi Arabia except that it
was not in his itinerary.
Former President
Nixon is now in Saudi
Arabia, having gone
there immediately after
attending Sadat's funeral
in Cairo, on what he said
was a private visit.
When Nixon's spokesman
was asked in Riyadh if the
former President had dis-
cussed the proposed sale of
AWACS reconnaissance
planes with Saudi officials,
he reportedly replied, "They
were not talking about
Piper Cubs." But Nixon,
who will also visit Jordan,
Tunisia and Morocco before
returning to the U.S. next
week, will have no comment
on his talks until after he
returns, his spokesman
said.
Fischer also said that
Nixon is not reporting to the
Reagan Administration
while he is abroad, but will
presumably make a report
when he returns. An Ad-
ministration official was
quoted as saying that Nixon
was not specifically asked to
report on his trip "but that's
the usual thing."
The Administration says
it knew nothing of Nixon's
travel plans until he re-
quested — and received — a
State Department briefing
on the four countries he in-
tended to visit last week, be-
fore he left for Sadat's fun-
eral in Cairo.
Meanwhile, Haig con-
tinued to press for the
AWACS sale on his tele-
vision appearance Tues-
day morning.
Meanwhile, former Pres-
ident Carter, visiting
Washington for the first
time since he left office nine
months ago, made public
Monday the text of a letter
he had sent to Senators urg-
ing them to support
Reagan's proposed sale of
the AWACS and other
military equipment to
Saudi Arabia.
Carter told reporters, "It's
very important that once a
President makes a com-
mitment of that kind to a
valuable friend, such as the
Saudi Arabians, that the
Senate approve what their
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CATHOLIC-JEWISH RELATIONS: On Oct. 28 it
will be 11 years since the Vatican Council adopted its
historic declaration on Jews, rejecting the accusation that
Jews as a people are guilty of the crucifixion of Jesus — a
charge which was the basis of persecution ofJews for many
centuries —.and officially repudiating anti-Semitism.
The new attitude of the Catholic Church toward Jews
was initiated by the late Pope John XXIII, now known in
Jewish history as the "Good Pope." It was promulgated by
his successor, Pope Paul VI. The declaration — which is
now a part of the legislation of the Catholic Church for its
600 million folloivers throughout the world — met with
opposition on the part of a small majority vote at the session
of the Vatican Council. -
Its adoption was preceeded by a debate in which it was
emphasized that the Catholic Church should not forget that
it received revelation of the Old Testament frorathe Jews,
that Jesus was born a Jew, and that the Apostles —.the
mainstays of the Church — sprang from the Jewish people.
It was stressed that the spiritual patrimony common to
Christians and Jews is of such magnitude that the Sacred
Synod recommended their mutual respect, and "deplores
and, indeed, condemns hatred of persecution of Jews,
whether they arose in former or in our own days."
NEW DIMENSIONS: The effects of the Vatican
Council's statement on Jews have varied from nation to
nation. The American Jewish Committee has therefore
undertaken a survey to provide some basic data for evaluat-
ing the state of Catholic-Jewish relations since the state-
ment was promulgated.
At a national conference of Catholic bishops in
Washington, it was' mphasized that the statement was
"opening a new era of historic dimensions" in the relations
of Christians and Jews. Jewish organizations in this coun-
try considered the stalemate a "major breakthrough" in
Catholic - Jewish understanding in the U.S. The task of
implementation of the directives in the statement was
taken up by the U.S. Episcopal Conference; a secretariate
for Catholic - Jewish relations was established by the con-
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The secretariate issued "Guidelines for Catholic -
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