THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 7, 1961
Israel Launches Missile from Secret Site
Becomes 3rd Nation to Fire
and Track Sounding Rocket
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish"News)
TEL AVIV,—Israel Wednesday fired an Israel-de-
signed and Israel-made • multi-staged sounding rocket,
the first in a series designed to map the straosphere and
ionesphere in this part of the world.
The successful firing wednesday morning from a
secret site on Israel's Mediterranean shore made Israel
the third country to fire and track a sounding 'rocket.
Comay Will Report
to Israel's Cabinet
on Arab Refugees
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Arab refugee problem and the
dominant Mapai Party's stand
on that issue following Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion's re-
cent discussion of the subject
with American President John
F. Kennedy was hotly discussed
in the Cabinet and exploded in
partisan attacks outside the
Cabinet.
With Michael S. Comay,
Israel's permanent representa-
tive at the United Nations; due
here by next Sunday, the Cabi-
net .Will resume discussion of
that topic.
Left-wing Mapam is accusing
Mapai of maintaining secrecy
about. the Kennedy. -,Ben-Gurion
talks- on the refugee issue.
The Isreal Defense Ministery,
in announcing the successful
firing of a 550-600-pound rocket
to a height of 52 miles, also dis-
closed that Israel had developed a
number of observation posts
which' photographed that troje
tory of the initial rocket flig
Scientists said subsequent roc is
will carry electronic mess ng
devices which presumabl will
ound
transmit information to
receiving stations.
The solid fuel rocket arried
powdered metallic natriu which
small
was released to form
white cloud through whit mea-
surements were possible the
ds
direction and speed of
at high altitudes. Scien
said that the rocket was not
guided one. The package sent
aloft apparently did not carry
any telemetry instruments.
The firing_ took place in
the presence of Prime Minis-
ter David_ Ben-Gurion, Dep-
uty Defense Minister Shimon
Peres, Chief of Staff Zvi
Mrs. .Meir Summons
Tzur and a number of scien-
tists and other defense offi-
UN Truce Chief to
cials. They watched the firing.
Air Syrian Situation
- from a point some 1,300 feet
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Mrs. away in a sandbagged im-
I Golda Meir, Israel Foreign provised shelter. '
Minister, called in General C. C.
von Horn, chief of the United
Nations Truce Supervision Or-
ganization, to discuss the situa-
tion on the Syrian border.
Sporadic shooting was still
continuing there, more than a
week after a series of attacks
by Syrian gunners in which an
Israeli Druse was killed.
After efforts by UN armistice
officials in Damascus failed to
end the firing, von Horn flew to
Damascus for talks with Syrian
military commanders, returning
to UNTSO headquarters in
JeruSalem.
Call for Reorganization
of American Zionists
BRETTON WOODS, N. H.,
(JTA)—Dr. Emanuel Neumann,
honorary president of the Zion-
ist Organization of America,
called for a reorganization and
consolidation of the Zionist
movement in the United States.
Addressing the annual con-
vention of the New England
Zionist region, Neumann urged
thoughtful and responsible
leaders of all groups to consider
the problem at once in a spirit
of Zionist comradeship and de-
dication to the overall vital in-
terest of the Zionist movement.
Within seconds after t
launch of Shavit (Meteor) II, t
rocket disappeared, trailing black
smoke. Special equipment
watched its progress until it
apparently disintegrated high
in space.
The Prime Minister was in-
formed that "the purpose of
the test was fully acheived."
He wanted to leave the shelter
immediately but was persuaded
to remain a few minutes when
fears were expressed that some
splinters from the disintegrat-
ing rocket might fall o
area.
a 1- ear was s nd-
When
rime Minister quick-
ed, t
ephoned President Ben-
ly
i. Instructions e s t to
11 Israel diplom
abroad to repo
firing.
The n
complete
m
interupte
ng
to flash
e
tions.
dailies is ed sped
ael has
The count es which
a rocket
now joined in firi
es, Britain,
are the United
Italy, and
Russia, Fra
Japan.
information indi-
Ava .
hat only Sweden and
West Germany were in the
planning stages of firing such
rockets which are of key im-
portance in space r
meteorological
sraeli par ici-
o
The id
rocket research
su
pation
Israeli scientists
fro
cam
wh ook rt in the recent in-
ation geophysical y ar. A
t
ti
ecial research br c
overnment gal,/ t
o-ahead.
Minister David Ben-Gurion
asked the country to return his
Mapai Party to the next Knesset
(Parliament), in the elections
scheduled for Aug. 14, "with an
absolute majority."
He made that plea at a Mapai
rally here, as the election cam-
paign entered its third week,
with all 15 parties on the lists
stepping up their drive for
votes, hammering away at the
recent "Lavon Affair" which
had brought about the fall of
the government, calling for
election reforms, and stressing
Israel's security problems.
Moshe Sharett, former Prim
Minister and ex - Foreign Min
ister, speaking at Bat Yam, near
this city, urged election re-
forms so as to eliminate Israel's
many splinter parties. However,
at a rival meeting, conducted by
the new Liberal Party, Mapai
was chided for that attitude,
and was accused of encouraging
splinter groups.
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