Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stephen D. Lerner '68, executive editor of the CRIMSON, is one of a number of Harvard students who, immediately after final examinations in June, went to Israel to provide help. The following report, written from Tel Aviv June24, states his impressions of the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...square miles of sand somewhere in the Middle East. Ben Gurion successfully described the process of assimilating the diverse Jewish populations which came to live in Israel when he said, "It's not like a melting pot, it's more like a pressure-cooker." Visiting Israel, one can not help but experience the feeling of excitement and confidence which fills its streets today...
...Sunday, June 4, Israel stood alone, surrounded by the largest Arab military build-up ever amassed on her borders. Israel amazed the world with the speed and ferocity of her attack. Vastly outnumbered and not nearly as well equipped as their Arab neighbors, the Israelis (without help from either Britain or France as they had received in the 1956 campaign) chased the bulk of Nasser's forces out of Sinai, recaptured Old Jerusalem and the lands West of the Jordan River, and drove to the suburbs of Damascus...
...Washington have been told of how the Communists train Americans to engage police officers so as to attack and burn in other areas." But an even more striking switch than this paranoid drivel was his about-face on welfare: "If we are to have real peace and progress and help those who really deserve help, then we must cut back on our socialistic welfare programs that are making bums out of many Americans who could otherwise be successful contributing members of our society." Most recently, Maddox has begun a puritanical purge by raiding Atlanta nightspots that sell drink's after...
...astute Georgia politician put it, "As long as Lester can use his mind and his position to help folk with their minor individual concerns, then he is happy and everything will stay calm. But if ever he is forced to act as governor in a more complex situation which he cannot totally understand or control, then he may completely blow. If there were a riot in Atlanta, this could happen...