Snatch Tel Aviv . . . A top secret . Soviet built radar unit was brought back Intact from Egypt by Israeli commandos after a raid on the Has Ghareb coastal defense station near the Gulf of Suez a week ago. The sevenion unit, one of the most modern pieces of Soviet equipment In Egypt, was airlifted into Israeli territory by cargo hencopter after it was carefully cut into two sections of manageabe size. The story of the "radar snatch" broke exactly one week after the raid occurred. Israeli
censors released it after an account was published byo the Daily Express in London, but the feat was an open secret here for days. The official Israeli account of the raid merely stated that it had been successful and that four Egyptian prisoners were taken. The prisoners turned out to be Russian-trained Egyptian technicians who manned the radar unit. They were unarmed. E g y p t i a n soldiers guarding the base fled after putting up token resistance. According to the account pub-
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lished in the Daily Express and later confirmed here, the Israeli commandos were surprised to find a brand new Russian-made radar unit at Has Ghareb and realized that they had come' across a prize. They called for cargo helicopters and for acetylene torches and other equipment with which they preceded to cut the seven-ton radar unit into two sections of three and four tons eacli for air lifting. The feat was deliberately kept quiet. According to one source, the official reasoning
was that a public embarrass- the latest "haul" should enable ment would lead Moscow to re- Israel to develop jamming sysgain lost prestige by providing tems that will eliminate the the Egyptians with more ex- Egyptian advantage in adpensive and modem equipment. vanced radar technique. Secrecy, it was felt, might Meanwhile it was learned cause Soviet authorities to re- that the Israel Government exconsider their military assist- pects United States military ance program to Egypt. There authorities to request permisis little doubt here that the So- sion, to inspect the radar unit viets are seriously concerned An unidentified American offithat some of their most ad- cer was quoted here as declarvanced military equipment is ing that his country would be falling into Western hands by "most. interested" in looking means of its capture from the over the Soviet radar which is Arabs by Israel. deigned to detect low-Hying Technical sources here said aircraft.
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and oil interests" were .concerned about investments in AFIJ-CIO, s p « a k i n g for the Arab states. He said that forAmerican trade union move- eign policy should not be dement, c a l l e d upon the U.S. termined by "the profit picG o v e r n m e n t this week to ture." "cease b a r t e r i n g away the Mr. Meany asked the governfreedom of Israel and trying ment to "insist that the only to appease S o v i e t and Arab mechanism to achieve a-lastdictators." ing peace in the Middle East Mr. Meany addressed a spe- is direct negotiations," rather cial press conference because than an imposed big p o w e r he viewed Israelis plight as "settlement."critical and thought too little In tils view, "the Administrapublic attention was focused tion is changing direction. It i$ upon the N i x o n Administra- moving down the road of aption's "change of direction." p e a s e m e n t." He said that He called for the s u p p 1 y of "such appeasement would only Phantom jet planes and other give credit td the Soviets and arms to Israel to maintain a E g y p t for achieving through balance of power. The union. diplomatic blackmail and poleader openly c h a r g e d that litical maneuvering all they * ' W i ^ ' [ were failed to win on the battle3 ^ J ^ ^ j p g against I s r a e l . He said that peasement "was ""unworthy of" "certain A m e r i c a n bankers America."
London (JTA) — President , Nasser of Egypt vowed this week he would arm a million men to join with other Arabs to 'achieve victory over Israel and recover all of the occupied territories, according to reports here from the Sudan where Nasser spoke at a rally. In the speech, broadcast over the Sudanese arid Egyptian radio networks, Nasser added that "we do not want war only for the sake of war—-we want war for the sake of liberation." Criticizing recent United States proposals for a settlement of the Arab-Israel conflict as "suspicious," Nasser said the "only aim" of the American initiative was "to divide the Arabs." He said the Arabs had declared repeatedly "that we work for peace and we want "pSace ^ JHe y^ n*-Y?r accept __ "suspicious schemes asTcmg~~us to surrender.
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EmergencyMeet for US Jewish Leaders NEW YORK (JTA)—A national emergency conference of Jewish leadership on Middle East peace has been called-, for Jan. 25-26 in Washington by the Conference of Presidents • of Major American Jewish Organizations. Rabbi Herschel Schacter, Conference chairman, said, that participants will include representatives of all of the 24 constituent organizations of the Presidents Conference and that invitations were being extended to major leaders of Jewish communities and others. The two-day emergency conference will be held against the background of rising concern in the American Jewish community over what has been described as a "serious erosion" in State Department Rabbi policy on a Middle East settlement. In Schacter issuing the calf for the meeting;" Rabbi Schacter cited a Dec. 22 meeting between a Conference delegation and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, at which Rabbi Schacter conveyed to Mr. Rogers the Jewish com-' munity's "deep concern and apprehension" over, recent United States proposals for a Middle East settlement. After the meeting, Rabbi Schacter issued a statement, warning that the United States plan for a Middle East settle"inenTwould"1 'strengthen- Arab intransigoneo-and-Soviet. de»— signs and lead to an imposed settlement rather than a negotiated peace between the parties—the stated policy of our Government." The emergency, meeting is expected to be the largest and most representative gathering of American Jewish leadership since a similar conference in Washington during the 1967 Six-Day War.
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Metropolitan O p e r a bass"baritone J o s h u a Hecht, descendant of a 500-year unbroken line of cantors, will come to Omaha to s i n g the role of Mephistopheles in the Omaha^ Civic Opera's production of •'Faust," Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6 and 7 at the Omaha Music Hall.Among Hecht's ancestors is Yossel Strugach, famed Polish actor and singer who fled Europe during the Holocaust of the 1930's. The father of four daughters, Mr.,Hecht holds a Master's degree in Irish literature; He began to develop his musical talent while serving in the Army during the Korean War. An officer heard Hecht sing at a Christmas party and "drafted" him for s o l o duty wi,th the -Army_Fjeld Band, [ He made his debut with the •New York City Opera in 1955 and joined the Metropolitan in 1965. Since 19C0 Hecht has sung with leading opera companies In Europe, Canada and Mexico. ' • • ;
Now on a singing tour of London, Rome, Milan and Vienna, Hecht will fly to Omaha directly from an engagement in Barcelona, Spain. Here he will bejreunited with his long-time friends and costars, soprano Jean Fenn and tenor'Enrico Di Giuseppe.
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