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Bonn (JTA) — The German
parliament has been unable
to agree on a new law that
would make it more difficult
to export weapons or the
technology for manufactur-
ing poison gas.
Legislation was drafted re-
cently in response to Israel's
protests over the in-
volvement of German com-
panies in providing Iraq
with the material and know-
how for chemical warfare
and helping Baghdad im-
prove its Scud missiles.
But a joint committee of the
Bundestag and Bundesrat
failed to reach a compromise.
The Bundesrat, which rep-
resents the governments of
Germany's 16 federal states,
opposes features of the pro-
posed law that would allow
customs inspectors to open
the mail and tap the tele-
phones of business exec-
utives suspected of illegal
exports.
The debate has become a
partisan issue. The govern-
ing Christian Democratic
Union and the opposition
Social Democratic Party are
accusing each other of block-
ing the legislation.

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Atlanta and including an in-
spection of the syrup that is
produced in Baltimore.
In cooperation with the
Triangle K, the OU was in-
deed made privy to certain
stages of the syrup produc-
tion for Passover and year
round, said Steve
Kronengold, a New York at-
torney, who spoke for his
brother-in-law, Rabbi Aryeh
Ralbag.
But did the OU really get
any more access to Coca-
Cola than did the Triangle K
in order to give its hechsher?
What troubles observers
of the OU's actions is the
possibility that the OU was
never privy to the blending
of secret flavor essences
that caused such a stir in the
first place.
At worst, the OU may be
basing its hechsher on tes-
timony supplied by the
Ralbags, who were made to
look so unreliable by the OU.
The OU denies that was
the case. "The OU had ac-
cess to every part of produc-
tion required to give it our
[hechsher]," said Rabbi
Bernstein of the OU.
Mr. Kronengold maintains
that the OU was not "pre-
sent for the manufacture of
the so-called secret formu-
la." Only Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag
had access to "that phase of
the production process," he
said.
Rabbi Bergstein of De-
troit said the OU is wrong-
fully getting all the credit
for making Coca-Cola a ko-
sher product. The Detroit
community is saying "local-
ly bottled Coke is good be-
cause the OU has supervised
it in New York. That implies
that the last year, the person

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Is it possible the OU
was never privy to the
blending of secret
flavor essences that
caused such a stir in
the first place?

who supervised it was not so
reliable. Publicly it's a
feather in the OU's cap,
where it should belong to
Rabbi Ralbag.
"The OU feels kashrut
should be standardized, but
it shouldn't be a fiefdom of a
few individuals," Rabbi
Bergstein said.
Mr. Kronengold says the
OU's hechsher is actually a
vindication of Triangle K's
successful supervision be-
cause "nothing changed" af-
ter the OU was allowed access
to the production.
"We are happy that the
OU is endorsing the kashrut
of Coke," he said. "At the
least, they've confirmed the
kashrut of a product that's
been kosher all along."
But there are those who
believe that the Triangle K's
"vindication" will be
shortlived as a marriage be-
tween the OU and Coca-Cola
USA looks inevitable.
"The Triangle K will be
pushed out. It's a big
bonanza for the OU," said a
kashrut industry expert who
works with the OU. He ask-
ed not to be quoted by name.
"Please," he said, "I don't
want to suffer the same end
as the Ralbags."

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give the contract to a com-
petitor that's powerful and
influential," he said.
The OU maintains that its
hechsher only covers Coca-
Cola distributed by the New
York bottling company.
Elsewhere, they can't be
sure if Coca-Cola is kosher,
said Rabbi Menachem Gen-
nack, administrator of the
OU's kashrut division. The
OU's certification of the
New York bottler is based
on a "start to finish" access
to the manufacturing pro-
cess, beginning with the
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