Lebanon Gets Into the Act of Te rrorism Against Israel (Continued from Page 1) Lord Caradon of Britain, this month's council president, • met with Corneliu Manescu, president of the General Assembly. There is the possibility that the assembly might debate the Middle East is- sue before it concludes its current session about June 1. Manescu also had a visit from Egyptian Ambassador Mohammed Awad el Kony. It was announced Wednesday that Habib Bourguiba, president of Tunisia, will visit here next week and is scheduled to ad- dyes the assembly. Bourguiba has been the only outspoken critic of Egypt's President Ga- mal Abdel Nasser in the Arab bloc, having consistently called for a change in the Arab bloc's persistent refusal to consider possible peace talks with Israel. Israel charged Wednesday in a letter to the Security Council that the Lebanese government has join- ed the rest of the hostile Arab bloc in aiding and encouraging Arab sabotage inside Israel. In a letter to Lord Caradon, Yosef Tekoah, Israel's permanent representative here, alleged that the government of Lebanon has opened a recruit- ing office in Beirut for the enroll- ment of Arab terrorists and has established a training center "for Lebanese young men for joining the Fedayeen movement." The training center, according to Tek- oah, is in the Lebanese town of Sidon. Tekoah notified the council that Lebanon's prime minister has "publicly pledged support to war- fare by terror. He encouraged Le- banese nationals to join organiza- tions conducting such warfare and promised them arms to fight Is- rael." Regarding the shelling of the Lebanese village, which Tekoah . said occurred as a result of the Allied Campaign Leaders Salute Israel Anniversary ; Aides of Education Honored shelling of an Israeli village from the Lebanese side, Tekoah added "it is regrettable that Arab regu- lar and irregular forces frequently choose to emplace their firing posi- tions within or adjacent to inhabit- ed points, thus exposing the local civilian population to the hazards of Arab aggression." Tekoah charged that Lebanon has violated the cease fire to which it had agreed last June and stated: "Israel has respected and will con- tinue to respect the cease fire with Lebanon on a basis of reciprocity. As long as no attacks are carried out from Lebanese territory, tran- quility prevails in the Israel-Le- banon sector." An impassioned plea to the Security Council to act to halt Arab warfare, particularly Jor- danian, against Israel, was made last week in the Security Coun- cil by Tekoah. Tekoah told the council that in the last three weeks, Jordanian military posi- tions had attacked Israeli vil- lages and Israeli forces with ar- tillery and mortar fire "no less than 25 times." He said that "Israel comes before the Secur- ity Council in plea not to allow this warfare to continue." He detailed recent attacks by Jor- danian army regulars and by commando units, some of whom have Egyptian army uniforms and some who had crossed into Israel from Jordan after corn- ing. to Jordan from Syria. Tekoah rejected every one of Jordan's charges . of persecution and harassment of the Arabs in Jerusalem. Israelis Skeptical of Arab Change of Heart on Talks JERUSALEM (JTA) — Diplo- matic sources here discounted re- ports disseminated from Arab quarters that the Arab-Israeli deadlock would soon be broken as a result of Arab agreement to "in- direct" talks at United Nations headquarters in New York. Al- though Israel has also agreed to talks in New York, there have been no new developments, and the Arab-inspired "optimism" is part of their propaganda warfare in- tended to make the Arabs appear more reasonable before interna- tional opinion, these sources said. They stressed that as long as Arab spokesmen continued to reject Is- rael's basic requirement — accept- ance of the Nov. 22, 1967 Security Council resolution for a just and lasting peace in secure and recog- nized borders—there can be little hope that direct peace talks will get started. As long as the word "peace" is missing from Arab statements, those statements amount to little more than "eye- wash," the diplomatic sources stated. (A Christian Science Monitor dispatch from the United Nations Monday quoted reports from Cairo to the effect that "President Nas- ser has apparently come to the con- clusion that a solution in the Mid- dle East must be sought in diplo- macy, not war." The dispatch said that Ambassador Arthur J. Gold- berg would not have spoken as forcefully as he did last week when he called on the S'ecurity Council to give explicit expression of its support for the Jarring mis- sion "had riot Washington been convinced that circumstances in the Middle East now are favor- able." An editorial in the Chris- tian Science Monitor warned of the dangers in failure to negotiate an Arab-Israeli understanding now in the light of the Russian involve- ment at Egypt's side. The editorial said this was "reportedly now down to the squad level" and it asked: "What happens, for