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cash assistance for the nation's
poorest citizens; Mr. Boschwitz
is blasting the incumbent as
"Senator Welfare."
"Boschwitz has been narrow-
ing the gap pretty steadily," said
Chuck Brooks, executive direc-
tor of the National Political Ac-
tion Committee, the largest
pro-Israel PAC. "But now his
strategists seem to be 'going neg-
ative'; in the past, when Rudy's
done that, he's gotten himself into
trouble."
Most polls show Mr. Wellston
with a seven-point lead in a state
known for its political quirkiness.
But his future may depend on the
length of President Clinton's coat-
tails — if in fact, there are any
coattails.
In Texas, Rep. Martin Frost, a
Jewish Democrat, is breathing a
big sigh of relief.
Last week, a federal court
threw out the redistricting map
for almost half of the state's 30
congressional districts, a judicial
aftershock from the recent
Supreme Court decision limiting
the creation of districts based on
racial demographics.
The judges drew a temporary
redistricting map; the results ap-
parently will benefit Mr. Frost,
chair of the House Democratic
Campaign Committee.
Before the court action, Mr.
Frost was — as uslial — facing a
tough battle to hold on to his seat;
the redesigned district probably
will add enough Democratic vot-
ers to give him a comfortable
cushion in November.
The court decision also affects
House Majority Leader Dick
Armey and Rep. Bill Archer, top
Republicans; both will continue
to represent Republican-majori-
ty districts.
Foreign Aid Bill
Back On Hold
C
ongress fled Washington
for the political conven-
tions before finishing work
on the foreign operations
appropriations bill — the critical
bill that includes Israel's $3.2 bil-
lion aid allotment.
Once again, the aid package
was held up by the insistence by
anti-abortion Republicans on lan-
guage outlawing the use of for-
eign aid money for family
planning programs abroad, a cru-
sade led by Rep. Sonny Callahan,
R-Ala., the chair of the foreign
operations appropriations sub-
committee.
The money bill was passed
by both the House and Senate,
but the conference that was
scheduled to work out differ-
ences between the two versions
of the bill has been held up by
the dispute.
Jewish activists are worried
that an overscheduled Congress
won't have time to finish the
measure when it returns in Sep-
tember for a brief legislative in-
terlude before getting down to
the serious business of cam-
paigning.
"Israel's aid isn't endangered
by this," said Richard Foltin, leg-
islative director of the American
Jewish Committee. "But there
are a number of other provisions
in this bill that we care about
that could get lost if this isn't
passed when they return."
Jewish activists
are worried that
Congress won't
have time
to finish.
Those include an amendment
by Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.,
expressing the sense of the Sen-
ate that United Nations forces
should be used to detain indict-
ed war criminals in Bosnia, and
a provision urging the German
government to negotiate with the
Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany on cas-
es in which Holocaust survivors
have been denied compensation
on technical grounds.
If there is no agreement
among the conferees in early Sep-
tember, Congress might resort to
a continuing resolution to keep
the foreign aid program afloat—
which would not include any of
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