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Spiro Agnew's novel, "The Canfield Decision,” contains numerous stereo-typical references to American Jews and to Israel, and, as such, is a source of concern, While these statements are expressed by various characters in the story, they nevertheless appear to reflect the feelings of the book's author -- feelings which, for the most part, evidence hostil- ity to Jews and Jewish concerns. Indeed, most of the comments are deprec- atory and derogatory. Jews are said to exert influence on American opinion, to control the financial community and the academic community, to under- stand the "power of money", to be "pushy", to be ultrasensitive to persec- ution, to be liberals, and to have been against the war in Southeast Asia. The book also contains a derogatory reference to the ADL. "The Anti-Defamation League goes berserk at the slightest criticism of Jews," one character in the novel declares.