In a telephone call to Premier Menachem Begin at Blair House just before Begin boarded a plane for Israel Thursday afternoon, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D.Mass.) voiced “concern about one-sided pressures which hindered the peace process” and said he “especially deplored the U.S. support for the United Nations vote against Israel.” Kennedy, campaigning here for the Democratic Presidential nomination, expressed the hope that current talks on the future of the West Bank and Gaza would succeed, adding that “our two countries have a vital relationship. We share major strategic interests in an increasingly unstable Middle East.” Kennedy also raised the issue of Soviet Jewry “particularly the brave and dissident Ida Nudel. I want you to know that I will be tireless in my efforts on these and any other cases you bring to my attention.”
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