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Editorials
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VOLUME LV

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Leader of revolt of the desert of Arabia an avowed Zionist who assisted in creating Feisal-Weiz-
man-Frankfurter friendship . . . Hoped-for Israel-Arab cooperation stymied by Arabs who aim to
brand Feisal letter as forgery . . . Nothing new in sensationalized revelations about Lawrence of
Arabia, the Zionist who was a Weizmann admirer.

—Commentary, Pige 2

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Phase-Out of U. S. Research Aid
Creates Israeli Concern; Phantom
Plane Supply May Be Jeopardized

Iraqi Units Based in Jordan
Join in Attacks on Israel

TEL AVIV (JTA)—The El Fatah guerrilla command
admitted for the first time Monday that Iraqi units stationed
in Jordan were participating in assaults on Israel. The dis-
closure was contained in a Fatah announcement claiming that
heavy casualties and damages were inflicted in attacks on the
Yardena settlement in the Beisan Valley over the weekend and
on an. Israeli patrol near Hebron. Israel military sources
ridiculed the El Fatah casualty claims.
In that action, it was made known that Iraqi artillery,
along with Jordanian guns, provided covering fire for a group
of 10 marauders who crossed the Jordan River in an attempt
to penetrate Yardena Saturday night. Israeli intelligence report-
edly learned that Iraqi forces in Jordan have formed a guerrilla
unit identified as the 421st "Kadassiya" regiment.
Yardena, a kibutz 55 miles northeast of Tel Aviv, was
attacked with mortar and bazooka fire Friday night. A 65-year-
old woman resident was injured and some damage was reported
to houses and telephone and electricity facilities. The settlement
came under mortar attack again Saturday night which caused
injuries to three persons. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made
a surprise appearance at Yardena at midnight Saturday night.
He inspected the damage, visited the injured persons and prom-
ised that the defense ministry would do everything possible to
strengthen the settlement's defenses. Gen. Dayan said the cour-
age of the settlers "set an example for the whole country."
He visited the home of one of the victims, 40-year-old Shalom
Pinhas, the father of eight children. He proposed that an outside
worker be brought in to take over Pinhas' chores while he was
recovering and said the defense ministry would bear the ex-
pense.
A curfew was imposed on several areas In and around Gaza
Saturday night after the ambush of an Israeli patrol in which
four Israeli soldiers were injured, one of them seriously. The
incident took place at 8:30 p.m. local time at the southern
entrance to Gaza. The guerrillas hurled hand grenades and
fired bazookas. A search of the area yielded four anti-vehicle
mines which were dismantled.
An explosion damaged the civilian regional administration
offices in Gaza Saturday night. Earlier, three hand grenades
were thrown at the local branch of the Israel Discount Bank,
causing slight damage. An army car struck a mine on the former
demarcation line between Israel and Gaza but no casualties
were reported. A storage shed used for chemicals was destroyed
(Continued on Page 14)

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

JTA White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON (JTA)—The United States is phasing out a wide range of research
projects in Israeli universities and institutions because funds for the projects have been re-
appropriated for Arab refugees in the Gaza Strip and West Bank to help cover the United
States share of contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, it was con-
firmed this week at the highest official levels here.
An estimated $7,000,000 to $8,000,000 per year in counterpart funds, earmarked origi-
nally for research grants to the Israeli institutions, is being diverted, the sources said.
Hundreds of projects linked with the U. S. urban crisis—including education of the disad-
vantaged, nutrition for the poor, water pollution, air contamination and cancer research —
are being "phased out." A State Department official disclosed that all American research in
Israel financed under Public Law 480—counterpart funds was gradually being terminated and
will come to an end in fiscal 1973. The decision was made by the State Department and the
Agency for International Development.

Concern was reportedly developing not only among the estimated 1,200 Israeli scien-
and technicians seeking solutions for vital problems but also among such United States
government agencies as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The U. S. Office
of Education has already discontinued one Hebrew University project to help American schools
educate the culturally deprived. In jeopardy also, it was reported, are such programs as a
Hebrew University effort to find a vaccine against malaria for the U. S. Army medical corps.
Another imperiled project was one requested by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries after Israel
discovered much information about pollution of water and protection of fish.

tists

The crisis has led the Hebrew University to open a special office in Washington to
seek alternative financing from foundations and individuals so that important research proj-
ects can be continued despite the concellation of United States government funds. The can-
celled American funds are being diverted to UNRWA to .pay Arab camp salaries and for
purchase of food from abroad for the refugees. Five-year projects at Hebrew University are
in danger of being terminated at a point before valuable conclusions can develop. Research
at the Haifa Institute of Technology (Technion) and the Weizmann Institute of Science at

Rehovot also is affected.

