UN Spokesman Denies Jarring Belonged to Nazi Party UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — A United Nations spokesman has rejected as trivial a charge by a Swedish newspaper that Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring, the UN's special Middle East representative, was once a member of a Swedish Nazi Party. The spokesman replied to a charge by the Aftenbladet (Evening Blade), one of Sweden's largest papers, that Dr. Jarring was a parliamentary candidate of the National Unity Party in 1936, when he was 29. The paper said Dr. Jarring, now Sweden's ambassador to the Soviet Union, was active in the party from 1926 to 1939, leaving it one year before entering the foreign ministry. The party, according to the Aftenbladet, demanded that Jews be barred from entering Sweden. The UN spokesman said Dr. Jarring joined the youth organiza- tion of the Conservative Party in 1926 when it was considered respectable. Later the }ouch unit broke from the party and formed a Nazi-oriented organization of its own, he said, and Dr. Jarring left the group in 1937. "Somebody must be pretty hard up for news," the spokesman said. JEWISH NEWS d MO B A Weekly Review MAY 24-27 MUM VIER 41 of Jewish Events Shavuot Greetings to Jewish Ccrnmunities Everywhere Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper VOL. LXI. No. 10 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c May 19, 1972. Red Cross Accused of Aiding Terrorists Eban, Dayan Reject IRC Complaint ' Against Israel s Anti-Hijack Act Nixon Expected to liaise l'SSII Jen- ry Issue During Soviet Summit Sessions NEW YORK (JTA) — Richard Maass, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, and Jacob Stein. chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Amer- ican Jewish Organizations, declared that "on the eve of President Nixon's historic trip to Moscow, we wish to emphatically stress that we expect the President to raise the issue of Soviet Jewry on the highest level. We know that at this time nothing short of the President's personal intervention will be acceptable to Soviet Jews. This is the message that many of them have conveyed to us and to the White House." This statement was issued following the morning session of an emergency National Leadership Assembly for Soviet Jews which drew top Jewish leaders from across the nation. The assembly was sponsored by the NCSJ and the Conference of Presidents. All sessions of the assembly were closed to the public. Delegates discussed tactics in response to recent reports of a deteriorating situation with respect to Soviet Jews, including new trials of Jewish activists. The expectations and implications of Nixon's upcoming trip were of prime concern to the (Continued on Page 10) delegates. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli officials sharply rejected a complaint by the Internatien:)] Red Cross that it had been duped by the tactics Israel employed to liberate a hijacked Sabena jet The Red Cross issued two different versions of of the complaint at its Geneva headquarters Friday neither of which had reached Israel as of Monday morning. a foreign ministry spokesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The complaints accused Israel of having exploited the presence of Red Cross delegates at the airport when it employed a ruse to seize the aircraft from terrorist control by force. Although . Israel's official reply awaits receipt of the text of the complaint, statements by Foreign Minister Abba Eban and by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made it clear that Israel categorically rejects the charges. The Israeli ministers noted that the IRC representatives had been invited to the airport by the terrorists who were holding the passengers and crew members of the Belgian jet at gunpoint threatening to blow up the aircraft unelss their demands were met. The IRC mission, they said, was solely to convey messages from the terrorists to Israeli authorities and the terrorists. At no point did Israel promise the IRC representatives that it would not use force to liberate the plane. In fact, the ministers reported, the IRC men were told that force would be used if no other way could be found to save the lives of the hostages. The Red Cross-statement said its representatives had been surprised when Israeli soldiers disguised as maintenance men boarded the plane and opened fire.on the terrorists. The Israeli officials said that was understandable be- cause the Red Cross was not at any stage a party to the planning of the military operation. Dayan disclosed during a television appearance Friday night that the first thing the Red Cross representatives demanded when they arrived at the airport last Tuesday night was that Israel pull back the troops surrounding the hijacked jet. "I refused. - Dayan said. "When they said they could not function like that I told them: Listen, inside the plane there are terrorists with explosives. grenades and pistols and vou are asking us to withdraw the army as if this were a medical supply plane. That is impossible." Dayan said the IR(' representatives contacted Geneva. Afterward, they asked him not to employ force as longs as the IRC was operating in the area. "To this I again refused," the defense minister said. "I gave a clear-cut negative reply. I added that we were aware of the extent of the danger to the passengers should we operate inside the aircraft and that un- less it became essential N4 e would not use force. But if a situa- tion arose where it was considered absolutely essential we (Continued on Page 20i Israel Gaining International Support to Prevent Arab Move Expelling Nation From WHO 5732-1972 France has joined the U S., Canada JERUSALEM tJTAI and several European and Latin American nations in pledging to support Israel against Arab attempts to hate it expelled from the World Health Organization. it was learned here Mondi*. An Arab-inspired resolution that would deprive Israel of voting rights has been drafted but has not yet been submitted to the plenum at the WHO World Conference which opened last week in Geneva. Israeli diplomats throughout the w orld have been trvieg to mobilize support against the discriminatory move. They have reportedly received pledges from several European coun- tries which normally abstain when Middle East resolutions come up at international forums. These countries have accepted Israel's position that politics must he kept out of the delibera- tions of the WHO. Hut the Arabs and their sympathizers can usually muster about 15 votes and the outcome of their move is still uncertain