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WORLD, Page 34A Patriot in Beijing?
When the U.S. gave Patriot missile batteries to Israel to
combat the Iraqi Scuds raining down on civilians during the gulf
war, Washington forbade Jerusalem to export the technology. Now
a U.S. intelligence report suggests that Israel may have
supplied China with secrets of the Patriot. Israeli officials
deny the charge, but the controversy has roiled relations with
the U.S., already strained by American dethat the Shamir
government stop building settlements in the occupied territories
exchange for $10 billion in loan guarantees. The Wall Street
Journal fueled the controversy by reporting that Israel is also
suspected of having exported antitank missiles to South Africa
as well as cluster bombs to Ethiopia and Chile.
"This is complete nonsense, absolute lies," Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir declared last week to the Israeli newspaper
Yediot Aharonoth. Dore Gold of the Jaffee Center for Strategic
Studies at Tel Aviv University voiced a suspicion common in
Israel: "What we're witnessing is a kind of psychological
warfare between allies, particularly because Washington faced
a very embarrassing moment after its failure to grab the Scud
ship." But questions will linger because Israel has sold enough
military technology to China in the past to make the latest
charges seem plausible.