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The Jewish Day School will receive approval from (he Stale of Nebraska lo begin operation as an elementary school, according to Harris II. Goldstein, educational director of the school. Mr. Goldstein reported that "according to a letter from Harriet PJgcrtson. consultant for approval and accreditation for the State Department of Education, a recommendation for "Approval" lias been submitted to the Slate Hoard of {{duration. This approval is the first ncastsary fitcp towards full accreditatiot). It takes a minimum of two years for a new school to achieve ac-
creditation status, according to Mr. Goldstein. He explained that the school must be observed in operation for a year before accreditation can be awarded. • He pointed out that while most private schools in Nebraska opt for an "approved" status, the Day School is seeking the higher approval status of "accreditation." Mr. Goldstein said that in addition to the notification of the recommendation for approval, Dr. Kgertson wrote: "Thank you very much for the spirit of cooperation and the sincere interest you have evidenced in desiring to meet, .approval standards."
By Jottph I'otoUoff WASHINGTON - Thirtyeight senators from 23 states have written President Reagan to initiate and help carry out a four-point program In Lebanon that includes an end to the Palestine Liberation Organisation's military and political power, withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli forces, and re-establishment of I^ebanon's sovereignty with free election of authorities to govern the country. The American l,ebanesc league, which represents most Americans of Lebanese origin and who form the majority of U.S. citizens of Arab descent, also appealed to the Reagan Administration to enable Israeli forces to remain In
Lebanon until after the PLO and Syrian elements depart. The league's position was slated in a resolution adopted at its convention in Washington this month. The senators' letter said: "We strongly support American initiatives which combine the following elements: dismantling of the PLO's ability to exercise military and political control over significant portions of Lebanese territory and to threaten Israel from that territory; complete withdrawal of all Syrian and all Israeli forces, and reestablishment of full central and sovereignty of the Central Government of Uhanon through free and open elections which incidentally have already been
The recommendation of Allan Greene as executive director of the Jewish Federation of Omaha has been announced by the Search Committee, chaired by Howard Kailow. Action on the recommendation by the Federation's Hoard of Directors was scheduled for the June meeting lait Wednesday night. The Search Committee had been established to locate a successor to 1-ouJs II, Solomon, who ha* announced plans to accept a Federation post In In dlana polls. Mr. Kastow said Mr. Greene, director of planning and budgeting, was selected from three candidates after an extensive screening process involving members of the Hoard, Federation staff and Jewish community
With the opening of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home in September, the campus of the Jewish Federation will be complete. To help define the areas of responsibility for the Home, the Jewish Community Center and Livingston Plaza, the new Campus Coordinating Committee was appointed by Joe Klrshcnbaum when he was Federation President. It was the task of the committee to ensure that the campus would be managed in the most efficient manner with clear lines of responsibility. At the May 25 Federation Board of Directors meeting the following recommendations of the new Campus Coordinating
scheduled for this summer." include 39,000 troops." "A long-range negotiated Senate Minority Leader settlement along these lines Robert Byrd<D-W. Va.) and should be our ultimate ob- Senator Robert Packwood jective," the letter said, (R-Ore.) authored the letter "Without such an agreement sent to the White House June the region will continue to be IS. Its signers Included plagued by the kind of In- California's S.I. Hiyakawa stability which has (10 and Alan Cranston (D), precipitated the present Minnesota's Ruby Boschwitz crisis." It also said "the (R) and David Durcnbcrger roots of the present conflict (R>, Pennsylvania's John stem from events arising out Heinz (It) and Arlen Spcctor of the Lebanese civil war of '(ID. New York's Daniel 1073-70. Since thnt time Moynlhnn (D) and AUonsc Lebanon has ceased to exist D'Amato (ft), Washington's as a free and sovereign .Henry Jackson (D) and country. In tact, the country Sladc Gorton <R). has been the victim of a Nebraska's James Ex on <D) defacto partition comprised and Edward Zorinsky (D), of a solidly entrenched PLO military presence, Christian Massachusetts' Edward and Moslem Lebanese en- Kennedy (D) and Paul claves, and Syrian military Tsongas (D), Michigan's occupation, now estimated to Carl Levin and Donald Ilicgle (D); Arizona's
