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progress toward a Middle Eastern settlement. WheniL became obvious that King Hussein could not wring vital concessions out of Arafat, the White House acted to preempt a certain Senate motion to kill the arms bin altogether:
The latest peace process' was embroiled in healed controversy from the outset,
Israel and Jordian never agreed oh which Palestinian representatives should be included 'in a joint Jordanian-Palestiniari delegation that. would have , negotiated with Israel..
Israel insisted on Palestinians not affiliated with the PLQ, though Peres always said he would not check their credentials. Jordan, together with Egypt (which wais. also a key player), maintained that the PLO could not be excluded. .
The other sticking point ~v/as procedural as well. Israel — and the U;S.W ~ wanted direct Arab-Israeli --talks under the auspices of an international conference. But Israel said it" would not accept Soviet participation   . utiless Moscow   reestabl ished diplomatic relations with it;
Jordan preferred indirect negotiations under an international umbrella.: It nicxli-fied its policy under the pressure of events, but did. not hack down from its be-; JiefthatthePLQhad tobe part of any settlement.
Three additional factors probably contributed to the impasse. The hybrid Israeli unity government was torn by the conflicting policies of its partners. Labor and Likud. Arafat, knowing his leaidership is hotly contested by more radical Palestinians and Syria
and Libya, could not breakaway from the de-biiitating consensus polir cy he practices. Jordan lacked the will to move without the PLO.
King Hussein feared he would be deposed or assassinated if he followed in the fotitsteps of An war Sadat.
King Hussein may have been inhibited by Syria, whicb was agaiiist his 1985 accord with Arafat and his flirtation with step-by-step diplomacy.
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nomv; Shultz told the corii-mittee. Half of the emergency aid was turned over to Israel last fall, while the other. half is to be disburs-ed during this year.
The administration lingered oyer Israel's request for the supplemental aid for months last spring, maintaining that insufficient pn.1-gress had been made in stabilizing the Israeli economy to warrant additional fiinds. Shultz, in particular, continued to press for tighter budgetary control, a curb on the printing of new money and other reforms.
At the last moment,.the administration requested the aid from Congress, which had already prepared to award Israel the money on its own initiative. The administration's budget for 1987 includes $1,2 billion:
in.economic aid and $1.8 billion in . military a.ssisiance — the ' same aiiuuinl approved by C(in-: gress .for this fiscal.>car.
While praising Israel for its adoption of a tight austerity program that has. resulted in substantial wage erosion and layoffs, Shiiltz maintained that further measures were needed,
"Notwithstanding the cohsiderabie progress made so far, Israel's stabilization program remains fragile," Shultz told the cbminittee. He pointed, in particular, to "excessive government spendinjg," which; he said, the new Israeli budget "moves in the right direction'' to cor-
He also warned against future w^e increases and called for a linkage of pay raises to increase in labor productivity.
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Shiite militia and political organization.'
The two. soldiers were seized after.their .convo\ . was'ambushed in the . Lebanese border' security zone by a group calling itself the Islamic Resistance Movement. It is believed to be a front for Hczbullah. They were identified by the IDF as Yossi Fink of Raanona, and Rahamin AI sjieich, of Rosh Haay in, both 20 and both yeshiva students doing their military service.
Their captors announced that one of the two had been "executed" because Israel ignored an ultimatum to pull the IDF oiit.of south Lebanon. There was no
evidence to conTiriii this. The whereabtmts of the men remains unknown.
The IDF suffered two fatalities in the course of the search operation. A 19-year-old soldier, Sgt. Alori Ben-Shahar of Jertisalem, was killed ythen Shiite gunmen attacked his unit with . bazooka and niachinegun fire from an ambush near Sreifa village outside the border security ione. Eight of the attackers were killed in the hour-long skirmish.
On the day the search began, Dsaniel Amar of Netanya, a 19-year-old navy man, was killed by a sniper who flred-at his patrol hijat from a Lebanese beach near ,Tyre.'„ ; ■;
Jordan and Syria, which were not on speaking terms until their recent rapprochement, may now deepen their tentative relationship. If this in fact occurs, it will be all the harder for Israel and Jordan to achieve a modus yivendl..
