Boycott Falls Through With Promise
of Algerians to Release Plane; but an
Arab Paper Denies There Was Agreement
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LONDON (JTA) — An official of
the International Federation of
Airline Pilots Associations
(IFALPA) said here Monday that
the crewmen and passengers of the
hijacked El Al airliner held by
Algeria since July 23 will probably
be released in a few days. But a
leading Algerian newspaper dis-
agreed,
The pilots' official said that
IFALPA's boycott action against
Algeria was called off on the clear
understanding that the seven crew-
men would be released, and that
while the five passengers were out-
side the scope of its representa-
tions, it was understood from the
Algerians that they would also be
permitted to leave.
The spokesman for the pilots'
groups said a couple of days may
elapse before the Israelis are re-
leased so that the Algerians will
not appear to have yielded under
pressure. IFALPA refused to con-
firm or deny reports that Italy
would mediate the return of the
airliner, a $6,000,000 Boeing 707,
to Israel.
But the Algerian newspaper El
Moujahid, which speaks for Pres-
ident Boumedienne, Monday de-
nied that any official agreement
had been reached with the pilots
federation to release the crew
and remaining passengers. The
newspaper said while the threat-
ened boycott by the pilots was
canceled, no official agreement
had been reached on the issue of
releasing the Israelis.
Reports reaching here from Al-
geria meanwhile said that the air-
liner's crew and passengers will
probably be freed following a
meeting of the cabinet, which is
supposed to agree on a timetable
for their release. The report, at-
tributed to informed sources, said
that the hijacked plane would
probably be flown out by an Italian
crew 48 hours after the Israeli
detainees leave. The boycott was
called off after agents of the
federation met Saturday with Al-
gerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz
Bouteflika.
Official circles in Jerusalem
strongly denied that any deal was
in the making between Israel and
Algeria for the release of the air-
liner and its Israeli passengers and
crewmen. They said rumors of a
deal may have been propagated
by Algerian authorities as part of
their "war of nerves" against
Israel. They reiterated that Israel
stands by its demands for the un-
conditional release of the plane
and the detainees.
Travel agents meanwhile re-
ported feeling the effects of an
undeclared boycott by Israelis
against Swissair, the national
airline of Switzerland, appar-
ently for its refusal to go along
with the boycott of Algeria called
last week but cancelled.
Swissair, long a favorite carrier
among Israelis bound to and from
Europe, operates 12 flights a week
to Tel Aviv compared to only two
a week to Algeria, but the com-
pany persuaded its pilots not to
participate in the' boycott action.
Travel agents pointed out that
Swissair does more business with
Israel than with all of the Arab
countries .combined.
Israeli representatives conferred
with Italian officials in Rome fol-
lowing the announcement by Ali-
talia, the government -owned
Italian national airline, that it
would not participate in the boy-
cott of Algeria.
Spokesmen for the Italian airline
indicated that they still had hopes
for some sort of settlement with
Algeria over the airliner and its
crew without having to apply the
boycott weapon. Other sources said
that Alitalia was probably acting
out of commercial interests:
Alitalia operates two flights a
week to Algeria and is one of the
three principal foreign airlines
serving that country.
The cancellation of the boycott
by the pilots federation was dis-
cussed by the Israel Cabinet at its
weekly meeting at which the for-
eign minister was empowered to
continue his efforts to obtain the
Bnai Brith Speaker
( A d v . )
Yigal Allon makes his first
American appearance as deputy
prime minister of Israel at Bnai
Brith's - triennial convention, Sept.
7.11, in Washington. -The Israel-
born, 49-year-old political leader,
who was commander-in-chief of
Harry Thomas, well - k nown Palmach, is among highlighted
clotheir at 15200 W. 7Mile, corner speakers for the assembly that in-
Sussex, will not run for public of- augurates Bnai Brith's 125 year.
fice anymore.
"People approach me and say,
`Harry, you are well suited, throw U.S. Students Refused
you hat in the ring.' " "So when Permit to Hold McCarthy
I throw my hat in the ring, some-
one will say 'Harry, we all know Rally in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Police re-
you are a hatless wonder! Throw
your jacket into the ring!' So I fused Sunday to grant a permit to
throw a beautiful part mink and 36 American students studying in
cashmere jacket into the ring! Israel to hold a rally against the
Soon, my campaign manager, Vietnam war and in support of
Schwartz, said 'the battle is get- Democratic Presidential .candidate
ting hot; throw your pants into the Eugene McCarthy.
.The police told the applicants
fray!'
"Fray, schmay! So I run for that it would not be in the public
public office! So I end up without interest for Israel to become in-
a hat, a jacket and a pair of volved in the internal politics of
pants! So I try to be a good citi- the United States.
The police did not prevent the
zen, and I get arrested for inde-
students from circulating a petition
cent exposure!"
Harry Thomas can be located at among American citizens in Israel,
campaign headquarters, 15200 W. which they said they plan to sub-
7 Mile, corner Sussex, Sundays, mit to the Democratic National
Convention next week in Chicago.
too..
