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United Press International
TEL AVIV — It’s going to take
more than style and quality for
Israel’s fashion industry to keep its
toehold on the American market.
Savvy American shoppers may
associate outstanding swimwear and
leather coats with Israel the way they
link shoes with Italy or silk shirts
with Hong Kong.
But the figures show they’re find
ing less of what Israel has to offer
available in U.S. shops.
“The American market is quite dif
ferent for imports over the last two
years,’’ Hannah Sharit-Weiss of the
trade and tourism ministry said.
“The stores were left with big end-
of-season stocks and this has made
them more cautious since there is
less money around to spend. They’re
starting seasons with less stock and,
because of the dollar’s instability, go
to local sources to replenish,’’ she
said.
The United States is still the No. 3
destination for Israeli merchandise
but exports to American stores drop-
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ped from 50 percent of all exports in
1975 to 20 percent in 1978.
Last year the $21.7 million sold to
U.S. buyers made up only 9.3 per
cent of the total $233.1 million in
fashion exports, with U.S. sales
down $14 million from the previous
year.
Industry analysts blame the de
cline on heavy U.S. import duties
that push the consumer price up too
high and the inability of Israeli
manufacturers to serve the reces
sion-inspired shift in U.S. buying
habits.
Israel’s tax-free pipeline to the
nearer European Common Market
has more than made up for the Amer
ican losses.
Sales to European buyers — not
ably in West Germany where they
bought $73 million of Israeli fashion
goods — totaled 80 percent of all
fashion exports last year.
The industry’s overall dollar
growth rate was up 32 percent in
1979 over 1978.
Still, the Israelis look longingly to
the American potential to hawk their
well-made “interpretations” of
fashion dictates from Paris and
Rome.
“It’s really difficult to compete
with the Far East and local U.S. pro
ducers,’’ Weiss said. “But we are not
giving up.”
She said a “more effective export
strategy” is planned for the United
States and Canada, including
perhaps year-round Israeli manufac
turers representatives in New York.
Some 350 buyers showed up
Feb. 11-14 for the industry’s bian
nual “fashion week” where more
than 80 Israeli manufacturers set up
showrooms to display fall-winter col
lections for 1981.
Only a few American buyers came
— none from big-name stores.
Edward Nagourney, president of
Rice’s Nachman’s department stores
in Virginia, was among them. His
seven stores are planning an “Israel
week” promotion this fall.
United Press International
OVDA, Israel — A billion dollars
worth of American know-how is bull
dozing Israel’s southern desert to
build two air bases for combat readi
ness in only 26 months.
The need for speed is creating the
logistical problems of a wartime pro
ject.
Bases under construction in
Israel’s Negev wasteland will replace
those in the eastern Sinai which
Israel must surrender to Egypt
under the terms of the peace treaty
by April 26, 1982. Israel already has
withdrawn from two-thirds of the
Sinai.
In the next 26 months, the Amer
icans must accomplish what took
Israel 12 years to do at Etzion and
what takes three to four years to do in
the United States: build a fully oper
ational front-line fighter base.
And they must do it within a
$1,040 billion budget, $800 million
of which is paid for by the American
taxpayer as a grant to Israel. It is part
of the total $3.2 billion in loans and
grants to Israel that is the U.S. price
for the treaty.
“Time is the challenge,” said U.S.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Hartung.
“We are on time.”
Hartung oversees the project as
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The four American military offic
ers assigned to the project — three
army, one air force — seem to have
no doubt the bases will be finished
on schedule. Their space age jargon,
fatigues sharply pressed despite the
desert and the unmistakeable stamp
of their “Made in USA” surround
ings underscore their style.
The enforced safety regulations
requiring hardhats and goggles, the
Dodge pickups and yellow “school
buses,” no smoking signs in the spic-
and-span prefab recreation hall, the
universal use of air conditioning and
hygenic conditions imposed on the
Middle East all have created an over-
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United Press International
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Doc
tors treating King Khaled said Sun
day he was in good condition and the
results of recent medical tests were
assuring.
Earlier medical bulletins said the
monarch was admitted to the hospit-
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reports said he may be fo.OOO, sensin
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United Press International
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — How
long gravely ill President Josip Broz
Tito will cling to life has taken a back
seat to the unfolding transition from
his charismatic rule to government
by committee.
“It really doesn’t matter how long
he hangs on,” said one Western com
mentator with long experience fol
lowing Yugoslav developments.
“What’s important now is this uni
que, historical moment which only
happens so rarely.”
Officials said dialysis was helping
Tito’s kidney failure and medical
sources closely following the situa
tion via daily health bulletins said if it
worked, Tito could live for some
time. But his condition was still re
ported as grave.
“We must now rely on the collec
tive to make up for Tito’s absence in
political life,” a high-ranking govern
ment official said Friday, confirming
the two committees runnii
state and the party were 1
operating as if Tito, 87, Yugo
sole leader for more than 351
were already gone.
But the offical admittedtkj
of the 31 members of the least
committees wielded more|i
than others.
“Of course, not all member:
(collective leadership) areeqis
all are equally able, andnoU ?
equally popular,” he said,
The assessment fits in will
tions from some Yugoslav
that a six- or 12-member “ii
cle ” may be formed within tkj
lective leadership.
Without Tito, the two
presidiums include 31 men.
inner core of the most pow
has been the subject of Ion
Western diplomats. But
been no official confirmation
mention of such a de
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