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by Hugh Orgel
The Southern 1
Israelite
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
'Since 1925'
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Senators vow conti nuec
opposition to arms sak
by Joseph Polakoff
TSI’s Washington correspondent
Conference chairman Harriet Zimmerman of Atlanta with Sen. Ted
Kennedy.
TEL AVIV (JTA)— Pedro Lopez
Aguirre de Goa, the first ambassa
dor of Spain to Israel, arrived here
Sunday and will present his cre
dentials to President Chaim Her
zog next Monday. Spain and Israel
established diplomatic relations in
January and the first Israeli envoy,
Shmuel Hadass, has already taken
up his post in Madrid.
In remarks to reporters, Lopez
Aguirre stressed that his country’s
diplomatic recognition of the Pales
tine Liberation Organization would
in no way affect its relations with
Israel. He noted that the PLO has
had an office in Madrid for some
years and raising it to embassy sta
tus did not herald any new develop
ments.
He said he hoped Spain would
be able to help advance the peace
process in the Middle East and
suggested that Israel and Spain are
not rivals but friendly competitors
WASHINGTON Vice Presi
dent George Bush's statement to
Saudi Arabians in Riyadh to let
the free market work on oil output
and prices was criticized at the
American-Israel Public Affairs Com
mittee’s annual conference by a
Texas official.
Mack Wallace, commissioner of
railroads, whose office deals with
the petroleum industry, said that
“there can be no free market in a
strategic commodity” like oil. “We
must convince Congress not to be
on the Arab yo-yo,” he said. “I was
cooked in the crucible of the Arab
oil embargo in 1973-74. 1 don’t
want you to re-live it. If you do, 1
want you to remember I told you
about this today.”
in the sale of citrus and other agri
cultural products to the European
Common Market of which Spain
became a member on Jan. 1. “We
don’t compete because we are en
emies but because we produce more
or less the same things for the same
clients,” he said.
The 49-year-old envoy is no
stranger to Israel. He lived in Jer
usalem from 1952-1956 when his
father was the Spanish consul gen
eral there. He was Spanish ambas
sador to Greece before being posted
to Israel and, prior to his Greek
service he headed the Foreign Min
istry’s Asian and African Affairs
Department in Madrid. He is a
native of San Sebastian in the
Basque region, is married and the
father of two children.
Lopez Aguirre is probably the
first ambassador to arrive in Israel
by sea. He landed at Haifa from a
Greek car ferry which transported
his car from Athens. He said his
family will join him shortly.
Wallace pointed to a report in
the current Forbes magazine, the
prestigious business publication,
that he said has observed that
Saudi Arabia netted $52 million a
day when it was selling two million
barrels of oil at $26 a barrel. With
the sale of four and a half million
barrels at around $17 a barrel its
net was $75 million daily. Saudi oil
industry director “Sheik Yamani
may be grounded but the Saudi
treasury is not hurting," Wallace
said.
Urging AlPAC’ssupport forCon-
gress to enact a tax on imported
oil, Wallace pointed out that most
of the world’s oil is in the Arab
countries and Africa where labor
works for sub-standard wages and
in the Soviet Union that uses slave
labor.
WASHINGTON—Sens. Ted
Kennedy (D-Mass.) and John Heinz
(R-Pa.) will continue to oppose the
administration’s intended sale of
missiles to Saudi Arabia although
the American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee has disclosed Jewish
communal “consensus” not to
fight the administration proposal
and has itself decided to forgo
opposition.
Kennedy and Heinz told of
their continued opposition to the
$354 million deal for a variety of
missiles in addressing the commit
tee’s banquet that climaxed the
27th annual policy conference.
^ Their remarks in support of Is
rael’s security and criticism of
Saudi Arabian continued backing
of the Palestine Liberation Organ
ization while declining to help
bring about an Arab-lsraeli peace
received a burst of applause from
the delegates.
Kennedy and Heinz led the mobil
ization of 74 senators against the
sale of weapons to Jordan that
caused the administration to with
draw its proposal. They also are
among the foremost opponents of
the Saudi sale which Sen. Alan
Cranston (D-Calif.) has said num
bers a majority in the Senate al
though perhaps not a veto-proof
opposition.
Noting his criticism of the Jor
dan sale, Kennedy said about the
Saudi proposal, “I intend to do all
I can to defeat that sale, too. Bush
should have gone to the Middle
East to raise peace with Israel and
not to raise the price of oil.” This
hugely-applauded statement was a
reference to Vice President George
Bush's visit to Saudi Arabia and
three other Arab states.
Kennedy also said it is “time for
Jordan to negotiate with Israel.”
adding that “the history of the 20th
century is soaked with Jewish blood
and watered with Jewish tears.”
Heinz, chairman of the Republi
cans’ Senate Campaign Commit
tee, said, “Saudi Arabia has fallen
short of expectations and has not
followed Egypt in reaching peace
with Israel. For years we have
counted on the Saudis,” Heinz
said. “We’ve been disappointed.”
The four principles of “our Middle
East policy," he said, "are: close
relationship with Israel as a stra
tegic imperative; no negotiations
with terrorists and murderers the
PLO or whomever they might be
have to accept (U.N. Security
Council resolutions) 242 and 338
before negotiations begin; direct
negotiations between Arab states
and Israel; and we can’t buy peace
with arms sales.”
After listing the four principles,
Heinz said, “Israel’s struggle is
America’s struggle,” and “we speak
with unity.”
Harriet Zimmerman of Atlanta,
who was the policy conference chair,
introduced Kennedy.
At a luncheon program Rep.
Mickey Leland (D-Texas), chair
man of the Congressional Black
Caucus for a second year, said that
the 20-member group with one
possible exception is united in
strong support for Israel. Thank
ing his audience for helping black
Ethiopians go to Israel, Leland
said, “Before that many black peo
ple said that Jews in Israel are
racist. They only help other Jews in
Russia. But now they have nothing
to say because the people of Ethio
pia are even blacker than our
selves."
Speaking of Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan, Leland,
who wore a button that said, “A-
notherZionist Against Apartheid,”
said, “We cannot be responsible
for Mr. Farrakhan any more than
you can be responsible for Rabbi
Kahane. But some of us have raised
our voices in opposition to Far-
rahkhan. including myself here in
Washington.”
Making a miracle happen
Gerald Horow itz, general chairman of the 1986 Atlanta Jew ish Federation Campaign, proudlv shows
off the total for the largest peacetime campaign in Atlanta's historv. An additional $225,000 was
contributed for Project Renewal. At a celebration on Thursday evening, April 3, Horowitz said. “None of
us could get the job done without all of us doing it together."
Texan criticizes Bush
for oil market remarks
by Joseph Polakoff
I Si's Washington correspondent
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