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New York — An investi-
gation by the General Ac-
counting Office (GAO) of
Congress suggests that fed-
eral officials of a joint
United States-Saudi Ara-
bian trade commission vio-
lated U.S. anti-boycott laws
by discriminating against
companies doing business
with Israel, according to an
article in the current issue
of the American Jewish
Congress' Boycott Report.
The GAO has reported,
according to the publica-
tion, that U.S. officials who
act as procurement agents
for the U.S.-Saudi-Arabian
Joint Commission on Eco-
nomic Cooperation have
been forced to choose be-
tween complying with the
Arab boycott of Israel in
order to facilitate projects in
Saudi Arabia, or obeying
U.S. anti-boycott laws at
the possible risk of delaying
such projects.' This conflict
has taken place despite a
memorandum issued in
1982 by the U.S. director of
the joint commission . in-
forming project personnel
that "to be guided by , a
boycott list when placing
orders is contrary to U.S.
law and policy."
The joint commission was
established in June 1974, to
aid in the internal develop-
ment of. Saudi Arabia
through cooperative pro-
grams in a broad range of
fields including agriculture,
trade and technology. The
Saudi government has con-
tributed more than $960
million to an account with
the U.S. Treasury to fund
joint commission projects.
Ten U.S. government agen-
cies are involved in the pro-

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gram, including the De-
partments of Agriculture,
Commerce, Energy, Treas-
ury and Transportation.
The investigation was re-
quested in 1982 by. the late
Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal,
then the chairman of the
House Subcommittee on
Commerce, Consumer and
Monetary Affairs. His suc-
cessor, Rep. Douglas Bar-
nard, renewed the request
after Rep. Rosenthal's
death.
U.S. agencies serve as
procurement agents for the
Saudis because of that coun-
try's lack of trained, experi-
enced personnel in contract-
ing and procurement. Most
U.S. government officials
interviewed by the GAO in
its investigation were
aware of the existence of the
Arab boycott of Israel and of
the companies on the list,
says / Boycott Report. None
acknowledged they had
been instructed by the
Saudis not to contract with
companies that are on the
Arab boycott list for doing
business with Israel.
Boycott Report cited the
GAO report as concluding
that tacit compliance with
the Arab boycott has in fact
occurred. The newsletter
reported that GAO inter-
views with two identified
U.S. officials revealed that
the Americans were reluc-
tant to deal with boycotted
firms "at the expense of
project goals." In another
instance, a former U.S. offi-
cial acknowledged that his
unit would not order from
companies that it knew
were on the Arab blacklist
because they did business
with Israel.

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Jewish law students seek
seats on ABA student board

Washington (JTA) — The
National Jewish Law Stu-
dents Network will con-
tinue seeking one of the four
ex-officio seats on the board
of governors of. the Ameri-
can Bar Association's Law
Students Division despite
the rejection of the Jewish
group by the board earlier
this month.
Susan Goldberg, a stu-
dent at Georgetown Law
School, and Craig Zetley of
the University of Wisconsin
at Madison Law School, co-
chairpersons of the Net-
work, said the Jewish group
would reapply in November
at the next ABA Law Stu-
dents Division Meeting.
The Students Network
board of governors which
met during the ABA con-
' vention in Chicago last
week, would not officially
give any reason for its rejec-
tion, according to Goldberg.
"Some of the governors
said that Jews are no longer
a minority nor are they dis-
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legal profession," she said.
Zetley noted that this was
"ironic" since "the board did
in effect discriminate
against us. Some of the gov-
ernors voted against us be-
cause they said we are a
religious organization."
The network was formed
two years ago at a meeting
of 30 law school students in
Boston.

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Jerusalem (JTA) Only
2,500 Arabs are scheduled
to leave this summer on the
annual pilgrimage to Mecca
and Medina, the holy places'
of Islam in Saudi Arabia,
compared to more than
6,000 in previous year. The
reasons for the decrease — a
levy of about $400 imposed
by the Saudi authorities on
each visitor, the limit of the
Jordanian authorities on
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