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Winning confidence for Menachem Begin among America's 6 million Jews, says Los Angeles City Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky, "happened in ways outside anyone's control." Yet the fact is that Jerusalem did all that it could-as any government would-to promote the new man. Begin, for example, dispatched a personal emissary, Shmuel Katz, on a month-long mission to the U.S. in early June. Working closely with the Israeli embassy in Washington, Katz met with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Congressmen and journalists, then traveled to New York and Chicago to confer with Jewish lay and religious...
...state aid. This will hardly dent the storekeepers' losses, which city officials estimated at $155 million (a sharp drop from their ballpark guess of $1 billion a week earlier). Merchants and property owners are also eligible for low-interest (6⅝%) Small Business Administration loans, but City Councilman Ramon Velez exclaimed: "The forms are so difficult it is unbelievable!" Nonetheless. 1,699 people got applications for loans, and SBA officials anticipated a total of about 3,000 applications for $60 million by their deadline of Sept. 16. Community leaders were confident that at least two-thirds of the stores...
...took place at 2:20 p.m., when a pair of trigger-happy gunmen invaded the District Building, two blocks from the White House and only 300 yards from the Washington Monument. They began shooting indiscriminately. A black radio newsman, Maurice Williams, 24, was hit and killed instantly. A city councilman, Marion Barry, was shot in the chest. Two other people were wounded...
...well, the insights of a 17-year-old Ohioan. We follow her as she visits the Statue of Liberty; we follow her as she visits bars for the first time. Most banal of all, we read an imaginary conversation with her mother after she dances with a city councilman from Cleveland for a news program beamed back home...
...were you dancing with a councilman...