Word: blacks
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What is the truth? Israel has consistently publicly condemned the policy of apartheid. South Africa's white minority officially denies equality to its Black majority. Israel's Jewish majority (83%) extends full legal equality to its Arab minority (17%). The Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are not Israeli citizens. Israel, as legal military authority since 1967 is forbidden from changing their status. Yet under Israel's control, the Palestinians enjoy greater social, economic and educational standing than in any part of the Arab world; though unfortunately, Israeli attempts to improve housing conditions in the territories have been blocked...
What of Israel's diplomatic relations with South Africa? Israel's commercial ties comprise just 1% of South Africa's total trade, the majority of which is with France, Great Britian, West Germany, the United States, and several Black African nations. Israel recently implemented a program called "Building a Nation" to bring Black South African leaders of labor unions, trade associations, and political organizations to Israel for training in community organization. Israeli 1987 legislation prohibits any future arms sales to South Africa, and severely curtails cultural, athletic, scientific, and other ties with Pretoria, while Italy and Great Britian continue selling...
...Harvard doing anything to increase the pool? The Mellon Foundation has given Harvard $350,000 to set up a program of research opportunities in which Black, Hispanic, and Native American students would work with faculty members in their fields of study. The goal is to encourage them to attend graduate school and eventually become professors. Then why hasn't Harvard actually done anything to implement this program...
...railroad car can cost as little as $25,000, but outfitting it may run to nearly $1 million. A walk through the St. Moritz club car, lately a derelict on a siding in Milwaukee, with broken windows and a cargo of snow, made the figure plausible. The bar is black granite, the baby grand piano an ebony Baldwin. Walls are paneled in embossed dark green leather. Brass, art deco lamps match the brass soffit, a three-inch strip separating walls from a car-long mural of mountain peaks. The ceiling is a rich deep blue, night...
...black marble monument stands in a grove in the Katyn Forest outside Smolensk, a memorial to the more than 4,000 Polish officers massacred at that spot during World War II. But the dedication etched in the marble tells a lie that mocks the very lives it memorializes: "To the victims of Fascism -- the Polish officers shot by the Hitlerites...