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Friday, November 2, 1984

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

NEWS

Congressional races

Continued from. Page 26

JEPSEN vs.

HARKINS

MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT

EXPERIENCE

• Justice, Michigan Supreme Court
• Judge, U.S. District Court
• Judge, Detroit Recorder's Court
• Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor
- • Assistant U.S. Attorney
• First in class,
Wayne State University Law School

• Instrumental in reforming Michigan's
rape laws, now a national model.
• 12th woman ever to serve as
Federal District Judge in the history
of the United Staies.

RECOGNITION

• Rated "Best Recorder's Court Judge,"
Detroit Free Press Poll
• Distinguished Alumni Award, Wayne
State Law School and University
• "Woman of the Year,"
Police Officers Association of
Michigan
• Outstanding Achievement Awards,
National Organization for Women
• Outstanding Achievement Award,
Prosecuting Attorneys Association of
Michigan
• Spirit of Detroit Awards,
City of Detroit Common Council

Retain Justice Boyle on the
Michigan Supreme Court
Vote Tuesday, November 6th
On the Non-Partisan Ballot

Authorized & Paid for by Committee To Retain Justice Patricia J. Boyle, 1220 Lafayette Bldg., Detroit, Ml 48226.

Partisans of Israel in Iowa
may have a hard time choos-
ing between their senatorial
incumbent, Republican Ro-
ger Jepsen, and his challen-
ger, six term representative
Tim Harkin. Generally, both
have exceptionally pro-Israel
records. But both have quali-
ties that could persuade
voters not to side with them,
i.e.:
The seventh ranking mem-
ber of the Armed Services,
conservative Jepsen was one
of the original Senate leaders
opposing the sale of AWACS
planes to Saudi Arabia. At
the last minute, White House
lobbyists convinced him to
change his vote. Apparently,
his political life was in the
balance. A White House aide
later said, "We stood him in
front of an open grave and
told him he could jump in
when he wanted to." Jepsen's
wavering on his convictions
may convince voters that
they are not very deep.
Tim Harkin has one of the
better pro-Israel records in
the House. Supporters of Is-
rael, though, are worried that
Harkin's concern for human
rights could also extend to
the Palestinians, an issue
that they fear could com-
promise his usually pro-Israel
votes.

GORE vs. ASHE

With Majority Leader Ho-
ward Baker's retirement
from the Senate, there has
been a scramble in Tennessee
for the Senate seat he has
held since 1966. The favored
candidate is Albert Gore, Jr.,
who has almost a 20 percent
lead on his two opponents.
With a near-perfect voting
record on Israel and an image
of a modern Democrat not
linked to the New Deal, the

Victor Ashe, has not said
much about Israel. An in-
dependent candidate, Ed
McAteer, is expected to take
about three percent of the
vote away from Ashe. Head
of the fundamentalist Reli-
gious Roundtable, McAteer
is devoutly pro-Israeli in the
Jerry Falwell tradition.

ROCKEFELLER
vs. RAESE

One of the nation's house-
hold names has a good chance
of putting his name on a
Senate door next year. Jay
Rockefeller has served three
terms as governor of West
Virginia. He is now about 15
points ahead of his Republi-
can opponent, businessman
John Raese, partly because
he has poured about $6 mil-
lion into his senatorial cam-
paign. Most of this is his own
money. Rockefeller has done
fund-raising for Jewish
groups around the country
and, if elected, is expected to
be fairly pro-Israeli.
Raese is campaigning for
public office for the first time.
He has not said much about
the Middle East in his cam-
paign, probably because eco-
nomics are more important to
the voters of West Virginia.
However, he has recently
contacted at least- one na-
tional Jewish organization
and said he wished to get
closer to the Jewish com-
munity. He will soon issue a
position paper on the Middle
East.

Black-Jewish task
force established

Atlanta — In an attempt to
bridge the gap that has formed in
recent years between the black
and Jewish , communities, the
American Jewish Committee and
the National Council of Churches
(NCC) have formed a National
Interreligious Task Force on
Black-Jewish Relations.
Members of the task force in-
clude Rabbi James A. Rudin, na-
tional director of interreligious af-
fairs for the AJCommittee; Rev.
Elizabeth Scott, director of the
NCC's Office of Justice for
Women; and. Dr. Kenyon E.
Burke, the NCC's general secre-
tary.

Embassy bomb
suspects deported

Tennessee's Albert Gore Jr.: A
"modern Democrat" already men-
tioned as a 1992 presidential
candidate.

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35-year-old Gore is already
being spoken of as a presiden-
tial candidate for 1992.
Gore's major opponent,
former GOP state senator

London (JTA) — Nicosia televi-
sion reported last week that two
Arabs who were detained as sus-
pects in the attempt to bomb the
Israeli Embassy in Cyprus were
deported from that country on
Oct. 22, according to the World
Jewish Congress (WJC). This fol-
lowed a ruling by the attorney
general that there was insuffi-
cient evidence against the two for
a trial.

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