Eshkol Visit With LBJ Spurs Quest for Arms
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Mr. and Mrs. Eshkol were given
reception at the Airport Syna-
gogue. The luncheon by Thant, at
UN headquarters, will take place
today. Saturday, he will attend
services at the Fifth Avenue Syna-
gogue. He will fly to Texas on
Sunday.
Next Wednesday, he will meet
with Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and
address a luncheon here at the
Overseas Press Club and attend
the opera with Mayor and Mrs.
John V. Lindsay. There will also
be a reception for Mr. and Mrs.
Eshkol at the Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts, where the
Metropolitan Opera is located.
The dinner honoring Eshkol,
Thursday evening at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel, will be attended by
representatives of all major, na-
tional, Jewish organizations. The
invitations to the dinner have been
sent out by Max M. Fisher and
Edward Ginsberg, president and
general chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal; and by Abraham
A. Feinberg and Samuel Rothberg,
president and national campaign
chairman of the Israel Bonds Or-
ganization.
Mr. and Mrs. Eshkol will leave
for Israel next Friday.
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Extra Security Measures Set
as SNCC Affirms Anti-Zionism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol has been
assigned much heavier police
and Secret Service protection than
he was given in the course of his
1964 visit because of indications
of possible violence by Black
Power extremists.
The Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation has opened an investigation
of new expressions by the Student
Non - Violent Coordinating Com-
mittee (SNCC) advocating attacks
on President Johnson "to make
hint afraid to leave the White
House." The first foreign official
guest of the President, following
the emergence of the more extreme
SNCC line, is Eshkol. In the same
issue of the SNCC publication ad-
vocating violence against President
Johnson, the Black Power group
said it "reaffirms its political op-
position to Zionism."
Last August, SNCC published a
rabble-rousing attack on Israel
and Jews that drew severe criti-
cism from Jewish groups. It was
then charged that SNCC had
moved from militancy to anti-
Semitism.
The FBI has quietly cautioned
the New York City Police De-
partment and other security
agencies to guard against possi-
ble SNCC attempts to embarrass
President Johnson by extremist
demonstrations or actions against
Eshkol, the President's personal
guest. Eshkol makes a conveni-
ent target because he represents
a nation currency under heavy
fire from the leftist supporters
of Arab extremism in the United
States. It was learned from
reliable sources that additional
security measures have been
instituted both in New York and
at the LBJ Ranch in Texas.
,The FBI probe of SNCC followed
appearance in the latest SNCC
publication of an article urging
protesters to spit at President
Johnson and "attack his limousine
to make him afraid to leave the
White House." The attacks are
advocated as part of a new strategy
to make the President fearful of
Israeli Senior Citizens
Number Quarter of Million
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Dr.Yitz-
bok Margolin, a specialist in geria-
trics, said here, that in 1968 there
will be in Israel 250,000 residents
aged 60 and over, comprising 10
per cent of the entire population.
The number of oldsters have
multiplied five-fold since the es-
tablishment of the state, whereas
the general population has in-
Creased only three-fold. Dr. Mar-
golin added that the older citizens
pose a difficult problem for the
whole country, especially for the
kibutchn who are trying to solve it.
moving about in public. The article
was written by Julius Lester, an
associate of Stokely Carmichael
and SNCC chairman H. Rap
Brown. Lester is a field secretary
of SNCC who recently returned
from a trip to Cuba and North
Vietnam.
Lester urged that the Presi-
dent "be spat upon wherever
he goes to tell his lies. His
limousine will find the street
filled with tacks and thousands
of people who will surge around
it, smashing the windows and
rocking the car until it is turned
on its side."
SNCC did not publicly urge such
actions against Premier Eshkol,
but the coincidence of the official
visit with the announcement of
the new line and the simultaneous
reaffirmation of a militant anti-
Israel stand were deemed adequate
by security authorities to take
precautionary measures.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
is expected to participate in the
talks bet ween Johnson and
Eshkol, official sources indi-
cated. Another participant will
be Lucius D. Battle, assistant
Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs. Officials of the
defense department are reported
to have been invited.
The Washington Post stated that
Eshkol is coming in hopes of ob-
taining an American commitment
to sell new arms to Israel, espe-
cially Phantom jets, and that ad-
ministration sources indicate Esh-
kol is not likely to go home empty-
banded. According to the Post,
however, these administration of-
ficials say that Johnson has as yet
made no firm decision. In his talks
with Eshkol he must take into con-
sideration the coming visit to Cairo
of Soviet Communist Party boss
Leonid Brezhnev, the Arab sum-
mit conference at Rabat this month,
and the mission of the United Na-
tions' special envoy to the Middle
East, Ambassador Gunnar Jarr-
ing. "Thus," the Post said, "he is
unlikely to go all the way with
Eshkol."
