Presidents Conference Calls for Release of El Al Plane

NEW YORK (JTA)—The confer-
ence of Presidents of Major Ameri-
can Jewish Organizations urged the
immediate release of the hijacked
El Al airliner and of the 12 Israeli
nationals still held in Algeria. In
the statement, Rabbi Herschel
Schachter, conference president,
expressed "the deep concern of
American Jewry over this barbaric
threat to the political and economic
security of Israel and its national
civilian airline, as well as to the
safety of all international air
travel."
Rabbi Schachter deplored the
fact that the Algerian government
had failed to respond to requests
to free the detainees and plane
from United Nations Secretary-
General U Thant and the Interna-
tional Civil Aviation Organization
and added that "Algeria dare not
allow itself to continue to appear
in the eyes of the world in partner-
ship with this uncivilized act of air
piracy."
In a related development, -
Trans-World Airlines rejected a
proposal by the United Zionist
Revisionists of America that the
airline cease its weekly 'flights
to Algeria "in view of the act of
piracy committed against a civi-
lian Israeli airplane with the

collaboration of the Algerian
government." The New York of-
fice of Air France, responding
to the same appeal, told the
Revisionist organization that such
matters were handled only in
the airline firm's Paris office.

Charles C. Tillnghast Jr., TWA
president, condemned the hijack-
ing in his reply, but added that
TWA flights to Algeria were au-
thorized by the Unted States gov-
ernment as "a means of keeping
channels of communication open,
and we feel no good purpose Would
be served in discontinuing these
flights as long as they are per-
missible and authorized by our
government." Henri Marescot, gen-
eral manager of the Air France
New York office, said the Revi-
sionist appeal had been forwarded
to the Paris headquarters. He
called the hijacking an act of
piracy.
(In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister
Abba Eban said Israelis were re-
lieved to learn that the passengers
and crew were being correctly
treated during their detention. He
said this had intensified Israel's
hope that principles of international
morality would be applied by Al-
gerian authorities in solution of

The Algerian caldnel. ww; PrhOd.
tiled to meet Thursday at which
time the plane issue was to lit§
taken up again.

the problem by the immediate re-
It was learned that immedi-
:ease of the plane and the remain- ately following the hijacking of
ing detained - passengers and crew the Israeli jet airliner, special
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members.
inspection and control measures
Friday, August 9, 1968-5
(In Rio de Janeiro, Jose Pinto, were instituted to protect Israeli
shipping from similar attempts.
the Brazilian foreign minister, de-
nounced the hijacking. He said:
Controls were tightened at Is-
raeli seaports and aboard Israeli
"I condemn the capture of the
more
ships at overseas ports where
crew, passengers and airplane in
Algeria," and he expressed the passengers embarked.
clients.
Meanwhile representatives of the
hope that the remaining Israelis
would soon be released. The Brazi- International Federation of Airine
lian press widely denounced the Pilots Associations which protested
. Need
hijacking and demanded release the hijacking were told by Alger-
ian authorities that they were still
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of the plane and the Israelis.)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Trans- waiting for additional information
and guid a n c e from "friendly
call: MURRY
port Minister Moshe Carmel de- countries" before making a deci-
KOBLIN
clared in the Knesset that Israel
sion on the plane. The Algerian
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"will safeguard her international
government is known to be in con-
air routes by every means in her tact with Italy on the matter.
power" and demanded that Algeria
immediately release the hijacked
El Al airliner which it has held
since July 23 along with 12 Israeli
passengers and crew members.
Carmel said that Israel will
make e v e r y' effort to "activate
every possible source and author-
OM—has a better idea
ity and power" to prevent chaos
in world air transport. He said that
Because
they have
Algeria assumed grave responsi-
bility by continuing to hold the
plane. He urged nations and inter-
national authorities to take vigor-
at
ous action against "aerial piracy."

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slaved their crews and held them traffic in black slaves and Noah,
for ransom but collected large seeing the blacks led through the
An Israeli newspaper is now try- sums of money from the nations. streets entirely naked, was horri-
fied.
ing to encourage the patronage by It was a profitable industry."
Jews of Arab airlines. Schedules
Noah, who has been called the
In 1793 the Algerians seized 10
of the times of departure of the American ships and they were paid first American Zionist, apparently
various Arab airlines are published a ransom of a million dollars, a got some of his inspiration from
in this Hebrew paper. It hopes that very large sum in those days.
the many Jews he saw in these
a few Jews at least will make one
It was this trouble that led to African states. He thought an
trip on an Arab line and return the beginning of the building of the army to reconquer Palestine for
SPORT COATS
the compliment of the Arabs who American Navy. Some historians the Jews could be gotten from the
patronized the Israeli airliner and even say that the hijacking of the North African Jews. Most of these
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took it to Algiers.
American ships in the Mediterra- Jews were refugees from the Span-
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matter of kidnapping crews, the of the Constitution. People felt
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It is interesting to note that the
Arabs have a great background of that the states, by uniting them- Jewish pilot of the Israeli airliner
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experience. It goes far back to the selveS, would be better able to which was hijacked by the Arabs
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very beginning of the United cope with these brigands.
is named Abarbanel. The Abarba-
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States—even before there was the
And this proved true, but it was nels were one of the most distin-
United States under the Constitu-
guished
Jewish
families
in
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close to the royal power, but this
American ships were seized in the ister to France during the Confed- did not save them from expulsion.
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eration
days,
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ransoming
Americans
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prisoned. A ransom of $2,800 for Arab hijackers. Jefferson urged them did well in North Africa, but
the
creation
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the
international
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