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Friday; Sopt. 4, 1970
WASHINGTON PROFILE .... By Judith Axler
Steve Sklar—Works For Israel
Civic Activist, Legislator
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Steve Sklar is doing what he
wants to do, but he doesn’t have
time to get married.
However, he is impossible to
comprehend unless you divide
him into three people.
The first Steve Sklar is the
administrative assistant to I. L.
Kenen of the American Israel
Public Affairs Comm i 11 e e
(AIPAC). Sklar started work on
this job in June, after waiting a
whole year for the chance.
AIPAC is a traditional lobby
ing group, working the two-way
street between power and in
fluence.. AIPAC provides Sena
tors, Representatives and ' diplo
mats with the information they
need to make decisions and
answer questions on Israel. It
also carries Israel’s case — and
the case of Jews interested in
Israel—to Congress and to the
State Department.
.. Sklar decided he wanted to
be part of this after a seven-
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week trip to Israel in the Ram
mer of 1969, when he really saw
the country in depth. “One day
I was wearing sneakers, shorts
and a t-shirt hitching in the
Negev, the next day I was in
the Foreign Ministry in a salt
and tie talking with the offic
ials.”
After that trip he was full of
ideas on how the Jews in Amer-'
ica could support Israel more ef
fectively. “I thought there
should be someone to focus this
great potential, and make the
views known, on our govern
ment.” .
A friend in Baltimore, Sklar’s
home town, suggested he look
Kenen up. “What Kenen is doing
is exactly what I, individually,
concluded from my observa
tions,” Sklar <said. ,
Last year Sklar offered his
services- as a volunteer. This
year he is a full-time staff mem
ber, doing what he thinks should
be done for Israel. “Kenen is a
real pro. I’m really learning a
lot working with him,” he said.
The second Steve Sklar is the
legal beagle. He is a trial lawyer
who worked his way through
law school, clerking for a crim
inal court judge, and is the Fifth
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BRUSSELS (JTA) — The
Austrian government agreed to
extradite Belgium Nazi Julien
Van Dooren it was announced
here. In 1947, Van Dooren had
been tried in absentia by a Bel
gium court and sentenced to
death for his activities during
the war. He had lived in hiding
in Austria from 1947 until his
arrest by Austrian police in 1968.
Van Dooren had fought extra
dition, claiming to be a political
refugee, but Austrian courts
have declared him to be just an
ordinary criminal.
Lebanon Chief
On Terrorists
LONDON (JTA) — Lebanon’s
newly elected president, Sulei
man Franjieh, believes that the
Palestinian Arabs have the right
to “liberate their homeland,”
but not if their activities jeopar
dize Lebanon’s safety by invit
ing Israeli retaliation. To empha
size this belief, he last year
organized his own private army
of 700 or 800 men for use if, the
commandos “got out of hand.”
Mr. Franjieh, a Maronite Chris
tian in a land where tradition
ally all presidents are Christian,
was serving as Minister of Jus
tice and Economy before his
election. He is regarded as being
generally favorable to the west
and is expected to continue
Lebanon’s present policy of per
mitting the Palestinian terrorists
to camp in the country’s south
eastern border areas and to cross
into Israel to mount guerrilla
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District representative to the
Maryland House of Delegates.
Sklar is facing his first election
this fall. He was appointed to
his seat by Maryland Governor
Marvin Mandel who vacated it
to take over for Spiro, Agnew.
In his first session in 1969,
Sklar drafted and introduced
landmark drug legislation that
~ made drug usage as much an
illness as a crime. It defined the
use of abusive drugs as a con
tagious social illness.
His bill was so widely herald
ed that the Mandel administra
tion co-sponsored it, and it pass
ed without a dissenting vote m
either House. It was written up
in national magazines and dis
cussed on national television.
The bill provides money and
programs for education and i
treatment. )
After the first legislative ses
sion Sklar visited every prison
In Maryland to talk with ad
dicts and former addicts to get
their ideas on what could be
done farther. In his second ses
sion he tightened ap the act.
He also introduced a constitu
tional amendment that would
guarantee each Maryland citi
zen the right to a clean en
vironment. He had 104 co
sponsors for the bill but it lost
by 10 votes because it was
amended in committee to gua
rantee just clean air and clean
water, not clean land. “I don’t
mind, because once you get your
foot in the door, it’s easy, but
it was such a new idea that no
one knew what it should really
have, so they voted against it,”
Sklar said. The amendment,
however, was included in a na
tional list of model legislation,
and Sklar feels it will eventual
ly be in the constitution. “What’s
the. good of free speech if you
can’t breathe” he argues.
The third Steve Sklar is a
civic activist. As long ago as
college Sklar devoted time to
volunteer organizations.
In college it was the Associ
ation for the International Ex
change of Students in Econom
ics and Commerce (AIESEC), an
organization of business students
in 80 countries who arrange
summer traineeships for one
another. Each area, is allowed
to send as many students abroad
as it finds jobs for at home.
The qualifications for jobs
abroad are vigorous. Not only
must a student be professionally
qualified, he must be diplomatic
enough to act in a semi-ambas
sadorial position.
* Sklar went to Denmark to
work for the phone company •
one summer, and to Sweden to
do marketing research analysis
for Esso OU the next. “I was
the United States wherever 1
went,” he said.
He was later an organizer of
small business solicitation for
the American Cancer Society,
and then turned his interest to
Israel and set up Sherut Laam,
volunteers for Israel, an Amer-
ican-Israeli Peace Corps.
He also worked as a staff
member of the Greater Balti
more Committee, a group of in
dustrialists dedicated to urban
development.
Steve Sklar’s three sides are
each enough for one person.
Maybe it’s being 27 that enables
him to do all three. At any rate,
it’s no wonder that he has no
time to get married.
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