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Israel Premier Dies
In Height Os Crisis
By ELTAV SIMON
, JERUSALEM (UPI) — Pre
mier Levi Eshkol, who guided
Israel through its gravest
political and military crisis of
• the decade, died today at the
height of a new Arab-Israeli
confrontation. He was 73.
Al Fatah Arab commandoes
claimed responsibility for his
• death but the premier’s attend
ing physician attributed it to a
heart attack, Eshkol’s third in
three years.
• The cabinet met three hours
and 15 minutes after his death
and named Deputy Premier
Ylgal Allon as interim premier,
• pending recommendations by
Eshkol’s Mapal party on a
permanent successor.
The Al Fatah claim, reported
, from Damascus, referred to the
Arabs’ Monday night shelling of
Eshkol’s rural home at Dega
niah, near the Sea of Galilee in
the Jordan Valley.
• The Arabs said they shelled
the home because of Intelligence
reports that Eshkol was there
at the time. The Israeli
• government said he had been in
Jerusalem during the shelling.
“His death came today to
confirm the truth of our
• information,” said a spokesman
for the Al Fatah group in
Damascus.
“Al Fatah boasting,” replied
• a spokesman for the Israeli
foreign ministry. “It is the most
ridiculous and infantile of the
Fatah’s one thousand one nights
a fairy tales.”
Physicians disclosed that Esh
kol had been ailing since
suffering a heart attack last
Feb. 3 that had not been
• announced publicly. He had
suffered his first heart attack in
1965, they said.
The foreign ministry said
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i Wednesday, Feb'. 26, 1969
Eshkol had been in Jerusalem
• since suffering the Feb. 3 heart
: attack, and other Israeli sour
, ces pointed out that Eshkol’s
' rural home was still in tact to
further discredit the Al Fatah
: claim. Arab commando sources
in Damascus said Eskhol had
: been seriously injured in the
i shelling and brought to Jerusa
. lam.
Political sources said Mrs.
i Golda Meir, a former foreign
minister or Abba Eban, the
; current foreign minister, were
the most likely candidates to
succeed Eshkol. They expessed
doubt that the choice would be
- Defense Minister Moshe Dayan,
the hero of the 1967 war whom
the Arabs fear as a hawk.
Eshkol was recovering from
i Influenza at his official res
-1 idence when stricken with chest
. pains that precipitated the heart
, attack. His physician, Prof.
Moshe Rahmilet Rahmilevitz,
was summoned to his bedside
i and at first reported his
. prospects good. But Eshkol’s
I condition deteriorated and the
, old fighter for a free and
independent Jewish state died
i at 8:15 a.m. (1:15 a.m. EST).
Jerusalem Radio reported his
» death one hour and 45 minutes
i later, and a crowd gathered
almost immediately to stand in
I silence outside the high wall
I that surrounds his residence in
; the Erehavia section of Jerusa
. lem.
i Defense minister Moshe Day
an, to whom Eshkol had
■ entrusted Israel’s armed forces
i just prior to the six-day war of
; 1967, flew from Tel Aviv to join
i other cabinet members who
I rushed to Eshkol’s home.
i Although Allon was expected
to be named acting premier,
d political sources doubted his
Television Review
Okay,
Despite Sterotypes
By RICH DU BROW
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — The
conflict between a nonconfor
mist young scientist and the
square, suburban company that
employed him was the basis of
an original CBS-TV drama,
“The Experiment,” Tuesday
night.
Although the 90-mlnute drama
by Ellen M. Violett was
sometimes diffuse—and a little
preachy with several cliche
characters—it was by far the
best of the “CBS Playhouse”
productions to date.
It was a very fine way to
spend 90 minutes Tuesday night,
for several reasons. One is that
despite the occasional decline
into stereotyped reactions, the
feel of the so-called generation
gap was transmitted with more
genuineness than one might
have expected.
Another reason is that the
performances by M. K. Dou
glas, son of Kirk Douglas, and
INTRODUCES BILL
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Rep.
Robert V. Denney, R-Neb„ has
introduced a bill which would
extend the income tax filing
deadline for farmers from
present Feb. 15 to March 15.
Denney said the extra month is
needed because bad weather in
January and February often
hampers farmers from getting
help to file their complex
returns.
chances to succeed Eshkol.
