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Kissinger Mission Triumphs

Disengagement Effected

Affirmations in Jerusalem, Damascus and Washington

Four Major Israeli Leaders Out
of Yitzhak Rabin-Formed Cabinet

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By DAVID LANDAU and TUVIA MENDELSON
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier-designate Yitzhak Rabin presented his
new government to Pr e s i d e n t
Ephraim Katzir late Tuesday night
with only 90 minutes to spare be-
fore the expiration of his midnight
deadline. Missing from the new
cabinet are four veteran ministers
who have been associated with
Israel's top leadership for most of
the nation's history. They are Pre-
mier Golda Meir, Foreign Minister
Abba Eban, D e f ens e Minister
Moshe Dayan and Finance Minister
Pinhas Sapir.
The Rabin government, approved
Tuesday by the Labor Party's ex-
ecutive and Knesset faction, must
win a vote of confidence in the
Knesset before it can take office.
The vote probably will be held
Monday, and while parliament is
expected to endorse the Rabin
slate, it may do so only by a very
narrow margin. Every vote will
count. The Rabin government,
based on a narrow coalition of the
Yitzhak Rabin
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Agreement on disengagement of Syrian and Israeli troops on the Golan
Heights was reached Wednesday and was approved by the Israel cabinet.
Announcements of the agreement were made simultaneously in Jerusalem,
Damascus and Washington.
The pact reached as a result of the 32-day arduous tasks of Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger is to be signed in Geneva today.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Nixon announced Wednesday afternoon
that a disengagement agreement has been reached between Israel and Syria to be
signed in Geneva Friday.
He said the announcement was being made simultaneously in Jerusalem
and Damascus. He said the agreement "paves the way for a permanent peace set-
tlement in the entire Middle East area."
Mr. Nixon made the announcement in a brief appearance in the White House
press room shortly after 1 p.m. It was carried on national •television and radio.
The President spoke extemporaneously and did not have a prepared statement. He
said that as a result of the accord, "the
prospects of reaching an agrement on a
Fulbright's Loss
permanent basis are now better than they
have ever been over the past 25 years" in
to Bumpers Seen
the Middle East.
Nixon said he had sent messages of
as Israel's Gain
congratulations to Premier Golda Meir of
Israel and President Hafez Assad of Syria,
By JOSEPH POLAROFF
complimenting them for their statesman-
JTA Washington Bureau
ship demonstrated by the agreement which
WASHINGTON ( JTA )—Ark ans a s Gov.
Dale Bumpers' winning the Democratic
was "totally without the prospect of a res-
nomination for senator over incumbent
olution a month ago."
J. William Fulbright by a nearly 2-1
President Nixon had warm praise for
margin in Tuesday's primary was seen
Kissinger, whose 32 days of personal
here today as indirectly indicating gains

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Soviet Jews' Plight
Focus of Lansing
'Solidarity Sunday'

U.S. Intervening
for Vitali Rubin,
Rep. Esch Reports

Jewish communities from through-
,ut the state of Michigan will be rep-
resented Sunday—Solidarity Day for
Soviet Jewry—in a program at 3:30
p.m. on the steps of the State Capitol
in Lansing.
Key speakers will include Gov. Mil-
liken, U. S. Senator William Brock of
Tennessee, District Attorney Eugene
Gold of Brooklyn, Student Struggle for
Soviet Jewry national spokesman Den-
nis Prager and Sister Dorothy Folliard
of the Interfaith Council for Soviet
Jewry.
Solidarity Sunday has been desig-
nated as a nationwide effort to show
the Soviet Union that the plight of
Soviet Jews has the concern and sup-
port of the American people. National
Solidarity Sunday, coordinated by the
National Conference on Soviet Jewry,
has drawn the backing of many mem-
bers of Congress.

WASHINGTON (JTA)—A Michigan
congressman has disclosed that the
U. S. has requested the Soviet Union
to grant an exit visa to Prof. Vitali
Rubin, a Moscow Jewish activist who
has a standing invitation to teach
classical Chinese culture at Columbia
University in New York. Rep. Marvin
Esch, a Republican, said he had as-
surances from U. S. Ambassador Wal-
ter Stoessel in. Moscow that the re-
quest had been made.
Prof. Rubin, a specialist in. Chinese
history and philosophy, joined two
friends in a hunger strike in Moscow
earlier this year to protest harass-
ment by Russian authorities: Esch
and Robben Fleming, president of the
University of Michigan, had sent a
joint letter to Prof. Rem. Khokholov,
president of Moscow State University,
expressing concern over Soviet refusal
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