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Tel Aviv (JTA) — The new
Israel Defense Force chief of
staff, Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak,
has already become embroil-
ed in controversy with the
news media and his own offi-
cers corps since taking office
May 1.
Off-the-record comments
made by senior officers refer
to Gen. Barak as "Israel's
Napoleon," determined to
mold the IDF to his personal
idea of an effective fighting
machine that takes little in-
put from his senior com-
manders.
Those who express differ-
ing views at various forums
have allegedly been told,
"You can always resign if
you don't like it."
Meanwhile, the media,
finding its access to military
sources suddenly reduced,
has complained.
IDF spokesman Nachman
Shai said May 12 that the
chief of staff wants to
reassure Israeli journalists
that the steps he has taken
to distance .IDF sources from
the media are not intended
to block those sources but
only to provide the media
with "more accurate infor-
mation."
But reporters remain con-
cerned that his instructions
will greatly restrict their
access to information.
Media representatives
have, pointed out that on
several occasions since is-
suance of the new instruc-
tions, senior officers address-
ing civic clubs and other
public forums have asked
journalists in the audience
to identify themselves and to
leave before the programs
start.
One of Gen. Barak's first
acts after taking office was
to let the officers corps know
that the IDF will be pared
down in size for both
budgetary reasons and effi-
ciency.
This did not sit well with
career officers, who had
hoped for promotion, not in-
voluntary return to civilian
life.
Reservists and other per-
sonnel working on IDF
publications, including the
popular weekly Bamachane,
have been given notice that
the publications will be clos-
ed down.
The staffs will be dismiss-
ed or transferred to other re-
serve duties.
Employees of the very
popular army radio are con-
cerned that Gen. Barak in-
tends to shut it down, as
well.
Bessmertnykh's Visit:
No Accord, No Discord
Jerusalem (JTA) — There
was no accord, but also no
discord to mar Soviet For-
eign Minister Alexander
Bessmertnykh's historic
visit to Israel last week.
Israelis were disappointed
that the hoped-for an-
nouncement of Moscow's
resumption of full diplo-
matic ties with the Jewish
state did not materialize.
But neither did their fears
that the highest-ranking
Soviet official ever to visit
Israel would hold Soviet
Jewish aliyah hostage to
Israel's abandonment of set-
tlement-building in the ad-
ministered territories.
Before coming here, Mr.
Bessmertnykh told reporters
in Amman, Jordan, that he
did "not rule out" that pos-
sibility.
But in his public
statements here at a joint
news conference with For-
eign Minister David Levy
and after his talks with
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir, Mr. Bessmertnykh
se e med deliberately to avoid
repeating the threat or
anything approaching it.
On the contrary, he
assured the Israelis that
Jewish emigration would
continue unfettered, describ-
ing it as an aspect of the
general democratization of
Soviet society.
Amity, not calamity, was
the tone of the Soviet diplo-
mat's brief sojourn here.
Both he and Mr. Levy sought
to project an evolving at-
mosphere of cooperation
between their governments.
They spoke of ongoing
regular consultations in the
future, of joint projects in
scientific and technological
areas and of Mr. Bessmert-
nykh's visit here as a
milestone.
Mr. Shamir, reporting to
the Cabinet on his own
lengthy conversation with
Mr. Bessmertnykh, said he
had stressed to the visitor
that there should be no link
between aliyah and set-
tlements.