4 JERUSALEM — Dr. Eliyahu Beii-Eiissar, Director General of the Prime Minister's Office and head of the Governmental Committee on Autonomy, denied media: reports-that the committee intends to submit an intermediate report on the implementation of the autonomy plan to the government.
Ben-Elissar said the detailed implementation of ; the autonomy plan had not yet been discussed in comrnittee.
The media noted that the committee*s report contains three primary recommendations for the
implementation of autonomy:
State land in the autonomy region, comprising some one million dunams, will remain the property of the State of Israel and will not be turned over to any foreign body; the self-ruling body underthe autonomy plan will not be granted rights equal to those held ^by the Jordanian government in the region prior to 1%7; and all water sources in the autonomy region will remain the property of Israel. V Ben-EIissar, in denying these reports, also noted that the committee is not planning to submit
a report on the autonoiny in the near future.
It is generally felt that while the committee intended to submit isuch a report, the sensitive stage of the ongoing negotiations betXveen Israel and Egypt rendered such a moye impractical at this time.
Meanwhile; the religious kibbutz movement voiced opposition to the Israeli autonomy plan, contending that it undermines and endangers the very existence and development of settlements on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. .
MONTREAL — A 32-yeai^old: Palestinian, Mohammed Khalil-Abotpuha, has been; in the custody of Canadian securUy police since his arrest in Montreal; charged with "infractions of the Canadian immigration law." h
The Palestinian', according to the. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is one of the leading members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is headed by George, Habash.
Before coming to Montreal, he lived in the Washington, D.C. areai police said. -
The^uthorities intend to seek his deportation on grounds of allegedly entering Canada under false
pretensions and also because there is a strong link between him and another member of the Popular Front, a Lebanese named Bassam Muhammed Ferkh, 24, who studied English in Edmonton and-who was deported from Canada Nov; 3 and is ^ now reported to be in a Beirut jail in custody of Lebliriese authorities.
Both individuals are charged with having participated inJhemurder of the' U.S. Ambassador and his economic counsellor while they were trying to cross from the Moslem sector of Beirut into the Gliristian sector on June 16, 1976.
Officials here said they expected the pair to be charged with those killings.
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SHABBAT SHALOM -~ THURSDAYv DECEMBER 7, 1978 ^ KISLEV 7, 5739 Vol. XLV, No, 47
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LONDON SS Hauptsturm-fueher-Dr. Josef Mengele — the infamous \**angel- of d^th** of
Michael Beckham.
Isscr Harel, for^mer head of the '•'Mossad" (Israel's intelligence service)Jwho was in Buenos Aires in
Alfredo Stirbessner, (hims^^ of< German origin) andhisNazi cronies;
There is no fear of Mengele*s ever being extradited to'Gerinany, Israel or France, all of which have listed him as the" most wanted Nazi criminal still at large. < This is the inescapable conclusion reached by a'Biitish television team whose' investigation of Mengele's whereabouts was i presented here
'^Their'hum for Mengele brbught- disclosed by Eichmann), the "angel them Tight into the "Nazi triangle" of death' had flown, formed by the borders of Paraguay,
after Eichmann 'had been captured by his agents, did he turn to attempting to capture Mengele, in the hojpe of taking them both to Israel But Eichmann at first refused to disclose Mengele's hideout. , When Harel interrogated Eichmann, he "went into a panic, not so much out of loyalty to Mengele, as of fear for him," Harel said.
- By the time Harel's agents went to Mengele's latest hideout (finally
Argentine and Brazil, where Mengele is apparently in hiding r— and also -^caused'^ the arrest and deportation of the team's producer.
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The weeks go by slowly for three Moscow Jews sentenced to long p/ison terms for wanting to leave the country.
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LEST WE FORGcT THERE HAS BEEN A LENINGRAD PIOMEER ACTIVIST WHO HAS BEEN IN GUL.A6 FOR 8V6 YEARS.,
The Helsinki Agreement which the Soviet govemment sigried allows for freedom of emigration. Let our vc^c^s — letters; -telegrams and phone calls - express 9^^<^^P^^S^^4^,^ readers't&'intercedeJarfdno'ilff^So^^^^
Dr. Bjarne Berbom, who has returned' to Denmark after working for 38 years among South American Indians, claims that he met Mengele.
A.Danish-Norwegian, Dr. Berbom said in a recent interview with the influential Norwegian weekly newspaper Vi Menn that he njet Mengele Jn 1974 in the border town of Foz do Igiiacu between Paraguay ^and Brazil.
Mengele told Dr. Berbom that he did not regret anything, meaning that the scientific value of his experiments on concentration camp
PEACE POSES "NO THREAT"
" JERUSALEM — Defence Minister Ezer Weizman told Knesset foreign affairs and defence committee that Israel need not fear its security will be jeopardized for a long time if obstacles crop up'in tKe peace process with Egypt.' "We shall be holding on to the crucialpart of Sinai with xXs, air fields, its settlements, its highways, and Sharm El-Sheikh for 27 months after our withdrawal to the £1 ~ Arish-Ras Muhammad line." ^ Weizmann said. -
The minister-^said he totally opposes a timetable fotimpler mentation of West Bank autonomy. This process must develop in a natural manner on
inmates'would be realized in time.
After meeting Mengele, Dr. Berbom said that he was told by the town's police chief that Mengele ^ftb^ause^hfi^vwas | ^i^Strqessner i of Paragiiay,^6^^1f-German.
Dr. Berbon^l^t^^that Mengele lives about l^^ffir^from Foz do Tguacu in tHfg|p:i Triangle." Twenty bodyguard^'keep watch on his home." .
Dr. Berbom said that he met „ Mengele the first time briefly in the street when visiting friends in San Bernadino in 1965. His friends warned him that if he attempted to contact, Mengelei^ former Nazis living in the area would prevent this.
Returning to San Bernadino a few weeks later. Dr.- B.erbom said he saw Mengele standing outside, a store with the store owner. When he appeared, both men went inside and locked the door and the only reply to his knock was the sound of closing shutters.
Mengele is believed to controlthe ; "Estrella" Nazi organization, which possesses' an enormous fortune earned from the sale of works of art looted by the.. Nazis during the Second World War.
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REQUEST $a3B
JERUSALEM — Israel is asking U.S. for $3.3 billion to cover costs of withdrawal from Sinai and redeploying army in Negev, Finance Minister Simcha Ehrlich told Knesset Finance committee.
LA'AM SPLITS
TEL. AVIV — La*am faction of Likud split into two parts after months of growing inner dissention aggravated by differences over Camp David agreement.
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JEJRUSALEM: -i;,R,earTA4rairal ^ Michael Barkai;' 43, commander of the Israeli Navy, Jias been relieved of his duties'and is to-be tried hy court-martial for alleged^ "unbecoming conduct" with a woman member of the regular forces.
Security needs shift Nobel site
WASHINGTON — Security considerations have prompted the Norwegian Nobel committee to shift the site of this year's Peace Prize presentations from Oslo University concert hall to a 13th Century fortess. The rfecipients. Premier Menachem ; Begin oC Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, will accept their awards in ceremony ies at Akerhus Castle, built in 1219, which overlooks Oslo's inner harbor. The medieval stronghold is virtually impregnable to gate crashers.
ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER Menachem Begin will be co-recipient off 1978 Nobel IPeace Prize this Sunday, Dec; 10 in Norway. He is seen above at his offficial residence in
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