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July 26, 1979 R . I. J EWIS H HI S TORICAL ASSOC . 13 0 S ESSION S S'l' . P RO VI DE NC E , RI 02906 l Support Read By Jewish More Than Agencies 35,000 With Your People Membership THE ONLY ENGLISH -J EWISH WEEKLY IN R. /. AND SOUTHEAST MASS. VOLUME LXII, NUMBER 39 THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1979 25~ PER COPY Modai Demands Speed Up Jewish Concerns Of Energy Savings Plan Untouched By By Gil Sedan Five months ago, Nodai presented to the JERUSALEM (JTA): While the Presi­ Cabinet an I I-point plan to con­ dent of the United States stakes his political serve energy. The plan called for a savings of Carter Shake-up· future on an energy savings plan, Israel deals eight percent in the consumption of energy, with the energy crisis as if she has all the time later modified to five percent. Israel planned WASHINGTON(JTA): The offers of Roosevelt Room when the resignations in the world, the Minister of Energy and In­ to spend about S 1.1 billion on oil this year. A resignation by President Ca rter's 12 were made and he joined them in the show frastructure, Yitzha k Modai, charged five percent savings would amount to about Cabinet members, three Cabinet level mem­ o f suppo rt for Carter that he is free to select before the Knesset Security and Foreign Af­ $55 million. But with the recent Organiza­ bers a nd 18 White H o use staff officials a new team as if it were a new Presidential fairs Committee. Modai said, that as far as tion o f Petroleum Exporting Countries price yesterday will not result in changes either term. gasoline is concerned, time is running out hike, the expenditure for oil is estimated at amo ng the to p trio associated with fo reign However, Sa nders is bo th a special ad­ fa st . S 1.5 billion, neutralizing the planned sav­ affairs no r other figures closely related to visor to Vance as well as to the President He spoke in reference to the Cabinet's in gs. the Middle East and Jewish concerns. a nd while he has o ffi ces and staff personnel failure last week to agree to new hikes in the In a speech to the Knesset recently, Modai Immedia tely upon the announcement of both in the White Ho use a nd the State price of oil and its failure to adopt an energy said ha rdly a day passed that Israel did not the mass decisions, first by the Cabinet rank Department, he is o n the Depa rtment's saving plan. He said the Ministerial Energy receive .. a lmost ultimative" notices o n cuts officials and sho rtly afterwards by the other payroll a nd thus technically not a White Committee is discussing an energy savings in oil sales o r on price hikes even in deals leaders following their meetings in the Ho use official. For that reason he was no t plan which should be adopted immediately, a lread y signed. Israel consumes eight White Ho use. two decisions were un­ li sted. otherwise Israel will have to adopt even million to ns of oil a nnuall y. About 20 per­ derstood to have been made. It is considered highl y unlikely that most more extreme measures to conse rve energy. cent of it will come from the Sinai oil fields The White House said the resignations o f of the o ther officia ls will be dismissed. A proposal to close down gasoline sta­ which wi ll be returned to Egypt at the end of the President's "national security team" Those about whom there is no t the remo test tions on Saturdays and ho lidays was rejected November. consisting of Secretary of State Cyrus suggesti on of Presidential disappointment by the committee because of o bjectio ns by Says Sadat's Promise Of Oil Was Vague Vance, Defense Secretary Harold Brown incl ude Stuart Eizenstat. the assistant for Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich a nd In ­ Premier Menachem Begin said on his a nd National Security advisor Zbigniew do m est ic affa irs a nd po li cy: R o bert dustry Minister Gideon Patt. return from Alexandria. that President BrzeLi nsky would not be accepted by Car­ Lipshut,. the President's counsel ; Gerald Series Of Proposals Rejected Anwar Sadat had promised him to sell Israel ter. Rafshoon. hi s communications assista nt ; The committee similarl y turned down a oil from the Sinai fields at "market p rice." It was understood that those 10 be and Anne Wexler, a political assistant. proposal to require each mo to ri st not to use But Modai told the Knesset committee