12—THE BULLETIN—Friday, March 1, 1974
TERRORIST^tf UN US. AIRPORT ATTACKS
NEW YORK—Columnists Jack Anderson and Les Whitten reported recently that Arab terrorists had planned to use a Strela shoulder-fired missile to attack Secretary ot State Henry Kissinger's aircraft in London, and were now planning an attack in the U.S.
Writing  in  the "Washington Posty'^the columnists quote Rep. Join Murphy 0em-N.Y.) as saying that Federal Aviafion Agency (FAA) agents have received intelligence that ''indicates the terrorists in the U.S. have plans to park an automobile at the end of a runway of a major U.S. airport and fire one of these rockets right up the tailpipe of a 747 as it takes off."
The columnists said that the FAA and the Central Intelligence Agency have warned airport officials that two men, one carrying a launcher and the other fearry--ing an extra round, can set ujp a Strela, fire and escape in less than two minutes. And there is little care needed in aiming.
iSince these warnings have gone out, the columnists report, tro(^s have been guarding Frankfurt and Amsterdam airports, which are believed to be a major target of terrorists.
The columnists noted that Murphy and others have introduced bills to bolster security at "U.S. airports.
But, they add: "Experts we have talked with say the solution
must be political, not technical. New legislation would help, say these experts, but until the AreJ) lands refuse hospitality to mass murderers; there is no protection but prayer, good luck or staying away from airports. •
(Jerusalem Post)
REQUEST REVIEW OF ZAiMANSdN SEIfrEN^
LONDON — A promise to pass on to appropriate Soviet authorities a request to review the ten-year jail sentence now being served in Russia by Silva Zalmaiisbn, as well as thosie of other Jewish prisoners - of - conscience, was made recently by Mikhail Sobolev, second secretary at the Soviet Embassy in London, to-an interdenominational delegation of clergymen. JCNS.
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Argentina-LibYa Pacts sourcie of concern
BUE^bS AIRES-An Argentine delegation which visited Libya recently has reported a number of agreements, including guarantees of oil from Libya, which observers said might affect the traditionally friendly ties of Argentina with Israel.
The delegation said agreement also had been reached on cultural exchanges between the two countries, participation by Argentina in an international fair in Tripoli, creation of a •'House of Libyan Culture" in Buenos Aires and the opening of embaissies in
PROTEST FOOD PRICES
TEL AVIV — Several hundred Black Panthers, backed by a number of works councils, staged a noisy but non-violent demonstration here in protest at rising food costs.V ^
the two countries.
The official communique on the negotiations said that "above and beycHid the economic, financial and cultural results ojf the mission, its succeiss should be ineasured by flie total. accord obtained in the- political and ideological ■■fields.":'
The communique added Uiat Argentina had become Vthe undisputed bridge country linking the brotherly Arab world iwith Latin America/* addii« that "the true liberation frbm- the yoke of im-jperialism starts with the resolute integration of third world peoples."
The announcement was made by President Peron'is press secretary, who distributed photographs of-Per on and President Muammar Qaddafi of Libya.
DR^ HENRY KISSINGER; the US. Secretary of State,^^a^^ Fahmy, tiie Egyptian Foreign Minister, embrace as President Nix<i chats with the Saudi Forelgii Minister Omar Safckaf when f Arab politicians arrived at the White House fdrtidla last w^t Dr. Kissinger is this week shuffling between Damiascus and Jc. usalem (6 piroduce breakthroughs m the Syrian-Israeli deadldi and the Arab oil embargo situation.
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PARIS — President Pompidou has assured French Jewry that "there can be no question of the French government being responsible for discrimination against French citizens.
France will never accept any
EXIT FOR HEIKAL AS SADAT KEEPS US. tlNK
By ATALLAH MANSOUR
NAZARETH—President^^^adat's recent removal of MbKammed' Hassanein Heikal from the editorship of the Cairo daily, Al Ahram, and the chairmanship of the Al Ahram publishing company is a facet of a whole new trend in Sadat's rule of Egypt.
Only since the October War has he felt himself to be in a strong enough position to lead his country alomg the path that he wants — de-Nasserization and drawing at least as close to* the United States as to the Soviet Union.
Heikal's removal is only one of the acts Sadat has carried through in recent months and it is certain-
CHIEF RABBIS HASSLE
TEL AVIV — Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yosef accused his Ash-kenazic counterpart. Rabbi Shlomo Goren, of bias and discrimination in the appointment of rabbinical court judges and other appointments.
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: k has bi^n given^^p^ the Western—hot the Egyptian—■ propensity to upgrade the importance of the Egyptian press.
It should be recalled that both Mahmoud Riad, the former .Foreign Minister, and General Saad Shazli, the former Chief-of-Staff, have been eased out of their positions. . "
Ismail Fahihy, Riad's successor, won his spurs by (consistently advocating for years less Egyptian dependence on the Soviet Union. ^ Heikal, for his part, has been critical of the understanding Sadat has reached with Dr. Henry Kissinger, the American Secretary of State.
