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18 Friday, October 31, 1980

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

A Few Quotations

REAGAN RAPS
CARTER FOUL-UP
AT UNITED NATIONS

DETROIT — (JTA) — Republican Party presidential nom-.
hat the
inee Ronald Reagan charged, in his acceptance speech, t
v
Carter Administration "handed a ,majr propaganda ictor"
to Israel's enernic by its foul-up in the anti-Israel resolution

adopted by the United Nations Security Council last Mar.a 1caustic
In the prepared text of the speech, Reagan said, in
which the
reference to President Carter and the resolution in its favo r:
President repudiated two days after the U.S. voted
"AN ANNAPOLIS graduate may be at the helm of the _Ship

of State, but the ship has no rudder. Critical decisions are made
at times almost in Marx Brothers fashion, but who can laugh?
"Who was not embarrassed when the Administration handed

Vow Reagan
Wouldn't
Abandon Israel

NFW YORK — (JTA) — Rep. Jack Kemp (R., N.Y.) declared
that Republican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan's "stub-

bornness" on Taiwan demonstrates he would never abandon
Israel. It
shows that a Reagan Administration "will not betray
our allies nor our commitments," he said.

Kemp offered this explanation of Reagan's controversial state-
ment that he would restore official relations with Taiwan to
nearly 100 Jews, a majority of them rabbis, who crowded into the
backyard garden at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Diamond
on Manhattan's Upper East Side.

The gathering, hosted by Diamond and Rabbi Seymour Siegel,
of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a member of

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"I would say. in all objectivity. however, that Governor
Reagan has a long history of support (for Israel). He was
one of the original supports of the creation of the State of
Israel. So he has unique qualifications when . he talks about
the State of Israel. -
U.S. Senator Henry Jackson, Broadcast Excerpt, NBC
Today Show, September 4, 1980

"Senator Stone* criticizes Carter Administration as Short-
sighted in Attitude Toward Israel as a Strategic Middle
East Ally. -
—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS, *Richard Stone
(D-Fla) Oct. 24, 1980

Novick* denounced (the) Carter Administration for
attempting to blame Israel for U.S. difficulties in the Arab
World...
—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS, * Ivan Novick, Presi-
dent, Zionist Organization of America

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A Few Numbers

"The present administration has damaged the peace pro-
spects in the middle east, undermined relations with other
friends, and made American foreign policy the laughing
stock of nations throughout the world. -
U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy

"I made a moral judgment that I could no longer, in good
conscience, continue my work for you with the American
Jewish community. . . .
(Letter of resignation from White House staffer Mark
Siegel to President Carter, March, 1978)

. (Reagan) is more pro-Israel than the Carter
Administration. -
Sol Linowitz, U.S. Special Middle East Ambassador

". . (Carter) a president whose record of ineptitude is
unmatched since the days of Warren G. Harding and
whose campaign is based on foreign policy crises largely of
his own making.
Tom Wicker, prominent liberal columinist

Price of gold

November 3, 1976-4125.75
September 23, 1980—$715

Unemployment Rate

January 1977-7.4 percent
August 1980-7.6 percent

Inflation Rate

1976-4.8 percent
latest 12-month period-12:8 percent

Consumer Price Index

January 1977-175.3
August 1980-249.4

Cost of barrel of imported oil

(delivered)
January 1977—$13.61
August 1980—$33.02

Amount Spent on imported oil

1976—$44.7 billion
1979—(preliminary) $60 billion

Number of pages in Federal Register

Average take-home pay

(private sector production worker with three
dependents, 1967 dollars)
January 1977—$90.83
August 1980—$82.94

1976-57,072
1979-77,498

Mortgage Rate

January 1977-9%
September 1980-14 1 /2 °,7o

Prime Rate

National Debt

June 30, 1977—$632 billion
September 17, 1980—$892 billion

January 1977-6 72 %
September 1980-13%

Coalition fOr Reagan & Bush: Theodore E. Cummings & Max M. Fisher, Honorary National Chairmen,. Paul Borman & Edward C. Levy, Jr.. Michigan Chairmen

Paid for by The Reagan/Bush Committee for Michigan, Jan Ellis-Treasurer