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In negotiations between the executive branch and Con- gress in September, the State Department said it had enough funds to resettle 84,000 refugees worldwide for the fiscal year beginning last Oct. 1. But the Department of Health and Human Services said it had enough money to cover resettlement costs for 90,000 refugees. Sheppy Abramowitz, the State Department's refugee affairs spokeswoman, at- tributed the quirk to different refugee ceilings approved by various congressional committees. The State Department covers the refugees' trans- portation, processing and in- itial resettlement costs. The Health and Human Services Department takes care of long-term resettlement costs, such as Medicaid. Abramowitz said the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Socie- ty, which helps Soviet Jews; World Relief, which helps Soviet Pentecostals; and Tolstoy, which helps Arme- nians, will have have a crack at the first 6,000. HIAS told the government it is "very interested but not prepared to make any com- mitments" until U.S. refugee funds are made available to all Soviet Jews who want to enter the United States as refugees, Zukerman said. Officials of both Jewish organizations and the U.S. government believe the number of Jews allowed to leave the Soviet Union this year will far exceed the U.S. refugee quota for the USSR. HIAS is awaiting reaction on Capitol Hill to a bill in- troduced March 1 in the Senate that would double the U.S. refugee ceiling for Soviets this fiscal year from 25,000 to 50,000 and provide an additional $100 million. Groups Urge Delay On Waiving Vanik Washington (JTA) — Two major Soviet Jewry organiza- tions told Secretary of State James Baker that they do not at present support waivers of the Jackson-Vanik or -Steven- son amendments. The two measures, which restrict U.S. government aid, most-favored-nation trade status and -loans to Soviet- bloc countries, could be waiv- ed this year by Congress should Soviet human rights improvements be judged sufficient. The National Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, in separate meetings with Baker, urged him to raise specific concerns at his Mon- day meeting in Vienna with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. Both groups were assured that human rights will figure prominently on the agenda of the meeting. Shoshana Cardin, chair- woman of the National Con- ference, said Baker was told that the organization is reassessing its position, which has been to oppose waivers of the amendments. Micah Naftalin, national director of the UCSJ, said his group told Baker not to sup- port a waiver of the Jackson- Vanik Amendment until the Soviets follow through on pro- mised emigration reforms. These include elimination, as early as. April, of the waiting period for those designated as holding state secrets; resolution of all outstanding refusenik cases; and an increase in emigration to levels approaching the 1979 high of more than 51,000. Soviets Still Denying Visas Washington (JTA) — The Soviet Union has given "fresh refusals" to Jews wishing to emigrate who were allegedly privy to state secrets, refusenik Judith Lurie said last week from Moscow in a telephone call with B'nai B'rith International. On another issue, Lurie said the new Jewish cultural center in Moscow, the Solomon Mikhoels Center, which opened Feb. 12, has been closed temporarily for "repairs."