6-Friday, January 31, 1969 Nasser Vows Support to Guerrillas JERUSALEM (JTA) — A hard- I Mid East policy emerged this week when Parker T. Hart, line speech by President Gamal assistant secretary of state for Abdel Nasser of Egypt in which Eastern affairs, told Con- Near be extolled Arab guerrillas and gress not, to expect "any drama- pledged them all-out support was cited by an Israeli official this tic forward movement" in the Arab-Israel situation in the near week as proof—"if further proof future. were needed"—of his government's links with Palestinian terrorist Hart testified before the Near groups. East subcommittee of the House Gideon Rafael, director-general Foreign Affairs Committee. After of the Israel Foreign Ministry, the secret session, he said he saw said on a radio interview that Nas- a need for time in finding a solu- ser's speech reflected and exposed tion. He stressed that a "time of the "helplessness" of his domestic danger" existed and said that "we situation and the "dead end" to- hope that aggravating incidents ward which Egyptian foreign po- will be kept down." Hart envisaged licy was leading. an opportunity for settlement in President Nasser, addressing the the efforts of Dr. Jarring. new Egyptian National Assembly. U.S. officials acknowledged that claimed, "We are not war-mongers Nasser wrote to President Nixon —we are working for peace," But last week "hoping for better the Egyptian leader declared that things." Officially, the State De- his country will never "sit to , partment said only that a letter negotiate with an enemy who is from Nasser had been received in- occupying our territory" and that volving the Middle East situation it would fight before it agreed to and that there had been no reply "cede an inch." as yet. Although he made no mention of The letter was believed to have the United States, his remarks reviewed past Egyptian-U.S. rela- were believed to constitute Egypt's tions and indicated that Nasser reaction to the U.S. note to the sought an improvement but did not Soviet Union which proposed an ask for a resumption of diplomatic Israeli withdrawal, but not to the relations which Egypt broke after borders of June 1967, and urged the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Moscow and other capitals "to use the Po't said. all their influence to stop the grave The new U.S. permanent repre- increase of Arab terrorist opera- sentative to the United Nations. tions" against Israel. Charles Yost, said he expected the The text of the note, which had Nixon administration to take into been made available to Egyptian "full account the interests and ob- officials, was published in the jectives" of all Mid East countries semi-official Cairo newspaper Al when formulating its policy for the Abram and received an angry re- region. The ambassador, meeting ception. Al Abram is known to re- the press after presenting his cre- flect Nasser's views. dentials to Secretary General U Qualified military observers Thant. offered this view when ask- said in Jerusalem that reports ed whether he agreed with the po- that Egypt has promised to licy of "even-handedness" recom- I mended by President Nixon's s up ply Palestinian guerrilla Middle East fact-finding envoy, bands with heavy weapons from its Soviet-made arsenal would, William Scranton. Yost said the United States will if true, have no affect on the balance of military force array- want to keep the pursuit of Mid ed against Israel. They said such East peace within the framework weapons in the hands of the of the UN Security Council Nov. 22, commandos would pose a greater 1967 Mid East resolution and the threat to the host countries than mission of Dr. Jarring. He said that views he had expressed on to Israel. the Mid East issue in an article The London Telegraph reported in a dispatch from Amman that published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine had not changed. He ex- Nasser has offered the guerrillas rockets, anti-aircraft guns and pressed hope that the Nixon ad- other heavy weapons. The paper, ministration would regard the , which attributed its information to course of action he proposed in the a spokesman for El Fatah, the article as a wise one, but he in-' largest of the commando bands dicated that there was no certainty based in Jordan, said that Nasser that it would follow his ideas. During the U.S. Senate Foreign offered to post army officers at Relations Committee questioning guerrilla bases to train the ir- of Yost, he said the United regulars in the use of the Soviet States would not refrain from us- weapons. ing its Security Council veto if it (The Telegraph said that Nas- ever was confronted with a reso- ser also told the guerrilla leaders lution endangering the "national that he was strengthening Egyp interest." The veto has never