I UP FRONT Opportunity To 'Clear The Air' Afforded By Shamir Visit To U.S. DAVID LANDAU Special to The Jewish News T he Bush administra- tion and the Israeli government are look- ing at next week's meeting between President George Bush and Israel Prime Min- ister Yitzhak Shamir as an opportunity to set aside the tensions that have strained relations between the two nations in recent months. "Both men, Bush and Shamir, are conscious that the stories of the bad chem- istry between them" have "gotten out of hand," David Harris, executive vice presi- dent of the American Jewish Committee, said Monday after he and six other top of- ficials of the group held a 45- minute meeting in Jerusalem with Mr. Shamir. "Our reading is that both sides would like this to be a positive meeting and to con- tribute to removing recent tensions, frictions and misunderstandings," he said. JTA correspondent Howard Rosenberg contributed to this report. Mr. Harris was in Jerusalem heading an AJCommittee solidarity mission to Israel, dubbed "Operation Undaunted," that brought 125 of the group's top members from across the United States to meet with Israeli political leaders and tour the country. Mr. Shamir will meet with the president on Dec. 11, a day after receiving the Jabotinsky Foundation's Defender of Jerusalem Award in New York. While in Washington, he is also scheduled to meet with Vice President Dan Quayle, Sec- retary of State James Baker, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and members of Congress. While Mr. Shamir will not ask Mr. Bush for any new economic or military aid, he is expected to lay the groundwork for future additional U.S. aid to help Israel resettle the thousands of Soviet Jewish immigrants arriving each week. "I believe that we will find receptive ears in this regard," Zalman Shoval, Israel's new ambassador to the United States, told representatives of the Jew- ish news media in Washing- ton. A pro-Israel lobbyist in Washington said Israel will seek hundreds of millions of dollars in new U.S. refugee assistance at a later date. Such aid would be in the form of U.S. guarantees for loans from private banks, like the $400 million in U.S. housing assistance for the immigrants approved earlier this year. In the military sphere, Israel wants to wait until the end of the Persian Gulf crisis before asking for any new weaponry. Mr. Shamir feels that such proposals "should only be decided upon after this crisis is over," Mr. Shoval said. That position appears to be aimed at thwarting any new U.S. arms flow to Arab coun- tries as the crisis wears on. The Bush administration is expected to propose a $15 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia after the new Con- gress convenes in January. From Israel's standpoint, the success of the Bush- Shamir meeting depends in part on how Washington Mr. Shamir and Mr. Bush during their 1989 meeting at the White House. handles proposals currently before the U.N. Security Council to step up monitor- ing of conditions for Palesti- nians under Israeli ad- ministration. If Washington supports the idea of convening the signatories of the Fourth Geneva Convention to discuss the Palestinian situation, or if it backs a proposal to dispatch a U.N. ombudsman to monitor the situation in the ad- ministered territories, that would be a source of deep concern for Israel and would exacerbate current U.S.-Israeli tensions, said Mr. Harris of AJCommittee. If the United States fails to veto any U.N. resolutions to that effect, "it will certainly harm the goals that both - countries have in this meeting" between Bush and Shamir, said Mr. Shoval. 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