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n Washington, when the
sun rises there's a politi-
cian ready to pounce and
claim credit for the event.
So it was with the Commerce
Department's settlement last
week with Baxter Interna-
tional, the huge medical
equipment supplier which
gave information — in viola-
tion of the 1977 anti-boycott
law — to the Arab League
about its dealings in Israel.
Baxter was fined more than
$6 million and prohibited
from doing business in Syria
and Saudi Arabia for two
years.
Some Democratic partisans
were spreading the word that
it was the change in admin-
istrations that brought forth
the settlement. Not true, say
several administration
sources and officials with
Jewish groups. The adminis-
tration simply continued a ne-
gotiating process that has
begun long before President
Clinton's team came to town.
"It was fortunate timing for
the Clinton people," said a
congressional source. "But the
fact is that it was the Bush
administration's Commerce
Department that did most of
the work."
That doesn't mean Jewish
activists aren't delighted with
the administration's strong
interest in quashing the boy-
cott.
"It is fair to say that [Com-
merce Secretary] Ron Brown
and other members of the
new administration have
made it clear... how deter-
mined they are to combat the
boycott," said Jess Hordes,
Ron Brown: Wants to end Arab
boycott.
Washington director for the
Anti-Defamation League.
This, he said, "sends cues
to the U.S. business commu-
nity and to Arab countries
that enforce the boycott. But
this settlement was the result
of an investment that was a
long time developing."
In recent weeks, several ad-
ministration officials, includ-
ing Secretary of State Warren
Christopher, have highlight-
ed the anti-boycott effort and
indicated that Arab move-
ment on the issue could ad-
vance the peace process.
Also, Mr. Brown has sig-
naled his desire to talk with
Jewish leaders about the next
step in the fight to end the
boycott, which has signifi-
cantly damaged the Israel's
economy.
Russian Aid Vs.
Israel's Billions
The chaos in Russia and the
sudden interest in helping
Boris Yeltsin is adding to the
jitters of pro-Israel activists
here, who worry that the cri-
sis may be another wild card
in the upcoming debate over
next year's foreign aid budget.
Most Jewish activists in the
capital dismiss the possibili-
ty of any organized legislative
effort against Israel's $3.2 bil-
lion in aid in this year's dis-
cussions.
What's keeping them up at
night is the possibility of
amendments calling for
across-the-board aid cuts
when the overall aid budget
comes to the House and Sen-
ate floors. Such amendments
might be hard to defeat in a
political climate in which for-
eign aid is about as popular
as acne.
"There a sudden surge in
interest in aid for Russia be-
cause Congress and the ad-
ministration have belatedly
started to understand the po-
tential for disaster if Russia
falls," said a congressional
staffer involved in the foreign
aid process.