The State Council today approved a budget of $31,200,000 for the six-month period from July through December of this year. The budget does not include expenditures for security. Opposition to the budget came only from Revisionist members of the Council.
The Council also authorized the issuance of treasury bills, retaining periodical control over the quantity issued. Recommendations submitted to the Council for the Israeli flag and crest by a sub-committee of experts were rejected.
Sixteen men and women detained by Israeli authorities under the Emergency Defense Regulations on suspicion of membership in the Stern Group were released today after interrogation.
Frederick Sylvester, British resident of Jerusalem who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on charges of broadcasting information to the Arabs during the fighting, today submitted an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court which will begin preliminary hearings in the case on Nov. 1.
An official communique issued in Jerusalem quoted Jewish policemen in the demilitarized Mt. Scopus area as saying that the nearby Augusta Victoria hospice is being utilized as a center for Arab “irregulars” who use it as a base from which they direct sporadic fire at the Hadassah Hospital.
The communique also complained that all U.N. truce observers in the area were stationed near the Israeli units while the only U.N. official stationed among the Arabs had left months ago. Although this information has been submitted to U.N. officials in Jerusalem repeatedly, the communique stated, no action has been taken to rectify matters.
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