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Mg from Damascus, as well as on
Soviet charges that Israel was
planning with other countries to
invade and overthrow the current
leftist Syrian regime.
"Israel is an open country," he
said. "And foreign journalists can
come and see the factual position.
He can also come and see in Jeru-
salem what the saboteurs did and
what happened to the broder po-
licemen near the Syrian border."
The premier m e t Tuesday
morning with Walworth Barbour,
United States ambassador to Is-
rael, and impressed on the envoy
the gravity and anguish Israel felt
over the newest Syrian-sponsored
raid. He was scheduled to meet
later with the Soviet, French and
British ambassadors for the same
purpose.
He was expected to tell Soviet
envoy Dimitri Chuvahin that the
Soviet Union bore a special re-
sponsibility for the Syrian in-
cursions because of its influence
on the Syrian regime. He was
expected to urge the envoy to
persuade the Soviet Union to
use that influence to bring about
a relaxation of tensions on the
Syrian - Israel border' to help
preserve peace.
Additional details became
known Tuesday concerning the
content of the talks Monday be-
tween Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, chief
of staff of the United Nations
Truee Supervision Organization,
and Moshe Sasson, head of the
Israeli foreign ministry's armistice
affairs division. Sasson reportedly
asked Gen. Bull not to rest content
with investigating incursion in-
cidents but to take diplomatic
initiatives to prevent them.
Gen. Bull was told that threats
of belligerence, including open
admissions from Damascus of
sabotage and murder acts against
Israel, were themselves grave
violations of the Syrian-Israeli
armistice agreement and should be
treated as such. Israeli officials
expressed the hope to Gen. Bull
that UNTSO would take the initia-
tive to prevent such incidents as
the Saturday night ambush.
Observers here indicated a
belief that Israel would press
for reconsideration of the armi-
stice agreements to make threats
of violence and admissions of
breaches of the armistice to no
less a degree than findings of
the Mixed Armistice Commis-
sion of such breaches. Mean-
while, UNTSO officials con-
tinued an investigation into both
the Saturday night ambush at
Shaer Hagolan and the Romema
section blasts in Jerusalem a
few hours earlier. Israel holds
Syria responsible for both in-
cidents.
Evidence of Syrian nervousness
was reported Tuesday by ob-
servers near the border. There
were sporadic shots from Syrian
border gun positions and Syrian
searchlights swept the area from
time to time. Israeli farm work-
ers in the valley near the border
stayed away from work Tuesday.
Israel continued to press for
Security Council action, without
an open meeting and without
open debate, on grievances it
presented to the Council Tues-
day.
Israel's Foreign Minister Abba
Eban said his government wants
immediate action from the Secu-
rity Council without resort to de-
bates that could last for weeks.
Tuesday, Comay pressed for such
moves in separate meetings with
two of the major permanent mem-
bers on the Council, Dr. Nikolai
T. Fedorenko and Arthur J. Gold-
berg, the delegation chairmen, re-
spectiviely, for the Soviet Union
and the United States. Later, he
met also with the delegation heads
of three of the Council's non-
permanent members — New Zea-
land, Nigeria and Uganda. He was
to consult further with other non-
permanent members of the Coun-
cil here.
In a series of swift, urgent

reported as having seen a large
group of Soviet military advisers
near the Syrian-Israel border.
WASHINGTON — Israel Am-
bassador Avraham Harman called
Tuesday at the State Department
to discuss the "gravity" of escala-
tion of acts of terrorism against
Israel by Syrian-based Arab com-
mandoes.
Harman met with Raymond
Hare, assistant secretary of state
for Near Eastern affairs. A
spokesman for the Israel embassy
here later said the ambassador
stressed the gravity of incidents
which constituted a chain of escala-
tion over recent weeks. He noted
that these developments occurred
within the framework of what the
Syrian government has proclaimed
"an all-embracing war of libera-
tion" against Israel.
Israel is being urged by the
State Department to exercise
maximum restraint in the face of
Syrian provocations, and to seek
relief through the machinery of
the United Nations, it was learned
from government sources who de-
plored Syrian conduct, but felt
Israeli reprisal would exacerbate
the situation. It was believed that
these views were communicated
by Hare to Ambassador Harman.
Government sources indicated that
Israel asked the United States
government to use diplomatic in-
fluence to restrain Syria from
allowing continued terrorist ac-
tivities against Israel.
Comay Recalls 61 Cases
of Terrorism Since 1965
In the letter to the Security
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Council, Comay told that body:
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — An Israeli soldier "All the information has con-
was wounded Wednesday morning vinced my government, beyond
in an exchange of fire with all reasonable doubt that:
Jordanians near Me-Aami settle-
1. The 61 cases of murder, sabotage
ment in central Israel. The settle- and
mine-laying in Israeli territory,
perpetrated
by armed infiltrators since
ment is near the Ul Elfahem vil-
January 1965, form a single pattern of
lage where a Jordanian espionage guerrilla-type activities; 2. These raids
have been organized, equipped and di-
ring was uncovered last week.
rected by the Syrian authorities and
A mine identified as one of a armed
forces; 3. The pattern of plan-
type used by the Syrian army was ned raiding by paramilitary organiza-
tions
must
be seen in the context of a
found Tuesday near the Maayan 'peoples' war
of liberation' which has
Baruch settlement in Upper been proclaimed by the present na-
Galilee. Officials said it appeared tional leaders of Syria against another
United Nations member state, Israel."
that the mine was placed some
The Comay letter to the Security
Council
continued by stating: "The
time ago.

