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Raising their hands in surrender, some carrying white flags, these Arab guerrillas crossed the
Jordan River into Israel to escape King Hussein's crackdown.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli
officials are considering what to
do with Palestinian terrorists who
have been surrendering en masse
to Israeli forces to escape death
or capture at the hands of the
Jordanian army. Fourteen more
weary, frightened fedayeen sought
refuge in Israeli territory July 24
and eight crossed over from Jor-
dan July 23, bringing the total of
voluntary captives to 91 since the
mass surrenders began.
Israeli authorities do not regard
them as prisoners of war nor are
they placed in the same category
as terrorists captured in battle
or on sabotage missions. The de-
fense ministry reportedly intends
to treat them differently. They
will not be placed on trial, it was
learned, although they could be
charged with membership in an
illegal organization.
Most of the fleeing terrorists
were originally residents of the
West Bank. Rumors were current
that Israeli authorities planned to
set them free and return them to
their former homes because they
are considered "harmless."
A group of five terrorists sur-
rendered to Israel border guards
July 24, and nine more turned
themselves in later, two of them
suffering from wounds. Five sur-
rendered in the Jordan Valley and
three at El Ha mma after crossing
into the Golan Heights from north-
ern Jordan.
According to eye-witness ac-
counts, the terrorists approach the
Israeli lines timidly. Their usual
procedure is to hide in the brush
along the banks of the Jordan
River until an Israeli patrol passes
by when they wave a white flag,
usually a strip of underwear on a
stick. Only when the Israelis no-
tice them and wave back do they
come out of hiding and approach
the river bank. They are able to
wade across as the river is shal-
low at this time of year.
(Israel and Syrian forces ex-
changed mortar fire for an hour
in the Golan Heights Tuesday
night in what was described as
the fierecest clash on that front
in almost a year. No Israeli
casualities were reported.)
Jordanian Army Trying
to Stop Terrorist Defections
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Jordanian
forces are trying to seal off the
border area with Israel in an ef-
fort to prevent fleeing terrorists
from surrendering to Israel.
Israeli observers have watched
Jordanian mobile units combing
the border area. One patrol at-
tacked a group of terrorists mak-
ing for the Israeli lines by way
of the Yarmouk River and killed
.their leader. Four of the group
managed to cross into Israel ter-

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ritory and surrendered. One of
them, with two bullets in his leg,
was treated on the spot by Israeli
medics.
A majority of the terrorists
who surrendered to Israeli forces
were born on the West Bank
and had been members of guer-
rilla organizations for no more
than two years or less, Israeli
security authorities disclosed.
Only 13.5 per cent were in the
guerrilla movement for periods of
two to three years and only one
admitted to six years' membership.
ship.
Fully 60 per cent of the volun-
tary captives had between one and
two years in guerrilla ranks and
26.5 per cent less than one year.
Several of the terrorists were
from Syria, Iraq and Kuwait but
they said their parents came from
the West Bank. Six were from the
Gaza Strip. All had been stationed
in the Jerash Ajloun District of
Northern Jordan, away from the
Israeli lines. Among the captives,
only two were commanders, ap-
parently of local guerrilla sections.
Israel Can't Trust Arabs
if Arabs Can't Trust Each
Other, Ministry Official Says
JERUSALEM (JTA)--A senior
foreign ministry official said Is-
rael could not be expected to trust
any Arab government "when it
comes to our security" when the
Arab governments cannot even
trust each other.
Referring to the internecine
strife that has developed in the
Arab world, the official noted that
"within the space of little more
than one week we have been faced
with a Moroccan situation, a Jor-
danian situation and a Sudanese
situation. Solemn promises by one
Arab leader to another were
broken and commitments disre-
garded. How can we Israelis be
expected to trust an Arab govern-
ment?"
Ambassador Itzhak Rabin ar-
rived here from Washington for
consultations preliminary to the
visit of U.S. Assistant Secretary
of State for Near Eastern Affairs
Joseph J. Sisco.
Rabin voiced doubt that Sisco
would bring any new suggestions
or proposals for ending the current
impasse over an interim agree-
ment with Egypt to reopen the
Suez Canal or a broader settle-
ment.
"The visit is part of the non-
stop dialogue we are having with
the Americans," the Israeli envoy
said, adding that one must not
link Sisco's visit with "expecta-
tions."
Rabin, who has been openly
critical of American Mid East pol-
icy, told newsmen at the airport
that he did not expect any dra-

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matic change in the near future
with regard to the American atti-
tude toward Israel.
Donald G. Bergus, the ranking
American diplomatic representa-
tive in Egypt and Michael Sterner,
head of the State Department's
Egyptian desk, returned to Wash-
ington from Cairo to report on a
series of talks with Egyptian lead-
ers.
Rabin smiled when he asked
newsmen surrounding him at the
airport if they were allowed to
interview him. He was referring
to the apparent displeasure indi-
cated by Premier Golda Meir and
Foreign .Minister Abba Eban over
his sharp criticism of U.S. Mid East
policy in a taped interview with
Kol Israel radio, broadcast here
July 3. Rabin charged at the time
that the U.S. sought a Mid East
settlement even if it meant strip-
ping Israel of most of the terri-
tories captured in the Six-Day War.
He also said that Washington was
primarily concerned with its own
interests in the region and didn't
want Israel's friendship to be its
sole asset there. The cabinet, in
an unusual procedure, announced
that Rabin's remarks had been an
item on the agenda of its July 4
meeting. Asked if he would con-
tinue to speak out, Rabin said "I
shall continue to act according to
my feelings."

Sapir Denies Poverty Gap
Is Widening in Israel

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir took strong
exception Sunday night to claims
that the gap between poverty and
wealth was widening in Israel and
that the government was doing
nothing to alleviate the severe
housing shortage, particularly for
the poor.
Addressing a meeting of the
Labor Party's central committee
here, Sapir noted that a committee
headed by David Horowitz, gov-
ernor of the Bank of Israel, found
recently that the "index of in-
equalities" has dropped by 10 per
cent since 1967 for the country as
a whole and 15 per cent for Jewish
wage-earners in urban centers.
He also reported that between
1967 and 70, the number of fami-
lies living three to a room de-
clined from 70,000 to 54, 000, a
drop of 20 per cent which, accord-
ing to Sapir, was a world record.
The finance minister said the
government and 15 construction
companies will build 14,000 new
housing units for young couples
each year for the next four to five
years.
He said this project would op-
erate concurrently with plans to
rehouse 45,000 families now living
in substandard or overcrowded
dwellings.

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