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Showroom Hours: Monday-Friday 1 1-5, Saturday 11-3 or by appointment (810) 624.-7300 3160 Haggerty Rd. • West Bloomfield • 48323 I he cloakroom action was hot and heavy this week as a bipartisan group of con- gressional leaders ham- mered out a compromise formula for legislation forcing the State Department to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In the end, all that effort was enough to keep President Bill Clinton from vetoing the bill — but not enough to convince him to sign it. The modified bill passed the Senate on Tuesday by a 93-5 vote, and cleared the House by a 374- 37 margin just in time for Wednesday's appearance by Is- rael Prime Minister Yitzhak Ra- bin at a ceremony marking the Jerusalem 3000 celebration. The overwhelming margins were the result of a behind-the- scenes negotiations that result- ed in a watered down version of the bill first offered by Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R- Kans. The administration and several key Democratic legisla- tors had opposed that measure because of concern about in- fringements on presidential pre- rogatives and the possible impact of the move on the Middle East peace talks. Mr. Dole, who spurned efforts to move the embassy until the on- set of his own presidential bid, in- troduced the bill in a spirited speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in May. Since then, he has been gath- ering cosponsors in the hopes of making the bill veto-proof — a strategy that would also embar- rass the target of his 1996 pres- idential bid, President Bill Clinton. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D- Calif., who supports the concept of moving the embassy but rejects the rigid timetable, doggedly held out for a waiver provision that would enable the president to postpone implementation in six months increments on national security grounds. On Monday, Mr. Dole accept- ed the waiver amendment, paving the way for quick passage in the House and Senate. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., who has championed the embassy issue for almost 20 years, and Sen. Joseph Lieber- man, D-Conn., played pivotal roles in working out the compro- mise — and making sure the ef- fort was not hijacked by anti-peace process forces. "There was an effort to make this bill into something that would wreck the peace process," said a Senate source. "Moynihan and Lieberman had the credibil- ity on the issue to make sure that something passed that would not have that effect — and that would not provoke a big fight on the Senate floor over Jerusalem." Sen Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., criticized the administration for its resis- tance to the move, and led efforts to retain tough language that would force the president's hand. The bill requires that the em- bassy be moved by May 31, 1999, when final-status talks between Israel and the Palestinians are due to be completed; a provision requiring groundbreaking by the end of 1996 was cut from the bill early in the negotiations. But the administration did not sign on to the compromise. On Tuesday night, a White House spokesman said that the presi- dent would allow the bill, which cleared Congress with veto-proof majorities, to become law with- out his signature. "We have made more progress in less time on the Middle East peace process over the last two years than at any time in the his- tory of the Arab-Israeli conflict," Mr. Clinton said in a statement. "A step such as this could hinder the peace process. I will not let this happen, and will use the leg- islation's waiver authority to avoid damage to the peace process." Jewish groups quickly ap- plauded the passage of the Jerusalem bill. Leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee termed the vote his- toric. AIPAC had made the Jerusalem bill a top lobbying pri- ority in recent months. Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said that "this action puts the United States on record in unmistakable terms as supporting Jerusalem as Israel's capital. It's symbolic impact will be tremendous." But some groups were less en- thusiastic. "What has always troubled us about the bill is the fact that it was so firmly opposed by an ad- ministration that has done so much to advance Israel's securi- ty and the cause of peace in the Middle East," said Jason Isaac- son, director of the American Jewish Committee's office of gov- ernment and international af- fairs. "It seemed like a heck of a way to say thanks." The AJCommittee, he said, will now focus on "helping ensure that this process does not have an adverse impact." Li