Senators’ Israel View ‘Welcome’

President Reagan’s spokesman said today the Administration welcomes “the support and advice” of 30 senators who argued in a letter to Secretary of State George P. Shultz that Israel should be willing to give up control of occupied land in return for Middle East peace.

“We are in the midst of an ongoing process. The views of these senators are helpful to us and probably instructive to other parties in the region,” Marlin Fitzwater told reporters. The 23 Democrats and seven Republicans, including several strong supporters of the Jewish state, also expressed support for Shultz’s plan to bring Israel, Jordan, Syria and Palestinian Arabs to a peace conference by May 1.