NEWS YOU'RE COVERED With Our New T-Shirt! Is Cartoonist Anti-Semitic? Los Angeles (JTA) — Is Los Angeles Times editorial car- toonist Paul Conrad anti- Semitic, or is the city's Jewish community over-sensitive to harsh criticism of Israel? That's the question being asked in the pages of The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, whose readers and contributors have been variously vilifying and defen- ding the 63-year-old Irish Catholic cartoonist. The debate focuses on a series of cartoons that have appeared in the Times since the beginning of the Palesti- nian uprising six months ago. Conrad has depicted an Israeli soldier astride a heap of Palestinian corpses, ex- claiming "There aren't any Palestinians to talk peace with!", a bearded rabbi, also standing on a Palestinian, carrying a sign on behalf of Soviet Jews; and gun- wielding Jewish soldiers blocking Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. The cartoons led Jewish community members to pro- test to Times publisher Tom Johnson, and some 20 Jewish organizations to express their anger in paid advertisements. A group of community leaders went directly to Con- rad to complain about what they saw as offensive, even anti-Semitic cartoons. In a generally favorable op- ed piece based on his inter- view with Conrad, editor Gene Lichtenstein writes that Conrad denies he is anti- Semitic. Rather, he is a long- time liberal who sees the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a civil-rights _issue. 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. Bush Names Advisors 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. Well fit you to a T! I 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. 48076-4138 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) (Circle One) ZIP 1 year: $26 2 years: $46 Out of State: $33 Enclosed $ ADULT EX. LG. ADULT LARGE ADULT MED. CHILD LARGE CHILD MED. CHILD SMALL L 12 STATE FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1988 J Washington (JTA) — Vice President George Bush has named a 27-member commit- tee, headed by Gordon Zacks, a leading Jewish Republican; and Richard Fairbanks, a former assistant secretary of state, to advise him on the Middle East for his upcoming presidential campaign. "This committee will be in- valuable in helping the cam- paign address the full range of challenges and opportun- ities that our nation faces in the Middle East," Bush said in a statement last week an- nouncing the formation of the committee. It will make recommenda- tions to the Republican Plat- form Committee and will assist Bush in the presiden- tial campaign on debates and position papers. Zacks, an Ohio business- man active in the Jewish community, has long been close to Bush and has fre- quently introduced the vice president when Bush spoke before national Jewish organizations. Fairbanks served briefly in the early days of the Reagan ad- ministration as a special negotiator in the Middle East. Rabin Talks To Palestinians Jerusalem (JTA) — Against a backdrop of rioting, which continued in the West Bank and resumed in East Jerusalem, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin has been holding dialogues with in- fluential Palestinians "of all political camps" in the ad- ministered territories. According to reports from the Defense Ministry last Yitzhak Rabin: Broke the boycott. Monday, his intention is to try to improve the atmos- phere with residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip while continuing to employ tough measures against the Palestinian uprising, now in its seventh month. The Palestine Liberation Organization has urged Palestinian political figures to boycott such talks, but has not been able to prevent them. The identity of the four Palestinians with whom Rabin has been meeting has been kept secret. However, there were reports that one of them was an author of the PLO's notorious covenant which, drafted when the PLO was founded in 1964, calls for the destruction of Israel by armed struggle. Even Israelis who support negotiations with the PLO demand the covenant be rescinded as a pre-condition for talks. Ministry sources said Rabin will continue and intensify his conversations.