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that the ends were noble, Mr.
Pollard's action was illegal
and punishment was proper.
Even if one wonders about the
severity of the punishment
when compared to other acts
which truly endangered our
country's welfare, there is a
time for forgiveness.
Perhaps now our govern-
ment can forgive Mr. Pollard.
In fact, thanks to Pollard our
government has the time to
take steps to prevent nuclear
blackmail from the likes of
Saddam Hussein.
At a time like this it is en-
tirely appropriate to ask our
president, Mr. Bush, to par-
don Jonathan Pollard and to
release him from prison.
Otherwise Pollard will suffer
the same fate as the Swedish
diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg,
who saved hundreds of
thousands of Hungarian Jews
from extermination by the
Nazis but was arrested and
languished in prison.
I urge your readers to join
me in writing and calling our
legislators, our Secretary of
State and our President to let
them know that we think it is
time to remember the
benefits of Pollard's action
and to forgive his transgres-
sions. It is now time to free
Jonathan Pollard.

Erwin H. Posner
Southfield

Bad Article
On Youth Games

w ishing and hoping

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990

I was quite disappointed in
the articles written about the
recent JCC-Maccabi Youth
Games in your issue of Aug.
31, especially the one writen
by Steve Whitely on track
and field. He mentioned those
who did not win medals but
certainly did not include the
girls' age 15-16 relay team
which won a bronze on Sun-
day morning.
I was a volunteer hostess at
the Holiday Inn in Southfield
and found the entire week a
wonderful experience. But a
number of local people men-
tioned that the reporting in
this particular issue was
biased.
I hope that in the future you
do not leave out any medal
winners.

Rose Berman
West Bloomfield

Why Report
Other Views?

One wonders what pro-
mpted the editors of The
Jewish News to publicize the
views of two Detroit-area
Jews who traveled to Israel
and came back espousing a
two-state solution for Israel
and the Palestinians? (Sept.
14).

Surely, the two travelers
displayed no discernible
academic or communal
credentials to make their
views newsworthy. Is it
because they were part of an
interfaith delegation led by
an Episcopal bishop that
their half-baked opinions
merited special attention?
Your news story revealed
that one of the travelers was
a member of the American-
Israeli Civil Liberties Coali-
tion, the other was a member,
presumably in good standing,
of the New Jewish Agenda —
two peripheral groups whose
activities according to all
available and well-docu-
mented data, have been
detrimental to Israel and U.S.-
Israel relations.
Mr. David Gad-Harf, ex-
ecutive director of the Jewish
Community Council, was ex-
plicit enough in stating that
"they had their minds made
up before they left."
Your story was adorned by
a photograph, showing two
amiable and smiling in-
dividuals, whose counten-
ances were appealing enough
to garner speaking invita-
tions from groups who would
rather be amused than
informed.

Ezekiel Leikin
Southfield

Two Jews Fought
At The Alamo

Dr. Matthew Schwartz, in
his interesting article on the
Alamo, (I;Chaim, Sept. 7)
wrote that one Jew fought
and died there.
According to the Alamo
Visitor's Guide, there were
two Jews at the Alamo. One
was Anton Wolfe from
England and the other was
Galba Fuqua from Alabama.

Dr. Ivan Schatten, M.D.
East Detroit

The Federation's
Future Location

With regard to your
editorials of Sept. 7 and 14, I
believe the following addi-
tional information would
have furthered understan-
ding of the Jewish Welfare
Federation's decision-making
process:
Findings of the Jewish
population survey reveal two
primary geographical areas of
the Jewish community:
Southfield/Oak Park/Hun-
tington Woods and West
Bloomfield/Farmington Hills.
Roughly half of our popula-
tion and half of our Jewish
agencies, synagogues and in-
stitutions lie in each of the
two areas.
The Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion was created to serve the

