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Israel Buries Victims Of Maalot Massacre M AALOT, liriel — Woua4ed when lir^ell troopi •(ormed • tchool being held by Ar>b tcrroriiU, • MMdsUined (Irl b carried to lafety in Maalot, Iiracl. At leaat 29 pertom were liUled in the IncMMt.
World Leaders Condemn Terror Wave in Mideast iXXK) - Political leaden, Jeilpiah and Chrlalian spokennen and organlzatioiu in Europe, Latin America and the United Stales continued their condemnation this week of the Arab lerrorist carnage thai left 2S dead and 70 wounded in Maalot last Wednesday In London, Prime Mifiialer Harold Wilson and opfioaition leader Edward Heath sent messages to Israel expressing their grief and sorrow and condolences !•
government, the people and the families of the victims. In Bonn, the new West German government said it viewed the lerrorist atrocity "with disgust," and said such acts o( violence could only Jeopardize a solution of the Middle East conflict and seriously impair current peace efforts. President Valery Giscard d'EsUing, in Paris, condemned the attack saying "the UUng of children as hostages can never be juslified.
Israel, Syria May Sign Accord Soon JERUSALEM, (JTA) Israel and Syria are expected to sign a disengagement accord in Geneva, possibly this week, and Israeli officials have not discounted the possibility, raised by a senior US. official, that final details of the accord might be negotiated in direct IsraeliSyrian talks in Geneva. These developments emerged following a dramatic breaklbrough achieved by U.S. Secretary of Slate Henry A. KUsbiger In kli latest round of shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem and Damascus ever the weekend. Slate Department spokesman Robert Anderson, a member of Kissinger's entourage, indicated today that Israel and Syria have, In effect, agreed on a disengagement line. Asked by reporters whether both countries had expressed a favorable attitude to the same demarcation line, Anderson replied, "Ves." Israeli information Minister Shimon Peres anticipated the
agreement when he said "I ihinic the line of separation offered by the U .8. is of such a nature thai both sides could accept It." According to unofficial reports, the tentative agreement shapes up as follows: Israel will return to Syria all of the Syrian territory it captured in the Yom Kippur War last October, will Kacuate some Syrian territory captured in the 1967 Six-Day War including land in the Rafid area on the southern Golan Heighta, and the Syrian side of Ml. Hermon which will be turned over to a United Nations force. The deserted town of Kuneitra. capital of the Golan Heights, will be included in the UN buffer zone but Kuneitra will be restored to Syrian . civilian administration. Three strategic, hills overlooking Kuneitra and protecting nearby Israeli settlements will be retained by Israel, sources here stressed. Israel has agreed to return some small villages.
The French and West German governments also issued statements deploring Israel's retaliation raids Thursday and Friday against Lebanon. In Vienna the Socialist International expressed sorrow. Bruno pitlerman. prfsldeni of the organization, •aid that what happened to the children In Maalot can happen tomorrow to other children and their parents. He appealed to all humanists to light against the slaughter of children. In Amsterdam, Pr. Marga Klompe, the chairman of the Dutch branch of the international Roman Catholic organization, "Justitia et Paa," cabled PLO leader Yasser Arafat protesting the lerrorist act. The president of the United Church of Christ and the interreligious affairs director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews spoke out forcefully this week against the massacre at Maalot and castigated fellow Christians and member states of the United Nations for keeping silent or failing to punish terrorists in face of continuing outrages.
MAALOT, (JTA) - torael buried the victims of the Maalot massacre on May 16 aa the entire northern area of the country was placed on alert against further terrorist outrages. The 20 teen-age students slain May 15 iru({ie Netiv Meir school building in Maalot were laid to rest near the graves of other youthful lerrorist victims — the children murdered in a school bus ambush at Avivim three years ago. The three members of the Cohen family murdered in Maalot and a soldier killed in the assault on the terrorist-held school building were buried in separate graves. Collective funeral services, with Israel's chief rabbinate officiationg, were held in Safad, home of most of the victims. More than 10,000 persons converged on the liny mountain hamlet in central galilee. Cries for vengeance and death to terrorists rang out over the anguished weeping and the chanted prayers for the dead. President Ephraim "Katzir and Deputy Premier Ylgal Alton, representing the Israeli government wei-e unable to complete their addresses. Throughout the country.
shocked and stunned citizens piecing together the reports of the tragic events were asking why the school building in Maalot was left , unguarded even though security authorities knew that terrorists had infiltrated Israel and were in the vicinity; why the youngsters were permitted to take their camping trip close to the Lebanese border at a time when terrorists acts were expected in connection with the 26lh anniversary of Israel's independence; and whether the frontal assault on the school building was tt}e right way or the only way to try to save the hostages. I^mier Golda Meir refused to comment when she was asked bluntly on a television interview whether there had been no way to avoid the tragedy at Maalot, Investigation The Cabinet has adopted a resolution to establish a commission to investigate the Maalot incident. Unlike the Agranat Commission, the new inquiry unit will not be a judicial one but will be made up of "public figiires." A similar commission headed by former police Inspector Plnhas
Kopel, was established following the Munich tragedy two years ago. Premier Golda Meir, who suggested creating the new commission, will decide who will serve on it. It will not deal with the military aspects of the tragedy since this will be covered by military authorities.
Golda Wants No Eulogies JERUSALEM (ZINS) - In an emotional and dramatic meeting with the Knesset delegation of her Labor Party, Premier Golda Meir explained that she was resigning from office because of widespread public dissatisfaction with the regime. She told her colleagues of a sealed envelope containing her last will and testament. "I am prepared right now to reveal some of its contents," Golda added, citing these excerpts: "I ask that no eulogies be delivered; that no streets or institutions be named after me, because all this will not help."
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Israel Forms Government TEL AVIV, (JTA) - The Labor Party's Central Committee has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a 61 seat government embracing the Independent Liberal Party and the Civil Rights Party. Over 300 committee members supported the motion with only some 60 opposed. Other motions calling for a unity government or for the present government to slay In office till el«ctk>n were voted down.
8AFAD, Israel — A line of military pallbearers carries cofflni to graves in the town of Safad, Isrsel. during funeral ceremonies for some of the teenage victims of the Arab terrorist attack on a school In Maalot.