With the peace process at a standstill, Peres most probably will not be able to forestall the automatic ■ takeover of the Israeli government by Vice Pre-
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WASHINGTON (JTA)^
The y.S. state department's, annual report on human rights around the world contains data on the condition of Jevv.s in the Arab world.
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had sought.
.Greeri was eating at Re-ty's restaurant in 1982 when he heard the owner argue with a patron who had complained that the veal chops were too tough. Greeiti wrote to chide the restaurant for Its poor taste.
, Rety, upset with the let-tei", telephoned Greeri.
Green testified that Re-ty cursed him. Rety denied making any ethnic slurs and said he mentioned Green !s background only once.
Rety testified: "He said 1 was a 'crazy Frenchman.' I told him, "I may be a crazy Fren-chmari. I don't know if yoa're a crazy Italian, a crazy German or a crazy Jew, but you're crazier th^n me.*'"
After the call, Green wrote a second letter to Rety, on h'ls company's stationery.
Green, then vice-president of Temple Israel of Greater Miami and an active member of the Greater Miami Jewish iFederation, des-cribed the chef as ">iblent, anti-semitfc" in the letter.
"It is quite obvious you hate Jews and don't care to do business with them, so I am going to try my darndest to help you out," s^id the letter, which soon was on bulletin boards at Jewish-owned condbminiums in Dade and Broward counties.
Rety said that he was kicked out of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, that dozens of groups that held liiri^ cheoiis at his reataiirant cancelled and that he received threatening telephone calls and bomb threatSvHe started losing money and eventualiy wound up in bankruptcy, he told jurors^
• On Syria's 3,000-4,000 Jews the report said they are free to practice their religion and their general situation "has improved in recent years, despite continuous uncertainty oyer the community's future" and they enjoy ' 'a relatively good standard of living, access to higher.education, and entrance into the professions."
But "Jews are subject to restrictions on foreign travel, however, and, unlike other Syrian com-munal groups, the passports and identity cards of Jewish citizens contain a notation that the holder is Jewish," the report adds.
•. In Iraq, where the Jewish community how numbers only about 400. the report finds "there is no evidence of recent persecution. In 1985, a Western journalist visited the lalst known synagogue ih Baghdad and confirmed that it is still funcuoning. ;
• In Morocco, some 10,000 Jews operate schools and institutions as well as . 20 : major synagogues and have the support of the king; Unlike the situation, in other Arab countries, Moroccan Jews are allowed to maintain close ties to J[ews elsewhere, including Israel.
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mier and Foreign Minister Yitzhak.Shamir in the au-tumn,
Peres might have called new elections and dissolved the government if chances for a settlement were tangible. But with prospects for an early Arab-Israeli: pact having dissolved for the. time being, Peres hais bcJen robbed of ii pretext to continue as premier after his term Of office expires.
Virtually ail observers agree that a government led by Shamir, a hardr^ liner par excellence, will hot be prepared to make the territorial compromises that Peres ap-
peared comriiitted to.
The game, howeiverv may not be up.
According to Israeli Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin, King Hussein's TV address is "an opening to peace" Rabin, in common with his Labor colleagues, believes that now is the time for the li3 million Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip "to free themselves of the PLO" and enter into negotiations with Israel. ;
Echoing the same theme, Peres called on the Palestinians there "to seize the moment" and sit down and
talk with Israel. Peres really unveiled this line of. thought earlier this month - when he offered to give the Palestinimis limited autonomy-in home affairs.
Analysts do hot think the Palestinians will nibble on the bait. Virtually every West Bank-Gaza Palestinian leader until now has contemptuously rejected such ideas. Indeed, the Camp David autonomy talks collapsed soon aftier they began in 1979 precisely becauise the Palestinians were not interested in anything less than unfettered self-determination.
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