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it began to sink. A fourth missile
exploded in the water, causing
more casualties.
Shortly after the Elath sank,
Israeli Air Force planes appeared
to drop flares, lifeboats and rafts.
Soon afterwards helicopters ar-
rived and began picking up sur-
vivors. Every available air and
naval craft was mobilized for the
rescue operations. Some helicop-
ters, which were carrying the most
severly wounded survivors, were
directed in midair to northern
hospitals for surgery. The airlift
continued all night through this
morning. •
Transport planes illuminated the
area to enable rapid helicopter
pickup. A clearing station was set
up on shore. Capt. Harel said he
never would have believed that the
air force pilots could find the
scene in the night pitch darkness
so quickly and rescue the survi-
vors with such speed.
Capt. Harel said that the mis-
sile attack apparently had been
prepared in advance and waged
from the Port Said area with no
attempt to identify the target ship.
He said that Israeli naval units
regularly patrol the northern Sinai
shores to a point west of the Ro-
mani village. He said the Elath
was on a southerly direction when
it was hit.
•
Cairo Insists Destroyer
Was in Egyptian Waters
UNITED NATIONS — Egypt
reiterated Tuesday an earlier
claim that the destroyer Elath
had been in Egyptian territorial
waters and added that the pres-
ence of the Elath "in United Arab
Republic waters was immediately
reported to the United Nations
Truce Supervisory Organization."
The statement, issued here by
the Egyptian mission, asserted that
Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, UN represen-
tative for Secretary General U
Thant, had declared in his report
on the incident that the Elath was
about 10 miles offshore at the
time of the missile attack. Gen.
Bull said Monday that his UN
observers, lacking sea transport
facilities, had not been in any po-
sition to observe the incident The
Egyptain statement also asserted
that there had been an "exchange
of fire" between the Elath and the
missile boats resulting `‘in the
sinking of thq destroyer."
The statement said that Egyptain
authorities had "expressed their
readiness to assist in the rescue
activities" but that Gen. Bull, had
informed them that "this would
not be necessary." The statement
added that Egypt "undertook not
to interfere with or hamper rescue
activities."
The Egyptain statement recalled
the Elath "previously committed
aggression" against Egypt "when
it sank two Egyptain patrol boats
within UAR territorial waters in
the vicinity of Port Said. This was
a referance to an action which
took place during the 1956 Suez
campaign. The statement added
that the Elath had committed an
"aggression" in the same area
last Saturday and that this was an
indication by Israel "that it ac-
tually seeks to widen the scope of
its wanton attacks by adding to
the already heavy losses of life
and property which have resulted
from its previous bombardment
and shelling of the densely popu-
lated cities along the Suez Canal.
Security Council President Sen-
jin Tsuruoka of Japan called the
Israeli and Egyptain representa-
tives to separate meetings to dis-
cuss the Elath case. He met first
with Foreign Minister Mahmoud
Riad of Egypt and Ambassador
El Khony. Later he saw Ambas-
sador Gideon Rafael and Ambas-
sador Shabtai Rosenne of Israel
who described the sinking of the
ship to hint and stressed the ex-
treme gravity of the situation .
Neither party asked for a meeting
of the Security Council.
With a confirmation by Moscow
that the missiles used to sink the
Israeli destroyer Elath were of the
Soviet Styx type, Russia's role in

the newest incident that threatens
to disrupt the peace of the Middle
East is being exposed in many
quarters.
Rep. Bob Wilson, of California,
ranking Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives Arm-
ed Services Committee, charged
on the House floor that the Egyp-
tian attack on the Elath may have
been a deliberate Soviet test of
American response to the use of
guided missiles against ships with
"very serious implications" for
American vessels off North Viet-
nam. Rep. Wilson said: "The very
least we must do is supply the
Israelis with effective weapons to
counter the new Soviet-Arab offen-
sive building."
House Republican leader
Gerald R. Ford of Michigan told
a press conference Wednesday
that the United States govern-
ment. should funniediately lend
Israel a modern, well-equipped
destroyed to replace the Elath.
The minority leader charged that
the administration has not suf-
ficiently appreciated the extent
of Soviet involvement with the
Arabs and the developing con-
frontation in the Middle East.
Calling for greater support of
Israel, Ford noted in connection
with the Israeli shelling of the
Suez refineries that a Soviet fleet
was using Egyptian ports as fuel-
ing bases and benefiting from
Egypt's oil resources.
He said that "Israel has done a
pretty fine job to help bail the
United States out in the Middle
East"
The Republican leader said Israel
deserved the same consideration as
other nations menaced by Russia
and should be given a destroyer
under an existing loan program on
an identical basis.
Such a move would display
American resolve in answer to the
Soviet involvement in the missile
sinking of the Elath, be said. He
thought the provision of a destroy-
er would deter mounting Soviet-
Arab pressure.
(Several ships of the Russian
navy arrived at Port Said Wednes-
day on what the Cairo newspaper
Al Abram called a "friendly visit"
apparently intended as a deterrent
to Israel from launching any large-
scale attack on Egypt)
Israel's Foreign Minister Abba
Eban conferred with Secretary
of State Dean Rusk for an hour
Monday in Washington. Eban
said there was no discussion of
American arms sales to Israel.
Stating that it was difficult to
see how strengthening of the UN
cease fire machinery would
prevent incidents like the sink-
ing of the Elath, Eban said that
the Egyptian maritime blockade
had shifted from the Straits of
Tiran and the Suez Canal to the
high seas. He said the Elath
tragedy underlines the need to
achieve a permanent peace in
the Middle East.
The State Department refused
to blame Egypt for the attack on
the destroyer Elath but deplored
in general terms the "lack of re-
straint" pertaining to the sinking
of the ship. State Department
press spokesman Robert J. McClos-
key said that the U.S. government
had no independent information
and was unable to say whether the
Math was in Egyptian waters or
outside the international limits.
In London, the British Foreign
Office spokesman termed the sink-
ing of the Elath "one of a long
series of cease-fire infringements,"
and added that "we profoundly
regret" this occurence, "especially
because of the loss of lives "
The British press reacted
sharply to the sinking of the
Elath. It saw the incident dim-
ming hopes for a peaceful settle-
ment in the Middle East and
very possibly leading to a new
outbreak of war.
The Daily Telegraph reported
on the Soviet buildup of Egyptian
military forces. The newspaper
said Egypt was believed to have
received 250 MIG-19 and MIG-21
jet fighter planes, 400 medium

