. 1 ^Friday, DecenOw24,1962 The Jewish FldXk&KVfWpa Page 5 Jews of Baghdad Reduced Continued from Page 1 dence with relatives and friends abroad, but as this is liable to censorship, it is confined to per- sonal and family matters. Unlike Soviet Jews whose circumstances are different, they do not want individual names or case histories mentioned. Shortly after 1948, Iraqi Jews began to emigrate secretly through the Kurdish area in the north to Iran. Over 112,000 Jews went to Israel, for the most part leaving everything behind. In 1958, when the Iraqi king and other members of the royal family were murdered to make way for a republican regime under Brigadier-General Kassem, Jews were allowed to leave the country with a consid- erable part of their property, thus illustrating this constantly peculiar twist in their fortunes al- ternating between prosperity and adversity. HOWEVER, a decade later with the installation of the present Baathist regime in Bagh- dad, first under General al-Bakr, and now under President Saddam Hussein, their situation has ser- iously deteriorated. Since the outbreak of the war with Iran in September, 1980, no Jews have been allowed to leave the country hence the concern now felt for their future. duifa/ Shcharansky (left) and other immigrants from the Soviet Union dedicated a grove recently in honor of her husband, prisoner ofZion Anatoly Shcharansky. in the Jewish National Fund's So- viet Jewry Forest near Messilat Zion, west of the Jerusalem hills. King Hussein Begins Talks With U.S. Officials in Washington By HELEN SILVER WASHINGTON (JTA) - |King Hussein of Jordan began his talks with Administration officials as a majority of the enate and nearly half of the [House of Representatives were on record record urging him to join the Middle East peace [process. At the same time, however, a [House- Senate conference com- Imit tee scaled doivn military and luconomic aid to Israel for fiscal |l983 to the levels originally re- quested by the Administration. Sens. Walter Huddleston (D. |Ky.) and William Cohen (R. Ma.) added their names to a motion It-alling on Jordan to enter into [pence negotiations with Israel. [Their signatures made a majority [of 51 in favor of the measure in- troduced last May by Sens. [Edward Kennedy (D. Mass.) and |Hohn Heinz (R. Pa.). The legislators indicated that Jthe motion will be re-introduced In the next Senate should the Jcurrent efforts to bring Hussein (into Middle East peace talks |prove fruitless. Last Friday, 182 members of [the House signed a letter to Pres- lident Reagan urging him to reject lany news arms sales to Jordan (until Hussein becomes more I cooperative with respect to join- ling the peace process. The letter, originally sponsored bv five Democrats and five Republicans, drew 172 co-sponsors from both parties during the week proceding Hussein's visit to | Washington. The Jordanian King met with Secretary of State George ShulU Tuesday. He will meet with President Reagan at the White House Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. to be followed by a working hinch. Aid For Israel Scaled Down The House-Senate compromise on funding $2,185 billion in military and economic aid for Israel came about as part of an overall emergency government spending bill worked out as the lame duck session of Congress neared adjournment. The conference committee, in effect, agreed to the Administra- tion's request for $785 million in economic aid and $1.4 billion in military assistance for Israel of which $700 million will be in the form of a grant. This was less than the $2,610 million total ap- proved earlier by the Senate and considerably lower than the $2,485 billion recommended by the Senate Appropriations Com- mittee on Dec. 2 to which the Ad- ministration had objected vigorously. The Administration contended that the additional $475 million grant in aid to Israel "could imperil" U.S. efforts to secure the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon and to make progress in the broader peace process. MK Urges Delegation Be Sent To Ethiopia to Probe Falasha Situation JERUSALEM (JTA) Michael Bar-Zohar, a Labor Alignment member of the Knesset, has called for the dispatch of an Israeli delegation to Ethiopia to in- vestigate the situation of the Falashas, Ethiopian Jews. BAR-ZOHAR made the suggestion in reaction to reports that Ethiopian officials in Addis Ababa were allowing Western journalists to visit the Falashas and have said that any foreigners, including Israelis, could do the same. 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