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...plot thickened. It became know that just after the day of the probable explosion. Col. Amos Horey, a nuclear scientist with the Israeli armed forces had visited South Africa and met with Abraham Rouse, the head of South Africa's Atomic Energy Board. Israel had reportedly already effected an exchange of South African enriched uranium for Israeli nuclear technology. A British team of investigative reporters, after surveying the evidence available at the time, concluded that the 1979 nuclear blast was an Israeli-South African warhead fired from a Belgian and American-made howitzer...
...name comes from the initials of the three principals in the development company) will resemble a ruined brick shell brought to life by a new glass enclosure. Two existing ornate portals will be replicated to provide four entrances, an allusion to the house of the patriarch Abraham as described in rabbinic writings. Explains Wines: "The design symbolizes the blend of cultures as well as the contrasts of decay and renewal that seem to be evident in Williamsburg...
...seconds. According to the Commission, it took 2.3 seconds to operate the rifle's bolt mechanism between shots. Magazine journalist Robert Sam Anson, in his articles in New Times and his book "They've Killed the President!", relies heavily on the color 8-mm film Dallas garment manufacturer Abraham Zapruder made of the murder. In the film, Connally is not seen to react until nearly a second after Kennedy emerges, obviously wounded, from behind a ground-level sign blocking Zapruder's view...
...January was established as a national holiday because King was a black man. I find this disturbing. With due respect to his accomplishments, the emphasis on his race as a consideration is a case of racism in reverse. This could have been counteracted if another great man, like Abraham Lincoln, had been added for his role as the emancipator. Together, the two men could have been honored by the same national holiday, to be called a human rights...
Robert K. Murray of Pennsylvania State University has surveyed 1,000 Ph.D. historians as part of a study on how such authorities assess American Presidents. The 1,000 rated Kennedy 13th, in the middle of the "above average" category. Those considered great: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. Near great: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, James K. Polk, John Kennedy, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland...