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of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations. "It's important
to take this preliminary step — but we
have every reason to believe that it is a
priority with this administration."
But other Jewish activists predicted
that the study would stretch out over
years. "You can bet they're consulting
with our allies in Saudi Arabia and the
other Gulf states," said an official with
another major Jewish group. "And you
can bet they're getting the same mes-
sage Clinton got: take this unilateral
s tep, and you're going to have all kinds
of complications."
museum and part of the congressional
delegation on the council, will return
as a council member.
Former Rep. William H. Gray III,
CEO of the United Negro College
Fund and an ordained Baptist minis-
ter, and Myron Cherry, a Chicago
lawyer and Democratic party activist,
were also named.
And Karen B. Winnick, a major phi-
lanthropist in Los Angeles who has pro-
duced a play about Kindertransport
children, will also join the council.
There were also a handful of renomi-
nations, including Harvey M. Meyerhoff
and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.
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Included in President Bill Clinton's
last-minute flurry of presidential
actions were 14 appointments to the
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council —
the panel that oversees the Holocaust
Museum on Washington's mall.
As usual, the appointees run the
gamut from Holocaust activists, politi-
cal appointees and what officials term
moral voices" who can give the muse-
um's core message new potency with
different audiences.
In the latter category is Dr. Maya
Angelou, the African American poet
who wrote and delivered a poem
marking Clinton's 1993 inauguration.
Angelou's appointment could raise
some Jewish eyebrows because of her
participation in the 1995 Million Man
March in Washington, organized by
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
But a leading Farrakhan critic said
that Angelou's participation did not ren-
der her unfit for the panel that oversees
the museum and its scholarly activities.
Angelou "has dealt with issues of
anguish and suffering and memory"
said Abraham Foxman, director of the
Anti-Defamation League. "Sure, I
wish she hadn't spoken at the
Farrakhan gathering — but it is a nice
appointment that is part of the effort
to expand the universality of the
museum's message."
Also named to the council were
Edgar M. Bronfman, who chaired the
Presidential Advisory Commission on
Holocaust Assets in the United States.
Bronfman is the president of the
World Jewish Congress.
Stuart E. Eizenstat, until last week
the deputy secretary of the Treasury
and the Clinton administration's special
representative for Holocaust restitution
issues, was also named to the council.
Eizenstat, as domestic policy adviser to
President Jimmy Carter, was.instru-
mental in the creation of the museum.
Former Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-
N.J.), a longtime supporter of the
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For Pollard
New York/JTA
With a presidential pardon denied,
Jonathan Pollard's best chance for
freedom after 15 years behind bars
is once again through the court sys
tern, according to advocates for the
convicted spy.
Pollard's new attorneys are
expected to push to set aside the
guilty verdict and hold a new trial.
Pollard, a U.S. Navy intelligence
analyst, was sentenced in 1987 to
life in prison for spying for Israel.
He pleaded guilty to one count of
passing along classified information,
albeit to an American ally.
Pollard supporters had hoped that
President Clinton, who came close to
releasing Pollard as part of an
American-brokered Mideast peace deal
in October 1998, would include him
among his final presidential pardons.
It is widely believed that Clinton
was swayed by the intelligence com-
munity's opposition to freeing
Pollard, and the new administration
of George W Bush is expected to be
even more beholden to the defense
establishment,
Clinton also did not pardon
Michael Milken, the convicted junk
bond king who is a major contribu-
tor to Jewish day schools in
California. He did, however pardon.
four New York men convicted of
fraud and embezzlement in a scheme
to use federal money to finance a fic-
titious yeshiva. He also pardoned
Marc Rich, a major benefactor to
Israeli museums who fled the United
States to evade alleged racketeering
and tax evasion charges.
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