Tel Aviv (JTA)—All Israelis shared the an• guish of tlio families of eight school children, aged 6 to 14, killed by Arab terrorists in the ambush of a school bus near the Lebanese border Friday. Four adults were also killed in the bazooka and small arms attack. Twenty-one other passengers, mostly children, are in hospitals in Haifa and Safaci, eight of them in. serious condition. The young victims, five from one1 family, were buried at Safad late Friday amid scenes of uncontrolable weeping and despair. Thousands of persons from all over Israel attended. Defense Minister Moslie Dayan was at the graveBide holding one of the bereaved fathers. Chief of Staff Gen. Haim Bar Lev was there and . Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who quoted the Words of Israel's poet laureate, the late Chaini Nahman Bialik, "Even Satan has not yet invented the revenge for the blood of a child/' All of the youngsters and two of the adult victims were from Avivim, a settlement in Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border. They were travelling to their district school at nearby Dovev.
According to eye-witnesses the bus was travelling slowly in line witli other civilian traffic along a road that skirts the Lebanese border some 500 yafds away. The terrorists, lying in ambush, allowed the other cars to pass and then fired four bazooka shells and bursts, of small arms fire at the bus. The driver was killed and the bus careened off the road and turned over. Other motorists halted and rushed to the aid of the bus passengers. Helicopters arrived sooa to fly the seriously injured to hospitals. Others were rushed to hospitals in private cars. The bug floor was covered with blood and littered with torn school books and lunch kits. Police said.the terrorists knew the bus they . attacked was filled with school children. It was painted bright yellow, its identity was unmistakabblo and it passed over the same road every morning at the same hour. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group headquartered in Beirut, claimed credit for the attack' in a message to President Gamal Abdel Nasser apparently soliciting - a commendation from the Egyptian leader. Premier Golda Meir read Friday night a special Cabinet statement on the .ambush attack
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that Israel placed full responsibility for the outrage on Lebanese government and would not stop demanding that Lebanon exercise its authoriiy to halt "acts of aggression from Lebanese territory." Deputy Premier Yigal AHO'IJ, speaking at the funeral in Safad for the dead children, said tha "arm of the Israeli army is long enough and Lebanon will not escape with impunity." According to newsmen at the scene, his words were interrupted with shouts of "revenge." After the ambush of the bus Mr. Alloh'said" the Lebanese government can "no longer consider itself immune to an Israeli reaction as soon as we decide how, when,and where to act." Ha denounced last week's Security Council resolution of censure against Israel asserting that the murder of the children on bus might have resulted from it. He said it was no longer a Security Council but an "insecurity council." Mrs, Meir said that the Security Council was convened at the initiative of Lebanon and that instead o£ • condemning the murderers and the authorities who gave them cover, it condemned Israel for J "having exercised our right of self-defense."
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Senator Birch Bayh (D. Ind) declared that "the most serious danger to America today comes not from the activities of young militants, but from the magntiude of the backlash that may result from the increasing polarization of our society."
tration are essentially designed, ing the opening of mail withto suppress, not to relieve." out the addressee's permission. Ha cited the following as " —A "blacklist" maintained part of "an unhealthy trend to- by the Civil Service Commisward suppression": sion of "at least 1.5 million —The Administration's Or- Americans who might, at some ganized Crime Bill providing for preventive detention, .no time, have been involved in knjjck. searches, extensive wire- what federal investigators term tapping, lowered age limits for Addressing the' 57th annual juvenile court and changes in 'subversive activity.'" meeting of the Anti-Defama- the burden of proof in juvenile —The Administration's "deep tion League, Senator Bayh said . cases; seated mistrust" of the press that "zealous men in well-inwhich leads it to "work assidt e n t i o n e d law enforcement —A proposal by Attorney uously to undermine public conshortcuts undermine the very General Mitchell asking that fidence in a free press while "tlie police be empowered to re- at the same time launching a Former Vlce-Prcsldent and Mrs. Hubert Humphrey toured Ha- foundations of liberty." concentrated effort to intimidassah-Hebrcw University Medical Center during their recent In a blistering attack on quire anyone they have "rea- date the news media." ; -. visit to Israel. Pictured above, Mr. Humphrey visits the Pcdl- President Nixon, Vice Presi- sonable grounds" to.suspect of atric Department where he noted Arab and Jewish children dent Agnew and Attorney Gen- a crime to submit to "non-tes- . The Senator said that despite playing together and learned of the hospital's work wild the eral TVIitchell whom he called timonial Identification proced- President Nixon's promise "to menially retarded. •. ,' .___!... well-meaning men, S c n a t o r ures" including fingerprints, bring us together." the AdminBayh charged that "they are palmprints, footprints, meas- istration's"""specialty seems 'to also zealous men and the zeal urements, blood.specimens and be polarization of the Ameriof this Administration exceeds urine samples."* can people by playing on their • both its wisdom and Us under—A new regulation by the frustrations, prejudices a n d standing." • Postmaster General authoriz- fears." .
