PARIS (JTA)—Marcel Dassault,
whose company produces the Mi-
rage jet fighter plane which is the
backbone of Israel's Air Force, told
a press conference here that the
sale of 50 Mirage-V jets to Israel
was barred last June by President
:Tharles deGaulle because "They
are offensive attack planes."
Israel ordered and paid for the
planes which now are housed—
complete with Israeli Air Force
markings—at airports in southern
France.
The manufacturer also said that
if Israel was ever in danger it
would get the 50 planes and he
added that Israel had obtained
from France since the June 1967
war "all the necessary defensive
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weapons" it needed. The manufac-
turer, a confidante of Gen. de
Gaulle, enumerated the defensive
weapons as "helicopters and cer-
tain other planes, electronic equip-
ment and probably even tanks."
Meanwhile, two deputies be-
longing to the usually-well disci-
plined Gaullist majority sub-
mitted questions to the govern-
ment in the Chamber of Deputies
asking the government to end the
embargo on the jets in order "to
reestablish a balance of force"
between Israel and the Arab
states.
The deputies stressed that the
recent heavy arms deliveries to
Egypt had tipped the balance of
power which France has sought to
maintain in the Middle East and
that Israel was now in a position
of inferiority in air strength.
Observers here emphasized that
it was unusual for Gaullist repre-
sentatives to question the Presi-
dent's policies, and they suggest-
ed that the deputies' actions might
be an indication of general unrest
on the embargo among Gaullist
rank and file members. Dassault
rejected reports that France might
sell Mirages to Iraq, declaring that
Iraq could get much cheaper
Soviet-made MIG's and that such
a sale "would be unsuitable, as
Israel has a priority," on such
planes.
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Unique Release on
Survivors' Reunion
WASHINGTON — Former Jew-
ish prisoners included in a re-
bellion 25 years ago at the Nazi
death camp of Sobibor in Poland .
held a reunion Oct.14 at Rostov-
on-Don, the Soviet Embassy an-
nounced Wednesday in a release
circulated by the official Novosti
Press Agency.
Novosti said a half million were
killed and said five survivors
in the Soviet Union gathered in
the Rostov-on-Don Home of Al-
exander, leader of the uprising.
The others were identified as
Seymon Rozenfeld, Aleksei Voil-
isen, Naum Plotnitsky, Arkady
Vaispapir and Yefim Litvinovsky.
Novosti correspondent Pyotr
Yashenko said, "The city gave a
warm greeting to these courageous
men. The ceremonial part of the
memorable meeting was held in
one of the largest halls of the
Municipal Palace of Culture."
The Novosti release made an
unusual reference to Israel devoid
of any negative undertone. It said
that "Fourteen of the survivors
of Sobibor now live in Israel. On
behalf of his friends attending the
meeting, Pechersky sent them a
warm letter.'
Pechersky reportedly made a
speech recalling Nazi atrocities at
Sobibor. He was quoted as stating,
"We shall never forget or forgive
the fascists their savage crimes.
I appeal to all people of good will I
to be vigilant."
Writer Valentin Tomin, an
author of the book "A Return is
undesirable," was said to have
greeted the Jewish survivors. The
book describes the mass murder
of Jews and described the camp
Rebellion of Oct. 14, 1943.
A telegram was reportedly sent
to the meeting by Thomas Blat of
Philadelphia, who last year attend-
ed the West German trial of some
of the Sobibor SS troopers.
The release was unusual in that
the official Soviet news agency
went out of its way to point out
that Jews and residents of Israel
were rebels against Nazi tyranny.
Previous Soviet propaganda has
sought to obscure the facts of Jew-
ish resistance.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
14—Friday, October 25, 1968
French Jet Manufacturer Says Israel
Will Get Her Planes if Endangered
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