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MOPAC Backing
Selected Democrats

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Local fundraisers are using attitudes on Israel and
"Jewish issues" to gauge their support

ALAN HITSKY

Next to his
wife Nancy,
the banjo
is the love
of Doug Jacobs'
life

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News Editor

A group of Michigan Jews have
formed a political action committee
to funnel money to Democratic Party
candidates both inside and outside
Michigan.
MOPAC (Motor City Political
Action Committee) has raised
$90,000 from 125 contributors since
it was organized last fall, and has
distributed up to $5,000 apiece to
candidates such as Howard Wolpe,
Bob Carr, Dennis Hertel and John
Dingell in Michigan, and Harriet
Woods of Missouri, Harry Reed of
Nevada and Terry Sanford in North
Carolina, among others.
MOPAC is spearheaded by its

president and founder, Emery Klein.
The group offers "financial support
to Democratic candidates who reflect
a deep sensitivity to, and a serious
concern for, matters of vital interest
to the security of Israel and to the
security and well-being of the
American Jewish community," ac-
cording to one of MOPAC's fundrais-
ing letters. In the domestic sphere,
there will be particular attention
paid to candidates committed to the
protection of those fundamental con-
stitutional liberties which keep
America a free and pluralistic
society."
The domestic criteria differ-
entiates MOPAC from many other
Jewish PACs, which have been

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Radio Commentary
Irks JCCouncil

A University of Michigan staff member injects some
Middle East propaganda

DAVID HOLZEL

Staff Writer

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A commentary broadcast July
16 on WDET-FM has drawn a sharp
response from the Jewish Commu-
nity Council. Guest commentator
Betsy Barlow, substituting for
Bishop H. Coleman McGehee of the
Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, pre-
sented "lies, by omission and com-
mission against the State of Israel,"
wrote Alvin Kushner, executive di-
rector of the JCCouncil in a letter to
Rev. Hugh C. White, jr. of the dio-
cese.
Barlow, outreach coordinator at
the University of Michigan's Near
East Center, acknowledged the opin-
ions she presented in the broadcast
to be her own, dissociated herself
from WDET and did not identify
herself or her opinions with the uni-
versity.
What she failed to do, according

to Kushner, was dissociate her opin-
ions from the Episcopal Diocese,
whose Bishop McGehee regularly
fills a Wednesday morning slot.
They put a substitute in for
Bishop McGehee and that substitute
attacked Israel. Is that the diocese's

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