Thursday, October 4,1979 — THE BULLETIN — 3
SPEAKERS' CORNER, Tel Aviv style. Meir Pail, the Shelli Knesset Member, addresshig Israelis in Yarkon Park. Altogether, some 2p,000 people attended to hear spewhes by a niu^ JfCNS.
UNITED NATIONS ^ Salim Ahmed Salim of Tanzania, president of the 34th General Assembly, began this session's proceedings by denouncing Israel's "senseless bombiiigs oi civilian targets" in south Lebanon and declared that the Palestinians have a right to self-determination and an independent state.
The 37-year-old Ambassador also referred to the Palestine Liberation Organization as "the representative** of the Palestinian people.
"The core of the Middle East problem is the coiitinued,denial of the inalienable rights of the Pale-
stinian people to self-determination, including the right to establish an independent state," he said.
The "necessary conditions" for peace in the Mideast are "the realization of that right, the refusal to give legitimacy to the fruits of conquest, the respect of the right of all states in the area to an independent existence," Salim said.
His statement following his election by acclamation, focussed attention of the world body's preoccupation with the Mideast and was a foretaste of the attacks which Israel will'find itself under during the scheduled 13-week session.
Salim, who is also the Tanzan-ian Ambassador to Cuba and who attended the recent conference of non-aligned nations in Havana,
praised what he termed the fresh and dynamic impetus generated by that gathiering.
Meanwhile, according to reports reaching here. President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania said his country was not going to resume diplomatic negotiations with Israel, severed after the Yom Kippur War.
Addressing a press conference in Dar Es Salaam, Nyerere reportedly said that Tanzania recognized the existence of Israel but that is not now the issue in the Middle East.
"The real problem is whether the Pailestinians are going to have a home of their own and whether the international community is going to regard this as a serious matter," Nyerere was quoted as saying.
NEW YORK - The Argentine Supreme Court niled unanimously that the military junta cannot legally continue to hold under l^ouise arrest Jacobb Timeirman, tJie former publisher and editor of La Opinion.
Jacobo KovadlofG director of South American affairs for the American Jewish Committee, in reporting the decision, said there is hope now that Timerman, who has been confined to his apartihent in Buenos Aires for more than a year, may be released.
Kpvadloff, an Argentinian and former head of the AJCommittee office in Buenos Aires, is a lifelong friend of the Argentine Jewish journalist.
Kovadloff said the Supreme Court acted on an appeal by Timer^ man's lawyer against the "executive authority" headed by President Jorge Rafael Videla.-T'he govern-; ment in turn said Timerman was not its prisoner but that of the junta, which comprises the heads of the army, air force and navy.
The court ruled that the junta cannot hold a political prisoner without cause.
Timerman was sdzed in his home in April, 1977 and kept in various prisons until a military tribunal declared in October, 1977 that they had no charges to hold him. The Supreme Court decided in July 1978 that his arrest was illegal but he has
been kepit under house arr<sst in his apartment ever since.
In Washington, meanwhile, a spokesman of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs said: "Of all the Arge'ntiniaiii pdlitical detainees, without question the case of Jacobo Timerman is proving most costly to the Argentine government in terms of its international reputation.
"Every day that Jacobo Timer-man is held under house arrest the world is being further educated on the grim human rights reality and the
spectre , of anti-Semitism that presently exists in Argentina."
An observer in Washington said that the Argentine Supreme Court's decision will proVe embarrassing to the Argentine government but it might also be a pretext arranged by the government to ease its way toward the release of Timerman.
He noted, however, that under its national executive powers, the government is not under obligation to abide by the court's unanimous decision and can continue with impunity to hold Timerman.
TORONTO EXTREMIST DENIED TAXI LICENCE
TORONTO — A trade tinion affiliated to the Canadian Labor Congress is looking into ways it dan help Don Andrews, former leader of the extreme Right-wing, white supremacist Western Guard, byeir the denial of a taxi licence because of his political views.
Jack McDowell, president of the Ontario Taxi association, said he felt obliged — as a union leader — to protect Andrews' rights.
A PASSING-OUT PARADE of Israeli tank conimahders at a base In Suiai. JCNS.
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\VASHmGTON The House Foreign Affairs com-mttee approved by yoice vote a resolution calling on the government of Syria "on humanitarian grounds to permit those members of the Jewish com-nfiiinity desirous of emigrating to do so." The resolution followed reports of harassment of Syria's remaining 4,000 Jews. A companion resolution is expected to be introduced in the Senate once the House approves it.