moves Monday — Including meet-
ings with Secretary General U
Thant and Lord Caradon of
Britain, this month's president of
the Security Council, a letter to
the entire membership of the
Security Council, and a heavily
attended press conference here —
Eban called upon the international
community to take immediate and
"urgent" action to persuade Syria
to halt its attacks against Israel
without recourse to lengthy de-
bates. Eban declared that he has
requested "immediate a c t i o n,
today and tomorrow."
In the letter to the Security
Council, signed by Ambassador
Michael S. Comay, Israel's per-
manent representative here, the
15-member body was told: "My
government must reaffirm its duty
to take whatever measures may
be necessary for the defense of
its citizens and the integrity of
its borders."
Eban charged that "Syria is try-
ing to embroil the other Arab
governments, especially Jordan,"
in the expansion and broadening
of the tensions on the Israeli
borders. "The Arab frontiers fac-
ing Israel are always just as
turbulent or just as quiet as the
Arab governments want them to
be," Eban said. "On the Syrian
frontier, we believe, there is a
desire to keep the borders in
turbulence. By any definition, this
is a serious international situa-
tion."
Another Casualty—
This Time by Jordan

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

LONDON — Syrian Premier
Yussef Zayyan announced Tuesday
that in case "of any israeli aggres-
sion reprisals against S y r i a,
we shall set the area on fire and
turn it into a cemetery for Israel,
imperialism, a n d imperialistic
agents," it was reported here from
Damascus.
He made the statement in
response to one by Premier Eshkol
that Israel would act to cope with
further border incidents.
Syrian troop reinforcements
have been moved up to the Israel
border area in anticipation of a
possible Israeli reprisal raid for
the Saturday night ambush which
killed four Israeli border patrol,
the Daily Telegraph reported
Tuesday from Beirut. The dis-
patch said that the government-
operated Damascus Radio was
praising recent El Fatah attacks
against Irsael from Syrian stag-
ing areas.
The Telegraph reported that
the shaky position of the present
leftist regime in Syria, together
with the growing interest of the
Soviet Union and Communist
China in the area, where adding
to the tense atmosphere in the
Middle East.
Jordan particularly was re-
ported' to be very concerned that
Syria's leaders might irresponsibly
provoke a situation which could
touch off a major Arab-Israel
military clash, the Telegraph re-
ported. The dispatch noted that the
Syrian government was now open-
ly supporting the activities of the
El Fatah and that Arab com-
mandoes had received guerrilla
training in Communist China.
The Telegraph said that the
Soviet Union was providing a new
buildup of weapons for the Syrian
armed forces with an increasing
number of military technicians.
Western sources in Damascus were

formal Syrian denials of responsibility,
made for the United Nations record,
are devoid of truth or credibility. The
denials are contradicted by the Syrian
Government itself, when it continues to
declare that it is pursuing a 'war of
liberation' against Israel; when its of-
ficial government radio puts out boast-
ful 'war communiques' about the raids;
and when it furiously denounces other
neighboring Arab states for attempting
to deny to the raiding squads transit
through their territory.
"I am instructed once more to put
on record my Government's view that
the Government of Syria is deliberately
engaged in planned aggression against
Israel. It is the earnest hope of the
Israel Government that members of the
Security Council, concerned as they are
with preserving international peace and
security, will impress upon the Gov-
ernment of Syria the need to call an
immediate, complete and final halt
to these attacks, lest the border situa-
tion deteriorate sharply."

(In Paris, the French govern-
ment was informed by Israel of
the facts concerning the latest El
Fatah attacks. The influential
Parisian newspaper Le Monde em-
phasized in its reports on the
situation that it did not believe
Israel "would stand with arms
folded in the face of the Arab
attacks.")
Israel Mounts Diplomatic
Efforts to Tell World
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Is-
rael government mounted a major
diplomatic effort to impress on
the major powers and the United
Nations the gravity with which
it viewed a new and death-deal-
ing Syrian incursion.
Four members of an Israeli
border patrol were killed Satur-
day night and two were wounded,
when their jeep hit a mine be-
lieved planted by members of the
El Fatah terrorist organization

Shazar Gets 'Checkup

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM — President Zal-
man Shazar was taken to the
hospital Tuesday for what was of-
ficially described as a routine
checkup. Several presidential re-
ceptions were canceled at the last
minute.

coming from Syria, in what was
regarded as one of the worst
border incidents in recent years.
That incident was the second in
48 hours. About midnight, Satur-
day, infiltrators whose tracks
were traced to the Jordanian
border planted explosives in the
Romema Elite suburb in Jeru-
salem. The blasts severely dam-
aged two buildings and injured
four persons.
At a meeting of the Cabinet
it was reiterated that Israel holds
responsible those Arab states
from which the maurauders come,
specifically, in the latest cases,
Syria and Jordan, but that the
principal responsibility for the
raids rests on Syria.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency
correspondent who visited the site,
a half mile from the Syrian
border, found a scene of havoc.
The jeep in which the border
patrol rode was a mass of charred
metal. Pieces of the vehicle, as
well as personal belongings of the
patrol members, hung from nearby
trees. There is a long lane bor-
dered by pine trees and orange
groves, and it was on this lane
that the jeep command car was
riding when the patrol members
heard explosions at a corner of the
kibutz Shaar Hagolan. Driving to
investigate, the patrol sent the jeep
over a huge mine. Observers said

this was the first time that in-
filtrators had deliberately set an
ambush for police officers.
A charge by Pravda, the of-
ficial Soviet government news-
paper, that Israel was planning
to invade Syria and overthrow
its government evoked an em-
phatic rebuff from Israel. A
foreign ministry spokesman de-
scribed the charge as "complete-
ly groundless.'
The development occurred
against a background of Syria
forecasts of imminent hostiliti
with Israel which surprised Israe-
officials. They were equally amaz-
ed by Syrian statements that such
a conflict would spread to other
Arab states.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
36—Friday, October 14, 1966

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