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Page 12 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 21, 1986
Schorr: ’86 vote a call for centrist politics
by Richard Bono
TS1 staff writer
The Religious Right took a
sound beating in the 1986 mid
term election at the top of the
month, according to veteran
newscaster Daniel Schorr. But
its defeat, he said, does not indi
cate that American voters are
growing more liberal in their
views.
“What I see is not so much a
swing to the left, but a tendency
to reject the most right-wing
elements on the Reagan side and
to ask for a simple return to what
we might call ‘centrist’ politics,”
according to Schorr, who was in
Atlanta recently to address the
16th national board conference
of Women’s American ORT.
“If the voters voted against the
Reagan revolution, if there ever
was one,” he said, “I don’t think
they are voting for any other
kind of revolution to replace it.”
While voters do not want a
return to liberal programs of
social spending, according to
Schorr, “they do begin to per
ceive that there are poor people
suffering under Reagan policies
and budget cuts,” he said.
Currently national affairs cor
respondent for National Public
Radio, Schorr is primarily known
for his long stint with CBS News,
both as a foreign and domestic
correspondent. American televi
sion viewers will likely remember
Schorr’s statement before the
House Ethics Committee in Sep
tember 1976, when he was sum
moned to reveal his source for a
secret, leaked document, which
he published.
Schorr refused to divulge his
source, commenting: “To betray
a source would mean to dry up
many future sources for many
future reporters...It would mean
to betray myself, my career and
my life.”
In analyzing the recent elec
tion, Schorr is quick to point out
that voter participation was
practically at an all-time low.
Breaking down the 1986 vote,
Schorr noted that 18.9 percent of
the vote was for Democrats, 17
percent for Republicans and “the
vote for not voting was 62.7 per
cent,” he said, adding it is the
lowest voter turnout since 1942
when Americans were busy fight
ing World War II.
“While I have no doubt that
one of the significant resulting
factors of this election has been
the routing of the Religious
Right,” Schorr told The South
ern Israelite, “I think the voters
perceived rather accurately that
this was an election without any
great theme and so they just
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Daniel Schorr
voted in small numbers.” Another
factor that kept voters away from
the polls, he added, was the nega
tive campaign advertising so
prevalent this year on radio and
television.
Schorr said that in many ways
“the ’86 vote was “back to
normal.”
“It seems to be that Americans
always have a tendency to vote in
pendulum swings, like they did
with Reagan in 1980 and 1984,”
he said. “Now they’re starting to
swing back again.”
The new : Democratic majority
in the U.S. House and Senate,
according to Schorr, will begin
flexing its political muscle very
soon against President Reagan.
The showdown will become par
ticularly evident when the House
and Senate Foreign Relations
and Intelligence Committees begin
investigating the administration’s
covert dealings with terrorists in
Iran.
“It is beginning to become ap
parent, both with regard to the
supply of the Nicaraguan Con
tras and with regard to the hos
tages in Iran that, because the
CIA has to report to Congres
sional committees, they have set
up a shadow CIA in the White
House and wrapped it around
executive privilege,” Schorr said.
Schorr said he sees strong
parallels between this action and
that of the Nixon administration
during the Watergate era.
The apparent tendency for
White House administrations to
undertake covert operations on
their own, Schorr said, “is a phe
nomenon of people impatient with
the process of government, not
really understanding what the
Constitutional process is, and
wanting shortcuts.”
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He noted that shortcuts were
also taken by presidents Kennedy
and Roosevelt, “but not in the
systematic way the Nixon and
Reagan administration did, where
there is a tendency to substitute
covert operations for foreign pol
icy,” he said.
Schorr intimated that it was
Israel that suggested the Reagan
administration undertake an arms
trade for Americans held hostage
by Iranian terrorists. He explained
Iraq, which has been fighting
with Iran for years, is more of a
threat to Israel because Israel
and Iraq share a common border.
“Whatever the United States
can do to strengthen Iran in its
war against Iraq,” Schorr said,
“is all right with Israel.”
History of Nazis
should stay alive,
officials contend
by Joseph Polakoff
TSI's Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON—High West
German officials and Jewish com
munal leaders, addressing the
opening of a cultural and social
center in Frankfurt for the city’s
5,000 Jews, have agreed anew
that knowledge of the Nazi crimes
must remain ever alive to prevent
their recurrence, an official West
German Government publication.
The Week in Germany, reports.
Ignaz Bubis, chairman of
Frankfurt’s Jewish community,
said the trust of Jews in the Fed
eral Republic of Germany “has
grown and been strengthened”
and Jews live today in the “most
liberal state that has ever existed
on German soil.” However, he
added, “real normality” in rela
tions between Jews and Germans
can only exist if the memory of
Nazi genocide is kept alive, the
English-language publication
stated (Sept. 19).
Werner Nachman, chairman
of the Central Council of Jews in
Germany, called for “vigilance
on the part of government, polit
ical parties, labor unions, church
es and the general population against
extremist groups,” the publica
tion—prepared in Bonn and dis
tributed overseas—said. The
maintenance of freedom is the
basis for the life of Jews in West
Germany, Nachman said.
Frankfurt’s mayor Wolfram
Bruck and his predecessor, fed
eral minister of the environment
Walter Wallman, said the open
ing of the center was not only an
occasion for joy but also for sad
ness and remembrance. Wallman
said that National Socialist crimes
should never be forgotten. He
added that he hoped the center
would contribute to bridging the
gap between Jews and Germans.”
Among the 1,000 guests at the
ceremony were representatives of
the Central Council of Jews in
Germany and members of Jew
ish communities throughout the
Federal Republic. The center,
w hich was built at a cost of DM
25 million (close to $10 million),
houses a kindergarten, an ele
mentary school, a youth center
and a club for senior citizens. It
also includes a gymnasium, a res
taurant and a 50(Fseat auditorium.