Former United States Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy said here today that Premier Golda Meir was right in rejecting, on the basis of previous experience, the U.S. State Department’s proposal for border guarantees. Regarding an international police force, McCarthy said at Lydda Airport that while the U.S. position on that was unclear to him, such a force would be a mistake because it could precipitate a world war. McCarthy, the Minnesota Democrat who challenged President Johnson in 1968 and voluntarily left the Senate last year, warned against external pressures on the Middle East parties. As to Secretary of State William P. Rogers’ statement that “geography” was unessential in a Mideast solution, the former legislator remarked curtly: “Even the American administration does not evade the question of territories when it concerns its policy in Southeast Asia.” McCarthy is in Israel for a week-long visit as a guest of the Foreign Ministry. Tonight he will attend a dinner in his honor at Tel Aviv University.
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