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WASHINGTON, (JTA) -
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan said Tuesday that “A for
mula will be found” to reconvene
the Geneva peace conference
before the end of this year,
despite the differences between
Israel and the United States that
ns are
at his talks Monday
with President Carter and his
principal aides.
“Americans better understand
now our position” and “we shall
be more understanding of the
American position,” Dayan told
the heavily attended press con
ference at the Washington Hil
ton here Tuesday afternoon.
Responding to questions, . the
Israeli Foreign Minister spoke
in conciliatory tones but he also
displayed adamancy on such
issues as IsruTs refusal
in any manner with the
iestinian Liberation
“The issue of the Palestinian
state is so important for us I
don’t really think, even though
the U.S. and President Carter’s
Late news
In local reaction to the
PLO problem, the Atlanta
Carter
which
we respectfully
request that the
States Government abide by
its past assurances tint H
does net recognise the
legitimacy of the P« v
s V*ffohnh Chnwtii ' ** '
By Yitzn&K onsrgti
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israeli
military circles have expressed
serious concern over Egypt’s
construction of s tunnel under
the Sues Canal that will link
Egypt with Sinei for the first
time in ever MO years.
According to reports from
Cairo, work has just begun on
the digging phase of the project
which calls for three tunnels un
der the 109-mile long waterway
to be
'atacost
The first tunnel
completed next
According to military circles,
the tunnel will give Egypt *
military advantage that would
nullify the value of the 1976
Sinai interim agreements. They
cited reports that the tunnel
beneath the 196-foot-wide, 42-
foot-deep canal will be broad
mough for two lanes of traffic,
the passage of tanks,
eno
perm!
vehicles.
It wfcold be extremely
for lerael to detect suc„
movements and it coukf be con
fronted overnight with the
transfer of two battalions of
tanks from Egypt proper to
Sinai, one observer said.
But Israeli political circles
seem lees concerned . They say
there is no cause for Israel to
See Susa, Page 26
any
so long
infistance
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on
West Bask,
acknowledged that the Garter
administration differs with
Israel on these matters, but he
said that this President did not
hint of any U.S. Use of its aid
program to Isreel to induce it to
accept Washington ideas.
“I haven’t felt anything of this
kind,” Dayan told a questioner.
would
impose it on us. They will try to
convince us,” he <
As though to support his op
timism over the Genova
Conference, Dayan said, “I es
timate Geneva can be convened
before the end of the year with
See Dayan, Page 26
Russians want to bl6ck
Israel from Olympics?
by Jo&ph Polakotf
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A large bi-partisan bloc of Congressmen
has protested in « letter to the U.S. Olympic Committee that the
Soviet Union and ita Third World allies are engaged in a process to
prevent Israel from competing In the Olympic summer gamee in
Moeeow in 1960.
Eighty Congressmen, 45 Democrats and 86 Republicans, have
signed a letter originated by Rep. Jack Kemp (R. N. Y.) and mailed to
Robert Kane, president of the Olympic Committee in New York.
In a floor speech last week in the House, Kemp said that “acom-
bihed Soviet-Third World campaign is undierway* against Israel by
reducing Israel's membership in the 26 Olympic Federations to less
than five, the minimum required for national participation.
To participate in Olympic Games, a nation must belong to at least
five Federations, Kemp noted. “The Israelis do not belong to all 26
Federations to start with because they do not field teams in all
events, especially the winter sports. Under pressure from the Soviets
and Third World nations, die Israelis are being forced out of these
Federations one by one, and usually on a technicality never
otherwise applied. The goal? To have the Israelis down to loss than
five Federations by 1960.”
Kemp told Congress that “when the final crunch cornea, the
weapon against the Israelis will be “
vote equating Zionism and racism.”:
can be expected to show up at all the
UN resolution in hand, demanding the exclusion s! Israel on those
grounds. South Africa was excluded from the Olympics on the
grounds of racisms* expressed in a similar resolution.”
Saying “the Soviets and their cohorts intend to politicise the sports
just like they have tried to politicise everything rise,” Kemp said,
“the Congress of tbs United States cannot sit idly by and watch this
happen, for die attempt may be successful if the U.S. leadership is
not shown andahown early.” TV.,
ten me unai cruncn comes, me
be the outrageous United Nations
i.” He said ’Third World delegatee
the Federation meetings with t|e
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