THE DETROIT 1175:517 61 RIERATS • Shultz Urges Direct Arab-Israel Negotiations Arlington, Va. (JTA) — Secre- tary of State George Shultz Sun- day stressed his commitment to Israel and urged Arab govern- ments to agree to direct negotia- tions with the Jewish state. "Those who take risks for peace should know that the United States will help them defend themselves," he told some 1,200 persons attending the opening session of the 26th annual policy conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Arlington. "The U.S. must continue to support those who seek negotia- tions and peaceful solutions against those who promote vio- lence and oppose peace," he said. Shultz, who noted that Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs is now in the Middle East to explore "practical steps" towards peace, declared, "But whatever opportunities may emerge, no one in the region or throughout the world can have the slightest doubt about Ameri- can policy: Israel's vital interests will never be compromised, Is- rael's survival and security will never be put at risk." - Shultz, stressing that the U.S. remains committed to President Reagan's Sept. 1, 1982 Middle East peace initiative, said that anyone can bring any position to negotiations. He said there is no shortage of plans in the Middle East but what was needed was di- rect, face-to-face negotiations. "It's not the going-in position, it's the coming-out position that mat- ters," he said. In a related development, it ap- pears that Israeli Premier Shi- mon Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may hold a summit meeting next month. It would be the first direct contact between the two leaders since the war in Lebanon began more than two years ago. The Israelis apparently are de- termined to press for a package deal which would resolve all out- standing issues between the two countries. The summit meeting became a tentative probablility following the visit to Cairo last week by Minister - Without - Portfolio Ezer Weizman, who has emerged as one of Peres' closest associates in the National Unity Cabinet. Weizman met with Mubarak, Prime Minister Kamel Hassan Ali, Foreign Minister Abdel Ismet Meguid and the Egyptian Defense Minister. He told reporters in the Egyptian capital last week that a summit meeting was "in the cards" but that a great deal of pre- paratory work had to be done be- forehand. He noted pointedly that on the Israeli side, this work would be done exclusively by the Foreign Ministry. Weizman's trip to Cairo had been vehemently opposed by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the leader of Likud, partly on the grounds that all dip- lomatic contacts with Egypt must be conducted by the Foreign Ministry. Israeli reporters who accom- panied Weizman to Cairo said the minister pressed the Egyptian de- fense chief to permit renewed searches for Israeli soldiers of the Yom Kippur War still posted mis- sing in the Suez Canal zone and for the bodies of Israelis in the sea off Alexandria. The latter presumably would be the 69 crewmembers of the Israeli submarine Oakar, which van- ished in the Eastern Mediterra- nean, possibly in Egyptian waters, while on her delivery voy- age from Britain Jan. 25, 1968. 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Of the 28 men aboard the vessel, 19 are presumed to have drowned, eight were pulled alive from the sea and one body was retrieved. The survivors reportedly told interrogators they were members of Al Fatah, the terrorist arm of the Palestine Liberation Organ- ization and had been personally instructed on their mission by PLO chief Yassir Arafat's deputy, Abu Jihad, head of the Al Fatah's operations division. Their mis- sion, according to Israeli sources, was to create carnage in Israel on the eve of its Independence Day. Rear Adm. Avraham Ben- Shushan, commander of the Israel Navy, told military correspon- dents in Tel Aviv Monday that the patrol boat intercepted a 1,000- ton ship, flying no flag, about 200 kilometers off Tel Aviv Saturday night. The boat was on what was described as a "deep water patrol." According to Adm. Ben- Shushan, the unidentified ship failed to respond to signal rockets or radio transmissions ordering it to stop. 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