Soviet support for Arab guerrilla action against Israel has been reaffirmed in Damascus, the Daily Telegraph reported today in a dispatch from Beirut. The report said that a statement issued in the Syrian capital on talks going on between a Russian delegation and leaders of the ruling Baathist party declared that the “Arab resistance movement in the occupied areas is legitimate.”
The Telegraph reported that Iraq has offered to strengthen its Army contingent in Jordan but King Hussein so far has not agreed, although he said in a speech yesterday that he would seek closer coordination with other Arab states to strengthen the front against Israel. An Iraqi Army brigade of about 8,000 men has been stationed in Jordan since the eve of the June, 1967 war. While it is not directly engaged in guerrilla activities against Israel, it provides Arab commando groups with supplies, weapons, transport and training facilities, obviously with official approval, according to the paper.
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