*Heikal has steadfastly contended that there has been, no change in America's Middle-East policy, while Sadat has made this the cornerstone of his explanation for going along with Dr. Kissinger's diplomatic manoeuvrings. JCNS.
Clitihi U.S^ heljijed Ar^
WASHINGTON---The 11 Arab couniries that joined in the Yom Kippur War against Israel received $8,952 biUion in as-siistance from the XI;S;^^ and Anierican oil comjmnies
in the^six'%ears be^re the conflict, iicdordihg to^^^^ Clarence p. Long (I).Md.). This iamount, Long says in statements prepared for presentation to the Congress, is aJjnost two and one half times the estimated $3.7.billion the military and economic aid that the Soviet Union gave the Arab states and more than four times the U.S. government's ciredits and gifts totaling $2 billion to Israel in the U.S. fiscal years 1968-73 that ended last Juiie 30.
alteration in the principles was the first to affirm and w constitute an int^ral part of common heritage of the We World."
The French President gave "solemn pledge" in a lettei Professor Adplph Steg, the pr< dent of French Jewry's. rej sentative council (Crif).
Professor Steg had writt€ President Pompidou asking to condemn Saudi Arabia's re^ action in demanding the prot tion of a certificate of bapt from ^French, journalists bt granting them entry visas Saudi Arabia.
The journalists had been signed to accompany the Frc Foreign Minister on his. ref Middle East tour.
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NEW YORK—An investigation by the American Jewish Committee's European office has revealed a sharp upswing in anti-Semitic harassment of Italian Jews by'groups calling themselves Anti-Zionist Committees or the Anti-Zionist Documentation Centre.
The campaign has taken the form, of the distribution of lists of Jews through the mail to Italian cities, inciting the. non-Jewiish population tdmake Jews pay for "die genocide perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians."
The AJCommittee stated that
VALERY PANOV, the 33 year-old former Leningrad Kirov Ballet dancer, has been warned by Leningi^d Ovir (visa and registration) officials that "tough measures'v will be used if he does not leave the Soviet Union without his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Fanov (above) were dismissed as dancers by the Kirov Ballet after applying two years ago to emigrate to Israel. After long delays and harassment Mr. Panov was given permission to leave for Israel in recent months, but not his wife and he has refused to go without her. The threat of "tough measures" has been interpreted in Moscow as preparation for another forcible deportation on the lines; of the exile of novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
USSR ^roiitim to die in Isroel
NEW YORK—A leading Jewish activist in Kharkov, Mikliael Kur-bel, 38, his son and his dying wife have been given permission to leave for Israel, the Student Struggle, for Soviet Jewry reported. Kurbel is an engineer.
The SSSJ said his wife, Adelle, is dying from multiple sclerosis, and before becoming completely paralyzed had repeatedly indicated a wish to die in Israel.
For that reason, the SSSJ said, it and similar groups throughout thw world have been conducting a special campaign to obtain permission for the family to leave.
KIDNAPPIKG FEARED
JERUSALEM — Police have intensified their investigation into the week-old disappearance of Yousef Nasri Nasr, publisher of the East Jerusalem nationalist weekly, "al-Fajr," amid growing fears that he may have been kidnapped.
the completeness of the lists of Jewish names indicated that the anti-Jewish groups were engaged in "constant surveillance and up-^ting."
In other instances, the AJCommittee said, the lists have been sent directly to Jews who are addressed as "the accomplices of assassins."
An excerpt reads: "In solidarity with the struggle of the Arab people, a contribution to the common cause of anti-imperialism, we publish a short list of Zion- , ist personalities operating in Italy in the fields of politics and journalism.
"They are blood relatives of the Israeli pillagers, accomplices of their plunders and their crimes."
The attack by mail on Jews in Ferrara has been especially virulent, Morris H. Bergreen, chairman of the AJCommittee's Foreign Affairs Commission, said: "First on the list is the synagogue, next' the rabbi and the president of the Jewish community.
There follows an alphabetical
list of 105 persons, which seem to includeevery Jewish) woman and child in Ferrara, i| much as the^ total Jewish lation in the city is estimatf approximately 120."
SYRIA-U.S. TIES RESUME
WASHINGTON — Sabah Kabani, director of information of the Syrian Foreign Ministry, arrived here recently to serve as Syria'^ chief diplomatic representative in Washington. His arrival marked another step in the resumption of quasi-diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Syria which the Syrians broke off in 1967. Two American diplomats went to Damascus in late January.
RABBI ISRAEL MILLER has I elected chairman of the Coi ence of Presidents of Major' ican Jewish Organizations.Pi
dent of the American Zionist] oration, Rabbi Miller is vice] ident for student affairs at Yes university and rabbi emteirit Kingsbridge Heights Jewish tre in die Bronx. The Confei of' Presidents, is composed national Jewish secular anc ligious groups whose mei comprise the majority of can Jews. Founded in 195,^ serves as a clearing house policy consideration aiid cooi tive action in protecting these ity of Jews abroad, including] and the Soviet Union.