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One-of-a-Kinds, Floor Samples
and Discontinued Quality Home

Contemporary, Clean Lined, And
Affordable, These Dinette Tables Are
Specially Priced To Sell Out!

A. Hexagon Shaped Beech Dinette With Durable
White Melamine Top. 41" Diameter. Value $489,

Clearance Price $189.

B. Beech With White Tile Top Dinette Measures 46" x
30". Value $365,

Clearance Price

Quantities Limited.
Delivery Extra.
Products Featured
Subject To Prior Sale.

$149.

Only at Keego Harbor 3325 Orchard Lake Rd.
(1 Mile North of Long Lake Rd.) 682-7600

Open: Tues., Wed., Sat. 10-5:30/Thurs., Fri. 10-9
Sunday 12-5 (Closed Mondays)

FEDERAL FIREPLACE

PRE-SEASON SALE

THE VERY BEST QUALITY

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SEE & FEEL THE
DIFFERENCE!
48" round tempered glass top
table, 4 dining chairs with
cushions, all weather
aluminum construction. 15 yr.
warranty. Ref. 1116.00

Natural
Gas
Barbecue

Natural gas barbacue,
40,000 BTU dual burner,
603 sq. in. cooking
surface, timer & electric
starter. 10 year limited warranty.
#9245. Ref. 449.99

$

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Southfield Rd. at 12 Mile Rd

557-3344

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*Installation $75 • Patio Base $30

In F&M Plaza
1 mile north of 1-696

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Halcyon

ALL OTHER PATIO FURNITURE
SAVE 30-40%

INCLUDING SPECIAL ORDER!

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Hours: Mon-Fri 10AM-9PM
Sat 10AM-7PM • Sun 11AM-5PM

SALE ENDS TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1991

Novi Rd. at 10 Mile Rd.

In Pine Ridge Center
1-1/2 miles south of 12 Oaks Mall

348-9300

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Propaganda Scrutinized

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor Emeritus

p

ropaganda has never
been as much a test of
human values as in
the current world conflict
and the contest to affect
public relations. Many ap-
proaches to it are often con-
ceptually honorable, but one
must be careful to detect
when the Big Lie is intended
for propaganda purposes.
There is an aspect of the
latter in a warning that was
admonished by Professor
Mordecai Kaplan, the emi-
nent Jewish scholar, when
he wrote,"Education by
means of prefabricate ideas
is propaganda."
More serious was the
judgement of Harold J.
Leski, who in A Grammar of
Politics (1925), gave this
definition:

Much of what has been
achieved by the art of ed-
ucation in the nineteenth
century has been
frustrated by the art of
propaganda in the twen-
tieth.
There is a continuity of
propagandistic distinctions
that was applied by him and
his followers to the Iraqi dic-
tator Saddam Hussein with
a comparison to Saladin.
There are distortions made
in writing that appeared in
which the 12th century
Moslem leader is referred to
as having been anti-Jewish
and anti-Christian. Too
many may have been misled
by this canard. Saladin, on
the contrary was a friend of
the Jews and kind to the
Christians. The truth about

Saladin, who was contem-
porary of Maimonedes, was
related by me in a column
several months ago quoting
from the Universal Jewish

Encyclopedia:
After the recapture of
Palestine in 1190, Saladin
allowed the Jews to
return to Jerusalem. He
entertained the most cor-
dial relations with the
Jews and invested them
with high offices at his
court.
There is always the need to
emphasize the importance of
truth in dealing with
historic facts and per-
sonalities. The Jewish roles

One must be
careful to detect
the Big Lie.

in relation to the Moslem
world must be factual and
distortions must always be
prevented and condemned.
The remaining crises
should give emphasis to the
manner in which the large
Jewish populations in Arab
countries have been prac-
tically robbed of their posi-
tions and were driven from
their homelands of many
centuries. We now learn that
even in Yemen there still
remain a few hundred Jews
and there was some claim of
nearly 1000 still residing in
Iraq.
The important record of
the decline of Jews in Arab
lands is recorded by an emi-
nent authority, Heskel M.
Haddad, in his Jews of Arab

and Islamic Countries:

Jews In Arab Lands

Past

IRAN
IRAQ
MOROCCO
SYRIA
LEBANON
YEMEN
EGYPT

60,000
150,000
280,000
35,000
10,000
50,000
64,000

LIBYA
TUNISIA
ALGERIA
SUDAN
ARABIAN PENINSULA
BAHRAIN

38,000
110,000
140,000

This is data that the media
could all deal with in an
assurance of emphasis on
truth in reporting world
events. It includes preven-
tion of distortions when the

Present

30,000 (1982)
200
20,000
4,000
250
1,200
250
(In 1970, 700)
20
3,700
1,000
30
350
100

Iraqi butcher Saddam Hus-
sein is likened to Saladin.
Let all this be a portion of
the subject defined as pro-
paganda. ❑