a217  1028  28 Aug 75
Soviet Jews 310
By LYNNE OLSON
Associated Press Writer
    MOSCOW (AP) - A prominent Jewish activist was interrogated by
authorities for six hours amid growing signs that another crackdown on
dissidents is in the offing, 10 Jewish scientists said Thursday.
    The Jews, members of a weekly scientific seminar, said Mark Azbel, a
physicist in whose apartment the seminar is held, was questioned at
the Moscow prosecutor's office Wednesday.
    The scientists said they were afraid a criminal case was being drawn
up against the seminar, designed to provide up-to-date knowledge to
scientists who have been refused permission to emigrate and who lost
their jobs as a result.
    ''Our worst fears are coming true,'' the scientists said in a
written statement. ''Will the only form of scientific discourse for
those deprived of their work for wanting to leave for Israel be
destroyed?''
    Abel said his interrogator declared the seminar was designed to sow
discord between nationalities - a charge which can be punished with a
jail term of five to eight years.
    Azbel, who was turned down for a visa two years ago, was threatened
by the secret police in May with prosecution unless he stopped
holding the seminar.
    The questionning of Azbel, together with three recent trials of
Jewish activists in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa, show that officials are
mounting pressure against the Jewish movement, the sources said.
    In the Odessa trial, Lev Roitbud was sentenced to two years in a
labor camp after being convicted of violently resisting arrest. This
week, two former students were given three years in a camp for
refusing to serve in the army.
    In addition, the sources said 14 families in Moscow alone were
turned down in their emigration requests Monday, and several persons
who had been refused earlier were called in unexpectedly to be refused
again.
    
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a242  1232  28 Aug 75
Kissinger-Mideast Take 2 150
ALEXANDRIA Kissinger-Mideast add: villa.
    He said he expects to return to Egypt for at least one more
''negotiating'' round.
    In reply to a question, Kissinger said ''there will be no military
commitments on the part of the United States'' to Israel.
    It is understood, however that one provision of the pact assures
Israel of top-level consultation with the United States if the Soviet
Union takes military action against the Jewish state.
    Also, the accord is expected to unfreeze Israel's long-standing
request for massive U.S. arms shipments of sophisticated weapons as
F15 Jet Eagles, mobile Lance missiles and laser-guided bombs.
    Sadat said he also will be asking the United States for military
aid. The Egyptian leader said the agreement would have a ''very
positive'' impact on relations with Washington, which he described as
already ''the best.''
    
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n036  1816  28 Aug 75
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EDITORS: THIS IS FOR PAPERS DESIRING A LONGER STORYU.
 
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statute of limitations has already been twice prolonged,
can escape prosecution after the end of 1979. Three thousand
defendants have not yet been brought to trial. ''The average
age of a Nazi defendant nowadays,'' Ruckerl said, ''is 65.
Increasingly it is getting dif
take action on new tips though we continue to get them from
the Soviet Union and, above all, from Poland.''
    But last July 10, German authorities succeeded in arresting
a Victor Araijs, an SS-Sturmbannfuhrer who has been charged
with systematically murdering between 10,000 and 30,000
Latvian Jews from 1941 to 1943.
    Araijs, 65, has been sought for the past 25 years. The
prosecutor, Lothar Klemm, says he has been collecting additional
pieces of evidence from witnesses in the Soviet Union over
the last four years.
    Araijs was discovered almost by accident: In an investigation
of a rumor that he had been murdered in West Germany by
foreign agents. ''The prosecutors in Stuttgart were questioning
a witness who then mentioned that he might be living in the
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a066  0426  02 Sep 75
$ADV 04
ADV PMS THURS SEPT 4
Spandau Recalled take 2
HEIDELBERG Spandau Realled add: consequences. 460
 
