VIE DETROIT MASH
16—Friday, Joatiary $. 1971
Gaza Mayor Is Ousted After Terrorists Kill 2
mars
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The military
TEL
government removed from office
Mayor Rageb el Alemi of Gaza on
grounds of hostile behavior, lack of
cooperation with military authori-
ties and refusal to provide neces-
sary municipal services despite s
considerable surplus in the town
treasury.
The order by Brig. Gen. Menu-
chem Aviram rescinding Alemi's
appointment was the first instance
of Israeli authorities dismissing a
mayor of a Gaza Strip town.
Almost 24 hours before his dis-
missal, terrorists attacked a ci-
vilian car traveling along the
Gaza-Tel Aviv Highway in the
northern Gaza Strip, killing two
Israeli children, a brother and
sister age 7 and 4, and injuring
their mother, who were occu-
pants in the car. These first ter-
rorist killings in the new year
had a special impact on Israelis
because the children were well-
known from advertisements in
newspapers for which they had
modeled.
Alemi was not elected by popu-
lar vote but was appointed to of-
fice by the Egyptian authorities
five years ago. His appointment
was re-affirmed by Israeli military
Sadat Admits
6 Russian Aides
Killed in a Raid
authorities after the Six-Day War.
But they accused him now of gross
neglect of his municipal duties.
When Alemi was invited to Jeru-
salem by Deputy Knesset Speaker
Yitzhak Navon several months ago
to submit a list of his town's
needs, the only request he made
was for a reduction of his personal
income tax bill.
Alemi also had petitioned the
military government against link-
ing Gaza's electric power system
with Israel's national grid. The
linkage, effected last year, pro-
vided Gaza residents with cheaper,
more reliable electric power.
Military authorities sealed off
a 20-square-mile area of the
northern Gaza Strip and placed
it under curfew as the search
went on for the terrorists who
killed the two children.
The victims were Marc Aroyo
and his sister, Avigail. Their fa-
ther, Robert Aroyo, a Tel Aviv ad-
vertising executive, was unhurt,
but is in a state of shock. The
grenade attack Li believed to have
come from one of the refugee
camps that dot the countryside
along the Gaza-Tel Aviv highway.
The Aroyos were driving home
after a weekend motor trip when
CAIRO — Reuters news agency
reports that President Anwar el-
Sadat acknowledged that Soviet
soldiers had been brought in to
man Egyptian missile sites and
said six of them had been killed
in a raid 20 miles south of Cairo.
Sadat did not give the date of
the incident, but an Israeli raid on
a missile station at Dahshur was
announced last Feb. 17 by a Cairo
military spokesman.
The comment, made at a rally,
was the first public disclosure that
Soviet soldiers had been killed in
Egypt. He said Soviet troops had
been needed because it would have
taken eight months to train
Egyptians to man the missile sites
installed to halt Israeli raids
early last year.
Meanwhile, details were re-
leased on the Frog-7 missile, a
Soviet weapon capable of carrying
an atomic warhead, which report-
edly has been supplied to Egypt's
armed forces.
The Frog-7's major advantage
is high mobility. It reportedly can
be fired from an eight-wheel truck
and, while not electronically guid- Arafat Is Said to Be Losing Prestige
ed, is highly accurate and main-
tains stability by a spinning mo- as Fatah Undergoes Internal Struggle
tion.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—E1 Fatah, Assifa is headed by Manduh
The Frog-7 was reportedly first
seen at a military parade in Mos- the largest Palestinian guerrilla Saidam and Khalil el Wazir.
organization, is in the throes of Saidam, who is about 40, is a na-
cow in 1965.
an internal struggle for control.
tive of Gaza, where some of his
Its chief, Yassir Arafat, has not relatives still live. He succeeded
Aid Given to Family
been challenged directly, but there Arafat as commander of Assifa
of Quads Born in Nablus are clear indications that he is late in 1968 when Arafat became
NABLUS — When quadruplets losing influence, according to an more involved in political wrang-
were born to an Arab family in assessment by knowledgeable Is- ling with the various Arab states.
Saidam, who uses the alias of
Nablus, in occupied territory, the raeli sources given to the Jewish
Abu Sabri, rarely appears in
government gave four cots and Telegraphic Agency Wednesday.
The
behind-the-scenes
struggle
public.
He is backed by most
two baby carriages• to the family.
The mother was to remain in stems from the guerrillas' defeat Assifa commanders and by many
in
the
Jordanian
civil
war
last
officers
of
the Palestine Libera-
the hospital as long as necessary,
at the government's expense. The September and their failure to tion Army stationed in Syria and
form
a
united
front
of
El
Fatah
Jordan.
He
and his colleagues
father works as a food distributor
for UNRWA, and earns about $1.50 and the dozen or so smaller com- now blame El Fatah's political
mando
groups.
Another
factor
is
leaders for the guerrilla defeat
a day.
the acute shortage of funds and in Jordan and have demanded
mass desertions from El Fatah's their ouster or punishment.
