'Large Measure of Agreement' Reached in Bonn Talks
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BONN — A "large measure" of agreement has been reached on a West G-erthan
program of economic aid to Israel for 1966 and the pact was to be signed Thursday,
State Secretary Gunther von Hase, the government press spokesman, announced at a
press conference Wednesday. He said the--agreement covered only the current year
and that new negotiations would have to take place in future years.
Yaacov Arnon and Zeev Shek, the two members of the Israeli delegation who went
to Jerusalem during the past weekend for instructions, returned to Bonn with orders
paving the way for the agreement.
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According to the sources, the amount of aid to be given in the current year is
limited by West Germany's budgetary curtailment law but the agreement will include
a statement of West German intent to give aid in the future.
The sources said that the expected agreement will not include any technical aid
because the condition under which West Germany was ready to provide such aid
rendered it unacceptable to Israel.
There will not be any secret clauses in the pact. The terms of the agreement will
be published in full in German and in Hebrew. It will be signed by Ambassador Asher
Ben-Nathan for Israel and by State Secretary Rolf Lahr of West Germany.
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ICosygin's Cairo Visit Marked
By Renewed Anti-Israel Attacks
`Exceptional Gravity' Caused
By Jordon Firing on Israel;
2 Dead, 3 !Wounded at Hebron
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VIV -- Two Israelis were killed and three wounded
Tuesday night in an attack by Jordanian gunposts on a unit of
Israeli soldiers working on a patrol path in the Hebron area.
Israel had notified Jordan on Monday through the United
Nations Truce Supervisory Organization that work would begin
Wednesday morning on the path, which is near the Dvir settle-
ment west of Mount Hebron about 800 feet from the border.
The workers, aided by a tractor and a ground leveler, were on
the job without being disturbed through most of the day. How-
ever, late in the day, the Jordanians suddenly opened fire, first
with machine guns then with mortars.
The covering army unit immediately returned the fire, using
machineguns and mortars. One of the workers was killed and the
three injured in the initial round of shooting. The second Israeli
fatality was a member of a unit sent in as a reinforcement. United
Nations officials arranged a cease fire which was broken by the
Jordanians in 10 minutes. The Jordanians ignored three additional
.cease-fire proposals and continued to fire intermittently late into
the night. The attack caused some brush fires in the area but there
Was no damage to any settlement.
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JERUSALEM—Israel considers the attack by Jordan near
Mount Hebron Tuesday as one of exceptional gravity, and has
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LONDON (JTA) — Strong anti-Israel propaganda was carried in the Soviet
press on the eve of the departure to Cairo of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin
for an 11-day visit as guest of Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser. An
attack on Israel was carried in Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet government,
asserting that Israel was trying to "provoke" an armed clash with Syria. Similar
attacks against Israel have been carried during the last few days in many Soviet pub-
lications, local and regional. .
The Izvestia article said that Israel is trying to justify its "armed provocations"
against Syria "on the pretext that subversive groups operate from Syrian territory."
These "subversive groups" are members of the El Fatah Arab terrorist organization
which Israel has accused repeatedly of being directed from Syria while some of them
operate often from Jordan.
The latest terrorist act of the El Fatah infiltrators was the blowing up last Fri-
day night of an irrigation pipe in an Israeli settlement, EM Yahav, in the Negev.
Three El Fatah attacks last week forced Israel to retaliate against Jordanian El Fatah
bases which, according to Israel, were directed out of Syria.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann expressed his •shock and grief at the joint state-
ment by the Soviet and Syrian Prime Ministers in which Kosygin joined Dr. Yussef
Zayen in attacking the Zionist movement as being "exploited by the imperialist pow-
ers in increasing tension in the Middle East." In a statement he said:
"This is the first time that a Prime Minister of the USSR has, in an official de-
claration, described the Zionist movement as a 'movement exploited for increasing
tension.' It is to be deplored that this declaration was issued by the head of a
country which has given recognition to the struggles of the Zionist movement and
which has supported the establishment of the State of Israel, which is the outcome
of the efforts made by the Zionist movement.
"It is particularly painful that this declaration was given by the Prime Minister
of the USSR jointly with the head of the government of an Arab country which is re-
markable for its hatred of Israel and in its uninterrupted aggression against the
State of Israel."
