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 (Continued on Page 6) 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 THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Book Reviews, Pages 2, 72 of Jewish Events JAVITS 30th Annual Jewish Book Fair Israel's Time for Coalition King Hussein's Russian Bear Hugs Editorials, Page 4 Copyright c The Jewish News Publ.shing CO VOL. LXXX, No. 11 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $15 Per Year: This Issue 35' November 13, 1981 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 (Continued on Page 12) (Continued on Page 14) 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 (Continued on Page 14) (Continued on Page 5) 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- (Continued on Page 14) MARTIN CITRIN