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MEET YOUR LEADER: Robert E. Loup, the newly-
elected national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal is a
foremost Jewish leader in his home community of Denver
and an outstanding leader of national Jewish organiza-
tions, including the Council of Jewish Federations.
A very amiable and deep-thinking person, Loup is a
strong believer in Jewish unity. His philosophical approach
is that the different groupings which exist in American
Jewry are like flowers of different colors making up to-
gether a colorful bouquet — diversity within unity. To him -
the UJA slogan, "We Are One," is not merely a fund-raisin,
slogan but a call for cementing Yiddishkeit.
He deeply believes that the UJA plays a very impor-
tant role not only in raising funds for humanitarian needs
in Israel and for all needy Jewish communities overseas,
but that it also serves to awaken "dos pintele yid" — the
spark ofJewishness — among elements in American Jewry
who have been indifferent to Judaism and to traditional
Jewish obligations.
PROUD OF JDC: Loup is very impressed with the
activities of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Com-
mittee — one of the two major partners in the UJA fund-
raising, the other being the Jewish Agency — which he had
observed during a visit last month to countries overseas
where the JDC conducts its relief operations. Among other
places, he also visited a number of towns in Romania,
including the town where his parents are buried.
DEDICATED TO ISRAEL: Loup starts his term of
office as national chairman of UJA at a time when the
Jewish Agency — the recipient of the UJA funds for
humanitarian work in Israel = is facing a $630 million
debt, with huge debt-service charges which have been con-
stantly growing and crippling the power of the Agency to
maintain its life-building programs.
Jewish Agency leaders have now decided to eliminate
the $630 million debt totally by the end of this decade.
There will be no more borrowing beginning with 1983.
Jewish Agency assets will be sold to meet the budget and
the gradual reduction of the debt. The proposed Jewish
Agency budget for 1983 has been drastically cut to $385
million. All this increases the obligation of the UJA to help
the Jewish Agency meet its minimum needs and to assist in
the paying off of the accumulated debts.
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tion hi Central America.
Elliott Abrams, assistant
secretary of state for human
rights and humanitarian af-
fairs, said the PLO was
"providing both arms and
training to guerilla forces in
El Salvador, Guatemala
and perhaps Honduras as
well."
Abrams, addressing a
meeting of the national
board of trustees of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, noted that
PLO chairman Yasir Arafat
was one of the 'first foreign
leaders invited to
Nicaragua after the San-
dinista regime came to
power there.
He told the 175 people
at the board meeting:
"PLO military camps in
Lebanon and Libya have
trained large numbers of
Communist guerillz
from Central American
countries, and are still
doing so. PLO arms are
also being smuggled into
several Central Ameri-
can countries which
revolutionary forces are
seeking to overthrow.
"Communist leaders in
those countries are con-
stantly visiting Lebanon for
meetings with Arafat and
other PLO chieftans. They
are part of the same ideolog-
ical camp — and proudly
Proclaim it."