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1994 PRIZM
'189
00* 36 MONTH
SMART LEASE
Stk. #962
• AM/FM Stereo
• Power Steering
• Intermittent Wipers
• Front/Rear Mats
• Air Conditioning
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Anti-Lock Brakes
5 Speed
Electric Defogger
1.6L MFI L4 Engine
*36-Month GMAC Smart Lease. Payment of $189 x 36 plus use tax. Security deposit of $200
required and first payment of $196.56.45,000 miles allowed over term with .10¢ per mile
over 45,000. Lessee responsible for excess wear and tear and may purchase vehicle at end of
lease but not required to purchase.
Jacky Cauley
1:rttefrin7i7LE-7-
ORCHARD LAKE RD.
Between 14 Mile & 15 Mile
Gee"
855.9700
HOURS: Mon. & Thurs. 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Tues., Wed., Fri. 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
was fed by waves of Lithuanian
Jews from the 1880s to the
1930s. Predominantly Orthdox,
the Jews benefited like other
white South Africans and were
heavily involved in mining,
gold, textiles, skilled trades and
the professions.
In the 1950s, '60s and '70s,
the worst period of apartheid,
Jews began leaving what many
considered to be one of the
strongest and wealthiest
Jewish communities in the
world. Harry and Rachel Maisel
are examples.
The Maisels (friends of but
not related to Dr. Jeffrey
Maisels) left Cape Town, 1,000
miles from Johannesburg, in
1959 so that Harry could take
a medical fellowship at McGill
University in Canada. "A year
later were the Sharpsville riots,
and we decided to stay," Mrs.
Maisel said.
Dr. Maisel is now chairman
of the anatomy department at
the Wayne State University
School of Medicine. Mrs. Maisel
has a brother (an accountant)
and sister-in-law in Cape Town,
"but at his age (in his 60s), it
would be hard for him to move
anywhere.
"Four years ago, when he
visited, he said if he had known
(years ago) how nice it was here
he would have come."
Mrs. Maisel says Cape Town
is known for a more liberal at-
titude and "it opened up (to in-
tegration) much more quickly
than the rest of South Africa."
But, she said, residents of the
area remain careful because of
increasing violence and poverty.
urhere's a squatter camp right
outside Cape Town," she says.
Like Mrs. Maisel's brother,
Dr. Jeffrey Maisels' family will
not leave South Africa. His
mother is 82, and his 89-year-
old father is a South African leg-
end. I.A. (Israel Aaron) Maisels
headed the defense team for
Nelson Mandela and the
African National Congress
(ANC) leaders which led, in
1961, to their acquittal of trea-
son charges after a historic
three-year trial. Mr. Maisels
was not part of the team when
the black leaders were later
charged again with treason and
convicted.
"My parents won't leave," Dr.
Maisels says. "My sister would
leave. My brother? I don't know.
It is harder now for business-
men to take anything with
them."
Dr. Sobel and Dr. Maisels ex-
pect the ANC to win the elec-
tions which begin April 27. The
difficulties will come after the
election.
Dr. Maisels sees the econo-
my, foreign investment and an
angry, uneducated generation
of young blacks as the major
stumbling blocks.
`The young, uneducated, un-
employed black radicals boy-
cotted the schools for the last 10
years," he says. "They are not
enamored of Mandela and the
other ANC leaders who they
regard as the 'old guard."
He says tribal factions, radi-
cal parties and right-wing
whites add to the difficult mix.
And other countries of south
and central Africa "have done
poorly when they threw off the
cloak of colonial rule. The ad-
vantage of South Africa," he
says, "is that it has a greater
percentage of whites than
Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria and
others — more skilled people."
South Africa's black popula-
tion is better educated than
other African nations, "despite
the nationalist government pol-
icy of undereducating blacks —
and they will pay for that. But
it (black education) is still much
higher than in the other
countries."
He says Mr. Mandela "will
have to answer to a con-
stituency that wants to see
some (immediate) economic
benefit to them having the vote.
Mandela's
constituency will
want to see
immediate
change.
He can't do it overnight and
that will create anger."
As far as Jews are concerned,
Dr. Maisels says, "they are no
more or less worried than oth-
er whites." But, with a higher
percentage of Jews in the busi-
ness and professional commu-
nity, "Jews have more options
for leaving than the Afrikaner
population."
Dr. Sobel, who left South
Africa 25 years ago, says not all
Jews left the country for the
same reason. "For some, it was
their future or physical security.
Not everybody left because of
(to protest) apartheid."
His biggest fear is black tri-
balism, which he says has been
exploited by whites for decades.
"If tribalism dissipates, South
Africa will be a productive coun-
try. If it continues...
"Strong black leadership is
essential," he says. "If Mandela
can pull it all together you have
the opportunity for a stable
society."
Dr. Sobel is optimistic that
violence will end after the elec-
tion, "but rm not ruling out that
in a short period of time I would
try to bring my family here.
"My great-grandparents and
grandparents sent money to
their poor relatives in America.
Now, the tables may turn." ❑
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