• • ••,-• H X Friday, hdy 1,1311 DIE 6ET1Ri XWISII NEWS Jewish Organizations Hail Bakke Decision New simmer Hour NEW`YORK (JTA) — Three American Jewish human rights regencies en- thusiastically welcomed that Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that Allan Bakke must be admitted to the University of California Medical School at Davis from which he had been re- jected because 16 places had Mon.-Fri. 9:30-5:00 Closed Saturday July & August thru Labor Day LILI FOX TRIO Dinner-Hour Violin, Cello, Piano, Dancing, Electric Piano, Organ, Auto drum, Guitar. Vocal Can emo Audition 398-2462, U 6-2967 Are Your Plants A Mess? CALL Plant Care Specialist 12 years exp. In plant care Interior-Exterior Plant care, maintenance & design Residential - Commercial Call Mika - Naturo's Helper 349-1 41 0 CLEARANCE SALE ON ALL SUMMERWEAR 1 /3 TO 1/2 OFF wok . AT akt A VERY SPECIAL STORE IN OAK NUM MON. Oyu SAT. 10.6 23133 COOLIDGE NORTH OF 9 MILE RD. For Pre-Teens & Juniors PHONE 545.3242 ORCHARD MALL been reserved for Blacks and other minorities. Abrams stressed that "racial quotas are not a good thing in America. The American Jewish Committee, the American They are not satisfactory Jewish Congrdss and the for advancing the cause Anti-Defamation League of of the disadvantaged." Bnai Brith all said they Samuel Rabinove, direc- viewed the decision as a tor of the AJComntittee's vindication of their stand, legal department, said that the imposition of "The majority decision quotas was unconstitu- does not close the door to tional. At the same time, the kinds of affirmative they stressed that they still action which we most supported "affirmative ac- strongly endorse." tion" programs through Abrams said he did not legal means. think that the decision would create tensions bet- At a press conference at the AJCommittee head- ween Blacks and Jews. But quarters, Morris Abram, most Black leaders in the the organization's honorary U.S. have criticized the de- president, declared, "we - cision. Vernon Jordan, head who have opposed racial of the Urban League, was to quotas in admission to col- have appeared at the AJ- leges, universities and Committee press confer- other aspects of American ence, but did not. life, do not believe that such a decision, which outlaws such quotas, means that the skies have fallen on the dis- advantaged groups in our country. We do not believe that affirmative action is dead in either law or spirit." The AJCongress, in a statement, said it was "gratified" by the decision. "Although we have not yet had an opportunity to re- view the many opinions re- ndered in the case, it seems clear to us that this decision does not mean the end of af- ADL's general counsel, said firmative action programs in a statement that the or but rather 'the elimination ganization was pleased by of quota systems and the use the decision. "In finding of race as the sole criterion quotas clearly illegal, the for university admissions. court held that race may not "We continue to support be used as the determining factor in accepting or reject- effective affirmative action programs based on ing an applicant for admis- sion." But Forster did not economic, cultural and so- cial disadvantages designed seem pleased with -Justice to provide opportunities for Lewis Powell's opinion, one employment and education of six separate opinions gi- to those who have been de- ven, which the ADL official noted allows race to be con- nied them." sidered as one factor among The AJCongress said it others in determining ad- looked forward "to work- mission. ing with other civil rights , "In our view, it would groups and all interested seem difficult to allow race parties and organiza- to be used as one factor tions in an effort to devise without it becoming the de- effective and appropriate termining factor," Forster affirmative action prog- said. "But happily, quotas rams that would help or anything that adds up to fully integrate minority quotas are outlawed." communities into the Both the National Coun- mainstream of American cil ofJewish Women and the life without imposing Central Conference of rigid and divisive racial American Rabbis (Reform) criteria or the use of in- also issued statements sup- flexible and stigmatizing porting the Supreme Court quota systems." decision and affirmative ac- Arnold Forster, the tion programs. losif Begun Sentenced to 3-Year Exile NEW YORK (JTA) — The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry confirmed re- ports from Moscow that Jewish activist Iosif Begun has been sentenced to three years' internal exile for al- legedly "violating the in- ternal passport reugla- tions." His trial was marked by harassment of Western newsmen outside the cour- thouse, it was reported by the SSSJ and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry. The charges were brought against Begun because the 46-year-old electrical en- gineer defied a ban on his return to his Moscow home several months ago after he served a one-year term of Maple and Orchard Lake Rd. Wives save men from sin. — Talmud 851-9222 exile for "parasitism" near the Chinese frontier. Begun was re-arrested on May 17. He is the third prominent Jewish ac- tivist sentenced to inter- nal exile in the past two weeks. Last week, sen- tences of five and four years respectively were imposed by Moscow courts on Vladimir Spek and Ida Nudel. The National Conference on -Soviet Jewry reported that—Be gun's wife, Alla Drugova Begun, told repor- ters outside the Moscow court that her husband was so weakened after a 40-day hunger strike that he could barely stand in the cour- troom or freely express him- self. As Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko ad- In Montreal, the Cana- dian Parliamentary Hel- dressed a worldwide disarmament conference at the United Nations, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry JDC Establishes staged a "Disarm the USSR from Anti-Semitism" vigil outside at the Isaiah Peace Wall. One of the de- Horwitz Fund monstrators, Emma Manevich, held a sign demanding Russia "disarm" itself of her refusenik parents, David NEW YORK — A "Louis D. Horwitz Scholarship En- and Tamara Karlin of Leningrad. • • • dowment Fund" in memory of the former director- sinki Group metwith Soviet the Canadian Parliamen- general of the Joint Dis- emigre dissident Dina tary Helsinki Group spon- tribution Committee, has Beilina and representatives sor or support the nomina- been established by the JDC of the Canadian Committee tion of the Moscow Helsinki at the Paul Baerwald School for the Release of Anatoly monitoring group for the of Social Work in the Heb- Shcharansky. Nobel Peace Prize. Her re- rew University, it was an- The meeting was con- commendation was adopted nounced by Donald M. vened because of what by consensus at the Cana- Robinson, JDC president. McGill University law pro- dian Parliamentary Hel- The income from the en- fessor Irwin Cotler, coun- sinki Group meeting. dowment fund of $25,000 selor for Shcharansky, cal- will provide five scholar- led the urgent plight of Airfield Changed ships and fellowships dur- Jewish dissidents in the " WASHINGTON — Avia- ing the first year for ad- Soviet Union. tion Week and Space vanced studies in commun- Mrs. Beilina, who has Technology magazine re- ity planning, community been Shcharansky's ports that Israeli officials center work and community spokesperson to the free have abandoned plans for development. world, chronicled the an international airport to dangers faced by Soviet be located near Beersheba UJA PR Head Jewish dissidents. or Eilat. NEW YORK — Howard She said that immigra- Plans now call for an L. Levine, formerly director tion for Soviet Jews was not existing military field near of public relations of the just a right but a salvation, Tel Aviv to be converted.' New School for Social Re- because those who apply for The facility is expected to be search, has been appointed immigration are branded needed between 1990 and national public relations di- Zionists and are considered 2000, "but may be needed rector for the United Jewish "ehamies" of the Soviet Un- sooner in a Middle East Appeal. ion. She 'recommended that peace is achieved."