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France Adds Support Kissinger Returning to Mideast
to Palestinian Guerrillas In Search of Further Progress
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP)
— “France believes it is high time
for the international community to
recognize the legitimate
aspirations of the Palestinian
people.”
With this declaration, French
Foreign Minister Jean
Sauvagnargues, addressing the
General Assembly last week, in
dicated clearly that France plans
to support the murderous Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) in
its request for a full hearing here at
the UN when the Assembly
debates the controversial agenda
item under the heading “Question
of Palestine."
Noting that France is ready
“to contribute to the quest for a
settlement based exclusively on the
genuine interests of the peoples of
the region and acceptable to the
parties concerned,” the French
Foreign Minister, on second
thought, hastily added: “among
which my country is far from
forgetting Israel" (to vtfhich one
might say — mazal tovl)
Pointing to the fact that his
country “favors a settlement based
on resolution 242 of November 22,
1967, the Foreign Minister mis-
TEL AVIV, (JTA) A captured
terrorist who admitted he was on a
mission to seize hostages in Israel
said on a television interview Sun
day, Sept. 29, that the Lebanese
authorities and army are fully
aware of terrorist movements in
southern Lebanon and could stop
them at any time if they so desired.
Haled Mahmoud Yassin, 28,
who comes from the Lebanese
coastal town of Tripoli, was cap
tured by Israeli forces during a
Bank Crisis
Worsens
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Yitzhak Rabin telephon
ed Finance Minister Yehoshua
Rabinowitz who was attending the
International Monetary Fund con
ference in Washington Monday to
return home immediately because
of the worsening crisis involving in
vestments by the Israel Economic
Corporation in the tottering finan
cial empire of Swiss-Jewish banker
Tibor Rosenbaum.
The government-sponsored cor
poration, established in 1969 with
the assistance of Jewish
businessmen from North America
and Europe, is believed to have
sustained losses in excess of $20
million as a result of the failure of
Rosenbaum's International Credit
Bank of Geneva.
interpreted that resolution by say
ing that "it provides for Israel’s
withdrawal from the territories . . ”
He should know that 242
deliberately omitted the words
“the" and “all" so as to make it
clear to the world that Israel was
not obligated to withdraw from all
the areas as even he himself in
dicated directly after his reference
to “withdrawal” by stating that
the resolution called for “com
mitments to peace giving each
state the right to live in peace
within secure and recognized
boundaries."
skirmish near Fassouta in Upper
Galilee on September 3 in which
two of his companions were killed.
Yassin, a member of Naif
Hawatmeh’s Popular Democratic
Front for the Liberation of
Palestine appeared on the Arabic
television broadcast. He said that
he and his fellow terrorists in
filtrated into Israel under orders to
capture hostages and hold them
for the release of terrorists in
Israeli jails. He said their orders
were to blow themselves up along
with their hostages should the
Israeli authorities refuse to make
the exchange. They were also
ordered to kill anyone who tried to
interfere with their mission, Yassin
said
According to Yassin, terrorists
come and go at will in southern
Lebanon despite the fact that the
region is a military area, heavily
patroled by the Lebanese army
which knows of the terrorists'
movements and could stop them
from entering Israel. He said that
he and his compansions passed
through Lebanese villages in broad
daylight, in full view of soldiers
and civilians who knew their iden
tity
Police identified an Arab
laborer killed whena bomb explod
ed in an Egged bus Sunday mor
ning as a member of a terrorist
gang in Gaza.
They said that Ibrahim Hilmi,
23, died when the bomb he intend
ed to leave in the Tel Aviv central
By Joseph PolakofF
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger will visit Egypt, Syria,
Jordan and Israel from October 9-
13 inclusive on his eighth trip to
the area in search of further
progress towards a Middle East
settlement.
The State Department said his
purpose is to continue con
sultations on negotiations looking
to “a just and lasting peace” in the
Middle East. An announcement in
Cairo, however, went further, say
ing that Kissinger would continue
consultations “on the coming stage
of the Geneva talks on a just and
permanent peace.”
Neither the Washington nor the
Cairo announcements, which had
long been expected, elaborate on
details. Kissinger indicated some
movement towards additional
views from the Arabs in that he in
vited Arab League leaders to
dinner Monday night in New York
where they are attending the
United Nations General
Assembly. The dinner was at the
U. S. Mission to the UN.
The Secretary, inNew York for
four days, was to meet separately
bus terminal exploded prematurely
as his bus carrying workers from
Gaza entered Tel Aviv.
