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ART (CULTURE)
By HILTON KRAMER
c.1975 N.Y. Times News Service
    NEW YORK - The politics of detente is a wondrous thing - urging
us, as it does, to believe the earth is flat - and no less
wondrous are the cultural policies that have followed in
its wake with a promptitude that can be affected nowadays
only by commissars operating on large budgets under government
fiat. The astronauts keep their rendezvous in space, the
Bolshoi performs the operas of Prokofiev at Lincoln Center,
and the Metropolitan Museum of Art dispatches its prized
Old Masters to Moscow. God's in his heaven, you might say,
and all's right with the world! Right?
    Of course there are isolated cranks, like Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, who, refusing all invitations to amnesia,
insist on drawing certain lessons from experience, but
there is no shortage of liberal pundits eager to discredit
them. Between, say, The New Republic's recent attack on
Solzhenitsyn's warnings and the statement by Leonid Brezhnev
that ''the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and our
government believe it necessary to support and develop
all kinds of cooperation which serve to facilitate the
strengthening of mutual understanding and mutual respect
among the peoples,'' there is a perfect unanimity of sentiment.
Who could ask for anything more? Certainly not the Communist
party of the Soviet Union.
    Brezhnev's statement is quoted from the Letter that appears
as a preface to the handsome catalogue of the exhibition
called ''Master Paintings from The Hermitage and The State
Russian Museum, Leningrad'' opening this week at M. Knoedler
& Company.
    Brezhnev's passion for the masterworks of Western painting
has heretofore been a well kept secret, so far as one can
tell, but that is the wonderful thing about the politics
of detente: it brings out all sorts of unsuspected tastes
in art, science, and the humanities.
    Well, not perhaps in the humanities, where the requisite
occlusion of memory has a certain inhibiting effect, but
what does it matter? Art is what counts, does it not? For
an exchange of Rembrandts, we can be expected to forgive
some of the seamier sides of Soviet culture. After all,
we are not being asked to stand in line to look at (itals)
them (unitals). Out of sight, as the saying goes, out of
mind.
    So the Cranach purchased by Nicholas I, the Tiepolo purchased
by Catherine II, and the great Picassos and Matisses acquired
by those Jewish bourgeois merchants, Sergei Shchukin and
Ivan Morozov, in the bad old days before the Revolution,
are coming to New York, and marvelous pictures they are.
In Washington, where these ''Master Paintings'' were shown
at the National Gallery, they drew a large and appreciative
public, and the experience is likely to be repeated in
New York. And, after New York, the show travels to Detroit,
Los Angeles and Houston, where lines of eager viewers can
likewise be expected.
    In addition to the 30 glorious paintings by Western
masters - Caravaggio, Poussin, Velazquez, and Cezanne are
among the other artists represented - the show also includes
13 works by Russian painters of the pre-Revolutionary era.
These cannot be expected to cast the same spell, but they
are not without interest. How delightful, for example,
to see Leon Bakst's 1906 portrait of Sergei Diaghiliev.
Only afterwards, perhaps, are we overcome by sober thoughts
about the fate these assiduous esthetes would have suffered
if, like so many others, they had had the misfortune to
live long enough in their native land to experience the
tender mercies of Stalin's cultural policies.
    There is, by the way, no representation in this exhibition
of anything produced by a Soviet painter since the victory
of the proletariat - as they say in the U.S.S.R. - altered
the condition of artistic culture. Lest this ommission
be mistaken for undue modesty on the part of Brezhnev's
government - a body not usually inclined to minimize the
achievements of Soviet culture - it is well to be reminded
of the reasons for this conspicuous lacuna in a show designed
to reflect glory on the Soviet state.
 
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(Note: copyright notice is mandatory - c.1975 International
Dialogue; Distributed by Special Features.)
 
INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE 1975
 
    (Editor's note: For the first time since Israel and the
Arabs began their series of wars in the late 1940's,
a leading Egyptian and Israeli have come together to debate
the future of the Middle East. For the first time they talk
of peace, not of war. This International Dialogue appears
this week in many newspapers around the world, including a
major publication in Israel. The dialogue was organized by
Victor Zorza, an internationally syndicated columnist, and
appears under his editorial direction. The participants are
Mohamed Sid Ahmed, chief editorial writer of Egypt's main
newspaper, Al Ahram, and Chaim Herzog, former chief of
Israeli intelligence and now its United Nations representative.
The Egyptian challenges Israel to a new kind of peaceful
coexistence, and explores a new form of detente which could
lead to Israeli-Arab cooperation in the Middle East. His
recent book, ''After The Guns Fall Silent,'' was the first in
the Arab world to grapple with the problem. ''When the
guns fall silent,'' he asked, ''What will there be? Just
what will the Middle East look like?'' Now that they are
silent he looks at some possible answers. Herzog, replying,
says that if the Egyptians keep to the letter and spirit of
the new agreement over the coming three years, ''then
something very important and positive will have happened
in the Middle East.)
 
By MOHAMED SID AHMED
    Is peace at hand? The new disengagement agreement between
Egypt and Israel appears, at first glance, to confirm the
thesis I advanced some months ago in my book, ''After The
Guns Fall Silent,'' that after the October war a breakthrough
towards a settlement could be foreseen for the first time in
the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. However, the
step-by-step approach is not, in my opinion, the most effective
means of achieving a just and durable peace.
    A basic premise of the book is that the Arab-Israeli conflict
has undergone a fundamental change since the onset of detente.
    Detente is the product of a growing awareness that the
exercise of certain forms of conflict has become a threat
to all mankind. It does not imply a cancelling of world
contradictions. Rather, it can be defined as a purposeful
rearrangement of contradictions, dictated by a growing need
to freeze those accepted by all concerned as being more
detrimental to them all than beneficial to any: nuclear
warfare, pollution, future famines, etc.
    It aims at replacing mutually detrimental modes of conflict
by mutually beneficial ones: economic competition instead
of the arms race, for instance. It does not, however,
imply that either of the conflicting parties must renounce
its ultimate goal. Neither the communist world nor the western
capitalist world have renounced their ultimate aim of
suppressing the other, but a mutually beneficial peaceful
coexistence is possible, each system convinced that it has
the best assets to survive the other and achieve its ultimate
goal without resorting to a war which could degenerate into
a world holocaust.
    This is becoming true not only for the Soviet-American
confrontation but also for other conflicts of world impact.
    In the Arab-Israeli conflict, the change was triggered by
the October war. Until then it seemed to be the last crisis
situation in the world still resisting the rules of detente.
Although the war was not a conclusive victory for either
side, it did introduce, for the first time, an element of
commensurableness between the protagonists thus removing many
of the factors which has hitherto inhibited the breakthrough
towards a settlement.
    Once this had occurred, the prerequisites were fulfilled for
the Middle East to enter the detente era. All through the
previous polarized situation on both the global and regional
levels, the predominant contradiction for the Middle East
protagonists was the ''national'' contradiction. It still remains
so. The sovereignty of the Arab countries neighboring Israel
is violated by Israel's occupation of chunks of their national
territory, while the Palestinians suffer from the violation
of their very entity as a people belonging to a nation and
rooted in a land. The Israelis, on the other hand, feel that
the Arabs' hostility threatens the very foundations of the
Zionist enterprise to establish a national home for the Jews
in Palestine.
    A settlement would eventually mean freezing these ''national''
contradictions once agreement on secure and recognized borders
is reached.
    This will not mean, however, that conflict will disappear.
On the contrary, one should expect the emergence of relatively
independent actors proliferating within each of the parties
to the dispute. The ''national'' contradictions will be
replaced by others which were previously overshadowed by the
acuteness of the ''national'' contradictions. But these new
forms of conflict, more of a social nature, will extend all
over the region and eventually lead to intercourse across
the present confrontation lines between similar social trends
now totally cut off from each other because of the preponderance
of the ''national'' contradiction. This development will
discharge the Arab-Israeli conflict of its present explosive
character, of its impact as a threat to detente. It will
deprive it of many of its established features.
 
