Sharpton
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"Great Suit.
Barney's, New York?"
"No. Van Dykes,
Southfield!'
the Rev. Sharpton, he said,
is a way to push the "U-M
community to examine
itself: How progressive are
we?"
The question has taken on
added significance for Mr.
Bernstein, who is Jewish.
Although he and many
others on the Viewpoint
committee disagree sharply
with the Rev. Sharpton's
views and tactics, that did
not discourage them.
"I'm scared as coming off
as some self-hating, idealis-
tic, anti-Semitic Jew," said
Mr. Bernstein, who is also
active at U-M's B'nai B'rith
Hillel. "That is simply not
the case."
The Viewpoint program,
scheduled to be held at the
Power Center for the Per-
forming Arts, is expected to
be quite lively. Security is "a
concern," said Mr. Berns-
tein, but students — not
university police officers —
will try to keep the peace.
Workshops after the pro-
gram will seek to encourage
further discussion on the
Rev. Sharpton, especially on
black-Jewish relations. ❑
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Vancouver, British
Columbia (JTA) — A can-
didate in this month's pro-
vincial elections dropped out
of the race after his links to
neo-Nazi propagandist Ernst
Zundel were exposed by the
Vancouver Sun.
John Ball, running on the
slate of the governing Social
Credit Party, admitted he
was employed briefly as a
consultant by Mr. Zundel,
who denies the Holocaust
ever occurred.
He said he worked for him
for three days examining
aerial photographs of
Auschwitz and other Nazi
death camps in Washington,
for which he was paid
several thousand dollars.
Mr. Ball claimed it was
just another job and that he
did not agree with Mr.
Zundel's politics.
But later he admitted at-
tending a meeting sponsored
by the Canadian Free
Speech League, an organiza-
tion headed by Doug
Christie, defense lawyer for
suspected war criminals,
neo-Nazis and Holocaust re-
visionists such as Mr. Zu-
ndel and Jim Keegstra.
The expose won praise for
Sun reporter Stewart Bell,
who discovered that Mr. Ball
and Mr. Zundel had ap-
peared together on a Cana-
dian Broadcasting Corp.
television program in 1985.
But it further soured Jew-
ish attitudes toward the So-
cial Credit Party, which has
given the Jewish community
cause to be wary.
Mr. Ball's name was found
among the acknowl-
edgements in a revisionist
book titled The Great Holo-
caust Trial. He was credited
with "playing an important
role" at Mr. Zundel's trial
for disseminating hate pro-
paganda.
Nevertheless, Social
Credit Premier Rita
Johnston, who is running for
re-election, seemed less than
enthusiastic about accepting
Mr. Ball's resignation.
It is "no big deal," she said
on British Columbia Televi-
sion. "This is an unfortunate
incident that has been blown
a wee bit out of proportion?'
She accused the media of
"trying to make a mountain
out of a molehill."
Ms. Johnston said she only
learned of Mr. Ball's associ-
ation with Mr. Zundel when
the Sun story broke and
promptly obtained his resig-
nation.
But there is evidence she
was well aware of the situa-
tion several days before.
Reporter Bell told the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency that
Mr. Ball telephoned Cam-
paign Manager Jess Ket-
chum the previous week and
offered to resign then.
Mr. Ketchum confirmed
later that he and Patrick
Kinsella, the campaign
chairman, talked to Mr. Ball
that night, when Mr. Ball
offered to quit "for the good
of the party."
The Social Credit Party
apparently withheld his res-
ignation until it could see
the story and decide if it was
damaging.
A spokesman for the
Canadian Jewish Congress-
Pacific Region, Michael
Elterman, said, "We were
quite annoyed that the
premier didn't ask Ball to
resign as soon as she heard
about it, but instead waited
to see what the media reac-
tion was going to be before
she accepted Ball's resigna-
tion."
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