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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1976 DALLAS PAGE 2
Reactions To The Debate:
Members of Congress .
Angered and Amazed j
BY JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) - President
Ford’s assertions on the Arab boycott
brought swift promises of action from the
White House and the U.S. Department of
Commerce and bitter denunciations of him
from angered and amazed Congressional
proponents of tough anti-boycott legisla-
tion. The critics described Ford’s claims on
anti-boycott measures as ’incredible,”
“astounding” and “a gross distortion of the
truth.” The White House disclosed it would
issue a statement and an “Executive
Order” in the wake of the President’s
Statement that he was going to have the
Department “disclose those companies'
that have participated in the Arab
boycott.” The president said, “This is
something we can do. The Congress failed
to do it and we intend to do it.” A
Commerce Department spokesman,
however, advised the media that it will not
release any names of companies which
have aided in the Arab boycott but that
the Department at a later date will “make .
public boycott reports that we receive in
the future and these reports will have
information as to whether the business is
complying with the boycott request.”
Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal (D. NY), who
with Rep. Jonathan Bingham (D.NY) had
co-authored tough anti-boycott measures
in the still-born Export Administration
Act, charged that Ford’s statement about
the act was “a gross distortion of the
truth.” Rosenthal said that, “the President
and his Administration fought with every
weapon they have to oppose anti-boycott
legislation, including the provisions in the
tax bill which he is now trying to take
credit for.” “An incredible blunder,” was
the way the President’s anti-boycott
remarks were described by Rep. John
Moss (D.Cal.), chairman of the House
Subcommittee on Oversight that caused a
subpoena to be issued against former
Commerce Secretary Rogers Morton for
refusing to disclose to Congress the names
of companies in the boycott. Moss declared
that Ford “used” Morton to lock the
subcommitte from getting Arab boycott
reports until a subpoena was issued for
him. A joint statement by Sen. William
Proxmire (D.Wis.), chairman of the Senate
Banking Committee, which handled the
Export Administration Act legislation, and
Sen. Harrison Williams (D.NJ), a co-author
of the anti-boycott provision in the
measure, charged Ford “seriously misled
the American people” when he “tried to
claim” that he backed measures to curb
the Arab boycott. The two Senators said
that “the disclosure of compliance will be
of little comfort to Israel as long as the
boycott continues. It is time to break the
boycott by strong legislation.” They also
said that “the White House language”
proposed by the Administration for the
export act was “rejected by the major
American Jewish organizations as being
clearly unresponsive to the problem.” The
White House language, they said, was “a
transparent public relations effort to avoid
taking blame for killing the boycott bill.”
Ford also was criticized at the Capitol on
his claims about the Egyptian-Israeli
agreement being put in the public domain
and on foreign aid to Israel. Sen. Clifford
Case [R.NJ], was recalled as the leader in
the drive to have the Sinai agreements
made available to the Congress and that it
was Sen. Frank Church (D.Idaho) who
moved to have them declassified for public
knowledge. It also was recalled that 76
Senators wrote Ford last May to get “a
reluctant President” to provide foreign aid
for Israel during the time the Administra-
tion was engaged in a “reassessment” of
its Mideast policy. Congressmen also
noted the President’s fight against
“transitional quarter” funding for Israel in
the foreign aid appropriations between
the fiscal years 1976 and 1977. A
compromise of $275 million for Israel was
achieved after Congress had recom-
mended $550 million and Ford favored no
funds at all.
Jewish Groups Comment
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Two major American Jew-
ish organizations com-
mented Oct. 7 on Ford-
Carter’s debate on U.S.
foreign policy and defense.
Bertram H. Gold, execu-
tive vice-president of the
American Jewish Com-
mittee, said the AJCom-
mittee is “heartened by
the firm position of both
candidates in the Presi-
dential debate in opposi-
tion to the Arab boycott of
American businesses that
trade with Israel or that
deal with companies
engaged in such trade.”
But Seymour Graubard,
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national chairman of the
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defama-
tion League, said that
President Ford’s comment
regarding Administration
efforts to get strong and
effective anti-boycott
legislation through the
Congress “is not in accord
with the facts” because
“Administration spokes-
men have consistently
opposed adoption of
effective anti-boycott
legislation. We are also
encouraged by President
Ford’s statement that the
Administration believes
anti-boycott legislation
should be adopted — a
stand that seems to signal j
a welcome change of
position on the part of the
Administration on this
issue.” Graubard, in his ;
statement, however,
listed top Administration
leaders who, he said,
publicly adopted positions ;
opposed to anti-boycott
legislation. Among them
were Secretary of Com-
merce Elliott Richardson, !
