16 ,Friday„ Apri1,28, 1918 THE DETHOIL HASH HEWS,. 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 The offending garments were withdrawn from dis- play last month, but too late to halt the growing wave of indignation.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 PERMANENT HAIR R1-.1() VAL dad Licensed Electrologist Consultation private and confidential by appointment 358-5493 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- • • • • Burglary Vandalism Fire Personal Attack 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. MARV ROSEN MA Price You Can Afford NO IFONE Automatically Notifies within seconds Police Dept. & Fre Dept. Central Office rlidden Wire Installatioi You Won't Know We've Seen There emergency reporting system with 24 hr. protection AMERICAN PROTECTIVE 838-7008 ALARM INC. IRVING'S Furniture 3065 Orchard Lake Rd. CLEARANCE 681-3900 NAME BRANDS on SALE ALL YEAR Shop By Phone Also Large Discounts on Beddings 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 FULL TIME PROTECTION FROM 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. YOU'RE NUMBER ONE WITH ME! - A A. cians and Philips of The Netherlands and Erickson of Sweden will the western Negev where provide the equipment. some sources have already 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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