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4. 3 Today's Chuckle When a football announcer refers to a 10-yard loss as a negative yardage play, it's time to turn off the TV set. THE SECOND FRONT PAGE Page 3, Section A Tuesday, November 22, 1977 etroit Arabs Angry; Jews Hopeful What Sadat said "sounds very good. 101 01 people in Israel and me are praying for Sadat's health right i But he didn have to ffo to Israel to state I Jabara Allweiss now. BY PETER GAVRILOVICH AND KEN FIREMAN Fret Press Staff Writers Detroit area Arabs and Jews Monday registered dramatically different reactions to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's weekend trip to Israel, underscoring the complex emotional nature of the Mideast conflict.

While most local Jews reacted with cautious optimism to the trip, members of the Arab community the largest in the U.S. denounced Sadat's trip as a slam to Arab pride. The Egyptian president went to Israel Saturday, addressed the Israeli parliament Sunday and spent two days talking with Israeli leaders about the prospects for peace in an area that has known animosity between Arabs and Jews for generations. Many members of both ethnic groups watched intensely as television brought the historic meeting into their homes. Zygie Allweiss, 50, a Polish-born Jew who survived a Nazi death camp during World War II, woke up his wife at 8:30 a.m.

Sunday so they could watch Sadat's address to the Knesset. "It's a wonderful thing," Allweiss said. "I was very impressed with Sadat going to Yad 'LA I i Zygie Allweiss Abdeen Jabara Vashem (an Israeli memorial to Jewish victims of the Nazis). He exposed himself." Allweiss said he was deeply impressed by the Egyptian leader's recognition of Israel's right to exist. "I was amazed that he said that," Allweiss said.

"A year ago I wouldn't have believed it could happen." Allweiss and his brother, Sol, were the talked about damaged pride. "There's no question about it," said Jabara, who was invited with 25 other Arab-American leaders by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to Washington last week for a briefing on Sadat's trip. "We're not interested in what he (Sadat) says publicly," Jabara said. "It sounds very Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 3 only survivors of an ll-member family that was interned in the Biesiatka concentration camp in Poland during World War II.

The two brothers came to the U.S. in 1948. Both now run service stations in Southfield. "A lot of people in Israel and me are praying for Sadat's health right now," Allweiss said. Detroit attorney Abdeen M.

Jabara, 37, TffliV EDGE Young Half a Point Short of 60 Percent JUST FOR THE RECORD: The Detroit Board of City Canvassers released the official tallies from the Nov. 8 general election Monday. The numbers show that Mayor Young missed the opportunity to say he won 60 percent of the vote by only a hair 59.49 percent. The tally shows Mayor Young with 220,579 votes to Councilman Ernest C. Browne 150,188 votes.

There were 80 write-in votes for mayor in the election. Councilwoman Maryann Mahaffey has the No. 2 spot on the council by only seven votes. She beat out Councilman Nicholas Hood, who previously held that position, with 231,487 votes to 231,480. Workers Slip Out on Bandit THE FOLKS WORKING behind the counter at a Church's Fried Chicken restaurant on the west side Sunday afternoon apparently knew trouble when they saw it.

They saw a man in the parking lot slip a silk stocking over his head, so they bolted and left a lone customer to fend for herself. Police say the man entered the store and, as expected, pulled a gun. He had the woman open the cash register and left with an undetermined amount of money. The bandit also left his weapon behind: It was a toy gun. Planned Parenthood Planning PLANNED PARENTHOOD of Metro Detroit and the or ganization's national headquarters are talking seriously about the future of Planned Parenthood in this city.

Fred Mallender, a local attorney and member of Planned Parenthood's national board, says the organization is merely reviewing the local chapter's performance. Mallender calls it "routine." However, an executive with the organization here says things are a little more serious than that: The home office apparently wants to remove some top personnel here, and Is unhappy enough to consider removing the local chapter's charter. Mallender says the two are "having a dialogue" but can't say more than that. Stay tuned. Pupils with a Promise AUSTIN CATHOLIC PREP SCHOOL, the 25-year-old all- male high school which may have to close at the end of the school year, won't have its doors locked without a fight.

