Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already concerned about subversion by the M.P.L.A. regime in Luanda. Kenya and Ethiopia are afraid that Somalia, a major recipient of Moscow's largesse, might try to revive its longtime dream of a "greater Somalia" by pushing its territorial claims into southern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya, where many ethnic Somalis live. The Nairobi government also fears that Soviet aid to Uganda might inspire its volatile President Idi Amin to push a corridor to the Indian Ocean-through Kenya...
PERLMUTTER: I think the resolution is racist and antiSemitic. For me, Judaism is symbiotic. It is both a people and a religion. If you look at the history of the Jews, you see there could be no Jewish religion without the ethnic group, the Jewish people, and there could not be a Jewish people without the Jewish religion. I argue that an anti-Zionist resolution is anti-Semitic in the following sense: because Israel is central to Jewish experience, and if you delegitimatize Israel, you delegitimatize Jews...
With the bulk of the year's news made by "living sinners," what a marvelous, original and inspiring article in your Christmas-week issue about "Living Saints" [Dec. 29]. May their tribe increase, in no matter what ethnic or religious group they be found...
...Jordanian forces. What is now known as the Kingdom of Jordan is part and parcel of the historic land of Israel, or Palestine, and the British mandate applied to both banks [of the Jordan River]. It is more than two-thirds of the whole territory of historic Palestine. The ethnic group known today as Palestinian Arabs is divided between the East and West Banks. All the inhabitants of Jordan are Palestinians. If Jordan is courageous enough, and wants to resolve the interests of the Kingdom of Jordan and the question of the Palestinians, then the key is Jordan...
Insisting that the Social Gospel is not dead, the Boston group is enthusiastic about the struggle by the world's poor for a better material life, the drive for "ethnic dignity," women's campaign against "sexist subordination" in church and society, and efforts to foster a love for cities as "centers of civility, culture and human interdependence...