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U. S. Suspends Big Four Talks;
Israel's Charges Corroborated

Pincus Clarifies Unprecedented
Action to Curtail Israel Drives

A statement issued this week by Louis A. Pincus, chairman of the
Jewish Agency for Israel, explains the decisions to curtail certain fund-
raising efforts for Israel, in order to assure the maximum goal sought for
the United Jewish AppeaL His complete statement follows:
Faced with the unprecedented need to obtain $300,000,000 in the
United States in 1971, twice as much as in 1970, and virtually double what
was obtained in 1967, the highest authorities in Israel and the American
Jewish leaders are agreed that every possible resource must be mobilized
in behalf of the United Jewish Appeal, and that no diversion of funds or
manpower should be permitted to impede raising the funds that are in-
dispensable.
Unprecedented action has therefore been taken to prevent competitive
fund raising for Israel—and even more, to assure that the volunteer and pro-
fessional manpower and the fund-railing potentials which have been involved
in other campaigns will be made available to the United Jewish Appeal
nationally, and to assist community federations and welfare funds locally.
The following organizations have agreed to eliminate their fund rais-
ing from September 1970 to September 1971:
American Friends of the Hebrew University, American Friends of
the Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa Foundation, American Tech-
nion Society, American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science,
Bar-Ilan University and University of the Negev.
Several of the organizations are making their staffs available to the
United Jewish Appeal.
All of the organizations willbe permitted to continue to obtain mem-
bership payments, and to continue with normal, non-fund-raising organiza-
tional activities.
The following organizations have agreed to limit their fmancing to
small traditional and ongoing collections, and to avoid any campaigns and
public dinners and other public functions for fund raising:
America-Israel Cultural Foundation, American Friends of the Shaare
Dedek Hospital, American Red Mogen Dovid for Israel, Jewish National
Fund and National Committee for Labor Israel (Histadrut).
(Discussions with the National Committee for Labor Israel are still
under way and the communities will be advised as soon as arrangements
have been completed.)
Consideration is being given to the addition of other agencies. The
communities will be informed of such additions.
The following organizations will continue their previous patterns of ob-
taining support, with the assurance, which all of the organizations have
given, that there will be the fullest clearance and cooperation with the UJA
and CJF nationally and with federation and welfare funds locally, to help
assure maximum gifts to the welfare fund-UJA campaigns: Hadassah,
Mizrachi Women's Organization_ of America and Pioneer Women's Organi-
zation of America.

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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—The deputy ambassadors of the Big Four
suspended their series of meetings Tuesday at the behest of the United States
because "serious and continuing violations of the standstill (cease fire) agreement
on the west side of the Suez Canal have raised doubts whether there is a sincere
desire for peace and have created an obstacle to resumption of negotiations under
Ambassador Jarring."
Announcement of the suspension was made in identical statements issued by
the U. S. United Nations misqion here and by State Department spokesman John
King in Washington. U. S. sources said that the deputies had met for an hour and
a quarter at U. S. mission headquarters Tuesday morning and then suspended
further meetings on the recommendation of U. S. Deputy Ambassador Christopher
H. Phillips. It is said there was some disagreement among the deputies - over the
suspension.
The deputies of the permanent delegations of the United States, the Soviet
Union, Britain and France were assigned the task last March 31 of drafting a memo-
randum of the agreements and disagreements between the •four powers in their
continuing deliberations on a solution of the Middle East conflict The four-power
meetings, however, have not been suspended.
The U. S. statement issued here and in Washington declared that "Tbe United
States is not suspending participation in the four power meetings at the level of
permanent representatives and will take part in the next such meeting sehedoled
for Oct. 12."
The statement continued: "We are determined, however, to keep our efforts
at helping to bring peace to the Middle East focused clearly on the realities of the
situation and will not mislead ourselves or others by substituting form for subtance."
(Elaborating on that point in Washington, State Department spokesman King
said: "Unless-there is some prospect for accomplishing something, there is no point
to holding a meeting." In response to another auestion, King said: 'We believe that
rectification (of the cease fire violations) will help clear the way for talks" but, he
said, he could not give a "timetable" for their resumption.)
Observers here said that in Tuesday's statement the U. S. has gone virtually
all the way in upholding the Israeli position on Egyptian truce violations and was
insisting, in the strongest terms thus far, on a rollback of $oviet mismles from the
cease fire zone before talks under Dr. Jarring can resume.
The suspension of the Big Four deputies' talks was regarded as a more sym-
bolic than substantive gesture because the deputies' assignment is not directly re-
lated to the situation in the Suez cease-fire zone. But it clearly toughened the U.S.
position on the truce violations. The 'American Statement said "so long as there is no
rectification of this situation which would make possible a resumption of talks
under Ambassador Jarring, we see no possibility of bridging the gaps that still
separate the four powers on certain important points of Security Council Resolution
242. Even if agreement on-guidelines for Ambassador Jarring were possible, they
would be of no use to him at this time. For this reason the United States believes
the four powers deputies' meetings should be suspended for the time being until cir-
cumstances warrant their resumption."
The U. S. statement was prefaced with the declaration that "the United States

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pEllUSALEM (JTA)—The Israel government ins turned
down an offer by El Fatah to free an Israeli watchman they kid-
naped 10 months ago in exchange for a number of convicted Arab
terrorists serving sentences in Israeli jails. The Jewish Telegraphic
Agency learned from reliable sources that ffi Fatah offered to
release 54-year-old Sbmuel Rosenwasser, of Metullak who was
seized by Arab guerrillas near the Lebanese border on the night
of Dec. 31, 1969. He was subsequently taken to Jordan. ,
El Fatah demanded the release of convicted terroristir,
them Mabmoud Hijazi who was sentenced to death by an Israeli
military court in 1965. His sentence was later commuted to life
imprisonment.
Contrary to earlier reports, Israel will not release two Al-
gerian nationals detained here since August 14 as a reciprocal
gesture for the release of the last of the hijacked airline pas-
sengers held by Arab terrorists in - Jordan, a foreign ministry
official said. SIIIMOD Amir, deputy director general of the ministry,
said in a radio interview that Israel was not a party to any deal
with the terrorists. Following release of the hostages lad week,
the British, Swiss and West German govermnents freed seven
Arab commandos in their custody.
Amir conceded that at meetings with the other governments
in Berne, before the hijack victims were set free, Israel had not
opposed an exchange "lest we be accused of endangering the lives
of the hostages."