retained also include Ambassador Ro bert Ei,cnstat, in fact, is being considered by hi s car o ne day a week . A proposal which that the promise was "only a vague and Strauss, the President's hand picked some as having increased in stature with the would allow residents of condominiums to gene r a l ized oral commitment" and negotiator for the Middle East peace President and is one of the tiny "in" group detach themselves from the central heatin g therefore was not enough. He warned that process; Andrew Young, his chief represen­ that includes only Hamilto n Jo rda n, Car­ system in o rder to purchase sola r heating after the A lm a oil fields in Si nai are handed tative at the U n ited Nations; and Edward ter's c hi ef politica l strategist. who is now units was dropped a fter Justice Minister back to Egypt. 98 percent of the country's Sanders. his liaison with the A mcrican being described as the "chief o f staff' at the Shmuel T amir explained that it was difficult fue l will be coming from fo reign sources. Jewish community. Sanders has par­ White House. and Presidential News to carry this change o ut because of the legal With the cut-off of oil supplies fro m Iran. ticipated in a ll the Israeli -Egyptian negotia­ Secretary J ody Powell. Brzezin sky, inciden­ status of condominiums. A proposal to in­ Israel has in creased her purchases from tions as a member of the American tally, is not li sted as a Cabinet level o ffi cial troduce daylight savings time was dropped · Mexico which now covers a great part of its representation. including the talks at Camp a lthough his innuence at the White Ho use al the objection of the re lig ious ministers energy needs. But a third of Israel's fuel David last September a nd the C a iro­ in foreign affairs is pervasive. Strauss, who claimed that it would inco nveneince comes from .. changing and tempora ry" Jerusalem-Cairo talks that resulted in the Yo ung and James McIntyre, director of the worshippers. especially during the High sources. which may be closed any day. Egyptian-Israeli treaty last March. office of management and budget, a re the Holidays. Modai also complained that the country was Sanders is not on the list of resigned of­ only no n-Cabinet members who have The o nl y measure in sight at present is a sho rt o f fuel storage capacity. He said no ficials that was presented to repo rters Cabinet level ra nk , according to the White substantial rise in the price of fuel. It is ex­ p rogress was being made o n the pro posal for yesterday but he was in the White Ho use's Ho use list. pected that by the end of the week. prices will a n uclear electric power statio n. ri se by 25-30 percent. The Energy Ministry Committee chairman Moshe Arens called claims that given the recent hikes in wor!d o il for an immediate decision to build the first prices and the continuing deva luatio n of the nuclear power statio n. Israel possesses a ll Po und. the real increase in o il prices here the ma npower and the technologies. re­ should be 55-60 percent. quired, he said . Threat Of Petrodiplomacy NEW YORK (JTA): Nathan Perlmutter. meeting. which was to mark the o pening o f the n a tio n a l director o r the Anti­ the European o ffice, was sandwiched be­ Defamation League or B'na i B'rith, believes tween the ADL's National Commission that the greatest threat to the Jewish peo ple meeting in Jerusalem and an audience with today is the increasing innuence o f Arab Pope John Paul II where they received the petrodollar diplomacy. Po pe's blessing for a jo int program with the The world is mucli more complicated than Po lish-American Catholic Committee when the ADL was combatting such ho noring Janusz Korczak, the Polish-Jewish homegrown anti-Semites as Gerald L.K. martyr who died in Treblinka. Smith and other racists in the 1940s and Evidence Of Impact 1950s, he said in an interview with the Perlmutter. ;i 30-year veteran of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The interview human relations field who was named ADL was conducted in his offl'ce on the top noor national director last November, said Jews o f the ADL's new headquarters overlook­ have to become aware of the impact of ing the United Nations, "our enemy," as petrodiplomacy. He said the situation was Perlmutter called it. analyzed in Brussels but it was dramatized to The .
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