Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many American Jews were angered and alarmed by the spectacle of the Rev. Jesse Jackson embracing Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, and of the Rev. Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference joining Arafat in a chorus of We Shall Overcome. But to those who interpreted these odd scenes as a sign of black antiSemitism, a contradicting voice sounded last week. Said Vernon E. Jordan Jr., head of the National Urban League, in a widely publicized speech to a Catholic audience in Kansas City: "Black-Jewish relations should not be endangered by ill-considered flirtations with terrorist groups devoted...
...Ambassador Andrew Young following secret contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sent a statement last week to the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1,700 U.S. branches urging that "our historic close working relationships with the American Jewish community" be maintained and strengthened...
...Hooks had been subverted by Jewish donations was oddly timed, because it became clear last week that some black organizations are getting Arab cash. Jackson's PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) acknowledged receiving an $8,000 contribution from a group that is called the Association of Arab-American University Graduates...
Frank Kush was the classic all-American success story. One of 15 children, he grew up in a company-owned house above coal Mine 35 outside Johnstown, Pa., won a football scholarship to Michigan State University, and in 1958 was named head coach at Arizona State in Tempe. There his Sun Devils became one of the toughest teams in the country. Kush's coaching record of 176 wins, 54 losses and one tie was second only to that of Alabama's Bear Bryant...
...arrival in Paris was marked by pageantry appropriate for the first trip to Western Europe by the top leader of the Chinese people. After Hua's American-built 707 jet rolled up at Orly Airport, he stepped onto an "extralong" red carpet for a brief walk to an Alouette helicopter and a 15-minute flight to the Esplanade des Invalides, where 150 mounted members of the elite Republican Guard were drawn up in splendid array. There was an obligatory wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, a succulent lunch of salmon...