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32
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988
Church Group Attempts To Get
Anti-Hate Bill Back On flack
Nomination
Causes Storm
JAMES DAVID BESSER
Washington Correspondent
S
ometimes legislation
needs a little nudge
to break a congres-
sional gridlock. This ap-
peared to be the object of a
press conference held by the
National Council of Churches
and the Center for
Democratic Renewal in
Washington last week.
The bill in question is the
"hate crimes" statistics bill,
sponsored by Rep. John Con-
yers (D-MI), companion
legislation to Rep. Dan
Glickman's bill to make cer-
tain kinds of crimes based on
religious and racial prejudice
federal offenses.
The Glickman bill, which
was passed by the full House
several months ago and is
currently awaiting action by
the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee, focuses on criminal
penalties for such actions as
synagogue vandalism. The
Conyers bill provides for the
collection of statistics about
these kinds of crimes.
But the Conyers measure
has faced tough going on the
Hill because it extends
coverage to crimes based on
the sexual preferences of vic-
tims. Civil rights groups see
antihomosexual crimes on
the increase; to them, it is on-
ly natural that anti-gay
crimes be part of the data
base. Conservative legislators
and members of the Christian
Right disagree, and have suc-
ceeded in burying the bill in
the House.
The recent release of the
National Council of Churches
report was an attempt to get
the bill back on track. In the
report, NCC documented an
alarming increase in hate
crimes, and a change in the
organizations behind these
activities.
"The character of violence
by members of far-right,
racist and anti-Semitic
organizations has changed
markedly since its re-
emergence in the late 1970s,"
the report said. "These
organizations have become
increasingly ideological in
their choice of targets and
more technically proficient in
their choice of weaponry."
The most frequent targets
of such groups, the NCC
report pointed out, are blacks,
Jews and homosexuals. The
report indicated a particular-
ly alarming rise in hate
crimes in high schools and
colleges last year.
Rep. John Conyers:
Pressure from the Right
The news conference in-
cluded speeches by Rep. John
Conyers, who urged the quick
passage of his hate-crimes
statistics measure, and Rabbi
A. James Rudin, National In-
terreligious Affairs Director
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee, a group that has lob-
bied hard for both the
Glickman and the Conyers
bills.
Grappling With
Unrest
At Israel's embassy, a group
of Israeli correspondents sign-
ed a letter protesting the em-
bassy's handling of the cur-
rent unrest. Specifically, the
Hebrew-language reporters
here were upset about the
lack of openness at the em-
bassy, and by the Israeli
delegation's lack of awareness
of the needs of journalists in
covering the unfolding
drama.
In an attempt to deal with
the growing problem of how
U.S. citizens perceive the
unrest in the territories, the
embassy held a series of in-
tensive meetings early this
week with their counsels
general, and with a group of
top American Jewish leaders,
including Tom Dine of the
American Israel Public Af-
fairs Committee (AIPAC), and
Morris Abram of the Con-
ference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish
Organizations.
Although there was no
clear indication of how these
events would change the
Israeli government's handing
of its problems in the U.S.
print and broadcast media,
several reporters on the em-
bassy beat reported a more
forthcoming attitude on the
part of Israeli authorities over
the weekend.
Soviet Jewry groups are
continuing the process of
preserving the unprecedented
unity stemming from the
December mobilization.
But a major battle is shap-
ing up between the two major
groups, the Union of Councils
for Soviet Jews and the Na-
tional Conference on Soviet
Jewry (NCSJ) over the filling
of a top post at the Depart-
ment of Commerce. Partici-
pants suggest that the strug-
gle may represent a major
turning point in the move-
ment to keep up the pressure
on the Soviet Union.
At issue is the appointment
of Kempton B. Jenkins as
Undersecretary of Commerce
for International Trade Ad-
ministration, the number
three job at the agency.
Jenkins, a Russian linguist
and specialist in Soviet af-
fairs, is a longtime protege of
the new Commerce Secretary,
C. William Verity.
During Verity's confirma-
tion hearings, some hard-line
Soviet Jewry groups — with
help from Sen. Alphonse
D'Amato (R-NY) — objected to
the nominee's emphasis on
expanded trade with the
Soviets, which they viewed as
a transparent attempt to end-
run the Jackson-Vanik
amendment. Jackson-Vanik,
which denies the coveted
Most Favored Nation status
to countries with unusually
bad human rights records, is
the cornerstone of the U.S.
strategy to rescue the Jews of
the Soviet Union.
In the Verity confirmation
debate, serious opposition did
not develop until near the end
of the process. Some Soviet
Jewry activists see the battle
over Jenkins' confirmation as
a more winable one — even
though Jenkins is expected to
focus primarily on U.S.-Japan
trade issues in his new job..
The Union of Councils for
Soviet Jews is gearing up to
oppose the nomination; the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) will ap-
parently not take a stand.
The NCSJ, under the lead-
ership of Morris Abram, is
moving in the direction of a
tentative acknowledgment of
Glasnost.
The Union of Councils
disagrees. In the last few
months, the group has in-
creased its emphasis on
economic levers to force
changes in Soviet emigration
policy.