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Vice President (/) LU niAp c rrAL ivio RT G AG E LLJ I- cr F- LU LU 72 (810) 652-4040 DOWNTOWN ROCHESTER 824 MAIN STREET MAIN OFFICE 20475 West 10 Mile Southfield, MI 48075 (810) LOW-RATE 569-7283 York Post, which fretted that "Arafat has much to prove. And big questions — especially con- cerning the PLO's ability to re- strain Hamas terror — remain open. For better or worse, the days and months directly ahead will likely answer them." Predictably, newspapers in at least two Arab countries vehe- mently panned the Cairo signing. In Syria, Al Baath said the agree- ment is vague and lets Israel in- terpret its clauses according to its own interests. The paper also claimed that the document gives Israel gains at the expense of Arab and Palestinian interests. rated the United States sixth in terms of press freedom because of "increasing monopolization of media and ... skyrocketing costs of publishing and broadcasting encourage advertising and rat- ing influences on editorial con- tent." But at least the United States was among the 37 percent of the world's nations that have a free press. Also in this minority was Israel. But according to Leonard R. Sussman in an accompanying analysis of the survey, "If the treatment of journalists — for- eign, Israel and Palestinian—in the occupied areas were assessed here [in the survey], Israel would not remain in the free press cat- egory." Israel's "military censorship limits coverage of major political and military actions associated with the Palestinian occupation," wrote Mr. Sussman, an adjunct professor of journalism and mass communication at New York Uni- versity. None of Israel's Arab neighbors was deemed to have a free press. The best-rated Arab nation was Jordan, which was granted a "partly-free press" rating because Another Syrian paper, "insufficient freedom has been Tishreen, denounced temporary guaranteed the news media ... and partial solutions as not be- [and] journalists are still licensed ing based on a just, comprehen- and prior censorship of imported sive peace and not supported by publications is mandated. A the people. broad list of taboo subjects is also And in Iran, Joumhourriya al- imposed." Islamai charged that the Cairo Yet, according to Freedom agreement is essentially a sur- House, an unnamed "media spe- render and that the future of cialist" noted that "for all its Palestinians will be determined shortcomings, the Jordanian "on the field of uncompromising press is ... the most level-head- struggle against the wild mur- ed and reliable in the Arab derers" of Israel. The article also world." attacked Egypt for being the Lebanon, which once, accord- "salesman of Zionism." ing to Mr. Sussman, had the But in Egypt, Al-G-oumbhour- freest news media in the Mideast, riyya said the accord's signing on is now in the partly-free press col- Egyptian soil was the crowning umn. reward of the efforts of Egypt and Arab countries with a totally its president, Hosni Mubarak, to non-free press were judged to be secure a peace between Israel Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Palestinians. Moreover, said Libya, Iran — and "Saddam Hus- the paper, the pact was an im- sein's reign of terror and total me- portant first step toward a com- dia control make Iraq the least prehensive peace in the Mideast, free press in the world." but one which in its view cannot be achieved without Israel with- drawing from the entire Golan and South Lebanon. - London's Financial Times noted that the "euphoria has dissipated" since last September's White House ceremony. Rating Freedom FUNDING Ci) REALTY CHECK page 70 EQUAL HOUSING LENDER CAPITAL MORTGAGE FUNDING IS A FANNIE-MAE APPROVED LENDER According to a survey by the New York-based human rights group, Freedom House, the United States is outranked by Belgium, New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Denmark as having the freest press in the world. The survey of 186 countries Another Plot? In his "Hot Type" column in New York magazine, John Lombardi implies that magazine and book editors conspired to suppress a recent book about Jewish reprisals against Nazis during the immediate post-war years. Mr. Lombardi is suspicious that John Sack's "An Eye For An Eye," which was published last December, was hardly reviewed and that the "excuse" of the edi-