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"No one is taken out of a unit because of religion. Units go as units," Pentagon public affairs spokesman Tom Green said in Washing- ton. Another Pentagon official, who requested anonymity, said there are "no restric- tions on religious services" for U.S. troops inside Saudi Arabia. The official, however, said he had no information on the number of Jewish chaplains being sent to the vicinity of the kingdom. Rabbi David Lapp, director of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council, said Wednesday that no U.S. Jewish military chaplains are currently in Saudi Arabia, but that the nearby U.S. Sixth Fleet and the USS Saratoga, a battleship, have Jewish chaplains. Jewish chaplains in the Marines and infantry units have been placed on alert, but have yet to leave the United States, he said. Rabbi Lapp said that if Jewish chaplains did land in the Saudi kingdom, "that would be history," marking the first such deployment in an Arab country. Rabbi Lapp stressed that the Chaplains Council wants to be careful of Saudi sen- sitivities. "We don't want to embarrass them, nor do we want to put ammunition in the hands of Iraq," he said. "The host country has always called the shots." According to Rabbi Lapp, roughly one percent of U.S. armed forces personnel are Jewish. If that same ratio applied to the U.S. troops dispatched to the Persian Gulf, that would mean ap- proximately 200 Jewish soldiers are now stationed in or near Saudi Arabia. Until the late 1970s, the U.S. military kept Jews from participating in contracts with the Saudis, according to Steven Emerson, author of the book, American House of Saud. Congressional hearings in 1975 revealed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had agreed to Saudi demands that all American military personnel serving in Saudi Arabia submit cer- tificates of religious affilia- tion and other background material, says Mr. Emerson. "These actions effectively barred Jews from participa- tion in Saudi projects." At Saudi Arabia's in- sistence, American blacks also were not given military assignments in that country. The Saudis relaxed their policy of excluding Jews, however, in November 1973, when American journalists accompanying Henry Kiss- inger, a Jew who was then secretary of state, made his first trip to the Arab country after the oil embargo. Offended by the Saudi visa application, most of the journalists refused to in- dicate their religion. The Saudis, says Mr. Emerson, "were forced to look the other way." Despite that incident, though, scores of American companies — and a few uni- versities — have been weeding out Jews from their projects in Saudi Arabia for years. In the late 1970s, for ex- ample, the Vinnel Corp. in California insisted that no personnel with "contacts or interest in any country not recognized by Saudi Arabia" be assigned to the kingdom. Saudi Arabia does not rec- ognize Israel. In addition, Baylor College of Medicine in Texas refused to send Jews to Saudi Arabia for its lucrative car- diovascular surgical con- tract with King Faisal Hospital. About the same time, however, the Saudis quietly started ignoring the fact that Americans with Jewish surnames were working on military or industrial con- tracts in the kingdom. Nonetheless, the Saudis still maintain they will not allow "Zionists" into the country, and many Ameri- can companies still comply with the anti-Jewish restric- tions. Things have changed since the early '80s "but not that much," says Mr. Emerson. "The Saudis still don't have an open visa policy. If you write 'Jewish' on the visa application, you're asking to be rejected." ❑ JTA correspondent Howard Rosenberg in Washington contributed to this report.