ex- ample, if Russians start getting killed?") (The London Evening Standard reported that the Soviet Union was beefing up Egypt's submarine fleet to the point where Egypt may en- joy maritime control of the Eastern Mediterranean. The paper said that Russia had supplied 16 sub- marines to Egypt, eight mine- sweepers, eight sub-chasers, 18 missile craft, 44 torpedo boats, six rocket assault vessels, 18 landing craft and six tugs. (In London, King Hussein told a press conference that the Arabs were "genuinely striving" for peace but were being blocked by Israel's refusal to implement the Security Council resolution of Nov. 22. He told newsmen that "if time passes and no progress is made, we will have to search for other ways and means.") The Knesset overwhelmingly re- jected a motion of "no confidence" in the government, submitted by Shmuel Tamir on behalf of the three-man Free Center faction, an offshoot of Herut. The vote was 64 to 3. All other opposition groups abstained. The motion was sub- mitted on grounds that the govern- ment had accepted the Nov. 22 Se- curity Council resolution which among other things, calls for Is- rael's withdrawal from occupied Arab territories. Tamir accused the government of preparing pub- lic opinion for a withdrawal which, he contended, was contrary to popular sentiment. The Free Cen- ter, like the Herut from which it broke away, demands that the pres- ent cease-fire lines be made Is- rael's permanent borders. Israel Warns Lebanon Not to Permit Guerrillas to Operate From Its Territory TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel offi- cially warned Lebanon not to per- mit its territory to be used as a base for terrorist attacks. The second mortar attack in five days from Lebanese soil developed shortly after midnight Monday, and Israeli forces, for the first time, returned the fire. According to a military spokesman, three shells exploded harmlessly in a field be- longing to the northern Galilee settlement of Margaliot. An inves- tigation confirmed that the fire originated across the Lebanese border. A Lebanese army report in Beirut claimed that Israeli mor- tar fire had killed a woman and a child and destroyed or damaged several houses in the border vil- lage of Houleh Sunday night. Premier Levi Eshkol expressed the hope, during a weekend tour of newly-established defense settle- ments in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, that the "defense wall be- ing built here will be both green and strong." Speaking at a Nahal outpost, the Premier declared that those who "remember the 20 years of suffering by settlements in the valley below the Golan Heights can appreciate our position here as a defense wall against all kinds of evil." Two Israeli soldiers were wound- ed in a clash with El Fatah sabo- teurs north of Jericho Sunday. One of the El Fatah members was kill- ed and another captured. The widely separated terrorist attacks this week indicated that the El Fatah may be opening new fronts against Israel, one on the, previously quiet Lebanese border and the other in the occupied Sinai desert, military sources - said. Washington Post Says Israel Considers Building - Own Jet Warplanes WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel is considering building her own jet fighter aircraft because of lack of confidence in the United States as a trustworthy source, Alfred Friendly reported in a dispatch from Jerusalem to the Washington Post. The report said that "a non- specific, nonpublic promise from a lame-luck President may be in- sufficient for a nation that sees its survival at stake. Thus the current debate, still under wraps, over whether to build planes here." Notice was taken of the French termination of jet sales and the urgent need for supersonic jets to balance the Soviet buildup in the surrounding Arab states. It appear- ed to Friendly that the United States "has refused for the mo- ment to plug the gap, arguing that as of now Israel is militarily se- cure and that if circumstances change, it will take another look at what has to be done." Afro-Asian Combination Defeats Israel For Seat On UN Trade Commission GENEVA (JTA) — Israel has been defeated for re-election to a committee of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Develop- ment (UNCTAD) by a combination of the Afro-Asian neutralist bloc which put up six candidates for the six seats to be filled by the African and Asian members. Of the 53 votes cast for the vacant seats on the committee On in- visibles and financing related to trade. Israel received 18. `Syria Weakest, but Most Troublesome of Arab States' LONDON(JTA)--A British his- torian described Syria Tuesday as the weakest state in the Middle East but the most troublesome. According to Dr. N. Michaelis, sen- ior lecturer at London University, Syria, though unstable and incom- petent even by Middle Eastern standards, often goads Egypt and Jordan to act against their better judgment in the Middle East crisis. 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