Shultz Plan Bad, Signature OK--Shamir

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, dealing another blow to efforts by Secretary of State George P. Shultz to forge a Middle East peace, rejected the entire U.S. peace plan today and said the only acceptable words in the proposal were Shultz’s signature.

“I do not welcome the substance of the initiative,” he told the English-language Jerusalem Post.

Shamir denounced the plan in lengthy interviews with several Israeli newspapers that were published two days before his scheduled departure for Washington to meet with Shultz and President Reagan.

The objections by the right-wing prime minister, coupled with the cool reception given the plan by Arab countries, cast the future of the Shultz initiative into doubt.

Shamir, who recently expressed doubts about aspects of the plan, made it clear he would oppose the entire Shultz initiative.

“The only word acceptable to me in the Shultz document is his signature,” he told the newspaper Ha’aretz. “Beyond that, the document does not serve the cause of peace or bring it even one centimeter closer.”