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Franz Josef Strauss, former Defense Minister of West Germany, on his return from a controversial visit to Israeli called for West Germany to exchange ambassadors with that country. 'The establishment of diplomatic relations with Israel would be an act of historic restitution," the leader of the Bavarian branch of Chancellor Adenauer's Government party said, reports the New York Times. Mr. Strauss said he understood the Chancellor was considering his proposal seriously.
The German Federal Republic and Israel have had elaborate official contacts in the last decade related to the execution of a f 700,-000,000 restitution and compensation agreement signed in 1068.
Under that agreement Israel established a purchasing mission in nearby Cologne, staffed in part by professional diplomats. A number of Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Shimon Peres, have-been quietly received at Bonn in recent years.
Bonn, however, Has shrunk from an exchange of ambassadors out of concern for the reaction of Arab governments. It has been feared that diplomatic recognition' of Israel .would move Arab states to retaliate by establishing diplomatic ties with the East German Communist regime.
Mr. Strauss said that .Bonn should stop worrying about Arab reactions. He said an exchange of ambassadors with Jerusalem'could not be considered an anti-Arab move,-pointing out that the Soviet Union' has � big, �nb�say. in
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"We cannot let others decide what we should do," said the former Defense Minister.
The outspoken Bavarian polti-tician, who has a talent for controversy at home and abroad, undertook a private visit to Israel last month against the advice of more cautious colleagues, says the New York Times. He returned with public opinion largely swung to his side.
He said he believed his trip had helped to improve relations between the two peoples and had contributed to the normalization of relations between Israel and West Germany. Mr. Strauss asserted that he had hardly noticed demonstrations against him by Israeli groups. He offered the opinion that protests against his appearance were motivated primarily by internal political considerations.
The former Defense Minister, dismissed last November because he had caused the arrest of four journalists he considered guilty of disclosing military secrets, said he had continued regular contacts
with Isareli officials on security questions. He declined to enumerate any specific agreements.
It is persistently asserted that Bonn has rendered substantial military aid to,'the Israelis in recent years. The help has presumably been channeled through France, which openly renders such support.
Mr. Strauss said that Bonn should "make its political influence felt" to help maintain peace in the Middle East. "However, it is not possible for the Federal Republic to participate directly in the security efforts of Israel," he said.
Discussing the work of rocket scientists from West Germany in the United Arab Republic, Mr. Strauss said his Christian Socialist party would support legislation to forbid such activity unless it had Government approval.
He said the work of the German scientists "should not be over-estimated," says the New York Times. The bombardment rockets developed in the United Arab Republic were fitted out with a "poor electronic-guidance system," ne added.
Franz Josef Strauss, former West German Defense Minister, left Israel stating that he was "deeply impressed" with the achievements there. His departure was as quiet as his arrival ten days before on a visit at the invitation of Premier David Ben-Gurion, says the New York Times.
"I .was deeply impressed," Mr. Strauss said, %y the initiative and the spirit of sacrifice I observed everywhere in the build-up i&&9r&*�*ty *& io, $he.develop-ment of the land."
He also commended Israel for her system of collective farm settlements, industry, scientific and technological progress, and the performance of the army and air force.
He expressed his gratitude to the Israeli population for greeting him "correctly and in a very friendly way." Israeli officials suggested that "friendly" was not exactly the attitude of the majority of Israelis toward the Strauss visit. However, they said most Israelis understood the necessity for such visits as part of the developing relations between Israel and West Germany.
Three faces in a newspaper cartoon seemed to tell more of Israel's ambivalent attitude toward contemporary Germany than all that has been said and done recently in the public forum. This attitude again lends itself to scrutiny because of the visit to Israel of Franz Josef Strauss, the controversial former West German Defense Minister. Two of the faces in the cartoon, by Dosh, for the newspaper Maariv, have been crossed out. One of them depicts
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an angrily snouting man, the other a broadly smiling man.
Between the two is Dosh's, symbolic Israeli, a snub-nosed youngster with forehead curl sprouting' out from under the brim of his cloth kibbutz hat. The expression on his face is of passive resignation. The cartoon caption reads "Facing the visitor."
The attitude of the average Israeli reflects both the politically realistic policy of conciliation with Germany personified by Premier David Ben-Gurion, says the New York Times, and the nighly emotional anti-German view personified by Menachem Begin, leader of Herut, the conservative nationalist opposition party.
Mr. Ben-Gurion effectively appeals to Israeli pragmatism when he.contends that Israel's vital interests prohibit the spurning of any friendly hand, particularly if that hand is proffered by one of Europe's major powers and a close partner of the nation that Israel considers her best friend � France.
That this hand bears a historic stain of Jewish persecution does not change the real-politic of the situation in which Israel finds herself, in the view of the Premier.
But for Mr. Begin that stain is everything. The Herut leader's most effective argument, because it answers to the sub-conscious suspicions of many Israelis, is that the basic German character hits undergone a change of form but not of substance since the days of Hitler.                                 *
That-the Israeli Army has^M to drop the letters �SSf' from it" new French-built anti-tank rocket, the SS-11, demonstrates the lasting potency of the dark legacy, left by Hitler to Europe's surviving Jews. The SS was the Nazi's elite guard organization.
What weakens the advocacy by Mr. Ben-Gurion and Mr. Begin of the respective positions is that the former has a tendency to go too far and the latter not to go far enough.
