• K -••• " wor •• ■ ,." - dew ICAO Ignores Exoneration (Continued From Page 1) Rosenne said the report cited "extreme carelessness and gross negligence" on the part of Libyan and Egyptian air controllers, as well as errors by the crew of the Libyan airliner. The report noted that the plane flew over the Israel air defense zone, lowered its speed enabling it to lower its landing gear and then speeded up, Rosenne con- tinued. He said the report stated that the Israeli air force used accepted international means in attempting to get the plane to land and that the plane was destroyed when it crashed into the ground, not in the air as alleged. Rosenne said the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar Qad- dafi, told a Libyan audience that when Libya realized the airliner was lost, it asked Egypt to send up air force planes to prevent it from straying into Israel-held ter- ritory. Qaddafi said the Egyp- tian air commander said that his planes could not be sent up because of the weather. Rosenne said as a first step to prevent any further such tragedies Israel has installed VHF transmitters at its mil- itary radar stations so that it can make direct contact with civilian airlines. He said what is addition- ally needed is a "hot line" set up between Israel and Egypt. He said one such telephone hookup existed be- tween the Israeli and Jor- danian military commanders in Jerusalem before the Six- Day War and it prevented many incidents. But he noted Egypt rejected a similar pro- posal by Israel as far back as 1951. `Exoneration Should Be Met With Apologies to Israel' LONDON (JTA)—The In- ternational Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) exon- erated Israel for the Libyan airliner disaster that occur- red Feb. 21 over the Sinai. According to a report in Fri- day's "Daily Express, " in advance of the ICAO report's official release date of June 4, the civil aviation group stated that the Israeli pilots "complied with the accepted procedures" to warn the Lib- yan airliner pilot that he should land his craft, "point- ed to the airfield where the airliner could have landed safely" and fired harmlessly at the airliner. According to the Express story, the ICAO report "also exonerates the Israelis from the false charge that they had tampered with the black box of the Libyan aircraft." Libyan and Egyptian offi- cials charged after the trag- edy that Israel had tampered with the plane's recording mechanism to bring it in line with Israel's report that the pilot had been given all ac- ceptable warnings before fir- ing on the plane. The Express science edi- tor, Chapman Pincher, com- menting on the ICAO report, stated: "This report exon- erates the Israelis to such an extent that many countries and organizations which criti- cized the Israelis for an un- provoked act of 'barbarism' will have to do some swift apologizing." The Express story on the report provided the following information: The weather forecast pro- vided in Libya before take- off was below standard. Un- usually high winds in the Cairo area which put the plane off course were not even mentioned in the weather forecast. The beacon at Cairo was not working properly and the Cairo ap- proach control surveillance radar was unserviceable. About 18 minutes after the pilot had deviated from his route and began to get lost, he requested a radar fix from Cairo but never got it. He asked again, and though his message was acknowl- edged, he was never given the fix. About this time a shift change of air traffic con- trollers at Cairo Airport was taking place. When the Cairo controllers eventually cleared the airliner to de- scend for landing, believing it was 15 miles away, the plane was actually crossing, the Gulf of Suez in good visi- bility and entering Israeli- occupied Sinai some 100 miles away. When Cairo in- structed it to descend to 4,000 feet, it was 105 miles away and only 15 miles from an important Israeli defense base and military, airfield. Even when the pilot saw the airfield he was still in touch with Cairo and was so con- vinced that he was near Cairo that he mistook Israeli Phantoms for Egyptian MIGs. The Israelis picked up the plane by radar before it crossed the Gulf of Suez. Phantoms with the Israeli Air Force Magen David Former POW Takes His Own Life (Continued from Page 1) clearly marked on them went Born June 4, 1940, in up. Thus, they complied with Quincy, Mass., he was 25 the accepted procedure. The when his fighter F4C jet was leading Israeli pilot rocked shot down Oct. 18, 1965, over his Phantom's wings which North Vietnam and he was is an order for