Israel Cabinet Debates
Instructions to Eshkol
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's
cabinet pondered last week what
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol is to
tell President Johnson during their
talks in Texas next week, if the
President presses him for a sub-
stantive statement on the future
of occupied Arab territories.
Israel's insistence on direct
p e a c e negotiations with the
Arabs, and her refusal to with-
draw from occupied Arab terri-
tories until a peace treaty is
signed, will be conveyed by Esh-
kol to President Johnson. These
were the guidelines laid down for
the Prime Minister's American
visit at a Cabinet session here
Saturday night, and announced
in a communique signed by all
Cabinet members.
The communique ex press ed
hopes for improved relations be-
tween Israel and the United States
and Canada. Great Britain was not
mentioned in the communique be-
cause there has been no official
announcement of the Prime Minis-
ter's intention to visit there on his
way home from the U.S.A. Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir will be act-
ing Prime Minister during Esh-
kol's absence.
Meanwhile, the Soviet news-
paper, Pravda, charged that Is-
rael was seeking to Involve the
United States in the Middle East
dispute and said that was the
reason for Eshkol's forthcoming
visit to the United States. The Com-
munist Party organ said that "the
fact that Eshkol strives to discuss
the Middle East situation first with
the United States shows that he
plans to create an impression that
the United States is the decisive
force in the Middle East and that
an appeal to Washington is a key
to liquidation of the Middle East
crisis." The paper went on to ac-
cuse the United States of support-
ing "Israeli aggression from the
very first day" and said that
Washington wants to preserve
tensions in the area. Pravda
reiterated the Soviet demand for
immediate Israeli withdrawal from
occupied Arab lands.
The London Financial Times
said the outcome of the Johnson-
Eshkol talks "could have an im-
portant effect on any Arab de-
cisions to be taken by the Rabat
summit conference on Jan. 17. The
London newspaper stressed that
only the United States could fill
the role of arbiter between the
Arabs and Israel. The London
journal said that "it is now clear
even to the Arab nations that the
Israelis are not going to allow
the diplomats to push them out of
territory that their soldiers have
won." It asserted that the Ameri-
can administration was known
"to feel some irritation now at
Israel's continuing hard line. In
particular, it is worried about
Israel policy on some of the oc-
cupied territories, which it does
not see as suggesting that the
Israelis are prepared to with-
draw, even on favorable terms to
themselves."
According to the Financial
Times, the United States adminis-
tration is also worried about the
way in which the Soviet Union
has so rapidly re-equipped the
Egyptians. It suggested that Prime
Minister Eshkol, in his talks with
President Johnson, might play
upon this fear to ask for a sub-
stantial supply of arms.
The Guardian said that Eshkol
was coming here to secure British
"understanding" of Israel's insis-
tance on direct peace talks with
the Arab states. However, some
circles indicated their belief that
this speculation was premature,
since no agenda forthe conference
has been fixed.
Thus far, no final date for
Eshkol's visit has been set. But it
is believed that the Israeli pre-
mier will arrive here Jan. 16, the
day he is scheduled to leave the
United States. He is expected to
stay here a couple of days. There
was no comment Tuesday about
any of the*threports from the
spokesman of e Israeli Embassy
here.
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Eshkol to Ask for 50 Bombers
at Washington Meeting
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON — Israel's Prime Min-
ister Levi Eshkol will ask Presi-
dent Johnson for 50 Phantom jet
bombers at their meeting in Texas
Sunday, the Da i l y Express
Washington correspondent report-
ed Tuesday, but while "it is un-
likely that Eshkol will be turned
away empty-handed, the President
is not likely to give Israel all the
arms it wants."
The Express correspondent ob-
served that President Johnson is
reluctant to have the United
States become a major supplier
of arms to the Middle East. "He
will agree to provide Israel with
modern equipment only if Israel
cannot get it from another friend-
ly nation," the report said.
Meanwhile, circles close to the
British government Confirmed
Tuesday previous reports that
Israel's Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol is definitely scheduled
to visit London, where he will
confer with Prime Minister
Harold Wilson and Foreign
Secretary George Brown.
As far as Britain was concerned,
it was said, no definite agenda for
the Angelo-Israeli meeting has
been set, and either side will be
free to bring up any problem that
it thinks relevant to their discus-
sions at this stage.
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