U.S. to Send Arms Israel Requires Griffin WASHINGTON — U.S. Sena t o r Robert Griffin of Michigan has promised that the United States will fulfill its pledge to provide Israel with sufficient military assistance — short of American troops—to counteract the gains made by UAR-Soviet violations of the cease fire standstill agreement. Sen. Griffin, a ranking Repub- lican in the Sen- ate, addressed a news conference Sept. 18, after he and other s e n a- tors had met with Israel Premier Golda Meir. "We promised," said Sen. Griffin, "to counte r b a l- ance any advant- age they (the Arabs) got as a result of viola- tions, and you can Griffin be sure that's what we're going to do, keep our word. There is. in some quarters, FO R SWEET HAPPY NEW YEAR $2.95 SHOFAR ASSORTMENT Chocolate miniatures, half of them brilliantly toiled and arranged to form a Shofar in the box. 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What has been demon- strated Is that the Soviet word is. unfortunately, not good." lie pointed out that Mrs. Meir, who had met with President Nixon and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stressed that the Is- raelis do not intend to ask for mili- tary personnel from the United States. "But they are asking for military equipment and assistance, and to the extent that it's neces- sary to balance the situation. I think we will have to provide it." Sen. Griffin said he feels that a military balance in the Middle East "will provide the greatest chance for peace . . . If we let the situation get out of balance, that would be the quickest way to have war in the Middle East — all-out war." He said he doesn't know what military assistance will emerge from the President's talks with Mrs. Meir, but "I would assume that if we had some sophisticated way to deal with these SAM-3 missiles that the Russians and the Egyptians have put into that stand- still zone, that might well be a part of it." A number of additional Phantom jets have already been provided, he said. Sen. Griffin declined to make any assessment as to how far the Israelis may have fallen behind in preparing arms because of the cease fire violations. "There isn't any question that the Egyptians have gotten some advantage as a result of this," he said, adding:. "I think that what the relative mili- tary strength is is a very difficult military assessment that I'm not in a position to make." He also refused to be pinned down en the question of whether the United States will continue to provide military support to countries that oppose Israel's existence. "I'm sure all those things are under consideration," he said. "Just exactly what's go- ing to happen specifically, I can't give you the answer as it changes on almost a day-to-day basis." The senator, acknowledging as- sistance given to King Hussein in the past, said additionally that "Although the situation over there is very serious and graVe, we are quite confident that Hussein will be able to prevail. "It is important that Syria doesn't get directly involved, and if the United States position is somewhat ambiguous right now, with our fleet (6th Fleet) in the Mediterranean standing by, it is probably precisely for the purpose of keeping Syria in the stage what we're going to do, and hope- fully (it will) keep Syria from com- ing into it." Concerning the safety of Amer- icans in the Middle East, Sen. Grif- fin pointed to President Nixon's statement on Sept. 17 that "As American citizens they are entitled to the protection that we can rea- sonably give them. But if you ask me exactly what we can really do, I'll have to admit I don't know . . . I know that President Nixon, (D ef ens e) Secretary (Melvin) Laird, Secretary (of State William) Rogers are working on this prob- lem almost night and day. "Of course," he went on, "in this situation they have got to- work in concert with the other govern- ments of other nations whose na- tionals are also involved. We can't go off on our own, we have to have •an agreement, (and) that makes it an even more difficult decision." In response to a question wheth- er it would be justified to use troops to rescue the American hostages, Sen. Griffin replied: "Well it's been done in the past; whether or not it should be done in this situation is something that is a very very complex mat- ter, and I'm not going to answer the question right now, very frankly." Sen. Griffin described the entire hijacking question as an inter- national problem, not one that Con- gress can solve alone. He enumer- ated the steps that have been taken so far, including the Presi- dent's ordering of armed guards aboard international flights of U.S. carriers and his sending of legis- lation to Congress to ask for an increase in taxes to cover that action. The third step, which he describ- ed as most important, was the initiative taken Sept. 18 in Mont- real by the International Civil Aviation Organization to try and get all nations to agree to extra- dite hijackers or else face a boy- cott by all other nations. Project Equality A gencies Strenghten Construction Jo b Equipments NEW YORK (JTA)—A total of 29 Jewish, Catholic and Protestant re- ligious and social action agencies, joined in Metropolitan New York Project Equality, have announced that all construction contracts they give hereafter must provide in- creased job opportunities for the disadvantaged. Project Equality members include the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defa- mation League of Bnai Brith and the New York Federation of Re- form Synagogues. Previously, builders seeking con tracts from member agencies of Project Equality were required only to promise to provide such opportunities and spot checks were made to determine compliance, according to Harry Fleishman, race relations coordinator for the American Jewish Committee. Un- der the new arrangements, builders and sub-contractors will be re- quired to sign contracts pledging ■ they will "train and employ" mem- bers of minority groups and- other disadvantaged persons, with one trainee for every four journeymen, he said. He said none of the three mem- ber Jewish organizations had done any building in recent years but that all future construction and al- teration contracts will be let only under terms of the new arrange- ment. 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