TRENDS YOU'RE COVERED With Our New T-Shirt! Rightwing Victory Shakes W. Germany DAVID KANTOR B Subscribe Today To The Jewish News And Receive Our New T-Shirt With Our Compliments! From the West Bank to West Bloomfield — and all points in between — The Jewish News covers your world. And now with our new T-shirt, we cover our new subscribers, too. It's durable, comfortable, easy to care for and attractive. And it comes in an array of adult and children's sizes. But most important, your new subscription will mean 52 information- packed weeks of The Jewish News, plus our special supplements, delivered every Friday to' your mailbox. A great newspaper and a complimentary T-shirt await you.for our low subscription rates. Just fill out the coupon below and return it to us. We'll fit you to a T! Jewish News T-Shirt Offer Please clip coupon and mail to: Yes! Start me on a subscription to The Jewish News for the period and amount circled below. Please send me the T-shirt. JEWISH NEWS T-SHIRT 20300 Civic Center Dr. Southfield, Mich. 480764138 NAME This offer is for new subscriptions only. Cur- rent subscribers may order the T-shirt for $4.75. Allow four weeks delivery. ADDRESS CITY (Circle One) STATE ZIP - 1 year '24 2 years: '45 Out of State: .'26 Enclosed $ one one) ) ADULT EX. LG. ADULT LARGE ADULT MED. CHILD LARGE CHILD MED. CHILD SMALL 14 ,FRIDAY, SEPT 25, 1987: onn (JTA) — The suc- cess of the neo-Nazi Deutsche Volksunion (DVU) party in gaining a seat in the State Parliament of Bremen in elections Sept. 12 has badly shaken the West German political establish- ment, whose leaders have consistently dismissed such rightwing extremist factions as little more than a nuisance incapable of winning suffi- cient votes to penetrate even local governments. Chancellor Helmut Kohl, leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), may well be embarrassed by the developments in Bremen. Only a week earlier, when visiting Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin ex- pressed concern over reports of resurgent anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism in the Federal republic — especially after the suicide in Spandau Prison of Hitler's former deputy, Rudolph Hess — kohl assured him there was no danger of neo-Nazi groups becoming more than a minor irritant, creating isolated, if un-pleasant, incidents from time to time. But now, even the most op- timistic West German politi- cians cannot ignore the reali- ty that for the first time in 20 years, a neo-Nazi candidate managed to get elected to a state legislature. The success of the DVU also greatly im- proved the chances of future support at the polls by conser- vative voters with rightwing leanings. The situation in Bremen was unique. While all of the federal states require a party to poll at least five percent of the popular vote to gain representation in parliament, the Bremen constitution makes a party eligible if it wins five percent in either one of the two cities compris- ing the state. The DVU did poorly_in Bremen. But it easi- ly exceeded the five percent barrier in Bremerhaven, the deep-water seaport at the mouth of the Weser. As a result, its candidate, 62-year-old retired engineer Hans Altermann, has become one of the 100 deputies in the State Parliament. The DVU employed a successful strategy by choosing a little- known candidate to head its election list. It avoided frightening off voters who would not support a promi- nent neo-Nazi. Helmut Kohl: A new menace Moreover, the DVU had the support of a rival, much bet- ter known neo-Nazi faction. The National Democratic Party (NPD), whose notoriety apparently convinced it that it could not win, mobilized its followers on behalf of the DVU - and made its head- quarters in Bremen and Bremerhaven :available to the smaller party. Observers are now pointing out that a small but sizeable minority of the electorate is ready to support Neo-Nazi groups. The latter possess the devotion, a certain degree of unity and are capable of working hard to mobilize sup- port and translate it into votes. The success of the DVU also may improve the chances of the other- neo-Nazi parties in states where the five percent barrier applies throughout. Both the DVU and NPD as recognized political parties can receive tax-deductible contributions from in- dividuals and businesses. The NPD already receives finan- cial support from the federal government, according to law, because of its relatively good showing in the last Bundestag elections. The DVU is headed by Gerhard Frey, who publishes the Munich-based National Zeitung which among other things calls the Holocaust a Jewish hoax and the gas chambers "Zionist propagan- da." The DVU campaigned in Bremen largely on the "need" to rid Germany of a community of five million foreign workers, mostly Turks. It avoided attacking Jews. But right after election day, Carla Mueller-Tupath, a Jewish community member who commented on the elec- tion results on the local radio station, received a flood of threatening letters.