Eighteen Senators, evenly divided between the Republican and Democratic Parties and representing most of the leadership in the Senate, are circulating letters to their Senatorial colleagues asking for their sponsorship of the Jackson Amendment to the East-West Trade Act. Announcement of the move to obtain sponsors for this legislation is scheduled to be made tonight in Palm Beach, Fla, by Sen. Henry Jackson (D. Wash.) at a dinner for the United Jewish Appeal.
The Jewish Defense League continued for the second consecutive day to sit-in at the offices of the World Council of Churches in New York. A JDL spokesman said they issued four demands including that the WCC sell all its stocks in companies dealing with the USSR, Syria and Iraq as they had done recently in regard to companies dealing with South African firms. The JDL also demanded $25,000 from the WCC to carry on work on behalf of Soviet and Arab Jewry.
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