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approved the air force de-
cision to force the Libyan
plane to land. The poll, con-
ducted in all of Israel's ma-
jor cities, registered 23.7 per
cent disapproval and 3.8 per
cent no opinion.

The bodies of the French
pilot and two French crew
members of the Libyan Boe-
ing 727 were flown to Paris
Tuesday morning in an Air
France plane after brief cere-
monies at Lod Airport.
French ambassador Fran-
cois /lure and the French
military attach e, accom-
panied by Israeli military
officers and El Al and Air
France personel, stood with
bowed heads as a priest read
a psalm and the coffins,
draped in the French tri-
color. were place aboard the
plane. In addition to Capt.
Jacques Bourge, the pilot, the
other victims were a flight
engineer surnamed Nodeene
and a hostess, surnamed
Jeanaut. All were Air France
employes on loan to the
Libyan airline.

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closed to civilian aviation.
Cabinet sources explained
later that Israel had notified
the International Civil Avia-
tion Authority (ICAO), to
which Libya belongs of all
the closed military areas in
Israel and the occupied ter-
ritories.

One Minister suggested
that an Israeli quasi-judicial
commission of inquiry be es-
tablished, not, he explained,
because he had any doubts
about the propriety of the Air
Force action, but because
he thought such a commis-
sion would help to placate
international opinion. After
some discussion the Cabinet
rejected this idea.

French Ambassador Fran-
cois Hun. called on Israeli
Foreign Minister Abba Eban
to request once more that
French observers be included
in any inquiry. The ambassa-
dor left the meeting profess.
ing himself satisfied. This is
iterpreted to mean that Eban
told him of the cabinet's deci-
sion to make all information
available and this was suf-
ficient.
• • •

(A report from Cairo said
Egypt was making a strenu-
ous effort to restrain Libya
from retaliatory violence
against Israel. According to
western sources, the Egyp-
tians who regard Col. Qad-
dafi Libya's president, as
headstrong a n d unpredict-
able, fear that a violent act
of retaliation would cancel
out a propaganda victory for
the Arab cause and set back
Egypt's latest diplomatic of-
fensive for a Middle East
peace settlement. The nearly
total public and private si-
lence of the usually out-
spoken Qaddafi has made
Egyptian officials more ap-
prehensive, the source said.)

Aviation Editor Refers
to 'Clumsy' Piloting
AMSTERDAM (JTA)—The
aviation affairs editor of the
Dutch liberal daily "Ilandels-
blad," commenting on the
Libyan plane disaster, called
the pilot 'extremely clumsy"
in his handling of the plane.
A sandstorm, the editor said,
may well have hindered a
normal landing, but since a
sandstorm has "no influence"
over a height of 3 kilom-
eters, it could hardly have
affected the plane's naviga-
tion instruments.

Israel To Pay Families
of Libya Plane Victims
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
cabinet decided to pay cash
sums to the families of the
106 Libyan airplane victims
who died Wednesday when
the plane entered Israel-
occupied air space and was
as
brought down by Israeli fight-
ers. The cabinet communique
pointedly avoided the word
"compensation" w h i c h, it
was explained would imply
restitution for a wrong which
Israel does not ad, nut having
done.

PARIS (JTA)—A wave of
anti-Semitism broke out in
Nice on the French Riviera
following the Libyan airline
tragedy. Slogans saying
"Death to Jews," ' Light up
the Ovens," and "S even
Frenchmen Have Been
Killed, Seven Jews Will be
Assassinated" appeared on
the walls of synagogues, on
the doors of the French Jew-
ish welfare association
(FSJU), the French United
Jewish Appeal (AUJF), and
on the fronts of Jewish-owned
businesses.

• • •

The government announced
its readiness to make un-
specified payments to the
families of the victims "in
deference t o humanitarian
considerations," the commu-
nique stated.

The cabinet decided not to
open a commission of inquiry
into the plane mishap and de-
clared itself satisfied with
the internal army investiga-
tion which was held over the
wekend.

Chief of Staff Gen. David
Elazar reported to the Minis-
ters on the findings of this
inquiry. The cabinet ex-
pressed once more "Israel's
profnund sorrow over the
death of the passengers. They
died in the terrible disaster
which occurred under cir-
cumstances of belligerency
and incessant threats of acts
of terrorism from the air."

The cabinet stated that the
Air Force had acted in com-
pliance wtih international law
when it forced the plane to
land and noted that Israel
had informed all states that
its front - line deployments
near the Suez Canal were

•

• •

'Death to Jews' Demand
Follows Plane Disaster

Jewish community leaders
met with police and with the
mayor on Friday. In a com-
munique, they "deplored the
haste with which certain
groups have revealed their
violent anti-Semitic feelings
by calling for the murder of
French citizens."

In Paris, a leading Jewish
personality told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that he
hoped the incident was "just
a local one, which will not
spread." He added, however,

findings of the propose d
international investigation.

that the Jewish community
should be "vigilant."

•

• •

Gen. David Elazar, army
chief of staff, said he as-
sumed full responsibility for
the decision to bring down
the airliner, He said "under
the suspicious circumstances
of that moment, I thought
then and I am sure of it now
that the evaluation and deci-
sion to force the plane down
were justified." He added
that "knowing then what we
know now, we would not have
given the order to force the
plane down by use of fire."

