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Rates subject to change without notice. Good for deposits of $100,000 or more. 22 FRIDAY, JULY-10, 1987 CLAWSON 330 W. 14 Mile Rd. LAKE ANGELUS 2986 Walton Blvd. ROYAL OAK 225 S. Troy St. FSLIC Penni Serve.•teel me... Geo A U S Government A.m., JAMES DAVID BESSER Special to The Jewish News W TRUE FAUX STORE LOEHMANN'S OF HUNTERS SQUARE MALL AIPAC, Denying Charges, Says Doing Its Job Well ashington — Lead- ers of the American- Israel Public Af- fairs Committee (AIPAC) are vigorously denying charges made in the Wall Street Journal expose of the influential pro-Israel ad- vocacy group. Meanwhile, there are in- dications that the people on Capitol Hill who matter the most to the energetic lobby- ing organization — senators and congressmen, and the large professional staffs who do the crucial legwork on every piece of legislation pertaining to Israel — are greeting the expose with a collective yawn. "AIPAC is very concerned about the gross inaccuracies with which the Journal depicted our organization," an AIPAC spokesperson said. "AIPAC does not dispute the fact that it is successful and influential. But we vigorously deny charges that • AIPAC coor- dinates the political con- tributions of local political action committees? (AIPAC officials would not be interviewed for the Jour- nal story.) The same spokesperson spoke with pride about AIPAC's role as "the con- certed voice of the pro-Israel community. We're not about to apologize for being effec- tive? The Journal article charges AIPAC with collu- sion in channeling millions of dollars into elections through dozens of small - political action committees. A crucial point here is the difference between a lobby- ing group and a "political action committee," or PAC; AIPAC officials are quick to point out that the "pac" in their name, which stands for "Public Affairs Committee," was coined long before the so-called electoral reform legislation of the 1970s gave rise to the PAC as a instru- ment of special-interest campaign giving. Political action commit- tees are limited in what they can dole out in any political race. But a large number of PACS operating in concert can have con- siderable muscle in the political process. AIPAC energetically denies an active role in coor- dinating PAC contributions. At the same time, a spokesperson for the group does not deny that the group wields considerable in- fluence in the pro-Israel community, and that some of this influence inevitably affects the ways political contributions are doled out. "It's only natural and desirable that AIPAC at- tracts the most active, po- litically conscious leaders of the pro-Israel community," an AIPAC spokesperson said. It's just as natural that these people will take at least part of the AIPAC per- spective into the various other organizations that are part of their commitment to Israel. On the Hill, the reaction seems to be one of surprise —not at the news of AIPAC's close ties to the people in the pro-Israel community who "A lobbying group is being criticized for being effective." hand out the campaign money, but at the idea that this reflects anything out- side of standard operating procedure in this town. "Basically, what you have is a lobbying group being criticized in a national paper for being an effective lobbying group," said one legislative aide on the Hill who has worked with AIPAC on a number of issues. "I don't always see eye to eye with the folks at AIPAC — lately, it seems, I've disagreed with them more than anything — but I'd have to say that they understand very well how the system works,-and how to use it legally and effec- tively. You can't knock that?' Senators and Con- gressmen themselves speak of AIPAC in ,,only the most circumspect, respectful terms — in itself," an indica- tion of the group's success in combining lobbying on the Hill with marketing their political agenda to just about everybody else in the pro-Israel community. Congressional staffs, the people who work most close- ly with lobbyists on a day-to- day basis, generally regard AIPAC as a model of an effi- cient, highly aggressive lob- bying organization, although some question the wisdom of what is seen as the group's growing iden-