BACKGROUND
Who's taking care
of your loved one
NJCRAC Proposal Rocks
Soviet Jewry Movement
JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent
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he National Jewish
Community Relations
Advisory Council
(NJCRAC)
met
in
Washington last week, and its
proposal urging a waiver of
the Jackson-Vanik amend-
ment has reopened deep
wounds in the Soviet Jewry
movement.
The Jackson-Vanik amend-
ment tiesfavorable trade ar-
rangements with the Soviet
Union to improvements in
that country's emigration
policy.
The National Conference on
Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) has been
urging a go-slow approach to
a waiver. "What we are say-
ing is that we are in an
"assessment mode: " said
Shoshana Cardin, NCSJ
chairman. "Our goal is to ful-
ly determine whether the
changes that have taken
place in the Soviet Union will
be codified; so far they have
not:'
More to the point, NCSJ
planners were hoping to pro-
duce a unified response to
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Jackson-Vanik by the
mainstream Jewish
organizations.
But after a spirited debate,
NJCRAC approved a state-
ment urging a waiver,
although the proposal also in-
cluded language deferring
public announcement of the
decision until after NCSJ had
made its own decision on
Jackson-Vanik.
"This was disingenuous,"
said one angry Soviet Jewry
activist. "Everybody knew
there were reporters present;
everybody knew this would
become a matter of public
record as soon as the vote was
taken."
Cardin referred to a "well
orchestrated design on the
floor" of the convention, and
suggested that NJCRAC
leaders did not follow through
on the earlier consensus
agreements in which they
had participated.
What it does is send a mix-
ed message from the Jewish
community," she said. "What
it will do is confuse our own
government and the Soviet
government."
One prominent Soviet
Jewry activist here put it in
less diplomatic terms. "I
think the group was swayed
by a kind of euphoria caused
by the improvement in the
numbers," he said. "Euphoria
is the worst possible thing for
us to get caught up in now."
Unsung Hero
Of Holocaust
To Be Honored
Rep. Chuck Schumer, (D-
N.Y.), is getting set to honor
an unsung hero of the
Holocaust.
Recently, Schumer's office
became aware of the wartime
efforts of George Mandel-
Mantello, a Salvadoran who
spent much of World War 11
serving in a diplomatic post
in Switzerland. .
After learning of the Nazi
death camps in 1943,
Mantello issued false
Salvadoran citizenship papers
to up to 15,000 Jews. And the
Central American diplomat
purchased a large number of
Swiss timepieces and smuggl-
ed them to the Allies, who
needed them for the construc-
tion of navigational devices.
This week, Schumer was ex-
pected to introduce a resolu-
tion honoring Mantello with
the Congressional Gold
Medal. Mantello, 90, is ex-
pected to travel to Brooklyn
soon to accept the award.
Gary Hart
May Address
Arab Group
The American-Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee
has an interesting lineup for
its convention here in April.
Currently, the group is
planning to feature an ap-
pearance by Ibraham Souss,
the Palestine Liberation
Organization's representative
in Paris and author of "Letter
to a Jewish Friend."
But the State Department
has not indicated whether
Souss will be granted a visa.
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