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VOL. 54 NO. 2
JANUARY 8, 1976 - SHEVAT 6
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TORONTO (WNS) — The Toronto Star has reported
that votes are being bought and sold for crucial votes in
. 'the United Nations General Assembly. According to -
~ Mark r Gayn,   the   newspaper's   veteran   foreign
' correspondent the votes are being bought by oil-rich
Arab nations from delegates  from Third World
countries who find it difficult for themselves and their
- missions in the expensive New York City. The going
price per vote, according to Gayn, runs-from $6,000 to
$87000. The purpose of the vote-buying is to increase a
majority, according to Gayn. He said the home
government usually shuts its eyes to the practice as
long as it'does not run contrary to its own national
interest. Gayn stressecTthat neither the United States
nor the Soviet Union is involved in buying votes.
CLEVELAND (WNS) — A resolution urging Israel to
"take the initiative" in finding a solution to the
Palestinian question,  including  meeting with  the
Palestinian Liberation Organization under certain
circumstances, was adopted by the North American
~ Jewish Student Network at its annual convention held
, .at Case-Western University here. The resolution was
"adopted by a 55-48 vote after a prolonged debate by the
'200 delegates from universities and colleges in the
United States and Canada. The resolution urged Israel
to meet with the PLO if the organization "publicly
'- announces its acceptance of the State of Israel as a
-legitimate political entity as presently constituted"
and "indicates its rejection of all acts of violence and
terrorism- against  civilian  populations   . ,."   The
delegates, while pledging support of Israel, adopted a
„ resolution expressing serious concern with the social
v gap in the Jewish State and voiced concern that Jewish '
. ^.communal-life-'in  the United States, is  "largely-
undemocratic" and that the Jewish lay public "is
. largely'ill-informed and misinformed." Fredda Smith
~ of Madison, Wis., was elected chairperson of Network.
Clergy Institute Will Focus
On Interreligious Relations
Rabbi Marc H.
Tanenbaum,   one   of  the
outstanding    American
Rabbi Marc
H. Tanenbaum
Jewish religious thinkers in
the field of Christian/Jewish
relations, will be the
featured speaker at the
annual Clergy Institute on
Israel and the Middle East,
on'Thursday, January 15, at
Agudas Achim Synagogue.'
The Institute, under the co-
sponsorship of the
Community Relations
.Committee of the Columbus
Jewish Federation and the
Columbus Board of Rabbis
with the cooperation of the
American Jewish
Committee, is designed to
ice's Foreign Policy Trend Toward Third
or Rabasa Resignation
share with Christian clergy
the concerns of the
Amer-ican Jewish
community. Rabbi David
Zisenwine, Vice-President of
the Columbus Board of
Rabbis, and Dr. Marshall
Yovits, Chairman of the
Israel Task Force of the
Community Relations
Committee, are co-chairmen
of the Institute.
Rabbi Tanenbaum,
National Interreligious
Affairs Director, of the
American -Jewish
Committee, has been a
pioneering leader and
thinker in" interreligious
relations for nearly 25 years.
A religious historian and
authority on Judasim and
Jewish-Christian relations,
he has written and lectured
extensively on the history,
theology, and sociology of
Judaism  and  Christianity.
Rabbi Tanenbaum is a
founder and eo-s,ecretary of
joint Vatican-International
Jewish' Consultative
Committee and of a similar
liasion body with the World
Council of Churches. He.was
the only Rabbi at Vatican
Council II, where he was
widely consulted by Catholic
and Protestant authorities
' during the deliberations that
-led     to     the    -Vatican
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 13)
MEXICO CITY (JTA) —
The unexpected resignation
of Foreign Minister Emilio
O. Rabasa may have been
triggered by the storm of
criticism  in the  Mexican
press that he went too far in
trying to mollify Israel for
Mexico's vote in favor of the
General   Assembly's   Anti-
Zionist   resolution' adopted
Nov. 10. But some observers
here attribute  his  sudden .
departure to a basic trend in
Mexico's   foreign   policy
toward the Third World and
away from the United States
which,   sources   say,   was
responsible in the-first place
for Mexico lining up with the
Arab - Communist - Third
World   bloc   to   identify
Zionism as a form of racism.'
Rabasa, a close friend of
U.S.   Secretary   of   State
Henry  .. A.      Kissinger,
announced  his  resignation
Dec.  29 without giving a
reason but said his decision
was -" "irrevocable."
Government sources said he
had not been dismissed., His
successor,    appointed
immediately after RabasaV
announcement,      is
Ambassador Alfonso Garcia
Robles,    until .Dec.    29,
Mexico's-   Permanent
Representative to the UN
and the diplomat who cast
• Mexico's • controversial vote
in the General Assembly.
That vote sparked a
general boycott of Mexico by
thousands of American Jews
and Jewish organizations
who usually take winter
vacations in Mexico or hold
conventions there. The
boycott has.taken a heavy
toll of Mexico's . all-
important tourist industry
with severe repercussions on
this" country's economy.
Tourism officials here report
that tourism, Mexico's
. second largest foreign
currency earner, is off 25
percent this'holiday season,
largely as a result of the
American Jewish boycott.
More than 120,000
cancellations were received
for the Christmas week in
Mexico City and Acapulco.
