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As Our Readers See 1 1 0S Detroit ifec $tt AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Jewish Political Clout Isn 't Out of Line JOHN S. KNIGHT Editor Emeritus to the tditor mutt be originalt (warm a true tignature and complete addrest. Name will (m withheld only for extraordinary reaiant. I.ettert may be tdittd. LEE HILLS Publisher KURT LUEDTKE Executive Editor RALPH S.

ROTH Presi'dercf FRANK ANGELO Asoa'a Executive Editnr 6-A TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1977 A JFe See SEVERAL letters from throughout the state have appeared with the central theme that the Jews, who are only three percent of the population, are exerting undue influence in our foreign policy. Mr. McKay's letter (Free Press, Oct. 30) example. There Is nothing written that Americans of the Jewish faltb may not try to influence policy for their common good just as the British, the French and all the other nationalities plug for their interests and our financial help.

The three-percent culture has produced more than 12 percent of the Nobel Prize winners in medicine, science and education. That is where the influence is. The Christian world knows the truth' and will help sustain Israel in its need. The Arabs, some day, will awaken to how they are being sold down the river by their oil-baron sheiks. Then, there will he peace.

WILLIAM SABAROFF Milford THE MOST APPROPRIATE response to the letter of Findlay McKay (Free Press, Oct. 30) is contained in an address by President Carter on Oct. 22 in Los Angeles, in which he said: "If I should ever hurt Israel, which I won't, I think political suicide would almost automatically result because it is not only our Jewish citizens who have this deep commitment to Israel, but there Is an overwhelming support throughout the nation, because there Is a common bond of commitment to the same principles of openness and freedom and democracy and strength and courage that ties us together In an irrevocable way." Reactor Veto Helps Slow The Threat of Plutonium In printing Mr. McKay's letter, the Free Press has done a disservice to the community. You have permitted the columns of your newspaper to be used for raising in a public manner one of the most vicious and virulent anti-semitic canards.

We have a right to expect greater journalistic responsibility from your newspaper. RABBI SEYMOUR ROSENBLOOM Farmington Hills IT WAS A RELIEF to many, I'm sure, and a great surprise to me, that you finally after practically giving the Zionists carte blanche with your lettersallowed an opposing view to slip into your letter format. I am referring to Mr. McKay's letter (Free Press, Oct. 30), entitled "Israeli Influence." Mr.

McKay noted President Carter's cognizance of Its being "political suicide not to support Israel," and thinks it is high time for an investigation of Israel's influence on this nation's foreign-policy decisions. The question is: investigatioir-by whom? Jerusalem wields such power in the U.S., the investigating board might as well come from Israel it would be fully as objective as any likely to be commissioned here. Zionist ability to silence any and all criticism is amazing. All the mass media, including the Free No. 1 Opinion Poll On "7 uY MC A PLANT that makes more fuel than it uses the forerunner of an inexhaustible energy supply: That was the dreamy description piven to the breeder nuclear reactor to be built on the Clinch River in Tennessee.

This experimental plant and the research project accompanying it would virtually end our worries about running out of uranium or having to bow to the pricing of the uranium cartel. President Carter on Saturday vetoed a bill that would have provided the money to continue the project, which had been backed by the Nixon and Ford administrations. He said it would "imperil the administration's policy 10 curb proliferation of nuclear weapons technology." And, he said, the project would be "technically and economically unnecessary." Mr. Carter's action was not surprising. He already had expressed his opposition to the Clinch River project.

He has focused his opposition on the fact that such projects use plutonium, a highly toxic and dangerous substance that is used to make nuclear weapons. The spread of breeder reactors would mean the spread of plutonium supplies, and that could mean much easier access to nuclear weapons for countries around the globeand possibly terrorists, well. France already has built a breeder reactor, and the Soviet Union has one that is experimental; both countries are moving toward urther breeder development. If they and others export breeder technology based upon Carter: Starting to reduce plutonium dangers Press, aorjear to he constrained bv mnrbid fear ff some kind of retaliation. TROY E.

HOPSON Romulus i RECENTLY, a reader wrote about his fears of Jewish influence on the American political process and American foreign policy (Free Press, Oct. 30). Supporting Israel is not a Jewish issue. As a non-Jew, I believe that the issue is supporting democracy. The American people have long held a commitment to democracy; two world wars were fought in its name.

