Mrs. Meir Charges Russia 'Sheds Blood
Seeking Mideast Control; U Thant Sees
New Peace Elements; More Israeli Losses

JERUSALEM, June 22 (JTA)-
Premier Golda Meir, in a blistering
attack on Soviet Russia, accused the
Kremlin of shedding "the blood of
other peoples—Egyptians, Syrians,
Israelis — it does not matter to
them" in order to "establish con-
trol over the Middle East with its
oil riches." Addressing 500 dele-
gates at the opening of the eighth
biennial convention of the World
Council of Synagogues, interna-
tional representative body of Con-
servative Judaism, the premier
charged that the USSR was "an
imperialist power."
Mrs. Meir categorically rejected
an Egyptian offer of a cease-fire in
the Suez Canal zone limited to six
months or less, in return for the
withdrawal of Israeli forces. "We
want a cease-fire but without con-
ditions and without a time limit,"
she said. She served notice that
Israel would not shrink from at-
tacking aircraft flown by Soviet
pilots.
The convention was warmly
greeted by Minister of Religious
Affairs Dr. Zerach Warhaftig. He
quoted from the Midrash which
says that Jerusalem is the city that
united Jews.
Chaim Chien, chairman of the
United Synagogue of Israel refer-
red briefly to the religious controv-
ersy in this country. He declared
that the Conservative movement
did not want to take away adher-
ents of the Orthodox or Reform
branches of Judaism in Israel but
wanted to develop among those
who belong to neither camp.
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UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — A
possible breakthrough in Middle
East peace talks between the
United States and the Soviet Union
was reported here. A spokesman
for the United Nations said that
Secretary General U Thant, dur-
ing his visit last week in Moscow,
"was informed of new elements in
the United States and the Soviet
Union nositions regarding the Mid-
dle East."
Informed sources, however, noted
that several developments in the
past two weeks may have served to
pave the way toward narrowing the
gap between the U.S. and the So-
viet Union. A basic consideration
appears to be a fear on the part of
both big powers of an extremist
takeover of the guerrilla move-
ments which would undermine both
American and Russian positions in
the Middle East. The Popular
Front for the Liberation of Pales-
tine headed by Dr. George ljabash,
has proclaimed as its aim the over-
throw of both the Arab regimes
and Israel. Dr. Habash is avowedly
anti-American and only luke-warm
toward the Soviet Union, prefer-
ring, instead, the more extremist
regime of Communist China.
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli

planes attacked Arab terrorist
bases for half an hour Monday on
the Mount Hermon slopes east of
the Hatzbani River in southeast
Lebanon. Israeli flyers also hit
Egyptian positions along the Suez
Canal for the 32nd straight day.
All planes returned safely. Israeli
and Egyptian forces dueled with
artillery and mortars across the
Suez Canal Sunday night. Israeli
gunners scored a direct hit on an
Egyptian mortar position in the
canal's southern sector this morn-
ing and set it afire. Israel suf-
fered three casualties over the
weekend. In addition to Pvt. Chaim
Rosenbaum, whose death was an-
nounced Sunday, Egyptian bar-
rages Saturday night claimed the
lives of Pvts. Renzion Reuben, 19,
of Even Sapir village and Ron Kis-
lev. 19. of Raanana.

Israeli authorities returned to

Egypt the bodies of eight Egyptian
soldiers killed in two raids on the
Israeli side of the canal last month.
They were returned at Ismaeliyah
through the auspices of the Inter-
national Red Cross. In Jordan, El

Fatah admitted hurling the gren-
ade and firing the shots that missed
a tourist bus in Hebron, inadver-
tently wounding two Arabs. The
commando group also took credit
for the Katyusha rocket attacks on
Beisan and Daganya in the North
Jordan Valley. The announcement
was made by a spokesman for the
Palestinian Armed Struggle Com-
mand, the terrorists' umbrella
organization.
Three residents of Khan Yunis in
the northern Gaza Strip were killed
when a grenade exploded in the
market place. Twenty-one other
local Arabs including four children
were injured. Security forces are
combing the area for the grenade-
throwers. Twelve Arabs detained
on suspicion of terrorist collabora-
tion were expelled to Jordan. The
transfer was carried out at the
Gharandal desert police station in
the Araba district of the Negev.
A raid into Syria was de-
scribed as a retaliatory strike for
a Syrian attack in the Golan
Heights a week ago in which
three Israeli soldiers including
one girl were killed. A military
spokesman said Syria violated
the cease-fire 49 times in the last
days. The Israeli raids repre-
gented the deepest penetration
so far into Syria.
Egypt claimed that Israeli jets,
dropping 1000-pound American
bombs, raided the Al Salyiya area
24 miles west of the Suez Canal,
killing 15 Egyptian soldiers and
wounding seven. There was no con-
firmation from Israeli sources of
the alleged attack..
Severe fighting on the Israel-
Syrian border continued on Wed-
nesday and Thursday. The Syrians
claimed to have killed and
wounded 175 Israelis, but Israel
reported only sight of its men
havitng been wounded. Israel at-
tacked Syrian positions 60 miles
within Syrian territory.
LONDON (JTA) — The evacua-
tion of the last American forces
from the huge Wheelus Air Force
Base in Libya provided the occa-
sion for an impromptu Arab sum-
mit meeting in Tripoli. Ostensibly
to celebrate what one Libyan offi-
cial called the removal of a "poi-
soned dagger" from the Arabs'
back, seven Arab heads of state
and a number of lesser leaders
gathered in Tripoli to try to coordi-
1 nate war activities against Israel
, and to establish peace in their own
camp. Present in the Libyan capi-
tal were President Gamal Abdel
Nasser of Egypt, King Hussein of
Jordan, President Charles Helou
of Lebanon, President Noureddin
Atassi of Syria, President Hassan
' El Bakr of Iraq and President
Abdel Rahman Iryani of Yemen.
Their host was Gen. Muammer
Qadhaffi, chief of Libya's ruling
military junta. President Nasser is
reported to have urged his fellow-
' Arabs to shoulder more of the bur-
1 dens of war against Israel to re-
: lieve Egyptian forces on the Suez
Canal front . But according to re-
liable sources, the Arab leaders
gave most of their attention to
ending the feud between King Hus-
sein's regime and the Palestinian
guerrillas which erupted in five
days of bloody fighting in Jordan
two weeks ago. -
The commander of Libya's Air
Force, Lt. Col. Saleh Al-Farjani,
alleged that the Wheelus Base had
been used to train "Zionists" on
Arab soil and that it had played a
role in the June, 1967 Arab-Israel
war.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Defense
Secretary Melvin Laird said it was
"most important" to "maintain
military, strategic balance" in the
Middle East but declared that the
United States was not satisfied with
the support it was receiving from
its NATO allies in the crisis in that
region. Laird spoke in reply to
questions by newsmen aboard the
U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin D.
Roosevelt in the Mediterranean.

The defense secretary was visiting
the Sixth Fleet during a tour of
American forces in Europe. He
declined to state what the U.S.
expected of its allies.

I

Every calling is great when
Your purpose in life is imply
to help on the purpose of the uni- greatly pursued.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
—George Bernard Shaw
verse.

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