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has not.
In 1981, Quayle helped
President Reagan gain ap-
proval for the sale of AWACS
surveillance planes to Saudi
Arabia, while Bentsen oppos-
ed it.
In 1985, both sponsored a
"sense of the Senate" resolu-
tion opposing a sale of ad-
vance weapons to Jordan un-
til it began peace negotia-
tions with Israel.
Bentsen, and not Quayle,
later joined 74 colleagues in
formally opposing it.
In 1986, Quayle backed an
arms sale to Saudi Arabia
before and after Reagan
vetoed a congressional effort
to block it. Bentsen original-
ly opposed it and was the first
Democrat on the override vote
to switch to the president's
side.
Pro-Israel analysts said
they did not consider the vote
on the override a key vote,
since the most objectionable
component of the sale,
Stinger missiles, had been
removed.
Neither signed a joint
resolution in June 1987 op-
posing the sale of 1,600
Maverick "D" missiles to
Saudi Arabia, and in
September, neither was
among the 68 senators who
signed a letter opposing the
sale that prodded Reagan to
remove the Mavericks from
the arms package.
On foreign aid, both have
less than perfect records,
although Bentsen has been
more likely to vote for a
foreign aid package.

But pro-Israel activists said
Quayle, who opposes alloca-
tions to multilateral
organizations and to some
countries in the bills, has told
them he would vote for
foreign aid to Israel if it were
to receive its money on a
separate vote.
On July 7, Quayle opposed
the most recent foreign aid
appropriations bill, along
with about 14 colleagues. An
analyst added that Quayle op-
posed two of the six most im-
portant foreign aid bills since
he was elected to the Senate
in 1980, and that he almost
always opposed foreign aid
bills while in the House.

Bentsen, by comparison,
supported 20 of the 32 major
foreign aid votes while in the
Senate. He voted against six
of them and did not vote on
six others.

On the potpourri of related
Jewish issues:
Both cosponsored New York
Senator Daniel Moynihan's
1984 Senate bill to move the
U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem.

Dan Quayle: Has a mixed record.

In 1985, Bentsen and
Quayle both urged Reagan
not to visit the military
cemetery in Bitburg, West
Germany, where members of
the Waffen SS are buried.

Bentsen supported a 1987
bill to allow Jews in the
military to wear kippot;
Quayle opposed it.
Both cosponsored the 1987
bill to close the Palestine
Liberation Organization's
U.S. offices.

Neither was among the 30
senators signing the March
letter to Secretary of State
George Shultz supporting his
then-promising peace in-
itiative that in part criticized
Israeli Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Shamir as an obstacle to
peace.

In April, to celebrate
Israel's 40th anniversary,
Bentsen gave his final speech
on Israel before his selection
for the Democratic ticket.

"We do not approve of every
Israeli action and they do not
like all of our policies. But on
the most basic issues —
resistance to communism,
support for human rights,
willingness to take risks for
genuine peace, close coopera-
tion on the most sensitive
security matters — Israel and
the United States have work-
ed side by side," Bentseti said.

Quayle's most recent
Senate action relating to
Israel came Juy 27, when he
released a study compiled by
his staff on the dangers of-
nuclear proliferation, based
on recent news reports.

He spoke along with
Senator Robert Dole (R-Kan.)
before passage — by a 97-0
vote — of a resolution calling
on the People's Republic of
China to halt the sale of
ballistic missiles and other of-
fensive weapons to the Middle
East and Persian Gulf.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency