Thursday, June 26, 1975—THE BULLETIN—3
Thwart Iraq attempt to oust Israel from World Tourist Org.
U.S. URGED TO ISRAEL REMAIN
HELP IN U.N.
JERUSALEM-tA firm stand on the part of the United States and France thwarted an Iraqi attempt to oust Israel from the World Tourist Organization, it was disclosed here by Rabbi ShmuelNata, advisor on foreign affairs to the Ministry of Tourism.
Rabbi Nata, who recently returned from the WTO convention in Madrid attended by 500 delegates from 89 countries, reported t^iat all of the Arab countries represented showed relatively moderate attitudes toward Israel,
with the exception of Iraq.
He said the Lebanese delegate who was on the credentials committee did not object to receiving Israel's credentials.
The Iraqi delegate, however, sought support for a resolution ousting Israel from the organization.
The effort was defeated largely by the delegates of the U.S. and France who argued convincingly ttiat tourism should be kept free from politics and the WTO must retain its universal nature. Rabbi Nata reported.
More leave than come
JERUSALEM — More people may leave Israel this year than arrive to settle in the country, it has been forecast by Shlomo Rosen, the minister of absorption. The problem was not that of new immigrants leaving, but of veteran Israelis seeking a new life elsewhere. The number doing so had reached "alarming proportions." Earlier, Rosen had addressed a meeting of newcomers from the Soviet Union. He told them that only 10 percent of the 300,000 newcomers who had arrived in Israel since the Six-Day War in June, 1967 had left the country. The remaining 270,000—including about 100,000 Soviet Jews-had been fully integrated into Israeli life, Rosen stated. JCNS
WASiilNGTON-Dantel P. Moy-■nihan, the United States Ambassador - designate to the United Nations, said that the U.S. should proclaim "now" that it will not stand for "even the effort" to expel Israel from the' U.N. General Assembly.
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations committee which is holding hearings on his nominations, the formerU.S. Ambassador to India and former political science professor at Harvard said he agreed with the views expressed before the committee over a month ago by Arthur J. Goldberg.
Goldberg, a former U.S. Supreme CourtJustice who served as Ambassador to the U.N. during the Johnson Administration, said at the time that ttie U.S. should assert its position against amove by the Arab states and their allies to expel Israel and warn that it would leave the General Assembly and freeze its financial contributions to tiie U.N. if such actiui were ever taken.
The subject rose when Sen. Richard Claili (D. Iowa), acting chairman of the committee, asked Moynihan if he agreed with Goldberg's suggested course "if by chance" the Havana ccmference
Three generations, one goal
Israel protests PLO at major convention
TEL AVIV—The Histadrut delegation and representatives of the Government and the manufacturers walked out of the annual conference of the International Labor Organization in Geneva to protest the decision to admit the Palestine Liberation Organization as an observer to the month-long discussion.
However^ the Government and manufacturers' representatives returned "because Israel doesn't leave international arenas," Gideon Ben-Israel, head of the Histadrut delegation, explained.
"After all, that is what the PLO wants," he added.
He pointed out that the Histadrut delegatim left because the representatives of the American AFL-CIO also left in protest.
"If we've got such a partner, the departure is significant," he stated. "It is not an isolated
act."
Secretary -General Yeruham Meshel said the decision to grant observer status to the PLO "impaired the organization's non-political image."
The Australian and Canadian trade unions were commended for their strong support of Israel.
(Jerusalem Post)
GOV'T OFFICES HANDLE DRUZE
JERUSALEM-The Cabinet has approved a decision by which Druze citizens will be treated directly by the government offices, and not through the government offices handling Arabs.
The separaticHi came at the demand of the leaders of the Druze community, who noted that their people serve in the army like Jews.
proposal to expel Israel is adopted by the General Assembly.
Moynihan noted that the representatives of some 77 non-aligned and Third World countries had met in Havana in March and will meet again in Lima in August.
He said it would be too late for the U.S. to take actirni in September with these representatives since by then the instructions from ttieir governments will have been solidified.
The non-aligned countries have called for a special session of the General Assembly in September to discuss economic problems.
Clark said, during his questioning of Moynihan, "i certainly agree" that the U.N. "ought to be a universal body" and that neither Israel nor South Africa should be excluded.
Moynihan pointed out that Israel cannot be expelled from the U.N. as a whole because the Security Council must decide that, implying a U.S. veto of such an act.
But he emphasized that even the effort to expel Israel "would be a catastrophic action."
He described such an act as "madness" and "contrary to the spirit and the letter" of the U.N. Charter.
"It is just this kind of mindless giving in and authoritarian streaks we should hot encourage," he said.
Moynihan added that he,could not "imagine" Egypt as an example, "would want it (Israel's expulsion) to happen."
