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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R002000680003-3
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• Publication Date: March 30, 1987
• Content Type: NSPR

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MOSCOW WALKABOUT
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MONDAY,
Civil Rights Documents Backdated
.Action Enabled U.S. Aides to Falsely Certify Compliance With Order
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
High-ranking Education Depart-
ment officials have acknowledged
repeated backdating of key docu-
ments to make it appear that they
court-ordered deadlines for the civil
rights reviews,, department officials
acknowledged in interviews last
week. The department has been
fighting the court order for more
than a year.
Iating allegedly ranged from on(
day to two weeks.
The admissions are detailed in i
report by the department's inspec.
tor general, a copy of which was
obtained by The Washington Post.
By comparing papers with log books
and other records, investigators
found dates altered in 23 of 35
,
complied with a court order for in at least six of the department's
quick reviews of civil rights ' coin- 10 regional offices, was most prev-
plaints, according to department alent in the Boston office, where
reports. seven officials including the former
The backdating
which took place
cases in Boston.
Whe- A rove ~,~lQ $ $ @G2O0Q6 0Q eu3nent's Office of Civil
pp m't f%*?"~t d c hat 'edged fo epardment mvesttgators Klghts (OCR) has reported evi-
the government was obeying strict that "they participated. The back- See DOCUMENTS, A8, Col. I
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W, MARCH 30, 1987
Hussein
Weighing
T.S. Visit
Progress Toward
Mideast Peace Talks
Seen as Critical Issue
By Samira Kawar
Special to The Washington Post
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AMMAN, Jordan, March 29-
Jordan is sending two top officials to
Washington next week to discuss
whether a visit by King Hussein
would succeed in makir}g progress
toward an international peace con-
ference on the Middle East, a senior
Jordanian official said today.
Jordanian Prime Minister Zeid
Rifai and Foreign Minister Taher
Masri will go to Washington April 5,
the official said.
Such a visit by Hussein would
represent a sharp change in the
Arab leader's attitude. Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and Hus-
sein, two of the United States' clos-
est Arab allies, were invited last
December and January, respective-
ly, to visit Washington. But both
turned down the invitations at the
time, in large part because of anger
over the Reagan administration's
sale of arms to Iran.
Jordan and Egypt, both con-
cerned about Islamic extremism,
are two of Iraq's most active sup-
porters in its war with Iran.
In Washington, a State Depart-
ment official said the Jordanian
p~ft~U~di(~e~tr>1 ~ it a l/Ot8110~7s:a i/ >D~ j~Y 1
State George P. Shnlt~ nnr) Sor- arms sales-
tary of Defense Caspar - W. Wein= "King Hussein is not interested in
KING HUSSI'IN
... rejected latest invitation
"The king wants to see if this is
an appropriate time to come,
whether he should come this
spring," the official said. The king is
anxious to "get things moving" in
the peace process again, he said.
Hussein, still angered by an
American retreat from an arms sale
to Jordan in 1985, had worked
closely with U.S. officials in trying
to stem the flow of arms to Iran and
thus was among the most outraged
Arab leaders after disclosure of the
secret sales to Iran.
Some of the weapons sent to Iran
were the same.as those denied to
Jordan, one of Washington's most
stable,Arab friends in the region.
In an interview in the Arab press
in the aftermath of the Iran arms
sales disclosure last November,
Hussein said "U.S. credibility is
zero as far as I am concerned." In
an interview'last year with Egyp-
tian journalists, he called the arms
deal "an insult to all Arabs."
The king also sent a letter to
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Indicted
Israeli
Resigns
Col. Sella,' Pollard's
Alleged Contact,
Cites U.S. Relations
By Glenn Frankel
Washington Post Foreign Service
JERUSALEM,, March 29-Is-
raeli Air Force Col. Aviem Sella,
who is under U.S. indictment for his
alleged role in the Jonathan Jay Pol-
lard spy affair, today resigned his
post as commander of one of Is-
rael's largest air bases, citing his
concern about relations with the
United States and American Jews.
Sella's appointment. to the new
post late last month just days before
his indictment helped touch off a
new storm of controversy over the
spying scandal. In' his one-page let-
ter of resignation to the Air Force
commander, Gen. Amos Lapidot,
Sella said: "The deterioration in Is-
raeli-U.S. relations ,d my concern
for the future of ties between the
two countries and for relations with
American Jewry have induced -me to
ask you-to relieve me' from my du-
ties as commander of the Tel Nof
base.
"I had made it clear to you a long
time ago ? that whatever role I am
assigned must not constitute a bur-
den or obstacle to the Air Force or
the IDF [Israel Defense Force] .. .
and I noted that should my appoint-
ment constitute o stacle of any
ountry's in-
terest.above my_own.and resign."
Israeli leaders reacted with relief