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LETTERS page 4

Clinton, The Judge,
And Jonathan Pollard

The size of the audience at the

June 16 Pollard rally, of more
than 500 attendees, suggests
that interest in the Pollard af-
fair, rather than waning, is in-
creasing. The reason is simple.
More and more people are re-
alizing that a terrible injustice
occurred when Jonathan Pol-
lard, who was charged with,
and pleaded guilty to, one
crime, that of illegally provid-
ing Israel with classified infor-
mation, was sentenced for
another, that of "treason."
Many attribute this legal "bait
and switch" tactic to Caspar
Weinberger's last-minute in-
tervention in the sentencing
process.
In the appeal process, Judge
Steven Williams, writing the
minority opinion for the Ap-

pellate court, stated that a fun-
damental miscarriage of justice
had occurred. Casting the de-
ciding vote in a 2 to 1 decision,
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
President Clinton's nominee for
supreme Court justice, ruled
otherwise. When the Senate
confirmation hearings occur,
perhaps some senator will ask
Ms. Ginsberg how she recon-
ciles her view with that of
Judge Williams...
President Clinton has an op-
portunity to part company with
the Bush administration on the
handling of the Pollard case by
keeping a campaign promise to
review the case. Hopefully, he
will do that promptly, and then
do the right thing.
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PLO Newspaper
Forced To Fold

Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization's financial crisis has
forced the closure of a key

PLO-supported newspaper
in the administered ter-
ritories at a time when PLO
moderates are engaged in a
difficult struggle against
Moslem extremists.
The influential Al-Fajr
daily, printed in eastern
Jerusalem since 1969 and
considered the main organ of
the PLO's mainstream Al
Fatah faction led by Yassir
Arafat, has said it will shut
down next month.
Al-Fajr will become the se-
cond Arab daily in
Jerusalem to close in recent
months, after A-Sha'ab quit
publication because of econ-
omic difficulties.
Al-Fajr, owned by Paul
Ajlouni, a Palestinian who
resides in the United States,
and edited by Hanna
Siniora, a traditional sup-
porter of Mr. Arafat, has
always relied on subsidies
from the PLO.
Mr. Ajlouni and Ms.
Siniora have failed to run
the paper profitably for some
time, largely because of
competition from other
publications. But the gen-
eral closure of the territories
during the past three mon-
ths has exacerbated the
paper's problems by

precipitating a sharp drop in
advertising.
Only Al-Kuds, an in-
dependent daily in eastern
Jerusalem, is said to be
profitable.
The PLO is still recovering
from the financial shock it
received when Saudi Arabia
and the Persian Gulf states
suspended aid to the PLO
during the Gulf War because
of Palestinian support for
Iraq.
Although aid has resumed,
it is still far short from its
level prior to the Gulf War,
according to news reports.
The closure of Al-Fajr not
only affects the PLO polit-
ically, but also leaves hun-
dreds of Palestinian families
without a source of income
at a time of growing
unemployment and econ-
omic difficulties resulting
from the closure of the ter-
ritories.
Fifty employees have
received notice that their
jobs will be terminated by
the end of next month. Fifty
more reporters stationed
throughout the territories
are employed on a part-time
basis.
The workers received a
letter saying that the econ-
omic crisis that has affected
"all our national institu-
tions" has also affected Al-
Fajr.

