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JAMES BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

"It will be a joyous welcome to
all of the Jewish attendees at the
inauguration, to thank the many
Jews around the country who
were active in the campaign,"
said Sara Ehrman, an official
with the Democratic National
Committee who works with Jew-
ish groups.
The event will honor the Clin-

ton administration's legion of
Jewish appointees, including
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glick-
man, Treasury Secretary Robert
Rubin, Assistant Commerce Sec-
retary Stuart Eizenstat and the
president's new top policy advis-
er, Rahm Emmanuel.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum will host an all-day
speak-a- thon on "Visions for the
21st Century"; speakers will in-
clude Holocaust survivor Elie
Wiesel, and Harvard scholar and
writer on race relations Cornell
West.
The Sunday night entertain-
ment gala at the USAir Arena in
suburban Maryland, an intimate
gathering for some 11,000 Clin-
ton supporters, will include a seg-
ment on Ellis Island along with
all-star performers such as
Michael Douglas and Candice
Bergen.
Already, there have been com-
plaints that the "Jewish desk" of
the inaugural committee hasn't
been allotted enough tickets to
satisfy Jewish groups around the
country that want to participate.
The American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee will host a
breakfast on Sunday, and friends
of the National Jewish Democ-
ratic Council hope to break
bagels on Monday.
An interfaith prayer service is
scheduled for Monday morning
at a local church. The event will
feature a rabbi.
Planners had hoped to provide
kosher food for the outdoor fes-
tivities, including the swearing-
in ceremony and the inaugural
parade, but couldn't convince any
local caterers that the event
would make money.

Nation of Islam Minister Louis
Farrakhan is on the move again.
This week, the peripatetic
black separatist was spotted in
Libya, his third visit in a year to
what is routinely described as a
"rogue nation."
On one of those trips, Mr. Far-
rakhan reportedly was promised
$1 billion by Libyan strongman
Moammar el Qaddafi to gener-
ate increased political activity by
African-Americans, a curious of-
fer in view of the fact that Mr.
Qaddafi doesn't think much of
democracy in his own country.
That deal was quickly nixed by
the Treasury Department.

On Monday, State Depart-
ment spokesman Nicholas Burns
asked about the visit, had some
free and somewhat facetious ad-
vice for Mr. Farrakhan.
"I just would hope that Louis
Farrakhan would choose to raise
the issue of Pan Am 103 with Mr.
Qaddafi," he told reporters. "The
Libyan government is harboring
two terrorists who placed the
bomb that caused the explosion
on the aircraft and caused the
deaths of 269 people, many of
whom were American citizens,
including four of our colleagues
here from the Department of
State. I think Mr. Farrakhan has

tans are shaping up for the
Jan. 20 inaugural festivi-
ties in downtown Wash-
ington, including several
events aimed at a Jewish com-
munity that voted overwhelm-
ingly for President Clinton in his
bid for a second term.
Mr. Clinton's Jewish leader-
ship team is planning a Sunday
morning event for some 300 in-
vited guests at the newly re-
opened District of Columbia
Jewish Community Center on
16th Street.

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