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hen President Bush
wrote a conciliatory
letter to Jewish
leaders in the wake of his
controversial Sept. 12 press
conference, he was respon-
ding in part to the dismay
that shook the Jewish com-
munity to its foundations.
But he was also respon-
ding to a darker emotion
churned up by his vigorous
counter-attack against Jew-
ish activists who were press-
ing for $10 billion in loan
guarantees for Israel.
According to Washington
sources, the White House
was stunned when Mr.
Bush's comments condemn-
ing the "powerful forces"
allied against„ him in the
loan guarantee battle ig-
nited an outpouring of anti-
Semitic mail being sent to
the White House.
The administration was
also surprised by the sharp
and virtually unanimous
reaction of the Jewish com-

munity to Mr. Bush's
assault on the pro-Israel
community — even among
Jews who agreed with the
president on the question of
Jewish settlements.
"The administration was
clearly caught off balance by
what they had unleashed,
both within the Jewish
community and in com-
munities that trade in the
capital of anti-Semitism,"
said a top Washington Jew-
ish activist.
"There was a real feeling
of having let some very
dangerous genie out of the
bottle."
The result was the con-
ciliatory letter to Shoshana
Cardin, chair of the Con-
ference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish
Organizations. She had
written earlier on behalf of
the Presidents' Conference
to protest the tone of the
president's remarks on the
loan guarantee battle.

Soviet Entities Warned
On Emigration Flow

Last week's stern warning
on emigration issued by
Deputy Secretary of State
Lawrence Eagleburger to
the newly independent
Soviet republics was only
the public manifestation of
something that has been go-
ing on for at least four mon-
ths.

Mr. Eagleburger urged the
new governments not to
impede the record flow of
Soviet Jews and Armenians
seeking to emigrate to this
country.

For several months, State
Department officials had
been privately expressing
concern that the republics
might seek to reimpose
emigration restrictions —
and that at the very least,
the chaos of creating new
governments might cause
bureaucratic foul-ups that

could choke off the flow of
emigrants.
More recently, there had
been reports from Azerbai-
jan and Uzbekistan sug-
gesting that local officials
were ignoring the new
Soviet emigration law,
which went into effect in
July.
Those reports were what
prompted Mr. Eagleburger
to go public with his warn-
ing.
"These are very strange
times," said Mark Talisman,
director of the Washington
Action Office of the Council
of Jewish Federations. "You
have a number of republics
— and any of them could
change the rules on emigra-
tion. The administration has
been very responsive to our
concerns about this issue —
and Mr. Eagleburger's
remarks were part of that."

Arkansas' Clinton Seeks
Jewish Presidential Aid

Gov. Bill Clinton of
Arkansas was in Washing-
ton last week, and his
itinerary included meetings
with several leading Jewish
politicos.
Mr. Clinton, who was ex-
pected to officially announce
his candidacy for the 1992
Democratic presidential

nomination this week, is ex-
pected to focus heavily on
the Jewish community in
the early days of his cam-
Paign-
"As governor, his primary
interests have been domestic
issues," said Bonnie Nickol,
a Jewish activist in Arkan-
sas and a Clinton supporter.

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