for a few months while the publicity
stirred up by the Arafat controversy
and Reich's ouster settles.
Lerman is a Democrat, which was a
major factor in President Clinton's
decision to give him the chairmanship
in 1995, and he has raised vast
amounts of money for the facility. As
a result, administration insiders say it's
unlikely the chairman will get the
heave.

Farewells To Ribico , Aronson

Several politically important Jews
passed from the scene in recent days.
Former Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff
died after a battle with Alzheimer's
disease.
Ribicoff, who served three terms in
the Senate after his election in 1962
and also as Connecticut's governor
and secretary of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare in the
Kennedy administration, was 87.
For much of his time on Capitol
Hill, he was one of only two or three
Jewish senators; today, there are 10.
He gained added fame at the 1968
Democratic National Convention in
Chicago, when he criticized the
"Gestapo tactics" of the Chicago
police in handling anti-war demon-
strators, earning a nationally broadcast
anti-Semitic epittet and an obscene
gesture from Chicago Mayor Richard
J. Daley.
Ribicoff didn't shrink from his Jew-
ish identity, "but he didn't advertise it,
either," said one longtime Jewish
political observer here. "He wasn't a
narrowly parochial Jewish senator.
What was particularly significant
about Abe is that he may have been
the first Jewish senator from a state
that wasn't heavily Jewish, like New
York."
Ribicoff was urbane and — accord-
ing to some — a touch on the arro-
gant side.
He was a strong supporter of Israel,
but he broke with much of the pro-
Israel community in the late 1970s,
when Jewish groups lined up to
oppose a major Mideast arms sale that
included jets to Saudi Arabia and
Egypt, as well as Israel. That was seen
as a major betrayal by some, and led
to ruptured relations with some of his
Jewish supporters.
Elsewhere, Arnold Aronson, a long-
time Jewish and civil rights leader,
died last Tuesday in a Washington
suburb.
Aronson, who served as program
director of the National Jewish Com-
munity Relations Advisory Council,

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