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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreover, some N.A.A.C.P. members joined a black delegation to Israel led by Labor Leaders William Pollard and Bayard Rustin. Though the visit had been scheduled before black-Jewish tensions became inflamed, Rustin said he wanted "to make clear to the Israelis that there are great numbers of black people who want the United States to give Israel whatever support it needs." Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, who had refused to see Jackson or Lowery, received the Pollard-Rustin delegation warmly...
...Baptist Convention, sneered that the Jordan-Hooks statements proved that the Urban League and N.A.A.C.P. operate under "financial constraints imposed... by their white members and supporters." The implication that Jordan and 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...
Joshua Nkomo, 62, is generally regarded as the father of black nationalism in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, having risen from trade union organizer to leader of the first independence movement, in the mid-1950s. Last week the burly, jovial guerrilla leader presided over another historic turn in London, where his ZAPU party directed much of the Patriotic Front political strategy that led to the acceptance of the constitution. Shortly after his fateful meeting with Lord Carrington, Nkomo discussed the possibility of a settlement with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William Me Whirter. Excerpts...
...Demirel have alternated as Premier half a dozen times. The two-man game of musical chairs has done nothing to resolve the country's protracted economic woes, which include a 70% inflation rate, 20% unemployment and shortages of everything from coffee (Turkish coffee is available only on the black market) to diesel oil. Moreover, religious and ethnic feuds have led to a frightening increase in violence. In the past 21 months, 2,100 people have been killed, most of them in confrontations between left-and right-wing extremists...
...exception to that rule. One day 50 years ago next week, recalls David Granger, 76, a senior partner at Granger & Co., a Wall Street brokerage house, "there was a hush over the floor that I've never heard since. It was funereal." Indeed, it was Oct. 29, 1929 -Black Tuesday, the most cataclysmic day of the Great Crash. It was the day prosperity died and the U.S. economy began the decline that culminated in more than ten years of Depression and national anguish...