American commitment to democracy in the Middle East is what led to strong support of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. Israel does not request U.S. military intervention, she wants recognition by her Arab neighbors, and secure and safe boundaries. In the context of a peace agreement, Israel has called for a true peace with trade relations, tourism, cultural exchange, not just an end of hostilities as is called for by Arab leaders. I do not believe that three percent of the population could have the impact on American foreign policy that Mr.

McKay implies. American Middle East foreign policy is more influenced by the. commitment of the American people towards democracy and human rights. JAN K. HELLER Michigan Director Youth Institute for Peace in the Middle East MENAHEM BEGIN is a mental and moral midget who would plunge the world into war and destroy his own people for the sake of biblical history over 2,000 years old.

That is what I call reactionary. So is the theocratic state of Israel that he is trying to resurrect with his anachronistic references to Judea and Samaria. The time is past when he or we or the United Nations can put a fence around people and say we live or die apart. Now, we live or die together and we might as well get with it. At the same time, those who would force on Israel the same leadership of the PLO that was kicked out of Jordan and Syria, and all but destroyed Lebanon, are taking an unduly optimistic view of the future based on the more recent past.

Who can guarantee that this same leadership will not, in its triumph, turn against Israel with the same expectations of support? Obviously, the formula for peace must be found on some middle ground. DAVID J. SEIGLE Royal Oak rang Issues BOTH MY WIFE AND I were surprised and disappointed when reading your reporter's discussion of a "Whisper Issue" (Free Press, Nov. 4), concerning the Dearborn mayoral race. We question, seriously, that the article reflected the community's real concerns in an accurate manner.

The Issues are not unlike those faced by many older suburban communities throughout this area: declining commercial neighborhoods, aging residential communities, provision of adequate city services within the constraints of budgetary limitations, and the general enhancement of social and economic values in the city. They are difficult issues. Mayoral candidate -O'Reilly has, to us, continued to address these concerns progressively, and with a refreshingly positive approach. For candidate Hubbard to have resurrected an old and anachronistic chestnut, the racial issue, has made us angry. Furthermore, for th usually reliable and typically progressive Frf Press to have thus misstated candidate Hubbard' questionable qualifications for the office, or t.

have further abetted his tasteless interjection of emotionalism in an otherwise serious campaign is sadly disappointing to us. DEAN R. LUEDDERS PATRICIA A. LUEDDERS Dearborn Michigan Senate BIRTH CONTROL: The state Senate agonized and argued for hours last week but finally on Thursday approved the so-called "sex education" bill that had passed the House in July. The bill permits public schools to include birth control information in course offerings but does not require students to take such courses.

Actually, there were two key Senate votes. The first was on an amendment that would have required parents specifically to give permission before their children could take the course. It was defeated 1 8-1 5, leaving the burden with the parent to request that the child be excused from the course. The second key vote was on passage. It carried, On both issues, a yes vote favored making such courses more readily available to public schoolchildren.

Here's how the Senate voted on the amendment: DEMOCRATS 8 YEAS INAYS DNOTVOTINO B.Brown Faust D.Holmes Nelson Cart wright Faxon 8 Huffman O'Brien Cooper Fitzgerald KKammer Otterbachw Corbin 8Guastello 8 Mack 8Plawecki Derezinskl BHart IMcCollough 8 H.Scott DeSana J.Hertel Miller 8 Snyder REPUBLICANS 8 YEAS BNAYS DNOTVOTIW Allen i 80a vis 8 Bishop DDeGrow Buraley ODeMaso 8Byker BGeake KToepp IZiegler KVanderLaan RZollar HJ.Welborn R.D.Young Here's how the Senate voted on the bill: DEMOCRATS 8YEAS BNAYS ONOTVOTING Brown ISFaust BCartwright HFaxon Cooper HFitzgerald SCorbm HGuastello HDerezinski HHart 8DeSana MJ.Hertel REPUBLICANS D.Holmes QNelson EHuffman 80'Brien BKammer BOtterbachm BMack BPIawecki KMcCollough SH.Scott KMiller BSnyder BYEAS BNAYS dNOTVOTINfl BAIIen IBDavis RIBishop ODeGrow OBursley DDeMaso BByker BGeake BToepp HZtegler SVanderLaan KZolW BJ.Welborn KR.O.Young Intercepted letters MONS Pontiac Dear Victors: BOO-BOO helps? LEE E. DIRKS General Manager JOE H. STROUD Editor plutonium, there can be little doubt that the danger of nuclear war will be increased. Will the United States be taking a big chance, falling behind technologically and failing to take advantage of a badly needed energy supply, if it does not go forward with Clinch River? The answer, we think, is no not if the country devotes major resources to finding other energy supplies. One of those alternatives may be a breeder reactor, making more fuel than it uses, that does not depend upon weapons-grade plutonium.

