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FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1988
JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent
T
he landmark Foreign
Aid Appropriations
Bill passed the full
House last week, with hard-
ly a murmur about Israel's
current difficulties — and
without crippling amend-
ments.
The final scene in the
drawn-out legislative drama
was the result of two factors.
Earlier in the week, the
House Rules Committee, with
Rep. Claude Pepper as chair,
set highly restrictive rules for
the floor debate — rules de-
signed in part to keep Israel's
critics from using it as an op-
portunity for taking potshots
at the Jerusalem
government.
Another factor was more
mundane: the congressman
considered most likely to in-
troduce amendments that
would have cut Israel's $3
billion allotment simply did
not show up for the debate.
Hill insiders expected Rep.
James A. Traficant (D-Ohio)
to propose an across-the-board
5 percent cut in foreign aid —
a cut which would not exempt
Israel and Egypt, the two big-
gest recipients of U.S. cash.
Surprisingly, Traficant miss-
ed the entire debate.
"It's an old adage here,"
said one aide. "If you sneeze,
you lose. Traficant sneezed:'
The bill, which added up to
more than $14 billion in
foreign aid, was the first
foreign aid appropriations
measure to make it through
the House as an individual
bill since 1981.
Bush Hosts
Jewish Leaders
CLEANING & STORAGE
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Congressional 'Sneeze' Helped
House Foreign Aid Measure
Ibp Jewish leaders were
feted in Washington last
week by George Bush at an
informal gathering at the
vice president's official
residence.
Although political talk
wasn't the order of the day,
reports suggest that Bush,
who is working hard to cut in-
to Gov. Michael Dukakis'
early lead among Jewish
voters, made a strong show-
ing in presenting his pro=
Israel credentials.
"It was very warm, very
informal," said one Jewish
activist who attended the
reception in honor of Israel's
40th anniversary at the state-
ly vice presidential mansion
in northwest Washington.
"Even the Democrats who
George Bush:
Strong showing.
.were there were impressed by
the vice president's sincerity?'
Bush, according to sources
at the off-the-record gather-
ing, laid out three corner-
stones of his Middle East
policy: strengthening
strategic cooperation with
Israel, rejecting the idea of a
Palestinian state, and oppos-
ing pressure to create an "im-
posed settlement." Bush also
told the group that under a
Bush administration, "you
won't see any - swing away
from the sound and reason-
able record of the current ad-
ministration" in the area of
Middle East policy.
Jews Benefit
From Camp
Political activism often
finds its best expression in
the quiet projects that
demonstrate concern of one
group for another.
So it is with the unusual
summer camp for the
children of Salvadoran
refugees that that took place
last weekend in the moun-
tains of Virginia. The camp
was sponsored jointly by the
Mid-Atlantic Federation of
Temple Youth and the
Salvadoran Refugee Commit-
tee; the entire project was
sparked by the politically ac-
tive Union of American
Hebrew Congregations.
"The theme of the camp
this year is, 'Give them all the
love they can take, all the food
they can eat,' " said Glenn
Stein of Religious Action
Center of Reform Judaism.
"These children live in ex-
tremely difficult environ-
ments — crowded, without
enough food, in very tense
situations. Their environ-
ment doesn't provide much
wholesome recreation, or
much interaction with
Americans."
This year, the three-day out-
door experience was offered to
45 underprivileged children;
25 Jewish kids served as
counselors.
This all took place at an un-
disclosed location. When the
camp began last year, there
were concerns that some par-
ticipants might be un-
documented aliens — and
that the organizers and
counselors might be in viola-
tion of Immigration and
Naturalization Service
regulations.
There were also fears that
INS officials might regard a
collection of Salvadoran kids
as a good opportunity for a
raid.
Last year, most of these
fears were put to rest with an
INS letter indicating that the
camp would not be at risk.
Still, plans for this year's
camp were closely held until
the Memorial Day extrava-
ganza began.
What do the Jewish
children who conceived and
operated the camp get out of
the experience? "They get an
awareness of the plight of the
refugees and their struggle,"
Stein said. "And they learn
about the background that
led them to where they are.
And they get the satisfaction
of doing some good for people
who really need it."
U.S. Announces
Ambassador
Washington (JTA) — Presi-
dent Reagan intends to
nominate career diplomat
William Brown to replace
Thomas Pickering as U.S. am-
bassador to Israel, the White
House announced.
The announcement did not
disclose the new assignment
for Pickering, who has been
ambassador to Israel since
1985.
Brown, 57, currently am-
bassador to Thailand, served
as deputy chief of mission at
the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv
from 1979 to 1982.
Saudi Arms
Request Okayed
Washington (JTA) — Since
Congress did not vote to block
it by last week's deadline, the
request by the Reagan ad-
ministration to grant Saudi
Arabia $825 million has been
approved.