•AmericanJudaism in Trouble11 Says Ribieoff
human beings/'.He said "Jewish youth is increasingly becoming alienated not only -from traditional American ways, but from its own religious tradition." , >Mr. Ribicoff charged that Jewish youths' "abysmal ignorance of their traditions was "secondary when compared- to the magnitude of the potential disaster of producing a generation of American Jews with scarcely any religious • ties at ' .Sen. Ribicoff spoke, at the all." ' ; i founders' dinner of the Hebrew Ho criticized .parents foc-iii• ', Union College-Jewish Institute sisltng on Jewish education for - of Religion. The c o l l e g e is their children while maintainbuilding a $6 million California ing their own traditions only •' school adjacent to the Univers- " s u p e r ficially." "We have Hy of S o'u t h e r n California made it made it too easy to be campus. a Jew," he continued. "Wo • ; '''Increasing frustration and. have been so wrapped up in ; alienation," the "protest and making Judaism comfortabledissent" on the part of today's that we have s u c c e e d e d In I youth "are not r e a c t i o n s making it trivial as well. To.; against specific policies, but. day we, ore in danger of losing ','•'.' are symptomatic • of the disre- onohalf of the total Americaa v< . gard for people as individual Jowisu community." Beverly Hills, Calif (J.TA)..... Sen. A b r a h a m Ribicoff declared here that "Judaism in America Is in real trouble" as: a result of "diluting and compromising" the faith. "By now •'.; we should see the futility of trying to make Jews less liko Jews," he said. But the Connecticut Democrat, who is Jew• ish, also stated that "If this is ''••\ a time of peril for Judaism in .;" America, it is also a time for ; great opportunity."
Making clear that he did not minimize "the need to put the full force of the law against terror and violence," the Senator went on to say that more vigorous law enforcement Is "not a permanent cure for the problems of crime and violence." Asserting that the cure is "to eliminate the causes of frustration before it builds to explosive proportions," Senator Bayh said "unfortunately, the remedies of this Adminis-
Softening Toward Israel
curity," the French envoy said. "It's neighbors must undertake clearly and unequivocally to live in peace with Israel.)But. 'these frontiers cannot be tho frontiers of occupation or annexation." . • i Observers pointed out that M. Kosciusko-Morizet's assertion of Israel's rights went well .beyond those spelled out in the Security Council's. Nov. 22,, 1967 Mideast. resolution which is generally regarded as tha UN's accepted guideline.to Mid^ O m a h a . . . Elmer Gross, die East'peace. The fesolutioft . president of the Omaha Jewish called for Israel's, withdrawaj Federation, has announced the from'the occupied Arab terrlf , appointment of Mrs. Richard tories but did not ask for rec« Glazer, Dr. Abe Greenberg and ognition of Israel or for an eip Joseph Kirsheribaum to servo plicit undertaking by the Arab! on the board of the Federation. to live in peace with the Jevf* Ish state. -j A vote of the Federation board It was also pointed out thai this week gave unanimous ap- • France has sided with the Unlfr proval to the appointments. The ed States and Great Britain three appointees, along with the more, frequently than with, SoS> , five new,director? elected last : week, ,wiU sejve.i.three year "Israel has the right to exist- viet Russia at recent meeting* < terms on. the Federation board. ence, to recognition and to se- of the Big. Four.
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United Nations, N.Y. ( J T A ) A softening of Fiance's stand toward.Israel emerged during the Security Council's continuing debate over Israel's 32-hour incursion against t e r r o r i s t bases in Lebanon. . Ambassador Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, of,France, Se-' ciirity Council President, declared that Israel has a right to recognition, guaranteed borders and peace with its neighbors. Although M. KoscluskoMorizet insisted that Israel must withdraw from the occupied Arab territories and deplored its action in Lebanon, his remarks were regarded hero as the most even-handed to be made by a French government representative on the Middle East since former President Charles de Gaulle condemned Israel as the aggressor in the June, 1967 Six-Day Wan