Sisco: Despite Tragedy,
Prospects for M.E. Talks
Continue to Improve
WASHINGTON (JTA)—De-
spite the Libyan airliner
tragedy, the international at-
mosphere has improved for
further progress in establish-
ing "a process for negotia-
tion" in the Middle East,
said Joseph J. Sisco, assist-
ant secretary of state for
Near Eastern and South
Asian affairs.
Appearing on CBS-TV
"Face the Nation," he point-
to the "utmost restraint" by
Arab leaders since the inci-
dent, President Nixon's "very
useful discussion" with Jor-
dan's King Hussein Feb. 6
and the "cordial, frank dis-
cussion" conducted by Secre-
tary of State William P.
Rogers and Deputy Secretary
Kenneth Rush with flafez
Ismail, Egyptian - President
Sadat's special emissary.
Sisco said Ismail "made an
effective presentation of the
Egyptian position" in Wash-
ington last Friday.

Elazar insisted there was
no knowledge that there were
passengers aboard the plane.
Ile noted that the airliner
"had managed to come
through the Egyptian air de-
fenses without being hit or
even being warned, thus
giving the impression that
the plane was crossing into .
Israeli-held territory in co-
ordination with the Egyptian

CBS reporter Robert Pier-
point asked Sisco whether the
United States would continue
to supply weapons to Israel
from the half billion dollar
pipeline earmarked for
Israel. Sisco replied that the
issue of continuing weapons
to Israel to maintain the
arms balance in the Mid East I
would he discussed with Is-
raeli Premier Golda Heir
when she visits Washington
this week.

Mrs. Meir is to appear on
Face the Nation next Sunday,
CBS announced.

Sisco said that the Libyan
airliner crash "reflected the
deep distrust in the Middle
East" and is "a cogent re-
minder—if we need a cogent
reminder—that, as President
Nixon has said, we must get
this situation (in the Middle
East) off dead center." Sisco
added that "this is a time for
private diplomacy" to ex-
plore the views of all parties
and that this will be the focus
of talks with Mrs. Meir.
• • •

World Air Transport Body
Head Urges Inquiry

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Knut
Ilammarskjold, secretary
general of the International
Air Transport Association,
proposed an international in-
quiry commission on the
downing of the Libyan air-
liner. Hammarskjold, who is
in Israel this week, made
the proposal in a cable to
Mordechai Ben Ari, general
director of El Al and a mem-
ber of IATA. Hammarskjold
also suggested
an inter-
national conference to dis-
cuss means of preventing
such tragedies in the future,
a conference based on the

The data from the black
box gave a dramatic recital
of the consistency with which
the Cairo ground control fed
the airliner pilot with incor-
rect information as to his
position. Dayan told the
press conference he could not
understand how a competent
airline captain could mistake
Israeli Phantoms for MIGs
and the Israeli markings for
Egyptian,

Commenting on the meet-
ing Friday between Nixon
and Secretary of State Wil-
liam P. Rogers and the spe-
cial Egyptian emissary,
llafez Ismail, Rabin said: "If
Mr. Ismail did not bring with
him concrete proposals on
how to make further prog-
ress toward a political solu-
tion through negotiations
among the parties beyond
past Egyptian proposals, I
am doubtful that the visit of
Mr. Ismail will have any im-
pact on the Prime Minister's
• forthcoming visit."

•

• •

Gur Says Similar Tragedy
May Reoccur As Long As
Mid East Conflict Continues
MIAMI BEACH (JTA) —
Maj. Gen. Mordehai Gur,
military attache at the Is-
rael Embassy in Washington,
told some 600 persons attend-
ing the Jewish National Fund
Foundation Assembly here
that "a repetition of an inci-
dent similar to the Libyan
plane tragedy may reoccur
as long as the Middle East
conflict continues."

In view of this, Gur stated
Israel could not afford to
take risks that might involve
the destruction of large num-
bers of Israeli citizens.
In Tel Aviv, Transport

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Gen. Mordehai Hod, the
defense system."

Air Force commander , said
his flyers were caught in a
"terrible dilemma," but after
evaluating the situation in
the short time at their dis-
posal, they had to act as they
did. He added "We could not
have taken such a combina-
tion of errors into account."

further atrocities would be
launched against Israel and
six terrorists attempts in re-
cent weeks against Jews in
Europe.

"errors and unpredictables"
that led to the disaster that
took the lives of 106 passen-
gers.
Gur enumerated the events
as "pilot error in straying
so far off course, the inex-
plicable failure of the Cairo
air tower to guide the pilot,
the flight over a heavily for-
tified area, the fact that the
plane was only six minutes
from Eilat, the fact that the
plane might be a kamikaze
operation to drop explosives
over an Israeli city, the re-
fusal of the pilot to follow
instructions and the inability
of the Israeli pilots to de-
tect any signs of passengers
aboard the airliner since all
the shades were drawn."
The Israeli military attache
added that the tragedy took
place against the backdrop
of terrorist warnings that

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