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Page 16/The BattalioiVThursday, April 7, 1988
World and Nation
Jackson vies for votes
from Jews in New Yor
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
headline in the New York Post —
“Koch to Jews: ‘You’ve got to be
crazy to vote for Jesse” — screamed
out in boldface what Jesse Jackson is
up against as he tries make headway
among Jewish voters.
In New York, with its large and
influential Jewish population, the
April 19 primary looms as the set
ting for perhaps the most negative
response Jackson has encountered
to his 1988 Democratic presidential
campaign.
Jackson thus far has largely ig
nored the veiled references to his
Arab sympathies by rivals Albert
Gore Jr. and Michael Dukakis. But
in the next two weeks, Gore and Du
kakis are certain to make more
pointed comparisons on their Mid
dle East records.
In addition, Jewish groups are
planning to demonstrate against
Jackson. Two ad-hoc committees
have formed to distribute critical
material. And the mayor of New
York, Ed Koch, has gone all out with
anti-Jackson rhetoric.
“A vast majority of Jews will not
vote for him,” said Michael Miller,
executive director of the Jewish
Community Relations Council of
New York.
“I’m getting dozens of letters ev
ery week with expressions of con
cern about the Jackson campaign,”
said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holo
caust Studies in Los Angeles. “We
will absolutely not support a Jackson
candidacy . . . because he is not a
friend of the state of Israel.”
Some Jewish leaders acknowledge
that Jackson’s efforts to mend fences
with the Jews since 1984 and the
P
generally more mainstream
his campaign havecutd
antipathy toward him.
A recent New York
Marist College Institute
Opinion showed Jewish attin
ward him in general arem
— 36 percent favorable anil
cent unfavorable in
compared to 17 percent fa
and 62 percent unfavorabit
uary.
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perceived as anti-Israel,
or both, several communitt
litical leaders said.
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Ex-Meese aide
praises Reagan
at luncheon
HOUSTON (AP) — William
Weld, one of two top officials who
abruptly left the Justice Department
last week, praised the Reagan ad
ministration’s crime-fighting efforts
Wednesday but declined to discuss
his resignation.
The former assistant attorney
general of the criminal division said
he plans to keep conversations he
had with Attorney General Edwin
Meese III about his departure pri
vate “at least until there are any
hearings on the subject.”
Weld was the guest speaker
Wednesday at a crime prevention
luncheon sponsored by the Ex
change Clubs of Greater Houston.
He did not talk about his resignation
during his address, but spoke about
it briefly to reporters prior to his
speech.
Last week. Weld and Deputy At
torney General Arnold Burns re
signed out of concern that the nearly
11-month criminal investigation of
Meese by independent counsel
James C. McKay was hurting the de
partment’s operations and image.
“I have, to this point, not gone
into my thinking on the (depart
ment),” he said when asked if the
Justice Department’s reputation had
been hurt by the investigation. “I’m
going to try and leave it that way.”
Weld would not say whether he
had been asked to appear before any
congressional hearing on the matter,
but added, “I would not need a sub
poena from the Hill” to appear.
He said he will return to Boston in
the fall where he either will teach at
Harvard, join a law firm or do a
combination of both. Until then, he
will remain in Washington where his
children attend school.
“I’m not expecting to do anything
but go fishing between now and the
fall,” Weld said.
When asked why he would not
comment on his reasons for re
signing, he said, “I think that’ll all
come out in time.”
Weld said he was invited to make
the speech in Houston before he re
signed.
About 200 people attended the
luncheon, including several law en
forcement officers and local, state
and federal officials. The function
was to honor two policemen as “Offi
cers of the Year.”
Weld told the group that Ameri
cans feel threatened by criminals.
World briefs
Fitzwater disputes Reagan’s remark
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP)
— White House spokesman Mar
lin Fitzwater today described as “a
throwaway remark" a comment
by President Reagan indicating
approval of the notion of par
doning indicted former aide Oli
ver North.
Another congressman ip
Reagan as saying, “I likehearcfll
what you said,” after Rep. Hte
J. Hyde suggested the presuli
should pardon Northandfom
national security adviser
Poindexter at the endofReac;
term.
Reagan did not say that he
would pardon former White
House aides or others accused in
the Iran-Contra affair. But, after
hearing a proposal for pardons,
he did say “I like the sound of
those words,” said one congress
man quoted in The Washington
Post.
Hyde, R-Ill., suggested
pardons be signed during!
monies at the Vietnam Vetei
Memorial in Washington,ara
ing to The Post.
During a briefing for repon
at this seaside resort, not fat In
Reagan’s ranch in theSantali
Mountains, Fitzwater was ip
tinned.
Alleged dealer held for agent’s deal
WASHINGTON (AP) —
month-long U.S.-Honduran
Si,
tntn ican
P*
eration culiminating in a pre
dawn police raid in Honduras put
an alleged international cocaine
trafficker in Illinois federal
prison Wednesday for question
ing in the slaying of a U.S. drug
agent, officials said.
A “stunned” Juan Ramon
Matta Ballesteros was lodged at
the maximum-security federal
prison in Marion, Ill., after Hon
duran officials on Tuesday hus
tled him onto a plane to the Do-
Republic wiitioi
passport, U.S. law enforce:
sources said.
Dominican Republic
put Matta on a flight
York, where he was arrets
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ras spearheading the effoM
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source said, speaking
condition of anonymity.
Troops agree on cease-fire zones
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) —
Contra and Sandinista military
representatives agreed Wednes
day on seven zones where rebels
will gather during their 60-day
cease-fire, state radio reported.
The two sides remained far
apart, however, on key issues to
bring about a permanent peace.
The meeting in the southern
border town of Sapoa, the fourth
set of talks in less than a month,
dealt with the mechanics of pur
suing the truce which went into
effect Friday.
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Computer usage falters among adul
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mil
lions of Americans have home
computers, but only about half of
the adults with them actually use
the machines, the Census Bureau
reported Wednesday.
Nearly three-quarters of chil
dren who had access to a home
computer used it, however, the
bureau found.
The seemingly low usage of
home computers should!
too surprising, Census"
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statistician Robert Kominil
report’s author, said.
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vey of computer use taken si
tober 1984, the only timeli
reau has looked at the*
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ings was delayed by theft*;
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