THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Jackson Urges Probe/on U.S Contract to Train Saudi Troops WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Senate Armed Services Com- mittee has been asked by Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.-Wash.) to scrutinize the $77 million contract let by the Defense Department to a private Cali- fornia company to train Saudi Arabian troops. At the same time the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was in- formed at the Capitol that "a real problem" would arise if the contract did not contain the dard clauses in all govern- ment agreements regarding equal rights and opportunity or employment for all Americans. This element is considered of paramount importance now that American universities and business concerns are seeking contracts with Arab govern- ments and may be restrained from employing American Jews because of discrimination being enforced by Arabs. The Defense Department has given the Vinnell Corp. of Los Angeles the contract to Kahane May Lose Probation Due to Kidnap, Arms Charges NEW YORK — Rabbi Meir Kahane, head of the militant Jewish Defense League, may lose his probation due to charges of having conspired to kidnap or assassinate a Soviet diplomat, to bomb the Iraqi Embassy in Washington and to ship arms abroad from Israel when he was there in 1972. the time to conspiracy to manu- facture a bomb. The report said that Ka- hane, while in Israel in 1971, corresponded with a JDL member in New York de- manding "the immediate kid- napping and or killing of one Aroskovitz, a Soviet diplo- mat." The report confirmed that the Soviet diplomat was in the U.S. at the time. The report also said the rabbi demanded that bombs be hid- den in the offices of the Occi- dental Petroleum Corp. and the Chase Manhattan Bank to dis- courage trade with the Rus- sians. He also urged the taking over of a building behind the Russian Embassy to position a_ sniper to shoot into the em- bassy, and the blowing up of the Iraqi Embassy in Washing- ton. A hearing on the revocation is slated for Feb. 21 before U.S. District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein in Brooklyn. The accusations were made by James F. flaxen; chief pro- bation officer for the Federal District Court, in a report filed with Judge Weinstein, who had put Rabbi Kahane on five years of probation in a sentence handed down in July 1971. Rabbi Kahane pleaded guilty at If You Really Care About Your Thinning Hair . _ Kahane also was alleged to have attempted to retaliate for the Munich Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were mur- dered during the 1972 Olympics in Munich. He decided upon a courter-terrorist course of vi- olent action in direct violation of the conditions of his proba- tion. It was reported'that he plotted with several individuals to ship arms to Europe so that Jews might avenge the deaths of the athletes. According to the report; the Israeli government thwarted the attempt to ship arms abroad when officials found a wealth of arms in a suspiciously marked box at Lod Airport. Kahane also was said to have been convicted in Israel and sentenced to two years in jail, but his sentence was sus- pended because Israel thought his motives were more patriotic than selfish. The alleged threat to the Iraqi Embassy was said to have grown out of the rabbi's belief that Iraq was mistreating Jews. Rabbi Kahane pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court on July 9, 1971 to one count of con- spiracy to manufacture a bomb. He was fined $5,000 and sent- enced to five years in jail, but the prison term was suspended and he was placed on five years' probation on condition that he not be involved with weapons in any way. ORT Israel Parley TEL AVIV — A two-day meeting of principals, technical directors and the senior staff of ORT Israel was held recently at the Natanya Center. Split into lecture-discussion meetings and panel workshops, the topics covered the whole range of services offered by ORT in Israel. Newly-arrived immigrant teachers, primarily from the Soviet Union, also attended. train the Saudi' National Guard. It is believed to be the first such agreement ever made with a private Ameri- can company to train a for- eign army. In a letter delivered Monday to Sen. John C. Stennis (D- Miss.), the committee chair- man, Jackson asked for a "thorough inquiry into the ar- rangements concluded by the Department of Defense to pro- vide technical military assist- ance to Saudi Arabia, particu- larly the reported contract that has been let to a private corpo- ration to train Saudi Arabian military and internal security forces." The Vinnell situation was seen as a test case on - whether Arab states that boycott Jewish -firms and prohibit Jews from normal entry can enforce a con- tract — either in writing or by tacit understanding — that will discriminate against Jews. Saudi Arabia is especially fla- grant in opposing Jews of what- ever nationality, including U.S. citizens. It is known that the State De- partment, at the behest of Arab governments, does not assign known Jewish personnel to Arab countries. Jewish news correspondents traveling with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger have been allowed to enter Saudi Arabia only under special authorization. Defense James R. Schlesin- ger said that "We may be fac- ing a situation where the Mid- dle East is the potential tinderbox that the Balkans actually were in 1914." He made the statement in prepared testimony before the Senate Armed Services Com- mittee on the Administration's $92.8 billion defense budget for fiscal 1976. 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