Hilmi was employed in the bus
garage in Gaza. A search of his
home there yielded a quantity of
potash, the chemical base used in
the manufacture of explosives,
police said.
Meanwhile, another terrorist
suspect, Ahmed Mouhamed
Yassin, 30, was arraigned before a
military tribunal in Nablus on
charges of membership in the
National Palestinian Front, the
military arm of the Palestinian
Community Party.
According to the charges,
Yassin, who was employed as a
city engineer in Nablus, underwent
training near Moscow for acts of
sabotage to be carried out in
Israeli territory.
The prosecution contended that
Yassin was recruited by the NPF
in 1971 and was sent to the Soviet
Union the following year to par
ticipate in an institute on Marxist-
Leninist doctrines attended by 250
youths from all over the world, in
cluding several others from the
Israel-administered territories.
In addition to the studies, the
youths were sent to a camp near
Moscow for training in the use of
firearms and explosives, first aid
and techniques for resisting the
dispersion of demonstrators, the
prosecution said. Yassin's trial will
begin a few weeks.
Wednesday with Israeli Foreign
Minister Yigal Allon and with
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail
Fahmy. Before Kissinger left
Washington, he had lunch follow
ed by a working session, with the
Syrian Foreign Minister, Abdel
Halim Khaddam.
Kissinger had met with the same
foreign ministers in the continuing
round of Middle East discussions
at the White House and State
Department in Washington that
stretched over most of last
summer. His present round of
talks appears to be a reprise of the
summer meetings, compressed
into a few days, to acquaint the
Secretary with the latest thinking
on both sides of the Middle East
Chagall’s Chicago mosaic, “Les
Quatre Saisons’’ (The Four
Seasons), was dedicated here
September 27 in a public ceremony
at the First National Plaza. The
Jewish artist came here from his
home in the south of France to of
ficially unveil the gift which took
two years to create.
Chagall said he chose the four
seasons theme because “There will
be many people going through this
plaza in the heart of the city of
Chicago. In my mind, the four
100-Member Israel
Philharmonic
On 14-City Tour
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, in
cluding for the first time on an
American tour recent Soviet im
migrant musicians, arrived here
Monday to begin a 14-city tour un
der the auspices of the United
Jewish Appeal.
In their sole appearance in New
York, the orchestra, conducted by
Daniel Barenboim, will perform an
al I - Beethoven program at
Carnegie Hall October 13 in a con
cert which will be the first public
event to be held under the auspices
of the new United Jewish Appeal-
Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies campaign. Three of
the musicians are also scheduled to
appear at the opening session Oc
tober 10 of the 1974 Business-in-
the-Arts luncheon series sponsored
by the America-lsrael Cultural
Foundation at the Israel Culture
Center here.
The 100-member orchestra,
founded in 1936 as a haven for
musicians from Europe, has added
more than 20 new immigrants in
recent years, most of whom are
newcomers from the Soviet Union.
Many of the orchestra's past and
present members were helped in
their resettlement in Israel by the
Jewish Agency.
conflict before he visits the region
again.
The announcements of
Kissinger's trip came while Arab
oil producing nations were fuming
at the Secretary and President
Ford for their attacks against their
petroleum output and pricing prac
tices.
In that connection, the State
Department was asked today
whether Saudi Arabia, the largest
oil producer, was not included in
the Kissinger itinerary since that
country was presumed to have
been originally on his schedule.
Spokesman John King replied that
there had been "some speculation”
about Saudi Arabia's inclusion but
it is not on the schedule.
seasons represent human life, both
physical and spiritual, at its
different stages.
The artist first visited this city
some 30 years ago for an exhibit of
his work at the Chicago Art
Institute and to give a lecture at
the University of Chicago. He
returned in 1958 to lead a seminar
of the Committee of Social
Thought which was chaired by
William Wood Prince.
The mosaic, which included 128
panels, was underwritten by Mr.
and Mrs. Prince through personal
gifts to the Prince Foundation. It is
owned by the Art in Center, Inc., a
non-profit organization formed to
own the mosaic and for other
public art purposes, and will be
maintained by the First National
Bank of Chicago.
Israel's Ambassador to the
-United Nations Josef Tckoah.
speaker at the October 12 Israel
Bond Dinner of t ribute honoring
Isidore Vllcrman. Story on Page
13.
Lebanese Could Stop Terrorists,
Captured Infiltrator Says on TV
Chagall Mosaic Unveiled
CHICAGO, (JTA) — Marc