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s hundreds of pro-
Israel activists con-
verged on Capitol
Hill last week to make their
case for $10 billion in loan
guarantees to Israel, the
unknown authors who have
distributed knowledgeable
but nasty parodies of memos
from the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) struck again.
Despite efforts, AIPAC of-
ficials have so far failed to
uncover the authors' iden-
tities.
This time, the authors
produced a newsletter called
"Near East Purports," a sly
parody of AIPAC's Near
East Report.
Like the earlier efforts, the
satirical newsletter closely
A
mimicked official AIPAC
documents and parodied the
arguments pro-Israel ac-
tivists have used to support
the loan guarantee request.
Recently, the same group
sent out another "AIPCA
Memorandum" using parody
to knock AIPAC's lobbying
techniques.
Officials at AIPAC seem
unfazed by the literary
sneak attack. And Capitol
Hill sources suggest that the
fake AIPAC documents do
not change any minds in the
loan guarantee debate.
"It's cute, and sort of juve-
nile," said an aide to a Dem-
ocratic senator. "It's giving
people a laugh up here. But
it's not going to change any
votes."
Soviet Chaos
Impacts Immigration
Featuring Guest Speaker:
Cocktails: 5:30 p.m.
Clever Parodies Poke
Fun At AIPAC Rhetoric
The verdict is still out on
how the chaos in the Soviet
Union will impact Soviet
Jewish emigration, however
earlier this year a variety of
new obstacles created by
Soviet authorities slowed
the flow of Jews leaving for
the U.S.
That was a problem, be-
cause while U.S. refugee and
immigration quotas allowed
for some 40,000 Soviet Jews
to come to this country in the
current fiscal year, the law
does not provide for unfilled
slots to be carried over to
next year.
To correct that, Rep.
Howard Berman, D-Calif.,
introduced legislation that
would "roll over" the unused
slots. But recently, the State
Department informally in-
dicated that it would add
unused slots to 1992's
allocation even without
legislation.
And State Department of-
ficials have informed Con-
gress that the disintegration
of the Soviet Union has
touched off a sharp increase
in the number of Jews seek-
ing to come to this country.
As a result, the shortfall in
refugees for the current
fiscal year will be much
smaller than anticipated.
But officials with the Jew-
ish organizations that deal
with incoming refugees
doubt those projections. "It's
not at all clear that there
has been a sharp increase,"
said a congressional source
involved in refugee matters.
"In the past, we've found
State Department statistics
to be somewhat suspect; this
may be another example of
that."
L.A. Representatives
Hard To Tell Apart
Rep. Mel Levine and Rep.
Howard Berman have a lot
in common. Both are fero-
ciously pro-Israel, both are
California Democrats, both
are Jewish.
So it's not entirely surpris-
ing that the Los Angeles
Times has a hard time tell-
ing them apart.
In a recent story about the
exoneration of Lithuanian
war criminals by the new
government in Vilnius, the
Times quoted Rep. Berman.
The only problem was, it was
Rep. Levine who had been
interviewed.
Mr. Levine could have
used the press. He is cur-
rently locked in a fierce
battle for the Senate seat be-
ing vacated by the retiring
Sen. Alan Cranston.
Neither legislator seemed
overly concerned about the
error; both have spoken out
strongly against the efforts
of the Lithuanian govern-
ment to exonerate thousands
of Nazi war criminals.
"They're the best of
friends," said a Capitol Hill
source. "And besides, they
both feel strongly that the
[Lithuanian] government
has to come to grips with
this issue."