Rogers Reaffirms
Stand for 'Active'
ME Negotiations

!Jewish Critics Meet With School
Board That Elected Luis Fuentes

NEW YORK (JTA) — For the
first time since the controversy
broke over the much-criticized ap-
that there is an active exchange of
pointment of Luis Fuentes as
views on these subjects, is vital.
superintendent of Community
Now, what form is followed is up
School District 1 on Manhattan's
to the parties."
Lower East Side, members of the
Both the White House and the
local school board which named
State Department sought to mini- him — including the school board
mize the significance of the ex- chairman — met with representa-

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change of messages between Presi- tives of Jewish organizations pro-
dents Nixon and Sadat on the occa• testing the appointment.
sion of the 20th anniversary of the
The meeting was held in the
Egyptian revolution.
office of Mrs. Eleanor Holmes

The exchange was made public
in Cairo more than two weeks after
President Nixon sent his congratu-
lations on July 23 to Sadat. who re-
sponded with an equally cordial
message of thanks.
Some observers here interpret
the disclosure and its timing as an-
other indication of Sadat's desire

to improve relations with the Unit-
ed States following his July ouster
order to Soviet military advisors.
But the JTA was specifically cau-
tioned by an authoritative source
at the White House that the mes-
sage exchange should not be over-
rated.

Jewish Reservists Given
Time Off for Holy Days

NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish
personnel in the U.S. Army Re
serve will be released from annual
training requirements to attend
services on the High Holy Days
in 'response to a request by the
commission on Jewish chaplaincy

Norton, chairman of the City
Human Rights, at
the initiative of Mrs. Norton and
Mrs. Georginia Hoggard, the dis-
trict school board chairman.
Present at that meeting were
Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Hoggard, an-
other local school board member
and representatives of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith.
the American Jewish Committee
and the Jewish Labor Committee,
which joined in demanding
Fuentes' ouster on charges of re-
peated remarks slurring Jews and
other minorities when he was a
principal in an Ocean Hill-Browns-
ville school.
Haskell Lazere, director of
the New York chapter of the AJ-
Committee, one of those present,
described the meeting as "pro-
gressive, polite and a clearing
of the air."
Mrs.
Hoggard reportedly told
the meeting that the community

Commission of

in the National Jewish Welfarc school board was prepared to hear
the charges against Fuentes and
Board, the JWB reported.

act accordingly. Mrs. Hoggard

The directive ordering the re
lease was sent from the head-

quarters of the United States Con -
tinental Army Command to each
army central command.
The JWB stated that the ores-
. ion "demonstrates the sensitivity-
of the military to Jewish religious
seeds and the desire to he as help-
ful as possible."

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told Mrs. Norton that the corn-
munity board first heard of the

racism charges against Fuentes
through newspaper accounts.
An AJCongress spokesman said
the list o( grievances against

Fuentes was being prepared and
would be presented to the school
board. At that time, it was under-
_ _ stood, the board will have before
it the question on voting whether
or not to retain Fuentes.
If the school board decides to
retain Fuentes in the 1-37,000-a-
year post, the Jewish organizations
plan to lodge an appeal with New
York City School Chancellor Har-

strong preference that the issue
be settled at the local level by the
local school district.

The report that District 1
school board members had met
with protesting Jewish organ-
izations apparently had not been
known to the Council of Jewish
Organizations in Civil Service,
a 130,000-amalgamation of 34
public employe groups, when it
drafted a statement, joining the
protest against the appointment
of Fuentes and demanding his
ouster.

Louis Weiser, a retired New
York City police detective lieu-
tenant and former deputy com-
missioner of investigation, the
council president, said that it was
"totally inconceivable to us that
a man of Fuentes' reputation for
anti-Semitism could be retained
in the New York City school sys-
tem, and his elevation to the level
of district superintendent is be-
yond the ken of reasonable men."
In a guest editorial in the Span-
ish-language daily El Diaro,
Fuentes hit back at his critics,
charging that "certain interest
groups would prefer to discuss
manufactured, five-year-old con-
versations" relative to his new ap-
pointment — presumably a refer-
ence to his alleged racist remarks
as an Ocean Hill-Brownsville prin-
cipal in Brooklyn — rather than
the low level of literacy in the
Lower East Side schools.
He wrote that "beneath the
public charges these groups have
been making is their opposition
to my record of personal com-
mitment to the cause of parent.
al involvement and teacher ac-
countability. Their smokescreen
of rhetoric can only add ob-
stacles to what already is the
life.••

Israeli Paratroopers Hold War Exercises

TEL AVIV (JTA) —Israeli para-

troopers concluded a series of war

with a mass drop from transport
planes.

exercises in the Golan Heights.
They used helicopters for quick

shifts in simulated attacks end
overcoming water obstacles. They
assaulted "enemy" positions.

The exercises, which are held
routinely in occupied areas, began

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Earlier, the four Jewish organ-
izations which have denounced the
appointment of Fuentes raised the

BORENSTEIN'S

issue with State Education Com-
missioner Ewald Nyquist, who de-
clared he was willing to hold a
hearing on charges of racism
against Fuentes under certain con-
ditions.

Nyquist said that if a grievance
vey Scribner, who is empowered against the appointment of Fuentes
under the state-approved decen- was brought to him and if New
tralization law to remove any lo- York City School Chancellor Har-
cally-named district school super- vey Scribner and the City Board
intendent but who has voiced a of Education failed or refused to
settle the issue first, he would
proceed with a hearing and ren-
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