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BY CHARLES FENYVESl
WASHINGTON -The reassessment of United States policy in the Middle East-ordered after the March collapse of the step-by-step diplomacy pursued by Secretary of State Pr. Henry Kissinger will not take the form of an official statement from the White House or State Department.
Instead, there will be a series of decisions .over the next few months on the entire complex of America's diplomatic, military and economic relationships with key Middle East States.
The successful trade investment and tax agreements con-* eluded here recently by Israeli Finance Minister, Yehoshua Rabinowitz are being represented as part or the re-assessment.
So is the decision to supply Jordan with Hawk missiles and other military equipment.
On the issue of how to proceed with her Middle East peace efforts, the United States has been postponing decisions, first because of the crises in Indochina and then because of President Ford's meetings with President Sadat of Egypt and Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin.
The Administration's Foreign Aid Bill, which is being submitted to Congress, omits any reference to the Middle East, citing the policy reassessmentas the reason for the omission.
President Ford is now expected to take an active personal part.
His meetings with the Egyptian President and the Israeli Premier are expected to determine whether the U.S. will feel sufficiently en-
couraged to resume bilateral contacts for another interim agreement on Sinai, or will press ahead with preparations for a resumption of the Geneva conference on the Middle East.
What is clear is that the U.S. does not want a continuation of the existing stalemate and is determined to play a key role in moving the parties towards a settlement. JCNS.
ISRAEL BRIEFS
SHABBAT SHALOM—THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1975  SIVAN 26, 5735
Vol. XLH, No. 23
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FORD PLEDGES ISRAEL SUPPORT
WASHINGTON — President Ford told a group of 10 survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising that "as long as I am President, I will not allow anything to happen to the State of Israel." The leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization (WAGRO) had been invited to the White House to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the freeing of Europe from Nazi tyranny.
Arabs plot to exclude Israel from the U.N.
BY RICHARD JAFFE
UNITED NATIONS—The Arab countries and the non-aligned "Third World" will decide in August on their strategy for attempting to oust Israel from the United Nations and obtain the imposition of sanctions against her.
If a resolution to this effect were introduced in the Security Council   it would certainly be
Israers U.N. status, in peril
PHILADELPHIA — Americans and Christians will be presented with an ominous challenge this fall if Third World countries in the United Nations General Assembly seek to suspend or expel Israel from that body.
This warning was made recently by the Rev. Robert F. Drinan, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts, in a commencement address to St. Joseph's college students.
HuMii tt U.N. cfHHissiti
WASHINGTON - Leonard Garment of New York, who was President Nixon's special consultant on minority affairs and later White House counsel before he i*esigned last year, was named by President Ford to be the U.S. representative on the U.N. ECOSOC Human Rights Commission.
ACTIVIST FACES DRAFT
NEW YORK — Jewish activist Mark Azbel has been allowed to return to Moscow but is threatened with being drafted into the army, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported here.
"Arab nations, made proud and arrogant by their possession of 60 percent of the known oil reserves of the world, will use their economic power to intimidate nations of Africa and Asia to join the enemies of Israel in seeking to humiliate this tiny nation of three million Jews," he said.
This movement to alter Israel's status in the U.N. may emerge next October or November, the Democratic legislator predicted.
Several non-aligned nations met recently in Havana to plan the details of their conspiracy to suspend Israel, he said.
"A more graphic example of an early warning to Christians about a new form of anti-Semitism could hardly be imagined," stated Father Drinan, who added:
"Will Christians finally act affirmatively to expiate their guilt about the slaughter- of six million Jews and the ingathering of the exiles in Israel after they had been excluded from the nations of the West?"
"In our post-Vietnam turmoil over foreign commitments, there can be no debate that the United States has an abiding commitment to our friendship with Israel," the Jesuit Congressman said.
vetoed by the United States.
On the other hand, the anti-Israel bloc might try to bring about a refusal by the General Assembly to accept Israel's credentials, in the same way as was done to South Africa last summer.
In this event, the American Congress would be expected to cut off funds for the U.N. immediately and even, possibly, attempt to withdraw American representation in the General Assembly.
