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Talks Invite Helps
Russia's Boris Yeltsin
On paper at lease, Russia re-
mains a big player in the
Mideast peace talks, now
scheduled to resume in
Washington at the end of the
month.
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When the official invita-
tions were issued for Round
11, the hosts were — as
usual — the United States
and Russia.
But the government of
Russian President Boris
Yeltsin has other things on
its mind — like its own sur-
vival in the face of a deterio-
rating economy that threat-
ens the country's lurch
towards democracy.
But that's precisely the
point; according to some
Washington analysts, the
Clinton administration is
deliberately including
Russia in the official peace
process team as part of its
broader effort to shore up
the precarious Yeltsin
regime — even though the
Russian leader has shown
little interest in the bilater-
al talks.
"Part of this is an indica-
tion that the administration
wants very much for Yeltsin
to succeed," said William
Quandt, a fellow at the
Brookings Institution in
Washington and a close
observer of the peace talks.
"I think they worry that his
opponents, who are more
Boris Yeltsin
nationalistic and hardline,
might seize on any indica-
tion that the West is snub-
bing Russia. So the invita-
tions continue to be issued
in the name of both coun-
tries."
But the official invite
could have an impact on the
multi-lateral talks, and in
particular on the arms con-
trol discussions, Mr. Quandt
added.
"It's clear that if the
Russians don't show
restraint on that front, arms
control in the region will be
almost impossible," he said.
So keeping up the pretense
of Russian involvement in
the bi-laterals is viewed by
policy makers as a strategy
for keeping Moscow commit-
ted to the multi-laterals.
Israeli Leaders
Lag Behind Shifts
Israeli's plain-speaking depu-
ty foreign minister, Yossi
Beilin, has earned the ire of
some American Jewish
leaders because of his blunt
criticisms of the pro-Israel
establishment in this country.
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Last week, Mr. Beilin
tried to mend some fences
in a series of meetings in
Washington and New York.
At a breakfast session
with Jewish reporters, Mr.
Beilin responded to reports
that he termed the
American Israeli Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC),
the leading pro-Israel lobby-
ing group, a "right-wing
organization."
"It doesn't stand, because
I never said it," he told
reporters.
"I said that there were
rightist forces in AIPAC,
and in other Jewish organi-
zations, as there are some
people who are more moder-
ate and more dovish."
But he repeated his claim
that the administration in
Washington is confused by
the fact that it is hearing
one thing on the ongoing
Mideast peace process from
Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and his government
— and something else from
some pro-Israel leaders.
In particular, he said,
Jewish groups here have
not yet caught up with the
Rabin government on the
question of a more direct
American role in the sput-
tering negotiations.
Most American Jews, he