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The French Foreign Minister
on Mideast Tour Snubs Arafat

Tree Plantings

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
PARIS (JTA)— French
The Jewish National
Foreign Minister Louis
Fund will plant trees in a
50-acre area in Ofira,- de Guiringaud, while vis-
iting the Middle East last
along the Gulf of Eilat, in
Eilat itself and tffrough- _week, cancelled plans to
meet in Beirt.it with PLO
out the Sinai peninsula.
chief Yasir Arafat. A gOv-
ernment spokesman said
the decision was taken as
a sign of
. "dis-
pleasure" over the visit to
France, under false iden-
tity, of Palestinian ter-
rorist. Abu Daoud last
month.
But observers view the
from
snub to Arafat as the
most important of several
recent moves to improve
France's relations with
Israel. Those relations
were strained almost to
the breaking point last
month when a French
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court freed Daoud before
either Israel or West
Germany could file for-
mal extradition requests.
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Sources said the deci
sion not to meet with
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Arafat marked a definite
break with France's past,
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policy that always wel-
comed contacts with the
PLO. Former Foreign
Minister Jean Sauvanar-
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gues met with Arafat
Shalach Monot Giving
only- last year on a Middle
East trip. _
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Two other signs that
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France is anxious to thaw
its relations with Israel
were the reconfirmation of
an invitation to Premier
Y itzhak Rabin to pay an Of-.
ficial visit to Paris and the
Speed with which French
and Israeli experts - are
moving to re-examine the
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No Peace Moves Effected
During Vance's M.E. Visit

tervened. This week, the
WASHINGTON (JTA) of the Arab people of
*government reconfirmed — Secretary of State- Palestine."
the invitation, stressing Cyrus R. Vance has re-
This point may be
that it will be an "official turned from his six-day clarified when Vance
visit" with all the protocol visit to six Middle East- makes his scheduled ap-
and pageantry such a ern countries, cautiously pearance before the Se-
visit implies. A tentative hopeful of progress, but nate Banking Subcom-
date ha's been set for the publicly acknowledging mittee that is conducting
end of September or early no specific forward move hearings on legislation to
October. The invitation in the political process for combat the Arab boycott.
will apply to Rabin or to an Arab-Israeli settle-
* * *
his successor.
ment or even a confer-
Genscher: Peace
Sources stressed that , ence.
this is the first time an in-
"No, I don't think there Prospects Bright
cumbent ISraeli premier has been any made on
BONN (JTA)— Mideast
has been invited officially this trip," Vance said
to France.. Former Pre: with reference to proce- peace prospects have
miers David Ben-Gurion dure or substance, but he "never been brighter,"
and Levi Eshkol came to pointed out that was not Foreign Minister Hans-
Diet.rich Genscher said on
Paris on "private visits" his goal.
although they met with
His purpose, he said to his return from a five-day
President Charles de reporters, was to define Mideast fact-finding trip.
Before returning
Gaulle and were extended points of understanding
the courtesies due their and disagreement among Bonn, Genscher m
rank.
the antagonists and it separately with UN Se
At the same time, de appeared that Israel, retary Kurt Waldheim
Guiringaud's prOjected Egypt, Saudi Arabia, who was also concluding a
visit to Israel has been Jordan and Syria all MideaSt tour, and with
re-scheduled for March agreed in principle for a Egyptian President
30. It was to have taken Geneva conference to ne- Anwar Sadat. Neither
place this month but was gotiate substantive is- Bonn nor Cairo gave de-
postponed because of the sues without precondi- tails of the talkS, but
Daoud affair.
tions when procedural Sadat reportedly called
questions are reso,lved. 1977 "the year of peace."
Fair Exchange
(Vance also was in Leba-
When the Malbim was non whiCh is not a party Brotherhood
rabbi-in Bucharest he had to the Geneva Conference Week Observed
many antagonists among as presently constituted).
The chief obstacle to
NEW YORK — The
the elders of the city who
sought to make his, life procedure also is substan- president of the National
miserable by every possi- tive since it is the matter of Conference of Christians
representation at a con- and Jews has called on all
ble means.
Once, On Purim, one of ference by the Palestine Americans to practice
his enemies, a rich and-in- Liberation Organization. mutual respect for each
solent man, sent him- a On this point the situation other in, their everyday
Purim gift on a tray cov- is unchanged, as UN Sec.- human relations.
ere-d with a white napkin, retary General Kurt Wal-
Dr. David Hyatt, in a
according to the usage_of dheim found in his visit
statement
issued in con-
over
most
of
the
same
the day. When the Mal-
bim removed the napkin, ground earlier in Feb- junction with the NCCJ-
he found on the plate a - ruary. Israel won't deal Sponsored Brotherhood
Week (Feb. 20-27), said
baked confectionary in with the PLO. _
that the week is observed
Vance
has
apparently
the shape of a pig. -
To _ fulfill the com- moved closer to the Is- "so that people may reaf-
mandment of "sending raeli view since he said firm and reinforce their
portions" and to recipro- during the trip that the commitment to brother-
cate in kind, the Malbim PLO must alter its cov- hood." He urged them to
took - a picture of himself enant that now calls for make Brotherhood Week
and placed it on a plate, elimination of Israel in a 52-week long campaign,
covering it with the nap- addition to adhering to adding that brotherhood
simply "is giving,* to
kin. He gave it to the mes- UN Resolutions 242 and
others the rights and re-
338.
senger to return to his
The terrorist organiza- spect we want for ourse-
congregant with a note
lves."
tion is due to meet next
which read:
"You were kind enough month presumably to
to send me a likeness of consider the covenant, Oil Prospects
yourself, so, as a, fair ex- Arab leaders are reported
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
change, I am sending you pressing for a change or Dr. Raphael Goldis, direc-
substitution of the PLO,
one of myself."
but publicly and officially tor of Israel's Oil Co., says
they remain loyal to the 15 deep drillings, which
PLO and the principle of have cost Israel $50,000
Israel Prepared
complete Israeli with- per day for the last -20
LONDON— (ZINS) -• — drawal to its pre-1967 months, may help al-
Kenneth Hunt, assistant lines and establishment leviate Israel's total de-
director of the Interna- of what is now being pendence on imported oil.
He said that drillings
tional Institute • * -for called "a mini-
Strategic Studies be- Palestinian state" under near Ashdod will assess
lieves that- Israel has PLO leadership with Israel's oil reserves dur-
more Tan replaced her Jerusalem as part of the ing the next four months.
Israel, he said, imports 7
losses in the Yom Kippur PLO domain.
Vance has said that the million tons of oil each
War with U.S. aircraft'
and missiles and her own parties continue to be "de- year at a cost of $100 per
eply divided" over the-na- ton.
Kfir jet fighter.
He writes that Egypt is ture of peace, Israeli with-
handicapped by parts drawal and the. resolution trains
Improved -
shortages for its of the Palestinian ques-
TEL AVIV (JTA) Is,
Soviet aircarft and tion. While the Arabs, he
weapons. _Syria is now indicated are also divided raeli trains will get eigh
-battle-tested, but oc- over the PLO, he was re- luxury coaches for th
cupied by Lebanon, and ported as saying that if Is- Haifa-Tel Aviv line,
the Palestinians have rael responds to the which will be added to the
been eliminated as a "peace efforts" of the -regular trains that oper-
major force by their los- Arabs it must recognize as ate between the two
a pre-requisite the "rights cities._
ses in Lebanon.

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