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For Arabs:
On January 30, the National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA) launched a 52-week media campaign to alert Americans to the consequences of granting Israel's pending requests for dramatic increases in U.S. aid. Israel has asked the Reagan Administration for $4.05 billion in fiscal year 1986, as well as for 800 million in additional funds for this year, which would bring the current (FY 1985) total to $3.4 billion.
NAAA is planning to place at least one news paper advertisement per week in either a national, weekday edition of The Christian Science Monitor, or a national, Sunday edition of The New York Times,. Spokesman Ronald Cathell said NAAA probably will alternate regularly between the two papers, so that the one-eighth-page ads will appear in each paper about twice a month.
The first ad appeared in the Monitor on the 30th of last month. In it, NAAA appealed to veterans, who stand to lose benefits as a result of the Administration's efforts to reduce the federal...