    As he did in his first book, Speer focuses in great detail on Hitler
and his relationship with the Nazi dictator.
    ''Certainly he was a real monster, but this monster had his good
sides,'' Speer said. ''He was a charming person, willing to help those
who worked with him . . . What I mean is that one should not
neutralize Hitler as a historical figure. One should always see that
he was a real person . . . with many sides that contradicted each
other.''
    Speer said Hitler neither foamed at the mouth nor chewed on carpets
and that any idea that this is what Hitler did would bring the danger
that people in future would not recognize another Hitler should he
come along.
    Speer said that if Hitler had been content with the power he had
gained by 1936-37 and let the Jews alone, ''he would have been the
mightiest man in Europe for a long time.''
    Speer said he could not say if the Russians would one day have
attacked Germany had Hitler not attacked them.
    ''I don't like to compare Hitler with Napoleon, because in my
opinion, Napoleon was superior,'' Speer said. ''But he made the same
mistake . . . Like Hitler, he gambled it all away on literally a
single throw of the dice instead of consolidating what he had.''
    In both his first and second books, Speer states he did not know of
the excesses against the Jews committed in the Nazi name, but adds,
''I should have known.''
    Again, as in his first book and as he did in the dock at Nuernberg,
Speer said he nonetheless accepted full responsibility for what
happened during the period of the Third Reich.
    The only one of the seven Nazis still inside Spandau is Rudolf Hess,
Hitler's deputy who is now 81. Hess flew to Scotland in 1941,
parachuted into a field, said he was there to make peace and was
interned. Both the British and Hitler denounced him as mad.
    Speer said he believed that Hitler would have welcomed a separate
peace with England and would have welcomed Hess home as a hero had
Hess succeeded. But he emphasized that Hitler did not know that Hess
had undertaken to offer the British a peace bid.
    ''I was by chance present when the aide de camp of Hess delivered
the letter to Hitler in which he announced his flight to England and I
could hear the screams of Hitler when he read it and this certainly
was not acting,'' Speer said. ''All the excitement which followed in
the next hours . . . was also in my opinion, the truth.
    ''So I am convinced that Hitler did not know anything about it, but
I am also convinced that if Hess succeeded with his ideas of a peace
with England, he would have been welcomed by Hitler as the hero of
Nazi Germany.
    ''Because Hitler wanted in this time, too, under his conditions, of
course, a peace with England. His conditions meant that he be the
dominating power in Europe and that he guarantee on the other side the
British Empire and that he has a free hand towards Russia.''
    END ADV PMs Thurs. Sept. 4. Sent Sept. 2.
    
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a293  1724  02 Sep 75
Mideast Reaction 470
    LONDON (AP) - European governments and newspapers generally welcomed
the nonagression agreement reached by Egypt and Israel with the help
of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, but some commentators were
wary.
    Communist publications were predictably unenthusiastic.
    Official Soviet comment was not expected for a day or two, but Tass,
the Soviet news agency, distributed overses comment in line with its
practice of quoting opinions that may reflect Moscow's view.
    Tass said the Washington Post called the agreement a minor step
bought at the price of further American involvement in the Middle
East. It also quoted New York Times reports that the pact aroused
criticism in U.S. congressional circles.
    In London, the British government warmly welcomed the accord
although the Foreign Office declared it only ''a step toward a just
and lasting settlement in the Middle East.''
    The Foreign Office added: ''The important thing now is to insure the
momentum gained will be used to make further progress toward a
comprehensive solution of the problems of the area.''
    British newspapers praised Kissinger for his diplomatic ''coup.''
    Some recalled, however, that not all Kissinger's successes were
permanent, noting his peace pact with North Vietnam.
    The British Communist Morning Star wrote that ''despite all the
ballyhoo, Dr. Kissinger's jet-age to-ing and fro-ing between Israel
and Egypt has produced little more than a frontier adjustment between
opposing sides.''
    In Paris, an official spokesman said the French government ''can
only rejoice at what is evidently an element to consolidate peace.''
    The right-wing L'Aurore lauded the ''reassuring fact'' that Soviet
''expansionism in the Middle East is broke'' while the independent
Figaro contended that ''if Kissinger could undertake such commitments,
it could only have been with the tacit understanding of the Soviet
Union.''
    Le Monde said: ''Kissinger can win his gamble only if the risks of a
conflict continue to recede. One can ask to what degree these small
steps bring a final peace closer.''
    A West German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Bonn hails ''any step
that improves the Middle East situation and strengthens hopes for a
Middle East peace.''
    The Stuttgarter Zeitung commented, ''Israel and Egypt have
undertaken, with America's help, a serious attempt to learn from their
history, which is marked with four wars in a quarter-century.''
    In Belgium, the Laatste Nieuws said the pact was ''the best accord
the Jewish state ever signed with an Arab land,'' but La Cite wrote:
''Since the heart of the problem - the fatherland of the Palestinians
- is not included in the accord nor in the plans, the medicine might
fail.''
    
