HEW Affirmative Action Memo Divides Jewish Organizations
(Continued from Page 1) "Nobody should be hired who
tions generally oppose quotas it not qualified." Rauh, who
but strongly support pro- is Jewish and has spoken out
grams that help open oppor- in the past against Jewish
tunities to minorities and organization activity in the
_women in every field. Rauh civil rights field, declared,
specifically named the Amer- "Once Jews were leading
ican Jewish Committee and fighters for civil rights. Just to
its Washington representa- talk about affirmative action
tive, Hyman Bookbinder; the is nothing. You must mea-
Anti-Defamation League of sure them against some form
Bnai Brith and its Washing- of goals."
ton office director, David
Jewish organizational offi-
Brody; and the American cials noted that while it was
Jewish Congress. They are a Jewish concern it was not
all identified with the Lead- a 'Jewish i s s u e. Some ob-
ership Conference which is served privately that the
representing a coalition of memo would cool off both
135 national organizations of those demanding quotas and
blacks, whites, Catholics, elements condemning af-
Protestants, Jews, labo r, firmative action.
business and the professions. "The only victory we seek
"It's a sad day when the is genuine equality of oppor-
organized Jewish community tunity," Bookbinder replied.
wins a fight against blacks, "It is our fervent hope that
browns and women," Rauh the new memorandum will
said. "Unfortunately that's strengthen, not weaken af-
what's happened at HEW," firmative action. Because of
Rauh said. Rauh agreed that abuses in the current pro-
Golda: World Has Not Learned
NEW YORK—Former Is-
raeli Prime Minister Golda
Meir, in a New York speech,
urged world Jewry not to be
pessimistic over the future
of the state of Israel.
"No one who is honest can
say we've fought the last
war," Mrs. Meir admitted.
but somehow "things, no
matter how tragic . . . fall
into place.
"If all wars are fought
only for the three million
Jews in Israel, they would
not be worthwhile. But if
wars, fought for the safe-
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Mrs. Meir addressed an
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In her talk Mrs: Meir not-
ed that fears of, Israel's in-
creasing isolation are not as
desparate as they seem. No
doubt, she said, "we are
facing a difficult period, but
. . we've had worse pe-
riods" and survived them.
"The shameful thing," she
continued, "is'that the world
lived through the 150s and
'40s, saw hatred and racism
at its worst and are doing
nothing to insure that such
events will not happen
again."
What many consider Is-
rael's tragedy, she feels, "is
not ours but the world's that
they couldn't overcome. They
must be pitied, not we."
TEL AVIV—Libyan Presi-
dent Muammar Qaddafi is
buying up a considerable
portion of land on the Ital-
ian Mediterranean land of
Pantelleria, it was reported
here.
According to Italy's Social
Democratic deputy Constan-
tino Belluscio who asked in
the Italian parliament for
the government "to clarify
the real reasons" for the
purchase, the plot of land is
"in effect the most strategic
point of the island."
Pantelleria is located half-
way between Sicily and Tu-
nisia near the narrowest
point in the Mediterranean.
It was the first piece of Ital-
ian territory invaded by the
Allies in World War II.
It is the case with children -
as with plants, that their fu-
ture character is indicated
by their early dispositions.
Demophilus
memorandum will still this
criticism."
Brody observed that in his
Conference Task Force capa-
city "I am working year-
round to achieve equality of
opportunity for everyone."
Since the HEW memoran-
dum refers to employment,
the immediate interpretation
here was that it does not
apply to admissions to col-
leges and universities' that
was the focus of interest in
the Supreme Court's 5-4 de-
cision last April ruling
"moot" the case of Marco De
Funis Jr. of Seattle against
the University of Washington
Law School.
De Funis, a Sephardic Jew,
was barred from the school
although his grades were
superior to those of 37 blacks
who were admitted.
The court held that since
De Funis had been allowed
to enter the school and was
being graduated pending the
outcome of his law suit, he
no longer had a complaint
for the court to consider.
Among the numerous
groups and individuals ar-
rayed on both sides of that
case, the National Council of
Jewish Women and the Union
of American Hebrew Congre-
gations sided with the univer-
sity while the three groups
accused by Rauh supported
De Funis. Rauh, who is a
vice president of the Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action
and a member of the
NAACP's board, supported
the law school.
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gram, there has been danger
that the entire affirmative
action program might be
scrapped by Congress or by
the administration.
"If the. new memorandum
now helps eliminate abuses
that have crept into the pro-
gram, then we can proceed
in good faith to implement
appropriate affirmative ac-
tion programs. Joe (Rauh)
and I are in agreement on
the need for eliminating dis-
crimination of all kinds. We
do have some differences
over the techniques that are
appropriate and effective."
Brody, who is chairman of
the Leadership Conference's
Task Force on Employment
and is therefore directly con-
cerned with the HEW memo-
randum, said: "Joe, with
whom I have worked for a
quarter of a century to
achieve equal opportunity for
all persons regardless of
race, sex, religion and na-
tional origin, has overre-
acted.
"The HEW memorandum,"
Brody added, "will have a
beneficial effect on prevent-
ing the kind of excesses
which have stirred criticism
of the Equal Opportunity
Program in Congress and
elsewhere. By improving the
operation of the program, the
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