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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 21, 1986
Introducing
the Search for Excellence
Introducing
the Maimonides Scholarship
Program
We’re looking for Atlanta’s best
seventh grade students. And when we
find them, we’re going to offer them a
full one-year scholarship to a special
program at our high school.
A program of honors and AP courses
that starts with the eighth grade and
goes straight through graduation.
A program with special teachers who
will offer high-level classes designed to
produce scholars and exceptional
human beings.
A program that exposes students to
people and places of academic
achievement in both the Torah and
secular worlds.
A program filled with one of the best
curricular and extra-curricular
schedules you’ll ever find.
A program fully accredited by the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools, and recognized as
“exemplary” by the U.S. Department of
Education.
A program where good character is
stressed.
A program of excellence.
If your child has shown exceptional
achievement, he or she may qualify for
a Maimonides scholarship. And besides
tuition-free education, your child could
become part of one of the most
innovative and exciting programs
offered in Yeshiva high schools today.
For a scholarship application, clip the
coupon below.
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AIPAC, Cranston lead fight
against arms sale to Saudis
by Wolf Blitzer
The State Department says
there are no plans to cancel the
annual U.S.-Egyptian joint mili
tary maneuvers known as “Bright
Star.”
“Nothing has been canceled,”
spokesman Charles Redman told
reporters when asked whether the
most recent disturbances in Egypt
would have an impact on these mil
itary exercises.
But Redman refused to com
ment on a news report that Jor
dan’s King Hussein was on the
verge of canceling this year’s joint
U.S.-Jordanian maneuvers.
Syndicated columnists Rowland
Evans and Robert Novak had
reported from Amman, following
an interview with the king, that
Hussein was so upset by the admin
istration’s indefinite delay in con
cluding a new $1.9 billion arms sale
for Jordan that the exercises were
likely to be canceled. That arms
sale has been delayed because of
widespread congressional oppo
sition.
Administration officials are
planning to move ahead soon with
a new $300 million arms sale for
Saudi Arabia, including as many
as 1,700 Sidewinder, 800 Stinger
and 100 Harpoon missiles.
Many of Israel’s best friends in
Congress, led by Sen. Alan Cran
ston (D-Calif.), are planning to
fight that sale even though it
represents a scaled-down version
of the administration’s original
intention to include more F-15
fighter aircraft, M-l tanks, and
bomb racks and auxiliary fuel
tanks for the F-15 s.
The American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the
major pro-Israeli lobbying organi
zation in Washington, is making a
major push against the Saudi sale.
It was largely AIPAC s lobbying
which forced the White House to
back away from the Jordan arms
sale.
AIPAC, Cranston and others
are also promising to try to delay
the delivery of the first U.S.-made
AWACS surveillance aircraft to
Saudi Arabia, scheduled for this
summer, because of the kingdom s
lack of support for the peace
process.
In an interview in The New York
Times, Cranston said the Saudis
have been “actively and aggres
sively opposing United States
interests and policies in the Middle
East.” He said the Saudis paid
“hush money” to both the PLO
and Syria, which undercut U.S.
anti-terrorist policy.
Cranston also said the Saudis
had failed to support Hussein’s
peace efforts with Israel and con
tinued to snub Egypt because of its
peace treaty with Israel. In addi
tion, he charged that the Saudis
have been trying to impose sanc
tions on American firms doing
business with Israel.
President Reagan, as required
by last year’s foreign aid law as well
as in a 1981 letter to Congress, will
have to certify to Congress that
Saudi Arabia supports the peace
process before delivery of the
AWACS equipment can be com
pleted.
The State Department has said
Reagan was expected to issue the
certification. “We have made sig
nificant progress in meeting the
commitments set forth by the pres
ident in his Oct. 28, 1981 letter to
Sen. (Howard) Baker,” spokesman
Bernard Kalb said in a prepared
statement. “As the president
wrote, transfer of the AWACS will
take place only after the Congress
has received in writing a presiden
tial certification that the condi
tions enumerated in that letter
have been met. We fully expect all
the commitments to be met and the
AWACS to be delivered on
schedule.”
Deputy Defense Secretary Wil
liam Taft told reporters that the
administration strongly supported
new arms sales to both Saudi
Arabia and Jordan. Regarding
Jordan, however, he blamed Con
gress for the lack of a new weapons
transfer.
“We have attempted to gain the
congressional approval of the sale
of arms to Jordan,” he said. “And
essentially we’ve not been success
ful with that. It’s not a question so
much there of the policy of the
administration as what the Con
gress will agree to. I don’t think
there’s any question about our
position on that. We have simply
not been able to date to carry that
position in the Congress, which is
necessary to do. We will continue
to work with the people in Con
gress on that.”
Regarding the new weapons sale
to Saudi Arabia, administration
officials have pointed to the most
recent escalation of fighting be
tween Iran and Iraq. The Iranian
advances, they said, seem to pose a
new and more critical danger to
both Saudi Arabia as well as to
Kuwait.
Continued next page.
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