Israel Aid On The Line

y American Heart Association

Spiced Red Cabbage

A New Year's twist, this dish makes a colorful addition to a tradi-
tional holiday table. Make a resolution to serve it often, too!

4 cups shredded red cabbage
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup water
1/4 tsp. ground allspice
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/8 tsp.
2

1 tbsp.

ground nutmeg
tart apples, peeled
cored and diced
sugar

In a saucepan, combine shredded cabbage with all other ingre-
dients, except apples. Cover and cook over moderate heat for 15
minutes, tossing several times so the cabbage will cook evenly.
Add apples, and toss again. Cover, and cook 5 minutes longer.
Add sugar.
If more water is needed during cooking, add two or three table-
spoons, but when the dish is done, all moisture should have been
cooked away.

Yield: 6 Servings

Help your Heart Recipes are from the Fourth Edition of the American Heart Association
Cookbook. Copyright 1973. 1975. 1979, 1984 by the American Heart Assocation, Inc.
Published by David McKay Company.

Spiced Red Cabbage Nutritional Analysis per Serving

54
1 g.
0.4 g.
trace
0.1 g.
trace

Calories
Protein
Total Fat (est.)
Saturated Fat
Polyunsaturated Fat
Monounsaturated Fat

0 mg.
14 g.
36 mg.
257 mg.
18 mg.

Cholesterol
Carbohydrates
Calcium
Potassium
Sodium

JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

ongress is taking a
breather, but the respite
will be brief; in one week,
returning legislators will
begin crunching budget numbers
in an appropriations process that
is expected to be the bloodiest
ever.
And despite promises from the
Republican leadership that Is-
rael's foreign aid will be protect-
ed, leading pro-Israel activists are
nervous about a debate that may
quickly spin out of control.
"Once the big domestic cuts hit,
there will be a cyclone of reac-
tion," said one leading pro-Israel
activist. "People are confused and
excited in Congress; the whole
climate is explosive."
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cuts, which passed the House just
before the spring recess, are in-
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Rep. Ben Cardin

federal programs, according to
several Jewish activists here. The
resulting carnage to domestic
spending will make it extraordi-
narily hard to sustain Israel's
$3.2 billion.
"Mr. Gingrich has said that Is-
rael's aid should be safe," said
Rep. Ben Cardin, D-Md., a lead-
ing member of the informal Jew-
ish caucus. "But when you look
at the pressures, I am very wor-
ried."
The Republican leadership is
committed to a "glide path" ap-
proach aimed at eliminating the
federal deficit by 2002, a com-
mitment that will require much
more sweeping cuts in almost
every social program, Mr. Cardin
said. That, in turn, will squeeze
the foreign aid program still fur-
ther:'
An early tipoff to how the aid
debate will go will come next
week, when the Senate Budget
Committee begins running the
numbers for the next fiscal year;
if Chairman Pete Domenici, R-
N.M., is willing to go after other
sacred cows like Medicare, pro-
Israel activists worry, then

That, according to pro-Israel
activists here, is a stratagem in-
tended to protect Egypt's aid,
since Mubarak is convinced that
Congress is unlikely to impose se-
rious reductions on Israel — es-
pecially just before a major
election.

Syrian Talks
Tried Again

Rep. Pete Domenici

promises to protect Israel's aid
will not count for much.

Egyptian Jitters

Aid was also on Hosni Mubarak's
mind during the Egyptian pres-
ident's meetings with adminis-
tration and congressional leaders
and a long session with leaders
of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Orga-
nizations that was described as
"unusually open and frank" by
Conference leaders.
As expected, Mr. Mubarak
backed away from the con-
frontation he created over Israel's
refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-
Proliferation Treaty (NPT); ad-
ministration officials privately
expressed satisfaction that efforts
to renew the treaty will not run
afoul of Mideast politics.
A major sub-theme to Mu-
barak's visit involved pleas for
continuing aid to his beleaguered
government — and for Jewish
support for that aid. Tradition-

Israeli Ambassador Itamar Ra-
binovich and his Syrian counter-
part, Walid Mualem, are
expected to resume their discus-
sions in Washington next week.
But those meetings may be an ex-
ercise in marking time in the
wake of the apparent failure of
the latest Mideast mission by
U.S. Mideast peace process coor-
dinator Dennis Ross.
Mr. Ross's shuttle diplomacy
failed to convince the Syrians to
add military officials to the Wash-
ington sessions — the only re-
maining direct channel of
negotiations between the two
countries.
"The bombing (in Gaza) this
week will make things that much
harder," said a source close to the
talks.
The ambassadors' meetings
have resulted in a general "frame-
work understanding" about the
kinds of security arrangements
that should be in place in the
event of a Syrian-Israeli deal in-
volving the Golan Heights. But
the discussions are hung up on
the question of how those gen-
eral arrangements should be im-
plemented.
Syria insists that they be
applied equally — so that a 10
kilometer demilitarized zone on
the Syrian side of the Golan line
correspond to an identical zone
on the Israeli side.
Israeli officials point out that
Syria's greater size would put
Israel at a big disadvantage if
security arrangements were
based on strict equivalence.
But the Syrian position, ac-
cording to skeptics inside the Is-
raeli government, may just be a
cover for the fact that Hafez As-
sad has not yet committed him-
self to serious negotiations.

Cisneros
On Offensive

Hosni Mubarak

ally, Jewish groups have been the
chief lobbyists on behalf of the
Egyptian aid package.
Mubarak tried to further link
Egyptian and Israeli aid by sug-
gesting the idea of "proportional
cuts" to the two countries.

Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Secretary Hem-y Cisneros
continues to dodge criticism in
the aftermath of his performance
at congressional hearings look-
ing into federally-supported con-
tracts between local housing
authorities and security firms af-
filiated with Louis Farrakhan's
Nation of Islam.
But the secretary's qualified
mea culpas may not be enough to
forestall new congressional action
on the controversial contracts.