tian commandos operating in the been used. Sinai Peninsula. This was his first He was asked by the committee's Egyptian ' official reference to newest member, Sen. Jacob K. guerrillas.) An Israeli Foreign Ministry Javits, New York Republican, why spokesman confirmed this week the Soviet Union uses its veto on that Foreign Minister Abba Eban any resolution affecting the Arabs, met secretly with United Nations but the U.S. does not do the same special envoy Dr. Gunnar V. Jar- on behalf of Israel. Yost said, "There is no official ring in Zurich Jan. 13. He said the meeting was concerned mainly policy against using the veto." He said that it has not been exercised with agenda and procedural mat- ters preparatory to the resumption to date because the Council had of Dr. Jarring's peace-seeking not voted a resolution "we thought mission in the Middle East next sufficiently dangerous to block." month. Lebanon Reported Acting The spokesman said the meeting Against Guerrilla Bases was held secretly because Dr. Jar- LONDON (JTA) — Prime Minis- ring did not want to have to report on it to the other parties concern- ed. It was understood that he had a similar meeting in Switzerland with the Egyptian foreign minis- ter, Mahmoud Riad. He said that Dr. Jarring has been using the temporary resump- tion of his regular post as Swe- den's ambassador to Moscow as a cover for continuing his peace- seeking mission without attracting attention. Eban said on a television inter- view that Nasser's speech pledging all-out support to terrorists would be taken up with Dr. Jarring, when the latter resumes his mission in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the first Indication of the Nixon administration's ter Rashid Karami of Lebanon has apparently resolved the crisis within his newly formed govern- ment and will follow a policy of closer alignment with the Arab states while at the same time avoiding anew confrontation with Israel, according to reports from Beirut. The reports said that Lebanon will not allow Palestinian guer- rillas to operate against Israel from Lebanese soil and will try, unobtrusively to keep them out of Lebanon altogether. The newspaper of Syria's ruling Baath - Socialist Party accused Lebanon of using troops to prevent Palestinian guerrillas from cross- ing its southern frontier to attack IsraeL THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Study Group to Israel a First for the JNF According to the paper, Al Baath, Lebanon sealed the border with Israel and rounded up a com- mando unit when it returned from a mission in Upper Galilee. A spokesman for El Fatah, larg- est of the Palestinian guerrilla groups, said in Amman that Bei- rut authorities, had asked them not to use Lebanon as a base for NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Mil- ton Aron, the executive vice presi- dent of the Jewish National Fund of America, announced that the land reclamation agency would send its first study mission to Israel. It will be composed of JNF lead- He reported to them that the JNF national assembly held in New York last October stimulated renewed American Jewish support for the agency's land development and afforestation projects. Dr. Aron said be was planning ers from all parts of the United to visit JNF regions throughout the U.S. to deliver personally reports States. of new developments in Israel. activities, it was reported here. Karami declared in an inter- view published by the news- paper Le Monde in Paris that Lebanon would accept all French military aid, including troops and advisers on its terri- tory. The French government offered such aid to Lebanon following ex- pression of fears by Lebanese I leaders that Israel might attack I that country from which intermit- tent shelling has been aimed at Israeli settlements near the border. Israel has formally denied such intentions. Dr. Aron just returned from Israel where he.inspected reclama- tion projects recently begun in out- lying areas. One of them, he said, was a major development pro- gram for the entire region from Dan at the northeastern tip of Israel to the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee. During his stay in Israel, Dr. Aron conferred with represen- tatives of the Jewish Agency and consulted with top officials of the Keren Kayemeth (JNF) in Jerusalem. Premier Karami also said that consultations between France and Lebanon on such aid had already started. He said also that Lebanon was in such a difficult situation "facing an implacable enemy" that it was "prepared to accept French military aid under all its forms." Classified Ads Get Quick Results JEFFERSON CHEVROLET 2130 E. Jefferson LO 7-5750 IF YOU TURN THE •PSIDI DOWN YOU WON'T FIND A FINER WINN THAN /, //cr>7i j~ Masa Wised's. Detroit. 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