• Pompidou Agrees to Meet on Embargoed Jets PARIS (JTA)—The JTA here learned that President Georges Pompidou has agreed to meet with Israel Ambassador Asher Ben Natan to try to break the dead- lock in Franco-Israeli negotiations over the reimbursement for 50 em- bargoed Mirage jets. The meeting will be held next week at the Elysee Palace, ac- cording to the JTA report which was confirmed by the French newspaper Le Monde. According to JTA's sources, Pompidou was disturbed when he learned recently that- the negotia- tions were stalled and decided to take matters into his own hands so as not to further sour Franco- Israeli relations. A French official told the JTA that in Pompidou's view, the nego- tiations were intended to settle dif- ferences still outstanding between `City Polarizing Blacks, Jews on Queens Project' NEW YORK (JTA)—The Rab- inical Council of America accused the New York City administration of deliberately polarizing the Black and Jewish communities with respect to the controversial low-income housing project in For- est Hills and called on the leaders of both communities "to short-cir- cuit City Hall and establish their own dialogue." But Rabbi Israel Klaven, execu- tive vice president of the Orthodox rabbinical group, denied that it was in conflict with the position adopted by the Synagogue Council of America which had gone on record in favor of the principle of scatter-site housing to remove the poor from inner city ghettos but wants the Forest Hills project scaled down in size. The Synagogue Council, a co- ordinating agency for the rab- binical la n d congregational branches of Reform, Conserva- tive and Orthodox Judaism, adopted a resolution last week urging the city to call a mora- torium on construction of the project while an independent group of experts "seek to deter- mine" its "economic and social feasibility." Negotiations •between Israel and France to settle the Mirage issue began several -months ago and were confirmed in Jerusalem and Paris last October. The 50 supersonic jets, bought and paid for by Israel, were em- bargoed by -the late President Charles de Gaulle during the Six- Day War. The embargo was continued by the Pompidou regime, but Israel, which had originally insisted on the planes, subsequently agreed to accept reimbursement. The way to an agreement was cleared when France announced that its air force would absorb the planes, thereby allaying Israeli fears that they would be sold to a third party for possible use against Israel. A stumbling block developed THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • over the financial arangements. Israel reportedly insisted on re- imbursement for the aircrafts' cost plus interest. The French government reportedly made counter-demands for payment for storage and maintenance of the Mirages. the two countries rather than to exacerbate them. Le Monde, which quoted the JTA report at length, said Pompidou and Ben Natan would discuss the over-all implica- tions of Franco-Israeli relations at their meeting. 18—Fritley, December 31, 1971 French sources said Pompidou was surprised to learn that no progress had been made toward a settlement and recently called for the Mirage file and details of the meetings which he studied before deciding to meet with Ben Natan. The latter, and Paul Kedar, a representative of Israel's defense ministry, had been negotiating with Secretary General Herve Al- phand of the French Foreign Of- fice and Gen. 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