Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your article on the Jewish Defense League's military-style training camp [Aug. 30] is only another sad commentary on how the "American way of life," with its emphasis on guns, defense and hatred, is scarring Judaism. I wonder how long it will take these young men and women to realize, as many other young Jews have, that our only liberation lies in moving to and settling in our homeland of Israel, that the only place really worth "fighting for Jews" is in the Jewish state...
...Contrary to your implication, it wasn't Tricky Thieu or Big Minh [Aug. 30] but Henry Kissinger who splattered Vietnamese election egg over the face of America...
...student of both Irish and British history, I found it incredible that you describe Great Britain as "that most gentie and civilized of lands" [Aug. 23]. Surely you speak in jest. No other country could compete with the imperialistic, bloody past of England. In her notorious history, that "gentle land" has been involved in war with almost every nation on earth. Such an unadmirable trait seems to stem mainly from misguided English efforts to civilize the rest of the barbaric world. I remember that Americans' forebears threw the English out of America in 1776. The Nationalists in Derry...
...efforts to devalue the dollar. In Japan, the dollar lost 6.4% of its value during its first full week of floating against the yen. TRADE. The Treasury Department ruled that more than $1.5 billion of imported goods in transit to U.S. ports or in bonded warehouses on Aug. 15 were exempt from the 10% import surtax. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that the U.S. would sell 175 F-4 Phantom jets to West Germany for $1 billion. Laird said that the decline of the value of the dollar in relation to the Deutsche Mark, which in effect cuts...
...inbound goods stranded as of Aug. 15 were declared last week exempt from the new 10% surtax on imports. They included large shipments of foreign cars and Christmas supplies of everything from toys to tree ornaments, which dealers can now sell at prefreeze prices. Even so, the main worry is about dwindling inventories. "Some of our dealers are faced with taking on a second line of products like lawnmowers or tractors," says Datsun Distributor Karl Henning. "You can't keep the store open without any beans on the shelf...