U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright unequivocally denied any linkage between Israel’s peace policies and American problems reassembling the Gulf War coalition. Albright, who made the assertion in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was widely criticized in the Jewish community for making such a linkage last fall — when the previous crisis over U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq erupted.
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