European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Heir depiction by a Kef known i Midnight express leaves Little Bui he does not shrink from t embellishments. I Art entire generation who thai historical event Parker interview to cause them to a emotionally because of the id them now. And that s n. A justification Tor the. Ori no credits Are overlaid on a "4jo scene moving to the Back uder of the three men is re Lite realism the names of the mentioned and other names fanged but the killing is close to i in court records and Fri Star with that place and time the of the Black people of Neshoba Vic really although compressed a dedicated but inept a Public Point of Silling in the restaurant and talking to a. A the Black is later beaten by in a the event happened is moot i omes Are torched in the film ii happened. From june of 65, Kkt nigh riders burned 31 Joss Mississippi according Tolar kor does not exaggerate. P sic framework of fact the i Gerolma end Parker grail lie fabrication chiefly in s investigation and say it is. A of fiction.". Al Mississippi burning derives s knowledge that the essential happened. Even the tills of the ids name for the investigation. Fawn from life. In me nothing but a Nigger a s killer in the Iii. Bui at  that piece of dialogue m Fri files the confession of lands. Umber of reasons or turning fact into fiction Lor the purposes of making a movie not the least of them the Legal difficulties involved in portraying numerous lives Many in sympathetically gut in this Case fiction enables Parker to have his factual cake so to speak while spooning it out richly slathered with fictional icing. Although the filming was spread Over several locations Parker evokes the texture the Gritty Fly speckled southerners the brooding sense of Small town menace the racial halted Wilh considerable accuracy. Even much of the violence is perhaps defensible because it is Central to the reality. But Ihara also seems to be violence Lor the Sake of it and Hackman s portrayal of an Fri Man beggars Clint Eastwood. Parker and Gerolmo defend the Lection on he ground that there were numerous suggestions none Ever proven of Fri excesses but More importantly on the ground that it makes the Story More emotionally affecting. Bui the really itself is powerful. Those who never ventured into he Rural South in Tho 1960s might find much of hard to believe that Back country lawmen belonged to the klan covered up killings and beatings and were proud to Tell you that n Acap stood Lor niggers apes alligators. Coons and  As the fictional sheriff tells reporters in Mississippi burning. Those reporters including Mysell who did cover the South in those Days heard that sort of thing and worse virtually every Day scarcely a week went by without a burning Cross somewhere. Ii was a time when Moro than one Mississippi judge was said to Wear a Black Robe by Day and a White one by night and while it might be an exaggeration to suggest that most while mississippians supported the klan it is Lair to say that Lew of them had the temerity to speak against it those interested in the Schwerner Goodman Chaney murders will find the details in a powerful and meticulously researched recent non fiction Book by sell Cagin and Philip Dray tilled we Are not Al Raj published by Macmillan that was the Way it was in Mississippi in those Days and painful As it is to relive it Mississippi burning serves to remind americans with Exi Ordinary Force just How bad re was. 5 signed aft us Berkeley Bibuld be required to Lako a one dealing with the contributions of. Asian americans Aero Licano latino americans to Iho history or culture each course analysis of the contributions of minority groups. ,. A to 40 courses would be offered its could fulfil the requirement economies anthropology r id Public policy. A students passed a recent to 47 percent in support i course. -. ". 3 whole night writing pages on. Irica and my prescribed texts. Contributions of indians or a country and there was very i How mexicans helped shape 1 Alfonso Salazar a 20-year-old Tino students group. Opsal believe that it is poorly b the wrong message to. Ici fied in the measure. Further 10 requirement might inflame.kjsra1her than reduce them. I "53 inconceivable that this car than reducing tensions on acer Bate them said David .1  minority has been most a about mormons what about i about jews and italians As far we have courses that already \ aspects of american culture. I a been driven by political to Limber 17,1988 pressures and for thai reason this is an Issue that people Are going to be passionate about Gogol suggested that the proposal was being raised now to diffuse charges by asian american Slud ants thai the University has designed some admission policies to keep them  you admitted people on scores Only everyone Here would be asian Vogel said. At us Berkeley. 