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sored a vigil inside a bright-
ly colored blue and orange
tent across from the Prime
Minister's Office.
The vigil marked an effort
to make sure the plight of
the newcomers could not
escape the attention of the
politicians, especially at a
time they are making some
critical decisions, explained
Mr. Gershon.
One of these is a Cabinet
proposal to take 650 million
shekels (about $230 million)
from a reserve fund for im-
migrants and return it to the
Treasury to spend on edu-
cation, industrial in-
vestment and public works.
The government argues
the money was set aside to
cover per- capita absorption
costs if immigration this
year exceeded 80,000. Since
it will not, the money is be-
ing treated as a surplus,
which should be rechanneled
to stimulate the overall
economy and indirectly
benefit the immigrants.
But Mr. Tsaban and the
immigrants argue that this
narrow, per- capita formula-
tion is wrongheaded. They
believe more programs are
needed to help immigrants
directly, particularly in
housing and employment.
Spending more money in
these areas, they say, will
create precisely the kind of
climate that will attract
countless more immigrants.
"The government says it
doesn't have enough immi-
grants to give money to, and

at the same time it is firing
(immigrant) scientists" from
universities for lack of pro-
gram funds, said Mr. Ger-
shon.
"The money should stay in
the budget for immediate
problems, like housing for
the elderly, single-parent
families and the disabled,
and to pay for jobs for scien-
tists," he said.

In fact, Mr. Tsaban has
proposed that 200 million
shekels of this fund (about
$70 million) be given to
targeted immigrant projects,
such as special-needs hous-
ing and jobs programs for
those age 45 and above, a
group especially hard-hit by
unemployment.

"The 650 million is sym-
bolic," Mr. Gershon said.
The proposed diversion
"reflects the government's
sense of priorities, and the
Jews in Russia heard about
it instantly. It is being seen
as more proof that nothing is
changing."
Additional proof can be
found in the government's
proposed 1994 budget, which
reflects an unchanged
allocation for immigrant ab-
sorption.
When asked for a figure, a
spokesman for the Absorp-
tion Ministry said it was
based on projections of
80,000 immigrants, the /
same as this year, but he
could not supply a per-capita
or overall amount of
money. ❑

Damages Awarded
To Schwarzenegger

Los Angeles (JTA) — Screen
actor Arnold Schwarzenegger
has won damages in a libel
suit against a London tabloid
journalist who had accused
the star of Terminator II and
Last Action Hero of harboring
fervent anti-Semitic pro-Nazi
views.
In his defense in the Lon-
don courtroom, Mr. Schwarz-
enegger's lawer affirmed the
actor's friendship with Jews
and his sujpport of Jewish
causes and cited his friend-
ship with Nazi-hunter Simon
Wiesenthal.
Mr. Schwarzenegger
himself was not present in
court.
In Los Angeles, the Simon
Wiesenthal Center confirm-
ed that Mr. Schwarzenegger
was a longtime supporter
and that he and his wife,
television reporter Maria
Shriver, had contributed
$250,000 to the center's re-
cently opened Beit

Hashoah/Museum of
Tolerance.
Mr. Schwarzenegger's
libel action was against
journalist Wendy Leigh of
the News of the World
tabloid, which in a 1988
front- page story described
the actor as pro-Nazi and
charged that he admired and
approved of his father's
alleged conduct in rounding
up Jews and homosexuals
for concentration camps.
The article was based
largely on information sup-
plied by Ms. Leigh.
In her 1990 book, Arnold:
An Unauthorized Biography
of Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Ms. Leigh also claimed that
the actor was a supporter of
then Austrian President
Kurt Waldheim and had in-
vited him to his wedding.
Mr. Waldheim did not at-
tend the wedding, and at the
time, Mr. Schwarzenegger
labeled the book as "trash."

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