I NEWS OLDSMOBILES FOR LESS 1990 CUTLASS CALAIS Soviets Are Blocking Direct Israeli Flights Washington, D.C. (JTA) — The Soviet Union is refusing to institute direct flights between Moscow and Israel, at least for the immediate future, Bush administration officials and Jewish leaders have confirmed. But they said the United States is still hoping to per- suade Moscow to implement an agreement on direct flights signed last fall by El Al Israel Airlines and its Soviet counterpart, Aeroflot. Secretary of State James Baker raised the issue with Soviet officials during his recent visit to Moscow, but the "Soviet response to Sec- retary Baker was not en- couraging," State Depart- ment spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said Tuesday. She would not reveal what the Soviets actually said. At the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitz- water said Tuesday that the United States is "disappointed" that they have not approved direct flights, "but we are hopeful that they may still have them." He said direct flights "would be helpful in increas- ing the number of Soviet emigrants to Israel." The Soviet unwillingness to institute the El Al- Aeroflot agreement is believed to be in part the result of pressure from Arab nations. The Arabs have been lobbying the Soviets to curtail Jewish immigration, because they fear Israel will settle the new immigrants in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, thereby forcing out the Palestinians. Jewish leaders who met with President Bush and with Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger just prior to the Baker trip pointed out that regular flights to Israel through Budapest were booked up through January 1991. They also expressed the urgency of increasing the number of Jews actually leaving the Soviet Union, because of growing concern about anti- Semitism there. Martin Wenick, executive director of the National Con- ference on Soviet Jewry, who just returned from the Soviet Union, was told by Soviet Foreign Ministry officials that the prospects for direct flights are not encouraging. A similar statement was made by Michah Naftalin, national director of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. Fitzwater said Tuesday that President Bush "is con- cerned about reports of growing anti-Semitism" in the Soviet Union. Tutwiler said Baker pre- sented the Soviets with ac- tual anti-Semitic leaflets be- ing distributed in the Soviet Union. Baker received the material from Bush, who was given them by Seymour Reich, chairman of the Con- ference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The Bush administration appears to have given the issue of direct flights a high profile. In a Feb. 6 speech in San Francisco, Bush himself publicly urged the Soviets to institute direct flights as a sign that they are ready to play a responsible role in the Middle East. Fitzwater said Tuesday that it is "unfortunate" that Soviet Jews are settling in the West Bank. Bush "has made his views directly known" to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, he added. ADL: U.S. Too Dependent On Arab Oil Palm Beach (JTA) — America's growing dependence on imported Arab oil could erode U.S. support for Israel in the 1990s, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith has warned in a report. The report, titled "America's Oil Situation: Still Getting Worse," was released by Burton Levin- son, ADL's national chair- man, on the final day of the organization's National Ex- ecutive Committee meeting. It points out that U.S. oil production hit a 25-year low last year, while U.S. dependence on imported oil increased almost 9 percent. But U.S. dependence on oil from members of OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, went up 18 percent, and dependence on oil from the dominant Arab members of OPEC increased 20 percent, ADL reported. The report recalled that in the late 1970s, Washington was the target of blackmail by the Arab members of OPEC. 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