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Infuriated Nasser Orders Mobilization
38 Arab Planes Downed by Israel Since 1967 War
U. S. Emissary's USSR Mission Roils Israelis
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Seven Syrian MIGs were
shot down Tuesday in a 30-minute air battle over
the Golan Heights. an Israeli military spokes.
man said. No Israeli losses were reported.
The air battle, fourth within a week, was the
biggest fought since the Six-Day War. The air
clash brought to 38 the number of Arab planes
shot down since 1967.
The dogfight took place between 10,000 and
18,000 feet above the Heights along the Israeli
Syrian border after the Syrian planes were sighted
over Quneitra.
Israel claims to have shot down 27 Egyptian
war planes since the war as well as 11 Syrian jets.
Israel says it shot down nine Egyptian MIGs in the
last 11 days.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel claimed Tuesday
that nine Egyptian commandos were killed in an
abortive raid on an Israeli position on the East
Bank of the Suez Canal Monday night and that
nine other Arabs, described as saboteurs, were
slain in two encounters with Israeli forces in the
Jordan Valley. No Israeli casualties were reported
in either of the actions.
The Israeli and Egyptian accounts of the Suez
raid differed. An Israeli military spokesman said
the Egyptians crassed the canal near Simailia
under cover of a heavy artillery barrage but were
detected and repulsed as they approached the
perimeter of the Israeli position. He said the raid-
ers left nine bodies behind when they retreated.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Official circles here were
LONDON (JTA)—Egypt was reported Tues-
sharply critical of Monday's announcement in Washington
day to be calling up its military reserves and to
that United States Assistant Secretary of State For Near
have ordered a partial mobilization. The reports
Eastern Affairs Joseph Sisco would go to Moscow this
emanating from Arab diplomatic sources did not
week for a continuation of the bilateral talks between the
indicate the size of the call-up but said the mobili-
U.S. and the Soviet Union on the Middle East. The State
zation included amphibious training on the Nile
Department stressed that the Moscow talks would be only
River and a continuing purge of Egyptian air force
a "brief round" in the continuing two-power dialogue and
officers. Convoys of heavy arms, trucks and trail-
that the U.S. will insist further talks be held in Washing.
ers loaded with military equipment under blankets
ton where they have been going on for several months.
But Israeli circles were bitter. They claimed that .. were reported to have passed through Cairo sub-
urbs Monday on the way to the Suez Canal.
Moscow is a "diplomatic desert" as far as Israel is con-
cerned. They noted that Israel has no diplomatic repre-
According to the informants, Egyptian sol-
sentation in the Soviet capital which is a center of anti-
diers were crossing the Nile in rubber boats, ap-
Israel propaganda and the main source of diplomatic and
parently practicing for a large scale crossing of
military aid to the Arabs. Russia severed diplomatic re-
the Suez Canal. Scores of air force officers were
lations with Israel after the June, 1967, war.
said to have been pensioned off—in effect purged
A foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesc'ay that
Israel had no knowledge of rumors that a U.S. diplomat
—since June 24 when President Gamal Abdel
now visiting Arab countries would ccene here. The man
Nasser ousted his air force commander, Maj. Gen.
in question is Michael Newlin, political adviser to UN
Mustafa Shalabi El-Menawi, and the chief of air
Ambassador Charles W. Yost, the U.S. chief representa-
defense, Maj. Gen. Hassan Kamel. The purges
tive at the United Nations. Newlin recently visited Cairo
were said to have been prompted by the continued
and is presently in Amman.
low state of efficiency of the Egyptian air force
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despite the fact that it has been completely re-
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Joseph Sisco, Assistant Sec-
equipped by Russia since its destruction by Israeli
retary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, said Tuesday on
jets
in the opening hours of the Six-Day War.
the NBC Today television show that he hoped United
Nations Secretary General U Thant would not withdraw
President Nasser was said to have been in-
UN observers from the Suez Canal.
furiated by regular Israeli penetrations of Egyptian
Thant said Monday in a report to the Security Council
air space without opposition. Israeli jets flew over
that the jeopardy of the observers was such that he was
Egypt for 20 minutes on June 17 and buzzed Cairo
considering removing them.
for
six minutes before Egyptian jets were scram-
Sisco said the observers were performing a very use-
bled in an abortive attempt to intercept them.
ful job of reporting on incidents. He said he would like
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Expect France to Release Mirage Jets
PARIS (JTA)—Official French sources were unable or unprepared to say over
the weekend what stand President Georges Pompidou or his government would take
On the embargo on military equipment and spare parts to Israel imposed by former
President Charles de Gaulle. No official comment was available on an Israeli Defense
Forces radio station report last Thursday that President Pompidou was about to
release more than $50,000,000 worth of 50 Mirage V jet fighter-bombers bought and
paid for by Israel but impounded in France for more than two years.
