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'Our Duty to Interfere' Jackson says in Omaha Omaha — U.S. Sen. Henry* Jackion Mid "it's our duty to interfere" when it cornea to a queition of helping other people. Jackson, D.-Waah., made the italemeni about hit Jackion Amendment, which lecks freedom of exit for Soviet Jews in exchange for Favored Nation SUtui in trade relationi with the United SUtet. Jackion, who visited Omaha-Council Bluffs this past weekend, spoke at an informal press conference outside the home of Mrs. Catherine DahlquisI, Democratic candidate for secretary of stale of Nebraska, who gave a Sunday breakfast for him. He said he fell the bill is "doing its job. It's continuing to get people out of Russia and my hope Is that we will be able to find some area of agreement with the Soviet Union. "But the overriding problem (in Russia) is harrassment of dissidents. They leU us that W per cent
are allowed to go' but the question is, 96 per cent of what? Those who apply for exit visas can lose their ]otw. "To those who say we interfere with the policies of other governments, I say. Nonsense," said Jackson, deemed a candidate for the Democratic nomination in lV7e. "The Russians are asUng us for economic help and it's our responsibility to bargain. "We've been doing it since World War II, I think it's our duty to interfere when we help other people. We're not asking for ourselves." Jackson received a gift for his wife from the Omaha Committee for Soviet Jewry and from the AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'rith of Omaha. Tt|e gift, presented by Mrs. Shirley (Leonard) Goldstein and Mrs. Miriam (Ervin) Simon, was a sterling fob and chain from Israel with an Eilal stone inlay Jackson also was presented a portfolio which had two pictures of him receiving a
gift from Russian Jewish activist Mrs. Galina Fearmark of Moscow. The gift was presented him by Mrs. Goldstein at the recent Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Omaha. Also included in the poftfoUo was a letter from Mrs. Paermark, in which she was asked if she recognized the same photos of Jackson. "Of course we recognize the man," she wrote. "He is one I could recognize among (pepple) in thousands of pictures."
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numbers of flights and passengers were get Monday by El A! as it continued to be the only airline servicing Ben Gurion Airport because of the continued fighting in Cyprus. El Al registered 19 take-offs and 14 landings, carrying 4,000 persons out of the country and 3,000 in.
LONDON (JTA) - Fortyfive Israelis were among the more than l.SOO foreign nationals flown out of Cyprus by the British Royal Air Force and brought to London. Gideon Rafael, Israeli Ambassador in London, and Chaim Comma, the Consul General, helped arrange for hotels and took care of the needs of one group of 37. A spokesman for the group told the JTA that they, and the rest of the Israelis in
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (JTA) — President Nixon has publicly denied, for the first time, allegations that he was anti-Semitic, citing his vigorous political and military backing for Israel and his appointment of Jews, Inchiding Secretary of State Hanry A. Kiuinger, to the key poata In hit Administration, as proof to the contrary. The allegations stemmed from news media reports In May that the President used anti-Semitic slurs and other ethnic epithets during private converuUona in the WWI«
House with aides in February and March, 1973, purportedly recorded in taped conversations. The report was immediately denounced by J. Fred Buzhardt, counsel to the President, as a "fabrication." The President's rejection of the charge was made to Rabbi Baruch Korff, head of the Committee for Fairness to the President. Nixon held a lengthy Interview with RabU Korff on May 13 and answered a series of written questions from Rabbi Korff on May 29. The President's responae to both sets of Inquiries was published in Rabbi Korff's papertMwk book. "The Per-
sonal Nixon: Staying on the Summit," published by Fairness Publishers, which is controlled by Rabbi Korff's committee. Nixon sotd in the interview that he had ordered the major airlift of weapons to Israel in the Yom Kippur War over objections of many Administration officials and also rejected objections from the "so-called Eastern elite" lo his decision to name Kiaainger as Secretary of State. He also cited his appointments of Dr. Herbert Stein aa chairman of the Federal Reserve System, and Walter Anntnberg, Jr„ u
The rest of the estimated 250 Israelis on Cyprus will also be brought to England by the RAF. Arrangements are being made by the Consulate lo get seats for them on El Al flights to Israel.
JDL Director Resigns NEW YORK < JTA) - David Fisch, a 2a-year-old Columbia University student has resigned as Director of the Jewish Defense league because the present members of the JDL executive board "are neither suited nor qualified" for leadership, he said. Fisch said his basic difference with the members of the executive board was that he believed that JDL members should be informed of the reasons for JDL actions and that members of the board did not. He said the board members were motivated "by something completely foreign" to that to which he and Rabbi Meir Kahane, the JDL founder, "have been committed." Fisch was named executive director after Rabbi Kahane settled in Israel. Fisch said the commitment of the claimed 11,000 members should be to love of Jewry, Jewish pride and Jewish power.
Military Analyst predicts Mideast War in 3-5 Years HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (JTA) — A major war will break out again in the Middle East in three to five years, the time it would lake for Israel and the Arabs to restore their military capabilities.
Nixon Tells Rabbi He Made No Sluts (Copyright, lfT4. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, lac.)
Cyprus, had been looked after by the British army. "They could not have been more friendly or more efficient. It was a classical British improvisation in a humanitarian cause."
Ambassador to Britain, as among his appointments of Jews to major posts. When he named James R. Schlesinger as Defense Secretary, he told Rabbi Korff, a high ranking official said to him: "Do you know Schlesinger's background? Is he Jewish ... He has a Jewish name." Nixon said he replied that he had no idea whether Schlesinger was a Jew, that it would not prove anything if he was and that he had chosen Schlesinger for the Cabinet poet because he considered him the best person to fill it. (Schlesinger was bom Jewish but converted.)
This dire prediction was made here by Brig. Gen. (Ret.) S. L. A. Marshall, the noted historian and military analyst who received nationwide acclaim for his analysis of the tactics of Israel and the Arabs during the Yom Kippur War. Marshall, who has been a military consultant to Israel and occasionally to the Pentagon, said it would take another three to five years to train replacements for the young Israel, Egyptian and Syrian leaders killed In the war. The same amount of time would also be required by the-Soviet Union and the United States to rebuild the military arsenals of their client states, he added. He also observed that the Palestinian problem would by then still remain unresolved and the USSR would press for another war In the hope of restoring absolute control of the Suez Canal to Egypt and unhindered Russian access to the Indian Ocean.
Otnahans Lauded The ambition expressed by Omaha's Jewish communily via iu new 14 million Ceriter building earned pralst from Gershon Avner, secretary to the government of Israel. Ambassador Avner, who spoke at an informational meeting at the JCC on July 17, said he knew of "i lot of other communities In America with a lot more Jews than there are in Omaha who have >hown a lot less ambition." The ambassador's talk Is rcDorteil an Pa«i t .
Tisha B'av Is Sunday Omaha — Tisha B'Av, the day of mourning in memory of the destruction of the first Temple in Jerusalem, will be observed on Sunday, July 28. The first Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians on the Ninth of Ab in 586 BCE. The second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70 CE, and the day has added significance in that expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 was also on that date. On Saturday night, services will Include the reading of the Book of Lamentations. Sunday will be a day of fasting for the very traditionally-minded. Special attention is paid on Tisha B'Av to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, because this is the only remaining part of Solomon's Temple.