Is r a el w a r irs S y r i a a n d L e b anon
PEACE OFFERS RENEWED
JERUSALEM—Israel's Army is reacjy to move if the Syrians invade Lebanon in support of the terrorists. This was the clear message delivered by Moshe Dayan, the Israeli Defense Minister, as reports proliferated of Syria massing troops on the Leb-nese border.
Israel, Mr. Dayan Said in Haifa, ^11 intervene if her security is in anger-and no. one is under any liisiion that the appearance of e Syrian Army along Israel's resent border with Lebanon would regarded as anything other than threat to this country's security. Jowever, Mr. Dayan did not be-ieve that there would be direct Syrian intervention and he was equally firm in stating that Israel ould not interfere in Lebanon so ng as her own security was not mdangered..
At the same time, he warned <\e Lebanese that there could be o-compromise allowing the ter-
BY GEOFFREY D.PAUL
rorists to continue their activities against Israel which would be acceptable to the Israelis. Israel would keep up her pressure, he declared.
Despite alarmist reports in a London evening newspaper, there are absolutely no signs of widespread mobilization in Israel. Nor is the state of alert other than that normally maintained along all her borders by the Israel Defense Forces.
The growing tension inside Lebanon erupted into violence laist week when Arab terrorists in Beirut kidnapped two Lebanese Army corporals as hostages for terrorists arrested at Beirut airport after explosives had been found in their luggage.
The corporals were later released, but by then the fighting had begun, with Army tanks rumbling through the streets of the Lebanese capital and terrorists and troops machine-gunning and
rocketing each other's positions.
The Lebanese Air Force went into action against the terrorists, who have taken over the refugee camps, strafing camps in and around Beirut including one which adjoins Beirut's international airport^. ,
The ceasefire broke down and heavy fighting broke out again. The Lebanese Army then reported that terrorists from . Syria had crossed the border in Lebanon to give support to their comrades in Lebanon.
The terrorists from Syria were more heavily armed than those in Lebanon, with Soviet-made tanks, artillery and anti-aircraft guns. Lebanese Army units engaged them about six miles inside Lebanese territory.
The Israeli Goverment warned Syria that it would not stand idly by if the terrorist forces from Syria did nof withdraw from Lebanese territory. Later that day
PRIME MINISTER MEIR . . .secret talks
there were reports that they had indeed withdrawn, but Jerusalem^ source said that a number still remained in ' ebanon.
DEFENSE MINISTER DAYAN-. . .ready to move
Since then, reported ceasefires have alternated with bursts of (Continued on Page 6) See: ISRAEL WARNS
ISRAEL BRIEFS
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JERUSALEM — Israel's hpmr age to the $ix million Jews' wlib; died at the harids-ef the Nazis in the European Holocaust during the Second World War was even more sombre this year with the recent disclosure that two more concentration camps, hitherto unknown to the public, had operated in Germany. ■
The existence of the camps at Gotha and Gardelegen in East Germany, where thousands of Jews were exterminated apparently without any survivors, was revealed by Yad Vashem, the Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembr-
ance, Authprlty, in Jera
JPhdtogra^hs of including one showing the chimney of a crematorium still smoking, were given to Yad Vashem by Otis Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, during a recent visit to Israel.
The photbgraphs were taken by Mr. Chandler's father, Norman Chandler, a war correspondent who accompanied General Dwight Eisenhower, the. Supreme Allied Commander, on a" tour of the Nazi concentration camps two days after the Allied forces had liberated the area in May 1945.
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QUEEN GREETS 25TH
JERUSALEM — A message of "cordial congratulations and warm good wishes" from Queen Elizabeth n was among greetings received by President Shazar from world leaders to mark Israel's 25th Anniversary.
B-Q CHIJI6ES MiriD
TEL AVIV—Former Premier David Ben-Gurion says he has changed his mind about returning most of administered Arab territories in exchange for peace.
NEW AIR FORCE CHIEF
JERUSALEM — Israel's Air Force chief for past seven years, Major-General Mordechai ("Mot-tie") Hod has retired and will be succeeded by Air Force chief of operations Benyamin Peled.
New extreme right-wing group maJcing gains in West Germany
[ne of Canada's better known sonalities, PhilipGivens, Q.C., address the community on frsday, May 24, 8 p.m. at the tre, room 100. Provincial ber of Parliament for Tor-and president of the Can-n Zionist Federation, Mr. ns was mayor of Toronto also member of the federal lament for Toronto area, cific Region, C.Z.F. is open-the evening to the entire munity due to widespread in-st in the visit here of Mr. ^ns whom officials described ne of Canada's most disting-ed civic, provincial and ral leaders.
r many years paralleling his
life in ' Canadian politics as one of Canada's leading Zionists, Mr. Givens was past president of Toronto Zionist Council, past national Z.O.C. vice-president and delegate to the world conference on Soviet Jewry in Brussels.
He was elected president of the Canadian Zionist Federation during its third biennial convention in Ottawa last October, before 1,000 delegates from every point in Canada.
Amnon Gil-Ad, director, Israel Government Tourist Office for Canada, will also attend the meeting.
The evening has been scheduled as an executive council meeting of Pacific Region C.Z.F. convened to hear the national president.
BONN -- The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) is in a state of disarray, heavily indebt and trying desperately to hold on to its dwindling membership, the Interior Ministry reported recently.
But, according to West German security services, a new extreme right-wing organization is in the ascendence and appeals to many of the same elements that flocked
Represents Nixon in 'Watergate'
WASHINGTON — Leonard Garment,' Brooklyn-born Jewish lawyer, has been entrusted with representing the White House in ail aspects of the Watergate case. President Nixon announced recently.
Garment, whohasbeenasj)ecial consultant to the President regarding minorities and civil rights for almost four years, undertook his additional duties after meeting with Nixon at Camp David.
The President said that Garment will represent the White House "in all matters relating to the Watergate investigation and will report directly to me."
to the NPD in its heyday a few years ago.
The new group is the "Aktion Neue Rechte" which the security services say is developing into the country's most militant right-wing extremist organization.
It has close contacts with extreme right-wing groups abroad and subjects its members to strict training and discipline.
The "Aktion Neue Rechte'^ is headed by a former NPD official, Siegfried Poehlmann.
Earlier this year it broke with Dr. Gerhard Frey, publisher of the newspaper "Recht Und Ord-nung", and now publishes its own news organ, "Stimme Der Neuen Rechten."
Frey is also publisher of the rightist National Zeitung which in the past espoused neo-Nazi views.
The NPD, which in the late 1960s stirred alarm in West Germany and abroad by capturing seats in virtually all of the provincial parliaments, has been on the decline.
It suffered a major electoral defeat in last year's national elections and incurred massive debts in the process.
It is now facing a rapid decline of due-paying members and many of its senior functionaries
have withdrawn to pursue their private business.
Nevertheless, according to the Interior Ministry, the NPD is making a "do.-or-die" effort to survive.
SOVIET NIXES VISAS
NEW YORK — Twenty-five Soviet Jews who applied for first time for exit visas received refusals from oviroffice in Moscow, it was reported by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. No names were immediately available.
Kissinger sympathetic to Soviet Jewry issue
WASHINGTON
Three
national Jewish leaders met Dr. Henry Kissinger to discuss the situation of Soviet recently for 40 minutes with Jewry They said that President Nixon's national security advisor was "sympathetic to our presentation" and were "encouraged by Dr. Kissinger's response and by his assurance that the channel of communication between the White House and the Jewish community on the issue (Soviet Jewry) will remain open."