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Charges on Huleh Drainage Project

September 23, 1953
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The Israel Government today labelled “utterly ### to the Mixed Armistice Commission that the Huleh project ###an armistice agreement and that a portion of the project ###c power for Israel would adversely affect Syrian farm land.

###nvicted of violating the armistice agreement by the mere ###was included in her protest yesterday to the Israel-Syrian ###t spokesman declared here. He added that any attempt ### the threat “will find Israel ready to adopt all measuresof the MAC, the Syrians asked Maj. Gen. Vagn Bennike, ### for a decision on the protest within three days. The ### to him in Damascus last week when he visited the Syrian ###rians said that construction of a nine-mile canal to divert ###artificial lake nearly 700 feet below sea level, would dry ###and.### the United States, Britain and France last week against the ###rt of an over-all program to reclaim 15,000 acres of ###higrant settlement. (In Washington, the State Department ###st under consideration.)

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