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Nixon joins
embassy fray

New York (JTA) — Former
President Richard Nixon believes
that moving the U.S. Embassy in Is-
rael from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem at
this time would be, in the long run, a
disservice to Israel and the chances of
Middle East peace.
In a letter published in the New
• York Times on Tuesday, Nixon
stressed that he is "deeply committed
'to the security of Israel, as demon-

LiTongressional debate
has presented the view
that moving the embassy
is pro-Israel and not
moving the embassy is
anti-Israel. This puts the
"issue upside down."

,_.strated by my action in providing the
massive airlift to Israel during the
1973 war and the alert to our forces
which prevented the Soviet Union
from intervening in that war."
He added, "It is because I am
committed to Israel's security that I
am opposed to the proposal to move

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our embassy. Such 'a move would npt
contribute one iota to Israel's secu-
rity. On the contrary, it would
jeopardize it," Nixon wrote.
He observed that the United
States "is' the only major nation
which can play a positive role in
building a structure of peace in the
Mideast" and that "Israel cannot
have peace if it continues to be sur-
rounded by implacable enemies . . . It
is better for the United States to be a
friend of Israel's neighbors and
potential griemies than to leave a
vacuum which an avowed enemy of
Israel — the Soviet Union — is
thirsty to fill."
Asserting that the U.S. ability to
influence Israel's neighbors "is at a
low point, in part' because of the
tragic events in Lebanon;" Nixon
argued that "if the United States
moves its embassy to Jerusalem, the
situation would -be dangerously
exacerbated, and the United States
would lose whatever influence it has
to play a constructive role in the
area."
Noting that Congress will soon
make a decision on the proposed

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Still on fire

Michigan record is topped
at banks'. Israel Bond dinner

More than $11.3 million in Israel
Bond sales, representing the most
productive Michigan state event in
the 33-year history of the Bond
Organization, was announced at an
Israel Bond dinner of tribute to Louis
G. Allen, deputy chairman of the
board of Manufacturers Bank and
president of its holding compariy,
Manufacturers National Corp.
The dinner, held last week at
the Westin Hotel, and sponsored by
Manufacturers, saw Allen presented
with the Peace Medal, the State of
Israel's highest civilian award, in
recognition of his "outstanding sup-
port of Israel's economic development
as a pathway to peace and progress."

JUNE 1, 1984

SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY

Presentation of the-Peace Medal
was made by Dov Schmora1k, Israel's
ambassador to Argentina.
David B. Hermelin, national
campaign chairman of the Israel
Bond Organization, paid tribute to
Allen, citing his strong identification
and support of the Israel Bond pro-
gram, which provides a major share
of Israel's development capital.
Other participants in the dinner
program included Gerald V. Mac-
Donald, president of Manufacturers
Bank of Detroit, who served as
dinner chairman; D. Dan Kahn, Met-
ropolitan Detroit Israel Bonds gen-
eral chairman; and Harold Beznos,
Detroit Bonds associate chairman.

Elie Wiesel links
Jewry's fiery past, present

BY ALAN HITSKY

News Editor

,

You are not prepared for this
man sitting before you. Elie Wiesel is
soft-spoken, articulate, mannerly,
urbane and personally, genuinely in-
terested in what you have to say.
And yet the fire burns inside. It
could be warm and mellow, with
flickering, shadowy images to bring
you comfort. But it can also be
frightening, overpowering, all-
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encompassing, especially as Wiese!
makes his many allusions to the fires
of the 1940s.
Fifteen minutes before his
scheduled speech (talk, reading,
story-telling session) at Adat Shalom
Synagogue last week before a large
audience, Elie Wiesel speaks of many
things . . .

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