6 Friday, July 11, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

`60 Minutes' Complaint Deferred Until New Show is Aired in August

NEW YORK — The
American Jewish Congress
said Monday that it has
asked the National News
Council to "defer" action on
its complaint against CBS
News until a new program
on Syrian Jews now being
prepared by "60 Minutes" is
shown next month.
Phil Baum, associate ex-
ecutive director of AJC,
said, "Representatives met
with CBS News and have

been informed that '60 Min-
utes' is preparing for broad-
cast next month, a program
that will present additional
information on the plight of
Syrian Jews.
"We are therefore re-
questing to defer action on
our complaint, without pre-
judice, until we have seen
the new broadcast."
A hearing on the Con-
gress' complaint had been
scheduled for Wednesday

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by the National News
Council. CBS News had
informed the Council,
however, that it would not
participate in the hearing.
In a letter to the Council,
CBS News President Rich-
ard Salant wrote:
"We appreciate the Coun-
cil's interest in attempting
to resolve the dispute at
hand, but we are not per-
suaded that a 'public hear-
ing'—whose outlines and
procedures are not at all
clear to us—is the appro-
priate means to do so .. ."
Last month the AJC filed
a complaint with the Na-
tional News Council charg-
ing CBS News and its "60
Minutes" program with
"excessive, inaccurate and
distorted representations"
of the condition of Syrian
Jewry and with refusing
over several months to cor-
rect the picture.
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg,
president of the Congress,
also accused CBS of an
"inaccurate and undocu-
mented assertion" that the
Golan Heights town of Ku-
neitra was destroyed "not
by shell fire and war but by
bulldozer and dynamite" as
the Israelis vacated it fol-
lowing the 1974 disengage-
ment agreement.

The Jewish organization
asked the National News
Council to investigate its
complaint against CBS
News and to endorse its
suggestion that, as an an-
tidote to the inaccuracies
in the program, Wallace
interview a former Syrian
Jew now living in the U.S.
"who could speak openly"
and "provide an alterna-
tive insight" into the prob-
lem of Syrian Jews.
The program was aired
February 16 and the Con-
gress wrote immediately
thereafter to "60 Minutes"
producer Don Hewitt asking
for a meeting with him and
Wallace to air its grievances
with the program.
Following the filing of the
complaint, CBS re-broad-
cast on June 8 the original
segment on Syria, with a
new introductory and clos-

The German tragedy be-
gan in 1933, not in 1945. In
1933 all that was great and
good and noble in the his-
tory of our people was be-
trayed, and all that had
brotjght our people the
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ing commentary by Wal-
lace.
In that commentary,
Wallace reported charges
that the program had "mis-
represented" the status of
Syrian Jews and said he
would inform viewers about
the decision of the National
News Council on the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress com-
plaint.
In response to the re-
broadcast, the AJC said in
part:
"CBS has failed to re-
spond to the major thrusts
of our criticism; an oppor-
tunity to set the record
straight and to deepen
understanding of complex
issues has been lamenta-
bly forfeited.
"The victim is the pub-
lic—and the cause of hon-
est reporting and responsi-
ble journalism."
Meanwhile, in Washing-
ton, a delegation represent-
ing one million Jewish
women urged a top State

Department official to in-
tensify U.S. diplomatic ef-
forts in behalf of the "be-
leaguered and beset" Jews
of Syria.
Mrs. Jacqueline Levine of
West Orange, N.J., leader of
the group, told Deputy As-
sistant Secretary of State,
Harold Saunders:
"Despite highly publi-
cized reports of an alleged
`improvement' in the condi-

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tion of Syria's 4,500 Jews,
these basic facts remain:
The ban on all Jewish
emigration remains com-
plete._ They are discrimi-
nated against in educational
and economic opportunity,
their freedom of movement
even within Syria is vir-
tually prohibited and they
are subject to arbitrary ar-
rest and imprisonment b\-
the Syrian secret police.

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