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Personal service with 40 years of experience. 6668 Orchard Lake Road in the West Bloomfield Shopping Plaza 626-2652 CAPITOL REPORT 4628 N. Woodward Avenue Royal Oak, Michigan 48072 549-6733 Continued from Page 1 Foreign Affairs; Senate Foreign Relations; and House and Senate Appropriations. Those are the panels which must approve all foreign aid legislation. But because of the Gramm- Rudman budget-cutting mood in Washington, Dine said, "the future is not aid." He said the aid levels were not going to increase "unless there were a Syrian-Israeli war and Israel was just flat- tened economically." Short of that scenario, the real future for Israel is "making sure that the economy is led by high-tech exports. And that includes defense and non- defense items." Thus, AIPAC has become an active supporter of the many direct and indirect ef- forts to promote Israeli ex- ports, including Operation In- dependence, a :private in- itiative of several prominent American Jewish business- men. AIPAC was also in- volved in lobbying the Con- gress to support the estab- lishment of the U.SIsraeli Free Trade Area. AIPAC, in the coming months, can be expected to promote efforts in Congress to revise the law on blocking foreign arms sales. As it cur- rently stands, the" President can push through controver- sial sales to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states by simply winning over only a third of the Senate. kIPAC is also quietly ex- ploring ways to reduce the in- terest rates on America's outstanding military loans to Israel. An earlier effort by Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Bob Kasten of Wisconsin was scruobed after Jonathan Jay Pollard's arrest last Novem- ber. That initiative, which was well on its way toward passage, would have saved Israel an immediate $531 million. Another fresh item on the AIPAC agenda, Dine said, in- volves a two-year old amend- ment by Democratic Repre- sentative Howard Berman of California to transfer some $5 million a year to Israel for developmental aid projects in Africa. 3ut in the process of ex- panding its traditional agen- da, AIPAC has rankled some influential people in the United States and Israel. There has recently been criticism of its style, growth and policies. Besides criticism by Is- rael's Arab adversaries and their supporters in the United States, and from various Ad- ministration officials who have been angered by its policies and its influence in Congress, lately, AIPAC has faced a new wave of criticism from an unlikely source — namely, from some American Jews who have warned that AIPAC's supposed 'heavy hand" in promoting a "single issue" — U.S. support for Israel — could actually generate a backlash against Israel and the American Jewish community. And there have also been a few out- spoken critics in Israel as well, from both the right as well as from the left, who have lashed out against the group. AIPAC's President, Bob Asher of Chicago. and Dine Some Jewish organizations, often jealous of AIPAC's recently-found popularity, have charged that the lobby was usurping some of their traditional turf. are understandably sensitive to the complaints. AIPAC is a registered doinestic American lobbying organization. It represents Americans who want to strengthen U.S7Israeli rela- tions. It is not a foreign agent of the government of Israel. Thus, it does not have to register as such with the U.S. Justice Department. But because it is not a foreign agent, AIPAC cannot receive any money or guidance from Israel. AIPAC officials and Israeli leaders, can, of course, talk to each other. And they do. But AIPAC must main- tain an independent posture. It is an American — not an Israeli — organization. It represents American citizens. AIPAC must raise its own money, and these donations, mostly from American Jews, are not tax-deductible. Six years ago, before the the issue of the U.S. sale of AWACS top Saudi Arabia, AIPAC had about 30 people on its staff. Today, there are close to 100. During this period, its annual budget has grown from $1.2 million to over $6 million. Membership has increased from 12,000 to 60,000. But with this growth has come all sorts of criticism •. Some Jewish organizations, often jealous of AIPAC's recently-found popularity, have charged that the lobby was usurping some of their traditional turf, that it was taking on too much. There are also widespread charges that AIPAC has been too active behind-thescenes in pro- moting single-issue pro- Israeli political action com- mittees, or PACs, which raise