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UN Aviation Agency Council Condemns Israel
Israel's Interception Ascribed
to UN's Failure to Curb Terror
U. S. Pilots Also Endorse Anti-Israel Action
MONTREAL (JTA) —The general council of the International Civil
Aviation Organization on Monday adopted unanimously a resolution con-
demning Israel for intercepting a Lebanese airliner Aug. 10 and forcing
it to land at an Israeli airbase.
The special meeting requested by Lebanon was attended by 28 of
the 30 member nations of the council. Nicaragua and Nigeria were not
present. ICAO, a special agency of the United Nations, has 128 members.
The resolution also recommended that when the ICAO general
assembly meets in Rome Aug. 28 to take steps to protect air travel, it
consider the Israeli "actions."
The ICAO diplomatic conference, which will meet in Rome at the
same time as the general assembly, was urged to "make provisions in its
deliberations for acts of unlawful interference by states."
An ICAO spokesman explained that until recently all acts against
civil aviation were committed by individuals.
The ICAO, council meeting was closed to the press and lasted more
than four hours.
Israeli Consul General David Ephrati said that the ICAO resolution
condemning Israel "could have been expected as an automatic sequence
to the Arab countries' request."
Ephrati stated that the ICAO has consistently failed to adopt any
effective measure to cope with terrorism against civil aviation. It was this
failure, he noted, that led to Israel's interception of the Lebanese airliner
Aug. 10. He described that incident as "definitely a measure of a rare nature
of legitimate self-defense."
Ephrati asserted that "As long as ICAO and other international
agencies, as well as individual states, will not act effectively against Arab
Rogers Resigns;
Kissinger to Be
His Successor
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger was
named U.S. secretary of state
by President Nixon on Wed-
nesday. He will succeed Wil-
liam P. Rogers, whose resig-
nation the President an-
nounced simultaneously with
his presentation of Kissin-
ger's name as his successor.
The nomination of Kissinger
went to the U.S. Senate for
confirmation.
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terrorism, Israel will be obliged, as a last resort, to take measures of self-
defense."
Moufid Abouchacra, representative of Lebanon at the ICAO meet-
ing, told a press conference that his country was "happy with the unanimous
vote" and termed the resolution "a good compromise as there were no sanc-
tions involved now."
However, he added, "we cannot predict what is going to happen in
Rome (when the ICAO general assembly convenes). But we hope that we
may get more efficient measures against Israel. Lebanon was, from the be-
ginning, opposed to sanctions against Israel, but with actions happening
here and there Lebanon may yet change its position." Abouchacra did not
elaborate on what he meant by actions here and there.
Earlier, in Washington, Secretary of State William P. Rogers was
asked by the U.S. Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) to consider taking
steps to suspend Israeli commercial air service to and from the U.S.
unless Israel promises not to repeat interception of an Arab airliner.
In its message to Rogers. ALPA stated that Israel should give
assurance "to the international aviation community that illegal acts such
as those engaged in against an Iraqi commercial airliner over Lebanese
airspace will not occur again."
The ALPA letter to Rogers also stated that if Israeli assurances
are not "forthcoming, the U.S. government should consider the possibility
of suspending commercial air services by Israeli aircraft, to and from the
U.S., until they are obtained."
The letter added that the administration should consider developing
a similar policy to deal with any future violations of international civil
Israeli Cagers Defy Harassment at World
Games in Moscow, Win Over Puerto Rico 77-61
LONDON (JTA) — Mounting harassment that has dogged the 25-member Israeli team participating in
World College Student Olympics in Moscow since the games opened a week ago erupted at a basketball
game Tuesday during which Red Army soldiers ripped two Israeli flags held up by Jewish spectators.
According to sources in the Soviet Union, about 20 Jews were attacked by a crowd as they left the
game. Three Jews were arrested and taken to a police station.
They were identified as Victor Polsky, 43, his 14-year-old daughter Marina and Alexander Yoffe, 16.
The basketball game Tuesday, in which Israel defeated Puerto Rico 77-61, was played in the small
Central Army Club gym. Soldiers, some in uniform and some in sweatsuits, who made up about a quarter of
the crowd, jeered and whistled derisively every time the Israeli players had the ball.
(The Bolshoi Ballet got less than a warm welcome in Detroit Monday night when demonstrators disrupt.
ed a performance at Masonic Temple. See story page 5)
Shouts of "Zhyd" (Jew) rang through the gym when a group of Jewish spectators held up a paper flag
with a blue star of David. It was torn from their grasp and ripped by soldiers in uniform.
There was another brief scuffle during the second half of the game when uniformed soldiers seated in
front of Jews tried to rip another small Israeli flag.
The game was the third in which the Israeli team was the target of apparently organized jeering led
by Russian soldiers and cadets who packed the arena. Jewish sources in Moscow said that Jewish ticket
holders were barred by militia men from entering the arena at the earlier games.
Adin Talbar, head of the Israeli delegation, protested the harassment to the International University
Sports Federation Sunday. The IUSF granted his request to send a member of its executive committee to
"observe that no organized harassment of any kind be allowed." But no IUSF representative was present
at Sunday's game when Israel .played Cuba, and none attended Tuesday's game, .Talbar said.
(In Amstermdam Wednesday, the Dutch "Democrat 1966" Party. a member of the government coali-
tion, appealed to the Netherlands premier and foreign minister to protest to Soviet authorities against
the treatment of Soviet Jews and Israel athletes at the University Games.)
According to sources in the Soviet Union, the Israeli athletes have been kept under virtual house ar-
rest in the Olympic Village. Their telephone is blocked, they are excluded from sightseeing tours and are
not permitted to mingle with the local population.
They said spectators screamed "Zhyd" at Israeli student track star Yuval Wischnitzer when he took
the lead in the 500-meter semifinals and may have thrown him off stride. Wischnitzer came in second to
qualify for the Wednesday finals. (Continued on Page 6)
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UJA Begins
Its 1974 Drive
With Big Gifts
WASHINGTON — Forty
American Jewish communi-
ty leaders unanimously com-
mitted themselves to greater
gifts to the 1974 United
Jewish Appeal at an earlier
point in the campaign than
ever before, Paul Zucker-
man, UJA general chairman,
announced on Tuesday.
The Jewish leaders, repre-
senting major U.S. com-
munities, made their com-
mitments during a private
dinner meeting at the home
of Israel Ambassador Simha
Dinitz here, Mcnday.
Detroiters at the dinner
in addition to Zuckerman in-
cluded Irwin I. Cohn a n d
Max M. Fisher.
Their purpose, stated
Zuckerman, was to declare
in a dramatic manner the
urgency o f humanitarian
programs in Israel. These
UJA-funded programs are
designed to aid the continu-
ing influx of Soviet Jewish
immigrants and to help im-
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