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Senators who scored especially high included Paul Sarbanes (D MD). - MD; GET REMUS • I FULL PHOTO SERVICES INCLUDING: BLACK & WHITE, ENLARGEMENTS & PORTRAITS I A. Regular $495 High Interest Peace Conference Update Is the idea of an interna- tional peace conference of- ficially dead within the inner sanctums of the Reagan White House? Or has the no- tion merely been placed on a back burner while the Ad- ministration deals.with more pressing foreign affairs priori- ties, including the conclusion of a major INF treaty and the conflict in the Persian Gulf? The question has surfaced again because the question of the U.S. position on peace talks has again become a ma- jor weapon in the ongoing debate in Jerusalem. The forces of Shimon Peres insist - that the Reagan administra- tion still favors talks under some kind of international umbrella; Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir claims that the issue is dead and buried in Washington. Barry Rubin, a fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of In- ternational Studies and an expert in Middle East diplom- acy, disagreed with the idea that an. international peace conference has been aban- doned. But he does regard the recent silence from the Ad- ministration as a reflection of the vexing political realities of the issue. "The fact is, if the Ad- ministration thought there was a really good chance of getting somewhere, they'd be more willing to push the idea right now," Rubin said recent- ly. "But the Israeli govern- ment is hopelessly split on the issue, and the Jordanians are not being as forthcoming as they have appeared in their public relations. So there's a perception that this is not a very good thing to press right now, in terms of the likelihood of success." Rubin also argued that the idea of an international con- ference has lost some of its momentum because of a fail- ure to go beyond the "what if stage, both here and in Israel. "What people seem to be missing is the question of. what type of conference we want it to be, what the details should be. We have to discuss the substance of it — and the time to do that is now" The Israelis, he said, are concerned about the way U.S. foreign policy works. "They fear that once the idea is ac- cepted, there will be tremen- dous pressure to be successful — and the way to be success- ful, according to the way the State Department usually does things, is to make con- cessions. So we have to make decisions about the details of the talks now: what are the things we want to accom- plish? What do we want to avoid? These are the issues we have not dealt with yet." Martin Indyk, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, took a more pessimistic view. "In terms of my understanding, the Ad- ministration's attitude is that it's dead in the water. They were reluctant partners in this process in the first place; Shultz made it clear that he was interested in it only as a route to direct negotiations. He was impressed by what Hussein and Peres had agreed to last April. But he wasn't prepared to make it a sufficiently high priority." According to Indyk, a major problem is that King Hus- sein, contrary to some earlier evaluations, genuinely wants an ongoing Soviet presence in the peace process, something the Administration will not accept. "Shultz's position all along has been that this kind of Soviet position is not something that would be pro- ductive in bringing about direct negotiations." The other part of the equa- tion, Indyk says, has to do with Israeli politics. "Another factor is the desire not to in- tervene in an Israeli internal conflict. As soon as it became a case of Peres fighting Shamir over it, Shultz was very wary of getting involved. Had Peres delivered the votes in the cabinet, which he tried to do, it would have been a dif- ferent story. When he failed, the Administration reas- sessed the situation and realized that the reality was that they had to work with Shamir." The recent debate in Israel over the U.S. position, Indyk said, has more to do with Israeli politics than with diplomacy. "A lot of the recent talk is for domestic purposes. Peres wants to take the ques- tion of the international con- ference to the people, and get a vote on it. My own feeling is that Shamir would be hap- py to go along with that. Peres needs to make the argu- ment that it's very much alive; Shamir is convinced that the idea of an interna- tional conference is dead in Washington. I think Peres is making a big mistake." A Jackson-Vanik End Run? Secretary of Commerce William Verity, whose recent confirmation battle brought into question his support for the concept of a link between trade concessions to the Soviets and human rights im-