United States Ambassador George Bush declined to say today how, when or if he would reply to Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik’s personal attack on Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah at the Sept. 25 session of the Security Council debate on Jerusalem. Last Thursday two of Bush’s former Congressional colleagues, New York Democrats Benjamin S. Rosenthal and Edward I. Koch, deplored Bush’s having “sat silently by” while Malik delivered his “slanderous” attack.
Calling Zionism a “racist ideology.” Malik had warned Tekoah, in connection with the latter’s
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