Friday, July 12, 1968-11 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hawk Missile Deal 'No Great Shakes' to Israel's Deterren t, Defensive Force 1. JERUSALEM (JTA) , A for- tinue to press for action on ISrael's eign ministry spokesman said Mon- request for the supersonic Phan- day that the supply of an addition- toms. He .said that the additional al quantity of Hawk anti-aircraft Hawk. missiles which will be sold missiles by the United States . had to Israel would "do nothing to. en- "no bearing" on the main prob- hance Israel's strike capacity, the lems of Israel's deterrent and de- key to her ability to deter agres- sion." fensive power. The spokesman said that the Advocates of the long-pending central problem facing Israel is Phantom application "must not be the growing gap; since the Six-Day confused into a misguided conclu- War, in the number and quality sion that Israel's defense require- of supersonic planes • possessed ments have been met," he said. and being acquired by Egypt and Rep. Broomfield pointed out that Syria and the number and quality "Arab airfields are jammed with of such planes existing in. the latest Soviet jet fighters and He added that it would be wrong bombers" but "not a single super- to see in the Hawk missiles, the sonic jet lost by Israel in the Six- supply of which had been agreed Day war or subsequently has been upon for some time, any connec- replaced." He warned that con- tion with Israel's central problem. tinued failure to act on Israel's Nevertheless, he said, the arrange- application for the Phantoms "en- ment to supply Israel with the courages the Russians to continue Hawks on credit was received with their Middle East buildup and satisfaction. contributes to Arab intransigence." These remarks were the first official comment by Israel on the sale of the American sur- face-to-air missiles which was announced in Washington last Saturday. But Israelis seemed divided on how to regard that BONN (JTA) — The immutable announcement. A dim view was reportedly laws of nature are having an shared in Israeli defense circles effect on the efforts to bring Nazi where the U.S. was charged with war criminals to jastice. The "avoiding the real issue." Accord- Criminals and those who prosecute ing to one informant, "the Hawks them or are summoned to give are a good anti-aircraft defense, evidence in court are growing old but the Phantoms are what Israel and as a result convictions are in- really needs." That view seemed creasingly difficult to obtain. The to be implied by Monday evening's age-factor may also settle the mat- ter of the statute of limitations on foreign ministry statement. Nazis accused of murder which is In Washington, - official United States government sources said to go into effect on Dec. 31, 1969. the decision to sell _Israel addi- Indications are that it will not be tional Hawk anti-aircraft •is- postponed. siles indicated no change in the The ravages of • time on Nazi status of Israel's application to hunters and hunted alike was purchase the 50 F-4 Phantom brought home last week by the jet fighter-bombers, The Israeli death in Frankfurt of Fritz Bauer request made officially by Prime at the age of 64. Bauer, a Jew Minister Eshkol last January, and a former Stuttgart judge, es- remains under active study," caped twice from the Nazis and one official said. devoted his life after World War Rep. William Broomfield of II to bringing Nazis to justice. Michigan, a member of the House As chief prosecutor for the state Foreign Affairs Committee, de- of Hesse, he masterminded the clared that Congress mUst con- 1964-65 Auschwitz death camp trials in which one of the convicted men was freed because of his ad- Eight Jews Win Seats vanced age and illness. Bau.er in. Canada Parliament left half of his estate for youth TORONTO (JTA)—Eight Jews projects in Israel and Poland. will hold seats in the new Cana- Two days before Bauer's dian Parliament four of them death, the trial of 66-year-old Fritz members of Prime Minister Pierre Beckerle, the wartime Nazi min- Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party, ister in Bulgaria, was suspended three representing the New . Demo- because of the defendant's illness. cratic Party and one Conservative. Beckerle is charged with partici- The latter, Jack Marshall, will pation in the mass deportation and be the first Conservative Jewish murder of Bulgarian Jews. His member of Parliament in Canada trial may not be resumed because since the confederation. His con- of his age and physical condition. stituency is Humber-St. George's- But in Cologne Tuesday, a jury St. Barbe in the maritime prov- ince of Newfoundland which has passed prison sentences on two former Nazis convicted of the a small Jewish population. The eight will be the largest murder of at least 2,000 Jewish number of Jews ever to sit in men, women and children in Canada's Parliament; There might Mitau, Lithuania, in July 19.41. - have been nine but redistricting Alfred Becu, 66, received three deprived Montreal; which has 'Can- years at hard labor, 54,year-old ada's largest Jewish population, Wilhelm Abelt, a police officer, of the representation of Milton got 18 months. , Nevertheless, German judges Klein. The former incumbent is are finding it increasingly diffi- now without a constituency. cult to convict :because witnesses are aging, sometimes unable to travel and often have faulty mem- ories: Former Justice Minister Ewald Bucher said • recently that the time was coming when judges - could only acquit men who, though clearly guilty,. had outlived " crucial evidence. SEE OR CALL Is Age Saving Nazi Killers? • VIC DOUCET'rE " AT L on -erLiorrtan adiiiac 1350 N. Woodward Birmingham MI 4-1930 Res. 357-0326 Knesset Reject i Proposal to Create Upper House JERUSALEM (JTA) — T he Knesset rejected a private.mem- ber's bill to establish an. upper house in the Israeli parliament. 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