Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Celebrating Shavuot A youngster at Tel-Yosef Kibbutz symbolically gathers the first harvest from the fields during Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks). Arms, Israel spotlight Hussein, Reagan talk by Joseph Polakoff TSI’s Washington correspondent WASHINGTON —Jordan’s King Hussein’s hour-long discus sion at the White House June 9 with President Reagan and his chief aides appeared to produce a prelude to a renewal of efforts by the administration to deliver wea pons to his country but no percep tible movement toward peace talks with Israel. Reagan “reaffirmed” his Sept. 1, 1982 initiative as “the basis of our policy for peace in the region” said a senior administration official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity. Its basic position calls for a federation of the West Bank and Gaza with Jordan. Hussein, the official said, made “a number of suggestions” for re activating the momentum toward bringing about peace talks with Israel. “The way it was left, we will study them and be in very close touch” with Hussein, the official said. He did not describe Hussein’s suggestions in any way. Asked whether Hussein would enter talks without the Palestine Liberation Organization, the offi cial said, “The king never felt he could go alone” and that “funda mental” to his efforts was how to get) Palestinians to the peace table. “These are questions we are still pursuing,” he said, noting the issue was “wrestled with” throughout 1985, “in connection with the ‘con struct’ of an international con ference.” The official said he was “not going into specifics” when asked if the PLO does not represent the Palestinians, who would? Earlier, he said, “hopes for progress” in 1985 were not realized because the effort “foundered on the PLO’s inability to meet the king’s chal lenge on how to move forward for the sake of peace in the interests of the Palestinian people which they claim to represent. While that par ticular road seemed closed, we and Jordan remain committed to peace in the region.” Yasir Arafat, the PLO’s chief, rejected the U.S. offer, relayed to him in February by Hussein, that it would provide a place at the peace table for the PLO if it declared in advance that it recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace, accepted U.N. Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and renounce terror ism. With overwhelming majorities in both branches of Congress having insisted that Hussein must nego tiate with Israel about peace before arms are supplied, the White House earlier this year withdrew its prop osal to provide $1,900 million in advanced weaponry to Jordan. However, official praise at the White House briefing for Hussein as a “trusted friend” and Jordan’s growing importance as a “moder ate Arab state” evoked possibilities that the president, encouraged by blocking congressional antagonism against selling U.S. missiles to Saudi Arabia, may try again. “President Reagan reaffirmed to the king that (he knows) the king is concerned for the security and prosperity of Jordan,” the official said. While emphasizing that “nothing specific was discussed on arms,” he added “our position remains what it was.” Hussein, who was last in Wash- See Hussein, page 24. Southern Israelite The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry 'Since 1925' Vol. LXfl Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, June 13, 1986 No. 24 Israel recalls ambassado in wake of Waldheim wii by Yaacov Ben Yosef Special to The Southern Israelite JERUSALEM — Israel has reacted demonstratively to the election of Kurt Waldheim as pres ident of Austria, recalling its ambassador in Vienna for consul tations and dropping hints that it might replace him permanently with charge d’affaires. Expressing “regret and dis appointment” over Waldheim’s election, Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman announced Monday that Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir had decided to recall Israeli Ambassador to Austria Michael Elizur. “Though the results did not come as a surprise, until the last moment Israel hoped that reason would prevail among the Austrian peo ple,” said the spokesman, “and that the election of a man with a past like Waldheim’s as president would be prevented.” Waldheim’s election puts Israel, along with the rest of the world Jewish community in a dilemma: whether to continue the probe of his alleged Nazi past or to reduce that effort now that he has become the head of state. Though it is early to say with certainty, first indications are that Israel will push for a full investiga tion of Waldheim’s past despite the election. Justice Minister Yitzhak Modai, in New York for a visit, was forced to backtrack on allegations he made against Waldheim last week after it became clear that Modai’s asser tion that Israel had proof that Waldheim had beaten a Jew to death was based merely on Israeli news reports. Some Israelis expressed annoy ance at President Chaim Herzog for taking a mild position toward Waldheim’s election: the president argued that Israel should take care not to disrupt prospects of bring ing in Soviet Jews to Israel via Austria. Herzog did refrain from sending Waldheim a congratulatory note upon his election, a customary procedure that may still take place on July 8 when the new president is sworn in. Meanwhile, Israel sought to put an end to the Jonathan Pollard spy affair by reassuring the United States that such espionage was over. In an announcement read out Yaacov Ben Yosef to the Cabinet Sunday by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the gov ernment declared that “there are no spying activities being carried out by Israel against the United States.” American press reports last week alleged that Pollard and his wife who had been charged with spying for Israel, were only the tip of the iceberg of a larger Israeli espionage network against the United States. Some American officials have charged Israel with holding back in its promised cooperation in the Pollard case, but the government on Sunday insisted that it had cooperated to the hilt. The annual meeting of the At lanta Jewish Federation will be held at the Academy of Medicine, 875 W. Peachtree Street, Thurs day, June 19, at 7:30 p.m. “I’d like to encourage everyone in the community to circle this date on their calendars, and make plans to attend,” said Phyllis Freedman, chairman of the event. “We have an enjoyable and informative even ing planned.” On the agenda is the report of the Federation’s nominating committee, a final 1986 campaign report, a presentation of the “State of the Federation,” and amend ments to the Federation by-laws. The evening will also serve as a forum to honor Gerald Cohen, who will be completing two years as president of the Atlanta Jewish Federation. While American Jewish leaders visiting Israel this week insisted that there had been no setback to American-Israeli relations, Israeli news reports mentioned that Israel might lose $400 million in prom ised aid and that a planned visit to the U.S. by Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Levy might be canceled. Finally, the new attorney-general, Yosef Harish, is expected to reach a decision by the end of the next week on how to handle the affair relating to the head of the General Security Service. Harish has been holding discussions with the main actors in the affair: he apparently will decide to push for a police investigation, as his predecessor Yitzhak Zamir wanted, or urge the appointment of a judicial com mission. Zamir alleged that the head of the General Security Service, Avraham Shalom, was engaged in a cover-up over his alleged role in the deaths of two Arab terrorists immediately following a bus hi jacking in April 1984. Both Peres and Shamir at one point argued against such a probe; Peres has subsequently come out in favor of one, though Shamir remains ad amantly against pursuing the in vestigation. Gerald Cohen For more information about the annual meeting, call Jane Leavey at 873-1661. Federation to wrap up year at June 19 annual meeting CNF I SI I ImE C p ^ NElf-SFApEh’ PPuJFCT vain liewaky,ula AThE-NC CA 30o0P