N999  1827  11 Dec 74
(Beginning missing.)
...H ISSINGER'S
MEDIATION, WAS STILL THE MOST FRUITFUL WAY TO PEACE IN THE
AREA.
   IT WAS LEARNED THAT DURING ALLON'S 75-MINUTE SESSION
WITH FORD, BOTH SIDES AGREED THAT THE U.S. SHOULD INFORM
EGYPT THAT ISRAEL WAS "WELL-DISPOSED" TO A FURTHER ROUND OF
NEGOTIATIONS.
   BUT THEY ALSO CONCURRD
   BUT THEY ALSO CONCURRED THAT BECAUSE OF THE VISIT ON 
JAN. 15 TO CAIRO OF SOVIET LEADER LEONID I. BREZHNEV, NO 
MAJOR EFFORT WOULD BE MADE TO START TALKS UNTIL AFTER BREZHNEV 
LEAVES THE AREA.
   ALLON TOLD FORD THAT IN 1956 AFTER ISRAEL HAD
CAPTURED THE SINAI PENINSULA BOTH THE SOVIET UNION AND THE
U.S. CALLED FOR ISRAEL TO GIVE ...
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a342  1944  11 Dec 74
Voronel 170
    MOSCOW (AP) - Alexander Voronel, a physicist who has been one of
the most outspoken Jewish activists here in recent years, said
Wednesday he had received permission to emigrate.
    ''I will go to Israel,'' Voronel told Western correspondents by
telephone.
    Voronel, 43, was the third prominent Moscow applicant to be given
emigration papers in the past month. Victor Polsky and Alexei
Targonsky were also recently given exit visas but have not yet left.
    Voronel said he was suddenly called into the office of Ovir - the
Passport Control department - and told he and his wife had two weeks
to leave the Soviet Union.
    His parents and son have already emigrated to Israel.
    Voronel applied to emigrate in April 1972 and was denied permission
four months later on grounds he held defense-related secrets in his
position as an experimental physicist. These are the usual grounds
the government uses for denying exit visas.
    Voronel and most other Jewish scientists who have lost their jobs
after applying to emigrate say they do not have knowledge that would
compromise the Soviet defense system.
    
2243pES 12-11
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a014  2225  11 Dec 74
Arabs-Bombers Bjt 410
By FRED S. HOFFMAN
AP Military Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Wealthy oil-producing Arab countries have doubled
the number of French Mirage fighter-bombers they are buying for
Egypt's air force, U.S. intelligence sources report.
    They say Kuwait and Abu Dhabi are paying for a new order of 36
Mirages for Egypt. France has start3ous Saudi
Arabian purchase of 36 of the fighter-bombers for the Egyptian air
force.
    Analysts believe the three rich Arab countries are providing the 72
Mirages in part to encourage Egypt from turning again to Russia for
arms.
    Russia stopped sending new military equipment last April after the
two countries quarreled over Egypt's renewed and closer relations
with the United States.
    But Soviet Communist party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev is due to visit
Cairo next month and some U.S. analysts suggest this could lead to
improved Soviet-Egyptian relations and a fresh flow of arms to Egypt.
    U.S. intelligence sources say the Egyptians have not yet made up
for all the 120 planes they lost in last year's war with the
Israelis.
    At the same time, the Russians have built the Syrian air force to
its biggest size ever, sources say. The 450 Syrian military aircraft
reportedly include 45 MIG 23s, Russia's most advanced fighter.
    According to recent intelligence reports, the Russians also have
strengthened Syria's missile firepower with significant shipments
this fall.
    The Syrians are said to have received 10 more Soviet Scud B
missiles, giving them a total of 40 of these weapons, which experts
say could hit some Israeli population centers within their 160-mile
range.
    Sources say the Russians have provided Syria with 35 more Frog 7
missiles with a range of 40 miles. This brings Syria's strength in
these weapons to 150.
    In addition, the Soviets are reported to have given more muscle to
Syria's air defenses by shipping in 70 new SA6 antiaircraft missiles.
These weapons caused heavy Israeli losses in the early days of the
1973 war.
    Meanwhile, the Pentagn declined to comment on a report that a
formal offer has been made to sell Israel 48 F15s, the U.S. Air
Force's newest fighter now entering service.
    The United States has been maintaining a steady flow of military
equipment to Israel and experts say that country now is stronger than
before the 1973 war.
    
0124aES 12-12
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