THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 4, 1975 15 Future Aid to Syria Depends on Treatment of 4,500 Jews WASHINGTON (JTA) — Congress will allow the Ford Administration to make an additional eco- nomic loan of $58 million to Syria without opposition, but with ample warning that further financial as- sistance will be opposed with floor action unless the plight of Syrian Jews is alle- viated. House members who chose to make a fight against the second loan to the Damascus government have found they had vir- tually run out in their legis- lative time to block the Ad- ministration's action. On the first loan of $25 million granted earlier this year, Congress made no move to prevent it in view of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's preparation at the time for his ill-fated venture for a second Egyp- tian-Israeli interim agree- ment. Congressional sup- porters of a better atmosphere for Syrian Jews felt pressure against Syria would be considered by the Administration as jeopar- dizing the Kissinger mis- sion. The Administration's move to allow a second loan for Syria brought angry opposition at a hearing in which Adminis- tration policy was roundly scored as detrimental to American interests since principle was being sacri- ficed for pragmatic deals which, as Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-NY) and others indicated have re- sulted in failure in other parts of the world. At the hearing, Harold M. Saunders, assistant deputy secretary of state, con- tended that the question of Syrian Jewry should be sub- merged and handled with "quiet diplomacy" in the in- terests of the "overriding objective" of a peace settle- ment in the Middle East. Saunders was supported by Robert H. Nooter, assist- ant administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID), who interpreted the U.S. law on aid to Syria being contin- gent on improvement of the lot of the 4,500 remaining Jews in Syria as being "not a legal prohibition" but a sense of Congress and should be dealt with as such. Rosenthal said that when the State Department gave Syria $25 million in aid last February, "none of us res- isted" because "we expected improvement" in Syrian emigration policies." But, he added, there has been no "measurable" improvement. Saunders contended, under pressure from Ro- senthal to discuss the issue in public and not in private session as Saunders had requested, that there had been improvement. He said that journalists and others have stated on tele- vision and in the public prints that the situation of Syrian Jewry had im- proved. A. F. 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Gruen, di- rector of Middle East Af- fairs for the American Jew- ish Committee, stated that despite token actions to im- prove the public image of Syria in the United States, 580 POOL DOCTORS the Syrian government con- due presentation by the early this month, advocates tinues to impose heavy re- Administration of its for- of assistance to Syrian Jews Weekly Cleaning & All Repairs strictions on its Jewish com- eign aid program for the indicate they will center munity. new fiscal year for Israel, their efforts to block finan- Mark Orechkin & Tom Stubbs In addition to the opposi- Jordan, Egypt and Syria cial aid to Syria in the pro-' 557-2657 tion at the public hearing, will probably be presented gram for the coming year. 57 House members called on President Ford to take up ++++++++44+++++++++++++++++++ the issue of harrassment of 43 Syrian Jews and refusal to allow them to emigrate with Syrian Foreign Minister Donald M. 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