26.5 percent of the 22,000 undergraduates Are Asiar americans. \ ,. There is also pressure on the University administration to recruit minority acuity members. Ninety two percent of the faculty is White. Students Ere competing for Access to this University and to the labor Market Takaki said. White students Are now fully competitive with students of color and there is a kind of " resentment against this new student population. I can Tell you that i Don t remember this Type of Campus Graffiti 10 years ago and i believe re represents a new surge of  incidents Are on the Rise on campuses across the United Stales. At the University of Wisconsin members of a fraternity pal need themselves in blackface and set upon their Lawn a targe cutout of a Black Man wifi a Bone through his nose Thal same Spring Black students at the University of Michigan found fliers slipped under their doors declaring open Hunting season on of taboos and porch  at the University of Massachusetts White students attacked an interracial couple and several Black students on Campus. University administrators throughout the country generally have acknowledged. Trend and some like do Berkeley Are discussing instituting mandatory programs to help curb it. Being a jew in America by Nora frenk1el. Baltimore Sun to is a jew. A jew is a 66-year-old professor in Cambridge mass., by the name of Daniel Bell who says i am not a jew by Faith in the fundamentalist sense i m nol a believer in the narrow sense. I am a jew by  a jew is a 42-year-old attorney in Atlanta by the name of Dale Marvin Schwartz who recalls growing up in the Only jewish family in Winder a. The work Totnes capital Mohe United slates where Schwartz s family ran a Small department store. We used to think it was ironic that whenever we sold a lot of White sheets we knew there was going to Bea Kjan  a jew says Howard Simons author of a new Book chronicling the jewish american experience is anyone who id entitles As a  while the debate intensifies in Israel the religious parties Are trying to restrict the Legal det Nilion in the United states one distinguishing aspect of being jewish writes. Simons is this sense this feeling this notion of being different.". Simons the 53-year-old grandson of a penniless polish jew a Cobbler who immigrated to the United slates at Trie turn of the Century spent four years travelling the United slates listening to the voices of jewish America. The result jewish Tanas a compilation of More than so Oral histories culled from 227 interviews. This was a Tabor of love says Simons who is curator of the Meiman foundation for journalism at Harvard end former managing editor of the Washington Post. " was seeking to capture. Lydd Ishmeil Simons explains to a Small but enthusiastic audience gathered recently at the jewish. Community Center in Baltimore. What is Riddl Skelt it is defined in the Book s glossary As yiddish lore culture custom and ethos. Yells More it is that intangible jewishness. That flavor of jewishness the ail but disappeared old style neighbourhoods the shops circling the local shut synagogue in yiddish the streets where the grandmothers from Tho old country spun their glorious yarns. So what ii those tales were a Little embellished a Little dressed up i / loved the Bubble Mayss says Simons referring to the grandmothers stories. ,.a he Hopes everyone who reads the Book will be inspired. Go out with a tape recorder and record those.  there is a sense of urgency because it is a disappearing  he says. Assimilation arid " intermarriage May nil be offset by the return of Young proud jews to the Larih. But Simons in t worried. I feel optimistic that jewishness will survive maybe there won t be big numbers but ii will survive.". The Book is rather celebratory in tone heavy on the Success stories with Many prominent figures interviewed talk show Host Larry King Fred the furrier and yet there is a deep resonance to this layering of personal history reflecting both the. Strengths and weaknesses of he Oral history form. The strengths occasionally startling flashes of history almost forgotten. The weaknesses Brief glimpses that make a Reader wish Lor More. And the omissions Loo few Ordinary lives of working class jews poor jews there is not a single holocaust survivor or recent immigrant interviewed nor anyone under the age of 30. In his introduction Simons writes. This Book is not meant to be scholarly it is not meant to be comprehensive. It is not meant even to be representative. Ii is about one person s fascination with one person s experience in one extraordinary country.". A Reader May come to this conclusion that being jewish in America at least for these people May often mean Success in the eyes of society Money Fame prestige taut not without some Darker View. Even the most successful jews recall the exclusions the subtleties of their separateness especially when they tried Topes in the rna oily world. If assimilation is Success writes Simons in another context it can also mean failure a failure of  the Book s most moving sections recall the anti semitism some of it Over. Simons says thai on this Book tour to has visited thriving jewish communities but he also tells his Center listeners in Baltimore about the windows smashed in november of the night the jewish Community in Detroit commemorated Krysl Allnach. It is a disturbing Imago and there is a palpable unease that settles Over the  confesses that As a Young jew priming up in the Shadow Hohr Cathedral of the immaculate Conception in Albany n.y.," he. Learned not to draw attention to himself. And later in life he recalls How careful he was always remembering. As he Lell the synagogue to Lake the Yarmulke Oil his head today Young people Wear them  he says. They re proud of their  but not All restrictions and prejudices have lifted. Simons talks about the Southern businessman he interviewed who complained that no matter How much Success you have in life you re still excluded.", some of Hal anti semitism is so ingrained in society Hal it filters into All worlds. Even among jews themselves there Ere 5.8 million jews in the United states comprising some 2vi percent of the population. By Simons unofficial reckoning ii you look a the religious origins there Are probably two to three irenes Harmany  jewish  the stars and stripes Page 15