Despite the severance of the research grants to Israel for the indicated purpose, the
State Department has just asked large new appropriations for Arab universities. The State
Department included in the authorization bill for foreign aid now before Congress a specific
request for $9,500,000 for the American University at Beirut. This would help pay salaries
for faculty members who reportedly include many anti-American and pro-Fatah teachers. An-
other new State Department request is for $200,000 for the American University in Cairo.
In addition, AID is asking a $1,000,000 equivalent in Egyptian currency from counterpart funds
for the Cairo University. AID has refused to allocate counterpart funds sought by Hadassah.
the Women's Zionist Organization of America, to improve its medical school at Hebrew
University.

Last January, the Johnson administration transmitted to Congress a budget amend-
ment for fiscal 1970 "in the amount of $3,000,000 for facilities for graduate students from
developing countries at the Weizmann Institute" but this request was not supported by the
U. S. Budget Bureau in its latest recommendations to the Nixon administration.

(Continued on Page 15)

More Evidence: Russia Keeps Barring Aspiring Emigrants

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The newspaper
Maariv published a copy of a letter pur-
portedly written by a Jewish family in
Moscow to President Nicolai Podgorny of
the Supreme Soviet, demanding their right
to immigrate to Israel "because we feel
ourselves spiritually and emotionally part
of that state."
According to Maariv, the lettter was
sent to President Podgorny in April. The
paper claimed that it obtained the copy
and a photograph of the family of five from
a tourist. The family was identified as
Klizemer-Borochowitz, of 457-1 Novokuz-
Minskaya Street, flat 72, Moscow. The let-
ter was signed by A. J. Klizemer, B. J.
Borochowitz, K. B. Borochowitz, J. B.
Borochowitz and Boris L. Shlein.
The letter was sharply critical of Soviet
treatment of the Jews. According • to' the

text published in Maariv, the family said
it had been trying in vain since December
to get permission to emigrate and con-
tinued: "We have been raised according
to Jewish traditions. But under present
conditions our children are deprived of the
possibility of learning Hebrew and all other
subjects that are needed to learn the great
cultural heritage of our people. And this
is because, unlike other nations in Soviet
Russia, we are discriminated against. We
are dreaming of going to settle in Israel.
As citizens of Russia, in accordance with
the basic laws of Russia which are opposed
to racial discrimination, we have the full
right to immigrate to Israel. We pray that
the Soviet authorities will reveal an under-
standing of our people's problems and that
our request will be granted."
(According to the Boston Globe, which
received a copy of the letter from the

Academic Committee on Soviet Jewry, three
members of the family applied for exit
permits on Dec. 30, 1968, with the neces-
sary "affidavit of invitation" to be reunited
with'their family in Israel. On June 16, they
were informed that their application had
been denied. The Globe declared that the
accusation voiced by these people, "once
again underscores the discrimination
against the Jewish minority behind the
Iron Curtain, now abetted by pro-Arab
policies of the Communist governments."
The paper said "The letter, one of the few
of its kind to come to the attention of the
West in recent months, is touchingly appeal-
ing and yet a bit defiant in its tone.")
The family applied for exit permits in
order to be reunited with other family
members in Israel in accordance with a
declaration by Premier Alexei Kosygin in
Paris in December 1966, that Russian citi-

zens who wished to leave their country to
be reunited with their families abroad
would receive permission to leave the
Soviet Union.
In Bogota, Colombia, Latin American
parliamentarians meeting last weekend
adopted a resolution demanding that the
Soviet Union honor Kosygin's promise
to permit Russian Jews to emigrate.
The resolution was proposed by the
Uruguayan delegate at the Latin American
Interparliamentary Conference. It was sec-
onded by Cost Rica.
The resolution also demanded that the
Soviet government accord Jews the same
cultural rights enjoyed by other ethnic
minorities in the USSR. It asked Latin
American governments to raise the ques-
tion of the plight of Russian Jewry at the
United Nations through their respective
missions. (Related stories Page 5)