A petition for the granting of full religious and cultural rights of Soviet Jews
was rejected in London by the USSR Embassy, after 1,000 students staged a parade
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Adenauer Returns to West Germany in Cordial
Mood, Views His Visit in Positive Way' at Bonn
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BONN — Former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer re.
turned Tuesday from an eight-day visit to Israel and told
throng at the airport that "the ordinary man in the
:Street" in Israel had been interested in his visit "in a
positive way."
He was greeted by Israeli Ambassador Asher Ben-
Nathan, ministers of Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's cabinet,
members of his family and a large number of press and
television reporters. .Dr. Adenauer also said he had talked
with Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol a second time before
leaving and that ."we agreed on all questions."
He also commented on the demonstrations against
his visit, of which the largest and most violent had been
a massive protest by 1,000 students at the Hebrew Uni-
versity on his visit to that institution.
He said the demonstrators had consisted mostly of
youngsters and students and remarked that "youth was
prone to folly" but should not be taken too seriously. He
praised Israel's energy and said "Israelis searching for
peace in the same way that we are."
He was asked whether the people of Israel under-
stood the most important task of his life, which he has
defined as achievement. of Jewish-German reconciliation.
He replied that he was sure that they did.
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TEL AVIV — Former West German Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer completed Tuesday an action-packed eight-
day visit to Israel with an assurance that he would
continue to work actively for Israel.
His departure from Lydda Airport was delayed 30
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minutes after police received an anonymous report that
a bomb had been placed on the El Al airliner taking him
back to West Germany. He finally departed after police
boarded the plane fdr a search and found no explosives
and after he conferred informally with Premier Levi
Eshkol. The premier substituted for Foreign Minister
Abba Eban, who is en route to Warsaw for the first visit
to an Eastern European bloc country by an Israeli foreign
minister.
It was reported that during the final Adenauer-Eshkol
conversation the two men clarified a "misunderstanding"
which developed at a luncheon given by the premier for
the visiting West Germanstatesman. On that occasion,
the premier had reiterated a general Israeli belief that
West Getman reparatios and indemnification payments,
while welcome and needed, could not atone for the Nazi
wartime slaughter of 6,000,000 European Jews. The former
chancellor had retorted that if the Jewish people rejected
German expressions of good will, nothing good could
result.
The former premier's assurance of undiminished sup-
port for Israel was made in a comment to the Jewish Tele-
graphic agency. He also reiterated that he had been
"deeply impressed with what I saw here and I will inform
everybody I meet of this."
Declaring he would "try to gather maximum support
for Israel and its people," Dr. Adenauer also told the
JTA that he believed Germany had a moral responsibility
for Israel's continued existence. He expressed gratification
at the pending completion of talks in Bonn on West Ger-
man economic aid to Israel, adding he had told "all West
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German authorities about the political and moral im-
portance of reaching an agreement with Israel."
Obviously pleased with the results of his visit, despite
several student demonstrations against his presence in
Israel, Dr. Adenauer said he hoped his tour would con-
tribute to further rapprochement between West Germany
and Israel.
He shook hands repeatedly with Premier Echkol at
the airport and stood for several minutes at the top of
the boarding steps waving to a small crowd which had
gathered to witness his departure.
Another highlight of his visit was a trip through
the sweltering Negev Monday to visit his "old friend,"
former Premier David Ben-Gurion, who had issued the
invitation to Dr. Adenauer to visit Israel when both
were in power. The Israel government picked up the
invitations so that Dr. Adenauer came as a guest of the
government.
The two elderly world figures met at the entrance
to Ben-Gurion's plain house at his retreat at Sde Boker.
The former premier was dressed in khaki trousers and
a short-sleeved khaki shirt. Adenauer wore a formal grey
suit. They shook hands at length and patted each other
on the shoulder.
They sat side by' si& in the modest dining hall of
the Sde Boker Kibbutz for lunch. In an impromptu talk,
Ben-Gurion lauded the former chancellor as "a great
statesman who had the courage to stand up to the ma-
jority of his people during the Nazi rule, a man who had
the courage to rebuild his country and his people and who
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