dapper, articulate Mr. Brown
had won them over.
In his current post, Mr.
Brown has continued to win
Jewish favor by fighting the
boycott against IsraeL The 1993
Commerce Department annu-
al report found that U.S. com-
panies last year received 8,660
"boycott request documents"
from Arab countries, including
2,011 from Kuwait and 1,605
from Saudi Arabia.
Still, Mr. Brown radiates op-
timism when asked if harsh
punitive measures by the U.S.
might be necessary to end the
boycott.
"Statistics might show that
for a certain period of time there
hasn't been as much progress
as we would like," he said. "But
the fact is when you talk to peo-
ple on the ground, you see
things happen. For example,
you see a major Israeli trade
mission going to Morocco and
being greeted graciously by the
king. "I go to a telecommu-
nications trade show in Riyadh,
and who has the biggest exhib-
it there? Motorola," Mr. Brown
said. "So the boycott is crum-
bling of its own weight. That
doesn't mean that we need to
stop being aggressive pushing
for its end, but I think we are
making some progress."
The centerpiece of Mr.
Brown's trip was the signing of
a memorandum of under-
standing to formally establish
the U.S.-Israel Science and
Technology Commission. The
commission is designed to en-
courage and promote high-tech
cooperation between the U.S.
and Israel, focusing on bio-tech-
nology, computers and telecom-
munications.
The formulation of the com-
mission has excited Israeli lead-
ers because it comes twinned
with a U.S. decision to allow
certain Israeli high-tech com-
panies to compete for U.S. pro-
curement contracts on an equal
level with American and NATO
companies.
In an era of shrinking mili-
tary purchases, such a move is
expected to give Israeli indus-
try a boost.
If Mr. Brown's message is
anti-tariff to Israelis and anti-
boycott to Arab states, then the
message he brings to the Pales-
tinians is that they also must
keep their borders open and
free as they begin building their
economy.
"I urged the Palestinian
leaders with whom I met to give
support to the Palestinian pri-
vate sector," he said. "We've got
to assure that those involved in
politics and those involved in
economic development are on
the same track. And that their
long-term key to stability is, in
fact, economic growth and eco-
nomic opportunity." ❑

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