A group of students' parents are looking for a way to keep the school operating. C. Bradford Lundy a spokesman for the parents committee, met late last week with the Augustinian order which plans to close the school. He says he has a promise that the backers of the school can lease the school if they receive a commitment from parents to keep their1 children enrolled. "We're all charged.

We think we can do it. We think we can cut it," he said. Letters went to parents Monday. Handle Has a Point BOB LINS, PRESIDENT of Teamster Local 299 and proud possessor of a reputation as a "Mr. Clean" in the union where many aren't entitled to that designation, has had a new CB radio installed in his car.

His CB handle: "Straight Arrow." Students Wild, 1 rp rife vr sfxX -V! Free Press Photo by LONA O'CONNOR Part of John Pappas' sculpture the entire work is more than 30 feet long Artist Likes Blues Sculpture -tiiiniimniirrti BY WILLIAM GRANT Free Press Education Writer A citizens' committee named to monitor integration of the Detroit schools warned Monday that conditions bordering on anarchy exist at some facilities. The citizen Monitoring Commission, in a report to U.S. District Judge Robert E. DeMascio, said a two-year-old court order requiring a uniform student discipline and conduct code in every Detroit public school still has not been implemented. The report, which has been forwarded to DeMascio and to school officials, described as "alarming" the number of high school students who skip classes and simply wander the halls of school buildings.

The report said teachers frequently lock their classroom doors to guard against trouble from these wandering students. THE KINDS OF PROBLEMS in various high schools include: Cody High School: The principal indicated that an attendance policy is not "a top priority," and a monitor reported up to 200 students still in the halls five minutes after the tardy bell. Southwestern High School: Halls remain crowded when the tardy bell rings and are never fully empty. Four of the five security guards were absent when the monitors made their inspection. Murray-Wright High School: The tardy bell "didn't seem to affect students," and many remained in the halls.

No one was asked for passes or identification. The number of "in-school truants" is causing a "fairly substantial amount of trouble" for the quality of education in the high schools, said William Wattenberg, a Wayne State University professor of education and chairman of DeMascio's Monitoring Commission. THE REPORT DOES NOT DEAL with the city's middle or elementary schools. It is based on a survey of 10 of the 22 high schools, because Wattenberg said reports from school monitors last year indicated that the most serious troubles have been in the high schools. In addition to in-school truancy, the report says there is wide variety in the way school principals are using the student conduct code, which was to be implemented "uniformly" in every school.

"Illegal behavior results in suspensions after the first Incident in some schools, while repeated incidents of the same offense in other schools" will result only in a student's being put out of school for a few days, the report said. DeMascio ordered the student discipline code on Oct. 29, 1975, after a long battle with the Detroit Board of Education. It was to go into effect Jan. 26, 1976.

Attorneys for the school board tried unsuccessfully to con- Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 3 BY ERIC SHARP Free Press Staff Writer John Pappas, sculptor, looked at his work Monday and said it was good. He bathed in the applause that filled the courtyard of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield headquarters in downtown Detroit at the unveiling of his creation seven tons of bronze formed into 14 massive human figures in a piece that stands nearly 15 feet high and more than 30 feet long. The sculpture represents more than four years of work by the Eastern Michigan University professor and an expenditure of some $274,000 by the Blues. It Is believed to be the largest piece of bronze sculpture created in this country since the Iwo Jima monument was dedicated near Washington, D.Cn in 1954.

The work depicts people helping people. The 5:15 p.m. ceremony in the Blues courtyard was held in conjunction with the Central Business District Association's "Detroit Aglow" ceremony in which the city's holiday lights were turned on. Pappas told the crowd of about 200 who shivered in a wintry wind, "it's like giving birth to a rather large baby. The pain is over and I hope now the joy begins." Pappas said the images in his work "have been developed over 20 years." Pappas and three former students who are now sculptors in the Ypsilanti area Ed Olsen, Paul Mauren and Jeanie Flana- gan brought the massive art work from Ypsilanti in six pieces Nov.

