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Spanish ambassador will meet with Herzog by Hugh Orgel The Southern 1 Israelite The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry 'Since 1925' ^^^^Vol^Xn^^^^__^_4t|anta^Georgia^Frid a >s April 11, 1986 No. 15 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 C_ c r“ - "“■C o M A I