Foreign Volunteers Reported in Arab Guerrilla Force

thought Russia wanted to de- sending additional Phantom jet
(Continued from Page 1 )
stroy Israel, she said, "I be- fighter-bombers to Israel in quanti-
extent of help being pledged to
lieve that on the level of ideas, ties above the number that would
Gamal Abdel Nasser by Soviet
normally be delivered under the
the Soviet government means
leaders with whom he has been
nothing. The people who govern 1968 contract with the administra-
negotiating for nearly two weeks.
tion of former President Lyndon B.
in
Moscow
are
not
idealists
but
Assurances that Israel will be
the worst kind of imperialists. Johnson. That is the consensus of
enabled to purchase additional
They want to implant themselves informed opinion here although
Phantoms immediately, now that
there is no confirmation from ad-
in the Middle East and, to suc-
the first So Phantoms have al-
ceed in this, they are using the ministration sources. One high offi-
ready been provided, has given
cial insisted that President Nixon
dreams
of
Nasser.
On
this
road
a measure of encouragement to
they will go as far as America has not yet made a decision on
Israel, and the urgent appeals
Israel's long-pending request for
will
let
them."
for additional help to the embat-
Asked it Israel expected the 25 more Phantoms and 100 Sky-
tled Israelis are being addressed
to the Nixon administration by Arabs to agree to peace talks while hawk jets.
But there is growing belief here
veterans, church, labor and other their territory was occupied, Mrs.
Meir said, "We don't care about that the President, seriously con-
movements.
Replying to questions in the the territories. What we want is cerned with the Mounting Soviet
Knesset Tuesday, Defense Min- security. As for Nasser, it is no military threat in the Mid East,
ister Moshe Dayan said Israel longer the territories which inter- is replacing Israel's combat losses
had information that "foreign est him, but victory. In any case, in a manner that gives the United
volunteers" from various coun- what does he say? He is not con- States a free hand unencumbered
tries were serving with Arab guer- tent to demand our withdrawal to by delivery quotas and time-tables
rilla forces in Jordan. He did not the most vulnerable possible fron- and, most important, without pub-
identify the countries. He said tiers. He is also talking about re- licity.
Assistant Secretary of State Jo-
Israel had not clashed yet with storing the rights of the Palestine
people." Mrs. Meir indicated that seph J. Sisco refused to comment
these volunteers.
Gen. Dayan also said that Soviet Israel had no objection to the rights Sunday on a report of that nature
involvement with the Egyptian war of the Palestinian people provided in the current edition of News-
machine had increased rather than they set up their own state away week magazine. Appearing on a
decreased in recent weeks. from Israel. television interview, Sisco said that
Newspapers in Syria. Lebanon Israel's stand on Middle East White House and State Department
and Egypt assailed United States peace, stated by Foreign Minister officials have agreed not to com-
policy. The Syrian government or- Abba Eban in the Knesset Mon- ment on "speculative stories of
gar', Al Baath, warned that "at- day*, drew a favorable reaction in military shipments to Israel, even
tacks on U. S. interests in the Arab London. The Times said in an edi- at the risk of having "misinforma-
tion" appear in print.
•orld are inevitable because the torial that the speech, "though
Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F.
U.S. is the Arab's prime enemy." eminently the work of a reason-
Dobrynin conferred for 45 min-
Three Beirut dailies blasted U. S. able man, also reflected the tough-
utes with Sisco. Asked by news-
Assistant Secretary of State Joseph ness of a people who feel they are
men if they had discussed the So-
J. Sisco for claiming that Russia I under increasing political and mili-
viet Union's Middle East peace
was delivering amphibious wea- tary pressure."
initiative, Dobrynin replied: "I
The Times referred specifically
pons to Egypt. Egypt's semi-offi-
can't say anything about that."
cial newspaper Al Ahram claimed to Eban's proposal that Israeli and
Ne•sweek's Pentagon correspon-
that the U. S. was waging "a war Egyptian representatives meet in-
of nerves" against Egypt, and the formally at a mutually acceptable dent Lloyd Norman reported that
Damascus newspaper, Al Thawa site to work out the preliminaries President Nixon "secretly ordered
said a joint U.S.-Israel propa- for future peace negotiations. Ac- the Pentagon to rush a shipment
ganda campaign was "trying to in- cording to the Times, the proposal of F4E Phantom jets—and highly
timidate the Arabs through a series was "a variation of the familiar classified electronic equipment to
Israeli demand for direct, face-to- the Israel Air Force."
of warnings and threats."
According to Norman, the Presi-
face negotiations and was "some-
Mrs. Meir Says Israel
what
unreal." The paper said the dent "agreed to supply Israel this
Approached Egypt 20 Times
Israeli proposals were oversha- month with a total of eight Phan-
for Secret Peace Talks
PARIS (JTA)—Premier GoIda dowed by the current U. S.-Soviet toms—two of them already prom-
discussions and noted that it was ised under existing contract and
Meir claimed in an interview pub-
still "difficult to assess Russian six more which the U. S. will take
