THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
11—Friday, May 5, 1972

Egypt Threatens
Israel POWs,
Tekoah Claims

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UNITED NATIONS (JTA1--ls-
rael accused Egypt Tuesday of
utilizing the accidental death of
an Egyptian prisoner of 'war dur-
ing a riot in an Israeli POW
camp April 18 as the pretext for
an undisguised threat against the
safety of Israeli prisoners in

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The charge was contained in a
letter to UN Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim from Ambassador
Yosef Tekoah, Israel's permanent
representative to the UN,

Tekoah referred to an Egyptian
letter to the secretary general on
the incident and to a statement by
an Egyptian Army spokesman on
April 19 that threatened Israel
POWs in Egypt

The Israeli envoy expressed
regret at the death of the F:gyp.
tian POW who was fatally
wounded when a bullet, fired as
a warning shot by an Israeli
MP. ricocheted off a wall and
struck the POW in the head.

Egyptian POWs had attacked
the Ml's with steel bars. stones and
bottles, and set fire to their bar-
racks and attempted to break
out

Tekoah noted that the Inter-
national iced Cross was notified
immediately after the incident. The
IRC's report, appended to the Is•
raeli envoy's letter, confirmed that
Israel fully observed the Geneva
Convention on treatment of POWs
and that its treatment of the
PoWs was in fact even more lib-
eral than that required by the
Geneva Convention

Tekoah pointed out that on nu-
merous occasions Israel has pro-
posed a
POW
exchange with
Egypt which the latter country
has stubbornly rejected."

TV Station to Fight Suit
After Refusing Christian
Program 'The Passover'

NEW YORK (JTAI—The Vice
president general manager of
WOR-TV here continued to decline
substantive comment on the peti-
tion announced as having been filed
v.,th the Federal Communica-
tions Commission requesting re-
rnoval of the station's license for
rejecting a program called ''The
Passo‘er
Hebert 1, , Glaser explained
tl;atthe mater was in the hands
Hof the station - s attorneys. He was,
hiuever. willing to state - "No.
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lose our license "
The licenses of all New York sta-
t Aire for rent:vial- June 1

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the
American Board of Mis•
•ions In the Jews, has as its
theme the Christian signifance
of the Jewish seder. It was of-
fered to 11 other television sla
(tons, most er all of w hich also
tei-cted it.

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