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Untied Loans
Issue For Soviet
Jewry Movement
Recent testimony before
Congress may suggest that
the issue of untied loans to
the Soviet Union is becoming
a major battleground in the
Soviet Jewry movement. Un-
tied loans are loans from
private banks which are not
related to specific projects.
At a session organized by
Rep. Charles Schumer (D-
N.Y.), several top Soviet Jewry
activists testified in support
of a variety of measures
designed to monitor and
possibly limit the flow of
private funds to the Soviets.
According to sources, oral
testimony by Morris Abram,
chairman of the National
Conference on Soviet Jewry,
was stronger than the text he
had submitted. In the past,
the NCSJ has been only
lukewarm on the issue of un-
tied loans.
"The administration has
clearly been eloquent about
raising the issue of human
rights," said Micah Naftalin,
national director of the Union
of Councils for Soviet Jews,
the group that has spearhead-
ed the untied loans drive.
Schumer is considering
several possible legislative
approaches to the issue, in-
cluding a bill to mandate
disclosure by private banks of
loans to the Soviet Union. A
second bill currently being
drafted would require coor-
dination of government ef-
forts to monitor and docu-
ment loans to Soviet Bloc
nations.
The hearing included some
strange bedfellows — hardline
conservatives like Rep. Jack
Kemp and Rep. Toby Roth (R-
Wis.),and leaders of a more
liberal bent, like Schumer
and New York's Sen. Bill
Bradley.
Kemp and Roth are the
authors of the most stringent
untied loans measure, which
would require disclosure of
loans to Soviet bloc nations —
and allow the president to
halt such loans on national
security or human rights
grounds.
26 To Testify
On Labor Abuse
Hearing
Jewish groups continue to
lay their plans for combating
the decision by U.S. Trade
Representative Clayton Yeut-
ter to investigate Israel for
alleged labor abuses, al-
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though 26 witnesses are lined
up to discuss the charges.
Last week was the deadline
for applying to testify at the
hearings. At that time, only
the American Jewish Com-
mittee and the Anti-Defama-
tion League of the B'nai
B'rith were firmly committed
to testify. Another group, the
American-Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee, (AIPAC),
was listed as tentative.
According to sources close to
the issue, the Israeli govern-
ment made it clear that it
didn't want the hearings to
turn into a media circus draw-
ing attention to its problems
in the administered ter-
ritories. Although there was
no firm statement of policy,
the Israelis let it be known
that they hoped the number
of Jewish groups testifying
would be kept to a minimum.
Currently, several leading
pro-Arab groups are lined up
for the hearings, including
the Arab-American Anti-
Discrimination Committee,
which filed the original peti-
tion, and the National Assoc-
iation of Arab Americans.
Despite Israel's hopes that
the hearings will be quiet,
sheer numbers tell another
story. Each of the other coun-
tries being investigated has
generated only three-five
witnesses.
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CORRECTION
In last week's story on the
-vestigation into the affairs
of Los Angeles businessman
Michael Goland, any implica-
tion that the American-Israel
Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) was involved in
Goland's alleged activities
was erroneous.
The Los Angeles Times
story cited described Goland's
past ties with AIPAC, but
reported that his connection
to the pro-Israel lobby had
been severed before the alleg-
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third-party candidacy of Ed-
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stories suggested participa-
tion by several AIPAC West
Coast staffers in an effort to
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candidacy, Libertarian Breck
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