StQhdord Oit leads lobby
NEW YORK — Powerful Ameri-an oil interests are stepping Ip their campaign to change the .S. Middle East policy in favor t the Arabs. In a letter to all stockholders, ie Chevron Company — Standard of California — called on them write and telephone Congress-en and the Government urging em to "draw closer the ties tween the U.S. and the Arabs" id to request sympathy for Arab spirations in the Middle East. In Houston, Texas, last week, leading spokesman for inde-mdent oil producers, G. itchell, called for a change in erica's pro-Israel Middle East licy.
Israeli sources have expressed {ar that this public pressure mpaign will grow worse. Standard Oil Chairman Otto N. [iller said in a special letter
that the U.S. should support the Arab position because Middle East oil reserves are vital to "the future welfare of the Western world." Miller's message, dated July 26, was mailed to Standard's 40,000 employes and 262,000 stockholders.
The Standard Oil letter marks the first time a major oil company has taken such a strong and public stand on the Arab side of the Middle East issue. Executives of the international oil companies which have large petroleum reserves in Arab states traditionally have preferred to work behind the scenes in urging U.S. government support for the Arab governments.
The letter suggested that all citizens urge the U.S. government to work for peace in the Middle East. The letter, which recommended that the U.S. "work
more closely with the Arab governments to build up and enhance our relations with the Arab people," did not mention Israel by name.
Miller's letter did not disclose his company's strong dependence on the Middle East as a source of supply. Saudi Arabia and Iran together provided 61 percent of Standard's worldwide production of crude oil in 1972.
"A crude corporate intervention in American foreign policy," was the way Jacob Stein, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, described the Standard Oil letter.
Mr. Stein said the letter was "a bald surrender to the oil pressures being applied against the United States by Arab countries."
Yancouverites protest by returning credit cards
Samuel Kaplan, President of the Canadian Zionist Federation's Pacific region, has voiced strong objection to an American oil company's recent attempt to change U.S. Middle East policy in favor of the Arabs.
Simultaneously with several other Yancouverites who have also returned their Chevron credit cards to the Yoncouver office of Standard Oil, Mr. Kaplan said he hoped that many thousands of other such protests would pour in from both Jews and non-Jews in British Columbia. "By doing so,, we con communicate in the most effective way for Standard Oil officials to understand, that Canadians are not prepared to sacrifice the democratic State of Israel on an altar of black gold," he stated. CSee Editor's Yiew page 2).
ISRAEL BRIEFS
JBOT SHALOM, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1973—A V 12, 5733
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NAME DULTZIN WZO AGING CHAIRMAN
JERUSALEM — Leon Dul-zin,Jewish Agency treasurer, /as elected recently in sep-Irate actions by the World Tionist Organization execu-ive and the Agency execu-ive as acting chairman of ach body to replace Louis L Plncus. The WZO execu-lye also resolved to suggest 1) the Conference of Jewish Irgdnizations that Mrs. Char-\tte Jacobsen, chairman of fZO-American section, be ting chairman of COJO un-a new chairman is elected, 'r. Pincus headed these [iree organizations at the of his recent death.
â– NAZI MAY TEACH, GERMAN COURT RULES
iONN — An active member le neo-Nazi National Demotic Party (NPD) may hold a l-service post, an inter-mini-jial commission in Baden-[rttemberg ruled recently, le case involves Rolf Kosiek, a teacher at a vocational ling school who formerly was jNPD deputy in the Baden-temberg parliament, had earlier been refused lission to teach by the Cultural Istry of the Rhineland-Palat-
Israelis detained in Norway death mystery
OSLO — Strained diplomatic relations between Norway and Israel, arrests, charges and counter-charges, rumors and denials have followed the shooting of a Moroccan called Ahmed Bouc-hiki in the Norwegian town of Lillehammer, 80 miles north of here.
The 30-year-old Arab, who married a Norwegian girl in February of this year, had lived in Norway since 1966. On the evening of Saturday, July 21, he left a cinema with his wife when shots were fired at him from two passing cars. He fell dead at his wife's feet.
The cars from which the shots were fired at Bouchiki were among a total of five hired by a group of foreigners and later found abandoned near Oslo airport, the police said. Four arrests had been made. Later, there were two more. Nine more people are still being sought.
BY EVA SCHEER
Some reports said' that the police^ had been able to track down the cars because one of them was a white Japanese-made Mazda, a very unusual car in Norway.
