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December 20, 1974
VAgreement:
Egipt, Syria?iolate
Put Ta-nks, Guns in Buffer' Zones
Gromyko Disavows Letters
AssuringSoviet Emiration
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A repudiation by Soviet Foreign Minis-
ter Andrei Gromyko of the Oct. 18 letters of understanding on Soviet
emigration practices exchanged between Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger and Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.-Wash) was made public
Wednesday by the Soviet official news agency Tass.
The repudiation, which says the Kissinger-Jackson exchange
created a "distorted impression" of the Soviet position, was contained
in a letter from Gromyko to Kissinger dated Oct. 26, when Kissinger
was in Moscow. The Gromyko letter said the Soviet government had
given no assurances to the U.S. on easing emigration procedures and
it expected American restrictions on_trade with the USSR to be lifted
unconditionally.
The Tass release of the Gromyko letter came five days after the
Senate approved the trade reform bill giving the Soviet Union most-
favored-nation status in return for what Kissinger had said were
assurances that the emigration of Jews and other Soviet citizens
would be eased.
Gromyko's letter said that in contacts with the U.S. on the emi-
gration •issue, the Soviet side had "underlined that this question re-
lates totally to the internal competence of our state. Tass is author-
ized to state that leading circles of the Soviet' Union flatly reject as
unacceptable any attempts from whoever they may come, to inter-
vene in the internal affairs that are entirely the concern of the Soviet
state" andno one else," the Tass release stated.
Gromyko's letter to Kissinger said that Soviet "explanations" of
their views on emigration had been characterized in the U.S. as "some
sort of assurances and even almost obligations from our side about
the . . . departure of Soviet citizens from the USSR. Some figures
were even cited relating to the supposed number of such citizens, and
the expected increase of - this number in comparison with past years
is also being talked about."
The Gromyko letter claimed that Kissinger had been told by
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TEL AVIV (JTA)- — Israel charged Wednesday that Egypt has violated the disengagement
agreement in the same manner as Syrian violations — by introducing more weapons than per-
mitted into the limited armaments zone. According to Israeli sources, the Egyptians have introduced
12 130-mm artillery pieces into the zone in addition to the 36 permitted under the disengagement
accord with Israel. Egyptian soldiers are also continuing the construction of missile launching sites in
the limited forces zone, the sources said.
There was no report, however, that a formal complaint has been lodged by Israel with the UN
against the alleged Egyptian violations as was the case with similar violations by Syria. The latter
has placed 90 tanks in the limited forces zone where a maximum of 75 is permitted and has also
positioned 130-mm artillery in the zone.
It was reported that the Syrians are massing heavy snow-removal and de-icing equipment
preparatory to clearing the road they built on Mt. Hermon which Israel says was completed after
the disengagement agreement and in violation thereof. The Syrians apparently intend to keep the
road to the strategic summit of the mountain clear in all weather.
An Austrian contingent of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Forces -(UNDOF) has
abandoned most of its positions on Mt. Hermon due to severe weather conditions. Israeli circles ex- .
pressed surprise since the weather has been excellent for the past two days and the Austrian troops
are equipped with show tractors. Some sources said the reported Syrian and Egyptian disengagement
violations represented a concerted action by Cairo and Damascqs to see how far they can go to pro-
voke an Israeli response and to maintain tension on the disengagement lines.
Israeli sources claimed that the UNDOF has confirmed the Syrian violation. Israel has also
charged that Syrians have two artillery batteries in the zone, more than the disengagement terms
permit.
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Mt. Hermon lies in the buffer zone separating Israeli and Syrian forces. According to fsr
sources, the UN forces can patrol only one-half of the zone because a road completed by the Syrians
after the disengagement agreement was signed is not included on the maps delineating the areas that
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are to be patroled.
State Department spokesman Robert Anderson disclosed Wednesday that the U.S. maintains
its own reconnaissance to detect possible violations of the disengagement agreements on the Golan
Heights and in the Sinai but was bound not to make their findings public.
He refused to confirm or deny whether U.S. reconnaissance had found any violations.
Israel also disclosed it will spend $55 million to strengthen its fortifications along the frontier
with Jordan.
The network of fortifications will extend along the Jordan River and the Arava district of the
Negev where there is no water barrier between Israel and Jordan.
The correspondents were told that the Jordanian Army was undergoing modernization with the
latest American weapons including long range artillery and anti-tank missiles. The Jordanian army
is composed of two tank divisions, one mechanized division and two infantry divisions..
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UJA Urges Increased Generosity for $750 Million Goal in '75;
Lautenberg Named Chairman; Zuckerman Elected President
FRANK LAUTENBERG
- -Special to The Jewish News
NEW YORK—On an urgent appeal to U.S. Jewry for increased generosity to aid Israel in its present dire
straits, the annual conference of the United Jewish Appeal, held last weekend at the New York Hilton Hotel,
adopted a goal of $750 million for 975.
The conference elected Frank R. Lautenberg as 'general chairman to succeed Paul Zuckerman of Detroit,
who was named UJA's president.
Former Israeli Premier Golda Meir told the UJA that Israel will fight for its existence "even if we are
alone . . . We will fight with everything in our possession. Israel will not commit suicide like the heroes of. Masada."
She sOrnfully rejected Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmi's demand that Israel close its doors to
immigration for the next 50 years and return to the 1947 partition boundaries.
And she denounced the United Nations and UNESCO for attempting to isolate Israel and deprive it of its
rights of membership. It is not Israel that has been isolated, she said. "The UN is isolated from everything
that is decent and moral in human life."
Mrs. Meir stressed that she nog longer spoke in the name of the government but as a private citizen of Israel.
She said she could not promise that the Yom Kippur War was Israel's last war. She said that Israel would
never, under any circumstances negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization, even though UNESCO, which
deals with education, prefers Arafat over Israel.
"Who knows better about schools and children than Arafat?" she said, referring to the massacres at IVIa'alot
and Kiryat Shemona.
Lautenberg, of Montclair, N.J., was elected general chairman at the closing dinner Sunday.
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PAUL ZUCKERMAN