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A Kingly Welcome

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Jordan's King Abdullah is due here for
a May 18 meeting with President Bill
Clinton. High on his agenda: debt
relief for the sagging Jordanian econo-
my and an emergency aid package
that remains stalled in Congress.
But the administration wants to focus
on growing concern about the new
leader's apparent lack of interest in deal-
ing with Israel while launching energetic
efforts to shore up relations with Syria.
Bringing Abdullah back into the
orbit of U.S. peacemaking efforts will
be a key objective of the administra-
tion during the king's first official
visit. And shaking loose U.S. aid is an
urgent priority for the Jordanians.

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supplementary aid package — the
Israel and Palestinian portions have yet
to be introduced — was coupled to an
emergency appropriation for
Hurricane Mitch relief. That stalled
last month as Democrats and
Republicans squabbled over how to
pay for the spending measure.
Now, the Jordan aid is tied to a
big spending bill funding the air war
in Kosovo. And the supplementary
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of the $400 million extra promised
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A Rabbi In Belgrade

hen Rabbi Steven Jacobs
was received at the
White House on
Monday along with
other members of Jesse Jackson's mis-
sion to Belgrade that freed three U.S.
soldiers, he passed on a message to
President Bill Clinton.
It came from Aca Singer, the 70-
year-old head of the Yugoslav Jewish
community, who had told Jacobs, "I did
not survive Auschwitz in order to
be killed by American bombs in
Belgrade."
While Clinton did not react to
the message, Singer's words
brought out Jacobs' conflicted
feelings about the NATO bomb-
ing campaign.
On one hand, "If 'Never Again'
is to be more than just a slogan, we,
especially as Jews, cannot be indif-
ferent to the immense suffering of
the Albanian refugees," Jacobs said.
But we must also be aware that
"there are many wonderful Serbs,
as well as 3,000 Jews, in Belgrade
who are living in constant fear of
air raids," he added.
"We must keep up the pressure on
Milosevic," said Jacobs, speaking by
phone from 'Washington after an
hour-long session with Clinton, Vice
President Al Gore and Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright.
Jacobs, the spiritual leader of Kol
Tikvah, a Reform congregation in the
Los Angeles suburb of Woodland
Hills, was the only rabbi among 20
clergy who accompanied Jackson on
his tense mission. Belgrade was born-

barded heavily during their first night
in the Yugoslav capital.
Jacobs was not among the five dele-
gates who participated in the decisive
meeting with Milosevic because he
preferred to visit the three American
POWs. The rabbi added that he also
had no desire to shake hands with the
Yugoslav leader.
As a fellow Los Angeles resident,
Jacobs established a special bond with
one of the freed men, Staff Sgt.

Rabbi Steven Jacobs (back row, right)
met with President Bill Clinton a er
the rescue mission to Belgrade.

Andrew Ramirez. The two agreed to
attend a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball
game together.
Before he left Belgrade, Jacobs metes
a Jew who said he had had survived
the Holocaust because he was saved by
businessman Oskar Schindler.
"`I wish at that time there had been
a Jackson or a rabbi who had interced-
ed for us with the Nazis as you have
done here,'" Jacobs recalled the sur-
vivor telling him. El
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