U.S. Ambassador Toon Tells Israelis to Tighten Their Belts

TEL AVIV (JTA) — United States Ambassador Malcolm Toon has ad-
vised Israelis to restrain their appetite when asking for American economic
and other aid, limit themselves to what is really essential and tighten their
belts before making "exaggerated" requests for assistance.

His advice was delivered in a Kol Israel radio interview marking the end
of his first three months as Ambassador to Israel.

Toon, who participated with .Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and
the American team in the exhausting negotiations that led to the second Is-
raeli-Egyptian interim accord in Sinai last August, said he and his colleagues

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and the American people would have been happier if the agreement did not
call for stationing American technicians in a surveillance role in Sinai.
Asked about U.S. arms for Egypt, the American envoy said the present
efforts by the U.S. to gain influence in Egypt required that Egypt's request
for arms be favorably considered — up to certain limits, however.

He said that Kissinger's recent remarks before the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee in Washington represented America's true position, namely
that except for the commitment to assure Israel of oil, all other promises and
assurances given in the framework of the Sinai accord were not legally bind-
ing on the U.S.

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October 17, 1975

Funding, Selection of Sinai Buffer
Personnel Taxes U.S. Obligations

Kreisky-Wiesenthal Dispute
May Lead to A Libel Suit

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VIENNA (JTA) — Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky sharply at-
tacked Simon Weisenthal's war crimes documentation center here as "a
political mafia that works against Austria's interests." Kreisky de-
fended Friedrich Peter, head of the right-wing Freedom Party who was
accused by Wiesenthal last week of having been a member of the First
SS Infantry Brigade in World War II which executed 10,513 people,
including 8,350 Jews in the Soviet Union in 1942.
"Wiesenthal's revelation was mainly
directed at me," Kreisky told newsmen.
"He is known for not being too exact with
the truth and for using tricks. In this
case, it is a politican (Peter) who is being
murdered," the Chancellor said.

Wiesenthal told newsmen after-
wards that he would sue Kreisky for his
statements. He also disclosed that he
had received more than 100 threats
against his life and 10 bomb threats
soon after he made his charges against
Peter on Austrian television.

Peter was re-elected to the Austrian
Parliament a week ago. His party won 10
of the 183 seats. Kreisky's Social Demo-
SIMON WIESENTHAL
cratic Party, however, retained its abso-
lute majority. There had been speculation that had the Socialists failed
to retain their majority, Kreisky was prepared to form a coalition gov-
ernment with the Freedom Party, elevating Peter to the office of Vice
Chancellor.

Peter has admitted membership in the SS brigade but rejected
charges that he had ever participated in murders or persecution. Wie-
senthal himself conceded that there was no evidence that Peter had ever
personally executed anyone.

Meanwhile, in West Berlin, Heinz Galinski, chairman of the West
Berlin Jewish community, has urged authorities to take action against
the neo-Nazi National Socialist German Labor Party (NSDAP) which
has called for the disbandment of the
West Berlin Jewish community and its
institutions and for legal proceedings
against the Jewish leadership.

A publication distributed by a so-
called "Circle of Friends of the NSDAP"
described Galinski and Wiesenthal as
"accusers of the German nation." It added
ominously, "We all know what we can do
about it and we must do it."

Among other things, the NSDAP
publication urged its readers and sym-
pathizers to familiarize themselves with
Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf"
and discuss it at their regular meetings.

BRUNO KREISKY

WASHINGTON (JTA) — With Congress having approved the presence of American techni
cians in the Sinai passes, two major steps must now be taken in the process of stationing up to
200 technicians to monitor the warning stations between Israel and Egypt. One involves Congres
sional approval of funding the operation. In permitting the stationing of the technicians in the
passes, Congress did not act on any funds for them. The other step is the Administration's
selection of personnel and keeping them supplied in the Sinai desert.
Undersecretary of State Joseph Sisco had indicated to Congress earlier this month that
about $10 million would be required for the project's first year and $7 million annually there-
after. In a CBS television interview last Friday he said that he did not think the American
technicians would go to the Sinai until mid-March. This would be in keeping with the timetable
agreed upon by Egypt and Israel in Geneva for implementing the second Sinai accord.
The second step involves selection of the personnel and responsibility for them. The
State Department has been instructed by President Ford to organize, recruit, equip and
transport the 200 Americans to their positions in Sinai. It is uncertain whether they will be
sought through a contracting company or recruited from electronic companies which manu-
facture the equipment which will be used, or by a public call for technicians.
By a decisive margin, 70-18, the Senate approved last Thursday night the stationing of up
to 200 civilian technicians to man surveillance stations in the Sinai passes, completing Congres-
sional action on the measure, an essential component of the second Sinai interim accord. The
Senate vote came after two days of debate during which a series of crippling amendments were
defeated before the Senate endorsed the resolution.
The Senate version was identical to one approved by the House last week by a vote of 341-69.
Israel had made its approval of the new interim accord contingent on Congressional endorsement
of the technicians.
President Ford signed the legislation Monday.
New Soviet Nobel
The Senate resolution, like that of the House, specified
that approval of the technicians "does not signify approval
Winner is Jewish
of the Congress of any other agreement, undertaking or
NEW YORK (JTA) — Prof.
commitment made by the Executive branch-."
Leonid Kantorovich of the Soviet
The practical meaning of that passage was that the
Union, who was named Tuesday as
Ford
Administration's undertakings to Egypt and Is-
the joint winner of the 1975 Nobel
rael are, in the view of Congress, only "intentions" of
Prize in Economics, is Jewish, ac-
President Ford and are not "binding" on the United
cording to the National Conference
on Soviet Jewry.
States. The resolution also specifies that the technicians
The NCSJ said it obtained infor-
must be withdrawn if fighting breaks out between
mation from authoritative sources
Egypt and Israel, or if Congress decides their monitor-
that the 63-year-old Nobel lau-
ing role is no longer necessary.
reate's parents were Jewish and
The resolution also declared that Congress was not giv-
that he is Jewish, though non-ob-
ing to Ford any additional authority to use military forces
servant.
overseas than he now has on a limited basis under the War
(See story, Page 5)
Powers Act.
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Israel Discloses Timetable for Sinai

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The timetable for implementing the Israeli-Egyptian Sinai accord has been
disclosed by a military spokesman.
He said that Wednesday was the date set for the first meeting of the joint Israeli-Egyptian military
committee set up by the accord to oversee its implementation.
It was reported unofficially that the first ship with an Israeli cargo would transit the Suez Canal on
that date from north to south.
The timetable is as follows: Nov. 11 — Israeli forces evacuate the Ras Sudar region and oilfields on the
eastern shores of the Gulf of Suez; Nov. 16 — Egyptians enter,the Ras Sudar area; Nov. 24 — Italian
technicians take over the Abu Rodeis oilfields; Nov. 30 — Israel evacuates the entire "oil corridor" between
Ras Sudar and Abu Rodeis; Dec. 1 — Egyptians enter the oil corridor; Dec. 28 — Egyptian engineering corps
enter the Gidi Pass to build a surveillance station there.