WITH A HOMEMADE braeU flag and a waU full of Western newspaper clippings, Tibilisd physicist brothers Isai and Grigory Goldstein and their elderly mother Manya show their defiance of an oppresdye Soviet regime. Although the brothers are threatened with trial, Isai has named his infant son Abraham as a sign of their determination to live in Israel.
6 killed in terror roid
TEL AVIV — Yaakov Mor-dechai, an Israeli who joined soldiers in an assault on terrorists who occupied his home, killed two terrorists with a burst of machinegun fire, and was himself fatally wounded by a grenade. The bitter battle in Kfar Yuval near the Lebanese border left two Israeli civilians and four terrorists dead and six Israelis injured.
"We possibly could occept Israel's existence" - Saudi king
Jews save life of iailed Naii
WASHINGTON — Remarks by King Khalid of Saudi Arabia to an American newspaperman that his country would accept Israel's existence if Israel met certain Arab conditions, including the est-abUshment of a Palestinian state on its eastern borders, was seen here as a tactic in the Arab "peace offensive" that has been launched as President Ford is about to personally take up the reins of American Mideast dip^ lomacy while his reassessment of American policy in that region
100,000 volunteer for Civil Defense
TEL AVTV — More than 100,000 volunteers have registered for Israel civil de-fense, it was revealed by Minister of Police Shlomo HiUel. As a result of this outpouring, there was no need to consider a law for compulsory registration for this service. Minister HOlel said that many of the volunteers were students aged 17 to 18. Hillel welcomed this showing, adding it was proof that despite the internal problems of the State the morale of the people was of a high order.
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KhaUd's interview with Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post's foreign service was not published in Saudi Arabia or anywhere in the Arab world.
It was viewed by ovservers here as part of an effort to persuade the U.S. not to change its policy of military and tlechno-logical assistance to Saudi Arabia rather than a shift in that country's policy toward Israel.
According to Hoagland's dispatch from Riyadh, the Saudian capital, Khalid said "his nation would concede Israel's right to exist in its pre-1967 borders in return for total Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands occupied in 1967 and the establishment of a Palestinian state between Israel and Jordan."
Similar statements have been made by other Arab leaders, notably King Hussein of Jordan who visited Washington recentiy.
Hoagland pointed out in his dispatch that "Khalid's remark fell far short of offering the diplomatic recognition and normal relationships that Israel has demanded from the Arab states as part of a final peace settiement."
Nevertheless, he observed that "Khalid became the first Saudi nil ^ to declare explicitiy that
his deeply conservative nation would accept Israel's existence."
A well placed American official here noted that what the King said is not so important but that he said so publicly is significant.
But four days after publication of the Hoagland interview, U.S. sources said they found no trace of the King's reported remarks in the Arabic meoKa either in Saudi Arabia or in any other Arab land.
Khalid Gahman, an official at the Saudi Arabian Embassy's visa office noted that regulations governing the issuance of visas have not changed.
He said applicants are required to reveal their religious affiliation and Jews are refused visas except in rare cases.
By JACQUES MALEH
PARIS-Jean Barbier, 55, who tortured and murdered many Jews and Resistance members in Grenoble during the Second World War and handed many others over to the Nazi secret police—the Gestapo—was saved from death recently by two Jews.
Sentenced to death 'in absentia' for war crimes in 1945, Barbier eluded capture until 1962, living under cover in Marseilles. He was tried again in 1965 and again con-denuied to death, but the late President de Gaulle commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. He is serving his sentence in Melun prison.
Recently, two "trusties," Michel Catania, a Jew, and Francois  Paiziot, took Barbier and
NAZI RALLY IN GERMANY
COPENHAGEN — The small German town of Flensburg, near the Danish border, was the scene recently of a rowdy neo-Nazi demonstration. A group of neo-Nazis, bearing flags with their symbol—three crossed lines representing the Third Reich—demonstrated in front of the Flensburg German House. The d^onstrators shouted slogans against Jews and Jewish organizations and against the present German government, calling the government a slave of Jews. The demonstration came to an end when a group of youths, calling the neo-Nazis "Nazi pigs" intervened, jostling and discouraginig the demonstrators.
another political prisoner hostage and threatened to kill them with kitchen knives. They later released the other man.
Catania, who is serving a sentence for theft, worked in the prison kitchen and . served the political prisoners, including Barbier, their meals.
Some months ago, Barbier learnt that Catania was a Jew and began making anti-Semitic remarks and boasting about the Jews he had tortured and murdered during the war.
Catania asked the prison governor for a transfer to another prison, but nothing happened, so he decided to kill Barbier.
When it became known that Barbier was being held hostage and laced death, two prominent Melun Jews were asked by the prefect of the region to intervene.
Maurice AUouche, preisident of the community, and Sadia Dayan, honorary president, told Bar-bier's captors that the prison governor had promised to transfer Catania to another prison if Barbier was released unharmed.
Catania let Barbier go, and the governor kept his promise.
Catania is now in Tours prison. He is due to be released in December. JCfS
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