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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. VE/HIVA ^HIGK/CHOOLss MEM OF ATLANTA, Georgia 30309 1745 Peachtree Rd, N.E., 404/873-1492 Rabbi Herbert J. Cohen, Ph.D. DEAN I think I might qualify for a Maimonides scholarship. Please send me an application. Student’s name Address City State Zip Tel School now attending 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. Sleep Late On Sunday. There’s no need to rush — the Sheraton Brunch is waiting for you. The coffee is hot, the food is delicious, and the hour is civilized. The nicest Sundays start with brunch at Monty’s in the Sheraton Century Center Hotel. 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