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14 Friday, October 27, 1967

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indicated that Libya and Morocco equipment, and components for
and heavy tanks, 450 guns, includ- needed planes. Israel, in addition radio and other equipment. He said
to
the limited number of planes, all the items cleared were "within
ing anti-aircraft weapons, and 1,200
will receive spare parts, repair the spirit of restraint."
trucks.
The Telegraph said that there
had been little buildup in Egypt's
naval strength because Egypt suf-
fered only minor sea losses in the
Six-Day War. The newspaper said
that Egypt had 17 Soviet-made,
speedy patrol boats equipped with
the Styx micciles
JTA reports from Paris that
French newspapers also took a
grim view of the Middle East situ-
ation and predicted that the in-
cident will have grave conse-
quences on the prospects for a
solution of the Middle East crisis.
A popular subscription began
Tuesday for funds to buy a new
destroyer for Israel to replace the
Elath. The destroyer will be a gift
of the people of France to the peo-
ple of Israel.
Britain's former War Minister
Emmanuel Shinwell told a 59th
anniversary celebration of the
proclamation of the Balfour Decla-
ration in London that the sinking
of the Elath was the result of
encouragement given to Egyp-
tian leaders by Foreign Secre-
tary George Brown. John Briggs-
Davidson, a Conservative MI',
addressing the gathering held
under the auspices of the Board
of Deputies of British Jews, de-
nounced the "appeasement, or
rather resurrection of a beaten
and bankrupt Cairo junta."
Both condemned Brown's stand
that Israel had to withdraw from
the territories it had occupied
in June.
Former Foreign Minister Sir
Alec Douglas-Home told the Con-
servative Party conference at
Brighton of the need to safeguard
Britain's vital interests in nego-
tiations with Nasser on resumption
of relations. He charged Egypt had ,
gotten into her economic plight
"by her provocative war with
Israel."
At the UN it was announced that
A Medical, Legal and Religious
King Hussein of Jordan is expec-
Colloquy to be Presented by
ted to arrive in New York Satur-
day for a probable address before
either the General Assembly or the
Security Council, of which Jordan
is a member. Hussein, who re-
cently visited Moscow and then
PANELISTS
went to Cairo, will visit Algeria
and several other Arab countries
before coming to New York.
• • •
U. S. Lifts Arms Embargo;
Israel to Get a Few Jets
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
State Department officially an-
nounced Tuesday that "selected
items" of military equipment, in
limited quantities, have been re-
leased for shipment to Israel and
five Arab states.
Israel will receive a small num-
Saul Leach, LL.B.
E/flot Luny, M.D.
Renate Simon, D.O.
ber of the Douglas Skyhawk jets
purchased in 1966. Morocco and
Libya will also receive military
jets. Munitions of various types,
other than aircraft, will go to Saudi
Arabia, Lebanon and Tunisia. The
provision of US. weapons to Jordan
remains "under consideration,"-
State Department spokesman
Robert McCloskey said. Tuesday's
announcement pertained to the em-
bargo on arms shipments to the
Middle East placed in effect by the
Kurt Stern, M.D.
Paul Wolf, M.D.
Israel Davidson'',
U.S.A. last June.
M.D.
McCloskey noted that Soviet
arms shipments to the Middle East
were being "maintained at a sub-
Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1967 . . . 8:30 P.M.
stantially high level" to Egypt,
Donation . . . $3.00 per Person.
Syria and Iraq. The Russians also
are understood to have offered
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munitions to other Arab states. Mc-
Or Call UN 4-6428
Closkey added that the United
, States government still was inter-
ested in seeking an agreement with
the USSR to limit the flow of arms
to the Mideast, but so far has had
no success.
According to McCloskey, the
Arabs required spare parts. It was

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