Word: crisises
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A grave intellectual crisis confronts many American-Jewish supporters of Israel. For more than 40 years, Israel has been able to rely on the support of a majority of Americans. The reason is simple: Americans believe in propping up threatened democracies, and Israel is a threatened democracy.
The tax package, along with several other fiscal crisis solutions, was discussed privately last week by state Democratic leaders including Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Keverian, Bulger, Flaherty and Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, during a meeting called by the Senate president.
The meeting strengthened Roman Catholic officialdom's stand against advocating condom use for homosexuals or distribution of sterile needles to drug addicts, particularly in a tough opening speech by New York's John Cardinal O'Connor. Father Rocco Buttiglione of Liechtenstein's International Academy of Philosophy went so far as...
* John E. Frohnmayer, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, learned something last week about the art of compromise. Earlier, Frohnmayer had announced that he was withdrawing a $10,000 grant to support "Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing," a planned New York City exhibition of artworks inspired by...
Mostly, however, U.S. officials sought to downplay the crisis that had caught them so unprepared. But beneath the bravado, there were signs of unease. Officials who publicly condoned the Salvadoran military's air attacks privately conceded that there was no way to prevent them from causing civilian casualties. "There is...