10—Friday, January 3, 1975 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Jewish Groups Welcome Gov't.
Policies on College Employment

NEW YORK — Six national
Jewish organizations joined
in a statement welcoming
new federal guidelines on
college employment aimed at
eliminating reverse discrim-
ination.
In a statement, the Jewish
groups said that "as organi-
zations all of whom support
the principles of affirmative
action as a means of speed-

ing the day when all Ameri-
cans can enjoy full quality
in our society, we sincerely
believe that these guidelines
will effectively prevent con-
tinuation of those abuses
which have seriously threat-
ened progress toward equal
opportunity."
The statement was signed
by the American JewiSh
Committee, American Jewish
Congress, A g u d a t h Israel,
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith, Jewish Labor
Committee and Jewish War
Veterans of the U.S.

The statement said the or-
ganizations were "particu-
larly gratified that many of
the suggestions made by our
organizations over the two
and a half years, in which
we have been bringing to the
attention of the department
of health, education and wel-
fare instances of reverse dis-
crimination on the college
campus, have been adopted
in whole or in part." The
statement continued:

"We welcome, for exam-
ple, the clear statement by
HEW to college administra-
tors that affirmative action
programs do not require
them to select less well-qual-
ified persons solely because
of their race, sex or ethnicity
and that the college or uni-
versity — not the federal
government — is to say what
constitutes qualifications.
The new guidelines cover
employment responsibilities
of colleges and universities
which hold federal govern-
ment contracts. They were
contained in a memorandum
to college and university
presidents signed by Peter
E. Holmes, director of the
office for civil rights of
HEW.

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Yom Kippur War Report Due

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There have been no indi- 1
cations yet of what verdict
the Agranant Committee has
reached after thousands of
hours of investigation, testi-
mony and study.
It is doubtful, in fact,
whether the full verdict will
ever be made known to the
public. But the tenor of the
final report may be deduced
from the open discussions
in the public media so far—
the battlefield accounts, and
recriminations by some of
the top commanders.
They pointed to serious
weaknesses in the fighting
qualities of the Israeli army
at the time of the Yom Kip-
pur War.
The Agranat Committee is
a highly respected, non-parti-
san body. Its chairman is
Supreme Court Chief Jus-
tice Shimon Agranat and the
rest of the panel consists of
Supreme Court Justice Moshe
Landau; State Controller Yit-
zhak Nebenzahl; and former
Army Chiefs of Staff Yigal
Yadin and Haim Laskov, all
men of unquestioned com-
petance and integrity.
The committee's first in-
terim report precipitated the
resignations of the cabinet
of former Premier Golda
Meir and forced the resigna-
tion of the Yom Kippur War
Chief of Staff, Gen. David
Elazar.
At the committee's recom-
mendation Gen. S h 7rt u e 1
Gonen, commander of the
southern front, was sus-
pended from his command
and several other high rank-
ing officers were demoted or
forced to resign, among them
the former head of army in-
telligence Gen. Eliahu Zeira

Profile of UJA
Contributors in U.S.

NEW YORK (ZINS) —
More than one million per-

sons in the United States are
contributors to the United
Jewish Appeal, of whom one
third are listed as making
"substantial" gifts.
This year there were ap-
proximately 3,500 contribu-
tors whose gifts ranged from
between $10,000 and $20,000.
There were also 3,000 donors
whose contributions were in
excess of $20,000. There were
500 gifts in the bracket of
$100,000 to .250,000, and near-
ly 120 gave between $250,000
and $500.000.
In the high echelons there
were 36 gifts in the range of
$500,000 to $1,000,000, and 38
who gave more than $1,-
000,000—in some cases even
more than $2,000,000. In
1973, 90 percent of the 600
million dollars raised came
from 88 communities, while
the remaining 10 percent
was contributed by 669 other
cities and towns.
The 12 largest Jewish
communities — New York,
Boston, Chicago, Cleveland,
Detroit, Los Angeles, Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Newark,
Miami, San Francisco and
Washington — were respon-
sible for almost $377 million,
which is more than half the
overall national total of $600
million raised by all Jewish
communities throughout the
U.S.

Look down if you would
know how high you stand.

It remains to be seen
whether the final report pre-
cipitates a further shake-up
of Israel's military establish-
ment. Although the Egyptian
army was eventually de-
feated and Israeli forces suc-
ceeded in gaining a large
wedge on the western bank
of the Suez Canal putting Is-
rael in a superior military
position when the cease-fire
was declared, the defeat of
Oct. 8 was a bitter pill and
tragic in terms of the Israeli
casualties.
Accounts made public so
far indicate several cases of
poor tactical planning; sev-
eral cases of false or mis-
leadingly optimistic battle-
field reports that caused the
political leadership to make
wrong decisions; cases in
which senior commanders
stayed too far behind the
front; instances of open hos-
tility between officers and
men in certain units; some
cases in which the standing
tradition of the Israeli army
to retrieve all wounded men
from the battlefield was not
carried out.
The accounts also indicated
that while the nation's politi-
cal leadership showed high
sensitivity to the possibility
of heavy casualties in its di-
rection of military opera-
tions, certain officers did not
demonstrate the same con-
sideration in planning spe-

cific operations.
A common denominator
running through all of the
accounts reflected an aban-
donment of traditional values
such as integrity and a high
level of morale.
Some analysts have at-
tributed this to the fact that
after the brilliant victory of
the Six-Day War, the Israeli
army lost its elite qualities,
became too representative of
civilian society and was thus
influenced by the corruptive
processes that affected the
country in the euphoria of
the 1967 victory and the
"seven fat years" of pros-
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