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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.