The State Department today declined to comment on reports from Bonn that West Germany has embarked on a program to provide Israel with military equipment. Department sources said the U.S. Government is studying the report and may make known its response at a later time.
(In Paris, the newspaper France Soir suggested editorially today that the West German decision to make substantial quantities of arms available to Israel may have stemmed from the indignation and popular protest over the country arising from the decision against extending the effective date of the statute of limitations for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals.)
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