Action Demanded in Congress to End Detention
of Israelis by Syria; Hijacking Widely Protested

WASHINGT(rN
CITA) —Chair- sources in assisting any sister
roan Cornelius Gallagher
of the company. regardless of national-
Hotie subcommittee on inter
in the release of aircraft or
organizations
a n d
movements
passengers illegally diverted or
Tuesday called upon United Na- in restraint. -
lions Ambassador Charles W. Yost
The Alitalia statement said We
to "immediately request a special fervently
hope that channels of
session of the UN Security Conn- communication can be kept open
to deal with the recent actions so that we may be of further as-
of the
Syrian Government in hold- sistance in returning the persons
ing captive two Israeli citizens from Syria."
The subcommittee is responsible
Alitalia officials disclosed that
for supervising American partici they
had received more than
300
pation in the United Nations.
messages lutre from Jewish organ-
Rep.
Gallagher, New Jersily izations in all parts of the country

Democrat. said the Security Coup- urging the airline to shun
the
Cil must "act expiditiotisly to con- the Damascus ceremonies. They
demn the actions of the Syrian said the line would handle the

government and demand the re- situation ''entirely as a 16eal mat-
lease of th e two captive Isrz4i ter, - meaning that a delegation

citizens."
would not be sent to Damascus
The Con gressman said "this from Rome but that the Damascus
brazen act cannot remain unchal Alitalia staff ‘,yould attend.
longed by the great body of world
One of the messages protesting

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public opinion. Silence from the the planned participation of the

UN, the institutional guardian -of airlines in the jetport ceremonies
peace, can serve only to encourage had been sent to each of them by
the noxious hrand of hostage di- the National Jewish Community
plomacy which Syria has seen fit Relations Advisory Council, signed
to practice." by its chairman Jordan C. - Band

JERUSALEM (JTA )— Interna-
Ronal Red Cross representatives

of Cleveland.
The airport, begun in 1965, has

been handling
international jet
visited the two Israelis detained traffic
for several

weeks. Ameri-

in

Syria after their TWA plane can and British planes have not
was hijacked to Damascus.
The used Syrian airspace since the 1967
representatives said that Israeli war, but aviation authorities in
Prof. Shlomo Samueloff and Sal -
Damascus recently invited West-
lah Maullem were in good health. ern airlines to route their flights
Israel has not asked Red Cross through the Syrian capital. The
intervention
on two
grounds that the new jetport, together with related
situation of the
- Israelis does facilities, is
expected to lead to a
not belong in any Geneva conven- campaign for tourism.
Gott category but that the two
Trans-World Airlines has defend-
men

usalem, is part of an international fur this meeting.
are with you. We shall not tire in
research program.
New Year greetings were sent our effortsluntil G nu are released."
Preliminary ,work on the project through the International Red Foreign ministry sources would not
began in Bract in March 1968. Cross to Prof. Samtieloff and Mual- elaborate on the action being taken
and a British team from the Nted• tern The message said. "The to secure release of the Merl.
teal Research Council laboratories thoughts of all- citizens of Israel-
(Related Story Page 10) .
has been twice in Israel since,
.rune 1968, and again just after
New Year 1969. 1 -leading the Brit-
ish team is Dr. O.G. E(11101111.
head of the Division of !human
Physiology of the Medical Re-
search Council laboratories.
Prof. Samueloff is a graduate
of the Hebrew University and has
been a research associate at- the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester. U.S. lie
has been instrumental in reorgan-
izing the medical library of the
Ilebrew University.
The dean of the Hebrew Uraor-
sity-Iladassah Medical School.
Prof. Jonathan Magness categor-
ically denied that there is any..._
military aspect to Prof. Samuel-
off's research work. Prof. Magnes

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described such allegations as
sh'per fabrication. He added that

