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Israel's Supporting Assistance
Appeal Gets Senatorial Backing
Back-to-Work Command
Creates Israel Labor Crisis;
Doctors return to Hospital
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Knesset held a special session
Tuesday about strikes in the nation's health services which had
been requested by opponents of the government's use of its emer-
gency powers to force the strikers to return to work. Premier
Golda Meir signed such an order against striking doctors in
government and government-municipal hospitals Monday night
after Health Minister Victor Shemtov refused to do so.
The fact that the strikers were back at work made the session
a perfunctory one.
During the debate, the question was raised again of the long
standing request by several parties for a law creating compulsory
arbitration' of work disputes in vital services.
Moshe Nissim of the Gahal alignment and Yigal Horwitz of
the State List raised the issue at Tuesday's debate. Prior to the
resolution
Knesset meeting, the National Religious Party adopted a
favoring such a law. The opposition of powerful sections in the
labor alignment was cited to support predictions that such a
measure would not become law in the foreseeable future.
The striking doctors, back at work Tuesday, were bitter over
- the back-to-work orders. The medical staffs in hospitals of Kupat
Holim, the Histadrut sick fund organization, called for meetings
to express protest against the back-to-work orders and "solidarity"
with doctors working under emergency regulations.
During the Knesset debate, Shalom Cohen of the Haolam
Hazeh faction, called on Shemtov to resign rather than to remain
in a cabinet which had taken measures contrary to Mapam's
'avowed stand against back-to-work orders. Shemtov ignored the
- challenge, blaming the executive committee of the doctors' union
_,for having "forced" the cabinet to approve application of emer-
gency, regulations.
Shemtov said that the doctors' union could have opted to give
the
cabinet more time to negotiate the dispute which, he said,
' -
the cabinet had been completely willing to do. Instead, the Mapam
minister 'said, the union had forced the government's hand by
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—A majority of the 17-member Senate foreign relations com-
mittee urged Secretary of State William P. Rogers to give further consideration to Israel's
request for $200,000,000 in supporting assistance to meet Israel's defense requirements.
In a letter to Rogers, four Republican and six Democratic members of the committee
said "many colleagues note that the shipment of supersonic planes to Israel has been dis-
continued in the absence of a new agreement. Our understanding is that the request has been
under consideration for nine months."
The Senators wrote that "any further delay could well lead to the impression that
we are not implementing our declared policy on arms balance in the area." They said. "we
believe our views are shared by at least a majority of the Senate."
The Republican signers were Senators Clifford P. Case, N. J.; Jacob K. Javits, N. Y.;
James B. Pearson, Kansas, and Hugh Scott, Pa. The Democrats were Gale W. McGee,
Wyo.; Edmund S. Muskie, Me.; Claiborne Pell, R. I.; John J. Sparkman, Ala.; William B.
Spong Jr., Va., and Stuart Symington, Mo.
The Senators enclosed with their letter a copy of the report of the House Committee
on foreign affairs which makes provisions for Israel's request for $200,000,000 for "its
urgent needs for foreign exchange and other requirements brought about through the
Middle East hostilities." The Senators wrote "this is a vital corollary to maintaining a bal-
ance of defense capability in the Middle East."
The House committee's statement said: "Israel has never received grant military
assistance from the United States." It noted that Israel had been forced to go deeply into
debt because of a very heavy defense burden posed by large-scale shipments of sophisti-
cated planes, tanks and missiles by the Soviet Union to Israel's Arab neighbors.
The House approved last week by a vote of 200-192 the foreign aid bill which included
aid for Israel. The opposition to the bill was not against aid to Israel but to the measure
as a whole. There was no opposition to include Israel. Congressman William Broomfield
was a leader in spurring action in the House in Israel's behalf.
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Rogers Hopeful Recent Efforts will Be Effective
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Assistant Secre-
tary Joseph J. Sisco conferred with UN Secretary General U Thant here Monday morning
on Middle East progress, if any. Rogers, with Sisco standing by silently, told the press
afterwards that the situation was too "complicated" for him to make any comment on the
discussions. He added, however, that he hoped recent American efforts toward a settle-
ment would "have an effect" on the outcome.
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S alora-- Salaam
From Israel to Egypt
While Anwar el Sadat was threatening Israel with new deadlines for
total withdrawal from occupied territory and the Suez Canal, there were
salutations of peace—the Hebrew Shalom and the Arabic Salaam—from Israel
bunkers to the Arabs.
On the eve of the first anniversary of the Middle East cease fire—on _-
Aug. 6—this Israeli soldier waved to United Arab Republic soldiers in their
watchtower on the other side of the Suez Canal near Port Taufik. Some
Egyptians waved back.
TEL AVIV (JTA) The start of the second year of the United States-
initiated cease fire on Israel's various fronts was marked by a statement from
"an unpre-
Gen. Chaim Bar-Lev that during the initial year, there had been
cedented strengthening" of Israel's defense forces in all branchs—the army,
exercises
the air force and the navy. He added: "We have rested, we have had that,
from
and training and we are ready." He said in a televised interview
military
viewpoint,
Israel
did
not
need
the
cease
fire
but
that
it
welcomed
it.
a
Stressing that the Egyptians had "no chance of driving us back from the
Suez Canal," he said that if the Egyptians tried it, "they will soon learn they
will get nowhere."
Reports from the Suez Canal zone presented a picture of tranquility
area
which before the start of the cease fire on Aug. 7, 1970, had been
in an
the site of bloody clashes of planes and missiles as part of the war of attrition
proclaimed by the late Egyptian President Nasser. About the only problem
to the soldiers manning the Bar-Lev line on the east bank of the canal, the
reports indicated, was flies. Egyptian soldiers on the west bank apparently
waters, do some
were similarly enjoying the cease fire. They dip in the canal
the intense Israeli
fishing, or relax under the few trees remaining after
shelling of targets on the Egyptian side.
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