Harry Thomas
Won't Throw
Hat In Ring
release of the airliner from Al-
geria by political means. The
government also indicated that it
would request United Nations Sec-
retary General U Thant to continue
his efforts to effect the release of
the plane and its 12 Israelis.
Israel government sources
criticized IFALPA for calling off
its boycott while the "hard
facts" remained that the hi-
jacked airliner and its Israeli
passengers and crewmen were
still held by Algeria. The boy-
cott was supposed to go into
effect at midnight Sunday. Con-
sultations on the problems were
held all day Saturday between
Prime Minister Eshkol and other
cabinet ministers.
Cancellation of the boycott was
announced in Algiers by a vice
president of the pilots' federation,
Vitali Nicolaev, who arrived in
Paris from the Algerian capital
and strongly indicated that the re-
lease of the seven El Al crewmen
and five passengers was imminent.
Nicolaev, who is an Air France
pilot, declined to specify what as-
surances the Algerians had given
in exchange for the cancellation
beyond a quick conclusion of their
"investigation" into the hijacking.
He said his negotiations with the
Algerian authorities covered only
the "human element", not dis-
position of the plane.
Government sources said how-
ever that as long as a prize is
kept by the hijackers, whether it
was the plane or anything else, the
federation could not be considered
as having discharged its duty to-
ward air safety. The pilots' grOup
had stressed that its sole consider-
ation in ordering the boycott was
to discourage air hijacking in the
interests of commercial aviation
safety.
(At United Nations headquar-
ters in New York, Secretary Gen-
eral Thant met for an hour with
James O'Grady, vice Nl 1(snt of
IFALPA. A spokesman refused to
disclose the contents of their talks
except to say that Thant had
asked the federation to make avail-
able to him whatever information
might be helpful in securing re-
lease of the plane and the de-
tainees.)
(Thant will not go to Algeria
Sept. 13 to attend the opening
session of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) unless Al-
geria has released the airliner
by then, it was learned from
diplomatic quarters. The report
followed a meeting between
Thant and Ambassador Yosef
Tekoah, Israel's chief repre-
sentative to the UN, in New
York.
Thant had accepted an invitation
to attend the OAU conference in
Algiers—an action that has anger-
ed Israelis — before Arab terror-
ists hijacked the airliner.
(In his report to the New York
Times from Nairobi, Kenya, about
the lack of enthusiasm for the Sep-
tember meeting in Algeria of the
Organization of African Unity,
Lawrence Fellows cabled: "The
retention in Algeria of a hijacked
Israeli airliner and 12 of the Is-
raelis who were aboard it appears
to be a major factor in the reluc-
tance of some African leaders to
attend."
(The London Times reported in a
dispatch from its correspondent
Peter. Hopkirk in Algeria Aug. 17
that Capt. Jan Bartelski, president
of IFALPA, and Capt. Nicolaev
were received by the Algerian
foreign minister and later driven
to a secret site where the 'Israelis
were being held to ascertain for
themselves that they were well
cared for. (Hopkirk said the Al-
gerians confided to the visiting
pilots that they were under heavy
pressure from the Arab states on
the plane issue which, they said,
accounted for the delays.)
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 23, 1968-13
Soviet Army Paper Assails Jews
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
columns" of Zionist sympathizers
and branding the World Zionist
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Soviet army newspaper, Red Star, Organization as a "corporation for
made a new attack Sunday on ideological sabateurs," according
Jews, warning the peoples of Com- to reports received here. The
article equated Zionism with
munist countries against 'fifth
"imperialism and Nazism."
Red Star also denounced Juda-
Largest Israeli Exhibit
ism itself, saying "the religious
Is Sent Abroad for Fair mortality of Judaism isolates re-
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The ligious Jews from other nations
largest Israeli exhibit -ever to go and, justifies any crimes against
overseas was due here aboard the the Gentiles."
The army newspaper also as-
matorship Mandarincore. The dis
play, valued at $1,000,000, weighs serted the Zionism had been "an
2,000 tons and will cover 8,000 insidious reactionary anti - Com-
square meters of floor space at the munist movement since its organi-
world trade fair that opens in zation in 1897." Zionism was term-
ed "an imperialist corporation ded-
Buenos Aires Oct. 5.
Adin Talbar, deputy director of icated to dirty deals of the big
the ministry of commerce and in- Jewish bourgeoisie with the mon-
dustry, who saw the ship off in opolies of the United States,
Israel, said the exhibit was the Britain and France at the expense
most comprehensive that Israel of the Middle Eastern peoples.
ever sent aboard. It contains sam-
ples of virtually everything made
there, from heavy machinery to
jewelry and high fashions. It will
be set up at the Argentinian fair
near an Israel tourist pavilion con-
taining a restaurant, an Israeli
supermarket and displays of coins
and stamps, Talbar said.
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