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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1992
Akiva Student Wins
Television News Contest
AMY J. MEHLER
Staff Writer
N
ine-year-old Rivka
Huffstutter did such
a good job explain-
ing why it's important to
know the news, she'll soon
be reading it — live on TV,
as a Channel 50 television
newscaster.
Rivka, a fourth-grader at
Akiva Hebrew Day School,
won first place at her school
in the WKBD Fox-50 Kids
Newsbreak contest. She had
to write a 100-word essay on
"Why It's Important To
Know The News."
"All I said was that it was
important to know what's
going in the woild in order to
take the proper precau-
tions," Rivka said. "If
there's a war, or a tornado,
you need to know what to do,
where to go, what to wear."
The Fox-50 Kids News-
break program, now in
its third year, is open to
students in grades 4-8 in the
Wayne, Oakland and
Macomb county school
districts.
Principals and teachers
select the best entry from
each school and submit it to
WKBD. Consideration was
given to students' verbal and
reading skills. The winner
must be able to come to the
station's Southfield studio to
tape his or her Newsbreak.
Nancy PuShee, Fox-50
public relations coordinator,
said because of the large
number of participants —
about 300 — it might be
several months, even into
the next school year, before
Rivka gets on the air.
Kids' Newsbreak airs daily
at 6:58 a.m. and again at
3:58 p.m.
"I was pretty excited when
I found out I won," Rivka
said. "I like to watch the
news on TV. I also listen to
news on the radio. My favor-
ite reporter is Bill Bonds. I
once met him with my mom
at the cleaners."
Darryl Leiter, Rivka's
fourth-grade English teacher,
said her essay was chosen
from among 55.
"Rivka's essay was chosen
on the basis of her
vocabulary and understan-
ding of the topic," Mrs.
Leiter said.
Rivka, who lives in Oak
Park, found this to be a spe-
cially newsy year.
"I learned all about the
war in Iraq, the Scuds that
fell in Israel and about the
changes in the Soviet
Rivka Huffstutter:
Future anchorwoman
Union," she said. "I wrote
that I had friends from
Russia and that I knew
someone whose grand-
mother was hit by a Scud
missile." Miriam Huff-
stutter, Rivka's mother, ad-
mitted Rivka was worried
she wouldn't win. "She told
me a fourth-grader had
never won, but I told her to
do her best and not think
about it," she said.
"My teacher said my paper
was very good, so I just
thought about winning, not
losing," Rivka said. ❑
NEWS 1""'""
Israel Role
Reevaluated
Jerusalem (JTA) — In the
wake of an ambush attack
on Israeli soldiers in
southern Lebanon, Israel is
being forced once again to
reevaluate its role in the re-
gion.
But as in the past, security
experts and policymakers
can find no easy solutions.
The attack left two Israel
Defense Force soldiers dead
and five wounded. Two
soldiers of the Israel-backed
South Lebanon Army also
were wounded. The three
gunmen who carried out the
attack, identified as mem-
bers of the radical Islamic
Jihad, were killed.
The incident was the latest
in an increasingly bloody
guerrilla war being waged
against Israel by Moslem
fundamentalists linked to
Iran.
The passive complicity of
the Lebanese regular army is
partly to blame, Israeli
sources say.