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VOL.v53 NO. 26
JUNE 26. 1975 - TAMUZ 17
Congressional Opposition Expected To Funds
For ILO; Seek To Bar Aid For Syria
'REMEMBRANCE"
homecoming."
He said the holocaust cost
"more than the lives of six
million innocent Jewish
victims — with them went
great seats of learning,
ancient communities, great
civilizations that made
priceless contributions to
European life and the
progress of mankind."
"It is not just the land, but
the life of a people and their
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'Remembrance^ Dedicated At
si
By Bob Tenenbaum
Chronicle Special Reporter
In a solemn, often moving
ceremony, Alfred Tibor's
sculpture commemorating
the holocaust was dedicated
Sunday evening at' Agudas
Achim Synagogue.
The sculpture, entitled
"Remembrance," will be
housed in the atrium of the
new wing of the synagogue.
Leaders of the Jewish
community, government
representatives and
members of the clergy of
numerous faiths joined in the
program, which was
climaxed by the unveiling of
the bronze memorial.
U.S. Rep. Samuel L.
Devine, R-Columbus, read a
letter from President Gerald
R. Ford " in which the
President referred to the
holocaust as "the saddest
chapter in our history" and
said the deciation of the
memorial should underline
"our determination that
decency and justice remain
strong in our land, and
continue to be the deter¬
mining factors in our
relations with other
nations."
Featured speaker for the
program was Rabbi Isaac L.
Swift of Englewood, N.J.,
who said the memorial
"embodies and enshrines the
two greatest events in recent
Jewish history — one of
them traumatic, the other
joyous."
Rabbi Swift said the
sculpture symoblized "the
holocaust and the rebirth,
destruction and recon¬
struction,      exile      and
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
Strong Congressional op- '
position,  centering  in  the
Senate, was forecast June 19
against continuing payment
of    United    States    con¬
tributions - to    the    In-
ternational     Labor
Organization because of its
grant of observer status to
the  Palestine Liberation
.Organization.    Delegations
representing United States
trade   unions;   the   U.S.
government and American
employers, walked out of the
ILO annual conference  in
Geneva last week after the
United Nations specialized
agency    voted    observer
status to the PLO. In the
latest Senatorial expression
of opposition toward a UN.
agency   'extending
recognition to the PLO, Sen.
Richard S. Schweiker  (R.
Pa.) served notice he would
urge Congress to withdraw
U.S. financial support "from
the ILO for "legitimizing'-
Arab terrorists. The House
Appropriations     Sub¬
committee has approved
funds totalling nearly $30.
million for payment by the
U.S. of its 25 percent share of
the total  ILO  budget,  as
requested  by the   State
Department.
"The United States has
nothing in common with an
arm of the UN which
recognizes the PLO as a
bona fide spokesman for the
Arab people," Schweiker
said at a Jewish United Fund
of Chicago meeting. "This
intehticnal isolation of Israel
from the international
community is a grave threat
to the viability of the United
Nations itself." Senators
Schweiker, Clifford Case (R.
NJ) and Hubert Humphrey
(D. Minn.) all members of
the Senate Appropriations
Committee, were among
those instrumental in con¬
vincing the U.S. delegation
Myer Mellman
To Head 1976-
Myer Mellman has been
appointed General Cam¬
paign Chairman of the 1976
United Jewish Fund Cam¬
paign, it was announced
today by Sidney I. Blatt,
President of the Columbus
Jewish Federation. "I am
particularly pleased that
Myer Mellman has accepted
this major community
responsibility, since his
record of Jewish community
leadership is indeed an in¬
spiring one. As an active
member of the Board of
Trustees of the Federation,
as Past President .of our
largest local beneficiary
agency, the Jewish Center,
and as a man who has played
an important role in
Columbus Jewish life for
many years, Myer' will
provide the leadership this'
community needs in next
year's campaign."
. Serving with Mr. Mellman
will be,Mrs. Sidney I. Blatt
(Sally),  Chairman  of the'
Is Named
Campaign
Myer Mellman
Women's Division; George
Rosenberger, Chairman of
the Trades and Professions
Division; Jeffrey Paine,
Chairman of the Young
Men's Division; Mrs. Robert
Rothman (Fran), Chairman
of the Young Women's
Division; Miss Susan Bur:
man, Chairman of the
College Division; and Miss
Elaine Spatt,' Chairman of
the Junior Division.
to the World Health
Organization to oppose
recognition of the PLO which
the WHO did not admit. The
Senate also has blocked U.S.
support of UNESCO in
response-to its anti - Israel
actions. Congressional foes
of the PLO also are looking
into the UN Development
Fund which helps fiance the
ILO.- The U.S. contributes
about 20 percent of the
Development Fund or about
$12 million.
