Walter Eytan, director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, tonight summoned the ambassadors of the United States, Britain and France, and protested to them strongly against Egypt’s detention of the Israeli vessel Bat Galim. He denied emphatically the Egyptian charges that the ship had opened fire on Egyptian fishermen.
(In Washington. State Department sources said today that the Department has only received preliminary cables from Cairo on the seizure by the Egyptian Navy of the Israel freighter Bat Galim and, therefore, has not yet formed any opinion about what action, if any, the United States might take.)
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