Principal Figures in Middle East !Drama Moshe Dayan GoIda Meir Yigal Alon _ King Hussein Gamal Nasser The fate of the American peace plan for the Middle East rests with the Arab and Israeli leaders. Readi- ness to discuss peace may lead to an end to the current Arab-Israel war. Nixon's Firmness in Pursuing Middle East Peace Plans Editorial Page 4 Smolar's Column Page 9 VOL. LVI I, No. 20 THE JEWISH NEWS Lsrael's Escalating Peace Aims, Security Dangers Review of Jewish Neivs Michigan Weekly Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish- Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 27 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075, 356-8400 July 31, 1970 $7.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Israel Decision on U.S. Plan Awaits Unanimity in Cabinet Jews Threatened by Czech t:ommunists: 9 Leningrad Families Ask Israel Visas LONDON (JTA)—Last week's Prague radio and press attacks on Czech Communists of Jewish descent indicate the possibility of a "show trial" still exists. In a broadcast over Prague Radio. Commentator Pavel Lorene accused former Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Arthur London of having "packed' the diplomatic service with Jewish communists like Prof. Eduard Boldstuecker, Eugene Lobel, Paval Kavan and others. NEW YORK (JTA)—Congressman Richard L. Ottinger of New York, Democratic candidate for U. S. Senate in the Novem- ber elections, made public two new petitions to the United Nations which had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union by nine Leningrad Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel with their families. At a joint news conference with Richard Maas, acting chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, Ottinger said the petitions had been intended for, but had never reached the UN Commission on Human Rights. Three of the nine Jews who signed the petitions, David Chernoglaz, Vladimir Mogilever and Lasalls Kaminsky, were arrested in Leningrad last month in connection with an alleged hijacking attempt. They were among the nine Leningrad Jews who signed an appeal to the UN Human Rights Commission Feb. 1. Ottinger charged their arrests were reprisals for their (Continued on Page 5) (Special to The Jewish News ... Summary of JTA and Other Cabled Reports) Seeking unanimity in the cabinet in support of the U. S. peace plan for the Middle East, Prime Minister Golda Meir and the vast majority in the government on Wednesday postponed final action until the six Gahal members of the coalition government consent to the acceptance of the American idea for an end to the Israel-Arab war. Rumors of an Israel cabinet crisis are being minimized. Three of the Gahal members of the coalition government had indicated willingness to go along with the majority opinion and the report that Defense Minister Itiloshe Dayan had threatened to resign if the American proposal were adopted was exposed as a rumor. Dayan stated that Israel's position was not that secure and the number of friends not that large that Israel could gamble against conceding to the proposals of the Nixon administration. Max M. Fisher, Detroit and national Jewish leader, one of President Nixon's closest advisers, expressed confidence Wednesday, in a statement to The Jewish News, that the American position of friendship for Israel will not change and that the Nixon administration will adhere to established policies, which have been emphasized by the President and his closest advisers, in a spirit of absolute protection for Israel. "I am certain Israel's position will be helped by what is proposed and that the President and his associates will make re- tention of Israel's friendship and security a matter of priority for the present administra- tion," Fisher said. Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Alon was the first cabinet minister to endorse the Ameri- can plan and to agree to the resumption of the mission of Dr. Gunnar Jarring. Addressing an assembly of high school student newspaper editors, Tuesday, he stated his endorsement of the American plan. Messages from President Nixon to Premier Meir are believed to have contained assur- ances that the Israel position will be protected under the new proposals which already have the endorsement of Egypt and Jordan. Syr:., and Iran, as expected, oppose any peace move and seek Israel's total obliteration. The terrorist guerrillas threaten a battle to the finish and King Hussein's position is especially insecure. Nasser's role is endangered by his order to shut down two guerrilla radio stations which have attacked his acceptance of the American (Continued on Page 14 and 15) Farcical Trial in Athens: Blackmailing Experts Urge Support for Israel, Gains, Hijackers Sentenced and Released Limiting Soviet Influence in III.E. LONDON (JTA)—The two Jordanian terrorists accused of the murder of a two- year-old Greek boy in last November's grenade attack on El Al's Athens office were convicted Saturday in that city. Elias Der-Garbedian, 24, was sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison and Mansour Iilourad Zugsghe, 21, was sentenced to 11 years and three months. The convictions and penalties are moot, however, because under last Wednes- day's agreement between the Greek government and six Arab hijackers of a Greek airliner, the two prisoners and five others convicted earlier are to be freed and turned over to the International Red Cross by Aug. 29. Greek government sources rebuffed, over the weekend, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban's plea that the Papadapoulos regime renounce the agreement as having been made under duress. Der-Garbedian admitted throwing the grenade that killed the boy and injured 14 other persons, but testified that he had been assured the grenade would do nothing more than make a loud noise. The defendants are members of the small Popular Struggle Front, which said in Cairo that it would continue to attack Israelis in Western countries. Al;ou Hakam, a Front official, said "It is the right of the Palestinian revolution, even its duty, to aim blows at international Zionism wherever it is." The National Liberal Party Council here condemned Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's praise for the hijackers, calling it "an encouragement to piracy.' Yielding to blackmail in the release of the hijackers and the murderer caused Katina Nastos, 31-year-old mother of the two-year-boy who was killed in the attack on the El Al plane, to say, in Athens, Saturday night, about the trial:. "That's the biggest theater I ever saw in my life." At the Athens Airport, Christos Nastos, father of the murdered child, shouted: "My son's murderers must not go free." WASHINGTON (JTA)—A Middle East expert told the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee Tuesday that the United States interest in the Middle East is to limit the Soviet influence, and unmitigated support of Israel is the only way to achieve this. Marver H. Bernstein, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson Graduate School of Princeton University, in testimony before the Middle East subcommittee of the House foreign affairs committee, said: "Settlement of the refugee issue or establishment of the sovereignty of the Palestinian Arabs will not resolve the crisis over Soviet control of the Eastern Medi- terranean and the Middle East generally. Therefore the United States interest Iles in maintaining a balance of power that maintains Israel's strength vis-a-vis its neighbors." Bernstein said that the Soviet strategy is no longer to continue hostilities to assure the Arab need for their help, but warned that if they do continue "the next stop is probably (Soviet) participation in full scale combat." Alvin J. Cottrell, a staff member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, agreed with Bernstein that "the problem is no longer a local or regional conflict." "There may be stability imposed over the area," Cottrell said. "The question is who will impose the stability." Bernstein gave a nine point program for peace: A United States policy of un- equivocal strength; military and economic assistance to Israel; convincing the Western nations to stop supplying the Arabs with arms; deploying additional Polaris units to the Sixth Fleet; no troop reductions in Europe as long as there are Soviet troops in Egypt; reaffirming the United States intent to maintain the balance of power; warning the Soviets that their presence at the canal is unacceptable; insistance that a firm, secure peace is the only answer; and support of Israel once peace is made.