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"They've made the critical decision that pressure on the Israelis works," said one leading pro-Israel activist The Simon Wiesenthal Center held its first-ever na- tional leadership conference in Washington last week, and the group had a lineup of speakers that made some 479 South Woodward (313) 647-0000 •GREAT DEALS • HUGE INCENTIVES ".i1/01 - Oeaki- &r ep& Moi<6" DAVID BURKE SALES & LEASING AUDETTE CADILLAC, 7100 ORCHARD RD. 851-7200 Unique Eyewear DOC • • OF WEST BLOOMFIELD Dr. Howard J. Rosner, Optometrist West Bloomfield Plaza • Orchard Lake south of Maple • 626-0200 _ 30 FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1990 "Remember," Dine added, "that Israel's friends in this city reside on Capitol Hill." In recent days, pro-Israel activists have been all over the Hill, sounding this theme. Administration at- titudes toward Israel are changing, they are telling legislators — and Congress is the only body that can prevent these changes from becoming official U.S. policy. Dubinin sent a stand-in — who irritated the crowd be- cause of his lack of expertise in matters relating to Soviet Jewry. This first-ever Washington conference was the opening move in the California-based group's effort to open its own Washington office. "Of course that is some- thing we hope to do in the next year or two," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the group's dean. "We want to have the ability to speak out on a wide range of issues." The group is also attemp- ting to line up support for legislation that would pro- vide some $5 million in fed- eral money for its Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, which will be introduced by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D- Mass.), the featured guest at a Wiesenthal Center recep- tion last week. U.S. 'Peace Now' Group Heightens Hill Activity Yizo FREE TVs or VCRs and very unwelcome is going on." Dine referred to Bush's re- quest last week for an exten- sive briefing by the National Security Council on the East Jerusalem question, which, in Dine's view, was "presented to him in a manner highly critical of the policies of both the Labor and the Likud governments for the eastern half of Israel's capital." Wiesenthal Center Boosts Capital Presence MA100. U. *? tyfizatt& 6j aat< here. "Unfortunately, we can expect that kind of pressure to intensify." And the pessimists were spreading the word that the flap revealed the "true" George Bush, under the ve- neer of his campaign prom- ises. It was a bleak week for the once-vaunted "administration lobbying" shop at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In an angry speech to the UJA Young Leadership group on Sunday, the nor- mally unflappable Tom Dine, AIPAC's executive di- rector, laid out a bleak scenario. "Unfortunately, the ad- ministration has in the past 10 days made a series of mistakes and mis-steps that, taken together, suggest that something new and different Dan Quayle: On Wiesenthal dais. other Jewish groups green with envy. The group heard from Vice President Dan Quayle, At- torney General Dick Thorn- burgh and White House chief of staff John Sununu. But the all-star schedule was not without its prob- lems; GOP chairman Lee Atwater, scheduled to ap- pear with a panel of politi- cians, was in the hospital, and Soviet Ambassador Yuri "Friends of Peace Now," the American branch of the big Israeli peace group that opened an office in Washing- ton last year, is trying to beef up its presence here. The group is changing its name to Americans for Peace Now; the Washington office will be known as the Center for Israeli Peace and Security — an effort to separate itself from groups like the Jewish Peace Lobby, which focus more on Pales- tinian rights than on Israeli security. More importantly, the group has signed up an ex- perienced Capitol Hill ad- vocate. David Cohen, one of the founders of Common Cause and a veteran of the legislative wars, begins working half-time for the group as its Capitol Hill representative. Paul Scham, the group's Washington director, will focus on efforts to build up the group's national mem- bership. Currently, the group has 9000 members; the short-term goal is to boost that number to 50,000. "We're very excited about these changes," Scham said. "It's been a difficult process, building a Washington organization. With the addi- tion of David Cohen, we feel that we will be able to make our point with more profes- sionalism and more effec- tiveness."