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OAK PARK 546-3777 =we •v\''10 A "Mll ■•■ ••111111111M 4\‘10 -‘ 4 \4 '\)* \ ■ ;s 4 .% V 4 4 ‘\)* 4 N',),•4 \ %4 0 /, • N. \ -ap \■ If the Reagan Administration is responsive to the input it is receiv- ing from former President Richard M. Nixon, one of its first moves in the foreign affairs area will be to launch a radically different policy in the Middle East early next year before the Ameri- can Jewish community can make its influence felt in the 1986 Con- gressional elections. The former President, widely hailed as a great friend of Israel despite the anti-Jewish senti- ments he revealed in the Watergate tapes, currently es- pouses a Middle East policy con- trary in many respects to the Rea- gan Administration's "strategic consensus" to block Soviet penet- ration of the area. Today, Nixon sees a role for the Soviets in the Middle East and advises President Reagan to talk it over with Moscow. The ex-President strongly sup- ports the Reagan Plan for resolu- tion of the Palestinian question by establishment of an autonomous Palestinian entity on the West Bank in some form of association with Jordan. Reagan's plan, in- troduced in September 1982, was promptly rejected by Israel, which had not been consulted prior to its disclosure, and by Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organiza- tion. The disclosure of the Nixon recommendations to the White House followed on the heels of Washington's disclosure that dip- lomatic relations were being re- established between Iraq and the United States. The Iraqis severed relations with the United States in 1967 because of American sup- port of Israel. They developed and maintain close ties with the Soviet Union which has been the principal source of their arms and equipment in Iraq's four-year war with Iran. The former President went pub- lic with his views in a surprisingly frank interview with Karen El- liott House of the Wall Street Journal. In Nixon's view, House reported, President Reagan has almost limitless latitude to chart a new course, since "he owes his victory to no one and to everyone." To use this freedom most effec- tively, Nixon asserts, Reagan must concentrate his efforts on only a few issues — "to use a rifle, not a shotgun." He considers the major foreign policy issues to be the Middle East and Soviet- American relations. Explaining his new concept of the Soviet role in the Middle East, against which he fought so strenuously during his incum- bency, Nixon told House: "I don't want the Russians dominating the area but I think the Soviet Union should play a role in the Middle East. After all, the Russians are there. We must recognize that the major de- stabilizing factor in the Middle East isn't the communist revolu- tion but the • Moslem- fundamentalist revolution." There is a compelling urgency in dealing with the Middle East, Nixon thinks, because the risk of a superpower confrontation is greatest there. "The least likely threat of war is a Soviet SS-20 attack on Western Europe," he told House. "But you've had five wars in the Middle East and at the present time it is the best candidate for another one." Another reason for urgency in dealing with the Middle East, in Nixon's view, is the need to for- estall pressure from the American Jewish community. That means that what he considers sound Middle East policy is possible only if it is launched by early 1985. . "The only time you have a win- dow of opportunity to come up with anything responsible in the Middle East is non-election years," he claims. "In 1986, there's no way you can do any- thing in the Middle East that won't be tilted too far in the direc- tion of Israel." He urged Reagan to revive the initiative on the Reagan Plan, noting that things have changed since Israel and Jordan said "no" and that chances for progress are better today. In the ten years since Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger, first as his national security ad- viser and then as his Secretary of State, formulated and carried out American foreign policy, Nixon's foreign policy views have under- gone a metamorphosis both in their broad perspective and in specifics. In office, his major foreign policy objective was to neutralize Soviet power and he pioneered establishment of rela- tions with Communist China as a check on the Soviet Union. Today, a decade later, his call is not for confrontation with the Soviet Union but for accommoda- tion. Instead of relying on China's friendship as a Soviet counter- weight, he advocates better rela- tions with Moscow to reduce chances tha China will try to exact too high a price for coopera- tion against the Soviet Union. How great a friend of Israel was Nixon in power and how much a friend is he today? These ques- tions assume significance as Ni- xon, with powerful support, is slowly emerging from the Coven- try that followed Watergate and inches perceptibly. toward the seat of a respected elder statesman. NEWS Credit union robbed again The B'nai B'rith Covenant Cre- dit Union in Southfield was held up for the second time in two months last Thursday, this time losing $11,000. Police are looking for a man who may have been in- volved in both robberies. In last week's incident, a man armed with a .25 caliber auto- matic pistol entered the credit union, located inside th B'nai B'rith Building at 25835 South- field, at about 4:15 p.m. and said "OK, I'm here again," according to police. In October, a pair of men escaped with more than $6,000 in a similar robbery.