a suspected captured. He joined the air aircraft to land. The Libyan force in April 1963, the same Boeing pilot did not comply, year that he was graduated and he was still talking to from the Massachusetts In- Cairo Airport about landing stitute of Technology. there. The Israelis repeat- In those 71/2 dreary years edly pointed to the airfield in prison camps, only one where the airliner could have letter was received from his landed safely. But the Boe- wife, Debra, to whom he had ing co-pilot, a Libyan, indi- been married only three cated that he wanted to fly months when he left for straight ahead. The Israelis Southeast Asia. Not more then fired tracer bullets than two letters reached him harmlessly in front of the from his parents, his father Boeing. said. These were seen by both For long periods, he was in pilots of the Boeing. The Is- solitary confinement and no raelis then fired at the Lib- news of any kind was al- yan airliner's starboard wing lowed to be given him. Thus tip without doing serious he wasn't even aware of the damage. When the Boeing Six-Day War until more than still failed to comply they four years afterwards. Like fired at its starboard wing learning about America put- root and this forced the ting men on the moon, the plane to descend, but still news came to him and others under control. The pilot then accidentally. "Sometimes tried to land in the desert Hanoi's propaganda backfired and crashed. The map at- and news they wanted to con- tached to the report not only ceal slipped through," his confirms the Israeli version father said. but shows that the plane was As soon as he was able to even further into Sinai. The leave Westover Air Force report also exonerates the Base in Massachusetts, where Israelis from the false he arrived after his release charge that they had tam- in Hanoi, Capt. Brudno and pered with the block box of his wife vanished to pick up the Libyan aircraft. the threads of their life to- Egypt requested that the gether. "I don't know where meeting he closed to the I they are," Dr. Brudno said news media because the re-1 at the time of the interview. port exonerates Israel and The bride Capt. Brudno had refers to the improper func- ieft behind when he went to tions of the radar equipment was is the daughter of Ber- and beacon at the Cairo I nice and Milton Gitenstein, Airport. a shirt manufacturer. Debra was a teacher in Harrison, It happened once that N.Y., when Brudno returned. while Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi Capt. Brudno was "always was teaching, he smelled gar- very interested in Jewish lic. He said. "Whoever ate culture," his father said. garlic, let him leave the After his Bar Mitzva at Beth room." Whereupon Rabbi Hi- El Synagogue, a Conserva- ya arose and left the room. tive congregation in Quincy, Then all the other disciples he continued in Hebrew arose one after the other and, school. In a letter from him left the room (to prevent the in prison camp that arrived embarrassment of their col- about four years ago, he league).—Talmud. asked his parents for litera- ture to learn more about his heritage. Dr. Brudno said he sent his son the Five Books of Moses, but the prisoner never received them. Dr. Brudno and the of- ficer's youngest brother, Rob- ert, a management consultant in Alexandria, Va., both bit- terly denounced the North Vietnamese a n d expressed strong feelings against Amer ican militants in the end-the- war movement. Robert is a director of the National League of Families of POWs and MIAs (missing in ac- tion). "A lot of hardship for our men came from the anti-war movement," R ob e r t said. "And so many in the fore- front were Jews." "I am sure the Israelis share the same opinion as the POWs . . . that the coun- try must be firm on princ- iples and defend them." Similarly, Dr. Brudno criti- cized "Jewish people in Bos- ton" who led in the peace movement. "They hurt the POWs a great deal," he said. "They did us a lot of harm." - IF YOU TURN THE UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T . FIND A FINER WINE THAN rd, Milan Win•ries, Detroit, Mich. Does Your Child have Trouble LEARNING? e• If he doesn't like to read, has trouble concentrating and if he gets poor grades, there is a way you can help now. The Reading Improvement Center will help your child- ren master their reading skills with individual intensive instruction. JUST CALL READING IMPROVEMENT CENTER FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION 399-0333 SUMMER CLINIC STARTING IN JUNE REGISTER NOW - • Dorothy S. 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