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Prague Is Offered
As New Tlransit Point
Jerusalem (JTA) - Presi-
dent Vaclav Havel of
Czechoslovakia has offered
to have his country serve as
a transit point for Soviet
Jews immigrating to Israel.
But he insisted he would
have to have "guarantees"
that the newcomers would
not be settled in the ad-
ministered territories.
Havel referred to that and
other subjects as he ended a
three-day official visit here
April 27, the first visit to
Israel by an Eastern Euro-
pean head of state.
While he proposed no
specific mediating role for
Czechoslovakia in the Mid-
dle East conflict, he in-
dicated in comments to the
media that his country
would like to serve the cause
of peace in an evenhanded
manner.
He said the new
Czechoslovakia, founded on
the quest for peace and
human rights, was in-
evitably disturbed when
those goals were not attain-
ed in other regions of the
world.
Havel recommended Israel
accept U.S. Secretary of
State James Baker's for-
mula for an Israeli-
Palestinian dialogue.
It has been rejected by
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir's Likud government.
But Havel said his discus-
sions with Israeli leaders
and Palestinians led him to
believe that Baker's plan
could serve as a basis for
peace.
He said his "hair stood on
end" when he heard Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein
recently threaten to destroy
"half of Israel" with
chemical weapons.
Havel met with PLO
leader Yassir Arafat when
Arafat visited Prague re-
cently and apparently plans
to see him again.
He told reporters his trip
to Israel taught him a great
deal and he would be much
better informed next time he
meets Arafat.
Havel disclosed that Pres-
ident Chaim Herzog has ac-
cepted his invitation to visit
Czechoslovakia.
He signed a number of
bilateral accords, including
a student exchange program
between the Hebrew Uni-
versity in Jerusalem and
Charles University in
Prague.
In a wide-ranging televi-
sion interview here, Havel
dismissed manifestations of
anti-Semitism in his country
as marginal.
He said he has never been
able to understand anti-
Semitism and maintained
that it was never as strong
in Czechoslovakia as
elsewhere in central Europe.
He said the most moving
and memorable event of his
visit was his tour of the Yad
Vashem Holocaust
memorial in Jerusalem.
Havel also visited Kfar
Masaryk, a kibbutz estab-
lished by Czech Jewish refu-
gees in the 1940s, named for
Tomas Masaryk, who was
the first president of the
Czechoslovak republic.
In accepting an honorary
Ph.D. from the Hebrew Uni-
versity last week Havel, a
playwright, demurred at be-
ing compared to Masaryk,
who also visited the Hebrew
University on a tour of
Palestine in 1928.
He said a more apt analogy
would be to Franz Kafka, the
famed Czech-Jewish author.
Havel reiterated his sup-
port for German unification,
despite his country's bitter
experience as a victim of
German aggression. He said
the German people had the
right to achieve unification
and, in fact, the process was
inexorable.
But there must be ironclad
guarantees that Germany
will remain a democracy,
Havel said.
"There is no need to fear a
country of 100 million people
if it is a democracy, whereas
a dictatorship of 1 million
people is dangerous," he
said.
Human Error
Causes Crash
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Human
error was responsible for
Sunday night's midair colli-
sion of two Israeli air force
helicopters which killed
seven crew members and of-
ficers, according to
preliminary findings by a
board of inquiry.
The two Sikorsky CH-53D
transport helicopters, known
as Stallions, were on a
routine night training exer-
cise over the Samaria region
of the West Bank and Jordan
Valley when they collided in
a fireball.
The investigation so far
has ruled out mechanical or
structural failure or faulty
equipment. The disaster was
one of the worst in the histo-
ry of the Israel Defense
Force.