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Washington (JTA) —
While the Bush administra-
tion and Israel remain at
odds over the Jewish state's
request for U.S. loan guar-
antees, the flow of regular
American aid to Israel con-
tinues unimpeded.
An agreement to provide
Israel with another $600
million in U.S. economic aid
was signed at the State
Department last week. It
represents the second half of
the $1.2 billion grant in U.S.
economic assistance that
Israel receives annually.
The signatories were
Reginald Brown, the U.S.
Agency for International
Development's assistant
administrator for the Near
East, and Amnon Neubach,
the Israeli Embassy's min-
ister for economic affairs.
A similar agreement had
been signed a week earlier
for $900 million., represent-
ing the second installment of
the $1.8 billion grant in U.S.
military aid grant Israel
receives each year.
Israel normally receives
its annual aid package from
the United States at the
beginning of the fiscal year.

But this year, half the
money was held up because
instead of adopting a regular
foreign aid bill last fall,
Congress passed a resolution
authorizing the continuation
of 1991 funding for another
six months.

Passage of a foreign aid
bill covering the rest of the
year was delayed as mem-
bers of the Senate unsuc-
cessfully sought to get Pres-
ident Bush to agree on a
compromise for the loan
guarantees.
Mr. Bush has demanded
that Israel stop building set-
tlements in the West Bank
before the United States ap-
proved the guarantees for
the loans, which are needed
to aid in the absorption of
Jews from the former Soviet
Union and Ethiopia.
But Mr. Brown stressed
that the $3 billion in annual
aid to Israel is proof of the
solid relations between
Israel and the United States.
Mr. Neubach expressed
Israel's appreciation for the
economic aid, which has
helped Israel's economy over
the last decade.

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Rome (JTA) — A right-
wing faction of the Catholic
Church has been agitating
to prevent the transfer of the
Carmelite convent at
Auschwitz, and the Jewish
community of Italy is asking
the Vatican to intercede
against it.
The schismatic church
group, the Union of the
Nations of Christian Europe,
has called on "all Christians
of Europe to oppose the
transfer of the Carmelite
convent from the camp of
Auschwitz," according to
Tullia Zevi, president of the
Union of Italian Jewish
Communities.
Such a demand would "be
harmful to the agreements
reached regarding the con-
vent with the Catholic
Church," Ms. Zevi said in a
letter to the the Vatican sec-
retary of state, Angelo
Sodano.
Ms. Zevi specifically asked
the Vatican to protest a rally
that the Union of Nations
planned to stage Wednesday
at the convent site.
The demonstration was to
be an anti-abortion rally and

would follow a pilgrimage to
the Jasna Gora monastery in
Czestochowa, Poland, the
site of the so-called Black
Madonna.
A similar rally organized
by the group last year was
canceled at the last moment
after massive protests from
Jews as well as non-Jews.
Ms. Zevi pointed out that
the right-wing group is com-
posed of disciples of the late
Cardinal Marcel LeFebvre,
an anti-Semitic French
cleric who challenged the
Vatican's authority.

Moreover, it includes a
deputy to the European
Parliament from Jean-Marie
Le Pen's far-right National
Front in France and the
president of the National
Front of Belgium.
The convent at the site of
the former Auschwitz death
camp has been a painful
issue in Catholic-Jewish re-
lations since 1987. Present
plans call for the convent to
be moved later this year to
an ecumenical center under
construction some miles
from the Auschwitz site.