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Ben Gilman:
Upset about Killgore.
not to stray from the Israeli line,"
and his claim that shadowy
forces "keep the U.S. marching
with Israel to fight Israel's bat-
tles."
Mr. Gilman also pointed out
that Mr. Killgore appeared at
events sponsored by the Liber-
ty Lobby, which many Jewish
leaders regard as a blatantly
anti-Semitic group.
Mr. Gilman urged Mr.
Christopher to disassociate him-
self and the State Department
from the awards ceremony; so
far, no word back from Foggy
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ep. Ben Gilman, R-N.Y.,
the chair of the House In-
ternational Relations
Committee and a pro-Is-
rael hard-liner, is in a lather
about an honor bestowed on a
former State Department official
who, the legislator contends, has
made a career out of Israel bash-
ing.
Andrew Killgore, an ambas-
sador to Qatar in the early 1980s,
was given the Foreign Service
Cup by the Diplomatic and Con-
sular Officers, Retired (DACOR)
organization. The setting was a
"Foreign Service Day" ceremony
at the State Department in May.
Mr. Killgore received the
award for "contributions to in-
creased understanding of the
Middle East and the many di-
mensions of the United States'
interests in the area."
The problem? Mr. Killgore, af-
ter his retirement from the State
Department, was a co-founder of
the American Educational Trust,
a group that once distributed
bumper stickers calling Wash-
ington Israeli-occupied territory.
In a letter to Secretary of State
Warren Christopher, Mr. Gilman
cited some of Mr. Killgore's pub-
lished statements, including his
assertion that "a disproportion-
ately heavy Jewish representa-
tion among 20,000 congressional
staffers helps remind incumbents
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olocaust survivor and ac-
tivist Benjamin Meed, pres-
ident of the American
Gathering of Jewish Holo-
caust Survivors, was on Capitol
Hill last week, pressing for a res-
olution urging the German gov-
ernment to go back to the
negotiating table and work out a
package of financial remunera-
tion for survivors who were inel-
igible for earlier rounds of
reparations.
Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii,
sponsored such language in the
foreign operations appropriations
bill; Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-
N.Y., had peddled a freestanding
bill saying much the same thing.
The resolutions call on the Ger-
man government to "negotiate in
good faith with the Conference on
Jewish Material Claims against
Germany to broaden the cate-
gories of those eligible for com-
pensation so that the injustice of
H
uncompensated Holocaust sur-
vivors may be corrected while they
are still alive."
Many survivors failed to qual-
ify during the initial round of repa-
rations in the 1950s because of
excessively stringent require-
ments,including provisions lim-
iting payments to survivors living
in the West.
So survivors who came here
from countries such as Poland in
recent decades missed out on the
German payments.
"So we have the terrible situa-
tion where survivors who came to
this country after the 1956 dead-
line [for filing claims], or survivors
who were in Auschwitz for five
months instead of the required
six, are not getting any compen-
sation," said a spokesman for Ms.
Maloney. "Now, with many of
these people in dire need, that in-
justice stands out even more
starkly."
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