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Suppose for a moment that Israel didn't exist. Then consider anew the facts of the AWACS sale: Here is an airplane so ad- vanced and sophisticated we have never sold it outright to any other nation, using it in NATO only with joint command relationships.
This plane is now being flown over Saudi Arabia by the U. Air Force, the American presence having been invited by the Saudis at the out- set of the Iraq-Iran war. The Saudis come to us saying, in the interest of defending the oil fields, we would like to buy the airplanes so that we can send the American crews home, or at least keep the American technicians on the ground.
With or without Israel, it seems to ue there is a small question or two: How does this better protect the oil fields? And how does this advance American in- terests? What do we get out of it? The administration and other proponents of the sale generally fail to address these questions, understand- ably preferring to tilt with Menachem Begin over whether U. Sl '""'" Na the loud, piercing sound that re- sulted startled some of his listen- ers. It was the prelude to his expla- nation of the synagogue worship services during the penitential fcpping in front of three-score no re persons, mostly elderly e, some in wheelchairs some Used walkers.
Rabbi Samuel on Friday afternoon. Commer- cial Blvd. Lillian Ruth of Pompano Beach, other rabbis, and lay volunteers from that day of Sept. IHHJ, was told that "the remarkable on. The future existence of a cohesive national Jewish network rests with th development and implementation of a long range plan to attract to- day's non-committed Jews into the mainstream of the Jewish com- munity, through Federation and synagogue.
