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May 18, 1984 - Image 17

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1984-05-18

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

NEWS

Equal Access Bill rejected

Washington (JTA) — The
rejection by the House on
Tuesday of a bill to allow
high school students to meet
voluntarily on their free
time in public schools for
religious purposes could end
the school prayer issue for
this session of congress.
The bill, known as the
,u.al Access Act, was re-
jected when it failied to get
the needed two-thirds
majority by 11 votes. The
vote was 270 in favor to 151
against.
All Michigan Republi-
cans favored the bill. Michi-
gan Democrats who voted
for it included Donald
Albosta (St. Charles),
Robert Carr (East Lansing),
John Dingell (Trenton), and
J. Bob Traxler (Okemos).
Michigan Dems who
voted against the bill were
David Bonior (Mt. Cle-
mens), John Conyers,
George Crockett and De-
nnis Hertel (Detroit),
William Ford (Taylor), Dale
Kildee (Flint), Sander
Levin (Southfield) and
Howard Wolpe (Lansing).
The measure, introduced
by Reps. Don Bonker (D-
Wash.) and Carl Perkins
(D-Ky.), would have cut off

federal funds from any
school that prohibited vol-
unteer student religious
groups if it permitted any
other type of student. in-
itiated group.
Bonker said that he
doubted that a new bill
would come into the House
this year because of the
short session of Congress
due to the Presidential con-
ventions. For the same rea-
son, he did not believe that
an equal access bill in the
Senate introduced by Sen.
Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.)
would be taken up that
body.
The Equal Access Act was
opposed by a coalition of 22
national organizations in-
cluding eight Jewish
groups. A representative of
one of the Jewish organiza-
tions noted that the final
vote was very close, with
many representatives
switching sides at the loast
moment.
Norman Redlich, dean of
the New York University
School of Law and chairman
of the American Jewish
Congress' Commission on
Law and Social Action,
charged that cults, pro-
setylizing groups and other

religious groups could go
into school under the bill
and "prosetylize and divide
our young men and women,
boys and girls."
At Tuesday's short House
debate, Rep. Don Edwards
(D-Calif.) said that if the bill
passed it would allow mis-
sionary groups to use the
schools to convert children.
Supporters of the bill had
argued that it would extend
to high schools the 1981
Supreme Court decision in
which the court ruled that a
state university cannot for-
bid students to use the
facilities for religious pur-
poses if it makes them gen-
erally available for others.

Unemployment
up in Israel

Tel Aviv (JTA) — Unem-
ployment in Israel lose by
43 percent during the six
months from October 1983
to March 1984.
There are presently
80,000 people out of work, or
5.7 percent of the work
force. Unemployment six
months earlier stood at
56,000.

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