United Nations truce chief Maj. Gen. Carl C. von Horn called at the Israel Foreign Ministry today to attempt to find a means of lessening tension between Israel and Jordan troops on Mt. Scopus which has already cost five lives, including four Israeli policemen and the UN chairman of the Mixed Armistice Commission.
Gen. von Horn conferred with Joseph Tekoah, head of the armistice affairs division of the Foreign Ministry. He was accompanied by a legal and a political adviser.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials today revealed that an Israeli police officer had heard United Nations truce observers report to their headquarters that the fire which hit Col. Flint had come from Issawia, the Jordanian village on Mt. Scopus. The police officer who heard the report being given over a walkie talkie radio is Daniel Belkind, who came down from the height today when the police garrison was relieved by the regular convoy.
Belkind, who was about six feet from the UN observers when they made their report, was only 30 feet from Col. Flint when the latter was downed by a Jordanian sniper’s bullet. Belkind was in charge of the third police patrol sent into the botanical gardens that day. His mission was the extrication of wounded policemen who had been with the two earlier patrols.
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