Fairness Urged of ICAO as Assembly Convenes

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resolution condemning Israel
for the Lebanese airliner in-
terception did not provide for
any sanction.
The paper cited the follow-
ing Lebanese-based terrorist
actions against civil aviation:
Attacks on El Al flights in
1968, 1969, 1970; hijacking
of two flights in 1969, 1970;
hijackings of Swissair, Pan-
Am and BOAC flights in
1970; the mid-air destruction
of a Swissair flight in 1970;
mass murder at Tel Aviv Air-
port in 1972; and hijacking
of a Lufthansa plane in 1972.
It also cited the prolonged
detention of hijacked planes
and passengers by Algeria
in _ 1968-69; the failure of
ptian authorities to pre-
v\,..."c terrorists from blowing
up a hijacked Pan-Am jet in
Cairo in 1970; the detention
of two Israelis by Syria after
a hijacked plane was landed
in Damascus in 1969; and
Libya's forced landing of a
BOAC flight and its seizure
of two passengers who were
handed over to Sudan for
execution.
"The obstruction so far by
Arab countries of any efforts
by ICAO and by the United
Nations General Assembly to
eradicate terrorism against
civil aviation, as well as the
readiness of some other
countries to allow criminals
to go free after apprehen-
sion, left Israel no choice
but to try and curb air ter-
rorism by what, in the cir-
cumstances, was definitely a
measure of an exceptional
nature of legitimate self-
defense," the embassy paper
said.
Ambassador Lewis Hoff-
backer, head of the working
group of President Nixon's
cabinet committee to combat
terrorism, expressed hope
that the ICAO will "look at
the whole picture and gen-
eral enforcement proce-
dures" against air piracy.
He made the remark after
reporting. at a press briefing

,

that international political
terrorism, backed by new
sources of finance and sup-
ported by governments sym-
pathetic to terrorist groups,
is increasing and seems to
be moving into the United
States. Hoffbacker declined
to identify either the sources
or the governments.
The ICAO agreed in Rome
to debate the Israeli seizure
of the Lebanese airliner and
to discuss measures against
hijackings by states as op-
posed to such acts by indi-
viduals. The debate on the
Aug. 10 incident was request-
ed by Lebanon with the
backing of all Arab states.
The news briefing by Hoff-
backer followed the explo-
sion of a letter bomb at the
British Embassy in Wash-
ington Monday which sever-
ed the left hand and severely
wounded the right hand of
Nora Murray, a 51-year-old
secretary. In the course of
the briefing, Hoffbacker also
referred to the unsolved July
1 murder of Col. Yosef Alon,
the naval and air attache of
the Israeli Embassy here.
Hoffbackor said that in
the year since the Presi-
dent's cabinet committee was
formed after the Sept. 5, 1972,
massacre of 11 Israeli Olym-
pic athletes in Munich, 195
letter bombs have been
mailed internationally and
seven of them have been in-
tercepted in the U. S.
Hoffbacker said measures
to stem terrorist activities
include mandatory visa re-
quirements for the approxi-
mately 600,000 foreigners
who visit the U.S. each year.
He said the 10-day visa ex-
emption heretofore allowed
foreign visitors is no longer
valid. Twelve persons were
refused entry to the U. S.
and four cases are under re-
view, he said.
The Israeli Association of
Air Traffic Controllers join-
ed the Israeli Association of
Pilots in dissociating them-
selves from the interception

Written Constitution for Israel
Suggested by Attorney-General

JERUSALEM (JTA)—At- that the Soviet Union had a
torney General Meir Sham- written constitution that did
gar suggested that Israel not protect its citizens' rights.
should start drafting a writ-
ten constitution.
Technion Dedicates
Addressing the second in-
ternational convention of Engineering Plant,
Jewish lawyers and jurists, Glass Workshop
Shamgar said a constitution
HAIFA — The Sylvia and
was necessary because of the Alexander Hassan Chemical
changed legislative and polit- Engineering Pilot Plant was
ical needs of the nation since dedicated here as a project
its establishment 25 years of the Washington chapter of
ago.
the American Technion Soci-
He said, however, that a ety. Construction was made
constitution could not be writ- possible by Mr. and Mrs. Al-
ten overnight and would take exander Hassan of Washing-
time to draft.
ton.
Israel's cehmical and allied
'roposals for a written
industries
account for an an-
,stitution were made in
the early days of the State. nual production of almost half
They were defeated largely of Israel's industrial turn-
by the Orthodox religious over.
The Zimmerman Glass
parties which claimed that
the only written law for Jews Blowing Workshop also was
dedicated at the Technion in
was the Torah.
the presence of Mr. and Mrs.
Shamgar's proposal indi- Reuben Zimmerman and fam-
cated an intention in some ily of Montreal.
quarters to renew the debate.
The Zimmerman W o r k-
But Lord Diplock of the shop, located in the Canada
British delegation maintained Building of the department
that a written constitution of chemistry, produces much
was unnecessary and noted of the intricate glass instru-
that Britain got along with- mentation required by vari-
out one very well.
ous laboratories on the Tech-
"Individual rights are de- nion campus.
The ancient art of glass
termined by the political at-
mosphere and not by written production originated on the
law," he observed. On the Phoenician coast only a few
other .hand, he pointed out miles north of Haifa.

of the Lebanese airliner Aug.
10.
A letter to this effect was
sent to the International
Federation of Air Traffic
Controllers' main office in
London.
The letter requested that
the Air Traffic Controllers
Association's stand be made
known to all members of the
federation.
The Dutch government pro-
tested to the Israeli Em-
bassy in the Hague against
Israel's "illegal intercep-
tion" of the Lebanese air-
liner.
A government statement
said the interception "could
not be approved under any
circumstances."
The Dutch Civil Aviation
Pilots Association also issued
a protest.
Holland is generally known
as one of the countries
friendliest to Israel.
Dayan: Protecting Israeli
Lives More Important
Than World Opinion
JERUSALEM (JTA)—De-
fense Minister Moshe Dayan
said that protecting the lives

of Israelis was more im-
portant that world opinion.
Dayan, addressing the sec-
ond International Congress
of Jewish Lawyers and
Jurists, was referring to the
Security Council's unanimous
condemnation of Israel's
Aug. 10 interception of a
Lebanese airliner.
"I do pay attention to
world public opinion but we
have to take into considera-
tion some practical matters
such as the defense of our
children," Dayan said.
"We cannot rely on the
Arab terrorists to observe
the law," he declared.
"Neither can we rely on the
Lebanese government or any
other government to bring
the terrorists to court."
Israel, Dayan said, had to
decide whether to protect the
lives of its people and other
people or surrender to the
terrorists "because t h e
world doesn't like what we
are doing."

None preaches 'better than
the ant, and she says nothing.
—Benjamin Franklin

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