Willy Brandt Calls for 'Frank,' Ruthless' Inquiry Into Massacre
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nahem Begin demanded that thing possible to protect t •
(erred to keep a low police an all-party commission of hostages' lives.
profile, the Olympic police inquiry should be set, tip to
Mrs. Meir said that Israel
force was trained to handle perform the investigation.
had dispatched "a represen-
Mrs. Meit' said that though tative who occupies a senior
minor disturbances.
Two days before the games the investigation was incom- position in the security serv-
were opened, the German plete, she could already put ices together' with his assist-
government received an in- Vie record straight on sev- ant" to Munich and he had
telligence report that Arab eral matters. When news of arrived there at 10:15 p.m.
terrorists were planning to the attack first came through and had witnessed the air-
strike in Europe. However, last Tuesday, the cabinet de- port shootout. She said his
the Olympic Games were not cided on three basic guide- evidence constituted a vital
lines:
part of the ongoing investi-
mentioned.
1) There would be no ne- gation but stressed that he
A special unarmed force of
was neither asked to advise
2.100 police patrolled inside gotiation with the terrorists:
the Germans nor to approve
the Olympic Village, but only 2) Israel would support any
their
rescue plans. By the
as assistants. The regular German promise to the ter-
time he reached Munich, the
rorists
to
let
them
go
free
if
police force of 150 men had
transfer to the airport was
strict orders not to enter the they released the hostages under way.
unharmed; and 3) Israel re-
village.
lied on Germany to do every-
The senior Israeli security
German Chancellor Willy
Brandt has called for a
"frank" and "ruthless" in-
Pope Assails 'Dishonor' at Munich
quiry into the events.
His statement said: "Only
ROME--Pope Paul VI, addressing pilgrims at
a frank presentation of all
his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, said that
the facts, even if they are
the massacre at the Olympic Games "truly dishonors
painful, will serve Germany's
our time."
interests."
He observed that terrorism "now is becoming
An interim report on the
common, almost fashionable," and he called recent
kutopsies performed on the
episodes of violence a sign "of a great evil, of a
Israeli athletes indicated that
grave suffering of souls that become blind in ex-
all had been shot and four
plosions of vendetta and resentment."
were burned as well.
Earlier, the Pope had conveyed his condolences
In an interview published
and sympathy to the Israelis. To President Zalman
earlier in the Munich news-
Shazar he wrote:
paper Suddeutsche Zeitung,
"With profound sadness in our heart we turn to
Brandt indicated that a board
your excellency, to convey to you our keenest sorrow
of inquiry should be set up in
at the execrable events in Munich and our heartfelt
the Bundestag. "It is my
participation in the mourning of the victims' rela-
deep conviction that we can-
tives."
not allow the impression to
arise anywhere that we have
not put all our cards on the International Aviation Subcommittee
table," he said. He added:
"Shorcomings—and naturally OKs Plan to Fight Air Piracy, Extortion
there are shortcomings in
WASHINGTON—An inter- ecute or extradite hijackers
such a context — cannot be
national eonclay# probing or to return hijacked passen-
✓ concealed."
gers and crews.
Premier Golda Heir told air piracy and extortion re-
Sponsors of the proposal
the Knesset Tuesday that corded an important gain
were the United States, Can-
responsibility for the secur- Wednesday with approval by
ada, Britain and Holland.
ity of Israel's Olympic team a legal subcommittee of a
Opposed to the plan were the
rested with the German au-
thorities, both before and four-nation proposal for Soviet Union, Egypt, Chile
stiffer international action and Tanzania, while Argen-
during the games.
tina, Japan, Israel, Jamaica
She said that the Israeli against hijackings.
and Brazil. supported it.
authorities had been in con-
The International Civil France and Spain abstained.'
tact with the Germans about Aviation Organization (ICAO)
the securityrequirements subcommittee decided by a
necessary to Pro
tect the Is- vote of 9-4 with two absten-
raeli contingent, but the tions that the foundation plan
means adopted had not pre- is ready for presentation to
vented the terrorists from the parent legal committee.
infiltrating into the Israeli
The proposal would per-
building.
Mrs. Meir reminded the mit international sanctions
against
a country which vio-
Knesset that a thorough in-
lates it obligations to pros-
vestigation was now being
carried out into all aspects of
the affair. She he,rself had No Try at Separate
been delegated lay-the cabinet
Monday to supervise the col- Israel-Jordan Talks,
lation of information, and Arab Official Says
she would inform the cabinet
JERUSALEM (JTA)—An-
and the Knesset Foreign Af-
fairs Security Committee of war el Khatib the former
her findings as soon as pos- governor• of the East Jeru-
sible. She promised to inform salem district, said Jordan
the public, too, of all infor- would not make a separate
mation which did not involve settlement with Israel.
security matters, and said
El Khatib, who recently re-
the government would draw turned from a visit to Am-
all the necessary conclusions. man, where he met King
Gahal opposition head Me- Hussein, was commenting on
a statement by the Palestine
Liberation Organization.
In that announcement El
Khatib
was accused of con-
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He emphasized Amman's
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ploying its own personnel to not want to get involved,"
free the hostages since there he said.
Mrs. Meir said that this
simply were not any Israeli
soldiers or sharpshooters in proved that Egypt did not
want to be involved with
Munich.
Mrs. Meit praised King saving human lives.
Hussein and oth,g. Arab lead-
(Related stories
ers who had decried.the mas-
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sacre but assailed the ma
jority of Arab states who
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
welcomed it.
6—Friday, Sept. 15, 1972
She described German
Chancellor Willy Brandt's
futile phone call to Cairo in
IF YOU TURN THE
which Brandt asked Premier
Other than this last-minute Sidky for permission to land
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
effort, no Israeli conducted in Egypt and for a guarantee
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
negotiations with the terror- that the lives of the hostages
In
the
ab-
be
spared.
would
ists, said Mrs. Meir, nor in-
deed was Israel asked to take sence of President Anwar
part in the negotiations. The Sadat, who would not take
negotiations were conducted the call, Sidky replied that,
by authorities in the name of regretfully, his government
could not intervene. "We do
the German government.
Mrs. Meir said that after
the shootout, when German
radio and TV were broad-
casting happy tidings, Is-
rael's ambassador in Ger-
many, Eliashiv Ben Horin,
warned the government not
to believe the reports until
they were reliably confirmed
after the whole operation
had ended.
Returning to the waiting
period earlier that Tuesday,
the premier stressed that
neither the German govern-
ment nor any other political
body had asked Israel to
accede to the terrorists' de-
mands. She said she again
thanked Germany for not
knuckling under to- black-
mail, using force as a last
resort. •
Late in the afternoon, Ger-
many bad informed Israel of
the rescue plan, explaining
that there was no chance of
freeing the hostages by ne-
gotiation or of attacking the
kidnapers in the Olympic
Soles • Service
village. The Israel 'govern-
ment was not asked to ap-
on all makes
prove the plan, Mrs. Meir
added. She said there was
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ricer on y acted during the
final stage of the tragedy,
after the shooting had begun.
He suggested to the Germans
that his assistant be allowed
to speak to the terrorists in
Arabic. The Germans agreed.
and the Israeli explained to
the terrorists that their fate
was sealed and they had bet-
ter throw down their arms,
free the hostages and accept
the promise of safe conduct
out of Germany. The ter-
rorists declined.
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