Jwv Complains to Cbs About Khaled Interview; Calls the Interview a Mockery

The Jewish War Veterans of the United States has complained to the Columbia Broadcasting System over a taped interview with the Palestinian girl guerrilla Leila Khaled on last week’s network television program “60 Minutes.” Albert Schlossberg of Milton, Mass., JWV national commander, said in a letter to CBS president Frank Stanton that “at the very least, CBS should have granted equal time on the same program for a refutation.” Miss Khaled participated in the successful hijacking of a TWA jet to Damascus in Sept. 1969 and in an abortive attempt to hijack an El Al jet over Britain last Sept. 6. In the interview, taped at headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Beirut, she claimed that the wave of hijackings in September which made some 300 airline passengers and crew members hostages of Palestinian terrorists, was intended to forestall the Jarring peace talks. She claimed that in that respect the hijackings were successful even though her own attempt to take over an Israeli plane was foiled. Miss Khaled, who appeared in uniform and spoke heavily accented English, denounced U.S. aid to Israel and referred to that country as “the 52nd state.” Mr. Schlossberg said in his letter, “To permit Khaled to perform her histrionics on free air time was to mock an agonized world’s horrified reaction to the deadly antics of a gang of hoodlums dedicated to continuous bloodshed in the Middle East.” Mr. Schlossberg added that the JWV is hopeful that there will be “neither a replay nor a new episode based upon the further adventures of this misguided but deadly young fanatic.”