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a328  2010  02 Sep 75
Egypt Reaction 290
    CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Editorials in Egyptian newspapers Wednesday
nef,nded the new Sinai agreement with Israel against criticism in
Egypt and the Arab world.
    The semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram noted that Egypt had agreed to
permit nonmilitary cargo for Israel to pass through the Suez Canal but
added:
    ''Egypt has decided that fees collected by the canal authority on
Israeli cargo will be given to the Palestine Liberation Organizaton to
bolster its struggle against the Jewish state.''
    Another Cairo newspaper, Al Gomhouria, said the Soviet Union would
be given only a text of the agreement.
    It said Egyptian President Anwar told editors he had instructed
Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy only to relay the text to Moscow
''because Egypt does not seek the view of anyone on its own affairs.''
    It also said Sadat recalled that in a recent Cairo conversation with
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko the Russian diplomat
complained that Egypt was favoring America. The paper quoted Sadat as
saying he told Gromyko:
    ''We are bound by a treaty with your country and provide you with
naval facilities in the Mediteranean, a privilege which America does
not enjoy. If anyone has to complain, it would be the United States.''
    Al Gomhouria quoted Sadat under a banner headline as saying Egypt
had ''fully achieved the objectives of the October (1973) war'' but
''We are committed to the defense of Syria in case it is attacked.''
    Aly Hamdy el Gammal, editor of Al Ahram, used a front page editorial
to minimize Egypt's agreement to let Israeli general cargo pass
through the Suez.
    He wrote that Israel wasn't very interested in using the waterway
anyway because it receives both military and nonmilitar goods via the
Mediterranean.
    
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a224  1047  04 Sep 75
Middle East Costs Bjt Take 2 400
WASHINGTON Middle East Costs Bjt Add: Egypt.
 
    Much of this would be in military aid to the Jewish state but with
an increasing amount devoted to helping stabilize Israel's economy.
    The money for Egypt will include arms aid as well as economic
assistance in line with promises made by the secretary to President
Anwar Sadat to help him replace Soviet military aid.
    Again, these are minimum figures and don't take into account aid
that might be given to Syria as part of upcoming negotiations between
Israel and Damascus concerning further troop separations on the Golan
Heights.
    Neither do they include assistance Kissinger might want to use to
bring other Arab nations into a tighter relationship with the United
States. Those sums aren't available now.
    One item sources say is not included for either Egypt or Israel is
atomic energy facilities in spite of agreements made in 1974 to
provide reactors to both nations.
    Israel still refuses to allow international inspection of its
existing nuclear facilities, a condition of the agreement, and Egypt
won't go along until Jerusalem changes its stance.
    In anticipating objections that the high cost of the aid is
blackmail to get the two sides to agree, administration officials say
the United States was committed already to a large assistance
program, particularly to Israel.
    Further, they argue, in the long run, getting Egypt and other Arab
nations linked to a major economic program with the United States will
pay off politically and financially.
    It will give the United States a major advantage over Moscow and
seriously reduce the likelihood of a new Arab oil embargo, they
assert.
    Israeli sources also explain that they are not happy being so
dependent on Washington for military and economic aid. Once the
Israeli military is strengthened and modernized and the economy
stabilized, the Jerusalem government wants nothing so much as to drop
all aid.
    These sources point out that until the 1973 Middle East war, Israel
paid for all its military needs. But they concede a return to that
status is unlikely for at least five years.
    
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a073  0433  05 Sep 75
Briefs 400
    NEW YORK (AP) - Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, starts at
sundown today, ushering in year 5,736 on the Jewish calendar.
    The holiday also marks the beginning of a 10-day period of high holy
days which culminates with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, at
sundown Sept. 14.
    Concern over the fate of Soviet Jews and the future of Israel were
the dominant themes at temples and synagogues as the holiday began.
    Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld, president of the Rabbinical Council of
America, the Orthodox body, assailed a threat to expel Israel from the
United Nations. He said such action ''will destroy any meaningful
effort in the international peace pursuit.''
---
    NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Mamie Eisenhower, widow of President Dwight
D. Eisenhower, will christen the nuclear aircraft carrier named for
her husband when the vessel is launched here Oct. 11.
    A spokesman for the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.,
builder of the ship, said Friday that Vice President Nelson A.
Rockefeller will be the principal speaker for the event.
    The carrier is scheduled for delivery to the Navy in 1977. After the
launching, it will go to an outfitting pier for completion.
---
    TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese ambassador to Italy, Naraichi Fujiyama,
will be Emperor Hirohito's chief press spokesman during his visit to
the United States, officials reported today.
    Fujiyama, 59, was recently named to the post in Italy, and will
delay going there until after the emperor's American tour, from Sept.
30 to Oct. 14.
---
    KELSO, Wash. (AP) - For a limited time only, at a special one-time
price of $12.50 each, the city of Kelso offers its public a used
parking meter sale.
    Parking meters were removed from the streets of this southwest
Washington community earlier this year in an economy move.
    Glenn Cliffton, public works director, said he has had several
queries from interested buyers who want to use the meters as
conversation pieces or lamps.
    He said a parking meter dealer has offered to purchase the lot at
$12.50 each, but Kelso has decided to let it citizens have first
crack at the supply. Cliffton says the remaining meters will be sold
to the dealer.
    