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n068  1649  13 Sep 75
SOV-WRITER
By CHRISTOPHER WREN
c.1975 N.Y. Times News Service
    MOSCOW - The dissident writer Andrei Amalrik was arrested
by the Soviet police Saturday night, his wife reported.
    He was taken from his bed at 9:30 p.m. by a team of five
policemen who entered the couple's one-room apartment in central
Moscow, Gyusel Amalrik told Western newsmen by telephone. She
said that he had been sick Saturday.
    A police captain in charge of the arrest told her that the
37-year-old historian and writer was being arrested because he did
not have permission to live in Moscow, she said. Mrs. Amalrik
reported that the captain had said her husband would probably
face interrogation Monday at the Moscow prosecutor's office. He is
now being held at the Fifth Police Precinct in Moscow, she said.
    If found guilty of illegal residence, Amalrik, in addition to
expulsion from Moscow, could presumably face a fine or up to a
year in prison or at hard labor for violation of Soviet
passport regulations.
    Amalrik is best known in the West for his book
''Will The U.S.S.R. Survive Until 19840'' in which he predicted
an all-out Soviet-Chinese war within the next decade.
    He had returned earlier this year from five years' imprisonment
and exile in the Far East on charges stemming from his writings.
In July, he told correspondents that authorities had told him
to leave Moscow but that he and his wife intended to remain in
their apartment here.
    He explained that he had nowhere else to go, since their
cottage in the country had been demolished by unknown persons while
he was in prison and exile.
    Under Soviet law, resigents of large cities such as Moscow must
have official written permission to live there. The law has been
used before to put pressure on dissidents. In July, Amalrik
reported that his wife, an artist, had also been threatened with
expulsion from Moscow unless she evicted him from their flat.
    The slightly built, bespectacled author has sometimes stayed
with friends overnight to avoid arrest. But Mrs. Amalrik said that
he had been lying sick in their apartment when the police came
Saturday night.
    It was not clear what his illness was or whether it was serious.
But Mrs. Amalrik said that she had been refused permission to
send medicine to him
    The author was previously arrested for his writings in May,
1970, and tried and convicted of defaming and slandering the
Soviet Union. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
On completion of his sentence in 1973 he was tried again, on
similar charges, and sentenced to another three years. The
second sentence was later comuted to exile, which he served
in the remote town of Magadan for two years. He returned to
Moscow this May and did not meet Western journalists until
after he was told to leave Moscow.
    At that time, Amalrik also said that Soviet authorities
refused to let him accept invitations to lecture at universities
in the United States and the Netherlands. He said he was told
he could apply instead to go to Israel, but refused because he
and his wife were not Jewish and had no friends there.
 
 
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a274  1513  14 Sep 75
Weightlifters-With Yom Kippur 280
    MOSCOW (AP) - The first Israeli athletes to visit the Soviet Union
in two years went to the synagogue Sunday evening, much to the delight
of thousands of Jews gathered for Yom Kippur services.
    A five-man Israeli weightlifting team was besieged by Muscovites
curious to know about life in Israel. The Jewish state is not
recognized by the Soviet Union but is considered the pomised land by
many Soviet Jews seeking to emigrate.
    ''I can't express what I'm feeling at the moment,'' said Meir
Meshel, coach of the Israeli team, as he stood in the midst of a crowd
in front of the temple. ''The reception tonight has been quite
fantastic.''
    Contrary to the usual practice, city police did not attempt to move
the unusually large crowd o about 2,000 persons from the street in
front of the synagogue and the mood was cheerful. Hundreds more packed
into the temple for the service, which lasted about three hours.
    The Israeli strongmen came here for the world weightlifting
championships that open Monday. Another four-man team went to Minsk
for the world wrestling championships starting Thursday.
    The last time Israeli athletes competed in the Soviet Union was
August, 1973, for the World University Games. Visitors and foreign
journalists said at that time that the Israelis were isolated from the
public and pro-Israeli spectators complained of harassment during a
basketball contest.
    Meshel said his team had been very courteously treated since
arriving Wednesday. The coach, a computer specialist from Tel Aviv,
also said he had heard of the gatherings in front of the Moscow
synagogue but he had not expected anything ''quite so impressive.''
    