Rep. Jonathan Bingham, pointed out during House debate that stopping the Clinch River project does not mean "killing the breeder program." But it would provide more time to "seriously examine the effect of using pure plutonium as an article of daily commerce." About half a billion dollars is about to be spent to study the alternatives, including breeder reactor designs that use a mixture of uranium, thorium and plutonium rather than pure plutonium. Such nuclear experts as Edward Teller, Adm. Hyman Rickover and Hans Bethe have expressed strong reservations about plutonium breeders and have advocated experiments with thorium-based breeders instead. We agree with Rep.

Bingham's appeal for time, and President Carter's. Time is needed, too, for more study of nucleat power in general. Already the pace of nuclear power construction has been appreciably slowed, not so much by national policy decisions as by problems that have not been solved: the rocketing costs of new plants, the unresolved questions about how to dispose of dangerous wastes. The country will have to pay a price lor not rushing faster into nuclear power: more reliance upon coal, more use of strip-mining (better controlled than before), strong efforts to conserve, more money for development of solar and other sources of energy. What President Carter says about the necessity of preventing the proliferation of weapons-grade plutonium reaches beyond even the most difficult problems of providing enough energy for peaceful uses.

We have to come to grips with the potential for any tinhorn dictator or terrorist group to obtain nuclear weapons. On that count alone, Mr. Carter's veto is welcome. bears the brunt for that phenomenon known as "Eurocommunism." Mr. Carrillo's offense is that he has accepted, avowedly at least, a plural political system in which the communist party does not insist upon total control and does not look to Moscow for decisions.

Mr. Brezhnev, in his speech to the assemblage last week, derided that kind of thinking. But the curiosity is that Mr. Carrillo was invited to speak in the first place, even though that invitation was then canceled. Are there others in the Kremlin, not as powerful as Mr.

Brezhnev, who are ready to accept the new heresy? There may he, hut obviously their time has not come. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Billy Rogell Anthony Wierzbicki School Board Kennedy Heresy in the Communist Bloc The Roll Call THE FAMILY reunion in the Kremlin last week was a bit chilly for Santiago Carrillo. Mr. Carillo, leader of the Spanish communist party, was snubbed generally by those from all over the world attending ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Bolshe- vik revolution. He had been invited to speak but was not allowed to.

Leonid Brezhnev obviously wanted him to get the message, and others also to get it, that he has gone too far with his heresies. It is easier for the Kremlin leadership to come down hard on Mr. Carrillo than for it to rebuke leaders of the huge communist parties in France and Italy, which also have been heretical lately. So it is Mr. Carrillo who i The Free Press Endorses.

PROPOSAL A (Renewal for ten years of an existing seven-mill tax to provide operating funds for the school system.) YES U.S. House CONGRESSIONAL PAY RAISE PROCEDURE: By a 1 67-233 vote, the House refused to consider a bill that would have deferred any future congressional pay raise until the Congress following the one that approved it. Although the deferral section drew wide support, the bill included a controversial provision to make sure that once a pay hike was voted on, the decision could not be reconsidered. A yes vote was a vote to consider the bill. DEMOCRATS 8 YEAS BNAYS 0 NOT VOTING BBIanchard BCarr Bonlor Conyers BBrodhead DDiggs REPUBLICANS BDingell BNedzi 8 Ford Traxler Kildee 8 YEAS BNAYS NOT VOTING BBroomfleld BCederberg BRuppe G.Brown Pursed Sawyer Stockman I Vender Jagt Michigan House EAVESDROPPING: The Michigan House defeated by two votes (54-46) Wednesday a bill that would have prohibited private businesses, except for phone companies, to check up on their employes by eavesdropping on their phone calls.

