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Israelis Angered by Airlines Cargo, Mail Ban
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contention of Israel Ambassador
Aharon Remez that the cargo and
mail ban constituted "capitulation
to intimidation." The ban was de-
nounced by Israeli officials in Jeru-
salem and by Jewish and pro-
Israel circles here.
Hurley said, "It is all very well,
people suggesting that airlines are
giving in to blackmail by refusing
to carry freight to Israel or by re-
fusing to fly there at all. But if
the alternative to blackmail is to
risk life and aircraft, then the
pilots are the people to be listened
to."
Representatives of 53 interna-
tional airlines using Heathrow met
twice in two days to discuss
measures to combat aerial sabo-
tage. No decisions are re ported
to have come out of the second
two-hour meeting. But Air France
and KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines)
lifted their ban on freight and mail
shipments to Israel Tuesday after
putting new security measures into
effect. Passenger flights to Israel
continued unaffected. But at Lon-
don and in Brussels, Rome, Stock-
holm, Athens and Vienna, passen-
gers embarking on Israel-bound
flights underwent thorough searches
and had their baggage opened and
checked.
(Mrs. Abba Eban and Yigal
Allon, were delayed on El Al
flights to the U.S., Mrs. Eban
by eight hours, and Allon by 95
minutes.)
The Guild of Pilots and Navi-
gators here demanded that the gov-
ernment bring the issue of air safe-
ty before the United Nations. The
Guild addressed its demand to the
Board of Trade which is respon-
sible for air licensing and the
supervision of civil aviation.
In ifrussels the Belgian Airline.
Pilots Asioclation demanded that
their government take energetic
action to prevent air piracy and
terrorism. The Belgian foreign
ministel', Pierre Harmel, de-
scribed the "cowardly acts" and
said Belgium "would condemn
most strongly those who helped
perpetrate such iniquities." Sa-
The International Federation of
Airline Pilots Associations
disclosed Tuesday that it was being
pressed by some of its constituent
association to ban all flights to
the Middle East. But the organiza-
tion's executive board decided to
hold up a decision for several
days pending new developments.
An IFALPA spokesman told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency that
it was hoped action by various
governments to prevent aerial sa-
botage would make drastic steps—
a general strike—by the pilots
unnecessary.
The Daily Mirror said in an edi-
torial that it was "not possible to
strike directly Arab (terrorist) or-
ganizations but it is possible to put
the squeeze on an Arab country
which tolerates or encourages
their activities."
Yasir Arafat, commander of
El Fatah, repeated Tuesday a
denial that any Arab commando
group was responsible for the
crash and added that the Arab
commando groups were "ser-
iously viewing the entire ques-
tion of attacks on international
airliners," it was reported here
from Amman.
The Amman radio quoted Arafat
as asserting at a news conference
Tuesday in Amman that the review
was being done by "The. Unified
Command of the Commando Or-
ganizations," described here as a
body to formulate policy for the
10 groups of Palestinian guerrillas.
It reportedly was formed when the
guerrillas felt they needed a
united front during their confronta-
tion two weeks ago with King Hus-
sein of Jordan.
The Arafat statement - report.
edly was considered as confirma-
tion of reports that El Fatah, the
largest guerrilla group with the
widest support from Arab gov-
ernments, was pressuring the uni-
fied command to stop guerrilla
operations in foreign countries
It was reported that opposition
Tiny Mobile Jewish Community
Dedicates Memorial to Six Million
MOBILE, Ala.—The fulfillment
fo many years of planning and
work was realized dast Sunday
when Mibile's small Jewish con-
gregation, Ahavas Chesed Syna-
gogue, dedicated and unveiled a
hand-carved memorial to the six
million.
The memorial had its beginnings
in the mind of H. A. Friedman,
Ahavas Chesed's rabbi for the past
12 years.
Shortly after his arrival in
Mobile in June 1958, Rabbi
Friedman found that the congre-
gation had several members who
were survivors of Hitler's con-
centration camps. One of these
survivors, Harry Zaremb, whose
entire family was wiped out by
the Nazis, began discussing with
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Rabbi Friedman and several
board members plans for the
erection of a suitable memorial
within the synagogue itself.
A small yellow "Badge of Hon-
or" with a Mogen David on it was
given to all who attended the dedi-
cation.
The yellow badge was first
named a "badge of honor" by King
Christian of Denmark, who, after
the Nazis occupied his country dur-
ing World War II, ordered all
members of the Royal Family to
wear the yellow badge which the
Nazis commanded all Jews to
wear. He said "I will convert thai
which the Nazis consider as a
badge of shame into a badge of
honor."
The memorial was designed by
a Gentile, John Shaw, a Mobile
artist, and was carved and sculpt-
ed by Abner Smiles of Pascagoula,
Miss., an active member of the
congregation.
Shaw's design is simple. The
wood portion lying inside the mar-
ble and framed by the Tennessee
marble comes to a peak out of
which six points, which represent
flames, arise and point upward.
This shape represents the burning
bush as God revealed Himself
unto Moses on Horeb.
The mountain itself is depicted
in the marble enclosing the ma-
hogany wood
ago. He wondered why only air
service to Israel was restricted and
not to the Arab countries. Mason
replied that only aircraft going to
Israel were in jeopardy. Dr. Horace
King, speaker of the House, re
fused an application from Shinwell
to hold an emergency debate on
the suspension of cargo and mail
service to Israel.
The problem of terrorist assaults
to the El Fatah effort may come
from the Popular Front For the
Liberation of Palestine which has
attacked planes of El Al. Popu-
lar Front members hijacked a
Trans-World Airlines jet to Da-
mascus last August. The Action
Group for the Liberation of Pale-
stine, also a member of the uni-
fied command, tried and failed
to hijack an El Al plane at the
Munich airport earlier this
month.
bena, the Belgian airline, said
it would continue its passenger
flights to Israel but suspend car-
go service for the time being.
Officials of the 35 airlines oper-
ating in Lebanon have been meet-
ing in Beirut this week on se-
curity measures against atacks on
international airliners.
Arafat was quoted by Amman
Radio as suggesting that "a non-
Arab" terrorist group might be
responsible for the Swissair sabo-
tage. The El Fatah leader denied
previously, when he returned to
Jordan from a 10-day visit to Mos-
cow, any commando connection
with the Swissair disaster, or with
the planting of the explosive in a
mail bag the same weekend in the
Israel-bound Austrian plane. He
said "We have declared more than
one time that we are against such
actions."
The president of the British
Board of Trade said in the House
of Commons that British airlines
"expect to resume the normal car.
riage of cargo to Israel as soon as
they are satisfied that all proper
safeguards have been taken." Roy
Mason, speaking for the Board of
Trade, defended the airlines' ac-
tion. He said the government had
no power to issue a specific di-
rective to an airline and noted
that passenger services to Israel
were continuing normally.
Eric
...ck, a Liberal MP,
clai•
Y. 7- the BOAC and BEA
sus
ant that "piracy
and terra were paying off."
Emmanuel Shinwell, a Labor MP,
criticized the government for fail-
ing to denounce "this murderous
crime" although it had condemn-
ed an Israeli bombing raid on an
on civilian aircraft arising from
the Middle East conflict was dis-
cussed also at a cabinet meeting
at No. 10 Downing St.
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