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Meanwhile, there are indications that the Ad- ministration may be about to launch a preemptive strike as part of the continuing conflict over the role of Congress in Middle East decision-making. According to Dale Tate, press aide to Sen. Robert Dole (R-KS) said that the PLO closing bill "is just sitting there in the Foreign Relations Committee. Basically, we're just waiting to see if anything gets scheduled on the bill. If it doesn't, Senator Dole may bring it up later in the summer when the Senate begins working on the State Department authorization bill. Then, he may choose to bring up the PLO closing as an amendment?' On the House side, the measure introduced by presi- dential candidate Jack Kemp (R-NY) is similarly bogged down, with no action currently scheduled. But Administration moves may be in the offing. There is widespread expectation that the Justice Department may order the PLO's Washington of- fice closed, while allowing the New York office to remain open — a concession apparently designed to 'avoid a, battle before the World Court. The prime mover in this initiative is Attorney General Edwin Meese, according to numerous reports, with significant input from the State Department. There is more to the story than just the Administration's desire to avoid diplomatic pro- blems that might arise from the PLO office-closing measures now before Congress. Congress wants a greater voice in setting Middle East policy, especially as the nation inches toward potentially dangerous confron- tation in the Persian Gulf. At the same time, the Reagan ad- ministration, rocked by the Iran-Contra fiasco, is eager to regain the initiative in Middle East diplomacy and policymaking. This power struggle may well be the real motive behind any Administration decision to press ahead with its own plan to shut down the PLO, an ac- tion that will be based on the group's alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Before final action is WASHINGTON IN BRIEF Museum Design Approved Washington (JTA) — The design for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was approved last week by the federal Commission of Fine Arts clearing the way for con- struction to begin later this year. The approval comes about a month after the 'museum's design was rejected for being too imposing. The Commission objected to the museum's hexagonal-shaped memorial, the Hall of Remembrance, which they said protruded too far into the street. Architect James Freed, of the firm of I.M. Pei, admitted that he initially thought that chang- ing the memorial's design would destroy its symbolism. But by shrinking the size of the Hall of Remembrance, and pull- ing it further into line with the adjacent government buildings, he created a design he liked even more. "We now had an opportunity we didn't have before; namely, wonderful landscape. This could be a wonderful urban garden on the (Washington) Mall," Freed said. "It has its own identity as a part of the Mall and it's also abstract!' New York State Sen. Roy Goodman (R-Manhattan), a member of the Commission, noted that Freed's revisions "embodied our major objections and in its present form, the museum designs are acceptable and will a be great asset to the community?' But controversy over the Holocaust museum, which was approved by Congress in 1979, remains. Some Holocaust sur- vivors are still questioning whether the museum, which will be five stories and feature a learning center, library and archives, is appropriate for a tragedy such as the Holocaust. Soviet Jewish Unit Denounces Emigrant Route Washington (JTA) —The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) denounced last week a proposal that Soviet Jewish emigrants go directly to Israel through Rumania. "The plan would deny the emigres' right to select the United States or other Western nations as their destination of first choice, as guaranteed by international human rights treaties," the UCSJ said. The UCSJ position was out- lined in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times by Pamela Cohen, the organization's presi- dent, and Micah Naftalin, its Washington representative, and was reiterated in a separate statement by Cohen. While calling the proposal an "Israeli plan," the UCSJ criticism was aimed at the negotiations held with Soviet officials last March in Moscow by Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), and Morris Abram, president of the National Con- ference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) and chairman of the Con- ference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations. They negotiated a procedure by which Soviet Jews would fly to Israel through Rumania rather than the current route through. Vienna. Although all Soviet Jews leave the USSR with visas for Israel, most go to some other country, chiefly the U.S. U.S. To Resubmit Saudi Missile Sale Proposal Washington (JTA) — National Security Advisor Frank Carluc- ci said last week that the Reagan Administration would resubmit its proposal to sell Maverick air-to-ground missiles to Saudi Arabia. The announce- ment came only five days after the Administration withdrew the proposed sale in the face of almost certain defeat in the Senate. In a speech before the poli- tical action conference of the National Association of Ameri- can Arabs, Carlucci said there must be "an American will- ingness to continue to accept our major role" in the Persian Gulf. He did not elaborate on the missile proposal or say when it would be resubmitted. He con- tended that opposition to the sale and to U.S. protection of Kuwaiti tankers in the Persian Gulf was sending the "wrong signal" to U.S. allies in the region and could become "an in- vitation to the Iranians and Soviets:'