;4747F}7.7) ,;16-RTF4 Israeli. Colonel, Captain Killed in El Fatah Battle TEL AVIV (JTA)—Two high-ranking Israeli officers, a colonel and a captain, Who were killed in a running battle with a group of El Fatah saboteurs over the weekend were buried Sunday. Seven of the eight terrorists were killed and the eighth was wounded and captured. Four Israelis were wounded in the battle north of Jericho. Col. Aryeh Regev, 35, commander of a brigade in the Jordan Valley, was buried in the Tel Aviv military cemetery. Capt. Gad Manelleh, 22, who was decorated for bravery during the Israeli attack last March on the Kararneh terrorist base in Jordan, was buried at his kibutz, Tel Itzhak, near Natanya. Army officials said that the eight marauders carried Soviet-style assault rifles, grenades, bazookas and explosive charges and were apparently intended for a deep penetration into Israel on sabotage assignments. In answer to questions about how such high-ranking officers could have been casualties on an action of such limited dimensions, army officials explained that their participation stemmed from the Israeli military doctrine that A Plank for Security in Middle East Erring Liberals and the Presidential Campaign Commentary Page 2 [VOL. LI I 1, No. 20 officers lead their men in action, a strategy which resulted in a high proportion of officer casualties during warfare. In a rash of weekend border incidents, Jordanians fired on Israeli patrols at six locations and civilians at one spot in northern Israel. No casualties were reported. Two Israeli border policemen were injured and hospitalized after their armored patrol car hit a mine in the Beisan Valley. Jordan last week hanged Mahmoud Osman, a Jordanian citizen. for allegedly spying for Israel since 1962. Osman had been accused of supplying Israel with military information for a monthly salary, it was reported in London. Israeli Air Force planes drove off three Egyptian MIGs which penetrated the Sinai Peninsula at the Israeli-held Suez Canal on July 25. Two Arab marauders were killed Sunday in an encounter with an Israeli patrol at Kibutz Maoz Chaim in Beisan Valley. (Related Stories Pages 8-12 and 22.) IKWISH NEWS I • MICHIGAN A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle c4et jl° 27 August 2, 1968-17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364 The Hebrew University's 50th Anniversary: Historic Ahad Ha-Am Letter Editorial Page 4 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Action on Hijacking Delayed in Algeria; Release Demanded I y los an ra e unions 1 - aritime Forces Insist U.S. M on Release of El Al Plane, Crew; Threaten Algeria With Boycott NEW YORK (JTA)—The maritime committee of the American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations, joined by the United States Workers, served notice on President Boumedienne of Algeria that unless the hijacked El Al plane and all the occupants are released immediately, "These unions will take all available steps against the Algerian government including the picketing of all Algerian vessels and the boycotting of all Algerian products." A cable to the Algerian chief of state, signed by the presidents of the six unions, denounced the hijacking of the plane, which is now being held by Algeria as "a reprehensible act of piracy in violation of .international law and humanitarian considerations." The message was signed by Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union; Jesse Calhoon, president of the Marine Engi- neers Beneficial Association; Capt. Sheldon, president of the Masters, Mates and Pilots; William Steinberg, president of the American Radio Association; Thomas Gleason, president of the International Longshore- men's Association; John Grogan, president of the Marine and Ship- building Workers of America; and Carroll Armstrong, president of the Meanwhile, the International Transport Labor Federation, holding Its 29th congress at Wiesbaden, voted unanimously Wednesday to pro- claim a boycott of Algeria. The West German Trade Union Congress issued a strong protest Wednesday against Algeria. The German-Israel Society, with head- quarters in Bonn, asked the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to suspend Air Algeria, the Algerian airline, from the IATA because of Algerian participation in "air piracy." Mapai Appoints Sapir Secretary-General; Shard in Finance Post TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Israeli press questioned the wisdom of Premier Levi Eshkol's move in add- ing the finance port- folio to Zeev Sharef's duties as commerce and industry minister. The premier's an- nouncement dealt with a reshuffle in which Finance Minister Pin- has Sapir is to give _up his post to become retary- general of ;kol's Israel Labor rty (Mapai) succeed- hig, Mrs. Golda Meir, wig) rejected all party overtures to cancel her Pinhas Sapir resignation. - - - Eshkol said that Sapir would serve as secretary-general until the next party con- vention and that he would remain in the cabinet as a minister without portfolio. The newspaper Maariv said the double portfolio would be too much for Shard and that Sapir would be too busy as secretary- general to have any time for cabinet work. (Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News) WASHINGTON — Algeria will hold off a decision on whether to release the hi- jacked El Al Boeing 78 and 12 Israeli passengers and crew members until after President Houari Boumedienne's cabinet was to confer on Thursday, according to re- ports received here. BASLE—The Federation of Swiss Trade Unions cabled an appeal Monday to the Algerian Trade Union Organization to exert its influence with the Algerian govern- ment to secure the release of the hijacked Israel airliner and 12 Israeli citizens. The Swiss unionists stressed that trade unionists everywhere were vitally con- cerned that there be no molesting of air traffic. