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Two Sides of War
These two photographs illustrate conflicting sides
of the Israeli crisis, two aspects as opposite as any
could be. At right an Israeli soldier stands before his
camouflaged tank to pray to his Maker, seeking
peace and expressing thaiiks for His manifold bless
ings.- Above, some of the Israel soldiers receive the
surrender of Egyptians in Gaza in front of an Moslem
mosque.
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VoL XLII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1967
President Johnson Offers
5-Point Program for Peace
-HO. 25
V 1
Kosygin Reiterates- ‘Charges’
Against Israel to,UN Assembly
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) — Reiterating the usual
Soviet charges against Israel, Is
well ss the £ 'cusations that the
United States and Britain “pro
moted” Israel’s “aggression'
against the Arab states, Soviet
Premier Aleksei N. Kjsygin, in
his tddress at the emergency
special session of the UN General
Assembly — which r was called
upon the insistence of the Soviet
Union—demanded the withdraw
al of Israel’s forces from the “oc
cupied” Arab territories, the re
imbursement of “the full cost of
all it has destroyed” in Arao
lands, and “the return of the cap
tured property within the short
est possible time.”
The Soviet Premier also voiced
a direct threat against Israel by
stressing that early thi". month,
leaders of the seven Communist
ments, and should respect the
status of the demilitarized zones
as prescribed in those armistice
agreements;
“3. Also demand that Israel
should restitute in full and within
the shortest possible period of
time all the damage inflicted by
its aggression upon the United
Arab Republic, Syria and Jordan,
and their' nationals and should
return to them all seized prop
erty and other material assets;
“4. Appeal to the Security
Council to undertake on its part
immediate effective, measures in
order to eliminate all consequ
ences of the aggression committ
ed by Israel.”
Kosygin charged Israel with
committing “violence” in seized
territories. “In the same way as
Hitler’s Germany used to appoint
gauleiters in the occupied regions,
countries had declared that their ~ the Israeli Government is estab-
govemments "would do every
thing necessary in order to aid
the peoples of the Arab countries
to deal a firm rebuff to^the ag
gressor, to safeguard their leg
itimate rights, to quench the hot
bed of war in the Middle East
and to restore peace in that re
gion.” Kosygin then introduced a
draft resolution under which the
General Assembly would:
“1. Resolutely condemn the ag
gressive actions ot Israel and the
continuing occupation by Israel
of a part of the territory of the
UAR, Syria and Jordan, which
constitutes an act of aggres
sion;
• “2. Demand that Israel should
immediately and without an”-
condition withdraw all its forces
from the territory of those states
to portions btytond the armistice
demarcation lines, as stipulated
in the general armistice agree
lishing an occupation administra
tion on the seized territories and
appointing its military governors
there,” he said.
Israel Foreign Minister Abba
Eban harshly castigated the So
viet Union following Kosygins
address. He said that the Soviet
Union cannot be “the judge” of
the present Arab-Israel crisis,
and had come here only to ag
gravate the situation instead of
seeking peace. Telling the Gener
al Assembly that he would show
how the Soviet Union has been
aggravating the Arab-Israel sit
uation for 15 years, Mr., Eban
said that the facts he would cite
would disprove “today’*, intemp
erate utterances” by the USSR.
The Israeli minister rejected
completely the USSR’s proposals
as voiced by Kosygin,' for con
demnation of Israel, for calling
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Russia Suspends
Jewish Emigration
LONDON (JTA) — The Soviet
Union has temporarily suspend
ed the emigration of Russian
Jews to Israel, due to the Middle
East crisis, it wa’fe reported here
from Moscow. The report said
that some 40 Jews who already
had exit visas were not permitt
ed to leave the country. So far,
there has been no official Soviet
, comment on the matter.
The staff at the Israel Embassy
in Moscow, meanwhile began
leaving the Soviet capital today,
following the break in diplo
matic relations between the two
countries. Ten Israeli diplomats
and their families left this
morning by air for Tel Aviv.
Lift Travel Dan
Word was received in Atlanta
Wednesday afternoon that the
U.S. State Department had lifted
the ban on travel in the Middle
East -
Amnon Gil-Ad, director of the
Israel Tourist Office, said per
mission to travel would affect
students and volunteers for
work in Israel as well as the
tourists.
Sinai Wells Yield
Oil for Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An Israeli
Government official said here
that oil production from SOiai
Peninsula wells was estimated at
100,000 barrels a day while Is
rael’s consumption averages 40,-
000 barrel* a day “and the con
sequences are obvious.”
Dov Ben Dror, who is m charge
of fuel supplies, added that* Is
rael was no longer dependent on
other nations for oil and it might
well be that the southern port of
Eilat would terve not only as n
port for importing oil but also
for exporting.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Pres
ident Johnson has outlined a five-
point program for Middle East
peace based on the recognized
right of national life, innocent
maritime passage, justice for the
Arab refugees, limits to the arms
race, and “political independence
and territorial integrity for all.”
Addressing the Foreign Policy
Conference for Educators, Presi
dent Johnson stressed that the
main responsibility for a settle
ment rested upon the Arab
states and Israel. He said that
“clearly the parties to the con
flict must be the parties to the
peace. Sooner or later it is they
who must make a settlement in
the area. It is hard to see how
it is possible for nations/to live
together in peace if they cannot
learn to reason together.”
He said America had supported
the peacekeeping role of the
United- Nations and also recog
nized the value of mediation. The
President stressed that in pur
suing peace America was ready
to see any method tried and be
lieved that “none should be ex
cluded altogether. Perhaps all of
them will be useful and all will
be needed.”
President Johnson aaid that in
working for a peaceful settle
ment he appealed to all “to
adopt no rigid view on theae
matters.” He said that the United
jS&tes would “do its part for •
peace in every forum, at every
level, at every hour.” But “the
main responsibility for the peace
of the region depends upon its
own peoples and its own leaders
of that region,” he declared.
“What will be truly decisive in
the Middle East win be what k
said and wharfs done by those
Who live in tK%liddla East”
President Johnson said that
“certainly troops must be with
drawn, but there must also be
recognized rights of national
life—progress in solving the
refugee problem—freedom of in
nocent maritime passage—limi
tation of the arms race—and
respect for political independ
ence and territorial integrity.”
The President stated that “if
a single act of folly was more
responsible for this explosion
than any other, I think it was
the arbitrary and dangerous an
nounced decision that tht JEtmlt
of Tiran would be closed.” He
pointed out that “our nation has
long been committed to free
maritime passage through inter
national waterways, and we,
along with other nations, were
taking necessary steps to imple
ment this principle when hostili
ties exploded.” President John
son listed “justice for the refu
gees” as a “basic requirement for
settlement”
Emphasis was made by Presi
dent Johnson on a conviction
that “the first and greatest prin
ciple is that every nation in the
area has a fundamental right to
live, and to have this right re
spected by its neighbors,' He
said that “for tbs people mt the
Middle East, the path to hope
does not lie in threats to end the
life of any nation. Such threats
have become a burden to the
peace, not only of that region
but a burden to the peace of the
entire world.”
The President said that “te a
climate of peate, we bora win
do our full share to help with a
solution for the sefugees. We lpre
will do our full share in support
of regional cooperation.”