Prof. Sarnueloff • who is a well-
known medical physiologist, is ex-
clusively engaged on work of
a broad humanitarian nature,.
which is being carried out in con-
nection with the World Health
Organization (WHO).
A mass rally of American

students in Israel was held Sept.
9 in Kikar Machei Yisrael, in
front of the Tel Aviv municipal-
ity, to urge the United States
government to take further ac-
tion in affecting the release of
Prof. Samueloff and Salah Mona-
lent.
are illegally detained. The ed its action surrounding the Aug. •
Moving spirits behind the par-
Red Cross arranged for the visit 29 hijacking of one of its Israel- ticipation of Americans at the He-
on its own initiative. There is bound planes to Syria in a 'letter brew University were Gary Rosen-
still no word from Syrian author- to members of the Conference of thal of Cleveland. -majoring in
Ries on their plan for the two presidents of Major American political science at Hobart College.
Israelis.
Jewish Organizations.
Geneva, N.Y., and Steve Gray of
NEW YORK I.ITA1--in response
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr.. chair- Boston, majoring in business ad-
to "urgent requests" by fife. Con- man of the board of TWA, wrote ministration at Rensselaer Poly-
erenee of P residents of 'Major there had been "a certain amount ethnic Institute, Troy. N.Y. Both
American Jewish Organizations. • of criticism" of TWA "which we are doing their junior year in
four international airlines rejected regard , as unfounded." He de- Jerusalem.
invitations to send delegations to dared: •From the- outset of this
The - students answered a call
the official opening Monday of the act of air piracy, of which we issued by Jerry Benjamin of Can-
new $45,000.000 jetport in Damas - . have been the unfortunate victims. . ton, 0., to summon a meeting in
eus. Syria, the largest in the Mid we at TWA have regarded it as Beit Sprinzak on the Givat Ram
East.
our responsibility to do everything catnpus,•on Sunday night. Working
Yehuda Hellman, executive dir- within our power. as a private cor- with notice of but a couple of
ector of the Presidents Conference, poration to assist in securing the hours, they ensured an attendance
said that Air France. Alitalia, speedy release of all passengers', of 50 'Americans studying at the
BOAC and Lufthansa had agreed on the hijacked airliner.
Hebrew University in the special
not to send missions to take part
Rabbi Herschel Schacter, chair- one-year program for overseas
in the ceremonies. In urging the man of the Conference of Presi- students.' They were joined by 40
airlines to refuse invitations to at- dents, expressed "satisfaction" others studying at Tel Aviv Uni-
tend the event in Damacus. the with the letter and with what he .versity who trucked in specially
Presidents Conference had charged described as "the vigorous action

the Syrian government with being of the United States government
"an active accomplice to air and Trans-World Airlines in at-

piracy."
Any

tempting to secure the release of
that participated in the two Israeli. passengers held

the ceremonies would he "condon- captive in Damascus." Rabbi
ing" the Syrian government's ac- Schacter was critical. however, of
tion in refusing to release t•o Is- the "importance of the United
raeli passengers from a TWA Nations and the action of Secre-
plane hijacked to Damascus by Lary-General U Thant in opposing
Arab terrorists last month. the plans by the International Federa-
Presidents Conference told the tion of Airline Pilots Associations
airlines. to launch a world-wide pilots'
s
cap-
aimed at freeing the cap-
An Alitalia suokesinan. in ex- strike
plaining why his company would lured Israeli passengers:'
JERUSALEM—Dr. Shlomo Sam.
not send a delegation-to the core-
monies, said ".-klitalia along with uctoff, 49. associate professor of
the entire air transport industry physiology of the Hebrew Univer-

is on record in the strongest pos- site-Hadassah Medical School, one
sible terms deploring any interfer r, of the 10 Israelis detained in Sy-
ence with lawful air commerce. ria was on his way hack to Israel
because of unique and fortuitous after research consultations in En-

diplomatic circumstances. Alitalia gland. Unable to •obtain a direct
has been aide to complement the flight from London 'to Lydda, he
Italian Foreign Office in effecting boarded the TWA Boeing in Rome.
the. release of persons and prop- In England, Prof. Samueloff for

erty victimized by the hijacking the last three weeks had been to-
ot an El. Al. aircraft in Algeria. gether with British colleagues . in
and more recently the TWA plane. order to analyze the preliminary
Alitalia will continue to cooperate results of a joint British-Israeli
to the fullest with all governments research project on the influence
and international bodies working of heat on the human body. The
toward a means of preventing in project, supported financially by
terefrence with the free transport the -World Health Organization
of 'persons and property between t WII0) the Medical Research
all nations of the world. At the Council laboratories in London,
same time, we pledge our re, and the Hebrew University of Jer-

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