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Frank Co-Sponsoring Bill
To Limit US.-PLO Contact

JAMES D. BESSER

Washington Correspondent

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ep. Ed Feighan's bill
to impose new limits
on the U.S.-PLO
dialogue got an important
boost recently when Rep.
Barney Frank, D-Mass., sign-
ed on as a co-sponsor.
Two years ago, Frank was
an outspoken critic of efforts
to close the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization's New York
offices. His support for the

Feighan measure, according
to some observers, will help
quiet concerns by House
liberals about the bill's strong
language.

The bill is a new version of
a recent amendment by Sen.
Jesse Helms, R-N.C., that
would have required
presidential certification that
PLO officials involved in talks
with U.S. representatives had
no links to terrorist activities
in which Americans were
killed, injured or kidnapped.

The Helms measure was
widely seen as an attempt to
derail the talks in Tunis.
After a fierce legislative
brawl, the Senate approved a
milder compromise; Feighan's
measure would restore some
of the tough language cut
from the Senate version.
Frank's support for the
Feighan amendment is
another indication that Con-
gress remains frustrated with
what some see as a lack of
direction in the talks with
PLO representatives.

Arab-American Groups
Continue To Develop Strategy

Arab-American groups in
Washington continue their ef-
forts to develop a slicker, more
effective strategy for dealing
with Congress and the
administration.
The group's riew director of
government relations, Susan
Alberts, is taking a low-key
approach to the debate over
U.S. Middle East policy.
"I would definitely like to
see less polarization on these
issues," said Alberts, a former
aid to Sen. Tom Harkin, D-
Iowa. "There are clearly
points about our policy
towards the intifada and the
Israeli-Palestinian issue
where there should be a lot of
consensus in Congress. It's
clearly in this country's best
interest to promote a corn-
promise, and to press the PLO
to be more moderate."

Alberts sees a strong con-
sensus in Congress in favor of
elections in Gaza and the
West Bank. "And the PLO, in
their awkward, disorganized
way, has said they support the
concept of elections, of not the
Shamir plan. Their positions
are now close to what the
State Department is pro-
moting."

She is also mild in her
criticisms of the pro-Israel
lobby. "I'd prefer not to see
AIPAC (the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee) as
my mortal enemy," she said.
"There are areas where we
can work together. But they
are a problem for us; I see
that a lot of the positions they
take are not in Israel's best
interests. Their tone is more
strident than I'd like to see,

and this tends to lead to more
polarization."
She indicated that the
Arab-American community is
looking at the possibility of
developing a network of pro-
Arab political action commit-
tees; pro-Israel PACs, which
funnel campaign money to
candidates who line up
behind Israel, are an essen-
tial part of the pro-Israel
community.
"We do have a PAC, but we
haven't done much with it,"
she said. "But we may be
moving toward an organiza-
tional consensus to become
more active in that area."
Her top priority for the
rest of the year is to sup-
port the concept of elec-
tions for Palestinians,
although she did not specify
which plan. -