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Pollard Needs Jewish Support I thank you personally and on behalf of the Michigan Committee for Freedom for Jonathan Pollard for your March 27 editorial, where you acknowledged that "injustice has been heaped upon Mr. Pollard . . . who remains in- carcerated and that the Jewish community owes him its support . . ." It is imperative that members of the Jewish com- munity, as proud Americans and proud Jews, write their Jewish organizations, their congressmen, senators and the president, to demand that justice be done and that Mr. Pollard's sentence be reduced to time served. Aaron Swirski West Bloomfield Index Will Help Cemetery Project Sharon Alterman, Tillie Brandwine and Pam Gordon are to be commended for their work in recording Jewish graves throughout Michigan and Windsor ("Jewish History Groups Seek Cemetery Sleuths," April 10): They can save themselves time and trouble if they will make use of a resource tailor- made for their project: the Michigan Jewish Genealogi- cal Index. In 1981, when I was vice president of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, I initiated the Michigan Jewish Genealogi- cal Index, whereby the JHSM collected Jewish birth and death records from com- munities throughout the state and transferred the in- formation to an alphabetical card file. At the outset, we acquired the burial records of Beth Olam Cemetery in Ham- tramck and the three Bay Ci- ty Jewish cemeteries. Addi- tional burial records of other Michigan communities were added later. Moreover, we in- dexed all the obituaries and birth notices from the Detroit Jewish News and its predecessor, the Detroit Jewish Chronicle. The index- ing continues to the present. The Michigan Jewish Gene- alogical Index is housed in the Midrasha Library. Since its inception, the program has been administered by Sarah Bell, Midrasha librarian, and the work of indexing has been done by a number of dedicated volunteers. The index is open to public use. Arrangements for its use can be made by calling Mrs. Bell at the library. Phillip Applebaum Oak Park Loan Guarantees And Leonard Fein The letters regarding the loan guarantees in the March 27 issue of The Jewish News are critical of the position ad- vocated by Leonard Fein in his March 13 article "Bush Is Right On Loan Guarantees." Unfortunately, their criti- cism misses the larger point raised by Fein, that the Shamir government is engag- ed in a conscious policy of try- ing to escalate the set- tlements so that an eventual peace (based on "land for peace") is impossible. Yet "land for peace" is the only realistic basis for Israel's achieving peace with its neighbors, especially the Palestinians. The failure to link the set- tlement freeze with the loan guarantees translates into giving Shamir the green light to pursue a Likud ideology — which stresses keeping the "greater land of Israel." It lets him have total freedom to ac- celerate the very activities that could eventually prevent Israel from achieving peace with its neighbors. In the long run, this does Israel no favors. As noted in The Jewish News' March 27 article, "In Aviv, They Feel Shafted by Shame many Israelis are coming to the conclusion that the Likud's obsession with building settlements is not in the best interest of Israel. Fein is right in concluding that the failure of the Israeli government to obtain the loan guarantees is the result of the policies of Shamir. < K K K Fredrika Weisenthal Huntington Woods Let Us Know Letters must be concise, typewritten and double- spaced. Correspondence must include the signa- ture, home address and daytime phone number of the writer. N