For many Israelis the methods employed last fall by Mr. Strauss against the news magazine. Der Spiegel (The Mirror), that led to his forced resignation were only too reminiscent of Hitler's epoch. The magazine had criticized West Germany's defense system. Its publisher and a number of his editors and reporters were arrested on suspicion of treason.
Furthermore, the timing of the visit so soon after the disclosure of the activities of German rocket experts in the United Arab Republic, says the New York Times, which led to an acrimonious internal political squabble and the resignation of Israel's chief security officer, seemed unpropopi-tious.
Consequently many Israelis felt that the Strauss visit properly could and should have been put off for a time without in any way harming the country's relations with West Germany.
The Premier was obdurate, which in the view of many, would have been all right if he had limited himself to stressing West Germany's and Mr. Strauss' undeniably important contributions to Israel's security and to the advancement of her foreign and economic policies in Western Europe.
But this was not enough for Mr. Ben-Gurion. First, he insulted the Herut party in a manner that many thought gratuitous by recalling that members of Herat's predecessor movement, the Revisionists, had 30 years ago "glorified" Hitler as a model leader for a nationalist movement.
Then, in rejecting a request by a former Nazi prisoner's association that the Strauss visit be canceled, the Premier implied that distrust of Germany based on emotions did not constitute valid ground* for opposing his conciliation policy and even smacked of the very racialism that characterised the Hitler regime.
Thus baited, the Opposition led Herat* sobffht unxoccessfulljr
The Basel, Switzerland, public prosecutor said that an Israeli accused of having threatened the daughter of a West German scientist working in the United Arab Republic acted with justified concern for his country.
The prosecutor, Hans Wieland. asked that the alleged agent, Josef Ben Gai, 33 years old, be given a three-month suspended sentence and that his alleged accomplice, Otto Joklik, an Austrian nuclear scientist, be fined and given a 100-day suspended sentence, says the New York Times. Summing up the prosecution case in the trial of the two men, Mr. Wieland said that Mr. Ben Gal's understandable concern and his love for his country must be considered in his favour.
Both men pleaded innocent, to the charge of attempted coercion. They are accused of threatening Heidi Goercke in an attempt to stop her father, Paul Goercke, an electronics expert, from working on rockets for Egypt.
As Mr. Wieland spoke, Mr. Ben Gal sat facing the judges, his back toward the public and the press gallery. Throughout the trial only the judges, lawyers and court officials nave seen his face. The prosecutor said that Mr. Ben Gal had made massive and intensive threats against Miss Goercke, but that his motives could not be considered dishonorable.
He said: "I do not pretend to know what is happening in Egypt, but the activity of these German scientist has quite understandably created the deepest concern. This is not just an Israeli-Egyptian affair, but it is of concern to the wtole world."
jf>r. Joklik testified that he him-. j$f J&d stopped working for Egypt and had left the country when he learned that Egypt's rockets were intended for use against Israel. He said that Egypt planned to contaminate the air over Israel with radioactive cobalt 60 and strontium 90.
The testimony was given by Austrian-born Dr. Otto Joklik, aged 42 years, at the opening of his trial on charges of acting as an Israeli agent and trying to coerce West German scientists to stop rocket development work for President Nasser s government.
"These projects go far beyond the defense requirements (of Egyptians)," said Dr. Joklik, a former German army officer. "They constitute a deadly threat to Israel and other states, even a threat to European cities. The whole enterprise is nothing but a continuation of the extermination of the Jews."
The newspaper, Maariv, said that the Egyptian Army had failed in attempts to buy radioactive cobalt 60 and strontium 90 from
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Defense Attorney Georges Brun-schvig submitted documents purporting to show that Egypt had bought enough radioactive cobalt 60 to contaminate all of Israel for five years. He said the documents were invoices which proved the purchases of massive amounts of the radioactive materials.
Dr. Joklik told the court he had a hand in these purchases before breaking with Cairo. He said the invoices were correct.
Mr. Brunschvig^elso introduced a letter allegedly .written by Prof. Wolfgang Pilz, reported chief of foreign scientist* working on rockets for Egypt, which mentioned consignments of 400 and 500 rockets. "It should be clear that-a total of 900 rockets is by no means destined for space research," the attorney said. "These rockets have other purposes."
The two defendants were arrested March 2 in Zurich and charged with "attempted coercion" in trying to get Miss Heidi Goercke, aged 24 years, to go to Cairo to persuade her father, rocket expert, Paul Goerke, tolfluit working for Col. Nasser. %*.f'         f"*
The prosecutfog ajrijd^wiss Goercke was lured from ner home in Freiburg, in West Germany, to a Basel hotel, reports the New York Herald Tribune, and then threatened with "grave consequences" for her father if she did not follow instructions from Ben-Gal.
Miss Goercke, looking pale and nervous, testified that Dr. Joklik told her that Israeli agents would kill her father if he did not abandon his work. Dr. Joklik sharply denied her statement. She flew from Cairo to attend the trial. She was accompanied by her brother, Rainer, 21, who was with her during the March 2 meeting with the two accused in the hotel.
The Egyptian build-up of aircraft and rocket power with the assistance of European, mainly West German, scientists has created great anxiety in Israel in the last few months. In April it was reported that 600 Europeans were aiding Cairo in this work.
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When Robert Anthony Bagnato is ordained four years from now, he wilt be the only Jesuit priest in the world who has two degrees from Yeshiva University, in New York. ^
The University searched its records and found that Mr. Bagnato is the first "aspiring priest" to attend Yeshiva. He received the Master's degree in Mathematics last year, and got the Doctor of Philosophy degree in the same field at commencement on June 13.
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