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Union leaders also seek to establish a benefits package that would include domestic partners, a request denied them in the first contract. "We would like to be able to put our gay and lesbian partners on insurance policies," says Rathburn, who is a lesbian. "We're kind of left out in the cold...
...face of it, the request seemed reasonable enough -- especially since the friend doing the asking was also the friend destined to be doing the giving. But last week when President Bush, anxious to keep the Middle East peace process on track, asked Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to delay his request for $10 billion in loan guarantees to help with the settlement of Soviet Jewish emigres, Shamir responded with a belligerent no. Americans, Shamir insisted, "are obliged, from a moral point of view, to give Israel this aid." Moreover, he lectured, "humanitarian aid" should not be mixed up with political...
...quiet diplomacy and publicly flag his determination to push the Shamir government toward a peaceful resolution of its conflict with its Arab neighbors left Israel stunned -- but largely unrepentant. After days of bellicose statements from Shamir hinting that he would rather see the peace conference founder than withdraw his request for loan guarantees, Israel offered one carrot. "Israel is not seeking a confrontation with the U.S., its ally," said Foreign Minister David Levy, whose views do not always reflect Shamir's. Yet Israeli officials continued to balk at Bush's linkage between the guarantees and the peace conference. "Our request...
Shamir also confronts an economic morass that does not permit him to ease up on his request for loan guarantees. Since mid-1989, 300,000 Soviet Jews have emigrated to Israel, and it is estimated that the number may top 1 million by 1995. Israel, which had a population of 4.5 million before the influx began, lacks the resources to absorb so many. Health care, schools and infrastructural needs are all suffering; early this year unemployment hit a record high of 10.8%. Moreover, the tide of immigrants improves the demographic position for Israel's Jews, many of whom feared until...
Arrival in the Promised Land is a mixed blessing for Soviet Jews. While President Bush insists that Congress delay action for 120 days on the Israeli request for $10 billion in loan guarantees, Soviet immigrants remain homeless. President Bush's political posturing and reckless abandonment of principle has reached a new peak in the past two weeks. In playing his game of Mideast politics, President Bush has displayed a glaring indifference to the plight of Israel's Soviet immigrants. Just last week, Bush pledged to veto any Congressional resolution to aid Israel in the form of absorption loan guarantees...