A police spokesman stated that one of those detained, a woman thought to be Swedish, had said that she and her companions belonged to an idealistic pro-Israeli group which had executed Bouchiki because he had intended to carry out an act of terrorism.
Two ofthe other people arrested with the woman claimed to be members of a group fighting the Black September Arab terrorist organization which they knew was planning to attack either an Israeli Embassy or El Al offices in a Scandinavian country.
The group arrived in Norway a week earlier, tracked down a Black September agent and shadowed him for some days. He was followed to Lillehammer, where he was seen in conversation with Bouchiki. The two men were also seen studying some documents.
Those shadowing the Black September agent came to the conclusion that Bouchiki had been briefed ready to carry out an act of terrorism on behalf of Black September and decided to execute him. He was shadowed for the whole of Saturday and then killed in the evening, an arrested man was quoted by the police spokesman as having told the police.
The Norwegian press reported last week that Black September was operating in Norway and that its main agent in Oslo had been questioned by the police.
Two of the six people detained by the police were arrested at the flat of an Israeli security
officer, Yigal Eyal.
ItzhsUc kelenan, Israeli Ambassador in Oslo, and Meir Rosenne, Israeli Foreign Ministry's legal adviser, who flew into Oslo, held a meeting with Norwegian Government officials after the arrests.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry has stated that Norway had refused to hand over the two men arrested in Mr. Eyal's flat. Permission for a consular visit to the two men was also refused.
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FIND LETTER-BOMB
JERUSALEM—A letter discovered in Jerusalem sorting office, addressed in Arabic and mailed in Nablus with Israeli stamps and a Nablus postmark, was found to contain 60 grams of explosive and a detonator.
PALESTINIAN STATE
JERUSALEM—"The only possible solution to the Palestinian problem is establishment of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Hebron Mayor ^eikh Mohammed Ali Jaabari
stated in Arab daily, "El Anba."
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STRIKE THREATENED
TEL AVIV — Israel's 150,000 civil service workers decided to declare a labor dispute and to start a strike on August 15 unless their wages are increased
eight percent.
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RUSSIANS VISIT
TEL AVIV—A three-member delegation representing the Russian League for Friendship with Foreign Countries arrived in Israel for a fortnight visit as guests of the Israel-Russian Friendship League.
EVOKES ISRAEU DISMA Y AT CERTAIN COUNTRIES
ISRAELI SECURITY OFFICER in Norway, Yigal Eyal with his wife and son in Oslo. Norwegian police arrested two men in their home after murder of Moroccan Arab in nearby Lillehammer.
UNITED NATIONS - As expected, the United States vetoed the recent non-aligned nations' Security Council resolution on the Middle East. This was the fifth time that America had used her power of veto since the United Nations was formed in 1945, and the second time she had vetoed a resolution on the Middle East.
The resolution was sponsored by Guinea, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Panama, Peru, Sudan and Yugoslavia. It deplored Israel's continuing occupation of territory captured in the ^ix-Day War in June, 1967; criticised what it described as Israel's lack of co-operation; and called for "the rights and legitimate aspirations ofthe Palestinians" to be respected.
John Scali, the American representative, defended his veto of the resolution by saying that it would alter Resolution 242 (of November, 1967) which, he stated, was the basis for any agreement that might be reached.
The voting was 13 in favor and 1 (America) against. China, the 15th member of the Security Council, did not take part.
Sir Colin Crowe, the British representative, said that Britain's affirmative vote for the resolution "marks no change in the position which successive British Govern-
ments have taken on the Middle East question" since the adoption of Resolution 242.
Sir Colin said that Britain "deplored" the fact that Israeli armed forces remained in occupation of the territories captured in the Six-Day War and that "we also deplore the fact that a just and lasting peace has still not been achieved in the Middle East."
Earlier, Mohammed Zayyat, thjB Egyptian Foreign Minister, told the Security Council that a vote against the resolution would be a message to Egypt and all other Arab countries that Cairo "should surrender to' Israel and relinquish" its territory.
Britain's vote in the Security Council was deplored by the Israel Embassy in London. A spokesman said that if the resolution had been adopted, it would have "perpetuated the political deadlock in the Arab-Israel conflict."
In Jerusalem there was undisguised delight over America's veto of the resolution, although this is matched by disappointment that certain countries traditionally friendly towards Israel saw fit to vote for what is described here as "this highly un-(Continued on page 2) See ISRAELI DISMAY