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a201  0912  05 Sep 75
                                AP NEWS DIGEST
                              Saturday AMs
 
    Here are the top news stories in sight at this hour. The General
Desk supervisor is Sam Dobbins. He can be reached at 212-262-6093 if
you have an urgent question about the spot news report:
 
                              THE ECONOMY
 
    WASHINGTON - The government says the number of Americans with jobs
increased in August, a strong sign the economy is recovering from
recession; wholesale prices increased eight-tenths of one per cent.
New Material. Economic Roundup. Developing. Wirephotos NY18,19.
 
    WASHINGTON - The economic destinies of rich and poor nations are
inseparable, says World Bank President Robert S. McNamara; the
International Monetary Fund completes a week-long meeting. New
Material. Developing. Wirephoto Covering.
 
    UNDATED - Consumers shopping for 1976 cars will get more information
than ever before about the mileage rates and fuel efficiency.
Consumer Scorecard. By Louise Cook. Will Stand.
 
                            PRESIDENT FORD
 
    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - President Ford addresses a joint session of the
California legislature as he winds up a two-day West Coast political
and speech-making tour. New Material. Developing. Wirephoto SC3.
 
                            INTERNATIONAL
 
    LONDON - A bomb explodes at lunchtime in the lobby of London's
Hilton Hotel, killing two persons and injuring 41. New Material.
Wirephotos LON15,17,18.
 
    KHARTOUM - A coup attempt fails in Sudan and its leader is killed.
New Material. Wirephoto NY17.
 
                             MIDDLE EAST
 
    TEL AVIV - Israel reinforces its military and police guards on the
northern frontier to deal with any Arab guerrilla attacks during
Jewish New Year celebrations. New Material.
 
    UNITED NATIONS - The Soviet Union is reported to have complained
about stationing of U.S. civilian lookouts in strategic passes under
the U.S.-sponsored Israeli-Egyptian Sinai agreement. New Material.
Wirephoto Covering.
 
                             WASHINGTON
 
    The Postal Service says it will not raise first-class mail to 13
cents until after the Christmas season. New Material. May Stand.
 
                              NATIONAL
 
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller
confers with local leaders behind closed doors as pickets spread a
wildcat strike across west Virginia and into Pennsylvania. Developing.
 
    
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a214  1007  05 Sep 75
Israeli Bjt 430
By DAVID LANCASHIRE
Associated Press Writer
    TEL AVIV (AP) - Israel reinforced its military and police guards on
the northern frontiers Friday to deal with any Arab guerrilla attacks
against Jewish New Year celebrations and the Mideast truce pact.
    Palestinian guerrilla movements have pledged to fight U.S. Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger's new accord, which calls for a second
stage Israeli withdrawal from Snai in return for political
concessions from Egypt. The pact was signed Thursday in Geneva.
    Seaborne Israeli troops landed on the coast of Lebanon Thursday in
an antiguerrilla raid, and the Israelis later traded fire with
Palestinians in the Lebanese border zone, where Israeli picnickers
were converging for the Jewish New Year holiday.
    In a New Year's message to Jews around the world, Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin said the Kissinger accord could ''open a new horizon''
of peace in the Middle East, but he warned that the pact must be
''kept in good faith.''
    Lt. Gen. Mordechai Gur, the chief of staff, said that in the coming
year Israel ''must continue building up our military deployment'' and
''continue our military struggle against the terrorists.''
    Gur said the past year showed ''unprecedented growth'' of Israel's
military strength, but the army must be made stronger and ''we must
recruit every Israeli into defense force services.''
    Israeli commentators appeared unperturbed that the Soviet Union
boycotted the signing of the Kissinger pact in Geneva, but Rabin said
in a newspaper interview that ''some measures of Soviet-American
cooperation will be needed'' later in the Middle East peace process.
    Rabin was pessimistic about future peace negotiations with Syria. He
told a civil service meeting that Israel could afford to give back to
Syria only a matter of meters on the Golan Heights, and Syria would
not accept an Israeli withdrawal of ''200 or 300 meters.''
    Syria wants a complete Israeli pullback on the Golan Heights, but
Rabin said the Israeli-held ridge south of the Golan capital town of
Quneitra ''is a first-class defense line and we cannot give up even
one meter there.''
    Israel's Netivei Neft oil company reported Friday it was still
pumping from the 85 wells at the Abu Rudeis oilfield, which Israel was
to return within eight weeks under the Kissinger pact.
    A company executive said ''we will continue to work the field until
we are told otherwise,'' but that the field and its equipment would
be handed over to Egypt intact.
    Israel blew up dozens of Egyptian installations west of the Suez
Canal before giving them up under Kissinger's previous disengagement
pact last year.
    
