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Anti-Semite Does Well
In French Elections
Paris (JTA) — The ultra right-
wing National Front Party, by Mitterrand — to 293 seats in
the National Assembly, four
whose leader, Jean Marie Le short
of a majority.
Pen, has been denounced as a
The Communist Party, which
racist and an anti-Semite by
Jewish community leaders, el- won 35 Assembly seats with
bowed its way into parliament slightly less than 10 percent of
last Sunday in national elections the national vote, suffered its
that left the winning center- worst defeat since 1924. Polit-
right coalition four seats short ical analysts believe its debacle
of the majority they need to was attributable in part to the
party's poor record on human
form a government.
rights.
Le Pen, whose party won 35
According to the French con-
seats in the 577 seat National
Assembly — and nearly 10 per stitution, Mitterrand will serve
cent of the total vote — prompt- out his term, which expires in
ly declared he would not support 1988. He will remain in charge
a new center-right government of foreign affairs, though pro-
unless he is part of it. The bably in consultation with the
possibility looms that he well new center-right Prime Minister
he must appoint. This is ex-
may be.
Recently, a court sentenced pected to be Chirac, who was
Le Pen to a symbolic fine after Premier in Giscard's government.
But Mitterrand could appoint
finding him guilty of racist
remarks when he insulted four a "dark horse'. One name men-
Jewish reporters whom had tioned is Simone Veil, former
been critical of his party's ac- President of the Parliament of
tivities. In an interview last Europe, who is Jewish and a sur-
year, Le Pen denied he was anti- vivor of Auschwitz.
Jewish. He admited being anti-
Arab and favors expelling im-
migrant guest workers, many of
whom are of North African JNF Announces
origin.
$10 Million
The National Front Party won
four seats in Marseilles, a city Goal For 1986
plagued by unemployment
New York (JTA) — The Jew-
which has a large population of ish National Fund's fund-raising
guest workers from North goals and the agency's needs for
Africa. It matched the center- 1986 amount to some $10 mil-
right coalition which also won lion, JNF executive' vice presi-
four seats in Marseilles. Le Pen dent Samuel Cohen told some
himself was elected in Paris 200 persons attending the
where he polled 11 percent of the organization's national con-
vote.
ference here last Sunday.
The coalition which beat Pres-
"This is what is needed for the
ident Francois Mitterrand's Keren Heyemeth to maintain its
Socialist Party consists of the lifeline of operations this year
neo-Gaullist Rally for the Re- for the people of Israel," said
public (RPR), headed by Paris Cohen.
Mayor Jacques Chirac, and the
Three specific areas of devel-
liberal Union from French opment to be aided - by the JNF
Democracy (UDF), whose leader in Israel, according to Cohen,
is former president Valery are the afforestation of some
Giscard d'Estaing.
1,250 acres of land in Israel; the
Together with several inde- acquisition of some 12,000
pendent rightwing deputies, dunams for agricultural devel-
they polled 22.5 percent of the opment; and aid for the con-
national vote which translates struction of access roads of
— under the system of propor- some 300 to 500 miles in the
tional representation introduced Negev and Galilee.
Ethiopian Jew Seifu Lessanework shows Jewish Welfare Federation
Young Adult Division members native art at his Blue Nile Restaurant
in Detroit. With Lassanework are David Foltyn, David B. Jaffe, Brian
Kepes and Marla Moiseev.
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