Soviet Union Pushes Tough Penalty for Israel (Continued from Page 37) and that he was convinced that A special team of Israeli investiga- world opinion would be shocked tors was flown to Athens to exam- of Israel would not be nation by the incident. El Al officials said ine all aspects of the attack on the near Cairo. The saboteur, Ahmed Raddad, who comes from Amman, Jordan, said the camp - was open to volunteers from various Arab countries. He said that after com- pleting training there, his group was flown to Syria from where they were assigned to various guerrilla units. Raddad and six other El Fatah commandoes were captured in a clash with an Israeli army unit near the Jordan River several days ago. Saboteurs captured near Jericho enough and that the Security Conn- scheduled flights would continue Israeli airliner. The Israel mission ell had to take action that would as usual. in Athens is a small one without compel Israel to heed its man- sufficient staff to handle a matter Details of the 40-minute night dates. raid were disclosed by a military of this nature. El Al investigators disclosed that The Soviet representative chal- spokesman at a midnight press lenged the United States to go conference from reports from the the plane would be out of service at least three weeks. One of its en- along with this position to prove commandos, all of whom re- its good faith and to show that the turned safely. The spokesman gines must be regarded as a total denunciation of the Israeli reprisal said the helicopters swooped down loss and another was badly dam- attack by Ambassador Wiggins on the airport without detection. aged. Some 50 bullet holes in the during the Sunday night Council One group of commandos moved fuselage will have to be filled in. meeting was not mere "oral con- on the airport, another set off The plane is one of the newest in demnation." smoke bombs on the connecting El Al service. In New York, Rabbi Israel Mil- Lord Boothby, once Winston highway to Beirut to block traffic or military reinforcements. The ler, chairman of the American Zi- Churchill's private secretary and onist Council, said "These insane commandos singled out parked a longtime friend of the Zionist movement, quoted the late Chaim Arab planes and placed detonation actions will continue as long as the terrorists feel that American and charges, destroying nine jets and Weizmann Tuesday to deplore the Israeli reprisal raid on Beirut air- four turbo-prop airliners, including world public opinion is on their port. In a letter published in the Boeings, Tavalles and Tridents. side. Such periodicals as Life and Times, Lord Boothby quoted Dr. Seven belonged to Middle East Air- Time, which have glorified the Weizmann's words: "We are an lines, a Lebanese firm, three to Arab terror organizations, must as- impetuous people and we spoil and Lebanese International Airways sume their share of responsibility sometimes destroy what it has and two to Trans-Mediterranean for such acts, which stem not from Airways, a cargo operator. Middle a genuine people's resistance move- taken generations to build." Airlines, one of the main ment within Israel's border but As president of the Anglo-Israel East Arab passenger carriers, is partly from outside bands created and Association, Lord Boothby wrote, owned by several Arab countries. supported by reactionary Arab gov- "I cannot help wondering whether A Pan-American Airlines Boeing ernments." the raid on the Beirut airport, jet and a British Overseas Air- In Paris, F r en c h police which he would never have per- mitted, may not be yet another ways Comet parked nearby were and security services have taken not touched. strict measures to protect El Al example of his prescient wisdom." The Israeli raiders were unop- planes at French airports and to The Dutch foreign office spokes- guard the Israel Embassy and man said Tuesday in the Hague posed except for some sporadic other official buildings against pos- that the Dutch government con- shots, apparently from airport po- sible attacks by Arab terrorists. demned the Israeli reprisal raid lice. Using portable loundspeak- Police have set up a special on the Beirut airport and Arab ter- ers, the commandos warned people rorist actions since they could only at the airport, in Arabic and in "operational headquarters" at Orly lead to increased tensions in the English, to take cover. The raid- Airport to guard Israeli planes and ers also destroyed fuel dumps. One to check all departing passengers Middle East. burning plane touched off fuel in and their luggage. The headquar- The Dutch authorities disclosed an underground tank, which ex- ters is in constant radio communi- Monday that special precautions ploded, setting fire to a hanger. cation with police forces on the have been taken at Schiphol air- After making sure all explosive airfield, customs officials and fire- port and additional security meas- charges had detonated, the com- fighting brigades. ures taken with regard to El Al mandos left for their bases. The (The London Telegraph reported planes. The El Al office in Am- airport, one of the busiest in the sterdam received a number of Mideast, is about 100 miles from from Athens that both uniformed and plainclothes police were posted anonymous telephone threats. the Israeli border. at the Israel legation and at the In Boston