If anything, these interventions by pro-Israel lobbyists in the media and parliament prove that the flame of tension on campus is not without external fanners.

The government's case charging two former pro-Israel lobbyists with improperly receiving and transmitting secret national security information cleared a major hurdle in a ruling on Thursday by a federal judge.

Under that argument, it was a violation of due process to single out the pro-Israel lobbyists for behavior that was generally recognized as acceptable in the capital.

A6 A pro-Israel lobbyist is forced to quit after insulting Jews.

Lawrence A. Franklin, the former Defense Department analyst charged in a far-ranging national security inquiry with passing classified military information to pro-Israel lobbyists, has agreed to a guilty plea, officials said Thursday.

Acknowledging the formidable strength of pro-Israel lobbyists on Capitol Hill, the President raise the stakes in the confrontation on Thursday by promising to veto any early Congressional action.

According to the Jerusalem Post of Sept. 28, pro-Israel lobbyists said that 62 senators had undertaken to endorse the guarantees in the event of a vote.

After a blistering dressing-down that the new Prime Minister gave to pro-Israel lobbyists in Washington last week, inevitable questions have been raised about the future course of his relations with influential Jewish groups in the United States.

The Administration has already warned that the President will cast a veto if necessary, and pro-Israel lobbyists say it is very unlikely that they can muster the two-thirds required in both houses to override a veto.

Federal prosecutors have offered to provide more classified information in open court to keep alive their prosecution of two former pro-Israel lobbyists charged with violating the Espionage Act.