Word: ben
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Like an Old Testament prophet, Deane Hinton, our Ambassador to El Salvador, confronted the oppressors with their evil [Nov. 22]. He got the usual response: instead of repentance, a hardness of heart. The Salvadoran businessmen deserve the destruction that is coming upon them. Leon Schaddelee Ben ton Harbor, Mich...
...Christmas in Washington." According to an NBC spokesman. "President and Mrs. Reagan will participate in a specially produced segment from the White House." They will join a list of headliners that includes Dianne Carroll, Barbara Mandrell, Ben Vereen, former "Duke of Hazzard" John Schnieder, and Reaganite Dinah Shore. None of the Democratic hopefuls for 1984 will get equal time to rebut the President's Christmas greeting
...singular virtue of Gandhi that its title figure is also a character in the usual dramatic sense of the term. As portrayed by Ben Kingsley, 37, an actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company making his film debut, Gandhi must age some 50 years. In the process he must convert himself from the vigorous, somewhat arrogant, somewhat dandyish young lawyer who first caught the world's attention with his nonviolent resistance to South Africa's racial laws, to the saintly martyr who finally captured the world's conscience as he willed a nation into being. It is impossible...
ISRAELI DEPUTY Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir was mad. "I can only express our amazement and consternation at the position which has been taken by the Reagan Administration," he told an Israeli radio station last Thursday...
...Ben-Meir was referring to the heavy-handed attempt by the White House to prevent Congress from increasing aid to the Jewish state beyond the sum requested by the Administration. Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee--by voice vote, without dissent--approved a $910 million grant to Israel, $125 million more than the White House wanted. Over the past weekend, though, sides to President Reagan and State Department officials have been pushing the committee to go back on its decision...