11. Originally, it was to have been shipped in two large sections but a crane couldn't get such big pieces to the courtyard's reflecting pool. "We've been welding it together for more than a week," Pappas said. "Then we went to work putting on the chemical coat that we hope will prevent it from tarnishing too quickly." Pappas was so happy that he was able to laugh about the problems of the last four years the aggravation of having to start a small foundry to cast the work, the criticisms raised over the expenditure by the Blues, the race Monday afternoon to get the sculpture finished on time. He wasn't even upset when someone asked him about the time the buttocks fell off the huge clay models he made before casting the bronze.

"Oh, that was a problem with temperature," he explained. "The clay was synthetic, mixed vath wax, and it got too hot in the studio. We'd come in in the mcrning and find that a leg had fallen off, or maybe a set of buttocks. We finally had to aircondition that part of the studio to keep the pieces together. Pappas' parents, his wife, their four children and his sister, who lives in Santa Ana, and whom he hadn't seen in four years, were on hand for the occasion.

People were coming up to the sculptor and asking for his autograph all day Monday. "This is embarrassing. It's wild," Pappas said. "I've been teaching at Eastern Michigan for 17 years. I'm not a celebrity." WE ARE WELL ENTERED into the time of year when I become a positive menace to navigation, including my own, as well as earning a reputation as being a complete snob.

Honestly, it's not my fault. The simple fact is that when the winds begin their icy thrust my eyes tear up something awful. I can see barely a foot ahead of me, water cascades down my cheeks. Icicles form on my nose. I suspect people are looking at me strangely, but I can't be sure.

I've been known to bump into lamp posts, then apologize abjectly. It sometimes takes me half a minute to discern a traffic light is red or green. By the time I decide it's green, it has changed to red but I charge ahead anyway. The Lord has been good so far. Other day, struggling up the hill to work, I heard somebody say "Hello, Mark." I blinked rapidly, trying to find a face in the direction from which the sound came.

I THINK it was Tom Haley, a colleague from the Free Press, going the other way. If it was you, Tom, hello right back and how are you? If it wasn't Tom, hello anyway. And no, you mustn't think .1 was snubbing you or that I'd just lost my best friend. Just wait until next summer. Everything will be cleared up by then.

Things were even worse for my father, who was very deaf. More than once on the golf course somebody he perhaps didn't know very well would call out a greeting and he'd stride on without the slightest acknowledgement. I'd make a point of explaining dad hadn't heard. But I wonder how many people who couldn't know said to themselves: "Who does that guy think he is?" WHEN THE DETROIT LIONS and Chicago Bears tangle on Thanksgiving Day, you who travel to the Silverdome can help brighten up Christmas for a child. The Marine Corps Reserve is in the midst of its Toys for Tots drive and will have the stadium circled with barrels in which you can deposit new, unwrapped toys.

concert for the Detroit Community Music School at Orchestra Hall Nov. 27, featur-. ing violinist Richard Luby and Neal Stulberg on piano, will be at 7 p.m., not 2 p.m. McNaught, picture editor for the Detroit Times who went to General Motors in 1 950, is retiring Dec. 21 as director of corporate communications.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY; Only time a husband appreciates a back-seat-driving Feud? What Feud? Say Warring Judges Therapists Revolt on State Quiz VJh IpliBllip 7 ill! i 1311 ii said she was going to hit me over the side of the head with a baseball bat. Since that time I've avoided her." Mrs. Vlaich just laughed at the rumors of a feud. "Now who would say something like that?" The 52d District's chief judge, Gerald McNally, last summer ordered both Shipper and Mrs. Vlaich not to discuss their feud with outsiders.