The loss of Jewish
convention business alone is
estimated" at $750,000'. In
addition, non-Jewish groups
have cancelled conventions
here in' deference to the
sensibilities of Jewish
participants. It was at least
partially to save the tourist
trade that "President Luis
Echeverria dispatched
Rabasa to Jerusalem earlier
this month to "clear up
certain misunderstandings"
with the Israeli government.
Echeverria, subsequently
met in Mexico City with 15
Jewish leaders from the U.S.
and Canada to whom he
reportedly pledged that
Mexico would no longer
support anti-Zionist
..measures at the UN.
But several days later,
Mexico voted in favor of a
declaration by- the
International Women's Year
Convention held in Mexico
City last summer which
equated Zionism . with
colonialism and apartheid as
movements that should be
eliminated. They boycott
was continued. Rabasa,
meanwhile, was attacked in
the   Mexican   press   for
compromising the nation's
honor by apologising in
Jerusalem for acts of his
government. Newspapers
here denounced his remarks
-to reporters in the Israeli
capital that       ' the
' misunderstandings had been
"forgotten, pardoned and
buried." He was taken to
task especially for his use of
the word "pardoned."
Observers here say .the
entire affair must be viewed
in the perspective of
Mexico's desire to become"
the leader of Third World
forces in Latin America and
Echeverria's    personal
ambition to succeed in the
presidency of the General
Assembly at its 31st session
next year.. Mexico, along
with many Third World
countries, is not considered'
to be basically anti-Israel or
anti-Zionist but increasingly
anti-American. By
supporting the Arabs in their
drive to isolate Israel
diplomatically, these
countries are striking at the
United States without
running the risk of a direct
affront to the U.S. whose
economic assistance they
sorely need.
Israeli Secret Service Implicates Algeria
Libya, Iraq In Terrorist Attack On OPEC
By Edwin Eytan
PARIS (JTA). - The
Israeli secret^ service
implicates Algeria, Libya
and Iraq directly in last
month's " attack by
Palestinian and European
terrorists; ' on . the
headquarters of the
Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries
(OPEC) in Vienna in which
three persons were killed
and 1L oil minis'ters
kidnapped. According to the
newspaper France Soir, the
Israelis-are convinced-that
Algeria, organized and'
supervised the operation in
collaboration with the other
two Arab countries and
extremist Palestinian
terrorist groups. If the
Israeli view is as reported, it
coincides remarkably with
T&P Kickoff Meeting Features
Authority On Human Rights
Dr.     William-    Korey,
Director of the B'nai B'rith ,
United Nations Office and a
leading world authority on
human   rights   and   Soviet
Jewry, will Be the featured
speaker at the Kick-Off
Meeting of the Trades and
Professions Division of The
United      Jewish      Fund
Campaign.    George
Rosenberger,    T&P
Chairman,  has  announced
that the meeting, on January
11  at 10:00  a.m.,  at  the
Esther        C.        Melton
Community    Services
Building, will feature Dr.
Korey's address to the over
200 workers of the 28 sections
of   the   division.' Marvin
Brown, Associate Chairman
of T & P, will serve as
chairman of the meeting,
which   will  also   include
remarks by Myer Mellman,
General    Campaign
Chairman   and   Ben   M.
Mandelkorn,     Executive
Vice-President    of     the •
Columbus     Jewish
Federation.
Dr. Korey, a graduate of
, the University of Chicago,
received his Ph, D. from
Columbia    University's
Russian Institute, He was a
Dr. William Korey
winner of the Ford
Foundation Fellowship and
the Carnegie Research
Grant, and. served on the
faculties of City College of
New York and Columbia
Unviersity. Prior to his
present assignment he was
on the-staff of the ADL of
B'nai B'rith. His articles on
human rights and Soviet
Jewry have been- published
.in numerous popular and
scholarly journals. ** Dr.
Korey's most recent book is
"The- Soviet-Cage: Antk.
Semitism     in    -Russia"
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 13)
the charge published Jan. 1
in the semi-official Egyptian
newspaper Al Ahram that
the Vienna assault was
mastermindecL-by-^me-Dr. -
Wadi Haddad and financed
>by Libya with the
collaboration of Algeria.
France Soir, which did not
identify its sourc.es of
information, said that the
Israeli secret service
learned that the attack on
OPEC followed a secret
meeting in Baghdad
attended by Haddad, by a'
wanted international
terrorist- known as Carlos
Martinez, an Algerian -
representative and a Libyan
delegate. Haddad is in
Charge" of military
operations of- George
Habash's Popular' Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, a
Marxist terrorist group that
split from the PLO.
Ali    Hamdi • Gamma),
editor of Al Ahram, said,
however, that the attack was
carried out by the Libyan-
backed     Popular
Revolutionary Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, a
splinter organization of the
PFLP.    "Why    did    the
Algerian authorities allow
the guerrillas to travel to
Libya instead of trying'them
or handing them over to the
Palestine    Liberation -
Organization to try them?"
he asked. He also questioned
tiie ., reasons   behind  the
recent   meeting   between
Libyan       leader       Col
Muammar   Qaddafi   and
President    Houari
Boumedienne of Algeria.
"All these indications and
information make us wonder
.whether    there    was   a
premediated agreement on
this operation," Gammal
wote. The France Soir
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