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1ST ADD INFILTRATE (STAR) Philadelphia xxx 1973.
    Edward N. Slamon, the head of the ATF Bureau in Frankhouser's
hometown of Reading, Pa., described Frankhouser's activities
as a government informant in great detail during the three full
days of secret court testimony last year. The 465-page transcript
of Slamon's testimony, together with 403 pages of testimony
by Frankhouser, an FBI agent and an assistant U.S. Attorney.
have since been made public.
    Slamon said Frankhouser was only interested in the money he
could earn as a government informant.
    At the time Frankhouser was working for him, Slamon wrote
several memos describing him as an excellent infiltrator and
confidential informant. In one memo, Slamon told his superiors
that Frankhouser ''has been able to penetrate a well organized
burglary and hijacking ring at great personal risk.''
    In late 1972, Frankhouser traveled to Canada in an effort to make
contact with Arab Black September terrorists who U.S. officials
feared might try to kidnap or assassinate American Jewish
leaders. Slamon said the operation was approved in the White House
by the Natinal Security Council.
    ''Of course, the idea was to find out what the Black September
group was planning with regard to skyjacking or assassinations
and so forth,'' Slamon testified. ''This was his mission.''
    Nothing came of the mission but there was no doubt that
Frankhouser was then a trusted agent.
    Memos placed in the court records indicate that
Frankhouser reported to his superiors that the Black September
group was backed by Soviet intelligence agencies. But since his
arrest, Frankhouser has told associates that he is now convinced
that the CIA and British intelligence are in some way involved
in the Arab terrorist organization.
    A less romantic mission apparently was assigned to Frankhouser
the following April. According to an affidavit he recently signed
under oath, Frankhouser spied - on behalf of government
prosecutors - on Robert Miles, a Ku Klu Klansman and fundamentalist
preacher who was convicted of bombing school buses to prevent
school integration in Pontiac, Mich., four years ago.
    ''Affiant (Frankhouser) was directed by agents of said
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau to monitor conversations
by means of a tape recorder between Robert Miles and four other
defendants in the Pontiac bus bombing conspiracy...between
said defendants and their attorney, James E. Wells, and that
affiant did further understand that such information was
given to...the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
United States Department of Justice.''
    Frankhouser translated that from legal jargon: ''I was part of
the framing of several people that went to prison.''
    Wells, the attorney representing Miles, said the Frankhouser
affidavit would be filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit
on Oct. 1 as part of a request for a writ of habeas corpus
that he hopes will free Miles from prison.
    There seems to be little doubt that Frankhouser frequently
broke the law in his role as government informant. And, according
to Slamon's testimony, other informants also engaged in illegal
activity. For example, one informant, who was identified only
as ''Lou,'' doubled as a fence for stolen goods, Slamon said.
    Slamon also said Frankhouse recruited at least one
additional informant but there was no indication of the other
man's activities.
    Frankhouser was charged with ''aiding and abetting'' the
transportation of stolen explosives from Reading to Michigan,
and he said he has been threatened with 51 years in prison on
conviction.
    Charles Sims, an associate of Miles, purchased explosives
from Bert Jones, a Reading man accused of dealing in stolen
dynamite and who was convicted of burglary Friday in an
apparently unrelated case. Frankhouse is accused of serving
as a go-between linking Jones and Sims.
    According to Slamon's testimony, Slamon wanted to use
Frankhouse to buy explosives from Jones to expose the illegal
traffic and to arrest Jones. But Slamon said the plan
was vetoed by higher authority.
 