lished here that Israel has ap-
proached Egypt at least 20 times aims in the Middle East." from production lines earmarked
The Daily Telegraph reported for its own air forces. In addition,
with an offer of secret peace nego-
that the Soviet government seemed the President also assured Israel
tiations but "never got the slight-
to be urging President Gamal Ab- that, starting in August, it will re-
est response." The latest offer
del Nasser of Egypt to take a ceive two Phantom jets each month
was made only two weeks ago,
relatively cooperative line in re- for the indefinite future," News-
just before President Gamal Abdel
Nasser left Cairo on his current plying to the American peace ini• week reported.
tiative for the Mid East. The So-
Under its contract with the John-
visit to Moscow, according tc the
viets are expected to respond by son administration, Israel received
interview with Mrs. Meir puhlished
switching emphasis away from the first of 50 Phantoms in Sep-
in the news magazine, L'Express.
direct talks with the U. S. to the tember 1969 and deliveries have
President Nasser went to Moscow Big Four talks at the United Na- continued at a rate of four a
on June 29, indicating that the
tons, the Telegraph's diplomatic month. At that pace, Israel should
Israeli offer was made in the last correspondent wrote. He predict-
have received about 40 of the su-
week of June.
Observers here said that firs. ed "a wrangle among the Four personic jets so far with delivery
Meir's was the first disclosure that Powers on the terms of a package of the balance to be completed by
d eal for a Mid East settlement."
the end of this year.
Israel has offered to negotiate-
(French newspapers also warm-
According to the Newsweek. re-
secretly with Egypt. Mrs. Moir and
l
Foreign Minister Abba Eban havey
welcomed what the influential port, Israel is getting Phantoms
Le Figaro headlined "Israeli peace under the original contract plus
said in the past that Israel has been
proposals to the Arabs." But an unspecified number of addition-
using every possible means to
French government reaction was al jets to replace its combat losses.
make contact with the Arabs with-
largely negative. Observers in Newsweek reported further that
out success. The Israeli leader v.•as
Paris noted that it has emanated the U. S. has sent Israel 130 sets
asked by L'Express if she thought
so far from relatively low eche- of top secret electronic gear for
she had let any chances for peace
lons in the foreign ministry.
installation in its warplanes. The
slip by. "If I thought I had let
(French government circles re- device warns pilots that they have
even the smallest chance get away,
ferred to Eban's proposals as a been detected by enemy radar and
I could not in all conscience today
"tactical propaganda move" and sends out jamming signals to
hold the post of premier," she re-
insisted that a settlement could throw the enemy's radar-guided
plied. "We've done everything. Do
emerge only from Four Power con- missiles off target.
you hear me: Everything. They
sultations and joint decisions.
tell for example that (Egyptian
(However, with most top-rank-
President) Nasser cannot accept
ing French officials off on their
public negotiations. Well, we've
-proposed secret conversations — July 14 (Bastille Day) long week-
end, there was no authoritative
five, ten, 20 times and again two
comment from the Quai d'Orsay.
weeks ago. We never got the slight-
Foreign
hlinister Maurice Schu-
est response."
mann was reportedly scheduled
(In Washington, State Depart-
to
brief
President
Georges Pom-
ment spokesman Carl Bartch said
pidou on the Eban proposals.
Monday there was "no informa-
Eban's speech was welcomed by
tion" about Israel's approaches to
the newspaper L'Anrore and the
Egypt. He declined further com-
left-wing paper Combat.
ment.)
(The latter noted in an editorial
The 72-year-old Israeli premier
has been sensitive to intimations that "Israel has in the past made
many
approaches to try to reach
that she has not followed every
possible avenue toward peace with a settlement with the Arabs and
the
latest
is probably the most im-
the Arabs since her government
vetoed a projected visit to Cairo portant and productive of them
last April by Dr. Nahum Gold- all.")
mann, president of the World Jew- Report U.S. Sending
Additional Jets To Israel;
ish Congress.
Mrs. Meir was bitter in her No Official Confirmation
WASHINGTON ( J T A ) — The
estimate of Soviet intentions in
the Middle East. Asked if she Nixon administration is quietly

High U. S. officials said that
the Newsweek report was "sub-
stantially inaccurate" but would
not say what portions of it were
accurate.
The Israel Air Force Day exhi-
bition near Beersheba was high-
lighted Wednesday by the demon-
stration of mid-air refueling with
American-made Skyha•ks. Phan-
toms also were shown.
(In Cleveland, two dozen 25-ton
self-propelled howitzers made in
the Brook Park suburb by General
Motors were loaded onto the Is-

raeli freighter "Etros." The M-109s,
which fire 155-mm. shells and
carry 50-caliber machine guns,
were said to be part of the 1969
U S.-Israeli pact. They were un-
officially valued at $3,400,000. The
loading was carried out under
security conditions.)
Israeli sources reported that
Egypt has received well over 100
armored amphibious troop carriers
from Russia and was already con-
ducting maneuvers with them. They
could be employed in a major at-
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