NPD Passes One Hurdle, Encounters Others: Money, Advertising Boycott

BONN (JTA)—The ministry of

A minimum of 5 per cent of the
interior has rejected a demand by vote is required to enter the a local independent paper could Brandt said that extremism from
a citizens group opposed to the Bundestag, West Germany's lower not be made to accept advertising both left and right was unwanted.

ultra right-wing National Demo-
cratic Party that the elections
committee bar the party from
participating in next month's na-
tional elections.
The Actions Committee for Dem-
ocratic Progress, which made the
demand, charged that the NPD
was the successor to the Nazi
Party, and under the West German
Constitution, is therefore illegal
since the constitution prohibits the
existence of a Nazi Party.
A ministry spokesman said, how-
ever, that the elections committee
did not have the authority to de-
ermine whether a pary was con-
stitutional.
The NPD opened its election
campaign in West Germany last
week. But the party is heavily
in debt, is boycotted by most ad-
vertising media, and its chances
to win seats in the next Bunde-
stag are not as good as some
political observers believe, the
London Times reported.

house. But the latest public opinion
poll gave the neo-Nazi NPD only
1.9 per cent, although 23 per cent
of the electorate is still "unde-
cided," the Times reported.
Party chief Adolf von Thadden
is beginning his whistle-stop tour
of Germany in a bullet-proof car.
The NPD is acutely short of funds,
according to the Times. But it
must put up bonds of up to $125,000
as insurance against damage be-
fore it can rent meeting halls for
election rallies.
In addition, the principal Ger-
man newspapers and magazines
have refused to accept the party's
c a mpaign advertisements, the
Times said.
In an effort to compel the press

to give it access to the electorate,

the NPD sued a newspaper in Dop- '
pingen but the court there refused
to order the newspaper to publish
the advertisements offered by
NPD. The Interior Ministry said
yesterday that under this decision,

Jay Phillips Chair of Jewish Studies
First to Be Created at Christian College

MINNEAPOLIS — The Jay Phil-
lips Chair of Jewish Studies, dedi-
cated to "the advancement of all
knowledge and better understand-
ing among all men." has been es-
tablished at St. John's University,
Collegeville. Minn., by Minneapolis
philanthropist Jay Phillips.
The announcement pointed out
that the chair is the first to be
established at a Christian college
in the United States.

Dr. Nahum Schulman, Minneap-
olis scholar and educator, will be
the first occupant of the chair.
Rabbi Schulman will be a member
of the department of theology with
the rank of professor.
Courses taught by Dr. Schul-
man, offered to both undergradu-
ate and graduate students, in-
dude "The History of the Jewish

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Modern Jewish Thought." He will
21so present a January interim
course entitled "An Introduction
to Jewish Life and Practice."

from political parties if the paper
was opposed to them politically.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister
Willy Brandt, who heads the
Social Democratic Party, coali-
tion partners of Chancellor Kie-
singer's Christian Democratic
Union, told a press conference
that if the national elections
were to be held this Sunday,
the NPD would fail to poll the 5
per cent of the vote required to
enter the Bundestag.
Brandt said the reputedly neo-
Nazi party was no internal threat
because the overwhelming major-
ity of the German population want-
ed nothing to do with it. He warn-
ed, however, that the party could
build itself up from reaction to vi-
olent demonstrations that attend
many of its public meetings.

The Public Service Workers
Trade Union has written Chancel-
lor Kiesinger and Interior Minis-
ter Ernst Benda demanding that
action be taken to outlaw the
NPD. The letter accused the right-
wing party of setting up "storm
troopers" reminiscent of the Hit-
ler era and said it was anti-demo-

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