16 ,Friday„ Apri1,28, 1918
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Service Reinstated
Underwear Furor May Have Been Arab Plot
LONDON (JTA) —
Marks and Spencer, the
Jewish-owned British de-
partment store chain, is in
danger of becoming the
target of a new Moslem holy
war following the discovery
that a pattern on some of its
ladies panties was not just a
piece of abstract art but the
Leafleter Caught
ALBANY (JTA) — Al-
bany police are holding a
50-year-old New York State
employe suspected of dis-
tributing hundreds of anti-
Semitic flyers in the heavily
Jewish-populated Pine
Hills section of the city since
last fall.
Police announced the ar-
rest of Haviland Willard
Davis, a senior architect in
the Division of Design and
Construction of the Office of
General Services here. He
was caught placing the leaf-
let on a car windshield.
The messages, crudely
printed said, "Jews Beware
— Look You Scoffers, Won-
der and Die: Acts 13-41."
Arabic words "there is no
God but Allah ..."
The offending garments
were withdrawn from dis-
play last month, but too late
to halt the growing wave of
indignation. This week,
Kuwait called on all Arab
and Moslem embassies to
"counter this outrageous
desecration of the Moslem
faith." Arabs would be
asked to stop visiting Brit-
ain as a holiday center, the
Kuwaiti religious
authorities announced.
A Kuwaiti newspaper
columnist accused Marks
and Spencer of having "de-
graded the most respectable
phrase in Islam" by sticking
it on an undergarment. The
Egyptian Gazette in Cairo
recalled Marks and
Spencer's Zionist affilia-
tions, and attacked the firm
in an editorial entitled
"Scraping the Bottom" and
referring, among other
things, to Hitler, punk rock
and the Ku Klux Klan.
Marks and Spencer
pleaded in vain that they
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knew nothing about the
offending phrase on the
garments which were de-
signed for them in Paris.
Now, however, they sus-
pect they may have been
deliberately "set up" as a
target for Moslem fury.
Ironically, the panties
were on sale for months be-
fore the holy text was de-
ciphered. It was brought to
their attention not by one of
their thousands of Arab cus-
tomers but by a British
scholar of Arabic. Ironi-
cally, too, Marks and
Spencer's trade mark,
which appears on all their
intimate apparel, is "Saint
Michael," but this has never
caused offense to the mil-
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MONTREAL (JTA) — A
$1.1 billion contract for Bell
Telephone International of
Canada to modernize tele-
phone service in Saudi
Arabia could be lost if secret
clauses containing pro-
visions required by the
Arab boycott are revealed,
representatives of Bell told
the Canadian Radio, Tele-
vision and Telephone
Communication Commis-
sion (CRTC).
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
center of Nablus was the
site of a bloody incident
when two tourists were kil-
led and five more were in-
jured, some of them seri-
ously.
A tourist bus, fully
loaded, passed the center of
Nablus when a bomb was
thrown into the bus. The.
explosion caused the im-
mediate deaths of two of the
tourists while five others
were injured.
First aid was im-
mediately forwarded by
Israeli security forces
which arrived on the
scene. Helicopters were
called in and within the
shortest time the injured
were flown to hospitals.
It was reported that the
condition of some of the
injured was serious.
Security forces have
closed the area and were
combing it in search of the
perpetrators.
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Spencer is being deliber-
ately fomented for political
reasons is not far-fetched.
The company has long been
anathema in the Arab world
because of its support for Is-
rael.
Four years ago, its
president, J. Edward Sieff,
was shot and severely
wounded by a terrorist be-
longing to the Popular
Front for the Liberation of
Palestine. This year, it was
in a Marks and Spencer
store that the first Jaffa
orange contaminated with
mercury was found in Brit-
ain.
Canada Bell Is Under Fire
for Saudi Arabian Contract
Tourists Killed
in Nablus Blast
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lions of devout Christians
who wear their garments.
The theory that the cam-
paign against Marks and
Bell is seeking permis-
sion from the CRTC, a reg-
ulatory agency, to raise its
rates. But the National
Anti-Poverty Coalition has
demanded that Bell not
undertake risky operations
overseas but use its enor-
mous profits for invest-
ments in Canada.
When the CRTC asked
Bell to disclose secret
clauses in the Saudi con-
tracts, the telephone com-
pany refused, saying the
publicity might cause it to
lose the deal. The Canadian
government has provided
Bell with a $430 million in-
surance guarantee against
any losses in the operation.
Under the contract,
Bell
will provide the
Saudis with 500 techni-
TEL AVIV (JTA)— El Al
One of the subjects to he
resumed service Monday negotiated is the proportion
ending a shutdown by man- of airline salaries paid in
agement that grounded its foreign currency.
fleet of jets for 20 days dur-
The shutdown of El Al
ing the height of the pre- was not a strike. It was
Passover tourist season. precipitated by a wildcat
The suspension was lifted as work stoppage early this
a result of an agreement be- month that management
tween management and the saw as the last straw in a
airline employees. to series of labor disputes
negotiate the differences that have bedeviled the
between them and reach a airline for the past two
settlement within three years.
Service was suspended by
months.
The employees have order of Mordechai Hod, di-
promised no strikes or work rector general of El Al, who
stoppages while negotia- was supported by Finance
tions are in progress. The Minister Simha Ehrlich.
government, which owns El Histadrut, which had fre-
Al, apparently backed away quently backed the airline
from its demands that the against unauthorized work
workers agree to certain stoppages in the past, ac-
concessions before service is cused the management this
time of a lockout.
resumed.
During the labor dispute.
New Sinai Well
Is Pumping Oil
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
newest oil well probed by Is-
raeli drillers in the waters
of the Gulf of Suez off Sinai,
Alma-4, has struck a rich
strata and experts expect it
to yield 15,000 barrels a
day, the combined total of
two earlier wells in the
area, Alma-2 and Alma-3.
Commercial production is
expected to start within two
weeks and another well,
Alma-5, will be sunk one
kilometer north of Alma-4.
Meanwhile, Israeli
energy circles were reported
watching Jordanian oil
explorations on the eastern
shores of the Dead Sea. If oil
is found, Israeli operations
may be started on the oppo-
site shore.
New attempts will be
made to find natural gas in
which occured just before
the peak traffic period of
Passover, El Al was able to
secure transportation for
thousands of its passengers
on other carriers.
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Erickson of Sweden will the western Negev where
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Bell has stated in each been tapped.
contract that it has no
Freedom is man's capac-
dealings with Israel and
no investment, sub- ity to take a hand in his own
sidiaries or franchises in develdpment. It is our
that country. Such a capacity to mold ourselves.
—Rollo May
statement is not illegal
under Canadian law as it
is in the United States.
The Canada-Israel Com-
mittee, which is monitoring
the CRTC hearing, is urg-
ing Canada to strenthen its
anti-boycott law in line with
one adopted by the United
States last year.
Global Police
Unit Is Sought
BRUSSELS (ZINS) —
Point International
magazine says observers of
terrorism are prodding
Western governments to
form an international anti-
terrorist police squad be-
cause of increasing evidence
that world terror factions
coordinate with each other.
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TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The
military specialist for the
Hebrew daily Haaretz, Zeev
Schiff, recently wrote that
settlements in the adminis-
tered territories have not
increased Israel's security.
He claims that they are a
burden to the army, which
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