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...offshoot of Likud, fared best with five seats, while Yahad, a party founded last March by the popular Ezer Weizman, who resigned as Begin's Defense Minister in 1980, won three. The Kach movement, an ultranationalist group headed by Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who retains his U.S. citizenship,* won its first seat. "In my first [Knesset] speech, I am going to make an issue of throwing out the Arabs," he said. "We will drive this country crazy. We will make this country Jewish again...
...raised money, collected signatures-often braving scorn and even physical threats-because they believed that abolition implied equal rights for all, Black and White, men and women. But when the Civil War was fought and won, they were appalled to learn that the newly drafted 14th Amendment guaranteed full citizenship to Blacks but only to "male inhabitants...
...flights on the Sabbath, losing an estimated $30 million a year, and pushed through a law limiting autopsies, which violate Orthodox beliefs. Begin also agreed to push the highly controversial "Who is a Jew?" legislation, which would amend Israeli law to ensure that the only converts granted citizenship are those who undergo Orthodox rites. Though the bill is not likely to pass, it has angered Jews around the world...
Still, last week's vote cannot be viewed as a clear victory for Hispanics. It's a step backwards for civil rights. One provision, which makes the employer verify (probably through some form of national I.D. card, eventually) a prospective employee's American citizenship, amounts to legalized discrimination against "immigrant-looking" (read: brown) people. Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, who already face an unemployment rate that is double the national average, will be the last to be considered by employers--who will have the excuse that they are "just following...
...woman distance runner. Until last week, though, the biggest challenge to Zola Budd's determined trek toward an Olympic gold medal seemed more political than athletic. In March, the native South African abruptly left her homeland, which is banned from the Olympics, and picked up a quickie British citizenship, thanks to her English-born grandfather. Eyebrows were raised, feathers were ruffled, backs were got up. Would her hop, skip and sidestep work? The British Olympic Association, after consulting with International Olympic Committee officials, ruled last week that she is eligible. All that now remains between Budd...