The Labor Party has decided to join the government in efforts to forestall the supply of high grade uranium by France to Iraq and to try in general to reverse the anti-Israel trend among the Western European states. The opposition party leaders will approach the government with the suggestion that Labor utilize its good personal relations with European Socialist leaders toward that end.
The Labor Party is prepared to send emissaries to European capitals to warn that the supply of enriched uranium and nuclear reactors to Iraq constitutes a grave danger to peace in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yeruham Meshel, Secretary General of Histodrut, has sent cables to leaders of French labor unions urging them to protest their government’s decision to supply uranium to Iraq.
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