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By The Associated Press
    Israeli officials promised Wednesday to strike hard against Arab
terrorists as the grieving border town of Beit Shean buried four
Israelis killed in a guerrilla raid.
    Reflecting the border settlers' grief and fury, Defense Minister
Shimon Peres told the Israeli parliament, ''There will be no
surrender, and no hesitation to hit back hard.'' He promised to
mobilize ''maximum manpower, resources and methods'' against the
terrorists.
    Throughout the night Israeli guns shelled across the Lebanese
border at suspected guerrilla bases.
    The bodies lowered into the trench-like graves at Beit Shean
included one scorched by fire. This was 52-year-old Yehuda Bibas,
whose body was mistakenly seized and burned by the enraged citizens
along with the corpses of three terrorists.
    Shouting through a loudspeaker Information Minister Aharon Yariv
told the mourners, ''Israel is determined to fight the terrorists
. . . We will hit them everywhere, again and again.''
    In other Middle East development:
    - In New York, a United Nations spokesman said Secretary-General
Kurt Waldheim was so concerned about the situation in the Middle East
that he was considering a trip there to confer with government
leaders. ''The secretary-general feels it is valuable to have
face-to-face contact with the leaders who make decisions,'' the
spokesman said.
    - In Washington, Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco said the
United States has not accorded the Palestinian Liberation
Organization ''recognition of any kind.'' He retracted a Monday
interview statement in which he said the United States regards the
PLO ''as the over-all umbrella organization of Palestinians.'' He
added: ''It was an unfortunate way to put it.''
    - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization, meeting in Paris, voted to exclude Israel from UNESCO
aid and condemned the Jewish state for carrying out archeological
excavations in the occupied old city of Jerusalem. The organization
said it has repeatedly demanded that Israel stop such activity.
    - Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat flew to Damascus after talks with
King Faisal in Saudi Arabia and called an emergency meeting of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization.
    - Four Egyptian passenger ships arrived in the Gulf of Suez from
Ismailia, the first nonmilitary ships to traverse the Suez Canal
since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The ships, which carried no
passengers, are to be used to transport pilgrims on their way to
Mecca.
    - In Moscow, Soviet authorities announced that Communist party
chief Leonid Brezhnev will visit Syria during the second half of
January. He was already scheduled to go Egypt in the same month.
    
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     - In Moscow, Soviet authorities announced that Communist party
chief Leonid Brezhnev will visit Syria and Iraq in late January. He
already was scheduled to visit Egypt at about the same time.
    
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    The Popular Democratic Front, a militant Palestinian guerrilla
group, claimed responsibility soon after the attack. In Beirut, a PDF
spokesman said Wednesday:
    ''The operation was just one link in an endless chain designed to
keep the Israelis sleepless. We vow to make their nights sleepless as
long as our children in refugee camps remain sleepless and
terrified.''
    In other: 6th graf.
    
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    In Japan, where President Ford and Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger are visiting, a senior American official said Thursday
Kissinger will not stop off in the Middle East on his way home from
China next week, barring ''a cataclysmic event.''
    Such a rip has been rumored in Washington and elsewhere.
    At a news conference Wednesday, Kissinger said ''there are
possibilities'' that his idea for a step-by-step approach to a
settlement between Israel and the Arabs would succeed. He again
denied the United States was pressuring Israel to deal with the PLO.
    
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    PARIS (AP) - The general conference of UNESCO, the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, voted Thursday to
exclude Israel from the agency's regional activities.
    The vote was on a request by Israel to be admitted to UNESCO's
European region, thus becoming eligible for regional seminars and
conferences sponsored by the agency. It now is not a member of any
region. The United States and most West European countries supported
the Israelis, but the Israeli proposal was defeated 48-33 with 31
abstentions, including France.
    The vote followed a decision pushed through by the Afro-Asian and
Soviet bloc majority Wednesday to deny UNESCO aid to Israel. Israel
got about $24,000 for small educational and scientific projects last
year, but a UNESCO spokesman said the Jewish state contributed about
10 times that much. The U.S. State Department on Thursday condemned
that vote as putting UNESCO on ''a dangerous path.''
    
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