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Mr. Azaria said Mr. Gidarcha was paid about $600 a month, not $400. "He never had any complaints before, and he's back at work. The foreign workers are just trying to raise a stink," he said, adding that he'd heard that other companies do exploit guest workers, but his wasn't one of them. Simcha Yishai, an activist at Kay L'Oved, said manpower companies hold onto the guest workers' passports as blackmail. "They pay them below mini- mum wage, and keep them in subhuman conditions, and tell the workers, If you complain, I won't give you your passport back.' They turn these people into slaves," Mr. Yishai said. Some Israeli employers do treat guest workers well. The moshav movement has brought in over 17,500 Thai farmwork- Civilian Issues Under Discussion J Mail this coupon for a free brochure. ith the issue of Prime Minister Benjamin Ne- tanyahu's settlement policy looming over them, Israeli and Palestinian of- ficials met for their first discus- sions about civilian issues in six months. Maj. Gen. Oren Shachor, the leader of the Israeli delegation, said the talks were conducted in a "good atmosphere." But his Palestinian counter- part, Jamil Tarifi, targeted the settlement issue, telling reporters that the Palestinian Authority had sent a letter to Netanyahu stating that it was "impossible to continue the peace process while continuing settlements." The bilateral group, officially known as the Supreme Civilian Steering Committee, attempts to resolve disputes arising from the implementation of the self-rule accords. The Israeli delegation in- cluded representatives from the defense establishment and from the Finance and Foreign min- istries. 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Near the old Tel Aviv bus sta- tion, a Ghanaian house clean- er said, "We pray that Israel will have peace, so it will get rich and we will have enough work so that we can buy food. We pray that the Israelis will see that we only want to work and will let us stay here." The man said he and his wife work illegally for nearly $7 an hour. Some of his friends, he said, even clean house for po- licemen who've stopped them. "The policemen pay them for it. Why not? They know we're only here to work," he said. If the guest workers are a problem for Israel, some argue, they come under the heading of "rich people's problems." If so, their suffering at the hands of some unscrupulous Israelis will come under the heading of "poor people's problems." CI ^ 24 mo. lease. $1,500 cap cost reduction, option to purchase at lease end determined at lease inception. Plus 1st months payment security deposit (pymt rounded to nearest $50), $450 acq. fee, tax, title, license. 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