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a060  0310  06 Sep 75
Kissinger-Mideast 470
By GENE KRAMER
Associated Press Writer
    UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) - Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
turned his personal diplomacy today from the Middle East conflict to
the problems of the developing countries.
    Completing a two-day visit to the United Nations, Kissinger
scheduled separate talks with several Third World statesmen on closing
the gap between rich and poor nations, the subject before a General
Assembly special session.
    Kissinger, fresh from his latest round of shuttle diplomacy that
produced the new Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement, spent most
of Friday explaining the new pact to U.N. officials and diplomats.
    Under the accord, Israel will pull back from the Gidi and Mitla
mountain passes and return to Egypt the Abu Rudeis oilfields. Egypt
will occupy the old buffer zone, while the U.N. peacekeeping force
will patrol the territory to be vacated by Israel. Both countries
agreed to renounce the use or threat of war.
    Kissinger predicted the agreement would be accepted by Congress, the
American public and the Soviet Union, which boycotted the
Egyptian-Israeli signing in Geneva. Diplomats said the Soviets
registered displeasure over its provision for 200 American civilian
technicians to operate monitoring equipment in the Sinai.
    Kissinger said that when Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko
comes to New York in mid-September, ''He and I will have an extended
conversation on the subject and I believe that at the end of that
conversation we will reach an understanding . . . I do not expect that
we will face an insoluble problem.''
    The secretary said he is ''fairly optimistic'' Congress will approve
sending the U.S. technicians to the Sinai.
    In Israel, military and police guards were reinforced on the
northern frontiers to deal with any Arab guerrilla attacks as Jewish
New Year celebrations began Friday. Palestinian guerrilla movements
have pledged to fight Kissinger's new Middle East accord.
    Police reported a bomb thrown from a speeding car damaged a clothing
store in downtown Tel Aviv early today but there were no injuries. No
other incidents were reported.
    In other developments:
    - Palestinian guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat said in an interview
with the leftist Beirut magazine Al Akhbar that the new Mideast
involvement of the United States ''through the presence of military
technicians, or military technicians in civilian clothes, will cost
the United States a heavy price such as it paid in Saigon and Phnom
Penh.'' He said the guerrilla movement ''definitely will take specific
measures to counter the new Sinai accord.'' He did not elaborate.
    - The finance minister of Kuwait, Abdul Rahman S. Al-Ateequi said in
Washington that Arab nations would use ''every weapon at hand,''
including new oil embargos, if the new Sinai agreement fails to lead
to a durable peace in the Mideast.
    
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a073  0405  06 Sep 75
Kissinger-Mideast INSERT
UNITED NATIONS Kissinger-Mideast a060 Insert after 9th graf:
reported.
 
    In a state radio interview in Tel Aviv marking the Jewish New Year,
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin predicted the Soviet Union would attempt
to undermine the new Sinai accord.
    ''There is no detente in the Middle East between the powers, or else
it exists in such an obscure and limited fashion that to all intents
and purposes it does not exist at all,'' Rabin said.
    ''I assume the Russians will attempt to undermine the agreement by
means of Libya, the Palestine Liberation Organization and any
extremist element in the Arab world,'' he said.
    In other 10th graf
    
