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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. West Bloomfield On The Boardwalk Orchard Lake Rd., S. of Maple Mon., Thurs. & Fri. 10-9 Tues., Wed. & Sat. 10-7, Sun. 12-5 626-3362 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.