20 Friday, June 19, 1981 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Israeli Elected to Top ILO Post GENEVA (JTA) — Gi- deon Ben Israel, the Histad- rut delegate to the Interna- tional Labor Conference here, has been re-elected to the governing body of the organization for .another four year term. The election is considered an important victory for Is- rael as the Arabs made all possible efforts to have the Lebanese delegate elected in place of Ben Israel. This year the Arabs did not present an anti-Israel resolution at the confer- ence, as they have done previously. Begin Clarifies Statement Concernirig Habib Mission JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin did not intend to lay down any "ultimatum" when he said Sunday that if U.S. special envoy Philip Habib's mission did not make pro- gress Israel would resort to other means to remove the Syrian anti-aircraft mis- siles from Lebanon. This was clarified Tuesday by Begin's spokesman, Uri Purat in the wake of angry public response from the U.S. State Department to Begin's original remarks. At an election rally in Netanya, Begin told a large crowd that he would tell Habib, who arrived in Israel Reagan Greets Wednesday, that if Kaplan on 100th President Hafez Assad of WASHINGTON (JTA) — Syria did not remove the President and Mrs. Reagan missiles, Israel would do so have extended birthday itself. The State Dept. greetings to Rabbi Mordecai. spokesman stressed in an Kaplan founder of the Re- obvious reaction to this constructionist movement statement that the U.S. would not be dictated as to on his 100th birthday. 33% OFF RETAIL. PRICES• FOR SELECTION IN FLORENTINE, TAPERED, ENGRA VED, PLAIN, AND DIAMOND WEDDING BANDS WITH the time table of Habib's ef- fort. Begin's However, spokesman made it clear Tuesday that if Habib felt he was making progress the Israeli premier would cer- tainly agree to give him all the time he needed to bring about a diplomatic settle- ment of the missile crisis. Meanwhile, Ger Yehoshua Saguy, dire for of Israel's military in- telligence, said Tuesday that the chances were "practically zero" that Syria would remove its SAM-6 anti-aircraft mis- siles from Lebanon vol- untarily or through dip- lomacy. Saguy told local military correspondents that the Syrians have been making military correspondents that the Syrians have been mak- ing war preparations. He cited their widespread military maneuvers and civil defense exercises. He said he didn't think President Assad wanted an all-out war with Israel but would be prepared for a "low profile limited confronta- tion." Saguy said one of the main problems in the region is the instability of the Arab regimes and their internal quarrels. "On the one hand, this has prevented a com- mon effort on their part, but it also increased the danger that they would use the threat of the Israeli enemy to paper over their dif- ferences," he said. Referring to Israel's air attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor June 7, Saguy said the operation had required "exact and detailed intelli- gence." But he insisted that Israel had received no in- telligence assistance from the U.S. In a related develop- ment, Israel acknowl- edged this week that a pilotless aircraft failed to return from a photo- reconnaissance mission over Lebanon and Syria and presumably was shot down. Damascus radio reported earlier that the drone was hit and crashed northeast of Damascus. It was at least the fourth such Israeli aircraft brought down by the Sy- rians since the crisis over anti-aircraft missiles in Lebanon began last month. Pilotless planes do not carry the electronic equ' merit used by manned a craft to divert radio controlled missiles. Bomb Threat Grounds Plane /4 /'‘ Basr/4 STYLING *special TO discount SUIT EVERY TASTE... is from June 1st-30th only the source 357-5578 26400 West Twelve Mile Road in Southfield's Racquetime Mall Northeast corner 12 Mile & Northwestern Hwy Mon.. Tues.. Wed.. Fri.. Sat.. 10-6. Thurs.. 10-9 . ANKARA, Turkey — A Tel Aviv bound Romanian airliner with 155 passengers and crew aboard was forced to make an emergency landing at a military airfield in central Turkey this week following a bomb threat received by the pilots while in mid-air. One passenger was injured during the landing.