26 Friday, October 21, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Boris Smolar's
`Between You
. . . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)
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PRE-ELECTION ATMOSPHERE: Although the
1984 election will take place a year from now, a pre-election
campaign atmosphere is already being felt. And national
Jewish organizations engaged in standing guard against
bigotry and anti-Semitism are on the alert. They fear that
conflict over ethnicity, race and religion may become un-
usually dominant in the election campaign. They see sig-
nals already surfacing which indicate the possibility of
tension among ethnic groups.
The question is on the agenda of executive meetings of
three major Jewish organizations. It will occupy a full ses-
sion of the four-day meetings of the national executive
council of the American Jewish Committee, which opens in
Philadelphia on Thursday. It will be discussed Monday at a
meeting in New York of the executive committee of the
National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council
(NJCRAC). It was also considered at the three-day meeting
of the national executive committee of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith in Los Angeles this week.
The American Jewish Committee believes that group
identity issues may become crucial in the preliminaries to
the Presidential election and probably to the outcome of the
election. This has been dramatized by intensive voter regis-
tration campaigns in the Hispanic and Black communities.
There was high visibility of racial and ethnic conflict in
the recent Chicago mayoral campaign. Some in the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee fear that this pattern may repeat
itself in communities across the country during the cam-
paign for presidential election and for members of the Se-
nate who will be running for re-election. Already — even
before the official campaign is underway — serious dis-
cussions are heard about the possible candidacy of Jesse
Jackson or another Black presidential aspirant, about the
size of the Hispanic vote which Reagan is now courting, and
about the fundamentalist Protestant political movement.
EYES ON ETHNIC GROUPS: To reduce the danger
of destructive intergroup conflicts, the AJCommittee ad-
vances a proposal to strengthen Jewish coalition with
minority communities by supporting their voter registra-
tion efforts vigorously. At the same time, its executive
council is urged to also analyze the risks and benefits for
the Jewish community in such support for higher voter
registration in minority communities.
Jews constitute threepercent of the population in the
United States, but in national elections they comprise four
percent of all voters. That one percent equals about ■ 50,000
votes — enough to provide national victory in close elec-
tions.
In most elections, 80 percent of the registered Jewish
voters turn out at the polling booths. A campaign rule of
thumb is to multiply the Jewish voting age population by
three to get their true weight in primary elections and by
two for a general election. In a tight race, the Jewish votes
are considered crucial to any Presidential candidate. In
eight states with large Jewish populations, the Jewish vote
is often the difference between victory and defeat. These
states are: New York, California, Maryland, Massachu-
setts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida and Connecticut.
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PARIS (JTA) — France
and the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization last year
concluded an agreement
providing for their coopera-
tion in preventing terrorist
attacks on French territory,
according to the French
weekly, Le Canard
Enchaine.
The agreement was con-
cluded last October by PLO
chief Yasir Arafat and
French intelligence chief
Pierre Marion during a
meeting in Arafat's head-
quarters near Tunis, the
weekly reported.
According to the paper,
the agreement was ap-
proved by President Fran-
cois Mitterrand but most
French Cabinet ministers
were not informed of its
existence.
The accord was con-
cluded at a time when the
PLO was in deep trouble
and had already
evacuated Beirut. The
Palestinians promised to
help the French prevent
attacks on their territory
by terrorist gangs lead by
Abu Nidal, the Armenian
Secret Army and other
extremist groups.
Le Canard Enchaine im-
plied that the PLO was
grateful for France's help
during Israel's siege of Be-
irut. France helped at the
time to obtain an evacua-
tion agreement for Palesti-
nian fighters and French
warships even escorted the
Greek vessel on which
Arafat left Beirut for
Athens.
Danish-born comedian
Victor Borge came into the
world with the name of
Borge Rosenbaum.