Pope Paul VI
Pleads for Peace

ROME (JTA) — Pope Paul VI made a
"pressing appeal" Monday for a negotiated
settlement of the conflicts in the Middle
East and in Indochina. The pontiff, address-
ing a meeting of the Consistory of Car-
dinals and Bishops, declared that increased
military commitments by the great powers
in the Middle East and Southeast Asia had
brought about threats of "unforeseeable
broader developments." He added that "the
peoples who are directly involved and on
whose behalf the wars are being fought,
seem to count less and less."

Bishops Denounce Anti-Zionist Campaign

PARIS (JTA)—A group of French bishops has denounced "the two-faced character of certain anti-Israel campaigns" which
are calling on Christians to join in a struggle against Zionism. A statement released by the French Bishops' Committee for
Relations v.rith Judaism cited "certain journals and periodicals" which have published such appeals in recent months. "We dis-
approve of these articles and appeals," the statement said. "The concern which Christians must feel for the poor, more especially
the Arab refugees, must not be allowed to lead to reverse injustices. It is a fact that a large number of Jews have found no other
country willing, to receive them but Israel. Every other political project proved unworkable."

AFL-C10 Urges Prompt Economic and Military Aid to Israel in View of Soviet Role

WASHINGTON (JTA)—The AFL-CIO executive council called on the administration to "act favorably and promptly" on
Israel's economic and military needs "and thus preserve the balance of power not merely for the sake of Israel but in the
interest of preserving world peace and freedom. The council issued a statement Sunday noting that in recent months the crisis
in the Middle/East has taken a sharp turn for the worse due to the course pursued by the Soviet government in this pivotal area.
The statement declared "it would be harmful to America's vital -national interests if the administration were to hesitate and con-
tinue its delay in providing Israel with adequate economic assistance and the jets and other military equipment it so urgently
needs for its defense and self-preservation.

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The World in
Travail . . . Israel
and the
Mounting
Difficulties

Editorials
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Commentary
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Security Council 'Double Standards'
Assailed; Oil Interests Drawn Into
Arab Aims for Israel's Destruction

Oil Threats Leveled at the U.S.;
Arabs Warn of Expropriations

WASHINGTON (JTA)--Oil company officials, meeting privately with
Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco, warned him that military
aid to Israel, especially planes, would severely damage relations be-
tween the United States and Arab nations and jeopardize U. S. oil inter-
ests in the Middle East, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned Wed-
nesday. Ten representatives of the Saudi-Arabian based Arabian-Ameri-
can Oil Company and its four owners—Standard Oil of New Jersey,
Standard Oil of California, Texaco and Mobile—flew to Washington
from New York and California to discuss the effect of politics on their
interests, according to the sources.
The oil men were reported to have taken a hard line of opposition
to providing military hardware to Israel. Representatives of Aramco
were said to be concerned with efforts to soothe Arabian nerves in the
Middle East to get its Trans-Arabian pipeline repaired. The pipeline,
which carries oil from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean was sabo-
taged recently In Syria. The Syrian government will not permit techni-
cians into the country to repair it. Aramco officials were reported to
have told Sisco that patching up of diplomatic relations and repairing
the pipeline can be accomplished only if the U. S. eases its "strong sup-
port" of Israel. They expressed the feeling that the sabotage was a
direct result of American support of Israel, the JTA learned. Leaders
of various Arab nations have declared, in recent summit meetings, that
further U. S. aid to Israel will compel them to boycott American oil
in the Middle East and, if this does not stop U.S. support to Israel, will
embark on a course of expropriation.

UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tekoah scored the Secu-
rity Council's condemnation of Israel Tuesday night by declaring that the Zambia resolu-
tion extends a UN "double standard" that represents "another nail in the coffin of the
Security Council's ability to deal with the Middle East situation equitably, realistical-
ly and constructively." He called the resolution—which passed by an 11-0 vote, with
four abstentions (the U. S., Colombia, Nicaragua and Sierra Leone) a "one-sided
Syrian-inspired text" that "fails to mention Lebanese "aggression" and the Arabs'
"open war against Israel." He described it as "clearly another of the seasonal cere-
monies from which Israel, the merits of its case, its fundamental rights are in effect
barred."
Tekoah, addressing the council after Tuesday night's vote, asserted that Israel
would not allow "injustice and abuse to affect us," and would continue to defend
itself against Arab "armed attack" while respecting the cease fire. Israel has main-
tained that its May 12 foray into Lebanon was an "inevitable" defensive measure
limited to terrorist bases and avoiding civilian areas and Lebanese defenses.
The Security Council has now slapped Israel eight times for cease-fire "viola-
tions" since the Six-Day War, in addition to the resolution calling on it to withdraw
immediately from Lebanon.
The council has not passed any resolution condemning Arab aggression in the
22 years since Israel's establishment.
It was leamed that the originally drafted Syrian resolution calling for sanctions
against Israel and an embargo on Israel-bound military and civilian aid was reduced
to the less harsh Zambian resolution largely by the refusal of Britain and Finland to
accept those passages. (Both countries voted for the Zambian motion.) With the Syrian
draft unfeasible, Lebanon was willing to accept the Zambian version as long as it did
not criticize Arab military tactics.
Prior to Tuesday's vote, Moroccan Ambassador Ahmed Taibi Berihima warned

Mrs. Meir's Political Declaration Awaits
Results of Eban Meeting With Rogers, Laird

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Golda Meir postponed for eight days a major
political statement she was supposed to deliver in the Knesset Monday in order to
await the outcome of Foreign Minister Abba Eban's talks in Washington.
Israel wants to know how the United States intends to react to the growing Soviet
military involvement in the Middle East.
Israel attaches great importance to an official U. S. warning to Moscow against
further involvement in the Mid East.
Mrs. Meir reportedly supplied the United States with information and evidence
of additional Soviet military involvement in Egypt.
Mrs. Meir summoned the U. S. envoy reportedly to supplement Eban's meetings
with American officials. She reportedly emphasized to Barbour that Israel would
defend the Suez Canal zone "with all its strength" and would oppose the extension
of Egypt's defense system there "regardless of who is involved."
Observers here said that, in effect, Israel has drawn a 20-mile-wide corridor
extending westward from the canal and along its entire I03-mile length in which it
will not permit the construction of missile sites even if it means confronting Russian
pilots in combat.
A military spokesman said at a press briefing that he could not confirm that any
SAM-3 missile launching ramps have been set up in the canal zone as yet. He said
Israeli bombing missions in the area have been aimed at "military installations."
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban reportedly warned
Secretary of State William P. Rogers that the Soviet presence in Egypt has significant-
ly altered the power balance and makes more imperative than ever Israel's need for
additional Phantom jets. Eban met with Rogers at 3 p.m. Wednesday after arriving
from a brief official visit to Canada.
The Israeli diplomat reportedly enumerated these factors to substantiate Israel's
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Israel Hits at SAM-3 Construction;
Egyptian Boats Sunk; Retaliation to
Continue as Invaders Repulsed at Suez

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Aerial warfare between Israel and Egypt escalated sharply
over the weekend, and the two countries also exchanged blows at sea. According
a military spokesman, Israeli jets downed five Egyptian MIGs over the Suez Caial
zone and sank an Egyptian destroyer and a Soviet-built Komar missile boat in the
Red Sea late Saturday afternoon.
Jordanian and Iraqi forces shelled Ashdod Yaacov and Menahemiya. There were
no casualties. Fifteen cows were wounded by shell fragments. A military spokesman
said the air assaults on Egyptian positions in the canal zone Friday and Saturday
were among the heaviest ever mounted by the Israel Air Force. Their intention was
to prevent the deployment of Egyptian anti-aircraft defenses in the so-called "middle
zone" between the canal and central Egypt which is defended by Soviet SAM-3 anti-
aircraft missiles and, reportedly by Soviet pilots manning Egyptian jets.
Israel claimed that its planes sank an Egyptian "Z" class destroyer and an SO-foot
Komar class missile boat in a strike on the Egyptian naval base at Ras Banas, 500
miles south of the southern end of the Suez Canal near the Sudanese border. The strike
was in retaliation for the sinking Wednesday of the 70-ton Israeli fishing trawler
Orith by an Egyptian missile boat off northern Sinai in which two crew members
were killed and two survived. Israel announced the loss on Friday. At the same time
Israel disclosed the death of a civilian frogman and injuries to three others who were
removing underwater wreckage at the port of Eilat. They were reportedly the victims
of underwater explosives planted by Egyptian frogmen.
Israeli sources did not disclose how the two Egyptian naval craft were sunk, what
weapons were used or how long the engagement lasted. A spokesman here said the
destroyer was one of two World War II-built vessels purchased from Britain in 1955.
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