UNITED NATIONS ANGER IN THE COUNCIL ADLAI STEVENSON HAD NOT BEEN SO 
ANGRY IN THE U.N . SINCE LAST YEAR'S CUBAN CRISIS . 
" THIS REPREHENSIBLE ACT OF MURDER, " HE SAID BEFORE THE 
SECURITY COUNCIL, " DESERVES THE STRONGEST CONDEMNATION . OUTRAGES OF THIS 
KIND CANNOT PASS WITHOUT THE STERN DISAPPROVAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY 
. / STEVENSON WAS REFERRING TO A BLOODY FLARE-UP ON THE 
ISRAELI-SYRIAN FRONTIER TOUCHED OFF, ISRAEL CHARGED, WHEN TEN SYRIAN SOLDIERS SNEAKED 
ACROSS THE JORDAN RIVER AND THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE AND MACHINE-GUNNED TWO 
19-YEAR-OLD FARMERS IRRIGATING A KIBBUTZ FIELD NORTH OF THE SEA OF 
GALILEE . THE SYRIANS DENIED THE KILLINGS, ACCUSED ISRAEL OF SENDING 
15 ARMORED CARS CHARGING ACROSS THE BORDER . LAST WEEK, WITH 
BOTH COUNTRIES HAVING BROUGHT COMPLAINTS TO AN EMERGENCY SESSION OF THE 
SECURITY COUNCIL (ITS 202ND SESSION ON A PALESTINE-RELATED ISSUE), THE U.N.'S 
TRUCE CHIEF ON THE SCENE, NORWEGIAN LIEUT . GENERAL ODD BULL, 
LEFT LITTLE DOUBT THAT SYRIA HAD BEEN THE AGGRESSOR . BACKED 
UP BY PHOTOGRAPHS, SPENT BULLETS AND DIAGRAMS, BULL'S REPORT TOLD OF 
FINDING " TWO DEAD BODIES RIDDLED WITH HOLES ; A TRACTOR 
WITH NUMEROUS BULLET HOLES ; A MAGAZINE FROM AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON 
; A LEVER HANDLE FROM A GRENADE ; . . . 
A POOL OF BLOOD WHERE ONE MAN ALLEGEDLY HAD BEEN SHOT, 
LEAVING PART OF HIS BRAIN ; TRACKS LEADING FROM THE DIRECTION 
OF THE JORDAN RIVER TO THE AMBUSH POSITION AND THE TRACKS 
RETURNING IN THE DIRECTION OF THE JORDAN RIVER . " IN 
THE PAST, ISRAEL HAS USUALLY MADE ROUTINE COMPLAINTS TO THE U.N 
. WHEN THERE WERE TRUCE BREACHES ON THE BRISTLING BORDER, THEN 
STAGED HEAVILY RETALIATORY RAIDS OF ITS OWN . WHEN SUCH INCIDENTS 
CAME BEFORE THE SECURITY COUNCIL, THE U.S . USUALLY STAYED NEUTRAL 
. THIS TIME ISRAEL HAD FOLLOWED U.S . ADVICE AND APPEALED 
FOR SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION HENCE THE U.S . POLICY SWITCH TO 
SUPPORT ISRAEL . AT WEEK'S END THE U.S . AND GREAT 
BRITAIN INTRODUCED A JOINT RESOLUTION THAT CONDEMNED " THE WANTON MURDER 
" AND CALLED " THE ATTENTION OF THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC 
" TO THE ASSEMBLED EVIDENCE . THE RUSSIANS, WHO IN THE 
PAST HAVE USUALLY THREATENED TO USE THEIR VETO IN SUPPORT OF 
THE ARABS, BACKED MOROCCAN AMENDMENTS WATERING DOWN THE U.S.-BRITISH RESOLUTION ; 
THE MOROCCAN VERSION AVOIDED CONDEMNATION OF SYRIA AND MERELY REGISTERED " 
REGRETS FOR THE DEATH OF TWO PERSONS . / 