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The Americans also said that they were waiting to see what impact the upcoming official reports in Jerusalem on Israel's handling of the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy scandal might have on the Israeli political leadership. There are indications that Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Defense Mini- ster Yitzhak Rabin and Minister Without Portfolio Moshe Arens may be severe- ly criticized by those reports. But irrespective of the Pollard reports, there was disappointment in Washing- ton on the latest turn of events in Jerusalem, especial- ly the sense that Shamir — at least for the time being — had outmaneuvered Peres over the issue of an international conference. Peres is clearly more popular with Administration policymakers than is Shamir. The Americans have made no secret of their appreciation of Peres's intensive efforts in re- cent weeks to reach a formal understanding with Jordan's King Hussein on the scope of an international conference. Peres and Rabin met secret- ly with Hussein in London this past April, for example. At the meeting, the two sides agreed that an international conference would quickly lead to direct Arab-Israeli negotia- tions and that the full plenary members, especially the So- viet Union, would not be in a position to impede or veto bilateral agreements. U.S. officials suggested that Peres who has not yet been able to win a simple Knesset majority needed for early national elections, may have overplayed his political card. It is thought that Peres should have included Likud leaders more actively in his behind-the-scenes diplomacy. But the Administration is not planning either to back away from its support for an international conference or to more publicly support Peres and Labor. Thus, the State Department has repeatedly refused to be drawn into the domestic politics of Israel. "We're not going to make any comment on the political debate in Israel," said Phylis Oakley, the spokeswoman. "We remain in continuous discussion with the govern- ment of Israel on a range of regional issues, including the peace process." She said the overall U.S. ob- jective remains "a compre- hensive peace settlement." While refusing to comment on internal Israeli politics, she did read a carefully- drafted statement which noted that "significant pro- gress" has been achieved late- ly in promoting the peace pro- cess. In the statement, the U.S. clearly tilted toward the view endorsed by Peres — as opposed to Shamir. "Our objective is peace," the statement said. "We re- main convinced that peace can only be reached through face-to-face, or direct bilateral negotiations. As we have stated recently, there has been significant progress in our effort to see whether a conference can lead promptly to face-to-face bilateral negotiations and not interfere with those negotiations." Shamir has maintained that Israeli representatives were no longer authorized to discuss an international con- ference since the Inner Cab- inet failed to endorse the concept. But Peres, during his U.S. visit, was not backing away from his stance. In an inter- view broadcast on ABC's "Good Morning America," for instance, he said that the agreement with Jordan repre- sents "the most serious pro- posal that has ever come on the table over the last 39 years — since the establish- ment of the State of Israel:' Privately, U.S. officials agreed. Thus, they said that despite Shamir's strong op- position, the U.S. remains willing to work toward the convening of an international conference. This was also the thrust of Shultz's speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington. During talks with Admini- stration officials, Peres sug- gested that the U.S. in the coming weeks determine the exact Soviet attitude on ad- vancing the peace process. In any U.S:Soviet dialogue, Peres said, the U.S. should make clear that the Soviets will not be able to veto or im- pose any settlement at an in- ternational conference. He said the U.S. and Israel agreed that the Soviet Union_ would have to reestablish diplomatic ties with Israel and increase Soviet Jewish emigration in order to qualify for a seat at an international conference. Before leaving Washington, Peres met for 90 minutes with Soviet Ambassador Yuri Du- binin. U.S. officials expressed fear that some of the agreements between Israel and Jordan on the exact scope of an interna- tional conference could begin to unravel unless the overall momentum continued in the coming weeks. But, they fur- ther acknowledged, there was little the U.S. could do until the messy political crisis in Israel eased. The Director-General of the Prime Minister's Office, Yosef Ben-Aharon, wound up his talks in Washington aimed at rejecting the notion of an in- ternational conference. Israeli officials said that Ben-Ahar- on had been dispatched to Washington to let senior U.S. officials know exactly how strong Shamir's opposition to an international conference really is. But Ben-Aharon failed in convincing the Americans to drop their support for an in- ternational conference as en- visaged by Peres. ❑ U.S. Seeks Denaturalization Of Alleged Kapo Washington (JTA) — The Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI) last week filed a com- plaint with a U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., toward denaturalizing Jacob Tannenbaum of Brooklyn on the grounds that he concealed his past as an overseer in a Nazi concentration camp. Tannenbaum, 71, Jewish, and a native of Poland, is ac- cused of serving as a "kapo," an inmate overseer of pris- oners at Goerlitz.