Council Prospects Still Unclear

Future developments in the Security Council Mideast debate. due to resume tomorrow seemed still unclear today to Jerusalem officials. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon reported to the weekly Cabinet meeting that the Arabs were still vying among themselves between extremists and moderates. He said he still feared the Arabs might decide on a moderate draft which the U.S. would find it hard to veto,

Reporting on his recent visit to Washington, Allon said political circles there sought Mideast movement during this year for fear that immobility would lead to war. He said these American political circles had not ruled out possible-talks with King Hussein over some form of interim settlement.

Allon justified Israel’s decision to boycott the Council debate, saying it had served as a warning of what Israel might do if the Council’s earlier resolutions or the basis of the Geneva conference were changed. He said Israel’s position had been expressed by its delegates outside of the Council chamber and had received wide media attention.

Referring to Angola, Allon said the Addis Ababa summit had been a success for American diplomacy. The stalemate that ended the Addis conference was an achievement for the African moderates, he continued, He envisaged the possibility that the moderate-Africans might influence relations between Israel and the Black continent which were almost entirely severed during the Yom Kippur War.