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Zakheim, in his speech, cited the very serious implications for Israel's already hard-pressed economy as a result of Gramm- Rudman. "First," he said, "the often-used approach of adding to the Administration's request once it came to Capitol Hill just will not work anymore," he said. "Unwanted additions to the President's budget are the best way to trigger Gramm- Rudman reductions." . Second, Zakheim continued, "we must get used to the fact that military assistance levels for Israel simply will not grow in the future. The Gramm-Rud- man legislation forces the deficit down to zero in 1992. Put another way, it exerts continu- ing downward pressure on ex- penditure. The President's five year program responds to that pressure by fitting inside the Gramm-Rudman limits. If the next several years budgets are approved, we can reach the Gramm-Rudman goal of no defi- cit by 1992. But in these cir- cumstances, Israel will do well just to maintain the 1.8 billion dollar level until that time." That means, in short, that the Israel Defense Force is going to have to become increasingly more selective in its weapons ac- either quisitions program from the U.S. and other foreign suppliers or from within Israel itself. There is not going to be a whole lot of money around to make many mistakes. Zakheim, who led the inter- agency team which visited Israel to study the Levi project, pointed out that the U.S. has already made available over one billion dollars to Israel for the development of the Levi. "The, Levi is a very special program, he said. "It is not meant for the U.S„ nor do we consider it a candidate for future acquisition. The U.S. Air Force has absolute- ly no requirement, or interest in Continued from Page 1 this plane, which is being devel- Force, which was established a oped to support Israel's unique year ago to increase trade, private air battle, management plan — investment and tourism in Israel. which differs from our own — Hermelin is chairman of the and the Middle Eastern environs executive committee of the ment in which Israel's air forces American ORT Federation and must operates Nevertheless, the serves on the boards of Bar-Ilan U.S. has already committed University, the Jewish Theologi- over one billion dollars toward cal Seminary and American the development of this air- Friends of Hebrew Univeisity. craft." He is a member of the board of Zakheim recalled that this is governors of the Jewish Welfare not the first time that the Federation of Detroit and im- United States has supported a mediate past president of Cong. Shaarey Zedek. He is a board local Israeli development effort member of the Michigan Opera, "nor will it be the last. He the Detroit Friends of Modern referred to the 100 million Art, the Children's Hospital of dollars appropriated forthe con- Michigan, the Michigan Cancer struction of the Merkava battle Foundation, and the Detroit tank. "Without the United Round Table of Christians and 'States' support," he said, "this unique combination armored that simply cannot be left to con- tractors — their job is to produce a product, not to critique them- selves. Program managers likewise are not the appropriate people; their job is to deliver the product." Zakheim, a former Congres- sional budget expert with a doc- torate from Oxford University who joined Under Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle's staff at the start of the Reagan Administra- tion, said Israel must find others to perform the costevaluation task. "In the past," he said, "the task was performed second hand,,as Israel acquired foreign systems that had already been subject to such evaluations. With Israel producing more and more of its own systems, how- ever, second hand analysis is simply not enough. Israel must develop its own internal, inde- pendent program analysis and evaluation capability if it is to ensure that the weapons sys- tems it develop are the most cost effective for its own unique mission requirements." Zakheim also made clear that the Gramm-Rudman law is go- ing_ to significantly reduce Israel's ability to obtain greater sums of military assistance from Washington. There will, there- fore, be a smaller financial cushion and less room for mistakes. Gramm-Rudman was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan in order to reduce the massive federal budget deficit over the next few years. Already in the already-passed 1986 fiscal year budget, Israel has been pressed to return some 77 million dollars in promised military aid and nearly 60 million dollars in economic assistance to the U.S. Treasury. In the pending 1987 legislation, the Reagan Admin- istration has proposed the same 1.8 billion dollars in military grants for Israel as approved last year. But if Gramm- Rudman's automatic across-the- board budget cutting mechan- ...... . —