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VOL. 51 NO. 33
AUGUST 16, 1S73 - AV 18
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NEW YORK (WNS) — During his testimony before ,
the Senate Watergate Committee, former acting FBI
director L. Patrick Gray III spoke of having
"authorized a surreptitious entry on one occasion
solely to protect the lives of innocent Jewish men,
women and children and I would do it again." Gray
said the act was "in the course of national security."
Efforts to find out what Gray was talking about have
been unsuccessful.
NEW YORK (WNS) —.Sen. Jacob K. Javits has
announced two federal grants totaling almost $500,000
to help the Jewish poor in New York City. One grant of
$300,000 will provide legal services for the poor in the
Brooklyn Jewish community. It will be administered
by the Jewish Urban Legal Service Corp and will be
mainly used for legal help for Jews discriminated
against because they are observant. The other grant of
$198,542 will go to the Hasidic Corp. for Urban Con¬
cerns to coordinate and set up programs for the poor.
David Farber, director of the Hasidic Corp., said that
his organization is dividing the funds to give $40,000 to
the Metropolitan Council of Jewish Poor; $30,000 to the
United Lubavitcher Synagogue," and $32,000 to the
United Talmudical Academy.
ADL, AJC Condemn "Superstar"
Mideast Politics Vs. Energy Crisis Need For
Oil Creating Economic, Diplomatic Tightrope
NEW YORK (JTA)-Two
national Jewish organiza¬
tions—the Anti Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith and
the American Jewish
Committee — condemned
Aug. 8 the film "Jesus Christ
Superstar" which opened
here in three theaters. It is
'also being shown in 55 other
cities across the country.
Benjamin R. Epstein,
national director of the ADL,
declared in a statement that
the movie's "sharp and vivid
emphasis on a Jewish mob's
demand to kill Jesus can
feed into the kind of
disparagement of Jews and
Judaism which has always
nurutred anti-Jewish
prejudices and bigotry."
Epstein said that "if people
were emotionally healthy
and free from prejudices,
Passion Plays — including
- the fantasy 'Jesus Christ
Superstar' would not kindle.
Jewish apprehensions." He
noted that a University of
California study found that
the deicide charge against
- Jews is a root cause of anti-
Semitism. Noting that before
the film went into production
in 1972, .the ADL had sent a
14-page memorandum to
producer Norman Jewison
urging sensitivity on the part
of those responsible for the
script, casting and directing,
Epstein said "the flaws in
the film are particularly
regrettable in the light of the
fact that they could have
been so easily avoided." He
declared that the film's
"exciting rock format and
beautiful photography will
undoubtedly attract large
numbers of impressionable
young people." He said he
was deeply concerned about
the impact on them. Epstein
scored the casting which
made Jesus a blond, Judas a
Black, and the priests and
rabbis as dark-haired,
forboding and garbed in
black. Finally he stressed
that "Christian leaders
themselves have repeatedly
condemned as reprehensible
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By Murray Zuckoff .
JTA News Editor
NEW YORK, (JTA) - Oil
is America's most important
business in the Middle East,
the Persian Gulf and the
Arabian Peninsula. Now the
government and private oil
firms, caught in the crunch
of a so-called energy crisis at
home and demands by Arab
governments that the U.S.
reverse its Mideast policy
regarding Israel, are
walking an' economic and
diplomatic tightrope. The
Administration is under
growing pressure by the
powerful oil cartels through
their lobby in Washington to
protect their investments
and economic future in the
oil areas. The Arab govern¬
ments are vowing to curtail
the oil flow and threaten to
' nationalize and confiscate
the billons of dollars worth of
equipment and capital. But
the Administration also feels
a deep moral obligation to
support Israel as the
democratic oasis in a desert
of feudal sheikdoms.
However, two, events in as
many weeks indicate once
again that moral obligations
and economic necessity do
not always coincide in the
world of realpolitik. The first
event was a letter issued by
Standard Oil of California.
The second was a television
interview with Assistant
Secretary for Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs,
Joseph J. Sisco.' The first
created a storm. The second
one passed unnoticed,
almost. On July 26, SOCAL
sent a slick letter to its 40,000
employees and 262,000
stockholders noting that the.
U.S. is not producing enough
oil and gas to meet the
overall demands for these
energy resources. This, the
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letter stated, raises a 3key co
question," namely, "Fjjbm °
where is all this oir to _
come?" Not one to waste too P'
much time, Otto N. Miller, ^
chairman of the board of
SOCAL, came right to the "
point and stuck to it for the
remaining  350-word  letter.
