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AMSTERDAM (JTA) As experts began investi-
gating last week's crash of an El Al cargo jet outside Amsterdam, Israeli leaders extended condOlences to their Dutch counterparts for the fatalities in the Netherlands' worst air disaster.
Dutch o;fficials were :esti-mating'that sonie 250 peOjjle may have been killed in the crash, El Al's first since
In contrast to the ex-
pected numbers of fatalities, there were relatively few wounded, and most were sent home after treatment.
Two Israeli investigating teams began work last week: one a transport ministry inquiry board, headed by former air force commander Amos Lapidot, arid the other an El Al team, headed by the airline's deputy director-general for operations.
They were joined by mem-
bers of three other investigating bodies: an official Dutch transport ministry group and teams from the Boeing Commercial Air-pline Group in Seattle, manufacturers of the plane's body, and the Pratt and Whitney engine corporation, iiianufacturers of the jet engines.
Experts here said it would take:. at least three months before th^y would have a re-
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ISRAELI-SVRMN SUmmiT HINTED
By DAVID LANDAU
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Continued Israeli speculation aboiit an Israeli-Syriari summit meeting accompanied a recent shuttle visit to the capitals of Syria, Egypt and Israel by French foreign minister Roland Dumas.
Dumas met separately with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and foreign minister Shimon Peres during a half-day visit to Jerusalem. He flew in from Cairo after a meeting in Damascus with Syrian president Hafez Assad.
Peres had just returned from Brussels, where he was quoted as saying that a summit meeting is now inevitable, "because there is no alternative."
"My impression is that we are now in a waiting room. We have to go to a higher stage and organize a high-level Israeli-Syrian meeting," he told journalists in the Belgian capital.
'Face^to-face encounters often end back to back," Peres said. "But the only way to achieve peace is a meeting between those who are taking the decisions.''
Here in Jerusalem, the French foreign minister refused to speculate about the prospects of a high-level meeting between Israel and Syria.
United Nations General Assembly's opening session.
According to a report in the Israeli newspaper Hada^ shot, which was denied by Peres' aides, the meeting fell through after Rabin made a public statement pooh-poohing a previous trip Dumas had made to Damascus after meeting in Paris with Peres.
Hadashot said Rabin's remark had caused the Syrians to believe Israel did not want the meeting, even though it had been approved by Assad.
Rabin told Labor Party
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touched down at Ben-Gurion Airport, there were reports that Dumas had been involved in an effort to arrange a face-to-face meeting in New York between Peres and his Syrian coiin-terpart, Farouk al-Sharaa. The two foreign ministers were there attending the
summit meeting could only come after substantive gaps between the two countries had been narrowed.
Syrian officials have also brushed aside the idea of a Sha r a a - P eres or Ass ad-Rabin meeting at this time. Sharaa himself said that; such  a meeting would
"undermine" the bilateral peace talks in Washington, which are due to resume Wednesday (Oct. 21).
But according to the Israeli daiily Ma'dhv, Syria has, in fact, indicated its willingness to hold a summit oh condition that Israel agree to evacuate all of the Golan Heights eventually.
A message by Damascus that it is willing to establish full peace with Israel in return for a full Israeli withdrawal from the northern plateau was conveyed by the foreign minister of Syria to his Israeli c o u n t e r pa r t through the agency of the foreign minister Of a Western European state, the report said.
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Disaffected and isolationist American voters run the risk of sending a dictator to the White House next month, warns a prominent Jewish leader.
"The most dangerous symptom of the change in the American political process is the candidacy of a Ross Perot," Malcolm Hoenlein told an audience of 250 people at Temple Sholom.
Hoenlein, executive director of the Conference of Presidents of Americkn Jewish Organizations — an umbrella body for nearly 50 groups — was guest speaker at the Sept. 22 kickoff for this year's Combined Jewish Appeal campaign, conducted by the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver. The 1992 campaign has a $5 million goal.
Growing intolerance among Americans "leaves a void that is a licence for petty dictators to believe that they can get away with anything," Hbenleiii said in an emotional plea for Jews to get involved ih the political process;
Perot — now back in the race fOr the November presi-dehtiai election — isn't necessarily a despot, Hoenlein emphasized. But the Texas billionaire's independent candidacy disturbs hini more than did ex-Klan leader David Puke and former Reagan speechwriter Pat Buchanan's unsuccessful attempts at the Republican nomination this
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"The man could be a fascist or a demagogue or a great guy. Five million Americans signed petitions — some of the most intelUgent American Jews announced support -for a man about whom they know nothing!" the executive director exclaimedr- /
"Good people are willing to look to anyone for an. answer," he continued, "When we look backin our history, we know the price we have paid when people sought those
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Continuing with historical parallels, Hoenlein compared conflicts in the fornier Yugoslavia and Soviet Union with the Second World War: ■
"In Bosnia, 1.2 million people have been made homeless, tens of thousands murdered, concentration camps established and the best we can do is send.Band-Aids," the
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HOENLEIN: "Most [Cohgressmen] think the West Bank is a financial institution!"