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 THE SMART CHARTER TO LAS VEGAS H.M.H. & F. 557 5145 - earlier than the scheduled April date as a gesture to the new Egyptian govern- ment of Hosni Mubarak. "There are no plans for an acceleration of the schedule," department spokesman Dean Fischer said. He was commenting on a statement by Secretary of State Alexander Haig on the ABC-TV "Good Morn- ing America". program PAY 7 ;STAY 77 «• DRYS FREE II SUPER VALUE AT HARBOR ISLAND SPA AS LOW AS ROOM RATE INCLUDES: 3 supervised meals daily — A D.A. dietician—Golf (3 times weekly-S15)- massages —Tennis (day & night)—Million dollar health spas for men & women—A.M. & P.M. snacks — Yoga and water exercise classes— Nightly Entertainment — Dancing — Shows – dingo — Movies — LOW FAT DIETS 36 P.P. dbl. occ. 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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. 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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- ference. The secretariate issued "Guidelines for Catholic - Jewish Relations" for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church. It also issued detailed directions for as- sisting the dioceses in furthering Catholic-Jewish under- standing and cooperation. It provided a variety of materials to assist the dioceses toward this goal, including position papers on Christian-Jewish problems and model programs dealing with inspections of Catholic textbooks for the pur- pose of eliminating remarks offensive to Jews. The secretariate has been holding regular meetings with major Jewish organizations — rabbinical and com- munal — to explore mutual problems and attitudes, and to encourage joint projects. An enormous range of program activities now exists between the two communities. They include training institutes for Catholic teachers to advance understanding of Judaism and Jewish-Christian relations; conferences of religious educators to evaluate and improve the ways in which each faith teaches other faiths; scholarly exchanges between-academicians and theologians on his- torical, theological and biblical studies; and lectures. 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