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...authors of this letter place the words "Black Jewish relations" in quotation marks, and claim that no such relations exists or ever did exists. I wonder if they would have made such a claim in the 1960s when American Jews and Blacks marched and fought together during the heyday of the Civil Rights movement. The letter serves only to maintain the present painful state of relations between the two groups. It precludes the possibility of any dialogue until American Jews begin vocally attacking Israel's policies in South Africa. This statement only shows how the Arab Oil States' propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism | 4/28/1984 | See Source »

...accept the proposition that any of the old timers could have measured up to today's stars in term of pure athletic ability. The arguments is advanced that today's major league players are drawn from a prospective player pool far wider than in Ty Cobb's heyday, so that the best are truly the best, not simply the luckiest. Still by any standards, Ty Cobb was the greatest player of his own generation, possessing a talent and mania for victory that would undoubtedly have made for success in any era of the game. As such and as the best...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: TYrant of the Diamond | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...beliefs are ostracized by the Harvard community that holds the least water. Any stand reasonably presented is likely to find an audience here at school. The lack of conservative participation in the political debate on campus bespeaks not exclusion, but complacency. And why not? This is after all, the heyday of conservatism. Why should the conservatives come out and discuss the issues of the day when they can most likely look forward to another four years of a President who will do it for them? Obviously the real issues of the day just don't interest the Republicans--they...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: A Hotbed of Radicalism? | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

...heyday, the Montonero organization grew in strength to about 20,000, including some 5,000 fighters. Under Firmenich's direction, they carried out countless assassinations and bombings that were financed through kidnapings. The guerrillas withered away, however, during the bloody repression that followed Argentina's 1976 military coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Going Home | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

FRANCE. For its size, France has the most ambitious nuclear industry of any nation. It has 32 functioning reactors and is building 27 more. During the heyday of the French nuclear drive under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the late 1970s, construction started on four or five reactors a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: From Paris to Peking, Fission Is Still in Fashion | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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