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a028  2354  15 Sep 75
Soviet Journalists 400
By JAMES GERSTENZANG
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - In an atmosphere of what he called ''friendly
banter,'' Rep. Jack Kemp, a conservative Republican from Buffalo,
N.Y., sparred verbally with 13 touring Soviet journalists.
    They talked for more than an hour about capitalism, the Middle East,
nuclear arms limitation, Soviet emigration and football.
    Kemp, who was a professional football quarterback with San Diego and
Buffalo before his election to Congress in 1970, took the group onto
the floor of the House chamber while the House was in recess Monday.
They chatted about international relations and House procedures.
    The 39-year-old Kemp led the visitors through the maze of corridors
under the Capitol Hill complex and posed for pictures on the Capitol
steps, where dozens of congressmen pose daily with their
constituents.
    The Soviets are starting an 18-day tour of the United States. Their
stops will include Chicago, Madison, Wis., San Francisco, Las Vegas -
Kemp advised them ''not to gamble too many rubles at blackjack'' -
Austin, Tex., and New York.
    They are running into a wide spectrum of U.S. political thinking on
the trip, from Kemp, who unabashedly pronounced his distaste for
government interference and his loyalty to free enterprise, to Mayor
Paul Soglin of Madison, a radical who recently returned from a visit
with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
    Kemp told the group about his football background and his 4 1/2 years
in Congress and drew a laugh when he said: ''Since I left the team,
the team has gone up and the American economy has gone down.''
    He emphasized that Congress was in recess in observance of the
Jewish high holy day, Yom Kippur, and repeatedly referred to Moscow's
emigration policies and treatment of Soviet Jews, which he
criticized.
    The journalists, too, brought up the subject, asking the congressman
if he supported a trade bill amendment designed to force Russia to
ease its emigration policies.
    And when Kemp referred to ''human rights'' and said the Soviet Union
should ''relax the rigidity or some of the handcuffs on the movement
of people,'' one journalist asked him about ''the rights of the
Vietnamese people during the war.''
    He asked one journalist if anything has being done about the
problems of youth in the Soviet Union. The reporter, glancing at a
magazine story about Kemp, replied with a quotation the congressman
once had used: ''Problems? They are not problems. They are
opportunities.''
    Kemp replied: ''That sounds like Lenin speaking.''
    The journalist shot back: ''That's not Lenin. That's Kemp.''
    
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AP NEWS DIGEST
Wednesday PMs
 
    Here are the top stories in sight at this hour for PMs. The General
Desk supervisor is Joe F. Kane. He may be reached at 212 262-6093 if
there are any urgent questions about the spot news report.
 
WASHINGTON
 
    President Ford intends to revamp the Central Intelligence Agency and
among plans being considered are stripping the CIA of its covert
operations and naming an over-all coordinator of U.S. intelligence
activities. Should stand.
 
    The Senate intelligence committee is seeking to determine whether
the CIA destroyed records relating to its stockpiling of deadly
poisons. Lead expected prenoon EDT. Wirephoto WX2.
 
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION
 
    CONCORD, N.H. - Democrat John A. Durkin says his smashing victory in
New Hampshire's runoff election is a rejection of President Ford's
economic policies and a warning to Congress to get to work. May stand.
Wirephoto CR1.
 
    CONCORD, N.H. - John A. Durkin doesn't think much of the Senate he's
about to join. He says too many of his new colleagues have ''one eye
on the applause meter and one eye on the White House.'' Profile.
Should stand.
 
MIDEAST
 
    CINCINNATI - The United States will work with Moscow on a final
Middle East settlement, but would oppose any efforts by outside powers
to derail the recent Egyptian-Israeli agreement, Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger says. Lead expected prenoon EDT. Wirephoto WDW1.
 
