10—Friday, May 23, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Soviet's Qualification to Contribute, EEC - Council Discusses Israel's Associate Status
f
With the exception of France,
OURGt e r(sJ ToA
U
the Eur- whose negative position remains
to M.E. Peace Questioned by Israel
Economic Community took unchanged, the majority of
L XEMB
C o
opean
the six-
of associative member states favor a preferen-
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) selves devote their efforts to the brook, "was unusual in that it up the ques ti on
Israel at its session here tial tariff arrangement with Israel.
status
for
seemed
to
be
a
warning
to
the
conclusion
and
signature"
of
peace
—Israel seemingly called into ques-
to consider it
tion, in a letter to Secretary-Gen- agreements. In a letter to Thant. Cairo government about the Suez Monday and agreed
session after
Excess of joy is harder to bear
eral U Thant. the Soviet Union's Egyptian envoy Mohamed Awal Canal fighting, although it did not again at its next
have been stud- than any amount of sorrow.--
qualifications to contribute to a el-Kony said that Lt. Gen. Bull mention Egypt by name. Its refer- various proposals
executive
committee.
Honore
de Balzac.
by
its
Mid East peace through the Big had been informed by Undersecre- ences to Israel were mild by com- ied
Four talks. Ambassador Yosef tary of State Salah Gohar that parison with previous denuncia -
Tekoah said in a letter to Thant, fortification of UN observer posts
w hich was in reply to one sent to on the canal's west bank had be-
Thant also had a meeting with
the secretary general by Soviet gun. Posts on both sides of the U.S. Ambassador Charles W. Yost
HST DRIVE
Ambassador Yakov Malik last canal had been subjected to "grave before t h e Secretary-General's
w eek, that Russia unreservedly danger" and "heavy damage." meeting with the Egyptian envoy
OUT
identifies itself with "Arab aggres- Thant had complained earlier. El- and it was believed, said the cor-
MIME lET
sion and intransigence." The Soviet Kony blamed Israel for the "de- respondent, that they discussed
Union's "disregard for facts can terioration" of the situation.
Thant's initiative. He said that
hardly be considered as qualities
The Washington Post said Tues- Donald Bergus. the senior Ameri-
capable of establishing peace." day that when United Nations can diplomat in Cario. was also
Tekoah said in commening upon Secretary-General U Thant called reported to have relayed American
the Malik letter in which the on el-Kony last Friday . to express concern to Egyptian Foreign Minis-
Russian had blamed Israel for concern over the continuing inci- ter Mahmoud Rid.
aggravation of Suez Canal tensions dents at the Suez Canal, he. "in
l
"Soviet representatives." the Post
in order to block a settlement effect, spoke with the authority of
called for in the Security Council's the Soviet Union and the United said, "have been extremely sensi-
tive
to
any
implication
that
they
Nov. 22 1967 resolution.
States."
are counseling restraint to the'
The "vilification and unfounded
According to Robert Estabrook. Arabs. and U.S. officials have been
accusations" against Israel, Te-
the
newspaper's
UN
diplomatic
careful to avoid comments that
koah asserted, threw additional
SERVICE THAT SATISFIES
light on Israel's opposition to the correspondent, the initiative for the would put the Russians on the spot.
current discussions—the eighth of meeting with el-Kony was Thant's Nevertheless, there are indications
but
"it
is
assumed
he
discussed
the
that
in
fact
both
super-powers
which was held this week. He re-
affirmed Israel's "readiness to ac- idea with Soviet Ambasaador Jacob have begun to press their clients—
cept" the Security Council meas- Malik' on May 8 when Malik visit- the Arabs in the case of the Soviet
Union and Israel in the case of the
ure "for the promotion of agree- ed him to deliver a letter.
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ment between the parties of a just
That letter, according to Esta- U.S."
and lasting peace."
(Assistant Secretary of State Jos-
e ph Sisco and Soviet Ambassador
Anatoly F. Dobrynin held their 15th
The
meeting Monday in continuing bi-
lateral talks. According to the Post,
"they are believed to have gotten
relatively further in their ex-
changes than have the Big Four
ambassadors who have been meet-
ing in New York.")
In his letter Malik said that
normalization of the area required
that the Security Council's cease-
fire resolution be carried out. Tek-
oah said that if Russia really
wanted the cease fire observed, it
should "impress upon the United
and
Arab Republic" its responsibilities
for "persistent violations." Egyp-
tian responsibility for aggravation
of the Suez situation, he said, was
made clear from UN reports sub-
mitted by Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, chief
of the UN observer mission in the
sector, and by official Cairo state-
ments "announcing - a policy "of
increasing tension and generating
of
violence" along the canal.
Tekoah said in the letter to Thant
that Egypt has "decided to sacri-
fice the welfare of the population
along the west bank of the Canal
and to turn this sector into a daily
battlefield." He noted that Egypt
had announced and carried out
evacuation of Port Said's civilian
During Its First Ten Years, The Jewish Historical Society of Michigan
population "for the avowed purpose
of extending Egyptian attacks to
• Established a Jewish Research Center at the Burton Archives of the Detroit Public Library
the Port Said area." The Israeli
diSputed the veracity of Egyptian
• Published the journal "Michigan Jewish His tory."
"assurances" to Thant that it
would contribute "to the maximum
•
extent" toward reducing risks to
Erected a historic marker at the restored Fort Michilimacinac, honoring the first Jewish settler in
the UN ceasefire observers.
Michigan
Tekoah reiterated Israel's con-
tinued willingness to observe the
• Preserved and collected materials relating to the colorful and inspiring past of the Michigan Jewish
ceasefire on a reciprocal basis.
community.
He said that the Soviet Union
could "contribute constructively"
to peace by "lending its official
support to the requirement that
the parties to the conflict them-
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4,000 E. Europe Tourists
Visited Israel Despite
Lack of Diplomatic Ties
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nearly
4,000 tourists from Eastern Europe
visited Israel during 1968, and
about 40 per cent of them were
from countries which had broken
off diplomatic relations with Israel,
the ministry of tourism reported.
The ministry said that 113 Rus-
sian nationals had visited Israel as
tourists as well as 480 Polish na-
tionals, 380 Yugoslav nationals, 245
Hungarians, 600 Czechoslovaks and
2,157 Romanians. Romania was the
one Eastern European country
which did not sever relations with
Israel after the Six-Day War.
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