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Omaha, Nab:. Fri., April 26,197B
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'Lotters Being Written to Jodyn' BjrRldMfdFMri OMAHA-Lettera to the Joalyn Muieum board of dlr«ctori protesting the language tited by a Jodyn official during and after an encounter at a demonstratloa April » were being written thif mak, according to one of the demonilration'i organixera. Shirley Golditeln, cochalrmao of the Omaha Committae for Soviet Jewry which organlaed the proteit that alao featured memcben o( OmalH't Lltfaoanlan and Ciechoilovaltian corolaunitles, said she will write one lattar and has been told by othen—including some not involved in the demooatrallon-that they also wiU write. The Joslyn official Is Laurence R. Hoaglund, who is aarving as managing director of the museum. The demonstration and confrontation took place prior to Sunday's Joslyn Chamber Music program which featured the Russian Borodin Quartet. Mrs. Oolditala eitad •pteUtealljr tk* words to "tha to UwrnbyHoaghnd.
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Mrs. Goldstein said the protest was not against the Quartet's presence, but rather against what she deacribed in her handbills as "the Inhumane performance of thoae In the Soviet Union who threaten with death or imprtnnment Jews, Ukranians, CaedwalovakiansandPolaa." She explained the objective of the denKNUtratlons by sUting, "When artlsU return to the Soviet Union after tours, they are debriefedquestioned by soviet authorities about what went on on the tour, the reactions of the people whom the artists encountered This time when they go back, they can say that the people of the Midwest United States-in addition to thoae in the Eastern U.S.-are alao protesting Soviet prac-
ticea toward minority groups." The pnXeat, which drew about M participants carrybig signs and handing out leaflata, was held on the east .tiPld Street) and nofth (CifMal Avenue) sides of Joslyn in the hour before the 4 p.m. program Hoaglund challenged the group's right to be there. After being shown the permit which Mrs. Goldstein obtained from the City of Omaha, tuf, reaaaerted his initial data, BtaUng that CapKol Avenue had been vacated by the dty and purchased by Joalyn. Hoafland claimed the oaBtBaowtra oooM Boi oa <• Ikat pnparty to paH Ml wkat IM rslimd to aa "dOMd haodbtUa" and aald tba danaaairatan wouM hava to moM to ttvl flinat. Maat tt tha MO wto attaadad Ika oonoart ware at die ttaMa» torlBg tha bntldlag tnm CapMoL Mrs. Qoldstein and cochairman Miriam Simon told Hoaglund they were Joalyn members and a non>Jewiah demonstrator with a European accent told him, "I bring my little boy to your museum to get culture. I support your museum." Howard Weinstein, Plains States regional director of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Lroague and executive director of the Jewish Federation's Community Relations Committee, told Hoaglund that there apparently had been some misunderstanding with the city because the demonstrators had utilized "all the proper channels kr securing permisskMi." Sgt. G. Berry, the Omaha policeman In charge of the detail assigned to Joslyn Sunday, told the Jewish Press he dlsaiiadfid Hoaglund from havbig the polk» remove the demonstrators. "The only charge would be trespassing," the sergeant said, adding he told Hoaglund the effort might cause more trouble than II was worth because the police were there mahtly to aee that
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WASHINGTON (JTA)Preaident Ford's remarics on the Middle East Tuesday night were viewed by some ol>servers Wednesday as restatement of the long muted American policy of "evenhandedneu' in the Arablaradl conflict and as almost
an invitation to the Arabs to harden their position. They felt also that the President's reference to the inevitability of another oil embargo in the event of a new Middle East war clearly encouraged the Arabs to employ their oil weapon to force the
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ban and wbOa addrsariaf the OMAHA - Good old United Airlines Right 911 Is audtoooe, "apotoglsad for HM going to do It again this afternoon. If all goes according to elowaa aatslda,'" aaid schedule.' CMalian LMMO, • nedtoal Two weeks ago, on April 11, Flight 911 landed at atttdant at Cratghtoa E^ley Airijeld with Omaha's first Soviet Jewish imUitrmily. "IbooadaadikHW migrant family in the current battle between the United war* Bome hltaat. He States and the Soviet Union over emigration rights of looaupuol csRi^pt paoBta Ou* Soviet residents. fnard. That family was the Leonid Protugels family, now In "II waa a totally inapthe process of settling into their new home and their new propriate remark becauae of country. tba aertouanesa of the cauM at Today, FUght Ml, aeheduled to arrive at 2:37 p.m.. Is the demonstrators outride," to bring both the Julian Utvlnsky family and another Larsensaid. family reported to be relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sacks Beatrice Sommer, wtio of Council Bluffs. attended the concert with Litvinaky, 3S, a native of Kelv, Is a