Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D.Wash.) has declared that Soviet efforts to undermine the willingness of some Arab governments to make peace with Israel were extremely disturbing, adding that “the Soviet’s growing willingness to ally themselves with terrorist extremists is particularly disturbing.”
In a statement made at the annual founder’s dinner of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital at the Pierre Hotel last week, Jackson said that the new Israeli-Syrian disengagement agreement was a “precarious one.” He also expressed a continuing distrust of Soviet policy despite Moscow’s endorsement of that agreement.
Three hundred persons attended the $150 a-couple dinner on behalf of the hospital, founded in Jerusalem in 1873 by the Jewish communities in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. The hospital is currently completing a $25 million medical center, which will be the largest hospital complex in the Middle East. It will include a nursing school, research area and a 500-bed nine-story hospital with three levels below ground as a precaution against attack.
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