110 Jet Plane Sale Speculated
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wing Mapam party were among
the strong opponents of the plan.
Mapam advocates withdrawal tied
to demilitarization. as suggested
in Security Council Resolution 242
of Nov. 22, 1967. Therefore, the
proposed Egyptian canal crossing
is as unacceptable to Mapam as
to anyone else.
An official communique noted
the "continuing efforts" of the
participants to reach an agreement
on a partial settlement.
On Thursday, Sisco conferred
with Eban and other foreign min-
istry officials on matters not con-
nected with the canal, such as
loans and grants and other eco-
nomic issues.
A report in the New York Times
Wednesday that the Nixon admin-
istration was pondering plans for
a three- to four-year commitment
to sell Israel an additional 100 jet
warplanes was considered here a
deliberate leak by the United States
to indicate a promise of "com- .
pensation" to Israel for a more
"flexible" attitude toward Sisco's
proposals.
The consensus of Israel's lead-
ers was reported to be that the
Sisco proposals were not satis-
factory and that they will be
rejected by Mrs. Meir but that
the rejection will be phrased
diplomatically. Details were lack-
ing but the reports were that the
turndown will be phrased in a
manner to give Sisco some lever-
age when and if he goes to Egypt
to continue his efforts there for
an interim Suez Canal agreement.
for an interim Suez Canal agree-
ment.
The American sources also said
if Sisco does go to Egypt, he is
likely to go via Cyprus and be
joined by Michael Sterner, head
of the State Department's Egyp-
tian desk. Sterner visited Cairo
last month for a series of con-
sultations with Donald Bergus,
chief resident diplomat in Cairo,
on the interim settlement pro-
posals.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Knowl-
edgeable sources here voiced skep-
ticism over the New York Times
story that the Nixon administra-
tion was considering a proposal to
modernize Israel's aging air force
by agreeing to sell as many as
110 Jet planes over the next three
to four years. White House and
State Department spokesmen both
said they had no information about
any such plan.
The sources said that the report-
ed planning did not fit into any-
thing that was known about Is-
raeli-United States discussions on
military assistance and dismissed
the story as possible "wishful
thinking." Other sources, however,
indicated there was some basis
for the Times report that such a
plan was under consideration as a
political action to give Assistant
Secretary of State Joseph Sisco a
powerful "carrot" in his as yet un-
successful efforts in Israel to per-
suade Israeli leaders to be more
"flexible" on U. S. proposals for
an interim Israel-Egyptian agree-
ment to permit reopening of the
Suez Canal.
14—Friday, August 6, 1971
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JERUSALEM (JTA) A dispute
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housing ministry over who can
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being built by the Government in
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