Arafat Tells World Jewry Turn Your Backs on Israer Terrorlat leader Yaslr after Ike one-hour, 4S-mbi«te Arafat offered the world's speech to tke heavily guarded Jews what many ot>servers world body, said, "I have termed an impossible choic; come bearing aa olive braack — peace if they will tum-tMir aad a freedom Hghter's gun. backs on Israel. Do not let the olive branch fall The leader of the terrorUt from my hand." Palestine Liberation The vUlt to New York City Organization, making an by so-called "freedom unprecedented appearancy fighter", whose group has before the General Assembly been responsible for the of the United Nations Wed- ' murders of women and neaday, offered the world a children in Israel and of choice of continued violence Israel's elsewhere in the or peace based on the world, resulted in the tightest creation of y Palestinian state security measures ever token in the city's history. on Israeli-occupied Und. He said that Zionist His appearance brought ideology and laraeli assassination threats which leadership offer only "per- caused police. Secret Service petual bbodahed, endleas war agents and the Coast Guard to and continuous servitude." mass around the UN building. Arafat, ahakkig kis finger ThU resulted in the arrest of
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Prices Skyrocket in Israel TEL
AVIV (JTA) aought ihelter from narlng prlcea reNlUng from kia waek'i devaluation of the K>und and other levere onomic measurei anby the government. Long tinea (ormed at banka depeaiton witbdrew caab buy food and otbar gooda fore tbe anticipated igea develop and before •oar out of reach. There waa alao a ruab on selling alectrtcal apElectric and gaa ten are in heavy demand aubitituea for heating oil lich baa iky-rocketed in ice. Bui houaeboldera tly forgot, for 'the manl, that their electric lUa wUl alao rise by TO per t and tba price of heating by M per cent.
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sdevMte sapply. Bat peaple everywkere seeased to be ttaaaed by Ike 41 per eeat devahutioa of Ike pooad. It aaw Ukes six Israeli poaads to e^aal aae daUar compared to Ike pre-devakuUoa rato of VLiM. The only persons benfltlng apparently are recipients of reparations payments from West Germany and peop's who have foreign currency from other sources. They were queuing up at the foreign currency windows at various banks to get more pounds for their marks and dollars than they woidd have received last Friday. By and Urge, Israelis are • expected to adjust to the new economic realities as they have done in the past when austerity measures were called for Police do not expect a repetition of the riotfaig and kMting in Tel Aviv's HaUkva quarter where crowds
smashed store windows and damaged cars and buaea. The authorities said that while some tried to label ttie riots a protest against higher prices, the outbreak was In fact sparked by the cancellation of a soccer match on Saturday. By and Urge, economlata feel the government had no choice but to undertake the painful meaaures. larael's present foreign currency reservea are reportedly sufficient for the purchase of only two months' supplies of essential Importa. Next year'a adverse balance of trade U expected to reach a record tS.S billion.
Umtt Possible VIENNA (JTA) - Informed sources said that Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, now on an offklal (Continued on Page 1)
Russell D. Kelner, operations officer of the Jewish Defenae League. Kelner, who was arrested by the FBI, had made a threat against Arafat on televlskm. John Scali, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, said security measures were taken to protect PLO members and expressed the hope those opposing the PLO "will advocate their views in the most peaceful manner." In Washington, tbe possibility of discussions between the United Stotea and the PLO were suggested by virtue of the fact Walt Clevarious, second-raking offkUl on the SUte Departmeht's Arab-Israeli desk, had (Continued on page 14)
NCIL BLUFFS LINCOLN, OMAHA Omalw, Nab., FrI., Novembers. 1974
Isnell Newsman Says:
Death Threats Not Surprising ByRkkardPeari OMAHA - To hear Shaul Ben-Halm tell it, the average IsraeU today U sort of like the Utile feUow who isn't afraid of tbe big bullies in the dark alley anymore. Even though surrounded by his Arab enemlea, he knows be carries a big stick — mlHIary ability and pUin courage — and if any of thoae "bulllea" try to Jump him again, they'll get the same thing they've gotten before, only worse. "The people of larsel are great Iwlievers that their destiny U in their own hands, that it U not directed by the United Nations or any other government. It is up to the Israelis to defend themselves, and they will do so. "If there la another war, tke result will be the same as Ike prevleas fear, only more so." Ben-Halm Is the dapper, silver-haired foreign news editor of the Israeli afternoon newsp^flSr Maariv. He was in Omaha Tuesday and Wednesday on a quick swing through the midwest, stopping at Minneapolis before heading back to Chicago and the eaat coast. He said he did not think it unuaual that what were described aa "pro-Israeli demonatrators" had threatened on Tueaday to aasaasinate Yassir Arafat, the leader of the torroriat
Palatine Liberation Organization who was due Wednesday in New York to speak for the Arab stotes in the United NaUona. No reaction would be unusual in face of the fact that Araft could even come before the U.N. as a recognized representotive of a country that doean't exist, he said. He pointed out it waa Arafat's group that had killed United States envoy to Sudan a year ago" and add to it, how many Americans have lost theirllves" in Rome, in Egyptand elsewhere in Terrorist skyjacUnga. He addred wryly II Is a cfaich Arafat coulda'l come to Israel because "we wouldn't know wkal to do wilk him." He said hia newapaper's editorial policy has been generally that Israel should not open itself to any invaaion by allowing "a hoatile regime to estoblUh Itaelf on the Weal Bank" of the Jordan Rivet area. If such a regime were to put in missile emplacemente, for instance, "no ahpUne would be able to take off or land In larael." Aa for allowing Israelis to settle the West Bank area, he said he U ambivalent. "I favor Israelis settling everywhere, but there are political necessities to consider." The West Bank U a bey.negotiating point between larael and the Araba.
Although the Arabs have shown no willingness to change toward peace, BenHalm reiterated the laraeli policy that there will be no negotiationa with the PLO. "Rabat (the conference in which the PLO came to power) doesn't change the situation" of Israel'a willingness to negotiate with Jordan's King Hussein, in whose country live moat of the Palestinians. "Israel is not aboat to ncgottoto with Arafat. It's aa If they have rewritten tbe famoas Khartoum Resolutloa — 'no peace, no ncgotUtlaa, no recoaclllatlon.' Rabat ia the same aa Khartoum in its nature. The end of it was predicteble. We will not negotiate with a terrorist group whose aim la to completely eliminate Israel. And so there will be a stolemate — a stolemato which Ben-Haim says waa brought about by • the Russians, according to the U.S. Stole Department. The SyrUna and the Palestinians are all friends of Moscow "and the RussUns stepped in to short-circuit (U.S. Secretory of SUte Henry) Kissinger, who tried to organize a lobby to keep the momentum of negotiation going. "The Russians are in(Contimied on Page 2)