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The News · 4 January 1968

CP-1968-002

Eshkol Flies to U.S. With Arms Request

Seeks to Offset Soviet Supplies

Associated Press, Tel Aviv

Eshkol Flies to U.S. With Arms Request — The News, 4 January 1968
The News · 4 January 1968

Transcribed from the clipping

“TEL AVIV (AP) — Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol left for the United States today to ask President Johnson for U.S. arms to offset the ‘tremendous Soviet arms supplies to countries in the region.’ Eshkol, accompanied by his wife, Miriam, and several aides, planned a two-week tour to United Nations headquarters in New York, the LBJ Ranch in Texas, Canada and London… In a brief airport statement Eshkol said after Israel’s victory over the Arabs in the six-day June war, ‘There has been opened before us the prospect of security and peace, but at the same time we are possibly faced by new dangers…’ In Beirut, meanwhile, the new head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yahya Hammouda, was quoted as saying there was nothing to prevent Arabs from sharing a common future with Jews ‘who have given up Zionism and racism.’”

Context added by this archive

The earliest pairing of those two words in this archive, and it is the last sentence of a story about an arms request. Seven years and ten months before the General Assembly voted. This printing stops there. The Telegram and Gazette, running the same dispatch the same day, carries the rest of the interview, in which Hammouda offers to share the country.

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"Eshkol Flies to U.S. With Arms Request," The News, 4 January 1968. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1968-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1968-002

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