`Israel Captured New Soviet Tanks
in Egypt. Se- utt Then' to Britain'
shipped to Britain. The London
LONDON (JTA) — Four modern
Soviet tanks which form the back- Sun disputed Pincher's story,
that while tanks had
bone of armored divisions facing
saying
been shipped from Israel to Brit -
Allied tr o ops in West Germany
were captured by Israel when it ain, they are Chieftains. It was
raided Egyptian positions on the reported a few days ago that
Gulf of Sdez and have been sent to Chieftains had been sent for
Britain for tests, the Daily Express tests to Israel.
says.
Meanwhile, a retired British
The report, by the newspaper's army colonel has been appointed
well-informed defense correspond- head of a Chieftain tank sales
ent, Chapman Pincher, has been operation in Israel although the
denied by British and Israeli British government has not yet
defense officials. But the newsman officially consented to the deal.
insists on his accuracy and says The retired tank corps soldier has
"an official denial was inevitable already spent several weeks in
because of the diplomatic imp:i- Israel choosing sites for tank test-
ing and preparing training pro-
c at ions. •
Pincher said that the captured grams for Israeli tank crews, the
Daily
Mail reported.
T-62 medium tanks and their pow-
If the deal is not approved by
erful 115-mm. guns, which until
the
government,
the Israelis will
now Western military experts had
not yet inspected, were taken by call it off and buy tanks from the
the military forces that crossed United States, the Daily Mail re-
the Suez Gulf on Sept. 9. He re- ported. Meanwhile, the British
ported that the tanks were sent to plan to proceed with the sale of
Kirkcudbright in Scotland for fir- Chieftains to Libya, an arrange-
ing range tests against the modern ment made before the Sept. 1
British Chieftain tanks which Israel leftist pro-Nasser military coup
which ousted 79-year-old King
is seeking to buy in quantity.
Ile said that the tanks, which Idris.
The defense ministry decided to
are regarded as far superior to go ahead with the sale despite
any captured during the Six- the security danger that the Chief-
Day War, had been painted with tains may be made available to
Israel markings before being the Russians through the Egyp-
tians.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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originally to send Libya the tanks,
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after King Idris had sought to
protect his rich oilfields against
Egyptian or Algerian takeover.
ELECTRONIC ; Britain's current reasoning is
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that the contract was signed in
April and is legally binding and
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that if it is broken, the Libyans
might repudiate their treaties for
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oil supplies badly needed by Bri-
tain since the closure of the Suez
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Writing about the Sept. 9 cap-
. ture of the Soviet T-62s, Pincher r
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Newsweek recently made this
The tanks have been in service interesting revelation under the
with the Kremlin's frontline troops heading "Israel: A Mirage after
for only two years, and their 115- all":
"France is reported ready to
mm. gun is heavier than any on
Israel's existing tanks, he said. take steps next spring to cancel
The new tanks were moved down its sale of 50 Mirage V jet fighters
to the Red Sea coast for desert to Israel and refund the $60,000,-
trials because the Egyptians as- 000 purchase price. Since Presi-
sured the Russians that they dent de Gaulle stopped delivery
would be safe from attack. ' following the 1967 Mid East war,
In addition to coveting the tanks however, Israel has obtained 56
for military tests, the Israelis F-4 Phanton jets from the United
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wanted to show the Russians that' States. Note: France continues to
they were making a major se- charge Israel an undisclosed
curity blunder in supplying front- monthly sum for maintenance and
line weapons to their Arab clients, hangar rental."
Pincher wrote.
Euromart, Israel to Open
Trade Pact Talks Soon;
French Shift Applauded
LUXEMBOURG (JTA) — Nego-
tiations between Israel and the
European Economic Community
(Common Market) on a preferen-
tial trade agreement are expected
to begin in a few weeks. The
EEC's Council of Ministers last
Friday authorized its executive
commission to enter in to the talks.
(In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister
Abba Eban and Finance Minister
Zeev Sharef hailed the decision
"as a great step forward" in
Israel's pursuit of an association
with the EEC).
The proposed five-year prefer-
ential agreement would enable
France, West Germany, Italy.
Belgium, the Netherlands and
Luxembourg to lower customs du-
ties on certain Israeli industrial
goods by 45 per cent and to cut
duties on certain agricultural items
like oranges, grapefruits. avocados
and mangos by 40 per cent.
The decision followed France's
waiving of its veto which it had
used against Israel's applications
for the last two years.
The influential Paris news-
Paper• Le Monde, said that
said that Israeli intelligence had
France's vote for negotiation of
earlier confirmed their arrival . a preferential trade agreement
in Egypt.
between Israel and the European
Common Market tended to show
a changed French attitude to-
ward Israel and a clear im-
provement in relations between
the two countries.
Our jets land
inTel Aviv
four times
a week.
No Mirages - Just
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The newspaper, in a front page
editorial, compared the decision
of the Common Market's Council
of Ministers to negotiate a pact
with Israel with another decision
to conduct exploratory talks with
Egypt and Lebanon. While the
ministers' mandate for talks with
Israel was seen as nearly the
equivalent of a concrete and fa-
vorable decision, the move toward
the Arabs was seen as "more in
the realm of abstract thinking
than in that of a concrete de-
cision." Le Monde discerned in
this difference a newly favorable
French attitude toward Israel.
It gave the same interpretation
to France's indication that it was
ready to reimburse the money
Israel has paid for the embargoed
Mirage V jet fighters. It concluded
by stressing that a solution to the
Franco-Israel differences over the
Mirage issue is a necessary pre-
liminary to any normalization of
relations between the two coun-
tries.
In a related development, there
were reports in official circles
that Foreign Minister Abba Eban
might visit France early next year
while on an official visit to a num-
her of other European countries.
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