For the Record

■ Howard Baker may be Jimmy Carter’s ace in the hole in the Senate. Inside reports on jet-sale deal to Israel— Egypt-Saudi Arabia indicate that Baker and Henry Kissinger were instrumental in working out the compromise package (twenty more jets for Israel; certain modifications in the F-15 jets for Saudi Arabia to lessen their offensive capabilities) that finally won passage. . . . But, say White House officials, even that wouldn’t have done it without the help of Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D., Conn.), who led the fight for passage. His support, say these sources, meant that mid- dle-to-liberal Democratic senators like John Culver (Iowa), Dale Bumpers (Ark.), Thomas Eagleton (Mo.), and Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) could vote with the Administration. . . . Ribicoff was the only Jew in the Senate to vote for the package. The other four—Howard Metzenbaum (D., Ohio), Edward Zorin- sky (D., Neb.), Jacob Javits (R., N.Y.), and Richard Stone (D., Fla.)—did not. … Of the Democrats running for re- election this year, only three voted for the sale: Paul Hatfield (Mont.), Bennett Johnston (La.), and Jennings Randolph (W.Va.).

■ Last week saw a discernible hardening in the Administration position vis- à-vis Soviet-Cuban adventurism in Africa, a shift touched off by the invasion of Shaba province from Soviet-dominated Angola. . . . Although Fidel Castro called in our man in Havana, Lyle Lane, to assure him that the Cubans had nothing whatsoever to do with the invasion of Zaire, he was clearly not believed. . . . Angolan President Agos- tinho Neto’s visit to Moscow last month coincided with the visit of Cuban Foreign Minister Isodoro Malmierca, and the White House believes the Zaire incursion was plotted then. . . . Carter’s anger over Brezhnev’s provocations—Zaire, on top of the Orlov trial—could, say Evans & Novak, mean a downgrading of the importance of UN Ambassador Andrew Young, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Moose, and State Department policy-planning chief Anthony Lake—all doves—in the highest councils of the land. . . . Sen. Dick Clark, author of the Clark amendment barring U.S. aid to anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola, is afraid that “President Carter has made the decision to reinvolve the United States in the Angolan civil war.” Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan shares Clark’s concern but says he is willing to listen “to the Administration’s case [on providing support for the UNITA guerrillas in Angola] but that it must be discussed openly.” . . . CIA Director Stansfield Turner and others on the National Security Council reportedly have recommended turning over military hardware to the Angolan guerrillas and the Eritrean liberation fighters through third parties as a way of pinning down Cuban troops in Ethiopia and Angola—and keeping them away from Rhodesia. . . . Meanwhile, in Paris, the leaders of 21 French-speaking African nations urged French President Giscard d’Estaing to bring to Jimmy Carter’s attention their concern over Soviet and Cuban military interventions in Africa. . . . Meanwhile, says Ivory Coast President Houphouët- Boigny, French Africa will look to France for help when militarily threatened.

■ Howard Baker may be Jimmy Carter’s ace in the hole in the Senate. Inside reports on jet-sale deal to Israel— Egypt-Saudi Arabia indicate that Baker and Henry Kissinger were instrumental in working out the compromise package (twenty more jets for Israel; certain modifications in the F-15 jets for Saudi Arabia to lessen their offensive capabilities) that finally won passage. . . . But, say White House officials, even that wouldn’t have done it without the help of Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D., Conn.), who led the fight for passage. His support, say these sources, meant that mid- dle-to-liberal Democratic senators like John Culver (Iowa), Dale Bumpers (Ark.), Thomas Eagleton (Mo.), and Daniel Inouye (Hawaii) could vote with the Administration. . . . Ribicoff was the only Jew in the Senate to vote for the package. The other four—Howard Metzenbaum (D., Ohio), Edward Zorin- sky (D., Neb.), Jacob Javits (R., N.Y.), and Richard Stone (D., Fla.)—did not. … Of the Democrats running for re- election this year, only three voted for the sale: Paul Hatfield (Mont.), Bennett Johnston (La.), and Jennings Randolph (W.Va.).

■ Last week saw a discernible hardening in the Administration position vis- à-vis Soviet-Cuban adventurism in Africa, a shift touched off by the invasion of Shaba province from Soviet-dominated Angola. . . . Although Fidel Castro called in our man in Havana, Lyle Lane, to assure him that the Cubans had nothing whatsoever to do with the invasion of Zaire, he was clearly not believed. . . . Angolan President Agos- tinho Neto’s visit to Moscow last month coincided with the visit of Cuban Foreign Minister Isodoro Malmierca, and the White House believes the Zaire incursion was plotted then. . . . Carter’s anger over Brezhnev’s provocations—Zaire, on top of the Orlov trial—could, say Evans & Novak, mean a downgrading of the importance of UN Ambassador Andrew Young, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Moose, and State Department policy-planning chief Anthony Lake—all doves—in the highest councils of the land. . . . Sen. Dick Clark, author of the Clark amendment barring U.S. aid to anti-Marxist guerrillas in Angola, is afraid that “President Carter has made the decision to reinvolve the United States in the Angolan civil war.” Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan shares Clark’s concern but says he is willing to listen “to the Administration’s case [on providing support for the UNITA guerrillas in Angola] but that it must be discussed openly.” . . . CIA Director Stansfield Turner and others on the National Security Council reportedly have recommended turning over military hardware to the Angolan guerrillas and the Eritrean liberation fighters through third parties as a way of pinning down Cuban troops in Ethiopia and Angola—and keeping them away from Rhodesia. . . . Meanwhile, in Paris, the leaders of 21 French-speaking African nations urged French President Giscard d’Estaing to bring to Jimmy Carter’s attention their concern over Soviet and Cuban military interventions in Africa. . . . Meanwhile, says Ivory Coast President Houphouët- Boigny, French Africa will look to France for help when militarily threatened.