Long Says Israelis Should
Be Told "Facts of Life"
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
Sen. Russell B., Long (D.
La.) urging grass roots
support for President Ford
and Secretary of State Henry
A.' Kissinger in their Middle
East diplomacy, says
Israel's politicians "ought to
-tellthe facts of life" to the
people 'Of Israel and
cooperate with Kissinger.
"Other wise, somebody
could just stumble into a
world war that should have
been avoided," Long warn¬
ed. Long's remarks came
in response to a question in •
an interview on why he did
not join .76 Senators in a
letter to President Ford
urging continued assistance
to Israel. The interview was
with Doug Manship,
Washington reporter for the
Baton Rouge, La. Morning
Advocate and State Times
and television station
WBRZ.lt took place June 6
five days before Israeli
Premier. Yitzhak   Rabin
- met the President here. A
transcript of the interview
was given to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency by the
Senator's office after an
inquiry by the JTA. Long is
chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee which
handled the Trade Act of
1974 embodying the Jackson
- Vanik measure tying U.S.
trade benefits to Soviet
emigration policy.
Long said that Kissinger's
step - by - step "solution" of
the Middle East, problem
"has not had much
cooperation from the powers
that be in Israel. Now
somebody has got to tell
those people the facts of life,
that they, ought to work this
thing^out. And our Secretary
of State will have as much
sympathy toward Israel as
, anybody in this country, you
would think, having the
background of, being Jewish
by ancestry and  having
known  what  it is   to  see
people persecuted."
When JTA suggested to a
principal assistant to Long
that possibly the Senator,
having spoken' ex¬
temporaneously in the in¬
terview, may not have ex¬
pressed himself precisely or
that he had been misin¬
formed' about the Israeli
people's lack of information
since Israel is exposed to the
media of the world, the aide
replied that it was not a
question of the Senator
speaking from misin¬
formation. It was a "con¬
sidered opinion on his part,"
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Three New York
Congressmen introduced
legislation on, June 19
barring $58 million in
economic assistance to
Syria. In addition, one of
them telegraphed President
Ford to urge him to bring up
the subject of Syrian Jewry
when he meets the Syrian
Foreign Minister Abdul
Halim at the White House. A
telegram ajso went to the
Syrian Embassy addressed
to Khaddam on the subject.
Reps. Stephen J. Solarz,
Jonathan B. Bingham and
Benjamin S. Rosenthal, all
New York City Democrats,
urged Congress to block the
economic aid for Syria by
invoking the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1974 that
stipulates that the President
may not expend funds from
the $100- million Special
Requirements Fund for the
Middle East if Congress
adopts a concurrent
resolution disapproving such
action within 30 days after
notice* from the President of
his intention.
They cited language in the
law which expresses the sens
of the Congress that funds
should not be provided "to
any nation which denies its
Citizens the right or op¬
portunity to emigrate." The
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MELBOURNE (WNS) - The Palestine Liberation
Organization has failed to get permission from the
Australian government to open a PLO information
office here. Gamal Surani, the director of the PLO's
Cairo office and its representative on the Arab League,
ended a 10-day visit here without getting the per¬
mission.
WASHINGTON (WNS) - The Spanish government
has made as a condition for the renewal of American
air and naval bases in Spain a stipulation that the U.S.
will not be allowed to use Spanish territory as a
stopover point for military supplies being taken to
Israel. Previously, the Portuguese government ruled
out the use of Portuguese territory for the same
reason. During the Yom Kippur War, the Azores,
which belong to Portugal, served as a refueling stop for
American transports flying to Israel.
NEW YORK (WNS) — Three clergymen, members
of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, reported after
a trip to the Soviet Union that the Soviet government
has agreed to the publication of a Hebrew edition of the
Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses, for the first time
since the 1917 revolution. The three are Rabbi Arthur
Schneider, of New York's Park East Synagogue,
president of the Foundation; Bishop Silas, head of the
largest Greek Orthodox Diocese in the United States,
and the Rev. Donald R. Campion, editor - in - chief of
the Jesuit magazine, "America." The three men said
there was a greater receptivity now on the part of the
Soviet Union to admit there is a problem of religion
which cannot be solved by repression. They said Soviet
officials refused to discuss emigration. Rabbi
Schneider said while this issue is important the
Foundation is also concerned with the condition of
religious life for those who, stay in USSR.
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