the Christian Science Athens airport police seized the offices of El Al in Athens after Monitor said Tuesday that "the terrorists soon after they fired at anonymous telephone threats were speed, unanimity and severity" of the airliner with submachine guns received.) the Security Council's verbal con- and hand grenades. The plane, with Washington police have taken demnation of Israel for the Beirut 41 passengers, had been awaiting airport reprisal attack stemmed permission for takeoff to Paris en special security precautions to pro- tect the Israel Embassy because of from two factors—"a deep concern route from Tel Aviv when the at- that the Middle East has moved tack took place. The Haifa engi- the spread of Arab terrorism, au- one step nearer another outbreak neer, Leon Shurdan, 50, was killed thorities revealed Tuesday. A of hostilities which could pull the I by one of the bullets as he sat in permanent police guard is main- great powers into a confrontation" his seat. Hana Spira, one of the tained at the embassy now and and, secondly, "increasing anxiety stewardesses suffered a broken radio links established with sur- over interference with interna- back and leg when she jumped veillance vehicles. tional air traffic whether by from the plane. Another stewardess Loaned El Al Plane Cubans. pro-Cubans, Arab guerrilla suffered minor bullet wounds. The Searched at London Airport groups or Israelis." LONDON (JTA)—An Aer Lin- assault caused damage to one en- The Monitor dispatch from gine of the Boeing 70'7 and touched gus Boeing 70'7 Airliner, on loan United Nations headquarters noted off a small fire in the baggage sec- to El Al airlines, with 50 passen- that the hijacking of the El Al tion which was quickly put out. gers abroad, was stopped and plane last summer "caused inter- Menelaos Pegiadis, the Athens searched Monday just as it was national concern." The attack on prosecutor, identified the gunmen about to take off from London air- the El Al airliner in Athens by as Naheb Suleiman, born in Tripoli port. The search produced 'nothing Arab terrorists, it said "twitched of Palestinian parents, and Mah- and the plane took off 45 minutes the international conscience once moud Mohamad, born in Palestine late for Zurich and Tel Aviv. again." But the massiveness of in 1943. He said they had been Dayan Says Beirut Raid the Israel attack on, the Beirut charged with a variety of offenses, Represents 'New Dimension' airport "gradually became appar- including intentional homicide, ille- in Israel's Foreign Policy ent over the weekend" and the gal carrying of arms, illegal use of TEL AVIV (JTA)—Defense Min- United States, deeply concerned arms and intentional damage of ister Moshe Dayan defined the over interference with air travel property. Under laws of the pres- commando raid on Beirut airport "almost found itself in agreement ent Greek regime, the terrorists as a "new dimension" of Israeli with the Soviet Union, at least to could be executed on conviction. policy. He said the previous retal- the extent of condemning Israel Police said the Arabs claimed they iatory raids into Jordan which for the attack on the planes." were members of the El Fatah ter- destroyed key highways and The newspaper also gave much rorist group and that they had bridges were also part of the same space to a Tel Aviv dispatch from flown to Athens from Beirut ear- policy designed to convince the its correspondent explaining why lier in the day with the intention Arabs that their guerilla warfare Israel had to take the reprisal ac- of destroying the jet and all its against Israel is not worthwhile tion. The dispatch noted that Is- Israeli passengers. in the long run. raeli belief that the attack "serves The Greek government's diplo- not only the interests of Israel's matic representative in Israel, Ba- Damage, Death of Girl civil aviation but also those of sil Eleftheriades, called on Eban at Blamed on El Fatah JERUSALEM — Renewed El Fa- commercial aviation around the the foreign ministry at Eban's re- globe." Had the Israelis not quest to discuss the Arab terrorist tah attacks on Israel resulted in much damage and the death of an struck "Arab terror attacks against attack. Eban expressed Israel's Israeli aircraft would have grown shock at the insane methods used Israeli girl soldier, An 18-yeanold Israeli soldier, to worldwide proportion," it said. by the Palestine terror gangs and Premier Levi Eshkol called the his conviction that the Greek gov- Yehoshua Madaii, was killed when the vehicle he was driving struck attack an act of "insane terrorism" ernment would deal appropriately a mine in the Jordan Valley south which was a danger not only to with the perpetrators. of the Allenby Bridge. Another sol- Israel's diplomatic representative Israeli air travelers but "to all dier was injured. people." Transport Minister Moshe in Greece, Yakov Karoz, it was An Israeli soldier was injured Carmel warned that Israel would learned here, has asked the Greek when the command car he was not accept a situation in which El authorities for observer status at driving struck a mine near Nahal Al planes were attacked and those the forthcoming trial of the two Oz, a settlement just east of the of Arab countries could fly in terrorists accused of murder and Gaza Strip. peace and safety. Foreign Minister other charges in connection with A captured El Fatah saboteur Abba Eban said on Kol Israel that the attack. Greece and Israel do has disclosed that Egyptian army the murderous attack was a viola- not exchange embassies but are officers are training recruits to the tion of the right of free airways represented by diplomatic missions. 