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But your doctor can detect high blood pressure (he may call it hy- pertension) and usually con- trol it. So see your doctor ... and follow his orders. • WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE American Heart Association of Michigan Holocaust Curriculum Called 'Unfair' To Nazis New York (JTA) — A cur- riculum used by some 30,000 teachers nationwide to teach Holocaust studies to 450,000 American high school stu- dents has been denounced by members of a U.S. Depart- ment of Education review panel for unfairness to the Nazi and Ku Klux Klan points of view, the New York Daily News reported last Sunday. The News said . the com- ments of the panelists were contained in Education Department documents ob- tained by the newspaper. The authors were not identified but "the documents indicate that the panels (were) com- posed (of) Southern educa- tors," the newspaper said. The curriculum was de- veloped by a Massachusetts educational foundation called "Facing History and Our- selves" which applied for a three-year $150,000 federal grant to expand the program. It was reviewed by panels in 1986 and 1987 for evaluation under the Education Depart- ment's National Diffusion network established in the Nixon Administration to alert educators about worthwhile programs created in local schools. In 1986, three members of the review panel submitted negative evaluations of the Holocaust curriculum. One panelist complained that it "gives no evidence of balance or objectivity. The Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view, and is not presented; nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan." The same panelist main- tained that the curriculum is based on the resource book "The Holocaust and Human Behavior" which "may be ap- propriate for a limited reli- gious audience but not for widespread distribution to the schools of the nation." A separate evaluation panel in 1987 charged that "Facing History" has a "profoundly anti-Christian bias," uses material that could be "pro- foundly offensive to fun- damentalists and evangeli- cals', relies too much on "left- ist authorities" such as author Kurt Vonnegut, New York Times columnist Flora Lewis and British historian A. J. P. Taylor, and overall was too emotional for junior high school students: The panelists claimed the study program induced "guilt trips" among students and one said "schools cannot af- ford to squander" time by "making teenagers face themselves in the context of death camps." Ronald Preston, an assist- pit deputy secretary of educa- tion, told the News, "We were embarrassed" by the 1986 evaluation which found the curriculum unfair to the Nazi point of view and disagreed with including The Dairy of Anne Frank on the reading list. However, Preston said the department will continue to use content review panels, "Facing History" was created in 1975 by Margot Strom and William Parsons, then high schools teachers in Brookline, Mass. Strom told the News in an interview that the Holocaust curriculum uses both the Holocaust and the Armenian genocide to stimulate students to think about how they would have responded to forces that resulted in mass killings. As far as the Nazi point of view is concerned, Strom said the program includes films made by Hitler and others that were used by the KKK to recruit young people. She said she expects the foundation's 1987 application for funding would be denied. U.S. Orthodox Decry Violence New York (JTA) — Five ma- jor Orthodox organizations in the U.S. issued a joint state- ment last week protesting what they called the "radical desecration" of the unique religious status of Jerusalem by the screening of films there on the Sabbath. Their statement also condemned "the action of the minuscule group of irresponsible hot- heads who stoop to stone- throwing in violation of Jewish law." The latter refer- ence apparently was to ultra- Orthodox residents of Jerusalem who have resorted to violence to force the closure of cinemas. The statement was issued by the Agudath Israel of America, National Council of Young Israel, Rabbinical Council of America, Religious Zionists of America, and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. It stressed that "Respect for the Sabbath was em- bodied even in the non-Jewish by-laws of Jerusalem under the British mandate which forbade Sabbath desecration in public facilities of the kind now being perpetrated." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 135