AS PART OF a nationwide tour of America, at tlie invitation of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry/Aleksandr Slepak, son of Soviet Jewish refuseniksVladimur and Mariya Slepak of Moscow, met in Washington, D.C. with numerous officials, to discuss his family's pUght. Pictured above are Dr. Henry Kissinger in discussion with the activist and Slepak's American wife, Elaine.
-PARIS — A number of African countries are preparing to resume diplomatic relations with Israel should there be some progress on the way to peace.
African diplomats here told reporters that several countries, including the Ivory Coast, Senegal and Kenya, have indicated their willingness to start negotiations with Israel "as soon as some progress towards peace is made". The diplomats say these negotiations should be relatively simple as there are no major obstacle on the way to a resumption of normal relations.
Practically all the African countries broke off their diplomatic relations with Israel at the time of the Six Day War. In
spite of this, Israel has maintained economic relations with most of them and Israeli leaders -have conferred with several African presidents. Foremost among these have been Senegal's Leopold Senghor and the Ivory Coast's Houpbouet Boigny. Kenya's President Jom6 Kenyatta has steered a steadfast pro-Israel course and helped Israel carry out the Entebbe operation.
African diplomats say that after President Sadiat's trip to Jerusalem, several countries in West Africa have told Egypt they intend to resume relations with Israel. Egypt, according to these sources, has asked them to postpone any concrete steps in this direction until after peace is
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ANATOLY SHARANSKY
Seek dissolution of
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prosecutor has asked Amsterdam district court to order dissolution of the neo-Fascist Nethierlands People^s Union (Nederlahdse Volksunie) for alleged rai^fct ac-■;tivities.---- ... --v. Jpi.::' ■
it is the first tune the cour^ have been called on to outlaw a #litical party in Holland on the basis of the civil code^ which forbids prga^ationis whose goals or ac-tivitii^ are contrary to public order and ethical behavior.
MOSGOW-^KGB security police said that they have received '-'goveirnmerit pefmiissidn to ^xrnid for Uj> to six months their detention of imprisoned Jewish dissident Anatoly Sharansky, family members reported.
Sharansky's 70-year-old mother, Ida MUgrom, said she was told by a KGB investigator at Moscow's Lefortovo prison that permission to contuiue the investigation had been received from the iSupreme Soviet, the nation's parlistment.
Sharansky, 29, was arrested on March 15, reportedly oh the capital charg6 of treason. Parliamentary permission is needed to continue a citizen's detention without trial for. moire thaii nine months. i The additional time will presumably give KGB in-
vestigators a chance to continue their interrogations of jjther cBSsiderits about the ISHaransky case and should give , Soviet political leaders time to decide what to do with him.
Sharansky's arrest^ which followed Soviet newspaper charges that he spied for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has led to major campaigns in his defence m several Western coimtri
US. F'residentVtoniy^^ last year denied^ contact between Sharansky and U.S. intelligence aiid his case has been raised by tT.S. delegates a the Belgrade Conference on European Security.
Several U.S. politicians have said that the outcome of Sharaur
sky's case could affect the U.S. c<[yngressional mood towariii trade and arms limitation agreements with the Soviet Union.
Ignoring the Western reaction, however, the official Tass news agency said on Oct. 28 that Sharansky will be punished "with the full severity of Soviet law." Sharansky's mother was told on Nov. 16 to hire a lawyer to defend
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Mrs. Milgrom told Western correspondents that a KGB investigator told her that the in-. vestigation of her son could end before tlie six months are up.
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concluded. After an exchange of iriormal notes, the Africans said they will hold off till "some con-. Crete progress" is made on the way to peace.-
The sources say the African countries will negotiate with Israel on an individual basis and not as a bloc. The negotiations will probably take place within the framework of the United Nations in New York.
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AHACK 'SEMOUS'
JERUSALEM — Military is regarding with "utmost seriousness" second attack in recent days on an Israeli patrol near Kibbutz Yiftah along Lebanese border.
LIVING COST SOARS
JERUSALEM — Consumer price mdex the cost of living — jumped by 11.8 percent in November, steepest monthly rise in Israel's history, according to Central Bureau of Statistics.
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INVITATION URGED
TEL AVIV—Labor should invite Independent Liberal party to join Alignment, former Knesset member Israel Kargman urged.
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FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY
TEL AViy — An Egypt-Israel friendship society was formed recently in Tel Aviv.
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SEHLE IN ARAB TOWN
HAIFA — Twenty families have moved mto apartments in smgle-storey buildmgs at first Arab development township m Kf^r
Makr, east of Acre, stated Yussef Moutzafi, northern director of Housmg Ministry's Arab department.
KIBBUTZ MASSADA — ih a vehement attack, on Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, former Prime Minister Golda Meir demanded that the government put
OTTAWA — Over a year ago, Minister for External Affaurs Don J^iieson made a policy statement announcing thstt the government would deny its support orfaciMesfdr transactions involy^^ wife the Arab boycott and establish a reporting mechanism requiring aUfurnis to ^i^^
public disclosure, all mstances of their receipt of and action on boycott requests.
The goverranent has yet to fully implement its stated policy to restrict application of the Arab boycott in Canada. Meanwhile, Jack Horner, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce, has refused to publish the names of CMiadian companies which comply with
the Arab boycott.
The Canadian Zionist Federation recently sent a telegram to Mr. Homer, stating m part: **The repudiation of your government's origmal uitention to publicize these names aids and abets this very repugnant form of discrimination. We appeal to you to reconsider this decision".
the question of withdrawal from the West Bank of the public iii general elections.
Speakmg to a conference of members of Ihud ; Hakvutzot Vehakibbutzim in this Jordan VaUey Itibbufcz, Meir s^ govemmeni shoitld do no more than initial agreements with Jordan on territorial compromises and J]nng the question of acti^ withdrawal to the public.
*^This is> wh^B lie ^(Be demand^ of my government while in the cppcsition and this is what he
shouM do be|6re itakuiji action^'' shefdeclar^ ?
Meir:dweit on wiiat siie called the foreign muiister's "deffeatist at-: titudes." She was rfeffeiti^g to a recent interview ^ven by Dayan in which the mihistCT^ said he cfid not^ believe there is an Arab leader who would be r^dyta give up territory.
"I sunpiy cannot understand the man, a foreign minister with defeatist policies and I hope the nation does not follow him," Meir said.
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HENRY A. WAXMAN who will address the Universtty^^ reception at Beth Israel which honors Julius Balshine on SuUday, Jan. 22. A U.S. Congressman from California^ Waxman was part of a 15 member American Congressional delegation which visited Presideiit Sadat in Cairo and then went on to Jerusalem to be present at the Knesset for the historic Sadat-Begin speeches. Congressman Waxman is considered one of American Jewry's important spokesmen.
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