Affectionate Henry: Kissed by Egyptians but Not by Abba Eban TEL AVIV JTA) — Israelis tend to hide their emotions in public while Arabs are prone to display their feelings. And thereby hangs a tale. U. S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger told Israeli leaders that Arabs are smoochier than Israelis when they greet foreign diplomats, or, 2t least, Kissinger. Kissinger, who was in good spirits during a reception given in his honor by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and his wife, explained why he "was selling out Israel." The 100 guests at Dayan's home listened eagerly. "You know why I am selling you out? Because in every Arab capital I am met by the foreign minister who welcomes with loud kisses on both cheeks. But here Abba Eban has never given me the least little kiss." One wag at the party whispered: "maybe that's =cause Eban is really a Litvak." Tribute to Holland and Expose of Church Bias HE JEWISH NEWS Histadrut's Afro-Asian Institute Commentary Page 2 Vol. LXVI. No. 19 A Weekly Review . of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper 441Eal" 17515 W. 9 Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 356-8400 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c Kissinger's Approaches to Peace and Need to Beware of Truth Distortions Editorial Page 4 January 18, 1974 'Shuttling Diplomacy Remains Hopeful, May Revert to Geneva 30 Israelis Killed, 119 Wounded Since Cease Fire Orders TEL AVIV (JTA)—Military sources dis- closed Wednesday that 30 Israeli soldiers have been killed and 119 wounded during the period Oct. 27, 1973-Jan. 15, 1974 in which the cease fire has been in effect. The greatest number of casualties — 24 dead and 90 wounded — occurred on the Egyptian front. The toll on the Syrian front was six killed and 29 wounded. Transport Minister Shimon Peres said that the Egyptian cease-fire violations, a "mini-war of aggression," must be stopped, hopefully by political means and not by war. Discussing the situation on the Suez Canal front, Peres told a radio interview that a claim by Likud that the Egyptians had moved long-range anti-aircraft SAM missiles to the east bank of the canal would not surprise him as both sides were trying to improve their positions. . Some military sources expressed doubt about the Egyptian move but indicated that it is quite possible that at a later stage the Egyptians would set up SAM missile posi- tions and sites on the canal's east bank. LONDON (JTA) — According to uncon- firmed reports here the USSR has sent some advisers and experts, including East Ger- mans, to Syria since the end of the war to aid in maintaining and operating new Soviet weapons in Syria. BULLETIN A joint communique from Egypt, Israel, the United States and the Soviet Union was due to be issued Thurs- day afternoon—when this issue will have gone to press—on the negotiations agreement. Apparently the announce- ment of the decision was delayed by the snow that snarled Jerusalem traffic and prevented a meeting between Dr. Henry Kissinger and Prime Minister Golda Meir. Indications are that an agreement has been reached between the contending parties. By DAVID LANDAU, JTA Jerusalem Bureau Chief, and YITZHAK SHARGIL, JTA Tel Aviv Correspondent JERUSALEM (JTA) — Henry M. Kissinger's "shuttle diplomacy" seemed to have ended Thursday after a week's discussions with Israeli and Egyptian leaders. While Kissinger exuded optimism over the prospects for an Israeli-Egyptian agreement on disengagement of forces on the Suez Canal and stressed repeatedly both here and at Aswan that the gap between the two sides has been substantially narrowed, there were hints that unresolved issues would revert to Geneva where the Israeli and Egyptian military teams negotiating disengagement are scheduled to resume their meetings Jan. 25. Prospects for an agreement are greatly enhanced as a result of the narrowing of differences achieved by Kissinger. His aides expressed confidence that the progress made so far would not be lost in the Geneva negoti- ations. Political sources here disclosed Wednesday that when the Geneva talks adjourned they had reached an impasse. What Geneva had achieved did not go beyond agreement on a number of "principles of disengagement" but the effects of Kissinger's personal mediation efforts this week has been, in the American view, to move the negotiations from principles to substance, the sources said. Kissinger, arriving in Aswan Wednesday afternoon for further talks with President Anwar Sadat, said "the gap is narrowing" in his efforts to achieve a disengagement agreement. In Moscow, Wednesday, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko reaffirmed Russian support for Egypt and the Arab cause in the Mideast. (In Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy said he would be visiting Moscow as soon as Secretary Kissinger leaves Egypt.) The cabinet, which met for 90 minutes Tuesday night at the home of ailing Premier Golda Meir, issued no statement on the progress of the disengagement negotiations. The cabinet reportedly will make no decisions until Dr. Kissinger was to return from Egypt, probably Thursday, and reports President's Sadat's response . to Israel's latest proposals. When he left Ben-Gurion (Lod) Airport for Egypt at noon Wednesday, Kissinger had praise for the serious manner in which both Israelis and Egyptians were conducting the negotiations. But he admitted that the talks were very difficult. "As you know, we had very long, very detailed and very constructive talks," he told reporters. Author of Pamphlet IT rging Egyptians to Kill Prisoners Appointed Envoy to Britain LONDON (JTA)—A storm is brewing here over the foreign office's anticipated acceptance of Gen. Saad el-Shazly as the new vptian ambassador to Britain. Informed sources told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that approval of Shazly's appointment is expected despite the general's known association with British neo-Nazis when he served in Lon- don as a military attache in 1963 and the recent revelation that he was the author of a pamphlet issued to Egyptian troops dur- ing the -Yom Kippur War exhorting them to kill captured Israeli soldiers. JTA was told that the foreign office wants to avoid what it describes as a major political row with Egypt even though it is "somewhat annoyed" with Cairo for having announced the de- signation of Shazly before his accreditation was confirmed, a move contrary to standard diplomatic practice. The foreign office had refused to confirm or deny that Shazly was the Egyptian ambassador-designate even after the news was out in Cairo. But on Friday, a foreign office spokesman finally admitted that an application for accreditation of Shazly had been received from the Egyptian government. The announcement prompted Michael Fidler, a Conservative MP and past president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, to send a letter of protest to Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home. The text of Fidler's letter said in part: "It would be infamous if Gen. Shazly, with his record 11 years ago in London of close association with the National Socialist Movement and/or other (ContinuM on Page 5) (Continued on Page 10) Gur to Command in Golan; Geneva Role is Vacated Egypt's Military Elite Fears a Peace Treaty More Than Losing a War, Expert Says TEL AVIV (JTA)—Maj. Gen. Modechai Gur, head of the Israeli military team that has been nego- tiating for a disengagement agree- ment with the Egyptians at Gen- eva, has been appointed corn- (Continued on Page 5) JERUSALEM—"The Egyptian ruling elite controls the coun- try's wealth not only as private owners of estates, enterprises and buildings, but through its political hold on the nationalized economy." Prof. Gabriel Baer, Hebrew Universiy professor of the his- tory of Muslim countries, so stated in a paper presented at a seminar Jan. 4 at the Van Leer Institute. The paper is on a study made by Prof. Baer in collabora- tion with Matti Steinberg, a research student, on varying interests of significant groups of Egyptian (and other Arab) society in a peace settlement with Israel. The study was conducted before the Yom Kippur War, but Prof. Baer believes that the views are still valid. Prof. Baer not only is regarded as one of Israel's foremost experts on Egypt, but also was acclaimed by Egyptian editor Muhammed Hasanein Heykal for having written the outstanding studies on Egyptian landownership and guilds (AI-Ahram, June 8., 1973). Egypt interests, or According to Prof. Baer. there are imaginary interests, which operate against a peace treaty, but also - considerations working in the opposite direction." Describing the Egyptian ruling elite, he said that while key positions under the old regime (up to 1952) were held by land- owner-capitalists and their families and associates, the adminis- tration and the economy today are directed by people originating from various groups, though these strata are not middle class in the European sense. (Continued on Page 46)