State Department officials today refused to comment on a report from Tel. Aviv that the Israeli Government has given the Department an exact figure for the number of Arab refugees which it is willing to readmit into its territory as part of a general peace settlement.
(In Tel Aviv, a Foreign Ministry spokesman refused to either confirm or deny the report that the Israeli Government had indicated to the United States the member of Arabs it was prepared to readmit.)
Although the actual figure set by the Israeli Government is a secret, the report said that it was considerably below the 250,000 refugees which the United States would like to see the Jewish state accept. It is also believed to be much higher than the number of refugees whom Israel originally agreed to accept because it would reunite broken families.
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