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THE SOUTHERN ISRAEUTE
Friday, Sept. 1, 1972
A Police Chiefs View of Miami Beach
By JOSEPH POLAKOFP
CHIEF, JTA WASHINGTON BUREAU
If Chief of Police Rocky Pom-
erance of Miami Beach is not
yet the world’s best known
policeman he soon will be. This
item will try to tell you why.
Rocky is giant in size, affable
in manner, and endowed with
what the old folks call a Yid-
disher kop that never stops
working to keep the peace in
Miami Beach. In a still predom
inantly Jewish town that feared
militant anti-Vietnam War ele
ments might wreck community
hospitality to both the Republi
can and Democratic conventions
in one summer, all these quali
ties help, especially since so
many of these anti-establish
ment youth are Jewish them
selves.
What’s more, the “conven
tion hotel” for the hippies,
zippies et al was in Flamingo
Park in the South Beach area
which is home to many thou
sands of Jews without money.
However, “Jewishness has never
arisen between me and the
Jewish counter-culture people,”
Rocky told the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency.
Rocky has been a subject for
news and comment long before
the particular morning just be
fore the Republicans opened
their convention. Prominent
writing and voice specialists
have been interviewing him
since the previous Republican
convention in MB in 1968. In
one week three major newspap
ers carried articles on him. The
fact that his very attractive
wife Hope, is a television pro
ducer herself undoubtedly helps
him understand the media but
Rocky has so much natural
stuff he would be a top man in
anything he liked. Rocky does
things right — straight talk no
bragging, up with the news, a
sharp memory for facts perti
nent to him, a patter well-
spiced with humor that is rec
ognizable as often used but
which does no harm
Being six feet tall and what
looks like a yard wide at the
shoulders and slightly more at
the hips in street clothes, Rocky
cuts an awesome figure. At 46,
Rocky scales 260 pounds — 60
more than his fighting weight
while boxing in the Army.
When he walked into position
for a British cameraman, Rocky
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PARIS (JTA) — Moroccan
King Hassan II promised his
country’s 30,000 Jews that he
would "continue to defend them
and said that they would con
tinue to enjoy the same rights
as the rest of the population,”
according to reports here.
The King, who addressed a
press conference at his summer
palace in Rabat, said: “I want
to use this opportunity to tell
my Jewish subjects that they
have nothing to fear and that
nothing will be changed in
their situation.” Referring to
Gen. Mohamed Oufkir, the
Moroccan Defense Minister and
Army Chief of Staff whose
death after an aborted coup at
tempt has been called suicide,
King Hassan said Morocco’s
Jews “do not need Oufkir to de
fend them.”
He explained that “the royal
throne has traditionally defen
ded the country’s Jews, and I
personally have managed to
prevent the outbreak of anti-
Jewish pogroms after the Six-
Day War.”
The King’s statement, broad
cast over the Moroccan radio
and television network, has re
assured the Jewish community’s
leaders and most of its Jews, it
was reported.
Special prayers for the King
have been recited in synagogues
throughout the country, and
Jewish leaders are due to call
at the Royal Palace in the com
ing days to assure him of their
loyalty.
Earlier reports indicated wide
spread anxiety among Moroccan
Jews following the attempted
putsch and Oufkir’s death. Many
of them reportedly feared that
as a result of what Hassan
termed “Oufkir’s betrayal,” the
monarch might turn for support
to the ultranationalistic Istaqlal
Party led by Allal el-Fassi.
Fassi, the reports said, is a vir
ulent anti-Semite who has ac
cused Morocco’s Jews of “sabo
taging” the country’s economy
and serving as “Zionist agents.”
signed his letters “yours for a Rocky has surprised New
short, cool summer.” After they Leftists who think cops must
departed, his closing was “a be red-necks, in the South
short, cool August.”
Continued on page 3
quipped “you got a wide-angle
lens?” That remark set up
Rocky perfectly with the team
from BBC.
Rocky explained how his men
had been instructed at the Uni
versity of Florida in constitu
tional law, the tradition of dis
sent, the theory for the Bill of
Rights. The police were taught
to know themselves, too, especi
ally to keep their cool despite
any intense provocation from
men and women.
Rocky doesn’t have it all his
own way. At a pre-convention
meeting of the City Council,
heated opposition arose to the
use of Flamingo Park as a “ho
tel” for the militants. The six-
member all-Jewish council split
right down the middle. Robert
Goodman, Jerome Greene and
Leonard Haber voted for its use.
Councilmen Herbert Magnes,
Harold Rosen and Leonard
Weinstein opposed the idea.
Protestant Mayor Chuck Hall,
whose only headgear is said to
be a yarmulka that he wears
often, cast the deciding vote in
Rocky’s favor. Rocky’s position
was that since the young people
would come to the Beach they
had to sleep somewhere. His
job is to protect the right of
dissent as well as to preserve
the peace. “Peaceful is the code
word,” he said. “In effective
and humane policing the trick
is balance.”
Rocky used humor, diplomacy,
theatricalisrm when suitable. In
speeches before the political
conventions he tried to blunt
the attitude of inevitable con
frontations. Before the Demo
crats gathered in June, he
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