Assistant Secretary of
State for Congressional
Relations Robert J.
McCioskey and Treasury ;
Secretary William E.
Simon.
Syria Pounds
Palestinians
In Lebanon
Syria launched ferocious
attacks all over its Leban-
ese fronts against Pales-
tinians early this week.
The stepped-up reprisals
were in retaliation for the
PLO terrorist raids Monday
on Syrian embassies in Italy
and Pakistan.
Gunmen carrying gren-
ades and submachine guns
terrorized the Rome
embassy and shot and
wounded a diplomat. They
held five hostages before
surrendering to police.
In what was believed to
have been a coordinated
raid, three terrorists also
attacked the Syrian em-
bassy at Islamabad, Pakis-
tan and the ambassador’s
residence. Police intercept-
ed them during the raid.
One unconfirmed report
said that one raider was
killed and the other two
were wounded. No one was
injured in the raid at
Ambassador Mohammed
Shahir Dreli’s home in
which a grenade blasted
one of the rooms.
Purpose of the raids was
to take hostages, especially
Ambassador Dreli in ex-
change for more than 100
Palestinian terrorists who
are now in Syrian jails.
A PLO spokesman in
Beirut denied complicity
in the raids.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese
conflict rages with Syria
pushing the Palestinians
into a small area of
Western Lebanon. Late
reports from Lebanon said
the Syrians were hammer-
ing the Palestinians.
A report from Rome
quoted the leader of the
“Black June” PLO group
that staged the raid as
saying his organization
wanted to focus world
attention on the “betrayal
of the Syrian government
and the plot of the Arab
states against the Palestin-
ian people.”
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While Back In The United States:
Syria Seeks Expulsion
Of Israel From UN
Jewish Federation Re-Elects S. Pearle
At the 65th Annual
Meeting of the Jewish
Federation of Greater
Dallas, Stanley C. Pearle,
O.D., was re-elected Presi-
dent. Other Federation
officers elected were
Morris Newberger, Everett
Rosenberg, Sam Wolfson,
Vice Presidents; Ann
Sikora, Secretary and Mil-
ton P. Levj, Jr., Treasurer.
Acting Director of the
Jewish Federation is Ziona
Bala ban.
Elected Board members
were: Robert Beer, Harold
Berman, Michael Block, Dr.
Howard Cohen, Dr. Martin
Cohen, Dr. Alan Eberstein,
Joe Golman, Mrs. James
Greenstone, Irwin Gross-
man, Howard Herskowitz,
Gary Hoffman, James
Hogue, Mrs. Irvin J. Jaffe,
Mrs. Harrold Kallenberg,
Dr. Norman Kaplan, Sam
Kesner, and Harold Klein-
man.
Continued on Page 6
BY YITZHAK RABI
UNITED NATIONS
(JTA) — Syria called Oct. 6
for Israel’s expulsion from
the United Nations. Ad-
dressing the 31st General
Assembly, Syrian Ambas-
sador Mowaffak Allaf urged
that body “to act firmly and
reconsider Israel’s mem-
bership in the UN.” He
accused Israel of responsi-
bility for the stalemate in
the Middle East and
warned that as long as
Israel continues to occupy
Arab territory there would
be no peace in that region.
Allaf also said that no
settlement was possible as
long as the legitimate rights
of the Palestinians were not
fulfilled. He attacked par-
tial solutions in the Middle
East which he claimed had
proved to be a failure and
only served to perpetuate
the situation of “no war, no
peace.” He said Syria was
opposed to step-by-step
diplomacy to resolve the
conflict but would welcome
any initiative based on the
recognition of the rights of
the Palestinains and the
need for Israel’s with-
drawal from all occupied
territories. He added that
the legitimate representa-
tives of the Palestinian
people should participate in
all international peace
efforts in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, Arab diplo-
mats here expressed dis-
pleasure over British
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Crosland’s statement in his
address to the General
Assembly Oct. 5 that an
essential element in a
Middle East settlement
“will be land for the Pales-
tinians, not necessarily a
sovereign state but a place
where they will be free to
look after their own af-
fairs.” Crosland’s remarks
also evoked surprise from
some Western diplomats.
One Ambassador said they
were “similar to the Allon
plan.” Crosland, and his
spokesman told reporters
at a press conference that
the statement didn’t give
any blue-prints but was only
a possibility to meet the
Palestinians’ national
aspirations. They claimed it
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