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Detroit Arabs, Jews overcoming suspicion

WSU professor reports on Nicaragua

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NOVEMBER 16, 1984

SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY

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More slashing due
for Israeli budget

Jerusalem (JTA) — Israeli Fi-
nance Minister Yitzhak Modal told the
Knesset this week that he would pre-
sent his proposals for further govern-
ment budget cuts to the Cabinet at its
meeting Sunday. Modai predicted a
dramatic drop in the monthly inflation
rate from its present double-digits to
six percent by the end of the three-
month wage-price freeze in January.
He warned, however, that without an
additional $500 million cut in the
budget, the freeze package would fail.
Modal conceded that further cuts
in the budget would mean lay-offs and
rising unemployment and that defense
expenditures would not be exempt.
"For many years," Modal told the
.Knesset, the State of Israel has been

living above its means . . . There is a
limit to our capacity to use outside
help to preserve a level of expenses
which is much higher than the income
level." He noted that in the period of
1972-1983, the country's foreign debt
soared from $5 billion to $22 billion.
At the same time, the internal
debt increased from a rate of 42 per-
cent of the gross national product to
126 percent of the GNP. More than 38
percent of the budget is now allocated
to servicing foreign and internal debts,
he said. He noted also that for every
industrial worker in Israel there are
31/2 civil servants on the payroll. That
ratio should be reversed, he said.
Last Thursday, Treasury sources

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Is the Jewish vote
worth courting?

BY SHERWOOD D. KOHN
Special to The Jewish News

Computer Art by Jeff Pugh

Republican efforts to capture the
Jewish vote in the Presidential elec-
tion appear to have been in vain.
Or, to put it obversely, the Jewish
vote, which went about two to one for
Mondale, seemed to have little impact
on the Reagan landslide.
During the election campaign, the
Republicans said that they were
spending $2.5 million to court the

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Jewish vote, and that they were con-
centrating their efforts on nine key
states — states that they felt might be
crucial in a close contest for president.
A Jewish News check revealed
this week that Jewish voters in the
GOP's nine crucial states — Califor-
nia, Florida, New York, Massachu-
setts, New Jefsey, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Ohio and Illinois — cast
their ballots largely for Walter Mon-
dale.
In a telephone poll of Jewish
newspaper's, The Jewish News found
that more than 50 percent of Jewish
voters in New Jersey, and more than
55 percent in Ohio — long considered a
Republican stronghold — voted for
Mondale. Sixty-seven percent of Flori-
da's Jewish voters sided with Mondale
and 68 percent of California's Jewish
electorate went the same way. In
Michigan, the percentage was 69, in
Illinois it was 70, in Pennsylvania 72,
and in Massachusetts 75. New York
reported between 60 and 70 percent for
Mondale.

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high tech games, mailing lists,
and the wisdom of the Talmud
all on floppy disks.

BY JOSEPH AARON
Special to The Jewish News

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You want to know what I've got here
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