"This is sort of a family affair," said McNally. "When a brother and sister fight, they should keep it in the family and not talk about it with outsiders. Please turn to Page 10A, Col. 5 BY JANE BRIGGS-BUNTING Free Press Staff Writer A two-year-old court feud is bubbling quietly on the back burner in Rochester, and only the local attorneys are fully aware of what is happening. While lawyers do battle in the courtrooms of the 52d District Court's third division, the Rochester Court's only two judges, Robert Shipper and Mildred Vlaich, are waging a vigorous sniping campaign against each other.

"There's no feud," said Shipper. "I Just avoid her. After she was here for two months, she stopped talking to me. And she JUDGE Mildred Vlaich, when asked about a feud: "Now who would say something like that?" JUDGE Robert Shipper, who says of the claim: "There's no feud. I just avoid her (Judge Vlaich)." wife is when she pedaling on the rear of a tandem bike.

ARRIVING SATUR-DAY night at Metro Airport from Los Angeles, Jim Campbell, the Tiger general manager, bumped into a friend and said sadly: "Well, we lost." Friend wondered if some new calamity had struck the ball club. Then Legislator Indicted for Embezzlement BY DOLORES KATZ Fret Press Medical Writer A Detroit agency for the retarded and the mentally ill will lose part of its state funding because its employes refuse to fill out state evaluation forms that ask about the sexual attitudes, toilet habits and other personal behavior of the agency's mentally retarded clients. Phoenix Place, an outpatient facility which offers social programs for some 200 retarded and mentally ill people, claims that the forms would require therapists to spy on patients and would interfere with their clients' right to privacy. "Our clients are terribly offended (by the forms)," said Adrienne James, executive director of Phoenix Place, 8522 W. McNlchoIs, which will file a lawsuit against the state Department of Mental Health this week.

Phoenix Place's membership board, composed of about 20 mentally ill and mentally retarded clients, unanimously re-Please turn to Page 4A, Col. 3 To Insure accuracy, the Free Press will correct in this space any factual error which may occur in our news columns. he remembered that both Jim and Russ Thomas of the Lions are alumni of Ohio State. Campbell didn't feel as bad as a golden retriever puppy that made several trips around the baggage delivery cycle before his master showed up to claim him. Every time the pup went by, crying piteously, passengers waiting for their luggage would pat the top of his carrier and lean down to whisper words of consolation.

TODAY'S WORST JOKE: Mickey Walker says he was almost thrown out of a friend's house for this one, probably should have been. He arrived late for the kickoff of the Michigan-Ohio State game, asked why it wasn't on TV. It was explained that the president of Egypt was arriving In Jerusalem. "Oh, Sadat's the reason," said Walker. for malpractice.

That suit is still pending in Oakland County Circuit Court. Geralds' arrest warrants were issued Friday. He turned himself in to the Madison Heights police at 9 a.m. Monday and was arraigned shortly afterward. He is appealing his disbarment to the Michigan Supreme Court.

Oral arguments will be heard in January. Oakland County Prosecutor L. Brooks Patterson said he was asked by Mrs. Patria last month to bring charges against Geralds. Patterson denied any political motives.

Geralds was re-elected to his state House seat last November, a month after he had been disbarred. The felony charge of embezzlement by an attorney carries a maximum jail sentence of 10 years. State Rep. Monte R. Geralds, D-Madison Heights, was arraigned Monday on two embezzlement charges for his alleged misuse of money belonging to one of his law clients.

Geralds, 43, who was disbarred last year on the same charges by the State Bar Grievance Board, pleaded not guilty and waived a preliminary examination before 43rd District Court Judge Edward Lawrence. Geralds was released on $10,000 personal' bond. He is charged with embezzling almost $18,000 from Mrs. Geraldine Patria, a former client. He allegedly used the money to make a down payment on an office building at 320 W.

Eleven Mile Road In Madison Heights and to purchase some stock. Mrs.Patriaflleda$lmillionlawsuitagainstGeraldslastyear In a story in Saturday editions about the conviction on four counts of perjury of Anthony D. Giacalone, federal prosecutor Arnold G. Shulman was incorrectly quoted as arguing that Giacalone lied at least once when, in fact, Shulman told a federal court jury that Giacalone lied four times..

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