THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 16, 1969
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Lebanese Talks With El Fatah Collapse
LONDON (JTA) — Efforts by
Lebanese military leaders to reach
some sort of an accommodation
with Palestinian commandos col-
lapsed, according to reports reach
ing here from Beirut. Talks have
been going on for five days to
reach an agreement on guerrilla
activities based on Lebanese soil.
A session held Monday was de-
scribed as the "final attempt" to
break the deadlock. But it was
not attended by Yassir Arafat,
chairman of the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization and leader of El
Maccabia Athletes Planning Peace Plea to U Thant the Ramat Gan stadium near Tel
NEW YORK (JTA)—Fourteen UN headquarters in New York the
31 countries day before the games close.
participating in the Eighth World
The games will be opened July
Maccabia
Games
in
Israel this 28 by President Zaknan Shazar at
Official quarters in Beirut said
hundred athletes from
40 guerrillas were captured in summer will make a plea for peace
fighting that developed this week to United Nations Secretary-Gen-
after Lebanese army units were eral U Thant in special Jerusalem
an-
nounced that 30 nations have en-
tered the Maccabia in addition to
Israel.
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The plans were announced by
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commandos were killed in the will be contained in a cable to
clashes. Mrs. Meir said that she;
did not know "who will come out
Fatah, the most powerful of the on top, the guerrillas or the Le-
commando groups. He had report. banese Army." She warned Is-
edly already left for Amman, Jor- raelis that "we are going to face
dan.
harsh situations and must have the
The guerrillas are demanding a spiritual strength and no illusions
free hand for incursions against about what lies ahead."
Israel. Lebanese officials are try-
Mrs. Melr said in a taped tele-
ing to convince them that stepped vision interview that Israel would
up commando activity against Is- not return strategic areas cap-
rael would bring severe reprisals tured from the Arab countries in'
and possible Israeli annexation of the Six-Day War. But she describ-
southern Lebanon and its fertile ed as "very, very wise" the state-
coastal plain. According to reports ment by Premier Levi Eshkol
from Beirut. leaders of the PLO shortly before his death Feb. 26
said no agreement had been reach- that Israel did not want to keep
ed between the two sides. But Sha- any part of the populated area of
fik el-Hout, chief of the Beirut the West Bank captured from Jor-
office of the PLO, said "we all dan. Mrs. Meir was interviewed
see each other's point of view by Clifton Daniel, New York
more clearly than ever."
Times' managing editor. The inter-
The Lebanese dispute with the view was broadcast on the Na-
Sponsored by:
Palestinian- guerrillas belonging to tional Education Television net-
El Fatah and the Syrian-sponsored work. Asked whether Israel's oc-
al-Saiqa movement led to clashes cupation of East Jerusalem was
between Lebanese troops and com- to be regarded as an "accomplish-
mandos and rioting in Beirut and ed fact," Mrs. Meir replied, "abso-
other cities which brought about lutely."
the fall of the government of
Premier Rashid Karami. No new Histadrut Boom in Old City
Mrs. I. Walter Silver
Proceeds for:
Lebanese government has been
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Labor
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formed. President Gamal Abdel Council reported that membership
Philip Slomovitz Scholarship Fund
Nasser of Egypt sent a special in Histadrut in East Jerusalem has
envoy to Beirut, Dr. Hassan Sabry tripled in the past year. According
al-Kholy, to mediate the dispute. to the report. East Jerusalem
He returned to Cairo Sunday after membership in Israel's labor fed-
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guerrilla leaders rejected his pro- eration was 1,800 last April and is
posal that the entire question of now approaching 5,000.
the role of commandos in the Arab
states be brought before a meet-
ing of the Arab League foreign
ministers.
Until Monday Yassir Arafat took
part in the talks with Lebanese
Army officers. He insisted that
Lebanon grant El Fatah the same
privileges and facilities that it en-
joys in Jordan, Syria and Egypt.
Something that shows as much style sense below the ankle as above? Here's an
El Fatah has free time on Cairo
radio for nightly broadcasts. But
example. Florsheim's "Cavaliere," $29.95 in gleaming black. Its plain, smooth toe,
it does not operate from Egyptian
contemporary Puritan buckle, and slip-on styling lends the right look of casual ele-
soil against Israel nor is it per-
gance. It can make you look more suavely better-dressed than before. So
mitted by Syrian authorities to
can the Phillips salespeople. Tell
launch attacks from Syrian soil.
ofthi II ips
them about your clothes and
With El Fatah incursions from Jor-
they'll tell you about their shoes.
F
failure
owing
to
the
nature
dan a
of the terrain and the efficiency
Security Charge/Michigan Bankard
Northland Center (two stores)
of Israeli security measures. Le-
banon remains its only possible
effective base.
(Israeli security forces rounded
up 11 suspected El Fatah members
in the West Bank town of Hebron
Monday. A defense ministry source
said Hebron has been a center of
Arab resistance to Israeli occupa-
tion.)
Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv Premier
Golda Meir warned that the Le-
banese border was Israel's "new
trouble spot" and said that top
priority would be given to the con-
struction of shelters in Israeli vil-
lages near the Lebanese frontier.
Mrs. Meir spoke at a meeting of
the Histadrut leadership as reports
reached here of new clashes be-
tween Lebanese Army troops and
guerrillas massed in the southern
portion of the country for raids
against Israel.
The guerrillas were said to be-
long to the Syrian-backed al-Saiqa
(Thunderbolt) organization. But
El Fatah, the most powerful Pales-
tinian commando group, claimed
in a broadcast from Cairo that
five of its members had been kill-
ed by Lebanese soldiers and 10
others wounded in clashes that de-
veloped when the guerrillas at-
tempted to invade Israel on a
sabotage mission from southern
Lebanon. The Lebanese military
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command denied the charge. It
claimed earlier, however, that it
Would crack down on the growing
number of guerrillas near Leba-
non's borders with Israel.
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