Sen. Javits the First of 30 Speakers at 30th Book Fair
More than 50 Metropolitan Detroit Jewish organizations, including many of
the local congregations, their sisterhoods, men's clubs and other affiliated groups,
are co-sponsoring with the Jewish Community Center the annual Jewish Book
Fair.
Marking the 30th anniversary of the Book Fairs, 30 prominent authors have
been enlisted as participating speakers in the 10 days of events scheduled to start
this Saturday evening.
The speaker for Saturday night's opening event, at 8 p.m., will be former U.S.
Senator Jacob Javits.
is the story of a public life in the making. It begins on Manhattan's Lower
East Side where young Jacob Javits, the son of immigrant parents, grew
up. It climaxes with his bid for a fifth term as the senior Senator from New
York.
Javits was first elected to the Senate in 1956 after serving in the House of
Representatives and as attorney general for the state of New York.
Most of the Book Fair events are free and open to the public. There is a charge
for luncheons and dinners under the auspices of the co-sponsoring organizations
as well as the English-Yiddish *Theater Evening Nov. 21 and the children's
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Sen. Javits' new book, "Javits: The Autobiography of a Public Man,"
Jerusalem
the Golden:
Jill and Leon Uris'
'Song of Songs'
Bnai Brith's
Historic Background
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Reagan Endorsement of Fand
Is Totally Rejected by Israelis
U.S. Role in Saudis'
Peace Plan Assailed
Credibility accorded the revived Saudi Arabian pro-
posal which is now generally seen as a false interpretation
of "peace" met with severe condemnation, and President
Reagan's partial endorsement of the plan is accumulating
rejection.
The Wall Street Journal, in its leading editorial on
Wednesday, entitled "Eight-Pointed Confusion," declared:
President Reagan has lately tried to reassure Is-
rael and the world that the Camp David process lives,
but we suspect U.S. credibility has suffered some
permanent damage-from the Sate Department's mud-
dled handling of Saudi Arabia's eight-point peace
plan. It seems to be another one of those increasingly
troublesome cases of people in this Administration
sounding off about policy before there is a policy.
In this case, the initial sounding off at State gave
importance to a Saudi plan that in fact contained nothing
new, and certainly very little that the U.S. would be wise to
support. It called, in essence, for a PLO state with its capital
in East Jerusalem. And as usual, it was ambiguous on
whether there would be any Arab recognition of Israel's
right to exist.
But what with the AWACS deal cooking, and a big
push to make the Saudis look like great statesmen, State
exhibited the plan as some new Magna Carta. Before you
could say Yasir Arafat, every Arabist in Europe had re-
sponded to what they saw as a new U.S. tack. Britain's Lord
Carrington grabbed a plane for Riyadh and soon Secretary
Haig found himself having to chastise the foreign secretary
for saying the same things some of Mr. Haig's underlings
had just said.
Over this last weekend, the PLO and the Saudis turned
up the heat. A report from Beirut said that Mr. Arafat, on
his own recent visit to Riyadh, had carried a message from
Moscow promising Soviet support for the peace plan in
Israeli rejections of the proposed Saudi plans, interpreted as peace gestures, continue to mount. There
is total rejection of the suggestions that they are either "new" or imply recognition of Israel, in spite of the
partial endorsement of the Fand proposal by President Reagan.
Prime Minister Menahem Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon issued separate warnings this
week aimed against what they perceive to be mounting pressure from the West for Israeli concessions, a tilt
toward Saudi Arabia by the European Economic Community (EEC) countries and "confused" American
policy toward the Saudi peace plan and the autonomy talks with Egypt.
Begin insisted that Israel has already reached the absolute limit of its political concessions
and there would be no more. He said that Israel has already given up vital strategic positions in
Sinai. On the eastern front, Begin declared, autonomy was the maximum concession Israel was
willing to make.
He claimed that Israel was already under pressure to negotiate on the basis of the eight-point plan
enunicated by Crown Prince Fand of Saudi Arabia and the 1980 Venice declaration by the EEC foreign
ministers. Israel will not surrender to these pressures, Begin said.
Sharon warned that Israel would give U.S. special envoy Philip Habib just one more chance to halt
terrorist breaches of the cease-fire in Lebanon and to get Syria to remove the SAM-6 anti-aircraft missiles
it has deployed in that country. He said unless this was done, Israel would be forced to take "other action."
Sharon complained about "confused announcements" coming from Washington about the Fand peace
plan and the peace talks with Egypt. "The voice of Europe is not encouraging to us and it is not clear what is
the real American policy," he said. He said that henceforth, Israel would have to consider Saudi Arabia as
one of the "confrontation states" against Israel and against Middle East peace.
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned,
"We have reached, even passed, the limits of our
concessions, both in the south," a reference to
the Sinai, "and in our proposal for full autonomy
for the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. The reac-
tion of the West and its present attitude toward
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Holocaust
the oil-producing states may cause us to reassess
Memorial Center of Detroit will take place 1:30 p.m.
our attitude. We cannot afford to take risks that
Dec. 6 at the Jewish Community Center.
are met only with demands for more risks."
Henry Dorfman, chairman of the HMC's capital
He asserted that the West had made "a major
and endowment campaign, made the announcement
blunder in considering Saudi Arabia a main bulwark
that guest speaker will be Ernest W. Michel, execu-
for
strategic
deployment in this region. The Saudi
tive vice president of the United Jewish Appeal of
Greater New York and chairman of this year's World
regime is a broken reed which cannot be relied on."
Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Israel.
He declared that the Saudis were now saying
Dorfman said over $1 million has been raised to
openly that the AWACS reconnaissance planes sold
date for construction of the facility adjacent to the
to them by the Reagan Administration were needed
Holocaust Center
Construction Set
JCC. He said additional contributions still are being
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Drachler Resigns JWF Post
Sol Drachler, executive director of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, is concluding more than 25 years of service to
Federation with his resignation next May 31.
' The announcement was made at the Nov. 5 Federation
Board of Governors meeting.
Drachler's intention to leave to pursue other
interests was announced by Federation President
Avern L. Cohn. At the same time, in recognition of his
many contributions to Federation and the organized
Jewish community, the board unanimously voted to
name Drachler executive vice president of Federa-
tion.
In a letter to Judge Cohn, Drachler said, "It is difficult
to separate oneself from this work and from colleagues and
SOL DRACHLER
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Citrin Elected CJF President
By Jewish News Special Correspondent
ST. LOUIS — Martin Citrin, former president of the
Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, was elected
president of the Council of Jewish Federations at its 50th
annual General Assembly in session here this week.
Citrin is the second Detroiter to be elevated to this
highest Jewish communal position in the U.S. Max M.
Fisher was the first, 12 years ago.
Citrin is a member of the CJF board and executive
committee and is a past CJF vice president. Since 1979, he
has served as chairman of the CJF campaign planning
advisory committee, and is the 1981 chairman of the
CJF - UJA campaign planning task force. He participated in
the CJF review committee, which supervised the com-
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MARTIN CITRIN