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SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
Pollard Price-Tag?
$531 Million In Aid
BY WOLF BLITZER
Special to The Jewish News
Washington â Democratic Sen-
ator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii has
withdrawn his proposed $531 million
amendment to cut the prevailing
interest rates on outstanding U.S.
military loans to Israel from 12 per-
cent to five percent.
The withdrawal of the amend-
ment, which had been well on its
way toward final passge this year,
has come in the aftermath of the
Jonathan Jay Pollard spy scandal
and the consensus opinion among Is-
rael's best friends on Capitcl Hill
that this was not the right time to
seek extra aid for Israel.
There was fear that a prolonged
debate over the added aid in the Se-
nate and House of Representatives
would have merely ensured that the
spying allegations against Israel
would continue to receive extensive
exposure in the American news
600 attend dinner for
Hank Greenberg, Harry
Newman, Benny
Friedman and Bill
Davidson.
BY LARRY PALADINO
Special to The Jewish News
Births
Business
Classified Ads
Editorials
Engagements
Obituaries
Purely Commentary
Danny Raskin
Singles .....
Synagogues
Women's News
Youth
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CLOSE-UP
Ted Feder:
40 years
with JDC
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Jewish Sports Hall
Inducts First Four
Just a few weeks before the
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of
Fame held its inaugural induction
dinner, officers were anticipating
_ perhaps 300 patrons. But last week
the social hall at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek was swollen with more than
600 persons.
They came to honor four men
who were the first to be inducted
into the Hall: former Detroit Tiger
great Hank Greenberg, former Uni-
DECEMBER 13, 1985
NBA Commissioner David Stern, left,
and Detroit Pistons co-owner Oscar
Feldman, right, congratulate Pistons
owner Bill Davidson.
versity of Michigan All-America
quarterbacks Harry Newman and
the late Benny Friedman, and De-
troit Pistons owner Bill Davidson.
Several television crews were on
hand to record the event, as were
newspaper reporters. And, besides
the guests of honor, there were
plenty of other celebrities, either at
the head table or in the audience, to
keep autograph seekers busy much
of the night.
"It became a reality, a dream
fulfilled," said Al Foon, president of
the MJSHF, who â together with
fellow area business persons â
transformed the Hall from an idea
into a viable operation in only a few
months. "I was tremendously sur-
prised. We looked for 200 or 300
people and had over 600. It was in-
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