on that country's compliance with its Camp David obligations and its contributions to the on- going peace process. "Egypt has failed to meet ful- ly its Camp David commitment to establish with Israel 'rela- tionships normal to states at peace with one another,"' Mr. Lantos said. Egypt's stock is certain to sink still further because of its con- tinuing efforts to sabotage the Mideast Development Bank, a pet project of the Clinton ad- ministration intended to jump- start economic development in the region. Delight In FDR Tribute /-' It was impossible to count the Jews at the recent dedication of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial on Washington's Mall, but it would be easy to charac- terize their mood: admiring, re- spectful, happy that a man who has become an icon of Jewish po- litical life will be recognized mon- umentally, along with Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington. Many working-class and im- migrant communities had a spe- cial affection for the patrician FDR. More remarkable still is the fact that the Jewish-FDR connection has survived years worth of revelations about Roo- sevelt's less-than-noble record in protecting Europe's Jews from the Holocaust. "That's something I've wres- tled with," said Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, a Chicago rabbi and crusader for Jewish-Evangelical cooperation who gave the closing invocation at the ceremony. "But I've reconciled myself to the idea that we have to look at the past in the context in which it took place. And in Roosevelt's case, we have to make the distinction between not doing enough — which we were all guilty of — and saying that Jews were ac- tually abandoned to their fate." Jews continue to revere FDR "because we understand that if it had not been for FDR's unidi- mensional focus on bringing the war to an end, then we ourselves would have been part of that Holocaust," Rabbi Eckstein said. Rep. Sidney Yates, D-Ill., who has represented a Chicago district since 1948, said that Roosevelt's determination to use the federal government to help the needy transformed Jewish politics. Roosevelt opened up vast new opportunities for Jews in gov- ernment despite the pervasive anti-Semitism of the era, he said. "In the Jewish community, the memory of what he did to make the government more hu- mane is very strong," Mr. Yates said. 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