All 450 Detained Arabs Released by Israel

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israeli security forces have released the last of 450 Arab residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
who were arrested a week ago for questioning on suspicion of collaboration with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pal-
estine. Police Minister Shlomo Hillel said it was standard procedure to interrogate persons known to have had contact with
any terrorist group. He denied that Israel ever intended to hold the detainees hostage for 54 hijacked airline passengers held
by the PFLP in Jordan. A similar denial was made by Foreign Minister Abbe Eban last week. Hillel acknowledged that pres-
sure had been brought to bear on Israel from abroad to release the Arabs. About 70 of them, mostly women, were set free
within 24 hours of their arrest, and by last Friday only 143 remained in custody.

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Israel Has Ruled Out Intervention- ,
Ready to Hospitalize Jordanians

Repelling terrorist threats and
scoring victories over the guerrilla
forces, King Hussein's Jordanian
army was seen gaining control of
the country on Wednesday, thus
eliminating the possibility of for-
eign intervention, especially the
speculated action by the United
States.
King Hussein has demanded the
release of the 54 hostages from hi-
jacked planes — including the 38
Americans--but the guerrillas have
thus far refused to yield to pres-
sures from Arab governments or
the nations whose nationals are be-
ing held prisoners somewhere in
Jordan. Their fate remains uncer-
tain.
Thus far, Russia has refused to
cooperate in efforts to secure re-
lease of the hostages or to induce
the terrorists to end their carnage
in Jordan where 20,000 are report-
ed to have been killed or wounded.
Newsweek this week reported:
"The Russians have added still an-
other weapon in Egypt. One of their
newest radars—the first outside the
Soviet bloc — is 80 miles east of
Alexandria. Reaching 80,000 feet
up, and more than 300 miles out,
it covers all of Israel's air space.

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel denied Wednesday that it has mobilized its reserves for possible intervention
in Jordan. According to latest reports, Syrian invasion forces suffered a serious setback, and there were indications
that Damascus was prepared to disengage and pull back. There have been no signs of any.-move by Iraqi forces sta-
tioned in Jordan to enter the battle on the side of the Palestinian guerrillas fighting King Hussein.
Israeli authorities are continuing to keep a close watch on events in Jordan but they do not consider it
wise or necessary to intervene at the present stage, informed sources said. Israel's policy of nonintervention
would change, however, if certain new developments occu rred. According to the sources, these would be Syrian oc-
cupation of the Gilead Heights which would expose Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley to artillery bombard-
ment; direct intervention by the 12,000-man Iraqi forces in Jordan;s or a threat to the lives of 54 hijack hostages.
Israeli authorities have agreed to permit West Bank Arabs to organize medical convoys to aid /the wounded in
Jordan. But with all bridges across the Jordan River blocked on the Jordanian side there was ✓no way for the
convoys to get through.
Israeli military intelligence which was the first to report the Syrian capture of Irbid, Jordan's second larg-
est city, reported Wednesday that Jordanian forces succeeded in breaking through Syrian lines around Irbid 'and
now have the city under siege. Amman claimed that King Hussein's forces destroyed 80 Syrian tanks.
The Syrians have at least another 300 combat-ready tank' and several divisions they could throw into Jor-
dan but Israeli sources said Wednesday that Damascus seems .to have ended its offensive and may be willing to
withdraw with the prestige of its initial victories intact. The Syrian government never officially acknowledged that
its army was fighting in Jordan. Syrian forces wore thebattle dress of Palestinian commandos and Syrian tanks
were painted with commando insignia. To maintain the fiction that only Palestinians were fighting, Syria did not
employ its air force, made up largely of Soviet MIGs, which vastly outnumbers Hussein's 29-plane air force.
The apparent change in military fortunes in favor of Ring Hussein lessened the likelihood of American
intervention in Jordan. In recent days the U.S. Sixth Fleet has reportedly moved into the Eastern Mediterranean in
a position to support a U.S. airborne landing in Jordan which has no outlet on the Mediterranean. U.S. military
transport planes have been on the ready at bases in Europe and in Turkey for the past week to evacuate Americans
from Jordan should that become necessary. It was noted here that American transports sent in to evacuate Ameri-
can civilians could land troops at the same time. The U.S. would require permission from Israel or Lebanon to fly
over their territory. It was indicated here that Israel would readily grant permission if asked.
Military observers here noted that U.S. intervention in Jordan would be far more difficult than was the
landing of marines in Lebanon in 1958 to quash a revolt against the pro-Western government. The lack of a Jor-
danian coastline would force the U.S. to rely on an airlift and to depend on Hussein's forces to control the Am-
man airport at least until U.S. troops landed in force. In Lebanon the Americans encountered no opposition but

