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Schlesinger: Israel's Need for Arms Mounts With Loss of Territory

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Schlesinger, responding to
questions from subcommittee
chairman Daniel Inouye (D.,
Hawaii), said there was no
"sizable imbalance" at pres-
ent in the military strength
between Israel and her Arab
neighbors.
Pointing to the Israeli with-
drawals in the Suez and Gol-
n Heights and "prospects of
irther disengagement" in the
Suez sector, Schlesinger said
"This would reduce the terri-
torial protection relied upon
by Israel."
"The Israelis may regard
additional equipment com-
pensatory for the loss of ter-

ritory in the disengage-
ments," Schlesinger said. Ad-
justment of levels of military
equipment for the long-term
is to "provide Israel with
confidence that somewhere in
the world there will •be a sup-
plier of equipment."
"These larger political ob:
jectives form the basis of our
policy" to provide continued
security for Israel, Schles-
inger said. He noted that the
flow of support to Israel
ceased during the Yom Kip-
pur War from other countries
for "political reasons." The
aid stopped abruptly with the
oil embargo.
Israeli Defense Minister
Shimon
Peres is in Washing-
Afraid of the High Cost
ton meeting with top U. S.
Of TV Repairs??
officials, including Schlesin-
Call
ger, on the long-term aid pro-
gram. He had met Monday
night with Secretary Henry
Kissinger. Estimates, how-
ever, on the extent of the
For
experienced reliable-
program discussed were not
service at reasonable prices. available.
No charge for in home esti-
Inouye suggested that the
mates.
U. S. program for Israel is

"in excess" or $6,000,000,000
for the first five years. Schle-
singer replied that "the size
cannot be determined today."
When Inouye countered
"When will the Congress
know?" Schlesinger respond-
ed, "That's between the sec-
retary of state and Con-
gress."
Schlesinger said that of the
$2,200,000,000 emergency fund
for Israel, $1,000,000,000 was
"forgiven" in April, a credit
of $500,000,000 was made on
June 3, and an additional
$700,000,000 was "recently"
signed as a credit. Congress
had authorized the President
to grant up to $1,500,000,000
as a gift to Israel.
According to a story in the
New York Times Magazine
Kissinger and Schlesinger
clashed over giving military
aid to Israel during the Yom
Kippur War.
CBS reporters Bernard and
Marvin Kalb, in a forthcom-
ing book and excerpted in the
magazine, said Kissinger
tried to carry out presidential
orders to aid Israel but was
met with Pentagon resistance
during the first week of the
B Y OR LEASE FROM war.
The Times, in its news
pages, said both Kissinger
and Schlesinger denied it.
Kissinger said "there were
occasional differences in em-
phasis between the defense
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Schlesinger told the Times
that the resupply efforts were
intentionally delayed during
the first week of the Arab-
Israeli war because the Is-
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raelis assured U. S. officials
they were winning and the
administration feared risking
an Arab oil cutoff.
When the war did not go as
well for Israel, as first
thought, aid was increased
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and the Arabs imposed an oil
embargo.
In Tel Aviv, Chief of Staff
Gen. Mordechai Gur warned
Wednesday that Israel could
expect long-range missile at-
tacks if it went to war again
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"will reach us and explode."
He said, however, that Is-
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clare war if certain condi-
tions develop. "This is im-
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to the world. It is important
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which we will Aieclare war in lay Israel's rears of the deal
the event that certain condi- and placate its anger at not
tions evolve., remains open," having been informed, told
he said in an interview broad- Foreign Minister Yigal Allon
cast by the armed services that a "bureaucratic mis-
take" had led to the U. S.
radio.
Gen. Gur said attacks by failure to inform Israel last
ground - to - ground missiles week of the impending inclu-
would probably be the open- sidif of the nuclear deal in
ing gambit of any new war. the Nixon-Sadat joint com-
He observed that the Rus- munique.
The Secretary stressed that
sians, who supplied Egypt
and Syria with such missiles, effective controls would ap-
may very well succeed in im- ply to the supply of uranium
proving the accuracy of the to Egypt. To justify the deal
Scud and Frog missiles. he told Israeli leaders that
"Thus, with the increase in Germany, Britain, France
the number of men in uni- and Canada—as well as Rus-
form and with the improve- sia—had been waiting in line
ment in the quality of arms, for the chance to sell Egypt
we have to consider a defi- a reactor.
In effect, he said, reactors
nite new dimension of some
sort to the air-ground cam- could be bought from any of
these countries on the open
paign," he said.
He said Israel had the an- market, with far fewer con-
swer to ground-to-ground mis- trol strings attached.
Kissinger observed the U.
siles attack in its air force,
but -the answer is not an ab- S. decision must be seen not
solute one. He also said that in the context of present
Israel pilots retained their technology but in the six-
superiority over Arab pilots. eight years that it takes to
construct the reactor. In that
Gen. Gur said Israel ex- period there would be incen-
pected to receive the most tives for "moderate behavior
sophisticated aircraft but did and constructive action," he
not specify what kind. "Once said.
the means which we are in-
Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D.,
terested in purchasing arrive, W. Va.), said he doubted the
we shall be able to complete wisdom of giving nuclear re-
the circle," he said.
actors to other countries such
U. S. Rushing Contracts
as Egypt when the United
With Egypt for Nuclear
States itself has not been able
Reactor to Beat Deadline
to develop them very well for
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A peaceful use.
He made his ocmments af-
four-member Egyptian scien-
tific group led by the head of ter congressional leaders
the Egyptian Atomic Energy emerged from a two-hour
Commission arrived in Wash- meeting at the White House
ington to negotiate a con- in which they were briefed
tract with the United States on President Nixon's Middle
for the acquisition of nuclear East trip by the President
and Secretary of State Henry
fuel.
State Department spokes- A.-Kissinger.
Sen. William Proxmire (D.,
man Robert Anderson said
the contracts should be Wis.), introduced legislation
signed by Sunday `.`because that would prohibit the U. S.
of the long lead time to sup- government from shipping
atomic power plants and nu-
ply this fuel."
He noted that Sunday is the clear fuel to Egypt and Israel
end of the current fiscal year without prior approval of
and that the U. S. Atomic both the Senate and House.
Energy Commissions regu- "Some extraordinary ques-
lations will create a delay of tions have not been an-
a year if it is signed after swered," Proxmire said after
that date. Asked whether Is-' introducing his measure.
A similar move by Rep.
rael will be able to obtain
a similar contract by the end Mario Biaggi (D., N. Y.) was
of the month, Anderson said . defeated by voice vote in the
the Israeli government has House.
Frank Barnaby, chairman
already been shown a draft
of the Swedish Institute for
contract.
Peace Research (SIPRI),
Secretary of State Henry said the U. S. 'agreement to
A. Kissinger told Israeli lea- provide Egypt with American
ders that he had beeen under nuclear technology was "a
the (mistaken) impression danger to peace in the fu-
that Israel was aware of the ture."
U. S.-Egyptian negotiations
SIPRI, in its new year book
for Egypt's purchase of a nu- states the Middle East is now
clear reactor, negotiations the world's largest arms de-
which had been proceeding pot.
since the spring, the JTA
Barnaby said that 86 per
learned from highly placed cent of Soviet arms produc-
sources in Jerusalem.
tion and 68 per cent of Amer-
Kissinger said he had as- ican arms production was
sumed his •top assistant, Un- earmarked for that region.
dersecretary of State Joseph
Gen. (Ret.) Ariel Sharon,
J. Sisco, or Sisco's deputy, whose division in Sinai
Roy Atherton, had mentioned smashed through Egyptian
it in diplomatic conversa- lines to establish an Israeli
tions with Israeli envoys in bridgehead on the west bank
Washington.
of the Suez Canal last Octo-
The U. S.-Egyptian negotia- ber, told the graduating class
tions were held quite openly at the Haifa Technion that
by an Egyptian delegation in Israel would have no choice
Washington in April, and sen- but to wage preventive war
ior officials believe that Is- if Egypt, within a few years,
raeli intelligence was at fault is on the verge of producing
in not having learned of atomic weapons.
them. This is especially so
This would not be neces-
since stories about the im- sary had the Americans not
pending U. S.-Egypt nuclear agreed to provide Egypt with
accord appeared in two Cairo a nuclear reactor, said Sha-
newspapers in April.
ron, a Likud MK.
Kissinger, who sought dur-
ing the Nixon visit here to al- THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS