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a089  0526  06 Sep 75
Rabin 460
By HAL MCCLURE
Associated Press Writer
    TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today predicted
the Soviet Union would attempt to undermine Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger's new Sinai peace accord as the two superpowers wage a
battle for hegemony in the region.
    ''There is no detente in the Middle East between the powers, or else
it exists in such an obscure and limited fashion that to all intents
and purposes it does not exist at all,'' Rabin said in an interview
on state radio to mark Jewish New Year celebrations.
    He said Soviet displeasure at the United States and its intentions
to station 200 civilian technicians in the Sinai in surveillance posts
was expressed by Russia's boycott of Thursday's ceremony in Geneva at
which Israel and Egypt signed the pact.
    Israel agreed to return the Abu Rudeis oil fields and withdraw from
the strategic Gidi and Mitla passes and both sides promised to
refrain from use or threat of force.
    The Soviets, Rabin said, are dissatisfied ''to put it mildly'' over
''the apparent establishment of a Pax Americana in the Middle East.''
    Reports from the United Nations said the Soviet Union had complained
to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim about its exclusion from the new
peace arrangements and the introduction of American technicians into
the Sinai area.
    ''The Soviet Union is the main supplier of arms to the Arab nations
. . . the provider of the war option rather than the political
solution in the Middle East,'' Rabin said.
    ''I assume the Russians will attempt to undermine the agreement by
means of Libya, the Palestine Liberation Organization and any
extremist element in the Arab world.''
    Kissinger predicted on Friday he would be able to persuade the
Russians to drop their objections to the disengagement pact.
    Speaking of the agreement itself, Rabin said Israel expects that
after it goes into effect ''it will create conditions, an atmosphere,
which will bring about a change in the relationships between Egypt
and Israel . . .
    ''I would not want us to delude ourselves that we have achieved
peace and quiet and can sit back and rest. The agreement, as I have
said . . . is both an opportunity and also a risk.
    ''We shall be facing problems in the other sectors: terrorism in
Lebanon, the Syrian issue. So it would be a fundamental mistake to
assume that the political and defense arena can be described as
quiet.''
    The prime minister pledged an orderly return of civilian
installations included in the turnover area, saying ''I do not want
another Quneitra.''
    Rabin referred to the Israeli devastation of Quneitra, the capital
of the Golan Heights, before it was returned to Syria in the agreement
worked out by Kissinger in May 1974.
    
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n008  0734  07 Sep 75
SAFIRE COLUMN
Editors: Please identify the following as commentary.
ESSAY: The Chiao Document
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
c.1975 N.Y. Times News Service
    WASHINGTON - This is a big week for Chinese-American relations.
The first official trade delegation from Peking has arrived,
and is laying the groundwork for a major step forward in trade
that will be the centerpiece of President Ford's visit to
China, now planned for around Thanksgiving.
    Chinese oil will fuel the lamps of trade; income from
oil drilling will enable them to buy U.S. goods. A vice premier
of the People's Republic was once able to quip to
visiting U.S. businessmen: ''We will not drill so deep as to
come out in the United States.''
    By coincidence, a report of a speech made three months
ago in Tientsin by Chiao Kuan-Hua, the Chinese Foreign Minister,
was dropped in my lap. The source is an official of the Taiwanese
government, who says it is based on notes taken by more than
one person in the audience on May 20 when Chaio spoke to a large
group of middle-level officials.
    The document is surely incomplete, possibly garbled, and comes
from a reliable but unfriendly source after having been through
several hands. I do not think it is a fabrication, but the reader
is warned that the authenticity of this account of Chiao's
speech can be challenged. Here are a few selections from what
a top leader may have been telling his subordinates, not for foreign
consumption:
    1. (Itals) On Soviet-American relations: (Unitals( ''Recent
world situation is marked by the trend of continued decline,
decadence, and demoralization of the United States, and
expanding clamor and aggrandizement of social imperialism. The
Soviet revisionists want the United States to draw back its
dirty hands and wash them in the Mississippi River...and
follow the path of Charles de Gaulle...and the United
States is doing just that, much to the glee of the Soviet
revisionists.'' Later, he adds: ''The struggle for the hegemony
between the United States and the Soviet Union will eventually
lead to an outbreak of war.''
    2. (Itals) On recognition ofIsrael: ''Once the Republic of
Israel was established, you cannot say that it is not
there. At any rate, you cannot return the Palestinian refugees
to their old homes, because then you will create Jewish refugees.
This is a thorny problem indeed. Vice Minister Wang once asked
Chairman Mao whether or not we should recognize Isarel.
Chairman Mao replied: 'In the battle between Wei and Wu,
K'ung Ming cleverly seized Chingchou and Hsiangyang, and stood
on T'aishan watching tigers fight.'''
    My handy pocket Chinese Talmud (and an earlier reference in
the document) suggests this recalls the wars of the ''Three
Kingdoms'' of China, around the time of Christ, and means that the
smart warrior urges his foes, ''Let's you and him fight.''
But Chiao suggests the fighters will not be the Arabs and Jews.
    ''My personal view is that it is vetter to have an Israel
than not to have one. Let it remain there, but we will not
recognize it.
    The Soviet revisionists want to fight the U.S. imperialists.
The sultans
and sheiks of the Arab world, big and small, would then
have a place to spend their money on...Let them buy Soviet
planes to fight against U.S. planes, and let them buy U.S.
rockets to fight against Soviet tanks. In the end, the question
will be who will emerge the victor, not whether the Jews of
Israel or the Palestinian people will vanish from this earth.
Rather, it is certain the revolutionary storm will drive
away the aggressive influence of U.S. imperialism and Soviet
revisionist social imperialism, totally overthrow the parasitic,
decadent, and oppressive feudalistic ruling class, thereby
establishing a bright Middle East of the people.''
    3. (Itals) On North Korea's wish to take over the south:
(Unitals) ''No one, including ourselves, can interfere. Unless
Korea is again invaded by imperialists, and the battle flames
reached the Yalu river, then we will have to send troops
because 'without the lips, the teeth will feel the cold.'
But as long as it is only a domestic matter of theirs, we can only
provide them with moral support and material aid,
and before that we must take a look at the situation
then and the attitude of our Korean comrades. 'To oppose
imperialism, but not to oppose revisionism,' I am afraid,
will not work.'' In other words, if the North Koreans
want to play footsie with the Soviets, they'll get no real help
from the Chinese.
    The last couple of paragraphs of the Chiao document trouble
me; the style seems slightly different, as if tacked on in
transit, like the end of the Book of Job. One message is that
more U.S. perseverence in Southeast Asia may have paid off, and
another heavyhandedly points fingers at the leaders of neighboring
nations - somehow, that smacks as too usefully embarrassing to
be quite true, and I will not quote them here.
    After all, none of the Chiao document has yet been
authenticated by China-watchers or given the imprimatur of the
People's Republic, and - as they say - without the lips, the
teeth will feel the cold.
 
