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VOL. 53 NO. 13
MARCH 27, 1975 - NISAN 15
Petroleum Exporters Considering Advertising
Campaign To Improve Their Image In America
TEL AVIV — U.S. Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, right, talks with Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin at Ben-Gurion Airport before returning
to Washington after the breakdown of negotiating
efforts between Israel and Egypt. Dr. Kissinger said it
was "a sad day" for both America and Israel, but
added that "the necessity which has brought about this
effort, and the need to move toward peace, cannot be
abandoned." /—
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Mideast Talks Break Down
By David Landau
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —
Premier Yitzhak Rabin said
here March 23 all the parties
involved would now want to
reassass their positions
before decisions were taken
on future moves towards a
Mideast settlement. The
Premier declined to predict
J what such "future moves
might be. He "hoped" a
"renewal of the present
efforts lies ahead of us," but
he jmplied that no
arrangements had been
made for Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger's im¬
minent return to the region.
The Premier spoke at a
news conference in
Jerusalem after seeing off
the Secretary 12 hours after
it was announced here that
the shuttle mission had been
"suspended." Rabin paid
"special tribute" to
American efforts to promote
a settlement and he ex¬
pressed his faith that
friendship between the U.S.
and Israel was "deep-
rooted" and could weather
"ups and downs."
He    confirmed    press
reports here today that he
had received last week from
,  President Ford a  letter
,   regarding the negotiations—
but refused to divulge its
.. content, explaining that such
;  correspondence was a part
of the "special relationship"
between the two states and.
could not be published. The
two evening newspapers and
the radio reported that the
letter from Ford had been
couched in extremely tough
language that had left the
Cabinet in. a state of shock.
Rabin at his press con-
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By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
The Organization of
Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC) is con¬
sidering -paying Readers
Digest to publish sym¬
pathetic articles and ac¬
cepting a "cold turkey" offer
from a New York ad¬
vertising agency to bring
OPEC's "message" to "the
American people," ac¬
cording to Business Week. In
an editorial entitled
"Blacklist Backlash in
Congress," Business Week
said that "Administration
officials fear that escalating
. anti-Arab sentiment in
Congress will make new
trouble for legislation
dealing with trade or foreign
investment in the1 United
States." The magazine
pointed out that "amend¬
ments are sprouting to block
commercial deals with
countries that participate
against U.S. companies with
Jewish interests." One top
Senate aide is quoted in the
Business Week editorial as
saying that "people are
really upset" over the
blacklist. "Unless the Arabs
renounce the blacklist,
pressure for Congressional
reprisal may , grow
irresistable" although
"State and Treasury
.Department officials argue
the best way to handle the
problem is through quiet
diplomacy."
In its news article on
OPEC seeking to improve its
image in America, Business
Week reported in its March
24 issue that an OPEC report
it obtained showed that three
editorial and advertising
representatives from
Readers Digest met OPEC
officials in Vienna Jan. 17 to
discuss the campaign.
"'They told chief M.O.
Feyide, the oil ■ group's
Secretary General; who is
from Nigeria," the
magazine said, that "a
suitable program would cost
anywhere from $1.87 million
to $4.58 million, depending
on the length of -the. articles
and the number of in¬
sertions." In New York,
according to Business Week,
the managing editor. of
Readers Digest, Edward T.
Thompson, said that the
"articles" mentioned in the
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Proposed Legislation Would Provide Civil
And Criminal Penalties For Boycotters
Disclose Failure
Win Release Of
By Yitzhak Rabi
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A
team of prominent
American attorneys and law
professors, headed by
Telford Taylor, a law
professor at Columbia
University Law School, has'
been trying to obtain the.
release of Jewish and other
prisoners in the Soviet Union
through the use of Russian
judicial procedures and
laws, - but the Soviet
authorities were found
"unresponsible to their own
laws." The secret efforts of
the American team during
the last year were disclosed
here March 18 at a press
conference in the New York
Bar Association building.
Taylor, who was chief U.S.
prosecutor at the war crimes
trials in Nuremberg, said
that after months without
0f Effort To
Soviet POC's
any response on the part of
the Soviets to charges by the
American attorneys the
team is discarding secrecy
and taking the case to the.
"court of world opinion."
According to Taylor, the
group aimed at proving to
the Soviets that "the validity
of the legal procedure" and
Soviet criminal laws were
violated when' -the Jewish
prisoners were tried, and
that the conditions in which'
those prisoners are held are
also illegal according to
Soviet law. The team is
representing the relatives of
18 Jewish and two non-
Jewish "Prisoners of Con¬
science." The two non-Jews
were defendants in the first
Leningrad trial in Dec. 1970,
which involved Soviet Jews
who allegedly planned to
escape   to   Israel.   Taylor
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WASHINGTON (WNS) —
Rep. Peter W. Rodino (D.