"He could be a radical Leftist, as opposed to a radical Rightist. I have an obligation to help him," McDowell stated.
Andrews, for 14 years a public health inspector in the Toronto suburb of Scarboro, is on parole after serving more than nine months of a prison sentence imposed for possession of an explosive substance and conspiring to commit arson and mischief.
He resigned his health inspector's job before going to prison in Febru-. ary, 1978.
Peter Clark, chairman of the Toronto licensing commission which refused to grant a licence to Andrfcws, issued a statement after Andrews complained.
Clark said that, while Andrews had had a good record as a pubUc health inspector, he would have had to deal more directly with the public if he had been ^ven a taxi licence,
"We look at being a taxi driver as being an ambassador to visitors," Clark added. "Given Andrews'political convictions and some of the biases indicated, by those convictions, we didn't think he was quali-^iied to chauffeur the public. We all have our biases, but his are extreme." JCNS.
Move to restore Israel-Zaire ties
TEL AVIV — The basis for renewing diplomatic relations between Israel and Zaire was laid here when Yeruham Meshel, secretary-general of Histadrut, signed an agreement with Mogoakam Mogo, head of the trade union movement in Zaire, to resunie immediate co-operation between the two labor federations.
Diplomatic relations between the countries were broken by Zaire during the Yom Kippur War.
Mogo, a graduate of the Hista-
drut-sponsbred Afro-Asian Institute that operated in Israel for students and labor leaders from Afro-Asian countries, told Meshel that his mission to Israel was approved by Zaire's Prime Minister who graduated from the Institute in the 1960s.
The agreement calls for Histadrut to help promote vocational training in Zaire.
Meshel isaid he is convinced the agreement will help restore relations between Israel and Zaire. -
JERUSAE^JIM — Officials at Premier Menachem Begin's office flatly rejected a report in Time magazine that Be^n was fei^ently checked by three foreign medical experts who advised him not to work more than three hours a day. Begin's press advisors said Be^n gets to work every morning around 8 a.m. and stays at the office until 1 p.m. when he goes home for lunch and an aiftemdoh rest. He returns to the office around 4 p.m. and stays until the evening. In addition, he undertakes various appointment in the evening.
Dan Pattir, Begin's press advisor, said that not only was Begin not checked by any foreign expert, but neither were similar checkups conducted by any Israeli doctor. Shlomo Nakdimon, another press advisor, charged that political elements were responsible for the publication of the story. He did not elaborate. Prof. Jack Fein, who, according to Time magazine, checked Begin, denied the report in a telephone conversation with Maariv from New York. Fein said he had been in Israel several weeks ago on family matters, but there is no foundation to the story that he was "asked to see Begin. •
NEW YORK - President Carter's national security adviser. Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, asked Israel to "reach put to the Palestinians in new and creative ways," during the negotiations on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza^trip.
Israel "must also be prepared to accept legitimate Palestinian rights," Dr. Brzezinski said.
He made his remarks at a World Jewish Congress dinner in New York, at which he was featured speaker. The dinner was held to mark Rabbi Arthur Schneier's accession to the chairmanship of the WJC's American section.
Dr. Brzezinski's long speech was received coolly by the several hundred leading American Jews who were guests at the dinner, together with the Egyptian United Nations representative. Dr. Ahmed Abdel Meguid.
During his speech. Dr. Brzezinski called on Israel "to interpret the Camp David accords on the West Bank and Gazst bcth gsn^rouSiy and with wise attention to the needs of an enduring peace with the Palestinian people."
He repeated the Carter Administration's condemnation of IsraeFs settlements policy in the occupied
territories, sayign that the settlements "play directly into the hands of those who argue that Israel does _ not genuinely desire an agreement."
He also criticized Israel's anti-terrorist operations in Lebanon. *
Defending U.S. policy towards the moderate Arab countries, Dr. Etrzezinski said that Americajwould "continue to broaden its relations and deepen its friendship with Arab States. ^
"It is both in the fundamental U.S. national interest — and also Israel's
— that the Arab nations in the Middle East be moderate, friendly to the West and also secure."
He appeared to have taken pains to make his speech even-handed, with references to Israel balanced by similar comments about the Arab countries, but the dinner guests were disturbed by what he said.
One man stated afterward, that he only barely managed to keep from shouting and interrupting Dr. Brzezinski. JCNS.
DR. ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI (LEFT), shakes hands wUh the Mayor of New York, Edward Koch, at the installation dinner of Rabbi Arthur Schneler (centre). JCNS.