Rabin: Israel Will Seal Borders, Equip Citizens
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Pre-
mier Yitzhak Rabin declared
here Tuesday that Israel
would seek to close off its
borders and thereby prevent
terrorist infiltration, while at
the same time "organizing
the rear, throughout the
depth of the country, to re-
sist any incursions which do
succeed in penetrating the
borders."
Will Provides
Ambulance for
Israel Service
The late Mary Siegel Katz,
shown here with her hus-
band Joseph Katz, specified
in her will that a completely
equipped ambulance was to
be donated to Israel, through
Magen David Adom, Israel's
Red Cross Service. Mr. Katz
has been informed that the
vehicle was placed last week
aboard the SS Hador, bound
for Israel. A former Wash
ington D.C. resident, who now
makes his home here with a
daughter, Mr. Katz noted
that the ambulance bears the
inscription: "In Memory of
Benjamin Siegel (Mrs. Katz's
first husband) and Mary
Siegel Katz, In Honor of
Joseph Katz." The Katzes
were married 16 years.
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In addition, Rabin said,
the government's p o l i c y
would be to conduct active
measures to "disrupt, endan-
ger and hit at the terrorist
murderers wherever they
are."
Rabin spoke in the Knes-
set to wind up the debate on
the Horev Commission report
on Ma'alot.
In an apparent reference
to the disputes and contro-
versies to which the report
has given rise, the premier
said his government (which
had not appointed the com-
mission and which was not
the subject of its inquiry)
would not set itself up as an
inquiry into the inquiry.
It had accepted the com-
mission's recommendations,
had already implemented
some of them, and was pre-
paring to implement the
others.
Rabin stressed that terror-
ism was not the most dan-
gerous threat facing Israel.
Israel must be on its guard
in case a new military con-
frontation was forced upon
it by the Arab states, he
declared.
Earlier, former Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan told
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that the cabinet or-
dered him to negotiate with
the Ma'alot terrorists for the
simultaneous rather than
separate exchange of prison-
ers and hostages.
He said he therefore as-
sumed that the cabinet had
decided to reject the terror-
ist stiplation that the 20 ter-
rorists asked to be released
and flown to Damascus be-
fore they released the 80
school students.
Dayan thus was rejecting
the claim that lack of com-
munication and misunder-
standing between Ma'alot and
Jerusalem was one of the
main causes for the ultimate
tragedy.
Minister _ wittnout - Port-
folio Yisrael Galili explained
that in his assessment the
cabinet would not have
agreed to flying out the 20
prisoners without securing
the simultaneous release of
the hostage youth.
But there had been no
express cabinet decision re-
jecting this stipulation—be-
cause the cabinet had not
discussed this issue in isola-
tion—but always in the con-
text of its later-proven mis-
taken fear that the terrorists
would insist on taking some
or all of the students with
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them when they were re-
leased.
Dayan revealed that he
had sought and obtained
Galili's approval of the op-
erative part of his Knesset
speech last week before de-
livery—and Galili confirmed
that he had consulted other
ministers over Dayan's word-
ing and they had confirmed
its accuracy.
Dayan said in the House:
"The cabinet did not decide
to accept the terrorist con-
ditions (as Likud Knesseter
Haim Landau had claimed.)
The cabinet decided to ex-
change the children for 20
imprisoned terrorists plus
the three Ma'alot terrorists,
to allow them to leave. But
it did not decide to accept
the terrorist condtiion, as
formulated orally, as formu-
lated in writing, as present-
ed through the Romanian
ambassador and as formu-
lated in the famous letter."
"In simple Hebrew, what
the terrorists wanted . . .
was: First send the prisoners
to Damascus. When we re-
ceive word that they have
arrived there, we will then
free the children . . . and
the cabinet did not accept
this condition."
Dayan also told the Knes-
set that this was "the key"
to the events of the day.
He thus implied that the
Horev inquiry commission
had overlooked or ignored
this key factor, and that its
criticism of the cabinet's
handling of the emergency
was not realistic.
Nixon Denies News Media Allegation
of Anti-Semitism; Lists Jews on Staff
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
(JTA)—President Nixon has
publicly denied, for the first
time, allegations that he was
anti-Semitic, citing his vigor-
ous political and military
backing for Israel and his
appointment of Jews, includ-
ing Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger, to key posts in
his administration, as proof
to the contrary.
