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rime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu's inaugural
visit to Washington may
have been the best diplo-
matic show in town, but a quieter
encounter at the State Depart-
ment also promised a significant
impact on the Middle East.
After months of dithering,
members of the five-nation South
Lebanon cease-fire monitoring
group finally got their acts to-
gether.
The group, which includes Syr-
ia, Lebanon, Israel, France and
the United States, was created
in the wake of Secretary of State
Warren Christopher's shuttle
mission that ended the fighting
between Israel and Hezbollah
terrorists in April.
Initially, the Washington
cease-fire talks were expected to
last only a day or two; instead,
they dragged out inconclusively
for months, at first because of re-
sistance by the Syrians and ef-
forts by the French to inject
themselves into the negotiations,
later because of the Israeli elec-
tions and uncertainty about the
American role.
After the election, there was
concern in Washington that the
new Netanyahu government
might seek to renegotiate parts
of the rough agreement worked
out during the spring. But last
week, with some nudging from
Washington, participants agreed
on a final formula.
The roster at the meeting in-
cluded Syrian ambassador Walid
Mualem and outgoing Israeli am-

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bassador Itamar Rabinovich,
U.S. peace process envoy Dennis
Ross and Dore Gold, Mr. Ne-
tanyahu's top foreign policy ad-
viser. Mr. Gold and Mr. Mualem
met briefly after the five-nation
session — the first direct contact
between Syria and the new Is-
raeli government.
Mr. Gold, according to sources
here, sent a message to Presi-
dent Hafez al-Assad calling for
a resumption of direct negotia-
tions between the two countries
with "no preconditions." But
both administration and Israeli
sources indicated that there
were no immediate plans for re-
newing the Syrian-Israeli dis-
cussions.
Israeli Embassy officials de-
clined to provide details about the
agreement; sources here say that
the leadership of the committee
will change every five months,
with American representatives
starting the rotation.
The committee will be head-
quartered in Cyprus; meetings
to investigate violations of the
cease-fire agreement, which pro-
hibits the targeting of civilian tar-
gets, will take place in Ras
Nequra, just north of Israel's
northern border.
Mr. Netanyahu's visit may
have helped break the deadlock.
"The basis for the agreement
was in understandings between
the United States and Israel," a
source said. "Some of those un-
derstandings were finalized dur-
ing the visit, in meetings with
Netanyahu's people."

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School Prayer
To Get Push

fter months of delay, back-
ers of a "religious equali-
ty" amendment to the
Constitution, which Jew-
ish activists see as a backdoor at-
tempt to legalize school prayer
and public funding of religious
schools, apparently are about to
make their big move.
Next week, Rep. Henry Hyde,
R-Ill., will hold Judiciary Com-
mittee hearings on at least one
version of the amendment. Mr.
Hyde and the House leadership
reportedly have decided to press
hard for the amendment in the
few legislative days left before
the November election.
But that may fuel the contro-
versy between supporters of two

different versions of the consti-
tutional change — one by Mr.
Hyde, and another by Rep.
Ernest Jim Istook, R-Okla.
The Hyde amendment focus-
es mostly on government bene-
fits to religious groups; the Istook
version emphasizes school
prayer, the original goal of groups
such as the Christian Coalition,
which included the amendment
as the first item in its Contract
with the American Family.
Next week's hearing report-
edly will focus on the Hyde ver-
sion.
But for Jewish groups, it
makes little difference: both
amendments represent direct at-
tacks on church-state separation.

