BACKGROUND The HIGHEST Money Market Rate Among Major Financial Institutions in the Detroit Metropolitan Area for 313 Consecutive Weeks Anti-Semitism Is Soviet Weed Growing As Freedom Blossoms HELEN DAVIS INSTANT LIQUIDITY INTEREST RATES AS OF 3-14-90 MONEY MARKET RATES' FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 6.65 Franklin Savings 6.40 6.25 5.85 6.00 5.85 5.90 5.90 5.25 National Bank of Detroit Manufacturers Comerica First Federal Savings Bank & Trust Michigan National of Detroit Standard Federal First Federal of Michigan First of America •Based on $10,000 deposit. Some minimum deposit requirements may be lower. Higher rates may be available for larger deposits. 6 MONTH HIGH INCOME C.D. 8.00% 8.30% Annual Percentage Rate Annual Yield Monthly check may be issued or reinvested to another Franklin Savings Account Balance of $5000 or more. Limited time offer. Early withdrawal subject to penalty. Franklin Bank SAVINGS SOUTHFIELD 26336 Twelve Mile Road GROSSE POINTE BIRMINGHAM WOODS 20247 Mack Avenue (313) 358-5170 (313) 881.5200 FDIC Insured Call Toll-Free 1-800.5274447 OC Pcnnev MARNI 94 1C1011 479 South Woodward (313) 647.0000 FOWL MONO LOOP Foreign Correspondent A re Soviet Jews stan- ding on the edge of a precipice? Are they once again in danger of be- ing swallowed up by ancient hatred? Is the awful history of anti-Semitism about to be replayed even as the Soviet Union remakes its totalitarian face and enters the brave new world of dem- ocratic enlightenment? British Jews and non-Jews — community leaders, Soviet Jewry campaigners, politi- cians — who have visited the Soviet Union recently are unanimous in reporting that dark clouds, in the form of huge question marks, hang over the immediate future of the estimated 3 million Soviet Jews. Dr. Lionel Kopelowitz, president of the Board of Deputies, a secular umbrella organization for British Jews which closely monitors events in the Soviet Union, believes all the pieces are in place for a potential catas- trophe. Anti-Semitism is deeply entrenched, he says. "Street anti- Semitism" is again be- ing witnessed in the Soviet Union and is not confined to organizations like Pamyat, the xenophobic Russian na- tionalist movement. "The economic situation is desperate. People are hungry. They're asking themselves why things are as they are. I am as worried about this," he declares, "as about the rise of Hitler in the '30s." Rita Eker, head of the London-based Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry, which is in constant contact with thousands of Jewish families throughout the Soviet Union, was recently allowed to visit the Soviet Union after an eight-year succession of "nyets" to visa applications. She en- countered a new kind of anti- Semitism. Eight years ago, she says, the Soviet authorities and the KGB practiced an "organized, subtle" form of anti-Semitism. "Now people are not bothered about shouting their abuse at Jews. Now it's Jew-baiting time." Anti-Semitic leaflets, many produced by Pamyat, have been distributed in cities and towns throughout Artwork from the Los AngelesTimes by Richard Milholland. Copyright 0 1989, Richard Milholtand. the Soviet Union. They blame Soviet Jews for the current political uncertain- ty, the economic crisis, for Chernobyl, for initiating the Bolshevik revolution. The threatened reward is a pogrom set for May 5, the birthday of Karl Marx. For all that, however, Britain's Chief Rabbi, Lord Jakobovits, interjects a note of caution against over- ex- aggerating the threat. The problem, he agrees, is "certainly very bad in terms of fear. Everybody is afraid." But, says Jakobovits, who traveled to Moscow for a con- ference earlier this year, "I don't think we should sow the seeds of panic. In Russia, anti-Semitism is endemic, and it would be dangerous to set in motion a sense of panic among Jews who cannot escape overnight." The leaders of Britain's Jewish community are not alone in their concern about these negative developments in the Soviet Union. An eight-person human rights group, comprising non-Jewish British parliamentarians and senior journalists, recently visited the Soviet Union and re- ported that human rights abuses are still too serious and too widespread for the British government to at- tend next year's human rights conference in Moscow, a follow-up to the original Helsinki talks. In a statement, the group went out of its way to report on the "manifestly genuine fears" of Soviet Jews it met and to express the view that "the rise of anti-Semitism is a real cause for concern." "Anti-Semitism," noted Paul Boateng, a prominent Labor Party parliamen- tarian and member of the group, "is a light sleeper in the Soviet Union, and we found it there." '-