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...Last week 3,500 Reform delegates met in Manhattan to celebrate the centennial of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Reform Judaism's central body, founded in Cincinnati by Rabbi Isaac Wise in 1873. Another purpose of the gathering was to pay tribute to Retiring President Maurice N. Eisendrath, 71, the outspoken liberal rabbi who has been U.A.H.C.'S guiding force since...
Died. Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, 71, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations since 1946 and controversial leading spokesman for the more than 1,000,000 Jews who make up the 100-year-old Reform Judaism Movement in the U.S. and Canada; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An outspoken critic of the Viet Nam war, Rabbi Eisendrath led a successful fight in 1961 to establish a Religious Action Center in Washington...
...said General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the stern, ruddy-faced leader of Chile's military junta, in an hour-long interview last week with TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath, which took place in Pinochet's Defense Ministry office overlooking the gutted Moneda Palace. Pinochet was vague about the junta's timetable for a restoration of civilian government. "We will keep the status quo for a certain time, and then grant more liberty. But we don't want politics. The only party now is the Chilean party, and its members are all Chileans...
...being thrown out." At the Transradio telex office in Santiago, an amiable military officer serving as censor was so anxious to avoid talk about "revolution" that he cut out references to it in a personal message that one correspondent sent to a colleague in Tokyo. When TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath relayed his file via the fragile Mendoza connection and turned in a copy to the censor, he was told: "We know all about your file. Naval intelligence was listening closely." Eisendrath protested the intimidation in a conversation with two army officers, arguing that journalists find it hard to report fairly...
From Santiago, TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath sent these vignettes of life in the midst of a revolution...