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SOCAL Explains Letter To Stockholders;
Jewish Organizations Call For Boycott
LOS ANGELES, (JTA) -
Otto N. Miller, chairman of
the board of Standard Oil Co.
of California, has written a
letter explaining his view to
the Jewish Community
Relations Council of San
..Francisco. Miller .said, that
U.S. efforts to bring peace in
the Middle East should be
based on "the legitimate
interests of Israel and its
people as well as the in¬
terests of all other states in
the area." "The essential,
point of my letter," Miller
wrote'to Richard M. Kaplan,
the "Council's president,
"was     that     a     peace
Dayan Assumes Full Responsibility
For Interception Of Arab Plane
By YITZHAK SHARGIL
JTA Tel Aviv
Correspondent
TEL AVIA, (JTA) -
Something unusual was to
take place. That was the
feeling at the Israeli airbase
as the red lights were put on
and the interceptor pilots
were called for action and
the mission was explained.
The target, a Lebanese
Middle East .Airline
Caravelle, was  to  be  in-
near Haifa.
When the Caravelle
touched down a number of
army cars followed it and as
the plane stopped' the
soldiers burst into the plane
and asked in Arabic and
French that all remain
seated quietly. The men
were first taken down and
then the women and
children. It was almost a red
carpet treatment for the
women and children as
women soldiers and women
A feeling of - disap¬
pointment engulfed the
Israelis. The screening
ended and the passengers
were taken back to the
plane,' the crew was asked if
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agreement fair and
equitable to all states in the
area, consistent with their
independence and sovereign
intergrity, is essential to the
United States. Meanwhile,
following its strong telegram
of protest to the chairman of
Standard Oil Co., calling
upon him to rescind his call
to the 'company's
stockholders to back the
Arab cause, the American
Zionist Federation on Aug. 7
submitted a memorandum
to Jewish and Zionist
community leaders across
the nation calling for further
"immediate action." This
memorandum was issued
before Miller of SOCAL sent
his explanation.
In a Guideline sent to 3300
such local leaders, Rabbi
Israel Miller, president of
the AZF, asked these leaders
to "make known your strong
views in this situation by
writing to the chairman of
Standard Oil" and voiding
and returning their Chevron
Credit cards to SOCAL. He
further requested them
"stimulate as many persons
as you can to take similar
action," and urged
stockholders of Standard Oil
to act similarly. Rabbi
Miller said that it is the view
of the AZF that unless
Standard Oil meets with
strong public resistance to
its action, other oil com¬
panies may succumb to Arab
pressures to follow SOCAL's
lead. Douglas Ring, a
businessman, announced on
Aug. 7 the formation of a
Coalition to Boycott Stan¬
dard Oil of California. He
said he was supported by
Rabbi Max Nussbaum,
former president of. the
Zionist Organization of
America, and Rabbi Meyer
Heller, head of the Board of
Rabbis for Los Angeles.
Ring said the SOCAL letter
had aroused the Jewish
community more than any
incident since the 1967 Six-
Day War. The policy com¬
mittee of the Jewish War
Veterans on Aug. 7
recommended that its
membership and. friends
institute an immediate
boycott of the products of
Standard Oil of California
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JWV Head Says Watergate Culminates
Decade Of U.S. Moral Delinquency
tercepted and brought to an   officers, all speaking French
Israeli airbase
As the Israeli interceptors
took off, the Carvelle made,
its final preparations to
leave for the rather short
trip to Baghdad'. The
Caravelle became airborne
and the Israeli interceptors
closed in at rather low
levels. The Instruction was
Clear: Follow us. The pilot of
the Caravelle, a Palestinian,
followed the Israeli in¬
terceptors. It was not a long
flight and the plane was
brought to what the' pilot
later said was somewhere
or Arabic, gave them
refreshments and sweets.
Meanwhile Israeli officers
inspected' the male
passengers. One by one the'
screening was carried out.
Even the Iraqi Minister of
Planning and the Iraqi
Ambassador to Qatar were
passed quickly. It was not
them. The Iraqi VIP's
seemed somewhat disap¬
pointed that their status
made no impression on the
Israelis. The Israelis were
looking for terrorists, but
they-were not there.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.,
(JTA) — The national
commander of the Jewish
War Veterans termed the
Watergate episode the
culmination, of a decade of
moral .delinquency in the
United States in his opening
statement on Aug. 8 at the
78th annual national con¬
vention of the JWV. here.
Commander Norman Tilles
of Providence, Rhode Island]
predicted that Watergate
could mark the close of one
of the sorriest chapters in
American history. "Stret¬
ching back for at least a
decade the American people
have been lied to, betrayed,
promoted and generally
conned by a parade of public
officials to whom pious
words meant more than
pious deeds,',' he said.
"We-sent 50,000 boys to
their death and hundreds of
thousands to hospitals for a
dubious war without end that
continues this very day. We
have rained bombs in
quantities unheard of in
modern warfare on- coun¬
tries still emerging into the
age of technology ■ without
political or military effect.
We have eroded the quality
of the American "dollar. We
have blundered into inflation
by ignorance and greed and
literally destroyed oun
ability to provide inex
pensive food for th<
American table. We havi
disgraced''our children b;
our moral laxity am
throttled -them . when the.
dared to speak out agains
the excesses of ,ou
ignorance." Tilles state'
that'lt is apparent now tha
"our . young people wer
certainly right  about  ot
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