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VOL. LXXIII, No. 5 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c

April 7, 1978

Clerics' Statements Outweigh
Attacks on Holocaust Drama

Actress Denounced
for Oscar' Remarks

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Arab-Israeli conflict came to
the Academy Awards ceremony Monday night, brought by
British actress Vanessa Redgrave, who after winning an
Oscar for best supporting actress in "Julia" praised the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for not being
"intimidated by threats of a small bunch of Zionist hood-

lurns."

Her remarks were ignored by the participants in the
ceremony except for Jewish playwright Paddy Chayefsky
who denounced her for using the nationally-televised prog-
ram to air her own political views.
"Miss Redgrave, winning an award is not a pivotal mo-
ment in history. You did not have to make a political proc-
lamation. A simple thank you would have sufficed."
Chayefsky, who said he could not have lived with
himself if he had not made his remarks before pre-
senting the writing awards, was warmly applauded.
Miss Redgrave was also applauded although there
were many "boos" when she used the words "Zionist
hoodlums."
The Jewish Defense League had protested her nomina-
tion because of her support of the Palestine Liberation
Organization. She made a documentary film, "The Palesti-
nians," which expresses a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli line.
Several hundred JDL members picketed the Los Angeles
Music Center where the awards ceremony was going on.
They were separated from a small number of PLO suppor-
ters by police. According to a report,-the only case of vio-
lence occurred when three JDL members jumped three men
wearing Nazi uniforms. Two of the Nazis were reportedly
taken to the hospital and two of the JDL members arrested.
In her speech after receiving the Oscar, Miss Redgrave
said, "You should be very proud that in the last few weeks
you stood firm and you refused to be intimidated by the
threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose be-
havior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world
and to their great and heroic struggle against Fascism and
oppression." She declared that she would continue to fight
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NEW YORK Prominent leaders of the major religious communities in the United States — Protes-
tant, Roman Catholic, Evangelical, Eastern Orthodox and Jewish — have hailed NBC-TV's 91/2 hour
original drama, "Holocaust, which will be presented over four consecutive nights beginning April 16.
Their comments were made following a recent series of special previews arranged for them by NBC and
Titus Productions in cooperation with the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Council of
Churches, the Southern Baptist Convention and the American Jewish Committee.
Dr. Paul M. Stevens, president of the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission, called the
show "a watershed in the moral and spiritual life of many of us who feel that somehow our day and
generation should learn some things from the failures of the past." The Rev. W. Sterling Cary, former
president of the National Council of Churches, and the Rev. Nathan H. VanderWerf, NCC's assistant
general secretary, issued a joint statement: "A moving dramatization, based on factual history of the
terrible Nazi attempt to eliminate the Jews. It is carefully and sensitively done and provides much
material for discussion on the.issue of anti-Semitism. It shows how amoral problem-solvers can become
immoral exponents-and implementers of genocide ... It points out the necessity to hone our sensitivities to
recognize the unthinkable and work for justice in our contemporary society.

—

"

Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, primate of the Armenian Church in North America, said that
"Holocaust" retailed painfully for him the annihilation of three-fourths of the Armenian nation
in 1915, and the fact that, as with the Jews, Christian nations did nothing about the massacres. He
remembered that Adolf Hitler told his Nazis in 1937 not to have scruples of conscience about
killing Jews because, "Who remembered what happened to the Armenians?" The Archbishop
expressed the hope that "Holocaust" will "send a shiver of conscience through its viewers" and if
it will, "it will have served a great purpose in sensitizing mankind to its rampant inhumanity."

Nazis Appeal Case,
Community Protests

The Nazis operating a bookstore in Detroit have
appealed the evicition order issued against them.
Last week, Common Pleas Judge Henry
Szymanski turned down their request for a new trial.
Several demonstrations have been held in front of
the store on Vernor Hwy. and a major demonstration
is being planned for 3 p.m. April 30 at Detroit's Pat-
ton Park.
The sponsors, the Labor-Community-Interfaith
Council Against the Nazis, are planning marches to
the rally from various points around Detroit and
motorcades to the rally from the suburbs. One of the
motorcades is scheduled to begin at noon at Cong.
Bnai David. For information, call the council, 842-
5350.