The military commentator in Tel Aviv said the jets would be released in October
or November and that the delivery of aircraft spare parts to Israel had been already
resumed. He said that once the Mirages had been delivered, France would re-impose
the boycott and that there would be no further deliveries of French arms to Israel
In the foreseeable future. The commentator described the plan as a compromise to
appease pro-Israel elements in France while satisfying orthodox Gaullists who demand
that the Pompidou regime continue the embargo.
(The London Times reported from Paris that official quarters described the
Tel Aviv report as without fondation and as a clumsy attempt by Israeli military
circles to exploit a situation arising from the French government change).
Pompidou will preside at a special session of a ministerial committee on foreign
affairs today to re-examine the political and economic consequences of France's
embargo. At his first Presidential press conference today, he is expected to indicate
what France's future Middle East policy will be.
Former President de Gaulle imposed the jets embargo shortly after the June,
1967_Six-Day War. He broadened it to include all military equipment and spare parts
after Israel's Dec. 29, 1968, raid on Beirut Airport.
The Pompidou government meanwhile is under increasing pressure from both
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pro-Israeli and pro-Arab circles, the former urging an end to the embargo and the
latter demanding that it be maintained. The pro-Israeli elements argue that recent
events along the Suez Canal make it imperative for Israel to maintain a strong Air
Force. They say that the Egyptians may try to establish a beachhead on the canal's
Oast bank and that prompt delivery of the 50 Mirages would forestall such a move
which could lead to renewed all out warfare in the Middle East.
Israel's ambassador to France, Walter Eytan, met Thursday with Foreign
Minister Maurice Schumann. The meeting was the first high level Franco-Israeli diplo-
matic contact since the Six-Day War.
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Israel Angered by UN Resolution
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Official and public anger and bitterness prevailed here
over the United Nations Security Council's unanimous vote last Thursday to censure
Israel "in the strongest terms" for its measures in the former Arab sector of Jeru-
salem designed to alter the city's status. Political circles said the censure vote came
as no surprise in light of the Council's past anti-Israel record.
They said the only possible reaction by Israel was one voiced by the country's
chief representative to the UN, Ambassador Yosef Tekoah. He said, after the 15-0
vote, that the resolution would not affect the annexation of East Jerusalem. "Life
cannot stop in Jerusalem; it will continue as it has during the last two years of
Jerusalem's rebirth," Tekoah declared. The same sentiments were expressed by
Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Information Minister Israel Galili, Mayor Teddy Kollek
of Jerusalem and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak Nissim.
Eban, who returned from a visit to three East African countries Friday, said
the Security Council's latest action leaves it in a "weakened moral position. It is
the Security Council that did not lift a finger when Israel was in mortal danger in
1967 and did not do anything to assist Israel during the war when Israel was threat-
ened with annihilation."
Israeli diplomatic circles expressed sharp criticism over what they contended
was the "anti-Israel attitude" of the British representative, Lord Caradon, during
the Security Council debate that led to the censure vote. Lord Caradon was the
British participant in the Four Power Middle East talks which recessed in New
York last week. Israelis here accused him of having expressed pro-Arab bias
on several occasions.
The resolution was approved unanimously by the Council after it was modified
in private negotiations to delete punitive proposals that would have called for an arms
embargo and threatened economic sanctions.
The United States abstained in a preliminary 14-0 vote on a paragraph which
called upon Israel "to rescind forthwith all measures taken by it which may tend to
change the status of the city of Jerusalem, and in the future to refrain from all actions
likely to have such an effect." Charles Yost, United States ambassador, subsequently
voted for the resolution as a whole.
The approved resolution was sponsored by Pakistan, Senegal and Zambia.
Algeria withdrew as a co-sponsor because it considered the modified resolution Made-
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