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Washington (JTA) —
Although American Jewish
community has been
pushing the Clinton ad-
ministration to do more to
end the unrest in Bosnia-
Herzegovina, a recent State
Department decision to cut
the number of refugees ad-
mitted to the United States
from the former Yugoslav
republic has not elicited
much of a response from the
Jewish groups.
The administration recent-
ly decided to cut from 3,500
to 2,500 the number of refu-
gee slots available to Bos-
nians and other Eastern Eu-
ropeans, citing a lack of in-
terest on the part of would-
be refugees.
The majority of the East-
ern European slots have
been going to Bosnians, the
State Department said. As of
this week, only 800 refugees
had taken advantage of the
program.
A small group of Jewish
organizational officials
spent a day last week lobby-
ing administration officials
and members of Congress to
do more to help Bosnia, just
as Secretary of State Warren
Christopher was announcing
that the United States was
doing all that it could for the
country's Muslim popula-
tion, which has come under
increasing attack from Ser-
bian forces.
Abraham Bayer, director
of international concerns for
the National Jewish Com-
munity Relations Advisory
Council, said the issue of the
refugee slots had not come
up in the course of the
meetings last week.
"The Bosnians aren't
pressing for it," he said, ad-
ding that the Bosnian people
do not want to leave their
country, and any efforts to
encourage them to do so
would further the Serbians'
"ethnic cleansing" cam-
paign, which is aimed at
driving the Muslims out.
But others say the reason
that more Bosnian refugees
have not come here is that
United Nations officials
responsible for processing
them are preoccupied with
higher-priority human-
itarian concerns.
"There's something inade-
quate about the current
screening process" in the
former Yugoslavia, said
Martin Wenick, executive
vice president of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society,
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Sees inadequacies.
which helps resettle refu-
gees. (
Mr. Wenick said that
while he is pleased the
transfer of the State
Department slots will allow
1,000 more refugees from
the republics of the former
Soviet Union to come here,
he believes the slots could
have been used for Bosnians.
The situation in Bosnia
has worsened in recent days,
with the capital, Sarajevo,
under siege from Serbia
forces.
The United States has
been providing human
itarian assistance, has sup-
ported the concept of a war
crimes tribunal and has
backed sanctions against
Serbia.
But the Jewish organize
tions, which see echoes of tht,
Holocaust in the Serbian
"ethnic cleansing" cam-
paign against the Bosnian
Muslims, want the United
States to support lifting the
arms embargo in Bosnia and
using military force if
necessary.
Mr. Bayer said th€
meetings were both depress-
ing and exhilarating.
"The reason we came was
to keep the pressure up, and
I'm glad we did," Mr. Bayer
said.
Another participant in tN;.
meetings, Jason Isaacson of
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, said the administra-
tion did not "seem to be
heading in any particular
direction" with its Bosnia
policy.
The groups participating
in last week's lobbying
effort, in addition to
NJCRAC and AJCommittee, .
were the American Jewish'
Congress, Anti-Defamation
League, B'nai B'rith and the,,
Jewish Institute for Nation-
al Security Affairs.
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