civil engineer and Laraen and hia wife, said Mrs. is said to speak and write Russian and some English. His Alfred Kennedy, president of wife, Rosa. 33, from Timofeyevka, has tuining as a food the Joalyn Chamber Music technok>glst and holds a diploma in bookkeeping. She also Society, knew beforehand of speaks Russian and a little English. They have a the deraonstratkm and dkl not daughter, Inga, whose birthdate is listed as April 25,1968. object. Ms. Sommer said Mrs, The Litvinskys will be neighbors of the Portugeis Kennedy allowed her to pass family, with whom they became acquainted during the out leaflets inside Joslyn families' stay in Rome. announcing an upcoming piano concert by Sedmara Rutstheln. Mrs. Marvin (Barbara) moramant to the SMpandari Bjr David Landau Taxman, a Joslyn member, JERUSALEM (JTA) - DOfDtlatlaaa with Washington said the Soviet musicians Joined concert-goers after the Foreign Minister Yigal Allon over new anna contracta. But Allon put that Indicated on his return from program in a brief reception. A planned dinner receptkm by the U.S. that a thawing speculation to rest when he the Joalyn board had been process had begun In Israeli- said that while the flow of cancelled by persona ap- American relations but that military hardware already parently representing the the chill which set In after the contracted for was continuing musicians "a month ahead" of collapse of the interim talks at the agreed pace, no conconducted by Secretary of tracts have been signed yet on the concert, she said. Mra. Qoldstain laid State Henry A. Kissinger last "certain elements that were promised." Federation Praridint Harlan month is still felt. Alton's week-long lour, hfoddto bad gIviB ponniarion He seemed to be referring to criss-crossing the U.S. on negotiations for Israel's for dw damoMlralkn. behalf of the United Jewish purchase of the new F-15 Jet The text of the handbills Appeal, wound up with a fighters and the "Lance" distributed Sunday was three-hour meeting with ground-to-ground missile. The headed "Remember TlM>ge Kissinger In Washington. negotiations were suspended Who Are Not Free" and la Allon described the meeting during the Ford Adreprinted below: as the beginning of a renewed ministration's current This afternoon when dialogue which would be reassessment of American the .curtains open, you continued between the U.S. Mideast policy. will enjoy a brilliant and Israel. He said that In performance, a display of Allan told reporters on his retrospect he did not regret Ruaaian culture at Its the visit, though he admltfed arrival that he and Kissinger very best —an unto doubts before embarking on had agreed not to divulge the forgettable afternoon details of their talk. He it. with the Soviet Borodin Souroeo doaa to the Pantgn acknowledged that they could Quartet. We welcome the Mlnlstar aald they "hoped that not avoid discussion — inBorodin Quartet! Their tba bDprovement In retathna cluding some discussion that appearance at the Joalyn would ba raflectad not Juat In was "not easy" — over the this afternoon nuuta a atmoapbarlca" — moaning failure of last month's Israeli(Continuedon Page!) that they anticipated Egyptian negotiations
Allon: Israel Thaw Begins
U.S. to apply stronger pressure on Israel tor territorial concessions. The President made his remarks on the Middle East hi the course of an hour-long interview In the Blue Room of the White House with three CBS reporters which was broadcast live on nattonal television and radio. Commenting on the President's statements. Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizatkms said In New York, "We are concerned lest the Arab governments misread and misinterpret the President's remarks as an invitation to harden their line, to re-institute the oil embargo and to adopt policies that wUl lead to still another Arab attempt at the military deatructkxi of larael. "At OM same dma, wa abar* tbe PnaMent'a asntlmaala that pnfnan toward peace ta tba MkUa Eaat muBt not ba intamvtod and that tba food oMcaa o( tbe United Stataa an aaaintlal tor nauming dM mooMiitum toward peace that Mtoibeflnt( There was no official reaction In Israel to Ford's remarks and political circlea in Jerusalem were wary of comment. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon who returned from the U.S., made no reference to the Ford Interview, Sources in Jerusalem tald he may not have been aware of its contents Ford added that three "options" now exist. One is to resume the "suspended negotiations without making a commitment to go to Geneva." Another would be to "go to Geneva and try to get an over-all settlement—which is a very complicated matter. People advocate It, however. But," he continued, "while you are going through this negotiation for an overall settlement, as a third option, you might have an interim negotiated settlement between two of the parties, such as Israel and Egypt." While the President said, "We have not made any decision yet," it appeared to observers that the third option is the one the U S. still hopes to achieve, prior to making Arm diplomatic, military or economic commitm«nts to Israel.