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel stepped up today its pressure on Algeria to release the seven crew members and five passengers of the hijacked El Al Boeing 707 airliner still detained in Algiers after the release Saturday of seven women and three chil- dren. The women included the airliner's three air hostesses. The remaining de- tainees are all male Israeli nationals. At the cabinet meeting Sunday, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Foreign Min- ister Abba Eban were empowered to take appropriate international action to recover the airlines and the 12 remaining detainees, including instructions to ask for. an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council. The government spokes- man said the issue of whether and when the request for the Security Council session should be made was left to the discretion of the prime minister and the foreign min- ister. It was indicated that majority opinion in the cabinet favored a council session and that the request was largely a matter of timing. The Algerians initially released 18 non-Israeli nationals on the airliner almost immediately after the hijacked plane landed in Algiers airport July 23. Eban told the cabinet meeting that no government in the world was "deluding it- self" that Israel could or would acquiesce in further delays on release of the plane and the 12 detainees. He also said that, in all its 48 contacts with other governments GOP Platform Committee Urged to Act Against M.E. Appeasement MIAMI BEACH—The Republican Party was urged to serve notice on the Arab states and the Soviet Union that the United States will not appease them at Israel's expense. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) called on the Republic platform committee to adopt a plank which will "make it clear to all nations that the people of the United States want a negoti- ated Arab-Israel peace, that we are prepared to take the action necessary to prevent another disastrous war and that we will not falter or waver in these commitments." The plank was submitted to the platform committee by Irving Kane of Cleveland, AIPAC co-chairman, a non- partisan organization representing a broad cross-section of American Jewry. The committee, which has been based in Washington since 1954, works for a U.S. - policy to achieve an Arab-Israel peace. Kane told the. platform committee that AIPAC's views were shared by the overwhelming majority of the American Jewish community. He submitted a letter of Kane endorsement from Rabbi Herschel Schacter, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which has 22 affiliated national bodies. The American Jewish Committee has also endorsed the plank, Kane said. Kane predicted a new Soviet-Arab diplomatic offensive against Israel after the November elections. "Strong platform planks will have an impact on the Arabs and the Russians," he declared, 'They will be listening to what is said at the political conventions." The AIPAC plank emphasizes two issues: One—to promote peace, there is no alternative to direct Arab-Israel negotiations, which can settle all collateral issues. Two—to prevent another war, the United States must provide Israel (Continued on Page 15) (Continued on Page 48) Phantoms Sale-to Israel Elim'inated by Senate; Supersonic Jets OK'd WASHINGTON (JTA) — The foreign relations committee submitted a' policy statement to the Senate indicating that in calling for the sale of "supersonic" military jets to Israel it had "in mind a cash sale for dollars, but the precise terms, as well as the number and type of aircraft, are left to the discretion of the President." The committee report was referring to a Senate amendment to the foreign aid bill which called upon the President to sell "supersonic" aircraft and deleted specific reference to the sale of 50 Phantom fighter - bomber jets as called for by a House-approved amendment to the bill. Following Senate adoption of the basic legislation, a Senate-House conference will reconcile differences in the Senate and House wording. Although the substitute wording elim- inated referrence to the Phantom jet fighter-bombers, it did refer specifically to "supersonic" aircraft. The Douglas Sky- hawk jets provided to Israel under a pre- vious agreement are subsonic and obso- lescent. No supersonic military jets have been sold to Israel by the U.S.