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...Jews in Poland once. They shared a 900-year heritage, a richly diverse culture. Some served in Marshal Pilsudski's army, fighting for a free Poland and helping to repel the Red Army after the First World War. Some fervently believed in Zionism: others would die for the socialist Bund: still others thought "Nothing that didn't happen before should happen now." Some were orthodox, some reformed, most were poor, a few wealthy: many clustered in the big cities and universities, some lived in villages, and a few stayed on the farm. Some came to America, apparently taking...
...balance universal values with continuing Jewish particularism (the "problem" of minority separatism is nothing new). The Zionists send their youths to experimental farms known as kibbutzim to train them for settling the Promised Land. Hassidim responded to the Jewish interwar political explosion by renewing orthodoxy. The Jewish Socialist Bund--"We're the young brigade of the proletariat," the children chant--stands at the fore of the trade union movement. There are labor Zionists on the left and revisionist Zionists on the right. Opposed to the Zionists are those who uphold the values of the Diaspora--the Jewish dispersion--and promote...
...army's cornmander in chief, escaped to the garrison city of Korat, 150 miles northeast of Bang kok. There, with the backing of the immensely popular King Bhumibol Adulyadej, he rallied his forces and skillfully set about isolating San and his fellow conspirators. "Only those who are bund are with the opposition," Prem declared in a radio broadcast from his temporary head quarters. "Almost all the army is in my hands, and the King is with us." At first San tried to counter. "Prem is like a wom an who stands under the umbrella of the royal family...
After the American rescue effort failed in late April, conditions abruptly worsened. William B. Royer Jr., 49, assistant director of the Iran-American Society, was removed from the 8-ft. by 10-ft. room that he had shared at the embassy with three or four other hostages, bund-folded and taken to another location that he did not specify-if he knew. Again he shared a small room with three other hostages, but the windows of this one were heavily whitewashed so that light could not get through. Also, he told his mother, his meals got worse in both quantity...
...implied, he should have known Said Miller: "I have insisted that I be fully informed about any question of ethics that comes up." On one occasion Miller promised to look into some "strange" transactions in Ghana, then returned to assure the Senators that afer checking with subordinates, he had bund nothing improper. He convinced the Senators; Proxmire cast the only vote against his confirmation...