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active squads, the Israeli sources
Unlike the other guerrilla groups
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reported.
which are mostly left-oriented, El
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El Fatah's military branch. Al Fatah has professed to be apoli-
Assifa, now enjoys greater influ- tical. But Saidam is known to be
ence than ever, even in purely a rightist. He has criticized the
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political matters that were former- left-wing tendencies of many of
STUDIOS
ly left to veteran politicians. Al the guerrilla political leaders.
Among his chief targets are Faruk
EI Kadumi, head of the Palestine
Popular Liberation Organization,
and Salah Halaf, generally re-
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garded as El Fatah's No. two man
after Arafat.
Kadumi and Halaf are now in
Cairo, where they are said to be
trying to enlist Egyptian support
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to prevent a purge in El Fatah's
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have reported the rift, although
El Fatab organs do not mention
it.
A secret guerrilla congress to
decide on a purge was to have
been held last month, but was
postponed at the last minute by
Arafat.
Some observers believe El Fa-
I urge everyone to write to Russian government officials and to re-
tah's- difficulties stem from the
spectfully ask them to allow Jews who wish to leave the country
cold shoulder Arafat received from
be sweated permission to do so.
Kremlin leaders when he went to
I suggest brief, throughtful and constructive letters signed by several
Moscow last year in search of
or many people.
military support. Guerrilla groups
are reportedly turning to Peking.
Letters written in the Russian language ore especially desirable. This
service is available through language schools and Msewhozo.
The new commando slogan is said
to be "Our only real friend now
Nooses of three Russian loaders ore listed below. Poetess to Moscow
is Communist China."
is 20e per 1/2 ounce.
Arafat's failure in Moscow Is
believed to have taken consider-
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ewe each, to ten friends er relatives in different cities.
able gloss from his leadership. He
spends most of his time away from
We must met realein silent whRe our brothers and sisters is Russia
Jordan, the main El Fatah base,
are oppressed.
and leaves the day-to-day running
of the organization to Saidam.
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14 Arabs, Druze Promoted
at Haifa University
HAIFA—Halfa University has ap-
pointed 14 Arabs and Druze to
teaching Assistant positions. Three
of them will study abroad.
Some 350 of the school's 4,500
students are Arabs or Druze, the
highest number of them in any
Israeli university.
the grenade exploded in their car.
According to police, Aroyo man-
aged to drive to a nearby police
station where a helicopter lifted
the victims to the nearest hospital
in Beersheba.
Aroyo was born in Malta, and
his wife came from London, where
they lived before settling in Israel
last year.
An upsurge of terrorist activity
was reported along the northerr
frontier over the weekend. An Is
raeli soldier was wounded in a
clash with guerrillas. Katyusha
shells were fired at Kiryat Shemo-
na near the Lebanese border. No
casualties were reported but sev-
eral buildings were damaged.
Bazooka shells were fired at Is-
raeli positions and patrols in the
Golan Heights. Mortar shells were
fired at Metullah village 'and Ki-
butz Yifta.
There were no reports of casu-
alties or damage. Israeli military
circles attributed the Golan at-
tacks to terrorist gangs based in
Syria, operating with the consent
of the Syria Army.
According to a military spokes-
man, the wave of terrorist activity
around the Lebanese border was
an attempt to retaliate for an Is-
raeli commando strike at a terror-
ist base at Yaater village inside
Lebanon last week.
Sgt. Roth David Alexander, 20,
was killed in the raid. Five others
were wounded.
An unspecified number of ter-
rorists were killed and four build-
ings were blown up. A military
spokesman said Yaater served as
a base for El Fatah, the Syrian-
sponsored Salmi guerrillas and the
Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine.
The spokesman said that in eel-,
lier "police actions" at least 20
terrorists were killed.
Official figures published here
disclosed that 237 Israelis were
killed and 782 were wounded as a
result of hostilities during 1970.
The dead included 181 soldiers and
56 civilians. A total of 8,078 inci-
dents occurred last year on all
borders. More than half of them
involved clashes with Egyptian
forces along the Suez Canal before
the cease fire went into effect last
Aug. 7.
El Fatab, the largist Palestin-
ian guerrilla organization, an-
nounced in Beirut that it would
disarm its men in Lebanon and
close down Its four offices lo-
cated in refugee camps in that
country.
The announcement was made by
Abu Ayad, the second In command
of El Fatah, who said the move
was aimed at closer cooperation
with the Lebanese government. His
statement was attributed by some
observers in part to the heavy
casualties they have suffered. But
the announcement came as a sur-
prise. The guerrillas, who are op-
posed to any political settlement
with Israel, were expected to step
up their activities as the resump
tion of the Jarring peace talks
approached, just as they attempted
to sabotage the talks last Septem-
ber.
Lebanon and Syria have become
the main staging areas for the
guerrillas since Jordanian forces
effectively repressed the Palestin-
ians during the civil war in Jordan
last September.
El Fatab leader Yassir Arafat
arrived unexpectedly in Beirut last
Saturday. According to reliable
sources he will supervise a purge
of what have been described as
"bogus guerrillas" and elements
that have undermined the com-
mando Image and threatened a
crisis with Lebanese authorities.
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