Commission of Inquiry to Study Cause of Abu Rodeis Oil Fire
was captured during the Six-
The commission's proceed-
ings are secret, but the find-
Day War.
ings and recommendations
At the same time, the com- are to be published at the end
mission of inquiry, set up in of the deliberations, but only
mid-November to study the those aspects which the com-
events leading up to the Yom mission itself deem proper.
Kippur War and the first
stage of fighting, has been
Damage to equipment is meeting twice a day, five
estimated at $6,000,000, and days a week.
some 20,000 barrels of oil
have been going up in flames
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soon after the Sinai peninsula
that the fire was caused when
an Israeli "Hawk" ground-to-
air missile accidentally hit
an oil rig. The missile had
been aimed at an Egyptian
plane flying over the Gulf of
Suez but, instead, homed in
at the oil rig.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A com-
mission of inquiry has been
appointed by the air force to
determine the circumstances
that led to a fire now raging
for 12 days in the offshore
Abu Rodeis oil wells in the
Sinai peninsula.
The commission was or-
dered after the disclosure
Gen. Chaim Herzog
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NEW YORK—Gen. Chaim,
president of ORT Israel and
military commentator on the
Yom Kippur War, will report
e National Conference of
erican ORT Federa-
ti Jan. 25-27 at the Ameri-
can Hotel here, it was an-
nounced by Dr. William Ha-
ber, president.
Other principal speakers
at the organization's 52nd
annual conference will be Dr.
Max A. Braude, director-
general of ORT, and Dr.
Haber.
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