Kissinger approves entry of Israel i lly Joseph Polakorf WASHINGTON - Henry Kissinger says Israel was justified in moving into Lebanon against the Palestine Liberation Organization's armed elements ami that neither the Arab states nor the West should try to resurrect PLO power. The former Secretary of State lashed out at those who seek to bring the PLO into peace talks, saying they arc under an "illusion" and seeing a "mirage". He made his comments in a statement appearing in The Washington Post shortly before departing for o vacation in France and Spain. "The results" of Israel's action, he wrote, "were congruent with the interest of the peace process in the Middle Cast, of all moderate governments in the area and of the U.S. It would serve nobody's purpose to restore PLO control over Lebanon or'Syrian pre-eminence in'Beirut" "The U.S. can have no Interest in salvaging Arab radicalism or rewarding military reliance on the Soviet Union," he said. "TV general position of the (Reagan)
administration is wise and statesmanlike: to promote the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon, to reestablish a strong I>ebanese central government whose authority runs throughout a genuinely neutral country." This outline essentially is Israel's policy. Regarding Israel's military action, Kissinger summarized: 'The PLO forces pushed south by the Syrian advance in 1976 proved intolerable to the Israelis. Whatever one's judgment of the specific pretext for the Israeli assault on the Palestinians, there can be little argument about its strategic rationale. No sovereign state can tolerate indefinitely the buildup along 11B borders of a military force dedicated to its destruction and implementing its objectives by periodic ehclltngs and raids." Kissinger's view contradicts the contention by Senator Charles Percy (R III), the Senate Foreign Relations committee chairman who said the PLO build-up was n "myth" and Israel had no justification to enter Lebanon. The Reagan Administration had often said Soviet weapons were flowing to the PLO during the so-called cease-fire
Committee were adopted: 1. Overall management of facilities and grounds will be the responsibility of the JCC, except Internal management and housekeeping of resident rooms and dining areas in the Blumkin Home. 2. The engineer of the Dr. Shcr Home wilt be incorporated into the JCC operations staff. 3. Management of the transportation vehicles will be the responsibility of the executive housekeeper of the Bureau for the Aging who will serve as a consultant to the JCC (or housekeeping problems. 4. Programming and management ol telephones will be the responsibility of the Federation Executive
Secretary who Is the supervisor of the Staff Support System. 5. Food servlcea for the JCC kitchen will be contracted to a food service management service to be administered by the Bureau for the Aging. Management of the Livingston Plaza will be provided by the Seldin Development and Management Company. Members of the new Campus Coordinating Committee arc Paul Cohen, chairman; Sheldon Balick, Ron Click, Artene Goodman, Mlmi Waldbaum, Phil Wayne, Saronne Gitnick (JCC Representattve>, Carol Farbcr (Bureau for the Aging Representative).
Dennis DeConcli, Maryland's Paul Sarbanes (D),Connecticut's Lowell Wclcker (It), Tennessee's Jim Sasscr (D), Florida's Lawton Chiles (D). New Jersey's Bill Bradley (D), Utah's Orrin Hatch (R), Ohio's Howard Mctzenbaum (D), Rhode Island's Clolbornc Pell (D), Delaware's William Roth (K), Oklahoma's David Boren (D), Nevada's Howard Cannon (D) Maine's William Cohen (R), Illinois' Alan Dixon (D), Iowa's Charles Grassley (ID. Indiana's Dan Quaylc (R), New Hampshire's Warren Rudman <R), Wisconsin's Bob Hasten (ID. The Lebanese resolution expressed "deep sorrow" at' "the tragic losses of life and
property and that thousands of Lebanese citizens have become "refugees In their homeland" but that "the Lebanese problem must be considered in o larger context, having suffered the degradation and dehumanizatton of over seven years of brutal Syrian and PLO military occupation." "It is in the vital and strategic interests of the U.S. and Lebanon to have all foreign forces withdrawn", the resolution said. "A tragic error would be made If Israeli forces were to withdraw leaving Syrian and PLO forces in place. This would condemn Lebanon to Its continued agony and suffering."
engineered last August by Special U.S. Ambassador Philip Habib. Kissinger assailed the notion that the way to peace in the Middle East was through dealing with the PLO. "One of the principal casualties of the Lebanon crises has been the Western illusion — especially prevalent in Europe but rife too in the Middle levels of our government —'in all recent administrations — that the key to Middle East peace is to be found in a PLO-Isracli negotiations based on various formulae to "moderate" the PLO. It was always a mirage." "The colossal effort needed to induce Israel to accept the PLO as a negotiating partner would have forced us to expend all our capital on procedures before substance was reached — even on the highly dubious assumption that it was achlevableat all," he continued, "Nor was it desirable. It would have given a veto on negotiations to the most totranstgeant clement in the'Arab world, the group meet hostile to the peace process and most closely associated with Arab radicalism with the least incentive for restraint"