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Vol. LXIX No. 49 Omaha 8 Av, 5752 Friday, Aug. 7,1992
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Peace process at risk if Baker leaves State
-' ithia Mann tion, many doubt he will slowed pace, and that States Newa Service be able to take on what they will continue to WASHINGTON (JTA) has become Baker's per- reflect Baker's distinct — The anticipated depar- sonal mission to bring imprint.. It is all but certain ture of Secretary of State peace to the conflictrridBaker will give up his James Baker from his dled region. post leaves a. cloud of Perhaps the only con- portfolio sometime after uncertainty hanging over sensus on the impact of next week's visit by the immediate fate of the the change is that it will Israeli Prime Minister be disruptive to the peace Yitzhak Rabin and will Middle East peace talks. While analysts predict process. But several move to the White House Deputy Secretary of State experts believe the peace so he can help .the presiLawrence Eagjeburger talks will stay on their dent put his floundering will assume Baker's posi- current course, albeit at a re-election campaign on :—-W^r:
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track. • Of courte, the timing of the shift is almogt painfully ironic. Following the Israeli election of a more flexible leader in Rabin, the Arab-Israeli peace ^ talks appear uniquely ripe to bear fruit and testify to George Bush's foreign policy acumen. But at the same moment the man most responsible for cultivating them is poised to leave the Held and the. fate of the talks in doubt The uncertaintyBaker's move injects into the peace process was illustrated in the response he found on his trip to the region last month. In the Arab capitals,' in particular, he'and his entourage were peppered with anxious questions about his plans and. suggestions that meaningful action would be suspended. Baker sought to quell the anxiety, denying any change was imminent But most observers agree that the 'secretary's shift will disrupt the process and some say it could hurt the president . 'Baker's leaving will cause an enormous vacuum in the process,"'said Stuart Eixenstat, a policy adviser for the Carter
administration. "There will be a severe interruption at a tiine when Israel wants to move rapidly. Baker's credibility with the Arabs has been developed and can't be built (by a successor; overnight." Eizenstat said it proves the president's political desperation. "George Bush said he would do anything to get re- elected. That evidently includes imperiling the peace process'just when the parties are ready to move. It's a travesty and a tragedy," he said. . Some, however, believe Baker is so loath to relinquish his role as peace broker he will manage to ke«p a hand in it, even if he caiuiot travel far from the embattled Oval Office. As evidence, they point to the fact that the next round of talks in late August Vvill be in Washington, rather than Rome, as had been initially planned. "This is one area of foreign policy where he will be miss^," said Robert Hunter, vice president for regional programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But ail signs indicate Baker will not give up his
negotiating role, said. Hunter, though ''wearing two hats will be a problem and (eventually may become) an intolerable role." "Baker has invested a lot in the process and illustrates what can be done with personal intervention at the highest level," said Robert Satloff. deputy director of tin Washington Institute fui Near East Policy. "He has proven his abil ity to twist arms vel vetly." Satloff also doesn'i believe Baker will depart the scene. "I don't believe Raker could divorce himself from the process, he said "Jf Baker were to drop out, there would he a loaa of momentupi," sai'i Alfred Moses, presidtiii of the American Jewish Committee. "No one else can carry the freight quite like he can. He is in a unique position because both sides know he speaks for the pTwdant" Moasa said with Baker occupied with presidential re-election politics and unable to travel, the talks, would continue but at a slower pace than they would otherwise
Iran, Syria, Libya amassing huge arsenals By TUB Tuffend LOS ANGELES iJTAi — iran, Syria and Libya are amassing large arsenals of fhwnifal i««apans and are detannined to obtain or pndnca nudsar artas and tha Bfiisaflsa to dcUvtr them to distant taivsts by tha end of this decade. Tbcsa daims ara contained in a nport by tha Simon WWManthal Canter. Tha 140-paga raport, "Wcavoas of Mass Osstructian: llil Casaa of Im, Syria, and Libjra,'also aaa«t» that, in a raittay of tba rtaadntina faiM^ tuiUap of toioanvantknal waapcsia, tiw thiweoualriss hafmhma§^ ting mucb «f thair taduMlagy aad aquipaiaat from Weatam natioas. China aAd Nortb Kara* ara now aofiac into tlia Uad a* tha oMin supfban, I WUh 10 kffi aad tmAj Ustift I oa to ««• soil, tha nyart Mlaa, Im will ba iif •uafcitiiiim liirlrnr irnr ^"^'' ' T— >ifiJlfciii!p I iiliiliiawitdt Hw wpart. IwrtniHin siha-ttw iMit wrf —«<r «M coaipiM.by Kaaaath TtaaMnBaa, sa ininUpll 11 rapattar Mag >• Paiia wb» I to Mifla laat •MBCiky taNH. I yMn afl«. n advaM* af Op«r«tt«a Owart
In an overview of the situation, Timmerman con Iran^ for example, will begin producing missiles capabia of hitting Israel later this year, thanks to man- dudes that "the age of proliferation (of weapons of ufacturing equipment from China and North Korea. mass destruction) is upon us- It is not for the distant Gemian, Auatriaq and Swedish ccnipaniaa have helped fiiture; it is not even for the yeair 2O0O It is now.' The (cport proposes a number i^ steps to reverse the Iran boiid tba larfsst conventional waapons mannfKproliferation of dual-use and weapona lech: ' tahng base in tba ngioa. It urges Washingtan to set up a fedt lug Tha U.S. Dapartmant of Commerce has approvsd salsa to Iraa of high-tfch equipment worth man than agency, separata from the Commerce beiiHrunent, 1334 million, half of which was classified by U.S. which now has contradictary responsibilities for both nudaar cxpefts as paiticulariy uaeftil to weapons pn>- promoting US trada abroad and limiting certain iacporta. Roughly the same system' exists in Britain and Tbesa davelopments, tha rsport warns, will 'make Iraa tba dominant pewar in tba Ptraian Gulf ngkan, Baigiuia, whara tnibrcamant is even more haphazard or dalibtrataly icnorad. with innaasing coatral <n«r oil pr^cm aad aappbm Anotbar racommandation ,calla for creation of an In Syria, says TimnariDan, *»iiphisriwtsd dMOd^ and biolacical weapons capability baa produced a tntarnattanal proUfmitisa control agency, with comstackvOaafafaw tbouaaad aarial bonba with daadly mon iUndafda of aaftrcaniant aad atrhanga of tnfcrIf asad daring tba early haura of a war agaiaal IWOBldtaBllltlllcfl
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