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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

12 Friday, February 13, 1981

Kreisky the Middleman in PLO's Ploy With U.S. Hostages in Iran

(Continued from Page 1)
ernment — Kreisky — particularly anxious that
had to use private chan- Carter make the request,
nels instead of the reg- Lipschutz reported, ex-
ular diplomatic machin- plaining that "this would be
ery to convey his mes- meaningful to the PLO be-
cause it would be a visible
sage.
of the
U.S. and was
the
Lipschutz went to Vienna example
with him."
Kreisky
where Kreisky assured him PLO acting as 'partners' in
that if anyone could per- solving a Middle East prob-
suade Khomeini to release lem and it wouuld demon-
the hostages, that person strate that the PLO was
was Arafat" and the United necessary to solve a Middle
States "should do business East problem."

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Kreisky then put Lip-
schutz in contact with Dr.
Herbert Amry, Austrian
ambassador to Lebanon-. "If
Arafat and the PLO play a
part in getting the hostages
released," Amry told Lip-
schutz without any dip-
lomatic nicety, "there would
have to be something-in it
for them."
Because of American
pledges to Israel on dealing
with the PLO, Lipschutz
and an associate flew to Is-
rael to test the reaction
there. They were warned
that "any quid pro quo ap-
proach to the PLO, even re-
lating to the Iranian hos-
tage matter, would be a
serious indication to the Is-
raelis that the United
States did not have suffi-
cient resolve to fulfill its
commitments," the former
White House aide reported.
President Carter re-
jected the Kreisky pro-
posal. He never revealed
the action publicly al-
though Lipschutz argues
that it might have
boosted his re-election
chances. It might have
secured- Carter more
votes among American
Jews but there was cer-
tainly a greater possibil-
ity that the episode would
be taken to mean that
Carter had bowed to the
Israelis on a matter in-
volving the hostages, and
thus have
alienated many more
voters.
It is difficult to under-
stand why Lipschutz con-
sidered the Kreisky-'PLO
offer "very enticing," as he --
described it, and it is more
than likely that Carter
turned it down for the sim-
ple reason that he didn't be-
lieve that Arafat could or
would do anything. But as a
matter of record, on Nov. 6,
two days after the hostages
had been taken,the PLO
had already promised
openly to intercede and an-
nounced that a PLO delega-
tion would be on its way to
Teheran within 24 hours as
"a unilateral action" on be-
half of the captives. "Our
only concern is for the
human lives involved," the
PLO spokesman solemnly
announced.
A PLO delegation actu-
ally flew to Teheran, as. did
a Syrian team, but in three
days they accomplished
nothing and could not even
get in to see Khomeini.
Zehdi Labib Terzi, the
accredited PLO observer at
the United Nations, told a
press conference on Nov. 9
that "Chairman Arafat has
personally been in touch
with the authorities in Iran
and we should expect some
news in the morning, Tehe-
ran time." The good news
was somewhat delayed; it
came 335 long days and
nights later and then with-
out any help from Yasir
Arafat.
If Arafat and the PLO did
make any effort to help, the
Iranians spurned their in-
tervention but it is much
more likely that no at-
tempts were made. Chan-
cellor Kreisky's phone call

giving them in Ambassador dissection by contemporary
to his New York inter-
mediary was made on Nov. Amry's explicit words, the historians and political sci-
7, a day after the Arafat in- "something in it" they entists.
sought. Kreisky was eager
tervention proclaimed by
to do the bargaining as the
Terzi. Three days after the
Kreisky call, Hani Hassan, , middleman putting the deal
head of the PLO office in together.
Bruno Kreisky, the
Teheran — by now comfort-
would-be middleman, is an
ably established in the con-
fiscated Israel embassy — enigma in 20th Century
flatly declared that "the politics and a fit subject for
PLO is not an intermediary
between Iran and America
. . . Any victory by the Ira-
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ence of American im-
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