    UNDATED - The rift between militant Arabs who don't want to live
with a Jewish state and President Anwar Sadat seems destined to widen.
News analysis by William L. Ryan. Will stand.
 
UNITED NATIONS
 
    Western delegates to the economic conference of the General Assembly
say conciliation is replacing confrontation between rich and poor
nations. May stand.
 
    Two Communist Vietnamese governments appeal to the General Assembly
from U.S. veto of their membership applications. May stand.
 
NATIONAL
 
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Just two more nights in a cell and Freddie Lee
Pitts and Wilbert Lee will be pardoned, free at last after 12 years
and 48 days in prison for murders another man confessed to nine years
ago. Will stand. Wirephoto MH1.
 
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lynette ''Squeaky'' Fromme, charged with trying
to assassinate President Ford, wins a bail reduction to $350,000
after testifying about the ''simple life'' she lived with sister
Manson disciples. Her roommate says of the bail, ''We don't have that
kind of money.'' Should stand. Wirephotos SC3,4 Sept. 16.
 
    HARRISBURG, Pa. - Accused father-son crime figure Joseph Kallinger
takes the stand in his own defense to say he believes he's 1,000 years
old and once was a butterfly. Developing.
    
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Arab Rift Bjt 490
An AP News Analysis
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Special Correspondent
    A familiar ailment, disunity amid fervent protestations of
unbreakable unity, is again plaguing the cause of militant Arabs who
don't want to live with the reality of a Jewish state, and the rift
now seems destined to widen.
    The Palestinian seizure of Egypt's embassy in Madrid illuminated
anew the deep dilemma of President Anwar Sadat, who more and more
seems a man with no choice but to opt for a path toward a reasonably
long period of warless stability and hope he can carry it off.
    Sadat evidently feels he must resist the combined pressures of the
Soviet Union and radical Arab militants, gambling that with American
and Western help he can eventually swim out of his international
troubles.
    The gamble depends upon whether Sadat's Syrian ally, President Hafez
Assad, is willing to negotiate with Israel toward some new stage of
lessened confrontation, even if only time-winning window-dressing is
achieved.
    The Madrid incident provides new evidence that the militants will
spare no effort to torpedo the latest accord in Sinai or any sign of
progress on the Syrian side.
    Sadat now is in the unpleasant position of contributing heavily to
the widening Arab rift. He has affronted the Palestine Liberation
Organization by holding it responsible for what happened in Madrid,
indicating he expects PLO leader Yasir Arafat to do all possible to
sabotage the Sinai accord.
    Sadat can find plenty of evidence to justify a suspicion that Moscow
wants to parry a return of stability to the Arab areas, because
instability short of total war serves Soviet purposes in the Middle
East. In the wake of the Madrid incident Sadat leveled new charges at
Moscow, as he has several times in the past.
    An explanation of Sadat's behavior can be found in the atmosphere of
desperation surrounding his regime. His internal situation is
frightening. Egypt's ever-growing population is poverty-stricken, and
that's the primary problem - not pan-Arab aims against Israel.
    Half the population lives on an inome of less than $500 a year per
family, millions on less than half that. The drain of constant war
alert has been fearful. Egypt's balance-of-payments deficit roughly
equals her gross national product. She needs at least $1 billion
annually in foreign coin just to feed the people, apart from other
pressing needs. Unrest has been visible and has on occasion led to
violence.
    sadat apparently has invested big hopes in ambitious economic plans
and in attracting heavy foreign investment in them, but he lacks an
abundance of time.
    The president has survived one plot against him and perhaps others,
and has shaken up his cabinet half a dozen times since he succeeded
Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970. His luck may not continue to be so good.
    But if new war can only drag Egypt deeper into the mire, his likely
alternative is concentration on the economy where, with U.S. and
other Western help, he can at least offer promises.
    
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