EshkolHolding Johnson to Promise of Phantoms; No Change Expected replied as well as I JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Levi Eshkol said in a ra- dio interview Sunday night that he was fully confident that Israel would receive its supersonic F-4 Phantom jet fighter-bombers from the United States in 1970, if not before. Eshkol said, "On this matter I rely on the promise of the U.S. President—he is still President— and what he told me at our last meeting, which was that deliveries would begin in 1970." Eshkol was referring to his meeting with President Johnson at the latter's ranch in Texas last January. He said, "The assump- tion is—and I want to be careful —that it (the deliveries) will be concluded then, and there is a chance, or a hope, that it might be advanced." The prime minister referred to delivery of the Phantoms in his Kol Israel interview in order to allay fears rising from a state- ment by William W. Scranton, President-elect Nixon's fact-finding envoy to the Middle East, that the 1,800-mph war planes would not reach Israel before 1971. Scranton reportedly made that prediction when he was here last week. Negotiations for Israel's purchase of a reported 58 Phantoms costing about $5,900,000 apiece, are presently going on in Washington. Govern- 'viva Yoe TWIN INS BPS= DOWN TOW WON'T INND A WM* WIND THAN , evzt trlilan Winortos..Detroit, Michi, meat sources said the negotla- tions are in the final stages, and all that remains to be worked out are financing and credit ar- rangements. (Gov. Scranton appeared on the NBC's "Today" show Sunday and called for American efforts to im- prove relations with the Arab coun- tries. The controversial special fact finder for President-elect Nixon said there were three compelling reasons why the United States should better its relations with the Arabs. First, be said, there were the American economic interests. Secondly, an increased American influence in the Arab countries could strengthen the pressures for peace between the Arabs and Israel. Thirdly, he said, the United States must avoid "a complete polarization" in which the Arabs would be lined up with the Soviet Union and the Israelis with the United States.) Eshkol reported to the Cabinet on the status of the Phantom negotiations and on Defense Min- ister Dayan's meeting in New York Saturday with Nixon. The prime minister also briefed cabinet mem- bers on his talks with Scranton. He said that Nixon's emissary stressed that he came to the Middle East "to listen" and report back to the President-elect. He said he car- ried no messages from Nixon and that he did not know what Nixon's Middle East policy would be. Defense Minister Dayan return- ed Monday from his three-day visit to the United States and told news- men at the airport that he sensed no change in America's attitude td- ward Israel in his brief meeting in New York Saturday with Pres- ident-elect Nixon. He described it as "a pleasant courtesy visit" and said, " in any case, the talk was in general terms. He asked ques- 3.oh Vouh gtaliday Dropsie College Head Reviews Study Applicants PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Abra- 12 per cent of the 900 grants to ham I. Katsh, president of Dropsie foreign students this current school College for Hebrew and Cognate year went to those from the Far Learning, has been named by the and Middle East. Institute of International Educa- tion to serve as chairman of a Achievement: The death of_ en- committee which will review all deavor and the birth of disgust. applications for study in Israel for —Ambrose Bierce. 1969-70. tions and I could." Gen. Dayan met with Prime Minister Eshkol immediately after his arrival, presumably to give him a fuller report on his visit to the U.S. He declined to comment for newsmen on the question of the Phantom jets. Foreign Minister Abba Eban as- sured worried members of the Knesset Wednesday that the United States is not likely to alter its basic policy of support for Israel now or when the Nixon administration takes office next month. He said, however, that it was too early to guess the details of Nixon's Middle East policy, add ing that "In the meantime we are maintaining as close contact as possible with the men of the new administration." Eban spoke in reply to ques- tions by Avraham Werdiger, of the Poalei Agudat Israel faction, and Daniel Lev, of the National The leading agency in the field of international education for the past 50 years, the institute has played a major role in the admini- stration of the U.S. government's exchange program for college and university students, teachers and scholars for the past 20 years. Dr. Katsh said approximately See or Call opt iVO S ® CHOCOLATES and GIFTS LINCOLN SHOPPING CENTER 26048 GREENFIELD at 10 1 /2 MILE Next to Nosherie 399-2493 24790 COOLIDGE at 10 M ILE Next to Dexter Davison Mkt. 547-9448 OPEN 7 DAYS CARS TO BE DRIVEN To any state. Also drivers furnish- ed to drive your car anywhere. Fully insured and I.C.C. licensed. Insured Driveaway System 9970 Grand River Detroit, Mich. 48204 WE 1-0620-21-22 - PRE-HOLIDAY CLEANING SPECIAL SWEATERS Eban said that Gov. Scranton's views were not shared by Nixon or by President Johnson. He said that Israel accepted the state- ments made by Nixon during the Presidential campaign, which sup- ported Israel's stand for a nego- tiated peace with the Arabs and promised to maintain a margin of military superiority for Israel in order to deter aggression. Eban said also that "It is our impres- sion that the present administra- tion has not changed its policies since Election Day." He said that President Johnson, President-elect Nixon and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson all support the view of a Middle East peace attained through negotia- tions between the parties concerned and oppose a solution imposed from outside the region. Israel's two evening newspapers — Maariv and Yediot Ahronot — were the first to comment on Nixon's choice of a cabinet. Both papers agreed with a large seg- ment of the American press which said that in the area of foreign affairs, the selection of William P. Rogers as secretary of state- designate indicated that the Pres- ident himself will conduct foreign policy. Both papers called on Israel to augment its diplomatic efforts by a drive to promote Israel's view- point throughout the world. The papers contrasted Israel's com- parative silence with the Soviet, Arab and French campaigns di- rected against Israel and intended to impose a solution to the Middle East deadlock from the outside. Maariv commented that judging by Nixon's past statements, he was not likely to agree to such a course. "We are sure that Mr. Scranton will correctly report the position of Israel and her government, but a further clarification of it cannot hurt," Maariv said. (The Washington Star, in a front-page analysis of the political thinking of new cabinet members, reported that Rogers is "pro- NATO, pro-Israel, and pro-foreign aid." But asking what effects his beliefs will have in practice, it simply said: "Who knows?") 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