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Until he left Tel Aviv for New York City last week, few Americans had ever heard of Mubarak Awad. But the Israeli decision to deport Awad made the Palestinian American something of a media celebrity, with the Reagan Administration firmly in his corner. Conceded an Israeli official: "We shot ourselves in the foot...
...about 1.5 million people to file the necessary forms. The INS expects at least 2 million to comply. Says INS Official Virginia Kice: "We're fighting word-of-mouth misinformation. There's still a reluctance to believe that we won't be at the back door waiting to deport them...
...consuming, corrosive hatred of his public life." The black opera star Marian Anderson broke the color line by singing in the D.A.R.'s Constitution Hall. But for Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, there was no such thing as race relations: "He repeatedly introduced a bill to deport all Negroes to Africa and once suggested that Eleanor Roosevelt be sent with them and made their 'queen...
...undermined the process by electing candidates who openly declared their allegiance to the banned P.L.O.. In 1976 the P.L.O. won a smashing victory, electing its representatives as mayors of all the major towns and villages. The Israeli response was to declare some of the contests invalid and to deport some of the winners. There has been no balloting since then...
...acknowledging that Barbie was a comparatively minor figure in the Nazi hierarchy, Truche accused him of cruelty far beyond the line of duty. "Was it necessary to strike Madame Lise Lesevre 19 times when he already knew she was in the Resistance?" the prosecutor demanded. "Was it necessary to deport her husband and son, who were not in the Resistance?" Truche pointed out that Barbie did not need to arrest 44 Jewish children in one school and have them shipped to Nazi death camps. Nor was it necessary to send 650 people, including a dozen children, to camps...