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Payment does not include 4% use tax. First Month Payment, S250.00 refundable security deposit, and plate fee due at lease inception lease includes 108.000 miles, customer is responsible for excess miles and excess wear and tear. Total cost equals total monthly payment times 72 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.