 
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n023  1010  07 Sep 75
EMIGREE
By MYRON FARBER
c.1975 N.Y. Times News Service
    NEW YORK - A Russian emigree who said she had been terrorized
by ''Soviet agents'' in this country since her arrival last year
asserted Saturday that the Soviet Union was engaged
in a program of testing poison gases on unwitting Soviet
citizens, many of whom have died as a result.
    The emigree, Luba Markish, a 29-year-old Queens resident,
said that she had been unknowingly drawn into the
experiments as a chemistry student at Moscow State University
in 1968 and had suffered severe damage to her lungs as well as
facial and other burns.
    Other human guinea pigs in the experiments, apparently
designed to examine the ability of the body to withstand the
gases, including soldiers, peasants and pregnant women in
various parts of the Soviet Union, she said in an interview.
    During three years in which she was treated and observed in
Soviet hospitals, Mrs. Markish said, she met about 100
people who had been deliberately exposed to toxic gases. She
said she had heard of many other cases.
    Mrs. Markish said that ''people who take their orders from
Moscow,'' had tried since September, 1974, to dissuade her
from writing a book about the experiments. Last Wednesay,
she said, her apartment in Rego Park was broken into and
portions of the manufscript and related documents were
stolen, while some jewelry and other valuables were left
untouched.
    Among the items taken, according to Mrs. Markish, was
a copy of a letter received on Aug. 22, 1975 from Aleksandr I.
Solzhenitsyn, in which the exiled Russian author offered his
support in publicizing the alleged gas experiments.
    Another copy of the letter was produced by Mrs. Markish at
the interview at the offices of Novoye Russkoye Slovo, the
Russian language newspaper at 243 West 56th Street.
    Mrs. Markish emigrated to the United States on July 25,
1974, with her second husband, Yuri Markish. Markish is a
nephew of Peretz Markish, a Jewish poet who was executed in
the Soviet Union.
    When she was a student at Moscow State University, Mrs.
Markish was married to Sergei Ryabov, the son of Admiral P. E.
Ryabov. Her father, Boris Halip, was first violinist at the
Bolshoi Theater and her uncle, Alfred Plate, was a well-known
Soviet chemist.
    Several American experts on the Soviet Union said Saturday
that they had never heard or read of any Russian experiments
on humans with poison gases.
 
 
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n025  1040  07 Sep 75
    1st add EMIGREE, NEW YORK xxx gases.
 