Proponents of the bill, who say they want to protect employes' rights to privacy, plan to try for reconsideration possibly this week and there are some who believe they will be successful. Opponents sided with those who argued that such eavesdropping provides a useful tool to business in training employes. A yes vote favored the prohibition and those who say such eavesdropping is an invasion of privacy. A majority in the House or 56 votes-was needed for passage. DEMOCRATS 8 YEAS BNAYS NOT VOTING Anderson HBarcia 8Bennan 8 Bennett 8M.

Brown 8T. Brown Bullard BBurkhalter BCIodfelter 8 Collins HConroy BCrim BCushlngberry DINello Dodak BDutko G. Edwards 8 Elliot 8 Evans Ferguson 8 Forbes 8 Geralds Glngrass Goemaere 8 M. Griffin 8 Harrison Hasper Hellman D.Hertel BHolcomb BHollister 8 M.Hood 8 R. Hood KJacobettl BJondahl Kehres 8 Keith BKelsey BLegel Mahalak BMathieu BMaynard BMcCollough McNeely BMonsma Montgomery BOgonowski 8 O'Neill 8 Owen BPadden Porter BRocca BRosenbaum 8 Ryan 8 T.Scott 8 Sheridan BSietsema 8 V.Smith BSpaniola S.Stopcznski BT.Stopcznski Symons Trim 8 Vaughn Wierzbicki Wilson 8 J.

Young R.A. Young REPUBLICANS 8 YEAS BNAYS ONOTVOTING 8 Angel Armbruster Blnsfeld Brotherton Bryant BBusch Buth Campbell Cawthorne BConlin Crumton Defebaugh DeStlgter Engler Fessler Fredrlcks Gast Geer lings Gilmer Hoffman K. Holmes BJowett Kennedy Klrksey Kok BLarsen BLaw McNamea Mlttan Mowat 8 Mueller Nash Ostling Powell BPrescott Sharps BSHjander 8 R. Smith Stevens VanSlngel BVarnum R.Welborn U.S. Senate ENERGY TAX INCENTIVES: By a 52-35 vote, the Senate passed an energy tax incentives bill that would shower $39 billion in assorted tax credits on Individuals and businesses making approved energy investments.

Passage of the bill completed initial Senate action on the last of five major bills growing out of President Carter's energy policy package, though the energy tax bill approved by the Senate bore almost no resemblance to Carter's tax proposals. The House-passed energy bill had adopted the Carter approach, which would impose taxes on energy consumption. A yes vote was a vote for the bill. OEM 8 YEAS BNAYS DNOT VOTING PAIRED OOP Rlegle 8 Griffin U.S. Senate SOCIAL SECURITY TAX: By a 40-50 vote, the Senate rejected an amendment to a Social Security financing bill that would have kept the taxable wage base equal for employers and employ es.

As reported by committee, employers would pay Social Security taxes on a higher wage base than would employes. A yes vote was a vote to maintain equal taxable wage base for employers and employes. OEM 8 YEAS iNAYS NOT VOTING PAIRED GOP RRieglt 0 Griffin U.S. House ABORTION FUNDING: By a 172-1 93 vote, the House refused to accept a Senate proposal to end the House-Senate stalemate on an abortion funding provision in the fiscal 1978 Labor-Health, Education and Welfare appropriations bill. The provision that the House failed to agree to would have prohibited the use of public funds for abortions except for victims of rape in incest or in those instances where severe and long-lasting physical health damage to the mother would result by continued pregnancy.

Supporters of the compromise said that refusal to accept the compromise provision would discriminate against poor women, depriving them of the same personal choices available to women who could afford to pay for their abortions. Opponents insisted that abortions were morally wrong and that taxpayers' money should not be spent for them. A yes vote was a vote for the compromise abortion proposal. DEMOCRATS 8 YEAS INAYS NOT VOTING BBIanchard BCarr BDmgell Nedzt Bonlor 8Conyer 8 Ford BTraxler BBrodhead HDIggs IKildee REPUBLICANS 8 YEAS INAYS NOT VOTING Broomfleld Cederberg BRuppe BG.Brnwn DPureeil Sawyer 8 Stockman nvanderjagt MAYOR Coleman Young DETROIT CITY COUNCIL Clyde Cleveland Joe Madison Charles Morton Erma Henderson Nicholas Hood Maryann Mahaffey Herb McFadden Detroit Central Elmore M..