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Show - 5 - Colorado Denver There is no organized group here interested in the Middle East. Mrs. Richard T. Kremers, formerly of the American Committee for Justice in the Middle East at Boulder, does, however, engage in a number of activities designed to stimulate interest in the Middle East. She brought together about a dozen people, all of whom seemed interested, but none of whom had any real idea as to how to go about an educational or political action program in Denver. The two key audiences here are the International Rotary Club and the Denver University. An effort should be made to place good speakers in both. I have arranged to obtain access to these audiences through contact in the petroleum industry offices in Denver. Boulder - The American Committee for Justice in the Middle East This organization, despite internal difficulties during the past year, continues active and seems to have adequate funds to continue to carry out a fairly extensive program based on a mailing list of some 3500 individuals. Their present cash balance is over $4000, and the Committee continues to prepare monthly "position papers" on Middle East issues and memoranda containing excerpts from key newspaper articles, speeches, etc. Branches of the Committee have spun off at Sacramento, San Francisco, Boise, Idaho, Melbourne Beach and Miami, Florida, and, most recently, Chicago. Although the driving force of the Committee, Dorothea El Mailakh, has an abrasive personality and irritates many people, she is extremely energetic, intelligent, and is probably doing more as a Committee and as an individual in the educational and political action field, than anyone else in the cities I visited. Notes: (beh): Concerning ACJME: the mailing list is not much larger than when I left it. Much of the number goes out in bulk mailing. And they are using the ANERA mailing list now, which we were in the process of getting when I left. The money they have obtained through arrangements with the Geneva source, which CAABU also taps, I understand. This also was under way. The position papers do not come out monthly. There have been 3 in 1970. The branches were all in existence, except Chicago, when I left, and were my work exclusively. The Miami one, unfortunately is a committee of one. The Boise one is Dorothea's family. Sacramento, San Francisco were Farouk's work. Arizona also was coming along, but has apparently not materialized. Nan Abdo's took on another name after I left. |
