Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite Andrew Young's own earnest pleas that his abrupt departure from Carter's Cabinet not be used to fuel black-Jewish divisions, inevitably it has. Though the two groups, once so closely and warmly allied in the early civil rights struggle, have been drifting apart for years, the spectacle of such open animosity and barbed exchanges as took place last week was dismaying...
...N.A.A.C.P. headquarters in New York City to discuss the split: "Some Jewish organizations and intellectuals who were previously identified with the aspirations of black Americans . . . became apologists for the racial status quo. They asserted that further attempts to remedy the present forms of discrimination were violative of the civil rights laws . . . Jews must show more sensitivity and be prepared for more consultation before taking positions contrary to the best interests of the black community...
...Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, called the black leaders' charges an "amalgam of half-truths, untruths and anti-Semitic nonsense." Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, accused black leaders of attacking Jews "for the sake of reviving the sagging institutional fortunes of civil rights organizations that have seen better days...
These tensions reflect the fact that Jews have overcome discrimination well enough to become, in the view of some blacks, part of the establishment from which blacks are still mostly locked out. Beyond that, there are historical reasons: Jews once took a leading role in the civil rights movement, and in due course blacks took over that leadership. Such transitions are difficult-for both parties. Now blacks are moving into a new area of assertiveness, foreign policy, and that too, as last week's fusillades demonstrated, will doubtless mean fresh frictions-and not just for Jews...
Since the majority of Somoza's ministers fled into exile with the departed dictator, the junta has resorted to unusual tactics to recruit civil servants. "I called every friend in my telephone book until I had a staff," one harried official told TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro. To ensure that the bureaucracy does not fall back into the predatory pattern of the past, the junta enacted a tough anticorruption law that provides hefty fines for malfeasance. Says Ramirez: "A government official today can stick his foot in his mouth, but not his hand in the cookie...