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- <text id=89TT2707>
- <title>
- Oct. 16, 1989: A Frosty Response
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 16, 1989 The Ivory Trail
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- A Frosty Response
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- <p> For years, Israel has been trying to steer Soviet Jews to
- the Holy Land, only to have most of them veer off to the U.S.
- Jerusalem complains that Jews who use exit visas for Israel to
- get out of the U.S.S.R. should go to Israel. So there was some
- Israeli gloating when the U.S. had to confess that it would be
- unable to accept most of the 300,000 emigres, many of them
- Jewish, who are expected to be leaving the Soviet Union during
- the next year. Israel said it would happily take in 100,000
- Soviet Jews by 1992. There is a good chance, however, that at
- least some of the newcomers might ultimately be housed in the
- occupied West Bank, where U.S. policy strongly opposes Israeli
- expansion. Secretary of State Baker was none too pleased with
- that prospect when Israel informally requested $400 million in
- loan guarantees to build housing for new emigrants. His frosty
- response: the U.S. was unlikely to be able to find that sum "in
- this day of severe budget constraints."
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- </body></article>
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