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Around Matewan, W. Va. (pop. 803), probably one-tenth of the inhabitants are Hatfield kin. Clarence ("Dutch") Hatfield, 69, Ellison's grandson, lives up the hollow from Matewan. A short walk away his great-grandfather Ephraim, the family progenitor, is buried in what used to be a potato patch, and a little way beyond is Dutch's birthplace. Says...
...University has, at least for the time being, turned down a proposal designed to resolve the six-year-old case of Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies who has charged the University with discriminating against him on the grounds of race and nationality in denying him tenure...
...year-old case of Ephraim Isaac, a former associate professor of Afro-American Studies, may soon be resolved. Isaac, who has charged the University with discrimination stemming from his failure to receive tenure in 1975, met last Sunday with Daniel Steiner, general counsel to the University, to propose a way of ending the dispute. Neither side revealed details, but Isaac said this week, "It looks like a major change; at least it's a light in the window...
...process stems from a fanatic hatred of Jews and Israel." His diatribe may reflect worries in Jerusalem that the Administration's hitherto benign attitude toward Israel is changing for the worse. TIME has learned that in two recent cables to his government, Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Ephraim Evron, expressed concern that a proposed memorandum on U.S.-Israeli strategic cooperation, due to be signed next month, omits a plan to store in Israel equipment for three U.S. armored divisions. Evron also predicted that American economic aid to Israel, currently $2.2 billion, may be reduced in fiscal...
Israel's Ambassador to Washington, Ephraim Evron, managed to quiet the fears of most of the 34 Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to whom he talked in New York City at midweek, but many prominent American Jews remained troubled. California Industrialist Max Palevsky called the Beirut raid "appalling,", and added, "Begin's terrorism is as bad as that of the P.L.O. We just can't tolerate that kind of behavior from anybody." Said Meyer Berger, a Pittsburgh businessman and a member of the national board of the American Jewish Committee: "Never has the anti-Begin sentiment...