Joseph P. Sternstein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, said today that the naming of the Libyan representative to the United Nations as this month’s Security Council president is “morally repugnant.” Libya, he observed, “has been an instigator of world terror. It is directly responsible for the recent killings at the Istanbul Airport and even gave a safe haven to the terrorists who killed American diplomats in the Sudan in 1973.”
Sternstein spoke on the eve of the 79th annual ZOA convention which will be held here Sept. 9-12. According to Leon Ilutowich, ZOA executive director, speakers at the convention will include Sen. Robert Dole, Republican nominee for Vice-President; Sen. Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic nominee for Vice-President; Brig. Gen. Ariel Sharon, Israeli defense force reserve general; Joseph P. Sisco, former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs; and Daniel P. Moynihan, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN.
Yosef Almogi, chairman of the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization Executives and Leon Dulzin, Jewish Agency treasurer, are also scheduled to address the convention.
Prior to the convention, a Zionist service and protest against world terrorism will be held at the Isaiah Wall on Sept. 8 at 11 a.m. Later in the day, designated by the ZOA as Freedom Day, more than 200 people will travel to the Statue of Liberty for a Zionist Salute to America.
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