The United States pays mora than a quarter of the U.N.'s budget.
When the non-aligned organization meets in Lima, Peru, in August, it will have before it a resolution submitted to a recent meeting of its bureau in Cuba.
The resolution, put forward by the Palestine Liberation Organization, Iraq, Syria and Cuba, calls for sanctions against Israel
and her expulsion from the U.N.
Consideration ofit was deferred until the Lima meeting at the request of India and some other countries.
India is said to have taken the position that Israel's "transgressions" were not in the same league as South Africa's and that she should not therefore be treated in the same way.
There is a general consensus of opinion that the non-aligned organization will be talked out of taking drastic action, by some of its own members in view of the harm that could be caused to the U.N. itself.
According to James Reston, highly regarded pblitical comen-' tator of The New York Times, the Arab states and their supporters are likely to introduce (Continued on Page 2) Seie: ARABS PLOT
NO MAP YET
JERUSALEM—Israel should not draw her final peace map at this stage, because result would automatically be a rift with United States, which remained committed to 1971 Rogers plan, "plus or miniis," Shimon Peres, the Defence Minister, said.
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MANDATE EXTENDED
JERUSALEM—Jerusalem has reacted with deliberate restraint to news from United Nations that Syria has agreed to a six-month extension of UNDOF mandate on
Golan Heights.
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THANK SENATORS
JERUSALEM — Israel expressed thanks and appreciation to 76 American Senators who publicly urged President Ford to provide military and political support for Israel.
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ZEEVI APPOINTED
JERUSALEM -Premier Yits-hak Rabin appointed Gen. (Res.) Rehavam Zeevi his intelligence advisor following recommendation by Agranat Commission for establishment of such a post. Zeevi wiH also continue as advisor on "special" affairs (coordinator of anti-terrorist activities).
'Gulf funds aid Arab propaganda
RUMANIA COMMUTiS DEATH SENTENCE
NEW YORK — The death sentence handed down against Andrei Asher, a 63-year-old Rumanian Jew, has been commuted to 20 years' imprisonment, it was confirmed by several sources here.
Asher, a resident of Bucharest and a chemist by profession, was sentenced to death on April 30 after conviction for alleged economic crimes involving acceptance of a bribe.
Six Orthodox rabbis signed an appeal . to Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu to grant clemency to Asher and reverse the death sentence.
The same group signed messages to President Ford, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and
UN Secretary General KurtWald-heim to intervene to saveAsher's life.
WASHINGTON — Congressional investigators probing bribes and other payoffs abroad by companies based in the United States expect the Gulf Oil Corporation's chairman BobR. Dorsey, to supply more details on the company's secret contributions to an Arab fund used to propagandize Americans.
Dorsey testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations which is making the investigation.
When the subcommittee sought more information from him on the payments to the Arab fund, Dorsey said he would supply it.
Dorsey, who also admitted recently to having made illegal policial donations in Korea and Bolivia, saidhis company secretly helped finance an Arab public relations campaign in the U.S.
While Claiming he had few details of the pro-Arab "public education" campaign, he said Gulf paid $50,000 secretly to it through the First National City Bank in Beirut in 1970.
He said he had a general impression the payment was made after a request was made in the Middle East because the Arab viewpoint "was not understood in the United States."
BRAZIL BARS PLO
RIO DE JANEIRO — Foreign Ministry and Red Cross officials refused to receive Said Absair, a special emissary of PLO chieftain Yasir Arafat. Although Brazil has declared its backing for the "Palestinian cause," it has refused so far to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
Moscow says NATO seeks Haifa port
COPENHAGEN — Moscovvr radio vv^as heard here as reporting that NATO is interested in Haifa as a possible Mediterranean port to serve the naval forces of the Western Alliance. According to the radio transmission, NATO is said to be encountering great •difficulties in coming to an agreement with Greece for the use of its facilities as a base for NATO forces, and this explains the interest in Haifa port. Moscow radio stated that if Israel agrees to cooperate with NATO, it will create a new factor contributing to Middle East tensions.
RABBI PACHTER (left), Chief Rabbi of MetuUa, Israel, at rifle practice after joining the Civil Guard. JCNS