THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 16, 1969 - 15 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. Aviv. Sports for Israel, Inc. NEW CADILLAC? attacked with mortars and ma- Day ceremonies on Mount Scopus SEE or CALL chine guns in the Hasbaya and Aug. 6. Marjayo districts of southern Le- The plans were announced by banon. Those held were said to be the United States Committee Sports mostly Syrians. Lebanese sources For Israel, Inc., sponsor of the said Syrian helicopters were seen U.S. teams that will compete in dropping supplies to the guerrillas. Israel's version of the Olympic 1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM They said one soldier and two eames. The message to Thant CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 RES. 642-6836 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 Art Show Chairman 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- 20208 LIVERNOIS, Detroit, Michigan 48221 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 i ANDY BLAU WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC EXHIBITION and SALE Sunday, May 18th - 1-6 p.m. - through May 31 • PAINTINGS • DRAWINGS • SCULPTURE • WATER COLORS • ORIGINAL GRAPHICS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION of DETROIT at GARELICK'S GALLERY There you are in your paisley dinner jacket. What kind of shoes are you wearing? • shoes 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. ■