They tabbed Mrs. Meir, who
taught school in Milwaukee,
Chicago and New York before
coming here in 1921, and Eban
as the most ligely candidates.
Finance Minister Plnhas Sapir
was another possibility.
Eshkol, who entered politics
when malaria forced him to
abandon his lifelong love of
farming, was a political mani
pulator who came to power
June 26, 1963, by solving a
political crisis that had forced
the resignation of his old ally
and Israel’s first prime minis
ter, David Ben-Gurion. Eshkol
formed the coalition of parties
around his Maipai party that
still governs Israel.
Eshkol served as both prime
minister and defense minister
until 1967 when he turned
defense over to Dayan, the one
eyed hero of the 1967 war.
Eshkol’s latest political crisis
was earlier this month when an
interview in Newsweek maga
zine touched off a rebellion in
his coalition.
Newsweek quoted him as
saying Israel would return
certain Jordan territories it had
won in 1967 to the Arabs if it
would lead to permanent peace.
He denied the statement, and
the Knesset gave him an
overwhelming vote of con
fidence that salvaged the
coalition and preserved Eshkol’s
political strength.
Election of a new Knesset is
scheduled for later this year, a
factor political sources believe
will complicate the nomination
of a new prime minister.
Eshkol had been taken ill in
1965 with what was unofficially
described as a heart attack, but
there never had been any
official confirmation of it.
Tisha Sterling, daughter of Ann
Southern and Robert Sterling,
were true and forceful and
affecting as the young scientist
and the girl who lives with him,
pretending to be his wife.
Believable
In the story, the young lovers
are just out of college, where he
has been a brilliant student,
wrapped up mainly in his work,
and where she has been a
political activist. But more than
their specific roles, Miss
Sterling and Douglas were
wholly believable in expressing
the relationship of their contem
porary love and wishes. In her
idealism and directness, Miss
Sterling particularly scored in
getting across what many young
persons find wrong with esta
blishment values.
The catalyst—the recruiter
who brings Douglas Into the
firm—was portrayed by that
fine actor John Astln, who had
the interesting role of a
middleaged man who sympath
ized with the young man
because of his own past
idealism—but who had long
since bent to compromise.
Professional Job
Barry Sullivan did his usual
professional job with an ill
defined role—a pivotal member
of the firm whose troubles with
his own daughter lead him to a
distressing showdown with Miss
Sterling, especially after he
finds out she is not married to
Douglas. The daughter was
played by Susan Strasberg.
“The Experiment,” produced
by Martin Manulis and directed
by Robert Butler, was well cast.
And the story of what happens
when a longhaired, casually
dressed, college nonconformist
is absorbed into corporate
suburbia is surely well worth
going into. It is nice to report,
by the way, that “CBS
Playhouse” finally found a
place for natural humor arising
from some of Tuesday night’s
situations. Until now, "CBS
Playhouse” has been a dreadful
ly, fatally serious place.
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ROGOVIN APPOINTED
WASHINGTON (UPD—Atty.
Gen. J.hn N. Mitchell has
appointed Charles H. Rogovin,
an assistant attorney general in
Massachusetts, as administrator
of the Law Enforcement Assis
tance Administration. The agen
cy was created by the 1968
Omnibus Crime Act to help the
Justice Department aid state
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NO NEW AUTHORITY
i WASHINGTON (UPD—Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew has
been given “no new authori
ty...and no additional duties”
because of President Nixon’s
absence from the country,
according to the White House. A
team of communications ex
perts ' and their elaborate
equipment has been assigned to
Nixon to keep him In constant
contact with Washington during
his travels.
OUT OF POLITICS
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Clarence Clyde Ferguson Jr.,
the man appointed to coordinate
relief for Biafra and Nigeria by
the United States, will stay out
of politics, according to the
State Department. A spokesman
said Ferguson “is not a political
mediator” and will deal “only
with relief matters” when he
travels to the war-torn region to
find ways to alleviate the
suffering there.
ACTIONS SATISFACTORY
WASHINGTON (UPD—House
Speaker John W. McCormack
says President Nixon’s “actions
to date have been satisfactory
plus.” The Massachusetts De
mocrat said in a television
interview Sunday (Issues and
Answers — ABC) that Nixon
should send a complete policy
message to Congress, rather
than a series of peacemeal
proposals.