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Congressman Chutions U. S.
Not to Plunge Too Deeply
Into Mideast Conflict
WASHINGTON (J T A) —
Rep. Donald Fraser (D.
Minn.) has warned that the
United States must not be-
come involved so deeply with
peace-making efforts in the
Middle East "that we will be
held responsible" if they
failed and led the U. S. to
take on "the role of police-
man of the Middle East."
Fraser is chairman of the
House foreign affairs sub-
committee on international
organizations and movements
which recently heard griev-
ance statements from - pro-
Palestinian American and Is-
raeli witnesses over Israel's
administration of the West
Bank and the Gaza Strip.
He spoke at 50th annivers-
ary ceremonies for the Beth
El Synagogue in St. Louis
Park, Minn.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
termed face-to-face bargain-
ing by the heads of Israel,
Egypt and Syria as the key to
a true settlement in the Mid-
dle East.
Speaking to about 1,000 per-
sons at the 106th annual con-
vention of Bnai Brith District
6, Humphrey lashed out at
the oil-producing states for
their price increases, insisted
that Israel have free access
to the Suez Canal and de-
manded adequate safeguards
to ensure that nations such as
Egypt are prevented from
using nuclear capabilities for
military purposes.
Humphrey questioned whe-
ther the United States should
grant economic or military
aid to those Arab nations that
have enriched themselves
from high oil prices at the
expense of the other coun-
tries.
Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat said in an interview
over CBS News last week that
Egypt plans to ask the U. S.
for $2,000,000,000 in compen-
sation for oil pumped by Is-
rael from the areas of the
Sinai it has held in the Six-
Day War.
Sadat said he had not dis-
cusssed the matter with Pres-
ident Nixon.
Meanwhile, Zuheir •Moh-
sen, leader of the - Syrian-
backed Al Saiqa guerrilla
group, again asked the Arab
people to cut off oil to the
U. S., which he called the No.
1 enemy of hte Arab people.

UOJCA Leadership
Training Center Due

NEW YORK — In response
to nationwide shortage of
qualified Jewish youth lead-
ers to serve the Orthodox
community, the Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congrega-
tions of America will initiate
a central training institute
for synagogue youth leaders
in the fall.
According • to Harold M.
Jacobs, president of the
UOJCA, and Sheldon Rudoff,
chairman of the UOJCA's
youth and campus commis-
sion, the privately endowed
institute will be associated
with some of_the country's
most renowned institutions of
higher Torah learning and
will include a regular sched-
ule of lectures and seminars,
in a co-ordinated curriculum
leading to certification and
the granting of degrees.

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