U.N.asks for Israel's help
\ BY DAVID LANDAU
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. is once again seeking Israel's intervention with South Lebanese Christian militia leader Major Sa'ad Haddad, to stop what it calls the "harassment" of UNTSO observers in the area.
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General Emanuel Erskine have ask- FORMER DEFENCE MINISTjER Ezer Wej^man seen with President Anwar Sadat ed for a meeting with Chief-of-Staff Alexandria recently. ^]ie said^that he "reftia committed to working for peace Rav-Aluf Rafael Eitan to present between Israel and the^Ar«bs/^^^^^^^H reassured the Egyptian president of his their grievances to him optiniism that the impt^jempe^^
Haddad declared recently that UNTSO traffic through the area under his control must be confined to the main roads only. He said the five UNTSO observation posts along the Israel-lebanon border may be supplied and relieved only on Mondays. ,
He accuses the UNTSO observers of spying against his forces and against the IDF.
U.N. and Israeli sources note privately that UNTSO is careful not to relay information on its radios if it is felt that such information could be dangerous if intercepted by other hostile forces in the region (the PLO).
However, UNTSO reports on deployments within Haddad's area do reach several governments — including the governments of countries gynaecologist, contributing officers to UNTSO daughter. He —- and presumably could find their way, through the U.N. bureaucracy, to hostile forces too.
(Jerusalem Post).
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Kadafy renews ca 11 for Syrian merger
^ DAMASCUS — Syria recently promised immediate joint action following Libyan leader Muammar Kadafy renewed call for the two countries to merge.
"We, in Syria, stretch out our hand to meet yours for realizing the goal of unity, and shall^ work together forthwith to achieve this goal," President Hafez Assad said in
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HAIFA — The sudden "rebellion" by Russian immigrants living in Haifa's absorption centres remains a mystery to many Israelis who ask, "What could they complain about? They are handed more than they ever dreamed of on a silver platter."
Several plim have offered their stories:
would be granted housing in Acre or Nahariya. The Lower Galilee local council chairman infoTmed him that he should try the Nahariya government hospital.
At the interview, the : hospital director laughed: "A job? Here? I have none."
Sheimish further claimed that he went looking for a flat in Acre and Nahariya and was told there was nothing available.
Today, he is studying in a special re-training course in Beersheba (Continued on Page 4) See: RUSSIAN GLIM
Gemiany agrees: frequent contacts
BONN — Germany has agreed to maintain closer and more frequent high-level contacts with Israel — especially before taking new steps in its Middle East policy: ° Israeli officials have been gratified to see this German decision reported in leading newspapers therein the wake of a visit to Bonn last week by Foreign Ministry director-general David Kimche.
.Kimche's trip — his first sally abroad since assuming the director-generalship — immediately preceded a visit to Bonn by Egyptian Vice-President Hosni Mubarak, and the German government and media were able to address themselves to the two sides' positions on the stalled autonpmy talks. (Jerusalem Post).
Heads Security Council
UNITED NATIONS - Taieb Slim. Tunisia's UJM. ambassador, is president of U.N. Security Council for September. Slim replaces Portuguese 'Ambassador Vasco Futcher Pereira as council president under a system of alphabetical rotation among the 15 member states.
Grigory Sheimish, a 26-year-old married with one arrived about five months ago and has just completed the ulpan in Givat Olga. He said that he went to the Health Ministry's office in Tel Aviv to ask for a job, "anywhere in the country."
He Was told that he was badly needed in the North and the family
Iraq's Boeing request denied
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stiff Congressional opposition, the State Department has rejected Iraq's requests to purchase five Boeing commercial aircraft,- valued at $208 million.
The State Department cited "recent terrorist incidents which appear to have had Iraqi involvement or support, and the clear sentiment of the Congress with respect to international terrorism'* as the reasons leading to the, decision.
Iraq is one of four countries identified publicly by the State Department as encouraging terrorism. The others are Libya, Soutl% Yemen and Syria.
Representative Millicent Fenwick (Republican-New Jersey), a leading Congressional opponent of the sale, praised the State Department's decision. "Our national commitment against terrorism and those countries which support terrorism is greatly reinforced by this action," she said. (Jerusalem Post).
