Violence-Prone, Extremist Gun-Toting
Groups Exposed in Study Made by ADL

A sizeable chunk of the opposi-
tion to gun control legislation is
coming not from legitimate sports-
men, but from violence-prone ex-
tremist groups on the far right
and left, Such groups, "exacerba-
ting racial tension in some cases,
instigating it in others . . . are
turning the United States into a
camp armed against itself," the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Birth revealed in a report de-
livered to the Senate Subcommit-
e on Juvenile Delinquency, at
,..earings on proposed gun -control
legislation.
Among the more prominent of the
( groups- the League characterized
as "dangerous," are the Minute-
men "who train in secret against
fancied Communist or domestic
takeover" and advocate possession
of and training in such weapons
the .22-calibre semi-automatic
....ol — the same kind of gun
which killed Senator Robert F.
Kennedy, ADL pointed out.

ADL reported that the political
arm of the Minutemen, the Patri-
otic Party, urged its members to
send 10 letters each to congress-
men and senators in opposition to
gun controls — a week after Sen-
ator Kennedy's death.
Arnold Forster, general coun-
sel of ADL, said it was difficult
to determine the exact strength
of the combined extremist groups,
because of the clandestine nature
of many of them, but that an edu-
cated guess would be 75,000, with
the capacity to mobilize perhaps
a quarter of a million -Americans
through publications, relatives and
friends — in a massive letter-writ-
ing campaign against weapon
control.
7 The report, entitled "Extre-
mism, Violence and Guns" and
completed by the ADL'S research
and evaluation department said
that members of extremist groups
often lead apparently normal
lives. "They parade as sportsmen
and some belong to the NRA and
local gun clubs.
Among other groups the report

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identified and described are:
KU KLUX KLANS, which the
League three years ago exposed
as supporting "underground guer•
rilla detachments . . . often or-
ganized as 'gun clubs' or sporting
clubs or as so-called 'security
guards,' all armed";
BREAKTHROUGH, a Detroit-
based radical rightist group that
has actively urged its members
to arm themselves and take fire-
arms instructions and which, late
last year, sponsored the General
Douglas MacArthur Shooting Club.
BLACK PANTHER PARTY, a
Negro revolutionary group with
headquarters in Oakland, Calif.;
it openly arms members and is
,openly preparing for a "black
war liberation," the report said;
STUDENT NONVIOLENT CO-
ORDINATING COMMITTEE,
which "has abandoned all pretense
that it is nonviolent";
REVOLUTIONARY ACTION
MOVEMENT, which was reported-
ly involved in a conspiracy to as-
sassinate moderate civil rights
leaders.
Others named include the Chris-
tian Youth Corps, National States
Rights Party, Paul Revere Asso-

dated Yeomen, Inc., Defenders
of the American Constitution, Inc.,
end the North Ward (Newark,
N. J.) Citizens Committee.

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The American Jewish Congress
endorsed President Johnson's
message urging the registration
of every firearm and the licens-
ing of every gun owner.
Despite ghetto fears of a mas-
sive police build-up of heavy weap-
ons and chemicals to quell urban
violence, officials in major cities
are "playing it cool" in preparing
for possible civil disorders this
summer, the American Jewish
Congress reported in disclosing
the results of a nationwide survey.
The study, which covered 34
cities in all parts of the country,
indicated that local law. enforce-
ment agencies were showing "con-
siderable restraint" in drawing
plans to deal with a renewal of
large-scale rioting this year.
The AJCongress survey. found
"no evidence of stock-piling of
mass destructive weapons as has
been rumored." Only one city --
Chicago — has enacted legislation
broadly restricting free speech and
assembly, according to the report.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Technion Alters Program of Urban, Region Studies

HAIFA — The school for grad-
uate studies, with the approval of
the senate of the Technion — Is-
rael Institute of Technology, has
authorized a modification of the
current graduate program pro-
posed by the faculty of architec-
ture and town planning in the field
of urban and regional studies at
the --Technion.
The new program, leading to the
MSC degree in urban and regional
studies, is intended for architects,
engineers, agronomists, sociolo-
gists, economists, geographers and
holders of bachelor degrees in
other related fields from universi-
ties in Israel and abroad. The pro-
gram of studies emphasizes the
comprehensive approach to plan-

education, who moved to his pres-
ent city in his early 20s. He was
most likely Jewish, voted Demo-
cratic and owned his own home.
He had not - been active in civil
rights organizations (only 11 per
cent are members of civil rights
groups)." .
The report asserted: "The mer-
chants in our sample were
among the most unsympathetic
to the plight of the ghetto Negro
of any occupational group in the
study. . . . Along with this lack
of sympathy, they showed a ser-
ies of beliefs from which one can
infer that, in our sample at least,
some merchants engaged in un-
ethical practices. Further, the
merchants endorsed attitudes
about Negroes that would lead
us to believe that they are apt
to treat Negro customers con-
siderably less well than white
customers."
Not all of the retail merchants
in the ghetto were condemned "but
a sizeable percentage, from 25 to
50 per cent, seem to do business in
a way that leaves many improve-
ments to be desired." The report
warned: "As long as these improve-
ments are not made, the retail
merchant in our urban ghettoes
will continue to be one of the pri-
mary targets of Negro antago-
nism."

ning of urban and regional devel-
opment and intends to provide the
students with the necessary meth-
odological tools.

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Kerner Commission Finds Jews
'Over-Represented' in Ghetto Stores

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jews
are "proportionally over-represent-
ed in ghetto business," and a large
proportion of such retail merch-
ants "exploit" and "mistreat" Ne-
groes, according to the findings of
new supplementary studies releas-
ed -this weekend by the National
Advisory Commission on Civil Dis-
orders.
The report also disclosed that a
minimal number of white social
workers aiding ghetto Negroes
were Jews. "With regard to re-
ligion, only 6 per cent of the social
workers were Jewish, while 60 per
cent were Protestant, and 28 per
cent were Catholic," according to
the new study. The figures were
based on a survey of 15 large
cities.
Former Gov. Otto Kerner of
Illinois, chairman of the comis-
sion, and New York Mayor John
V. Lindsay, vice chairman, sub-
mitted the new report to Presi-
dent Johnson. It was prepared by
the survey research center of the
Institute for Social Research of
the University of Michigan.
A portion of the survey dealt
with the charges by the black com-
munity against merchants trading
in the ghetto areas. "With regard
to religion, our sample seems to
back up the popular notion that
Jews are proportionately overrep-
resented in ghetto business. Thirty-
nine per cent of our sample of
ghetto merchants were . Jewish,
with Protestants (35 per cent) and
Catholics (24 per cent) making up
the rest of the total."
"Thus," said the . report, "our
typical merchant was a man abottt
50 years old with a high' school

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