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"But when you have a person who says he would like to burn all black people, is that such a quantum leap to say if this man is left unchecked he would be a scourge?" Mr. Cochran was also criticized privately by some Jewish ob- servers for surrounding himself last week with eight bodyguards from the Nation of Islam, head- ed by Louis Farrakhan, who is notorious for frequent anti- Semitic slurs. Monument Unveiled To Honor Poles Rome (JTA) — A monument has Polish, Hebrew and English, was been unveiled in Warsaw to hon- commissioned by a group of or those Poles who risked their Americans, mostly Polish Amer- lives during World War II by icans, and was designed by War- forming a secret organization to saw artists Hanna Szmalenberg save Jews from the Nazis. and Marek Moderau. The obelisk honored Zegota, an organization sponsored by the London-based Polish government in exile during World War II to help Jews in Poland. The monument stands near the larger Ghetto Heroes Monu- Jerusalem (JTA) — Avraham ment, which pays homage to the Burg has been officially elected hundreds of thousands of War- chairman of the World Zionist Or- saw Jews who died during the ganization. war and to those who died dur- The election came at the open- ing the failed ghetto uprising in ing session of the Zionist Gener- 1943. al Council. The council is the Zegota, the Relief Council for supreme legislative body of the Jews, was active from Sept. 27, Zionist Congress, which convenes 1942, in Warsaw, Krakow and every four years. other cities, and was the "only The 192 delegates of the Zion- such government-funded insti- ist General Council voted unan- tution in German-occupied Eu- imously for Mr. Burg, who has rope," said Stanislaw Krajewski, served as acting chairman of the American Jewish Committee WZO/Jewish Agency for Israel consultant in Warsaw. since February. During the ecumenical dedi- Mr. Burg is expected to be rat- cation ceremony, prayers were ified as chairman of the Jewish offered by Warsaw Chief Rabbi Agency when the Agency As- Menachem Joskowicz and by sembly convenes here. Bishop Stanislaw Gadecki, pres- Once ratified, Mr. Burg is ex- ident of the Polish Episcopate's pected to resign from his Labor Commission for Dialogue with Knesset seat. the Jews. In his inauguration speech,- U.S. and Israeli ambassadors Mr. Burg called for the reorgani- to Poland also spoke at the cer- zation and restructuring of the emonies, as did Arnold Mostow- two bodies that have been the icz, head of the Jewish Veterans central vehicles for Israel-Dias- Organization, who said Jews are pora relations. grateful to the Christians who In mapping out his plans, Mr. helped them during the Holo- Burg repeated his slogan, "One caust. People -- One Body" in connec- The monument, a modest tion with the Jewish Agency and WZO Elects Avraham Burg