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Will Congress Hold
Joint Session For Peres?

JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

ro-Israel forces, anxious to
give Shimon Peres the
most visible platform for
his call for renewed sup-
port for the Mideast peace
process, are trying to arrange an
address by the prime minister to
a joint session of Congress when
he visits Washington this month.
But the logistics are daunting
because Mr. Peres will arrive just
as the high-stakes budget nego-
tiations between Congress and
the administration reach critical
mass; Congressional observers
expect a political conflagration
that could overshadow his visit.
An address to Congress would
also bolster a Dec. 12 peace
process lobby day led by the Na-
tional Jewish Community Rela-
tions Advisory Council (NJCRAC),
the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organi-
zations and the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee.

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"There is a feeling that our
community has not been vocal
enough on the peace process in
an organized fashion," said Lynn
Lyss, NJCRAC's chair. "This will
be a leadership group from
around the nation that will meet
with the key players from both
parties in the House and Senate,
as well as the administration, to
make one point: We support this
peace process."

Caution on Bosnia

Jewish groups generally ap-
plauded the administration's me-
diation efforts aimed at ending
the slaughter in Bosnia, but side-
stepped the question of sending
20,000 American troops as part
of a NATO peacekeeping force.
"A lot of people in our move-
ment think that it's a terrible
agreement, that it rewards geno-
cide," said Joshua Goldstein, a
former leader of the Bosnia Sup-

port Committee and a professor
of international relations at
American University in Wash-
ington.
"There's a lot of truth in that;
it's not a just agreement. But giv-
en the political realities, I think
the agreement is more positive
than negative. Deferring ani-
mosities may be the best we can
hope for."
But introducing American
troops into that environment
could prove hazardous.
"We turned on the Bosnian
Muslims by agreeing to this
arrangement," said a prominent
Jewish military analyst, "and the
Serbs turned on the Bosnian
Serbs. If you have a unified Sara-
jevo under these conditions, it
could look like Beirut. All the old
grievances are still out there —
and American troops will be right
in the middle of it."

Tough Going
For Nazi Hunters

overnment Nazi-hunters
are still in business, but it's
increasingly difficult to get
anybody to pay attention.
And the bitter partisanship of the
104th Congress is making mat-
ters worse.
Recently, Rep. Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y., asked his col-
leagues to sign a letter to the pres-
ident of Lithuania requesting the
extradition of alleged Nazi war
criminal Aleksandras Lileikis. The
Justice Department's Office of
Special Investigations (OSI) has
initiated denaturalization pro-
ceedings against Mr. Lileikis, 88-
year-old resident of Norwood,
Mass. who is accused of responsi-
bility for the death of thousands
of Jews in Vilnius during the Nazi
occupation.
But the process would move
much quicker if Lithuanian of-
ficials demanded extradition —
which they have refused to do.
A few years ago, legislators on
both sides of the aisle would have
lined up to sign Mr. Schumer's let-
ter. But according to Capitol Hill
sources, Mr. Schumer is finding
the signature gathering process
tough going, in part because the
high turnover of members and
staff means that knowledge about
the Nazi hunting effort is flagging
on Capitol Hill.

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And GOP legislators are in-
creasingly unwilling to join the
outspoken, sometimes controver-
sial Mr. Schumer in the effort to
lean on the Lithuanian govern-
ment.
"There was a time when we
could count on bipartisan support
for something like this," a House
source said. "Now, everything is
so polarized, and people are so sus-
picious; the result is that Repub-
licans simply don't want to sign
something authored by Democ-
rats."

Glut of Religious Equality
Amendments

Last week, Rep. Henry Hyde,
R-Ill., introduced a "Religious
Equality" amendment to the
Constitution after months of de-
lay and disagreement among
supporters.
This week, a second amend-
ment was introduced by the man
originally chosen by the House
GOP leadership to be their stan-
dard bearer on the thorny issue
of school prayer, Rep. Ernest Jim
Istook, R-Okla. At a press con-
ference, Mr. Istook suggested con-
servative leaders might work
toward a merger of the two pro-
posals.
That won't please most Jew-
ish groups, which staunchly op-

pose both measures as danger-
ous breaches of the church-state
wall.
"They're two sides of a very
bad coin," said one House staffer
who is already working to line up
opposition. "These are both mis-
chievous measures that pose a
significant threat to all religious
minorities in this country, in-
cluding Jews."
The Hyde amendment focus-
es mostly on government bene-
fits to religious groups; the intent,
according to analysts for Jewish
groups, is to open to the door to
government aid to parochial
schools.
The Istook amendment doesn't
beat around the bush: "Nothing
in this Constitution shall prohibit
acknowledgments of the religious
heritage, beliefs, or traditions of
the people, or prohibit student-
sponsored prayer in public
schools," the draft reads.
At last week's press confer-
ence, the Oklahoma legislator in-
sisted recent Supreme Court
cases on religious expression in
schools are part of a "jihad"
against religion.
Mr. Istook produced an aston-
ished reaction when, in answer
to a question about the possibil-
ity that the amendment could
produce new religious strife, said