The Detroit Round Table of the National Confer-
ence of Christians and Jews has been actively prom-
oting the program by distributing materials to its
member organizations.

Meanwhile, a group calling itself the Christian
Defense League (CDL) has labeled the original
drama, written by Gerald Green, "Zionist prop-
aganda" aimed at instilling "a guilt complex in
American gentiles for the so-called 'poor persecuted
Jews.' " In addition, several Midwest stations af-
filiated with NBC have demanded that certain scenes
be deleted. The affiliates, which previewed the film,
objected to one scene showing Jewish women being
forced to disrobe before being led to the gas-chambers
and another in which elderly women are led to their
death. NBC has agreed to delete these scenes.

Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, director of the
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$14 Million from 15,000 Donors
The Peace Plan That Went Sour Marks Unaffiliates' Mobilization

A Chronology

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF

(Copyright 1975, JTA. Inc.)

Some of the shrewdest political analysts in Washington are saying that President
Carter and Premier Menahem Begin are both at fault for the U.S.-Israeli impasse and
that the best means to avert political trouble both in the United States and the Middle
East is a quick Egyptian-Israeli agreement.
Reviewing the circumstances of the past four months, since Begin in December pre-
sented his proposals for agreements to Carter and Congressional leaders, these know-
ledgeable analysts — all Americans in Washington — said the Carter Administration
mishandled Begin and deliberately or not misled him, while the Prime Minister has
reacted to this in a way that has returned him to his "old rigid self fighting everybody."

Declaring mobilization of the hitherto unaffiliated into the ranks of Israel's supporters
as a major goal of the current Allied Jewish Campaign, Phillip Stollman, co-chairman of
the 1978 drive with Philip Warren, said at the report meeting Sunday morning at Cong.
Beth Achim that the initial results are heartening and provide encouragement that
thousands who have previously abstained from participation will now be in the ranks of
AJCampaign workers.
Spokesmen for Campaign divisions reported having reached 14,936 donors for a total of
$14,404,000. This marks an increase of $1,400,000 over 1977 gifts from the same con-
tributors, and the encouraging factor that was emphasized by Stollman is that nearly
1,000 new contributors have been enrolled in the process of solicitations.

The urgency of American Jewry's par-
ticipation in tasks for Israel's security
and for an inner Israeli strength in resist-
ing dangers was outlined in an address to
the workers at Sunday morning's report
meeting by Abbie Ben-Ari. •

The analysts, some of them battle - scarred veterans of American political wars,

asked not to be identified as the condition for supplying the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency with their candid versions of the clash that is deepening between the
leaders of the two democracies. They saw a certain clash of vast proportions
ahead if some Egyptian - Israeli agreement is not reached before Congress begins
to act, probably around mid - May, on Carter's package proposal to sell warplanes
to Egypt. Saudi Arabia and Israel.
According to the analysts, Begin was able to stretch out of his rigid shell by the
limelight in which he found himself as a missionary for peace after Resident Anwar
Sadat visited Jerusalem. The plan Begin proposed for the Sinai was more liberal than the
Israeli Labor governments. He was led to believe by Carter he had constructive positions
for settlement with Egypt. The President told Begin in December, "I will call Sadat and
give y o u view" the next day. Carter told Begin that Sadat was encouraged by

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At Sunday's Campaign meeting are,
from left, Irwin L. Kahn, Bernard H.

Stollman, Jerome B. Greenbaum,
Thomas I. Klein, Phillip Stollman, Harry
Silverman, Carolyn Greenberg, Joseph
H. Orley and Dr. Conrad L. Giles.

His oldest son was injured in the Yom
Kippur War and he had just received
word that his closest friend's son had been
killed in Lebanon.

Although Ben-Ari's middle son was
also participating in the Lebanese fight-

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