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the rules; I see this legislation as
an attempt to do that."
Even some supporters concede
that the D'Amato bill is unlikely
to get past the talking stage —
especially since Sen. Claiborne
Pell, D-R.I., and Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C., the chair of the
Senate Foreign Relations Corn-
mittee, were busy this week ne-
gotiating renewal of the original
PLO aid bill with only minor
changes, including provisions re-
quiring the State Department to
report on PLO compliance every
four months instead of the cur-
rent six-month interval.
In fact, Helms and Rep. Ben
Gilman, R-N.Y., chair of the
House International Relations
Committee, have apparently
agreed on a 90-day extension of
the current law.
Capitol Hill sources predict
that Congress will then renew
the original PLO aid bill with
only modest changes.
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the PLO or the Palestinian au-
thority. Instead, aid could flow
only through U.S. agencies or pri-
vate organizations.
The bill was written by Rand
Fishbein, a former top aide to
Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-
Hawaii, representing the Amer-
ican Coalition for Middle East
Peace with Security.
"We believe these conditions
are very reasonable, considering
Arafat's performance so far," Mr.
Fishbein said. "It is not strident;
it doesn't make any statement
that is inconsistent with stand-
ing American law."
But mainstream pro-Israel
groups suggest that the D'Ama-
to bill goes too far.
"To move the goalposts at this
time is not productive to the
peace process," said Abraham
Foxman, executive director of the
Anti-Defamation League. "The
key is to hold the PLO to the rea-
sonable standards we have al-
ready set forward, not to change
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As the Republican-led Congress
continues to hack away at the
federal deficit, Jewish social ser-
vice agencies are bracing for cuts
that will affect thousands of
needy Jews.
Vocational counseling and
training funding is a major tar-
get of the congressional budget-
bashers, a fact that could
devastate Jewish vocational ser-
vice agencies across the country,
according to Dr. Marvin Kivitz,
director of the International As-
sociation of Jewish Vocational
Services.
"The great preponderance of
our resources come from govern-
ment sources," he said. "These
cuts are not just a matter of num-
bers. They're going to have a real
impact on people."
About 70 percent of the fund-
ing for these agencies comes from
the government. The cuts now in
the legislative pipeline could re-
sult in a loss of some $200 mil-
lion per year for the 26 biggest
Jewish vocational agencies in the
country. That would affect the
services provided to some
180,000 clients, he said.
And Jewish vocational services
provide more than basic job train-
ing and counseling.
"What this means is a curtail-
ment of services for a broad spec-
trum of activities — in mental
health and mental retardation
services, in services for the home-
less and for unemployed welfare
recipients and for new Americans
— including many Jews from the
former Soviet Union."
Many of these agencies also
provide services under the
Medicare and Medicaid pro-
grams, also likely to be cut.
"We are facing a potential
emergency in our community —
and so is the country, because
these kinds of services prevent
people from going on the welfare
rolls," he said.
He rejected Republican claims
that the private sector can pick
up the slack. "The private sector
now provides only one dollar for
every 12 in service," he said. "The
rest comes from government
sources. It is totally unrealistic
to think that charities can make
up the difference." ❑
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