'Thursday, October 23, 1975—THE BULLETIN—13
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FEBRUARY 9 ■ 18, 1976 CALL 2M-5366
PERES: ISRAEL WILL DROP 'PERSUINGS'REQUEST IF EGYPT GIVES UP 'SCUDS'
UNESCO SOFTENS ANTI-ISRAEL STANCE IN BID FOR U.S. FUNDS
GENERAL ENSIO SnLASVUO, the United Nations Middle East commander (left), Avraham Kidron, director*general of Israel's Foreign Ministry (second from right), and Major-General Herzl Shafir, head of the General Staff (right), sign the interim agreement between Israel and Egypt negotiated by Henry Kissinger, the U. S. Secretary of State. Israel had initiated the agreement at Geneva but refusd to sign it until it had ben approved by Congress.    (JCNS Photo)
HARPOON MISSILES SUPPLIED TO ISRAEL
WASHINGTON - Tlie United
States has agreed to supply Israel
with up to 100 Harpoon missiles,
a new long-range radar-directed
weapon for sinking ships, according   to   Defence Department
officials in Washington.
Produced by McDonnell-Douglas, the missile with its 500
lb. high explosive warhead and
a range of more than 60 miles
can be launched from ships or
aircraft. The 16 1/2 ft-long missile was
developed after the 1967 Six-Day
War, when small Arab gunboats
fired Soviet Styx anti-ship missiles effectively against Israeli naval ships.
According to sources quoted by the authoritative American publication, Aerospace Daily, Israel decided to buy the Harpoon in reply tb an expansion of the Saudi Arabian Navy.
Washington Defence Department officials have riot revealed the cost of the Harpoon, but naval officers giving evidence at Congressional hearings earlier this year said that the price of each had increased to $525,000.
The Harpoon has not yet been delivered in quantity to the American fleet, but the United States has also agreed to supply the weapon to Britain and Holland.
It is understood that the agreement to supply Israel with the Harpoon was reached about a year ago, but it came to light only recently in a small flentagon (Defence establishment) contract for financial advances to produce missile items.
Mounting costs, which have already more than doubled the estimated price of each Harpoon, have contributed to the problems of producing the missile.
JCNS
JERUSALEM —Defense Minister Sh'mon Peres said here that Israel would withdraw its request for long-range Pershing missiles from the United States if Egypt reciprocated by giving up its Soviet-made Scud, ground-to-ground missiles.
"Instead of escalation, let us try the road to de-escalatim," th6 Defense Miidster declared in
PARK — The executive board of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization voted to soften the anti-Israel action taken last year.
Sources close to the U.S. UNESCO delegation said that the vote could lead to a move in Congress to release the $22 1/2 million the United States has been withholding from the organization.
Congress ordered a stoppage of the funds last December, after . UNESCO denounced Israel for allegedly    damaging Moslem monuments in Jerusalem.
The organization, spurred by its Arab members, also cut oil funds for Israeli projects and refused to admit Israel to its European group, in which Israel feels it belongs.
The board voted by b to 3, with 3 abstentions, tb recommend to the general conference that, only the member nations of a geographic group, such as the European unit, be permitted to rjBCommend new members for the group.
In effect, the resolution prevents the Arab nations from making recommendations on . which group Israel should enter, and would make it more difficult for the Arabs to block Israeli admission to the European group.~
While the board's action is not binding on the general' conference, which nexl meets a year from now, it was considered by officials close to UNESCO as an attempt to placate the United States and to end the organization's political and financial crisis over Israeli participation.
In Washington the UNESCO exe-utive board's action was seen by   Congressional  sources as
"encouraging but hardly sufficient" to reverse the Congressional ban on funds for than U.N. body.
Congressional sources told reporters that the action is not enough for Congress to act upon since it is in any case tentative and has not yet been approved by UNESCO's general conference.
Discussion will take place, the sources said, among key Congressmen on the board's action when the text becomes available.
Meanwhile, however, there is some feeling that Congress may vote to provide a portion of its annual contribution of $22.5 million to UNESCO in order to allow the United States to continue'^ to vote in UNESCO.
Under UNESCO's rules, a country tliat is in arrears in its contributions for two years loses its vote.
The Congressional action last December in halting U.S. payments means that the U.S. has
not made its payment for 1975 and the possibility exists if it does not pay its 1976 dues by early next year'the board may act to suspend the U.S. vote.
an address at a dinner of the United Jewish Appeal annual Study Mission.
The meeting was closed to the press but Peres' call for a mutual reduction of missile strength was published and released by the Government Printing Office.
The  ^Defense Minister said Israel sought weapons such as the Pershing not to make war . but to deter it.
He said Israel was not interested in the Pershing for its nuclear delivery capability*
H^ noted that the Phantom and Skyhawk jets already in Israel's Air Force could theoretically deliver nuclear devices.
Peres said that when Israel bought those planes from the U.S. it was the clear understanding that they would never car^-y nuclear devices and this understanding has been honored.
'Renounce terrorism' France tells Arafat
UNITED NATIONS — Prance is prepared to participate in an effective military, peace-keeping force in the Middle East to strengthen any future peace settlement in the region, the French Foreign Minister, Jean Sauvagnargues, told the United Nations General Assembly. At a press briefing later, Sauvagnargues stated that France agreed with Egypt and the United States that the Sinai agreement must lead to an overall settlement in the Middle East. The French Foreign Minister said that when he met Yasir Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in Beirut last year, he told him that the organization must become "responsible" if it wanted international recognition. The French Foreign Minister said in his General Assembly speech that the FLO must recognize the existence of Isrcel and formally renounce terrorism if it v/anted to be accepted as a partner in international organizations. , JCNS
GOLDMANN: TONE DOWN RUSSIAN ALIYAH DRIVE
, JERUSALEM — World Jewry should tone down its campaign on behalf of Soviet Jews, Dr. Nahum Goldmann declared here. The president of the World Jewish Congress said at a press conference that the situation had now become a delicate one. The Soviet Union was less dependent on.the United States than a year ago, and everyone must step carefully in case the Russian's became "annoyed at the unbridled attacks on them," If this were to happen, "they could well cut-off Jewish emigration altogether," Dr. Goldmann warned. ^
He stressed that his organization would play, an active role in the preparations for the. Brussels conference on Soviet Jewry next February and in the conference itself; However," he maintained, the conference must not be restricted to the matter of Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. It must also concern itself with Jewish rights inside the country, since however many "scores of thousands" emigrated, millions would stay there. JCNS
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