Word: holocaust
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Begin impressed White House and State Department aides as witty, bright, shrewd-and tough as nails. The only top member of Carter's entourage who had met him before was Brzezinski. From the Israeli Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, the Premier had brought copies of letters written in 1933 by Brzezinski's father Tadeusz, at the time Polish consul in Leipzig. The elder Brzezinski in those stern memos to German authorities had protested their discrimination against Jews. It was a well-meant but pointed gift, indeed, to the younger Brzezinski, whom the Israelis have tabbed as pro-Arab...
...Senate, the fight against the bomb was led by Oregon's Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, whose chief worry was that the very precision of the weapon invites its use and would encourage escalation of conventional conflict into nuclear holocaust. Agreed Iowa Democrat Dick Clark: "I find the concept of a limited nuclear exchange extremely dubious. It is vitally important to retain the distinction between conventional and nuclear...
...rebuff awakened some poignant memories in Israel. Many ships carrying Jewish refugees from the Nazi Holocaust vainly sought entry at ports in the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Caribbean. "We have learned from the history of the Jewish boats which wandered the seven seas looking for a haven and which were turned away," declared Menachem Begin last week. His first act as Israel's new Premier was to offer asylum and opportunities for resettlement to the 66 Vietnamese. Taiwan then allowed the group to land and go to Sung Shan International Airport for a flight to Israel...
...novel's construction follows the Arthur Hailey model, in which each of several dozen characters is assembled to await doom. But once that catastrophe appears-in the guise of a natural holocaust-the book is impossible to set aside...
...feature by Ralph Bakshi (Fritz, the Cat), falls between a visionary epic and the conventional mayhem of Saturday-morning TV. Neither a kiddie cartoon nor an adult entertainment, the film is a whats it. Set in A.D. 2,000,000, it projects a world left over from a nuclear holocaust...