Arafat Is Reported Opposed to Air Piracy;
Pilits Assn. Hailed for Sanctions Suggestion

LONDON (JTA) — According
to reports released here from
Beirut, Yassir Arafat, leader of
El Fatah, reportedly told
Palestinian extremists there must
be no more skyjackings of Western
airliners and there was no room
for this in his strategy.
Arafat said the Palestinian cause
would be seriously damaged in
world opinion by further attempts.
His warning comes at a time
when the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine is said to
be making plans to force Israel
to release prisoners. A PFLP
spokesman in Beirut said another
skyjack could be carried out "with-
out any difficulty."
Correspondents in Beirut report
the civil war in Jordan brought
extremist guerrilla groups nearer
to El Fatah and there are even
reports from Jordan that a single
Palestinian army is being planned
under Arafat's leadership.
It is said this may soon be
agreed between Arafat and Dr.
George Habash, leader of PFLP,
and that the new force will be
called the Peoples Army.
Meanwhile In New York, recom-
mendation by the Air Line Pilots

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calling for sanctions against gov-
ernments that fail to act against

hijackers has been bailed by the
American Jewish Congress as
"the most promising and prac-
tical step taken thus far to end
the terror of air piracy and to
restore security to international
air travel."
In a letter to Charles Ruby,

president of the American pilots'
groups, the Congress praised the
recommendation as "a b r ea k-
through that contrasts decisively
with the foot-dragging and slug-
gishness that has characterized all
intergovernmental action on this
issue during the past several
years." The American pilots' or-
ganization announced last week
that it had recommended a policy
of sanctions to the International
Federation of Air Line Pilots As-
sociations (IFALPA) "to combat
air piracy."
The recommendation called for

"sanctions with respect to airports
in any country which is henceforth
unwilling or unable to provide the
necessary security within its polit-
ical jurisdiction against sabotage

or air piracy."
The AJCongress letter, signed
by Phil Baum, assistant executive
director, said the results of the
International Civil Aviation Or-
ganization meeting in Montreal
last week had been "disappoint-
ing."
He added: "In their delibera-
tions on air hijacking, official

One of the hijackers was killed
by a security guard and the other,
a girl, was overpowered. The Is-
raeli Pilots Council objected when
El Al announced last week that
Capt. Barley would be temporarily
demoted. But apparently it agreed
that Capt. Barley deserved a re-
buke and the temporary ground-
ing.
London police are investigating
two parcels of hand grenades
found in a BOAC locker at London
Airport addressed to the Israeli
Embassy here and the local office
of El Al, Israel's airline.

Chief Rabbi Levin Sends
Greetings to Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA)—New Year
greetings have been exchanged be-
tween Israel's Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim and Chief
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin of Mos-
cow. Rabbi Levin sent a message
expressing hope for the strengthen-
ing of Torah among Jews all over
the world and for peace among
nations. Rabbi Nissim wished the
Jews of the Soviet Union a year
free from repression, especially
the ban on emigration to Israel.

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government agencies — both in
the UN and elsewhere — have
proven themselves so bound, by
rigidities of protocol and proce-
dure as to discourage any con-
fidence in their capacity to act
in time to prevent further as-
saults upon human life.
"It is plain," he said, that the

initiative to end the air hijacking
epidemic can best come from the
prvate civil aviation community
acting in defense of its own safety
and security."
New York City Council President
Sanford D. Garelik kicked off a

drive Tuesday morning on the
steps of City Hall to gather 1,000,-
000 signatures on a petition asking
the United Nations to ban all air
traffic to countries which give
sanctuary to air hijackers.
The council president was the
first to sign a petition sponsored
by the Free Sons of Israel seek-
ing sanctions against offending na-
tions. The campaign is sponsored
by the People's Coalition to End
Air Piracy, a group composed of
many nonsectarian civic groups.

In Brussels, Interpol, the In -
ternational police force, reversed
a past position and decided to
set up a committee to study the
problem of aerial hijacking.
Previously, Interpol held that hi-
jacking could not be dealt with
because it was a political rather_
than a criminal offense.

The new action by the Interpol
General Assembly was believed to
have been influenced by local po-
lice and airline operators.
According to one report, Arab
delegates w h o had previously

argued that airliner hijacking was

exclusively a political matter, now
support the principle of govern-
ment legislation that could provide
the basis for Interpol action
against sky piracy.
In Tel Aviv. Capt. Uri Barley,
the pilot of an El Al jet involved
in an abortive hijack attempt last
Sept. 6 has been temporarily
grounded for an infraction of rules
during the incident. But the El AI
management agreed not to reduce
him in rank.
El Al has also called to account
other crew members who, it claim-
ed, did not carry out their duties
pr o p e r l y when two Arab com-
mandos attempted to seize the
New York-bound aircraft in the
skies off the British coast.
The El Al action was based on
the findings of a special inquiry
committee investigating the hijack
attempt.

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