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North of Maple PROVIDING A FOUNDATIONON WHICH ISRAEL BUILDS AMPAL The Lavi Continued from Preceeding Page Labor Party leader Shimon Peres is hoist on a different petard. Voting against the Lavi—a decision that could put thousands of workers out of jobs—would place him on a collision course with the Histadrut labor federation, his natural (and powerful) political ally. It would also hand a neat victory to the Likud leader, his coalition partner—and political rival. Ultimately, however, when the cabinet debates the issue again—this Sunday or the next—it is difficult to imagine that Israeli policy-makers will vote to go ahead with the Lavi in the face of such deter- mined opposition from their own economic and defense experts—and from Washington, which is, after all, footing the bill. Said Immigration and Ab- sorption Minister Ya'acov Tsur: "We cannot just tell the Americans to go jump in the lake." Israel's Wish List Israeli military planners have a long list of weapons which, they believe, would give Israel a decisive advan- tage on any future bat- tlefield. But these weapons cannot be acquired simply because the armed forces simply cannot afford them. There is a strong—and growing—lobby, both in the Defense Ministry and in the Defense Forces, which ad- vocates scrapping the Lavi in order to release $300 million a year which, the planners contend, could be better spent elsewhere. One of the first items on the military "wish list" is a missile developed, ironically, by Israel Aircraft Industries (which is also building the Lavi). The Air Force needs 1,000 of these missiles which, ac- cording to a military source, could "change the bat- tlefield." At present, however, the Air Force has funds to buy only 200 to 300 over the next few years. Two other missiles—one developed by Israel Aircraft Industries; the other by Rafael (the armaments development authority) are also high-priority items in the Defense Forces. A special plant has been constructed to produce the Rafael missile but, becau -se of severe budget cuts, the plant is working at just 40 percent capacity. The navy also has a $1.1 billion development pro- gram that is starved of funds. The navy urgently needs new attack craft, sub- marines and missile boats. There is p.o formal linkage between the Lavi and United States willingness to produce the $200 million it has promised to enable Israel to develop the Arrow ATB anti-tactical ballistic missile, which has been designed specifically to meet the growing missile threat on the Syrian front. But the funds have not been for- thcoming and the Arrow project is at a standstill= and will probably remain so until the Lavi crisis has been resolved. — Helen Davis NEWS I Sharon Breaks Silence On Lebanese War Tel Aviv (JTA) — The Lebanon war was a "great success . . . a war of salva- tion . . . the most carefully pre- planned and implemented war in Israel's history." Moreover, it was directed on a daily basis by the Cabinet, which was fully privy to every move made, Ariel Sharon de- clared in a prepared four-hour address to a VIP audience at rIbl Aviv University last week. Sharon's speech, in which he quoted extensively from the minutes of Cabinet and military staff meetings and briefings of senior army offic- ers, was intended to "tell the truth and clear my name." But it has been followed by the reopening of the Lebanon war- debate, with renewed sharp attacks on Sharon and his veracity. Introducing Sharon to the packed audience of senior government officials, senior army officers and academics, Maj. (Res.) Gen. Aharon Yariv head of Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (JCSS), which spon- sored the meeting, said that Sharon had come under fierce attack during a JCSS sym- posium on the Lebanon war two months ago "and we