Amnesty report biased
BY DAVID RICHARDSON
JERUSALEM—Justice Ministry officials privy to the Amnesty International report on Israel's activities in the administered territories appearing in London said recently that "Israel's policy of communication with Amnesty will probably not be affected," but indicated that the organization might be taken less seriously in the future.. ..;
YITZHAK ZAMIR
Amnesty's 74-page report repeats calls to the Israeli government to hold a public and impartiaf inquiry
into allegations of maltreatment of security suspects in the territories. The London-based human rights organization says that Israel is unable to refute persistent allegations of brutality in the areas.
In a reply to Amnesty drafted on behalf of Attorney-General Yitzhak Zamir, who was away, the ministry says that the report "in its final version continues to display the clear bias and imbalance which characterized the earlier version." "Amnesty's report was based on a ^fact-finding mission which visited Israel and the territories in Jurte last year. The three-man delegation's original report had been presented as a draft memorandum to Zamir for comment. Amnesty's reaction to Zamir's reply 4ogether with the original material malce up the report published in London, Sept. 2.
Justice Ministry officials com-plained that Amnesty had tenden-hiously edited some of Zamir's reply to the original memorandum and •were openly disdainful of the i report's professional standards. . "Why should we pay attention to -a report tinged with bias?" an official asked in response to Amnesty's call for a public inquiry.
(Jerusalem Post).
a telegram to Kadafy.
"We listened to your speech suggesting full merger with Syria. Arab unity is the secure road for building socialism and countering the Zionist enemy," Assad said.
Kadafy urged his own nation to merge with Syria in a speech marking the 11 th anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. The speech was broadcast live to Syria. ' '^^
If the Libyan people do not agree to support such a union, Kadafy said, he will go and fight with the Palestinians.
"Either this decision is taken or I'm going to take arms and fight in Galilee," Kadafy told a crowd of 50,000 Libyans.
Kadafy technically does not have the right to decide to merge with Syria because authority rests with the Libyan masses under the theory of government endorsed by him.
A loose federation between Egypt, Syria and Libya was'createdin 1971, but it was marred by frequent differr-ences and ended in 1977, when Egyptian President Anwar, Sadat began moving towards making peace with Israel.
(Jerusalem Post.)
US. Jewish leaders "rept" abstention
NEW YORK - Thirty-seven Jewish leaders have issued a statement denouncing the recent United Nationis Security Council resolution on Jerusalem and "regret" that the United States did not veto it.
The signatipries were among the 56 leading Amferican Jews ;who endorsed an earlier stateinent drawn up by the Peace Now movement in Israel and issued on July 1, advocating territorial compromise by Israel and criticising extremists there..
The latest statement declared: "We believe that the United Nations has no moral authority to speak on the Jerusalem question , . .
"We regard Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jewish State. Its integrity as a united city is beyond debate.
"Questions of boundaries, access and the status of the Holy Places may be the subject of negotiation. The status of Jerusalem as a unified city and as Israel's capital, is not."
The statement was drafted by Professor Leonard Fein of Brandeis University in Massachusetts, publisher of Moment magazine.
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Arafat abandons "moderate" image
BEIRUT — Yasser Arafat, discouraged by effdrts to achieve full diplomatic recognition from Europeans, is abandoning his'moderate' image and^ill return the military option. In an interview in A^ewsH'^^Ar magazine, Arafatsaid that the Venice decision to recognize a PLO role in the peace process was buried by American pressure on the E.C.
Arafat called Prime Minister Menachem Begin "our best ally." The PLO leader said that "We hope that he will increase his aggression and his terrorism so that the whole worid will discover the ugly face of this Israeli military junta." Referring to Saudi King Khaied's call for a jihad{ho\y war) against" Israel, Arafat said that he is waiting to see if the words will be followed by action. Arafat said that this provides further evidence that "the so-called Arab moderation will not last long."
Questioned about King Hussein's willingness to renew terrorist activity from Jordan, Arafat replied that he had "not yet" reached an agreement. "Our relations are very good but an agreement takes time," said Arafat. Newsweek reported that, despite Arafat's denials, highly-placed sources said that the PLO head had presented the Russians with a long "arms shopping list'' during his visit to Moscow for the Olympic Games. (Jerusalem Post).
WITH SHOFAR BLASTS, members of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry demonstrating at Democratic National Convention call on President Carter to "repent his actions to divide a united Jerusalem and to act on behalf of Anatoiy Sharansky and other Jewish prisoners in the USSR." Joining the protesters is a stand-in "Carter" with an oil-soaked Arab headdress, as well as a real delegate to the Convention. SSSJ.