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The 10.-44 4im beautiful all aluminum table features a generous 40"x72" rectangular tempeigttop. CALLARIETICS STUDIO • GOLDEN PHOENIX RESTAURANT • CAFE OLIVERIO • D'ALLEVA BEAUTY SALON Coming Soon to: kik SUGAR TRU Orchard Lake Rd. North of Maple West Bloomfield yndon Johnson was called a lot of things in his time. But until now, one epithet never hurl- ed at the late president was righteous gentile. In Robert Dallek's new biography of LBJ, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson And His Times 1908-1960, the author reveals that the 36th president helped save hundreds of Jewish lives at the outset of World War II while serving as a freshman congressman from Texas. After the Nazi takeover of Austria in 1938, Mr. Johnson helped a visiting 25-year-old Austrian Jewish musician gain permanent residence status in the United States, Mr. Dallek writes. Later that year, when LBJ heard that one of his Jewish constituents was planning a trip to Poland and Germany, he urged him to "get as many Jewish people as possible out of both coun- tries." With Mr. Johnson's help, the constituent facilitated the emigration of 42 Polish and German Jews. Four months after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, Mr. Johnson quietly worked with prominent Texas Jews to help hundreds of Jewish refugees obtain fake pass- ports and one-way visas to the Lone Star State via Alan H. Feiler is a staff reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Cuba, Mexico and South America. The rescue effort — known as Operation Texas — was kept under wraps for more than two decades. Mr. Dallek, a history pro- fessor at the University of California Los Angeles, be- lieves the matter was kept quiet for so many years be- cause Operation Texas broke immigration laws. "My impression is it could have jeopardized the situa- tion for those immigrants who were brought here, so no one said anything," said Mr. Dallek, who is Jewish. While Mr. Johnson was never officially recognized for his aid to Jewish refu- gees, the case demonstrates the complex nature of the president, Mr. Dallek said. "This was a man who did many ugly things and skulduggery, but had com- passion and felt for the suf- fering of the disadvantag- ed," Mr. Dallek explained. "Johnson only had 400 Jews living in his Austin district. Yet he did this not for polit- ical expediency but out of compassion." Lady Bird Johnson recall- ed in her memoirs, White House Diary, that LBJ was honored at a synagogue dedication in Austin, Texas, in 1963 for his efforts to save Jewish refugees. "Person after person plucked at my sleeve and said, 'I wouldn't be here to- day if it weren't for him. He helped me get out,' " she recalled. ❑ NEWS I Little Opposition To Proposed Arms Sale Washington (JTA) — Con- gress is not expected to op- pose a proposed $365 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia. President Bush formally notified Congress that the package includes 2,000 MK- 84 bombs, 2,100 cluster bombs, 770 Sparrow air-to- air missiles and laser-guided bomb components. A pro-Israel lobbyist said the package consists of "small dollar" items — "most of it not very threatening or new or diff- erent than what's been put in the region before." Sparrow technology is "not special" while the MK-84s are "old iron bombs," the lobbyist added. But the cluster bombs are considered more powerful than the others. They con- tain a number of smaller bombs that are scattered over a wide area, resulting in a dramatically expanded range. Of greater concern to pro- Israel activists here than the current package is a future proposed sale worth more than $10 billion. That package was initially expected to be proposed this fall, but pro-Israel lobbyists now expect it to be delayed until early 1992.