 ''It's hard to judge this kind of report - any facts would
have been kept quiet by the government,'' one expert said.
''But if there have been accusations like that about the
Army and the CIA here,'' he added, ''it's all the more
possible over there. I just think it's preposterous,
though, that the Russians would have used chemistry students
as guinea pigs.''
    A Soviet scientist who defected to the United States,
and who has read the first part of Mrs. Markish's manuscript,
said that many scientists and officials identified in the
manuscript do, in fact, hold the positions ascribed to
them by Mrs. Markish.
    Mr. and Mrs. Markish moved directly to Cleveland when
they emigrated to the United States and last September,
Mrs. Markish said she began receiving threatening telephone
calls in Russian by persons who would not identify themselves.
    ''Sometimds the voices were rough and sometimes intelligent
and sometimes they would only breathe into the phone,''
Mrs. Markish recalled. ''But it was only one idea in different
shapes - stop writing or we will annihilate you.''
    Last October, Mrs. Markish said, a man walked up to her
in a Jewish community center and made the same threat before
quickly turning away.
    A month later, she went on, as she was walking along a
corridor in Cleveland Heights High School where she was
taking English lessons, a man came from behind, grabbed
her hair, bashed her head against a wall, and said, ''It's
your last warning.'' Mrs. Markish said she had lost consciousness
and was briefly hospitalized.
    The emigree said she had reported the incident to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation in Cleveland. The agent,
she said, simply told her to be ''more careful.''
    Last Thursday, she and her husband were interviewed by
the FBI here concerning the apartment burglary. Both the
city police and the FBI were said to be interested in the
fact that there had been no sign of forced entry.
    Mr. and Mrs. Markish had moved here from Cleveland last
March because, Mrs. Markish said, ''we thought that New
York would be safer. But the calls started here just as
soon as we arrived.''
    Mrs. Markish said she was asked, as a chemistry student
at Moscow State University, to synthesize chlorethylmerkaptan - a
supertoxic substance similar to mustard gas - in a small
laboratory without any protection or, eventually, ventilation.
    She said she had been unaware of the effect of such an
experiment, but when a powerful odor developed, she left
the room and asked permission from her supervisor to stop
working. ''I was directly ordered to return and to continue
under these conditions,'' she said, with the resulting
damage to her body.
 
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a023  0004  08 Sep 75
Middle East Rdp Bjt 480
By The Associated Press
    The Palestine Liberation Organization has called on Arab
nationalists to shoot American technicians who may be stationed in the
Sinai Desert under the Israeli-Egyptian pact.
    ''The Palestinian revolution . . . regards the U.S. military
presence in Sinai as an enemy target that should be shot by every
struggler and every nationalist in our Arab nation,'' the PLO
newspaper Al Thawra said in Beirut on Sunday.
    The newspaper called the proposed presence of the American civilian
technicians at warning stations in the Gidi and Mitla passes ''dual
occupation'' of Egyptian land by the United States and Israel.
    ''We are confident the first shot will be fired by an Egyptian
soldier, because the Egyptians are known for their nationalism and
will never allow an imperialist American flag to flutter over any spot
of Arab territory,'' Al Thawra wrote.
    Palestinian guerrillas are unlikely to constitute any threat to the
the Americans since they probably cannot get to the Sinai from their
bases in Lebanon and Syria. Nor are any Egyptian soldiers likely to
attack the Americans. But such talk from the PLO could make it harder
for Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to get the necessary
approval from the U.S. Congress of the new American role.
    Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in an interview Sunday on the
ABC program ''Issues and Answers'' said without the American presence,
''it is doubtful if the present terms of this agreement can be
maintained.''
    But PLO chief Yasir Arafat in interviews with Time, Newsweek and the
CBS program ''Face the Nation'' said the ''United States is paying
too much for too little;'' the Palestinians ''can stop most of the
consequences of the new agreement,'' and the Palestinians ''are
looking for more escalation; we expect continual support of our cause
from the Soviet Union.''
    Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon told U.S. News & World Report
that Americans ''should be pleased with the fact that, after many
years of Soviet progress in the area, the U.S. is again becoming the
major power in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.''
    Meanwhile, on Israel's northern border with Lebanon, the Israeli
military command reported Arab gunmen fired bazooka shells across the
border at an Israeli car near the settlement of Margaliot. No
casualties were reported. It was the only action reported during the
two-day Jewish New Year observance, which began at sundown Friday.
    A new outbreak of another religious war, between Christians and
Moslems in northern Lebanon, took 15 lives Sunday. Unconfirmed rumors
that armed Christians had abducted and murdered 25 Moslems in Tripoli
brought armed bands into the streets of that city, Lebanon's second
largest.
    The army took to the streets to restore order, and officials said
three persons were killed and 11 were wounded. Then at dusk an armed
group ambushed a civilian bus and opened up with machine guns, killing
12 persons and wounding at least 25.
    
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