THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, June 28, 1968-13 of Jews Egypt Won't P ermit UN Envoy to Probe Treatment Lebanon, but only Algiers Incident Related by Hersey Knopf has rushed into produc- tion-for publication on June 28th "The Algiers Motel Incident" by John Hersey, a devastating report of police action—and of the violent deaths of three Negroes—in the midst of civil chaos in Detroit last year. This is Hersey's first major work of non-fiction since the ap- pearance of "Hiroshima" in 1946. Because the telling of this story has vital immediate implications for the urban racial crisis, the manuscript was published today only six weeks after it was re- ceived by Knopf in completed form. The book, being issued simultaneously by Bantam in a paper edition is a Literary Guild special alternate selection. This is John Hersey's account of an incident in the Detroit riots. of 1967. The episode, Hersey writes, "contained all the mythic themes of racial strife in the United States: the arm of the- law taking the law into its own hands; interracial sex; the subtle poison of racist thinking by 'de- cent' men who deny that they are racists; the societal limbo into which so many young black men• have been driven; ambiguous jus- tice in the courts; and the de- vastation in both black and white . human lives that f011ows in the wake of violence." On the fourth day of ,the De- troit riots, the newspapers re- ported that three Negroes had been killed in a sniper battle at the Algiers Motel. The night before—Tuesday, July 25—rumors of sniping were wide- spread. Responding to a telephone report of shots fired in the vicin- ity, a number of Detroit police officers, State Troopers, and Na- tional Guardsmen rushed to the annex of the Algiers Motel, about a mile and a half from the center of the riot area. Inside, they found ten black men and two white girls. The police began questioning them. No guns were found. One hour later, when the police_ left, three of the men lay dead, shot at close range. The others, including the two girls, had been severely beaten. The police made no report of the incident to their: superiors. A Negro called the morgue. What really happened at the Algiers Motel? Hersey spent months on a de- tailed investigation — questioning all the survivors; talking to the family and friends of the dead men; listening to the people in the neighborhood; examining police and court records; inter- viewing federal, state, city, and Police Department officials, in- cluding the three Detroit police- men who were subsequently in- dicted. His meticulous reconstruction of the incident at the Algiers Motel, and of the complex social circumstances that created the at- mosphere in which it could occur, calls into question some of the most fundamental assumptions about the nature of law and order and the application of justice in American society.: The story itself insists that from this day forward the men en- trusted with the responsibility of policing, judging and penalizing their fellow Americans apply the same standards to all — so that black Americans as well as white may truly perceive "law and or- der" as a benefit, not as'a pretext for the denial and suppression of their rights as citizens of the United States. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egyptian refusal to agree to permit a United Nations envoy to investigate the treatment of the remaining Jews in Egypt is the reason for Secre- tary-General U Thant's delay in naming a special representative to report on the situation of the civilian population in the areas held by Israel after the Six-Day War, it was learned here. The ap- pointment was to have been made under a Security Council resolu- tion. Israel had agreed to give the UN representative facilities to study the situation in the occupied areas on the understanding that the envoy would also report on the situation of the Jewish minor- ities in the Arab lands involved in the war. Egypt, according to information here, has refused to give the pro- posed UN envoy means to make a first:hand study. Syria, it was learned, did not even answer the United Nations' request. Thant an- nounced his intention to nominate a special representative almost on the eve of the reconvening of the General Assembly last spring. He has not, however, announced the appointment. It was recalled that a special IF YOU TURN THE ° V.8 .11 IIPSIDZ DOWN YOU wotrr FIND A FINER WINE THAN Nee Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich. • Deep Pile Plush 16 Gorgeous Decorator Colors! 12 ak 15 Foot Widths Available! . • TEL AVIV (JTA) . Chief Rabbi Moshe Rosen of Romania has un- covered an international gang that has been buying old scrolls in that country and selling them as antiques at high prices to foreign collectors, the daily Yediot Ach- ronot reported Tuesday. states and in Lebanon permitted the UNESCO delegate to make an inspection. The other three governments ref- used to give him access to the properties, Brunnel disclosed here.) 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