38—Friday, January 3, 1969 have confessed that they were planning activities in Jerusalem during Christmas to frighten off tourists and pilgrims, a military spokesman said. Pilgrims neverthe- less arrived at Lydda Airport aboard regular planes and-on char- ter flights from Europe. A decrease in the number of pilgrims from England was attributed to that country's monetary regulations. But the usual numbers arrived from France and other Catholic coun- tries. Crown Heights' Poor Negroes, Jews Join to Create Anti-Poverty Unit glie17111P. clrg411iP,t0114 ft ?.sPORL THE DETROff'dEWISg `fiEWS' training' camp,. opeaelf4.regeatiy, BY BEN GALLOB (JTA Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK (JTA)—An interim anti-poverty agency for the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, di- rected by a board of 12 Negroes and 12 Jews, is awaiting a grant of $575,000 to implement 14 projects for the area's poor Jews and Ne- groes and to conduct an election for a permanent anti-poverty or- ganization. After some initial problems, dif- ferences between Negroes and Jews over creation of the Crown Heights planning committee, the interim agency, were resolved amicably several weeks ago, and the planning committee is now functioning without friction, ac- cording to Dr. A. I. Wolf, presi- dent of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, which spon- sored the Jewish candidates for the interim agency elections. Crown Heights, one of New York City's 24 designated poverty areas, has about 225,000 residents, of whom about 125,000 are Jews. Many of them are members of Hasidic sects, and many are in the category defined as "poor" by the Co mmunity Development Agency. The CDA is a unit in the city's human resources administration, the central agency for all city anti-poverty programs. The CDA has approved the application of the interim committee for the funds, which are expected shortly, according to Joseph Newman, a Jew who was chosen by the plan- ning committee to be its delegate to the Council Against Poverty, the citys' policy-making agency for poverty programs. The interim agency board also elected a Has- idic Jew, Sidney Frankel, as its chairman. He said the Jan. 14 election will be an all-day affair and that the planning committee was now seek- ing 12 sites for the balloting. There will be four candidates for each of the six districts into which the area is dividcd for voting pur- poses. Each applicant for the board of the permanent agency must submit a petition bearing 50 sig- natures, and 60 candidates have done so, Newman said. Those elected on Jan. 14 will serve for two years and they will probably include a majority of the mem- bers of the board of the interim agency. The 24 permanent board mem- bers are required under CDA guidelines to elect an additional 12 members, and it is expected that the final 36-member board will probably remain equally di- vided between Jews and Negroes. The interim agency operates out of rented quarters in an apartment building with a current staff of five members, including a Negro office director and two associate directors, one a Negro and one a Jew. However, the permanent com- munity corporation will need larg- er quarters, since a staff of 25 to 30 persons is expected to be need- ed. Crown Heights Jewish leaders emphasized the friendly and ef- fective relations prevailing be tween the Jewish and Negro com- munities reflected in the day-to-day operations of the planning commit- tee. Five Book Exhibitions Visitors to Jerusalem in March will be able to see five exhibitions on books: The Israel Museum will be showing an exhibition of some of the finest publications since the Newman, an insurance sales- Guttenberg Bible, including the man who is volunteering his serv- prize winners of the new Inter- ices to the interim agency, said national bi-annual Israel Museum that $200,000 of the CDA grant will Art Book Prize. The museum will be used for poverty projects for also an exhibition of Children's the Crown Heights Jewish com- Books. The Book Fair will exhibit, munity and $230,000 for the Negro apart from the books on the Old community. The remaining $145,000 Testament and the Archaeology of will be used for °pending funds the country, all those submitted by the planning committee, includ- for the Art Book contest. A fifth ing the costs of holding an elec- exhibition will be about the history tion to choose a 24-member board of printing, which will be at the for the permanent community cor- International Cultural Center for Youth. poration. The date for the election, orig- inally Dec. 30, bad been moved to Jan. 14, Newman said. The $575,000 grant is for the 12-month period between Oct. 1, 1968 and Sept. 30, 1969. He said 46 anti-poverty projects for youth, jobless, senior citizens and other beneficiaries had been submitted to the planning commit- tee, which had screened the list to 14, which were approved and submitted to the CDA for funding. * * * * * * vsir A ■ Amins Sign up for SAVINGS BONDS FREEDOM SIIAPFS ,,,,,, -•