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Having taught such kids for over two decades, having heard them indulge in grad- uation-night black humor about "meeting again on the school's memorial plaque," and, finally, after having been devastated on several occa- sions when some of their names were indeed inscribed on that plaque — the story simply cut too close to the bone for Adeerah. "Please don't take me to any more such films," she declared vehemently when we returned home from the cinema. Yet Late Summer Blues, the first full-length feature of scriptwriter Doron Nesher and director Renan Schorr, is not a war film in any conven- tional sense of the term, for it doesn't actually show any of the horrors of war. Not a single battle scene is por- trayed; not a gunshot is heard. But armed conflict — in this case the almost forgot- ten War of Attrition that claimed the lives of some 250 Israeli soldiers in skirmishes along the banks of the Suez Canal — is never far away. As my 18-year-old soldier son Oren said after seeing this film, "that war was like some kind of off-screen black hole into which the protagonists were being sucked." Having himself recently completed the 12th grade and a subsequent "last summer of freedom," Oren is in a good position to judge the film's authenticity, to which he gives high marks. He readily identified the youngsters por- trayed with his own small group of close friends, who had quiet similar eve-of- induction friendships, con- flicts and love affairs. Moreover, his friends were also inveterate protestors against the country's political leadership and, like their celluloid counterparts, final- ly joined front-line combat units because "there is nothing else to do if our coun- try and families are to sur- vive." There are no stars in Late Summer Blues, all the actors being virtually unknown, which is another reason that Oren and his friends could so easily see themselves on the screen. Whether foreign au- diences will find the acting of these fledgling performers painfully honest or ex- cruciatingly amateurish re- mains to be seen. But Nesher and Schorr have almost cer- tainly adopted the right ap- proach if one is to judge by the experience of the now flourishing Australian film industry. Previously little known outside kangaroo land, it won substantial out- side audiences by faithfully and skillfully portraying the reality of life Down Under. Reality can, of course, be painf)il for those personally concerned, as Oren is quick to note. Platoon, he told me, didn't bother me too much, perhaps because I couldn't imagine myself fighting in Vietnam. But Late Summer Blues hit straight home." NEWS 1 .1.1. Foxman Now ADL Director New York (JTA) — Abraham Foxman, 47, has been appointed national director of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, succeeding the late Nathan Perlmutter, ADL na- tional chairman Burton Levinson announced last Monday. Foxman served as associate national director and head of the ADL's International Af- fairs Division since 1978. He and Perlmutter were a "re- markable team," Levinson said. "Thanks to the unusual- ly close relationship, both per- sonal and professional, ADL is assured the continuity of leadership essential to con- tinued progress in meeting the many challenges which confront the world Jewish community" Foxman received a law degree from New York Uni- versity Law School. He is also a graduate of City University of New York and did graduate work in advanced Judaic studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and in international economics at the New School for Social Research.