Detroiters Joining In as World Jewry
Cries Out on Behalf of Soviet Brothers

The Jewish Community Council reports it has received enthusiastic response.
to its proposal for a Soviet Jewry Week in Detroit beginning Oct. 18:
The week-long observance, which will coincide with the celebration of Simhat
Torah, will call public attention to the increased repression of Jewish spiritual and cul-
tural life in the Soviet Union and will offer support to the pleas of a growing num-
ber of Russian Jews who have suffered, and in some cases been jailed, for their
expressed desire to emigrate to. Israel.
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Caswell
In connection with Soviet Jewry Week, the Jewish Coi n
sponsor a conference on Soviet Jewry at the Jewish Center II a.ineneen Oct. 25.
The conference is designed to bring participants up to date on the current
situation in the Soviet Union and to encourage and promote a greater organizational
response to the situation.
Dr. Zvi Gitelman, professor of political science at the University of Michigan,
a nationally known authority on Soviet affairs, will be guest speaker.
To insure that public pressure against Rus-
sian repression of Jewish cultural life con-
tinues beyond Soviet Jewry Week, conference
participants also will receive resource mate-
rials, programatic suggestions and other aids
which will assist organizations in developing
an ongoing, year-round program on the issue
LONDON (JTA) — Fifty-four hi-
jacked ahilne passengers being
of Soviet Jewry.
held hostage by Arab terrorists in
There will be a nominal registration fee for
Jordan are regarded by their cap-
the Oct 25 session, which includes continental
tOrs as prisoners of war because
breakfast.
their goveninsents allegedly side
For registration information, call the Coun-
with Israel, it was reported here
cil, 962-1880.
Tuesday. The changed -status of
the hostages was assonseed by a
The Rabbinical Commission of Metropolitan
spokesman for the Popular Front
Detroit has declared Oct. 23-24 as "Soviet
for the Liberation of Palestine.
Jewry Sabbath" and has encouraged its mem-
The hostages have reportaly been
bers to use the occasion to help promote a bet-
moved into terrorist areas north of
(Castioned on Page a)
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Mamas, dam to Syria.

Hostages Now
War Prisoners

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Goldmann Remains Critical of Israel
Policies; Expects Another Nasser Bid

BONN (JTA)—Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress,
declared in a West German television interview Sunday that Israel's foreign policy
over the years and its approach to peace with the Arabs has been "wrong and in-
effective." He expressed the opinion that Egyptian President Nasser genuinely wants
peace in the Middle East and said he was still in contact with Nasser emissaries and
expected Nasser to invite him to Cairo again for "exploratory talks." Dr. Goldmann
created a furor in Israel last year when be asked the Israel government to approve
his acceptance of an alleged invitation from Nasser to meet in Cairo to explore Mid
East peace possibilities on a private, individual basis.
Dr. Goldmann has come under bitter attack from Israeli and Zionist officials
for his past criticism of Israeli foreign policy and his advocacy of a "neutralized"
Israel whose security would be guaranteed by the world powers.
Dr. Goldmann's televised remarks Sunday were in the same vein as an inter-
view with him published in the Cologne Stadtanzeiger. He asserted in the interview that
if Israel had agreed after the Six-Day War to quit most of the occupied territories in
return for Arab recognition of Israel "there would have been a chance for a solution."
He said the U.S peace initiative still had a chance for success but warned that if
there is a new war in the Mid East "Russia is likely to intervene because she could
not take another Arab defeat. She has invested too much.",
Dr. Goldmann told the Cologne newspaper that altbOugh his projected meeting
with Nasser was aborted, he was still in contact with the Egyptian president and with
top Palestinian leaders. "A representative of President Nasser is still visiting me
regularly," he said. "I have also met prominent Palestinians leaders in the Old City
of Jerusalem, and King Hassan, of Morocco, has invited me for a talk."
On Bonn television he said he expected another invitation from 14..sser if the
present Mid East peace initiative fails. Dr. Goldmann told the G' :man television
audience, "I have always said that time is against Israel, and this has przven to be
the case. Nevertheless I am optimistic that a settlement will be reached in the not-too-
distant future." He said that at his age, he did not worry about attacks on him and
would rather be "a nonconformist than a 'yes man'." In the -published interview, Dr.
Goldmann contended that "The younger generation in Israel is more realistic than
the generation in power.
"Young Israelis don't hate the Arabs, although they may have a certain feel-
ing of superiority vis-a-vis the Arabs. In the older generation you find an attitude that
all non-Jews are enemies and cannot be trusted," he said. Dr. Goldmann said the
basin of his Mid East policy is that the Arabs have rights in Palestine. -