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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1988
AIPAC Denies Links To
Activist Under Investigation
JAMES DAVID BESSER
the group's North Capitol
Street headquarters.
Washington Correspondent
T
he publicity-shy Amer-
ica-Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee,
already beset by an investiga-
tion by TV's "Sixty Minutes"
team, is heatedly denying any
link with the controversial ac-
tivities of Michael Goland.
Goland is the Los Angeles
businessman and pro-Israel
activist reportedly under in-
vestigation for funneling
money into the campaign of a
right-wing third-party can-
didate in an attempt to shore
up the sagging reelection ef-
forts of Sen. Alan Cranston
(D-Calif.) in 1986.
Cranston, a favorite with
the pro-Israel community,
was locked in a tight race
with Republican Ed Zschau.
According to reports that
surfaced last week in the Los
Angeles Times, Goland — who
had been closely linked to
AIPAC activities, including
the almost-successful lobby-
ing against a major weapons
sale to Saudi Arabia — par-
ticipated in a strategy to pro-
vide financial support for an
ultra-conservative third-party
candidate. Some of this
money, according to the
Times, may have come from
Jewish contributors tied to
Goland.
So far, there has been no
evidence linking Cranston to
the alleged third-party gam-
bit. But sources here reveal-
ed that Cranston attended a
meeting at AIPAC's head-
quarters around the time the
scheme supposedly unfolded
— and that at the same
meeting, after Cranston left,
there was talk of strategies to
aid the pro-Israel legislator.
A source close to the group
said that some discussion of
third-party candidacies may
have taken place, although he
insisted there was no talk of
any formal strategy to aid the
third-party candidacy.
According to sources close
to AIPAC, the operational
link to Goland was through
several lower-level lobbyists
employed by the group. These
sources agreed with the of-
ficial AIPAC version of events
— that the Goland link to the
organization was severed
sometime in 1986, and that
the lobbyists involved in the
alleged strategy were
reprimanded.
The case — and the endless
barrage of rumors about the
Goland connection — have
caused a bad case of jitters at
On the "Sixty Minutes"
front, reports suggest that the
TV muckraking team had a
hard time finding pro-Israel
activists here who would talk
on-camera about AIPAC's
activities.
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-
Hawaii), a tenacious sup-
porter of the pro-Israel cause,
has appeared on the segment
and, according to several
Sen. Alan Cranston: •
No links.
sources, gave a spirited
defense of the group.
And numerous activists
contacted by the "Sixty
Minutes" staff refused to
single AIPAC out as different
from any other major-league
lobbying group.
Genocide Bill
Delay Continues
As Congress comes down to
the home stretch in this
election-abbreviated session,
Jewish activists here are
gnashing their teeth over the
continuing stall on the
measure implementing last
year's ratification of the
Genocide Convention.
Despite vague promises
from Sen. Robert Byrd (D-
AVY.) to place the measure on
the crowded Senate agenda
before the pre-election ad-
journment, a date has not yet--
been set — and the number of
remaining legislative days is
rapidly dwindling.
According to some Jewish
activists who have been
pushing the legislation —
which is needed to make U.S.
participation in the treaty
banning genocide official —
the problem is still linked to
election-year politics.
Byrd, according to several
sources, is balking because of
conservative threats to attach
death penalty language to
the bill as a way of making a
point about their favorite
issue.
Since Vice President
George Bush has made the
death penalty a major plank
in his campaign, Senate
Democrats are wary of any ac-
tion that would force many on
record as opposing capitol
punishment.
Another factor is Byrd's
concern about the crowded
Senate schedule. Because of
the threat of a lengthy and
noisy fight over the death
penalty, Byrd and other
Senate leaders are concerned
that the Genocide legislation
would take up too much of the
Senate's little remaining
time.
"We had hoped to have this
passed for the 40th anniver-
sary of Israel's independence,"
said David Harris of the
American Jewish Committee,
one of the groups pushing
hard for the bill. "Now we're
in danger of losing it."
Solarz Takes
On Alleged
Anti-Semite
Staffers at the office of Rep.
Stephen Solarz (D-N.Y.) are
gloating over the con-
gressman's performance in a
televised debate with Jerome
Brentar, the former member
of George Bush's ethnic coali-
tion, who has been charged
with anti-Semitism.
Solarz took to the airwaves
to expose Brentar's refusal to
admit that the Holocaust
took place — and to get in a
few hits on the Republican
standard bearer whose
staff,according to Brentar,
never actually fired the panel
member.
In a joint appearance on the
CNN program "Crossfire,"
Solarz and Brentar tussled
over what Brentar earlier
termed the "alleged gass-
ings" of Jews in Nazi Ger-
many. Brentar refused to be
pinned down on the question
of whether Jews were singled
out in the Nazi extermination
campaign — and refused to
repudiate earlier statements
suggesting that Israel's pro-
secution of John Demjanjuk
would be a sin that would
haunt future generations of
Jews.
According to one staffer, the
normally unflappable Solarz
became highly emotional dur-
ing several exchanges.