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A $190 million-plan to build a Voice of America
transmitter in an unspoiled desert valley in
Israel's biggest environmental dispute.

LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

he biggest envi-
ronmental battle in
Israel's history — over
whether to build a Voice of
America transmitting sta-
tion in the middle of a
gorgeous, near-pristine
stretch of the Negev Desert
— may finally be heading for
a climax.
"Only Congress can stop it
now because I don't think
the Israeli authorities will,"
said Yoav Saguy, head of
Israel's most prominent en-
vironmental organization,
the Society for the Protec-
tion of Nature (SPNI), which
is leading the fight against
the VOA.
The proposed station — a
1,500-plus-acre field of high-
rise antennas in the Arava
Valley, about 20 miles south
of the Dead Sea — 1,vould
relay American propaganda
broadcasts to Central Asia,
including many former
Soviet republics,
Afghanistan, Iran and
Pakistan.
If Congress doesn't cancel
the $190 million funding for
the project in its current
budget deliberations, Mr.
Saguy expects the transmit-
ting station to be built. Carl
Chan, spokesman for the
U.S. Embassy in Israel, said
he didn't think the final
decision would come until
after the November elec-
tions.
Asked what purpose the
VOA station would have,
now that the countries of
Central Asia have already
rejected communism, Mr.
Chan replied: "Well, to tell
them about the United
States and about democracy,
I guess."
The controversy over the
project has been going on
since December 1984, when
ex-President Ronald Reagan
asked Prime Minister
Shimon Peres to give the
VOA station a home. Mr.
Peres agreed, and three
years later, under Prime
Minister Yitzhak Shamir,
Israel signed the contract
with the U.S.
Since then, dozens of
families in the Arava have
threatened to pull up stakes
if the station ever gets near

them; environmentalists
have strenuously lobbies'.
Congress against the project,
and protesters have held
placards that read,
"America, keep your dollars,
we'll keep our desert."
The battle over the
transmitting station it
volves jobs vs. ecology, pro-
tection of migratory birds,
the alleged dangers of radia-
tion, preservation of nature
against the encroachment of
technology, and the right us
desert residents to keep
their surroundings, as one of
them put it, "optically un-
polluted."
It also raises the question
of whether American pro-
paganda broadcasts, which
cost U.S. taxpayers $800

"Only Congress
can stop it now,
because I don't
think the Israeli
authorities will."

Yoav Saguy. SPNI

million this year, are ob-
solete in this post-
communist world. And final-
ly, the controversy is over
whether Israel can afford tr
say "no" to America.
The station would be built
in a fairly barren stretch of
desert. However, it would
require the Air Force to
move one of its training
bases south, and to take over
one of the most stunning
parts of the Negev as a
target practice area for jets.
"It's a pristine valley with
tall mountains that turn all
shades of red at sundown,'
said Julian Harel, an SPNI
field guide in the area.
"There are dry waterfalls
and gullies, and after the
spring floods, the grounds
turn blue, yellow and green
with desert vegetation
There are endangered
species like leopards and
ibex, 1,N7hich don't bother the
hikers. Nobody comes out of
there the same as they were
when they went in."
The nearest human out-

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