Word: abourezk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James Abourezk, a former Republican senator from South Dakota who chairs the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said he supports the inclusion of the PLO in a conference because it represent the wishes of the Palestinian people...
...Abourezk and Bookbinder are the authors of "Through Different Eyes," a written debate on Middle Eastern policy. They have been touring the country and debating in public since September. Two hundred people attended last night's forum...
...Abourezk argued that the American views of the situation in the Middle East have been distorted by the influential pro-Israel lobby in the United States. He claimed that the Palestinians were promised an independent state by the British government in 1918, only to be thwarted by "Zionist political machinations in London...
Even before Abourezk registered his complaint, the FBI had begun to look for a wider connection. Characterizing the attack that killed Odeh as "terrorist," an FBI spokesman said that the Jewish Defense League, a militant pro-Israel organization, is "the possible responsible group" for Odeh's assassination as well as two separate bombings of suspected Nazis last summer. One of those blasts proved fatal: in Paterson, N.J., Tscherin Soobzokov, 61, a veteran of the Nazi Waffen SS, was injured by a bomb that detonated when he opened his front door. He died a month later. The Los Angeles Times...
...Abourezk met with FBI Director William Webster late last week and turned over information pointing to suspects other than the JDL, although the former Senator says he has no firm idea who is behind the attacks. At the same time, his complaints about federal indifference have stirred further action: the Justice Department's civil rights division announced last week it would investigate the attacks on the American-Arab group. Abourezk is now satisfied that the Government has committed adequate resources to the probe. Said he: "We were feeling goddamned alone out here...