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Arab Sabotage Acts Meet With
Increased Israeli Retaliation;
Speed Uprooting of Guerrillas
Middle East tensions and Israel's conflict with the war-threatening
Arab states assumed new proportions and increased anxieties during the
past week's escalated fighting, Israel's determination to uproot the guerrilla
gangs' hangouts and the warnings that every act of terror will be answered
seven-fold, as Prime Minister Golda Meir warned in the Knesset on Monday.
The planting of a bomb by Arab terrorists in the Tel Aviv Dizengoff
area which is frequented by tourists brought further warnings from Israel,
and the retaliatory acts by Israel are believed to have been responsible
Israeli Arabs Blamed
For Dizengoff Blast
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Security officials
believe that Israeli Arabs may have been
involved in Monday's blast near Dizengoff
street in the heart of Tel Aviv and are
COnsidering measures to control Arabs
passing through the city and the many
thousands who work in Tel Aviv and often
spend the night here. The explosion of a
parked vehicle laden with TNT shortly after
midnight Monday injured 11 persons and
caused extensive property damage.
Police said the vehicle, described as
an Israeli army car, was stolen in Jaffa.
Investigations of the explosion are centered
in that ancient. largely Arab seaport town
which was absorbed by the Tel Aviv muni-
cipality after the 1948 war. Police believe
the explosives were smuggled into Jaffa
bit by bit by Israeli Arabs and loaded into
the car after more than 50 kilograms of
dynamite was accumulated. The blast was
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for changes in military leadership in both Egypt and Jordan.
Israelis became more seriously concerned over the developing
situation with the fears expressed that Israeli Arabs may have been respon-
sible for the Dizengoff street bombing in which 10 Israelis were injured.
The revelation that low-flying Israeli jet fighters were seen over
President Nasser's home near Cairo was among the sensational news items
of the week. That report emanated from Beirut via Cairo.
Egypt Loses 4 11IIGs in Suez Fighting:
Israeli Flight Over Cairo Confirmed:
Infuriated Nasser Changes Command
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli air force jets shot down four Egyptian MIG
21 jet interceptors in a fierce dogfight over the Gulf of Suez Wednesday,
the third aerial battle over the gulf in less than a month. A military spokes-
man said the fight developed when the Egyptian planes intruded into Israeli
air space. The Israeli jets pursued them, and four MIGs were seen crashing
on Egyptian territory. All Israeli aircraft returned safely to their bases, the
spokesman said.
Israeli helicopter commandos raided three Egyptian outposts on
the shores of the Gulf of Suez about 100 miles south of the Suez Canal
Tuesday night. They killed 13 Egyptian soldiers in the act and took one
prisoner. According to an Israeli spokesman, all of the raiders returned
safely to their bases. Israeli and Egyptian artillery and mortars ex-
changed fire across the Suez Canal Tusday, the 10th successive day
of fighting along the 100-mile waterway. The shooting was concentrated
near Kantara in the canal's Port Suez, indicating direct hits by Israeli
gunners. Two Israeli soldiers were reported wounded.
Tuesday night's commando raids were apparently intended to
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Doxology Creates Startling Mood at White House
Jewish Service; Dignity of Nixon Idea Challenged
WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA)—Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, conducted a Sunday service at the invitation of President Richard M. Nixon in the White House and
included a feature that surprised many in the assembly.
When the service opened with an explicitly Christian hymn, "Father, Son and Holy Ghost," sung by the
Christ Lutheran Church, Dr. Finkelstein sat in silence.
Ile was the first rabbi in U. S. history invited to conduct worship services in the
executive mansion. Observers said the usual practice at interfaith services was to omit any
expression of religious views that cannot be shared by members of all faiths.
concept of a holy trinity is sharply at variance with the Jewish religious belief in monotheism.
Dr. Finkelstein delivered a sermon to the assembled guests, who included prominent
members and other high government officials. He declared that throughout U. S. history, God
had sent leaders capable of meeting the nation's challenges. He mentioned Washington, Jeffer-
son and Lincoln and declared, "We pray that future historians looking back on our generation
may say that in a period of great trials and great tribulations, the finger of God pointed to
Richard M. Nixon, giving him the vision and wisdom to save the world and civilization."
The rabbi, wearing a yarmulka, later joined President and Mrs. Nixon and their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Eisenhower, and Supreme Court Chief Justice
and Mrs. Warren E. Burger on the receiving line.
(It was reported that several Jewish guests at the service were startled by the inclu-
Slon of the Christian Doxology in the service. B ut Dr. Finkelstein, who maintained silence while
the Lutheran choir sang the Christian hymn, said he was neither surprised nor upset and his Dr. Finkelstein
only regret seemed to be that Jewish participants in the service could not join in the singing of the hymn).
choir of
The Washington Post Tuesday expressed reservations about certain aspects of religious services in the White
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Bilateral M. E. Talks
May Shift to Moscow
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Secretary of
State William P. Rogers told a press con-
ference Wednesday that there have been
- some advances" in Soviet proposals on
an Arab-Israeli settlement and indicated
that bilateral talks might be shifted to
Moscow.
Asked by reporters to specify the "key
issues" on which the "advances" were
made. Rogers declined to be specific but
singled out the "status of Jerusalem" and
Israeli troop withdrawal as key issues.
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Rogers' conference followed by only a
hours the disclosure on a television
interview by Undersecretary of State
Elliott Richardson that the United States
anticipated a new round of conversations
on the Middle East that might take place
in Moscow. Richardson said the Arab-
Israeli situation may be deteriorating, that
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Statute of Limitations
For Punishment of Nazis
Extended as a Token Act
BONN (JTA)—The Budestag passed bills last week
abolishing the statute of limitations for the crime of
genocide and postponing the statute of limitations for
murder for 10 years. But the nature of the legislation is
such that an estimated 95 per cent of Nazi war criminals
will avoid prosecution for murder and none will be
brought to justice for genocide. The genocide measure
refers only to future instances. Past genocide—that com-
mitted during the Nazi era—is specifically exempt from
prosecution on grounds that the abolition of the statute
of limitations cannot be applied retroactively.
The statute of limitations for murder- will _become
effective in 1979 instead of on Dec. 31, 1969, as hereto-
fore scheduled. Nazis charged with premeditated murder,
who comprise only 5 per cent of all war criminals,
will be subject to prosecution. The balance are charged
with aiding in murder on the orders of superiors. They
have already been granted amnesty by virtue of an article
in the new West German penal code which grants amnesty
to any civil or criminal offenders whose offense was
unpremeditated and not "wilful." •
The article originally applied mainly to traffic viola-
tors and other minor offenders against public order. But
West Germany's highest court decreed last month that it
was also applicable to war criminals.