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Sharon’s plan spurs U.S. to restate settlement stand by Joseph Polakoff TSPs Washington correspondent WASHINGTON—Israelis were reminded by the State Department May 27 that their control over “occupied territories” is not in accord with United States policy and “settlement activity” on the West Bank continues to be an “obstacle to peace.” A Department spokesman, Charles Redman, was asked about a report that Israel’s Trade and Industry Minister Ariel Sharon plans a 150 acre industrial park in the area of an Arab village lOmiles south of Hebron and also about British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s statement at the close of her four-day visit to Israel that, “We must consider an alternative,” to the Palestine Liberation Organ ization. Thatcher was the first Brit ish prime minister to ever visit the Jewish state. The Washington Post said that Sharon “unfolded a map” in the village of Dir Razah and “on camera told an aide he wanted the area enclosed in a few weeks and road construction to begin immediately thereafter.” The village of 1 50 peo- PARIS (JTA)—The government has ordered a full-scale investiga tion into the granting of a doctoral degree by Nantes University to a candidate whose thesis claimed that the gas chambers were a figment of “Jewish imagination” and the Holocaust in fact did not occur. Alain Devaquet, minister of higher education and scientific research, demanded an administrative and university investigation of the procedures which allowed the the sis to be accepted and gave it top grades. The author is Henri Roques, a retired 65-year-old agricultural engineer and amateur historian. He submitted his thesis to the Paris Sorbonne and several other major universities, all of which rejected it. But Nantes University appointed an academic jury which examined the 371-page work, pronounced it excellent and granted Roques an F r Ariel Sharon pie, the Post said, is “perched on an outcropping of rocks in the harsh hills.” The park is to “provide jobs for the area’s Jewish settlers,” the Post added. “Sharon’s plan,” the Post said, “has also generated controversy within the cabinet of (Israeli) Prime Minister Shimon Peres, with some Labor Party ministers complain ing the September 1984 National Unity Coalition agreement limited new Jewish settlements to six and that it also would deplete funds needed for new development towns academic degree. Devaquet told a parliamentary commission that the government was “deeply disturbed by the alle gations tending to deny the exist ence of gas chambers and of the Nazi Holocaust policies.” The episode was brought to the ministry’s attention by 60 Nantes University faculty members who protested acceptance of the thesis. Asked about the report, Red man said, “We continue to believe settlement in occupied territories is an obstacle to reaching a just and lasting peace.” Redman sidestepped Thatcher’s comments regardingthe PLO. She made her statement after being urged by eight Palestinian leaders that the PLO has to be involved in the peace process. The solution, she indicated, was “some sort of federation” between Jordan and the occupied West Bank and Gaza. She also suggested mayoral elec tions in the West Bank and Gaza to establish leaders whom Palestinian Arabs would support. While in Washington a month ago. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said that in the last elections in 1976 the PLO intimidated the voters in order to have only PLO sympathizers win. Without directly touching on Thatcher’s comments, Redman said, “We have long said we would wel come increase in Arab control and a reduction in Israeli control over the day-to-day life of Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza. As a practical matter any new arrangement to be successful would require acceptance by all the con cerned parties.” Washington policy on Israeli control over East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan had not changed since the Six-Day War, contending that Israel is to withdraw from them except for insubstantial changes. The U.S. does not recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital nor unified Jerusa lem as being under Israeli sover eignty. 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