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Jacob K. Javits
Indeed, the U.S. response was chilly. While the State Department, after a three-day pause, merely expressed "regret" that Israel had not been more forthcoming, Washington's mood was spelled out more bluntly by one of Israel's leading champions, New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits...
Israel, Javits added, must "come forward with a more precise statement of its views as to the permanent status of the West Bank and Gaza." Otherwise, he said, the U.S. might be driven to try to impose its own peace plan on the Israelis and Arabs alike.
Javits also rapped Sadat for not following up his peace initiative with much more than "public rhetoric," and he urged the Egyptian to take a more active role in the negotiations. Yet all that certain U.S. Jewish organizations and "spokesmen" seemed to notice were the Senator's comments on...
Skepticism about the Carter Administration's charge of deep Communist involvement in the invasion of Zaïre last month was also voiced by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Chairman John Sparkman said the evidence that Cuba had trained and equipped the Katangese rebels was "circumstantial" and...