Word: albert
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...says Albert Vorspan, vice president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, but his is not a popular view. Most American Jews are apprehensive, if not heartsick, about the anguished debate that has broken out inside their community on the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government. The war in Lebanon, and Begin's brusque rejection of President Reagan's peace plan for the Middle East, have shattered a tradition that was already fraying: namely, that in times of crisis American Jews should repress any qualms they might have about the policies of an Israeli...
...might open the way to a Soviet-dominated state ruled by the hated Palestine Liberation Organization. B'nai B'rith acclaimed Reagan's plan specifically "because it asks Jordan to take responsibility for negotiating directly with Israel on the future of the West Bank and Gaza." Albert Spiegel, an unofficial adviser to Reagan on Jewish affairs, addressed a B'nai B'rith luncheon in Washington at which the pronouncement was discussed. He cannot recall any other statement by a major Jewish organization so strikingly at variance with the declared policy of an Israeli government...
...England, this week. It will be 166 days since it first set out for the Falkland Islands-the longest continuous tour at sea of any British warship since the days of sail-and among those eager to join family and friends will be a helicopter pilot named Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward, 22, a veteran of numerous dicey adventures during the conflict. "I was airborne at the time the Atlantic Conveyor was hit," he recalls. "I saw it being struck by the missile, and it was something I will never forget. It was horrific." No doubt the young prince...
...talking like a novelist engagé. Much of his fiction has explored Jewish "ethicality," which he defines as "how Jews felt they had to live in order to go on living." In 1958, the year he published his National Book Award-winning stories, The Magic Barrel, he said, quoting Albert Camus: "The purpose of the writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." He has deplored the self-devaluation of modern man that springs from his having invented the means of his own extinction. It is no surprise, then, that his eighth novel deals with the nuclear apocalypse, the central...
...gray. Nothing in nature, including a rock, could be that color. Guards say the wall goes down 30 ft. in spots so as to hold fast in the quicksand. At intervals along the flat surface, watch turrets sit with witch-hat tops; Disney World, had it been built by Albert Speer, would have this look. The wall encompasses five separate cell blocks. Inside these are individual cells, 7 ft. from floor to ceiling, 9 ft. by 6 ft. in area, in which some 2,000 men live among the possessions permitted them...