NY) and Rep. Elizabeth
Holtzman   (D.   NY)   have
' introduced a bill that would
impose criminal and civil
penalties on American
participants in the Arab
boycott and those who
initiate them. Rodino, who is
chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, said
. the.,legislation-4s. ('intended..
to preserve the con¬
stitutional rights of all
Americans to be free of
racial and religious
discrimination." The bill
would make a company
liable up to $1 million in fines
and its officials subject to
imprisonment and fines up
to $100,000 for any company
effort to organize an illegal
r boycott. Any company that
cooperated with or par¬
ticipated in an illegal boycott
would be liable to $500,000 in
fines and its officers to
$50,000 in fines. In addition,
any person or company hurt
by an illegal boycott could
bring federal court action for
treble damages against the
company instigating the
boycott. '
Earlier Deputy Secretary
of State Robert S. Ingersoll
said that most of the
legislation being proposed in
Congress to combat the Arab
boycott go "beyond what is
necessary to safeguard our
national     interests."
Ingersoll told the Southern
Council in Atlanta that "We
are opposed to legislative
initiatives that would make
it more difficult for other
nations to invest responsibly
in the United States." He
said proposals such as the
bill introduces by Sen.
Harrison Williams,, Jr. (D.
N.J.) " to grant the-
President authority to
screen \£md„block, at his
discretion, any investment
leading to foreign control of
more than five percent of a
U.S. company could well
discourage investments we
find desirable,"
The Williams Bill would
also require disclosure-and
authentic control of foreign
investment in U.S. com¬
panies and would allow the
President to prohibit foreign
investments in an American
company when he deemed it
against the national
security. Williams also has
introduced an amendment to
the bill to prevent'-foreign
investors who participated
in a boycott against a U.S.
firm from buying a
significant interest .in any
American company. In the
House,    Rep.    Jonathan
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Federation Sabbath To Be
Observed By Synagogues
Federation Sabbath will be
observed by the synagogues
of Columbus, it was an¬
nounced by Dr.- Jerome D.
Folkman, Chairman of the
Rabbinical Advisory
Committee for the 1975
United Jewish Fund Cam¬
paign. Most Columbus
congregations will observe
.Federation Sabbath, on
either Friday or Saturday,
March 28 or 29th, but some
will hold it at a later date due
to other commitments. "The
purpose of Federation
Sabbath is to share with the
members       of        each
congregation the activities
and concerns of the
Columbus Jewish
Federation and its United
Jewish Fund Campaign,"
said Dr. Folkman, "and this
has been a traditional way of
reaching the congregational
membership."
At Tifereth Israel
Congregation, on Friday
evening March 28, the
Federation Sabbath address
will be given by Donald
Katz, a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Columbus
Jewish Federation and a life-
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Arabs Discover Buck Is Mightier Than The Bomb
By William Saphire
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
In 1973, or thereabouts, the
. Arabs, discovering that the
- buck is mightier than the
§, bomb,  embarked  on  an
excursion into economic
imperialism that previously
H had been the prerogative of
| only the more enlightened
and advanced nations of the
world. The- colonized have
now become the colonizers,
remarked Israel's former
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
recently, referring to the
new topsy-turvy jux¬
taposition of haves and have-
nots that emerged after the
Yom Kippur War and the
Arab oil embargo.
The "haves", are the
nations, principally Arab,
which by sheerest chance sit
atop the largest known oil
reserves in the world,
located in the Middle East.
The "have-nots" in the
present circumstances are
any other nation mat has a
wheel to turn or a plane to fly
— but principally the highly
industrialized nations of
Western Europe, Japan and
the United States. The im¬
balance was created by the
four-fold increase in the
price of a barrel of oil, an
arbitrary and artificial hike
having nothing to do with the.
classic laws of supply and
demand.
This was accomplished,
some say, by a strategy
more psychological than
economic, The Arab oil
embargo . of October -
November 1973 gave the
comfortable Western world
a taste of panic and the
words "energy crisis" en¬
tered the vocabulary of
everyone, from Presidents
of the United States to.
Sunday motorists.   Once
established, the quadrupled
price of oil remains and may
even go higher, unless and
until alternative energy
sources are developed, a
very long-term process.
These factors are the
cutting edge of the new
economic imperialism. On
Feb, 9, the Washington Post
headlined: "U.S. Depen¬
dency on Mideast Oil is
Rising." Four days later, a
New York Times headline
informed its readers that
"Oil Nations' Cash (is)
Surging 'Into U.S." A
subhead offered the con¬
solation that "Analysts Now
Less Fearful —• Corporate
Control Not Expected To Be
a Goal." ••    .
The Federal' Energy
Administrator, -Frank G.
Zarb, was quoted ;in one
story as saying that "We
face  a  very  vulnerable
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