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IN OUR 46TH YEAR OF SERVICE TO THE DALLAS-FT. WORTH JEWISH COMMUNITY
VOLUME 46, NO. 7
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1992 9 ADAR I 5752
24 PAGES $.75 PER ISSUE
JESS JAWIN
PAT BUCHANAN'S "FAMILY TREE?"
Pat Buchanan told David Brinkley's Sunday audience that he was
related to James Buchanan, a Democrat who was the 15th president of
the United States. Buchanan said the former persident, who was inaugu-
rated in 1857, came from the "northern branch of the family" and was of
Scottish descent. Buchanan is an Irish-Catholic.
Buchanan, who has been accused of being anti-Semitic in the past, was
again asked by Sam Donaldson if he had any apologies to make for his
bashing of Israeli in particular and Jews in general. After persistent
questions, Buchanan, who is from the same state which President
Buchanan hailed from, Pennsylvania, told Donaldson he had no apolo-
gies to make for his remarks on Israel or others which Donaldson
suggested were anti-Semitic.
Pat Buchanan will have to search his heart of hearts, face himself in the
mirror and wrestle with the accusations being made against him. We
believe that as an American and Irish-Catholic he has every right to run
for the Republican nomination even though we hardly agree with his
philosophy of government and how the good and welfare should be
legislated or construed.
As a speechwriter, publicist and TV rabble rouser and certainly not a
journalistic muck-raker in the Lincoln Steffins tradition, Pat Buchanan
never ran for public office previously. He'll probably score between the
mid-thirties to forty percent against President Bush. This if it happens,
will bring out a furious and fighting George Bush who has ignored
Buchanan who says he was Bush's good friend expecially when they had
White House offices "twenty feet" from each other during the Reagan
years.
Pat Buchanan whose mouth is loud and not always accurate might take
a cue from his claimed relation, former mid-nineteenth century President
Buchanan. Consider some of the political offices he held or won before
he was nominated and elected to the presidency. Following his service as
a volunteer in the War of 1812 when he was barely 20 years old, he ran for
and was elected to the Pennsylvania legislature from 1814-1816 and
following this was several terms in Congress from 1820-1831. He was
appointed by President Andrew Jackson to serve as Minister to Russia
*ee see JESS JAWIN page 23
Israel Ready to Freeze New Housing
In Order to Get U.S. Loan Guarantees
By David Friedman
WASHINGTON (JTA) - Is-
rael appears to have conceded it
will have to freeze new housing
starts in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip in order to get U.$. guaran-
tees for $10 billion in loans badly
needed for immigrant resettlement.
Still to be settled is how many of
the settlement construction projects
begun in the administered territo-
ries Israel would be permitted to
complete, and what other condi-
tions would be attached to U.S.
underwriting of the loans.
When the Israeli ambassador to
Washington, Zalman Shoval,
emerged last Friday from his latest
meeting with Secretary of State
James Baker, he indicated the dis-
cussions have a long way to go.
He told reporters Israel does not
believe that the humanitarian issue
of loan guarantees should be linked
to the settlements.
But in an apparent sign of resig-
nation, he added, ""Obviously that
view is not entirely shared by the
United States."
Of his meeting with Baker,
Shoval said there was "agreement
on some points," and disagreement
on others. Neither the Israeli envoy
nor Baker would give any details.
The Bush administration is mak-
see HOUSING page 24
Churches Blast Israel's Treatment
Of Palestinians, Holy Site Access
By Tamar Levy
GENEVA (JTA)-The heads of
eight Eastern and Western churches
in Jerusalem and a monastic order
have issued a joint statement
harshly condemning Israel for its
alleged mistreatment of the Pales-
tinian population and what they
say is denial of access to holy places
to members of non-Judaic faiths.
The statement, which drew an
angry response from Jerusalem
Mayor Teddy Kollek, was signed
last month by the Latin, Greek Or-
thodox and Armenian patriarchs,
who are the official guardians of
Christian holy sites in the city.
They were joined by the heads of
the Coptic, Syrian, Anglican,
Lutheran and Greek Catholic
churches and the leader of the Ro-
man Catholic Franciscan Order,
according to church officials here.
Their complaints included the
recent occupation of Arab homes
in the Old City by Jewish settlers
receiving state aid.
The statement deplored the "dep-
redations" of the settlers and ac-
cused the government of "ambiva-
lence" toward them. It categori-
cally opposed "any attempt to
modify the demographic and unique
character and status of Jerusalem."
The church leaders took the Is-
raeli authorities to task for collec-
tive punishment "visited indiscrimi-
nately on the civilian Palestinian
population."
It charged severely limited ac-
cess to Christian holy places dur-
ing the Christmas season as an ex-
ample and said such measures only
aggravate the harrdships suffered
see CHURCHES page 7
ANALYSIS
Fateful Year in The Church-State War
By James David Besser
Texas Jewish Post Washington Correspondent
It may have been an omen: one make this aparticularly fateful year increasingly adept at amending an year. vate schools in this country are
of the first issues taken up by the in the endless battle over church- array of legislation to chip away at But Jewish groups along with a sponsored by religious organiza-
Senate in 1992 was the politically state separation. the wall of separation. broad coalition of civil liberties tions; "school choice" programs,
explosive issue of federal aid to * * * Butseveralweeksago,thosetac- and education organizations, did by default, will almost inevitably
parochial schools. At the beginning of this last ses- tics appeared to misfire. their legislative homework; when become programs to provide fed-
Some Jewish activists are pre- sion of the 102nd Congress, there At issue was legislation setting the amendments finally came up eral money to religious schools,
dieting that a combination of fac- were some mixed signals on the up demonstration "school choice" alter the winter recess, they were many Jewish activists believe,
tors - including the unstable po- church-state front. In the past few programs. soundly defeated. The Senate's decision on the
litical climate, the conservative years, advocates of school prayer Those programs involve giving "in education, parental control choice program was good news,
revolution in the federal judiciary and federal funding for parochial parents an opportunity to send their has become a code word for getting Golub said-but it wasjust the first
and the battered economy - could have been increasingly vocal-and children to the school of their choice rid of separation," said Judy Golub, skirmish in what is certain to be a
- public or private - with federal legislative director for the Ameri- long and ferocious war.
money following. can Jewish Committee and an ac- Golub pointed to a less encour-
For months, it was an open sec- tive crusader against the forces ea- aging factor in the intensifying
ret that conservatives were plan- ger to whittle away at the church- church-state debate - the economic
ning amendments that would ex- state wall. "The school choice de- wringer squeezing the federal bud-
tend the original choice plan to bate is just a guise for people who get.
religious schools, as well as secular want to open the door to funding "With the rising deficit, there is
private institutions. There was for sectarian institutions — and in 311 effort to redefine church-sepa-
widespread speculation that these the process, weaken the public ration," she said. "The federal gov-
amendments would be difficult to school system." emment is seeking to shift the bur-
defeat, especially in an election In fact, a large majority of pri- see ANALYSIS page 24
INDEX
Star Search
2-3
Washington Watch
4
Dallas Doings
5
Food-Forbidden Desserts
13
Synagogue Services
18,21
Around the Town
19
Light Sabbath Candles 5:52 p.m.
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