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Come in for our free informative brochure about framing. 20% discount on custom framing. gallery The Cure for the Blank Wall West Bloomfield — 6223 Orchard Lake Road (In Sugar Tree) — 855-0813 Troy — 316 West 14 Mile Road (In Oakland Mall) — 585-7470 Royal Oak — 710 West 11 Mile Road — 544-1199 48 FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1987 Washington (JTA) — Secretary of State George Shultz indicated last week that he was unable to get the Soviet Union to go along with a new proposal for negotia- tions between Israel and Jor- dan under the auspices of the United States and the USSR. "We haven't made any par- ticular progress in the vary- ing concepts we have about that," Shultz said at a press conference in Moscow follow- ing talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard- nadze and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The press conference was seen here as it was held over the Cable News Network (CNN). Shultz was apparently referring to the latest pro- posal to have Moscow and Washington jointly host negotiations between Jordan and Israel, as well as the earlier proposal for an inter- national conference which would include the five perma- nent members of the United Nations Security Council. The Soviets have backed Jordan and other Arab coun- tries in pressing for the inter- national conference. The issue has divided the govern- ment of national unity in Israel with Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and his Labor colleagues supporting the concept as the only way to bring Jordan into the negotia- tions while Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Likud are vehemently opposed because of a belief the Soviets would use it to press anti- Israeli actions. During Shultz's visit to the Middle East en route to Moscow, Shamir and Peres apparently agreed to allow Shultz to raise the new con- cept with the Soviets. However, Shultz has never publicly acknowledged that there is such a proposal. Shamir told Israel Army Radio that it was agreed not to disclose the plan while the U.S. official was in the Soviet Union. The proposal is aimed at avoiding the term interna- tional conference since it calls for direct talks between Israel and a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation under U.S-Soviet auspices. But the existence of the pro- posal became public in Israel and has already drawn fire from some members of Likud and the right-wing Tehiya Party which has submitted a no-confidence motion in the Knesset. Shultz's response on the Mideast process came in an answer to a question from a Soviet reporter. The Secretary stressed that the U.S. has been a "helpful partner" in seeking peace in the Mideast. Conference Ponders Demographic Trend Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel, which faces serious demographic problems because of the disparity be- tween the Jewish and Arab birth rates, is responsible nevertheless for offsetting demographic losses among Diaspora Jews, according to material presented here last week at a conference on the demography of the Jewish people. Some 200 scientists and Jewish community leaders from 20 countries attended the conference. Conference participants were told that it is doubtful how long Israel can hold the line in the "demography crisis," which is aggravated by their high incidence of in- termarriage and assimilation in the two largest diaspora communities — the United States and the Soviet Union. At present, the world Jewish population is about 12,881,000 including 3,521,000 Jews living in Israel. But by the year 2000, the global Jewish population is expected to decline to 12,212,000 and regress to the growth rate of the 1960's. If these trends are not reversed, the demographers warned, the limited natural increase of Jews in Jsrael will not suffice to compensate for losses in the Diaspora communities. Prof. Mordechai Atshuler of the Hebrew University told the conference that close to half of Soviet Jews marry non-Jews and the vast majori- ty of the children of these mixed marriages choose to register as non-Jews. Alshuler estimated the number of Jews in the USSR as no more than 1.5 to 1.6 million. Higher numbers often cites reflect either wishful thinking or politics, he said. The situation is not much better in the United States.