A bi-partisan resolution, urging President Nixon to accede to Israel’s request for Phantom aircraft to meet Egypt’s threat, is to be introduced in the House tomorrow. It is expected that more than a majority of its members will be sponsors. As of today, 205 signatures were on the resolution from among the 435 members in the House. Independent observers were confident, however, that by the time Rep. Emanuel Celler (D., N.Y.) presents it on the floor tomorrow the list will reach close to 300. The resolution is identical to the one pending in the Senate where 78 Senators, more than three quarters of that body, have introduced it.
Speaker of the House Carl Albert (D., Okla.), and Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford (R., Mich.), joined with Celler, dean of the House and chairman of its Judiciary Committee, in circulating a letter to their colleagues asking them to join in sponsoring the resolution. In addition to urging the government to take “affirmative action” on Israel’s request, the resolution like the Senate’s, asks the Nixon administration to oppose any attempts at the United Nations to alter the meaning and effect of Security Council Resolution 242 and to “reaffirm the importance of secure and defensible borders” to be “negotiated by the parties themselves.”
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