The allegations stemmed
from news media reports in
May that the President used
anti-Semitic slurs and other
ethnic epithets during private
conversations in the White
House with aides in February
and March 1973, purportedly
recorded in taped conversa-
tions. The report was im-
mediately denounced by J.
Fred Buzhardt, counsel to
the president, as a "fabrica-
tion."
The President's rejection
of the charge was made by
Rabbi Baruch Korff, head of
the Committee for Fairness
to the President. Mr. Nixon
held a lengthy interview with
Rabbi Korff on May 13 and
answered a series of written
questions from Rabbi Korff
on May 29.
The President's response
to both sets of inquiries were
published in Rabbi Korff's
new paperback book, "The
Personal Nixon: Staying on
the Summit," published' by
Fairness Publishers, which
is controlled by Rabbi Korff's
committee. Rabbi Korff visit-
ed the President at the Sum-
mer White House here Tues-
day and presented him with
a copy of the book.
Mr. Nixon said in the in-
terview that he had ordered
the major airlift of weapons
to Israel in the Yom Kippur
War last October over ob-
jections of many adminis-
tration officials and also re-
jected objections from the
"so-called_ Eastern elite" to
his decision to name Kis-
singer secretary of state. He
cited his appointments of Dr.
Herbert Stein as chairman
of the council of Economic
Advisers, Dr. Arthur Burns
as chairman of the Federal
Reserve System and Walter
Annenberg Jr. as ambassador
to Britain, as among his
appointments of Jews to ma-
jor posts.
When he names James
Schlesinger as defense secre-
tary, he told Rabbi Korff, a
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"liberation" organizations to
contribute to the formation
of an international charter
on the seas and their use.
The issue was raised at
the start of the conference
when the Organization for
African Unity and the Arab
League contended that the
"liberation" movements rep-
resented national entities in
embryo which should have a
part in determining laws that
would one day affect them
as nations.
Israel constitutes a "spe-
cial case" as it is one of
the few participating coun-
tries not affiliated with any
bloc, a fact the local press
has pointed out. The Arab
countries, on the other hand,
form a strong group with
representation among the
conference's 31 vice presi-
dents (Algeria, Egypt, Tuni-
sia, Iraq and Kuwait) and on
the various committees.
The Israeli delegation in-
cludes Ambassador Shabtai
Rosenne, special legal ad-
viser for the conference; and
Ambassador Jacob Doron,
deputy permanent represen-
tative of Israel to the UN.
Women in Yeshiva
Although for more than
half a century Yeshiva Uni-
versity was an all-male in-
stitution, women now com-
prise 30 per cent of the stu-
dent body. They are enrolled
in Stern College for Women,
Teacher's Institute for Wom-
en, and all of the graduate
schools.
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15,219 Graduates.
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been awarded during the
course of the institution's
history, and a n n u a l com-
mencements began in 1932.
More than 90 per cent of
Yeshiva College alumni have
continued their studies in
graduate schools.
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Arabs Walk Out of UN Parley
During Israeli Envoy's Speech
CARACAS (JTA) — A par-
tial walkout of Arab dele-
gates took place at the third
United Nations Conference
on the Law of the Sea, when
Israeli Ambassador Amiel
Najar approached the ros-
trum to read Israel's general
statement.
The heads of the Arab
delegations left the hall while
their deputies remained.
Najar called for "liberty
and cooperation" as the two
central approaches to future
decisions on uses of the sea.
Najar stressed Israel's posi-
tion on such questions as
freedom of navigation on all
seas, particularly through
straits, fishing rights for
small and developing nations
and pollution in the Mediter-
ranean Sea.
Israel previously had an-
nounced that it would oppose
Arab demands for admission
to the conference for the
Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation and similar organiza-
tions on grounds that the UN
General Assembly decided a
year ago on the participants
in the conference and that
the decision could not be
changed at this time.
The issue was raised by
the Iraqi and Bulgarian dele-
gates, who spoke before
Najar did. Earlier, Lebanon
announced its support for ad-
mission of the PLO. Khalil
Haddad, head of the Leban-
ese delegation, argued that
it was "incumbent on the
international community" to
allow the PLO and other
high-ranking official said to
him: "Do you know Schles-
inger's background? Is he
Jewish? ... He has a Jewish
name." Mr. Nixon said he
replied that he had no idea
whether Schlesinger was a
Jew, that it would not prove
anything if he was and that
he had chosen Schlesinger
for the cabinet post because
he considered him the best
person to fill it.
(Schlesinger was born i
Je -
ish but converted to Ch
anity.)
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