Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jewish Vote. When a reporter mentioned a rumor that she was going for a medical checkup before returning to Israel, she said: "It's nothing serious. A touch of cancer here, a little tuberculosis there-you name it." Then she disposed of the rumor with one of her favorite words: "Nonsense!" At a kosher affair for 2,500 held at the Brooklyn Museum, she even did a little campaigning for hard-pressed Mayor John Lindsay, who desperately needs the Jewish vote to win re-election next month. Golda called him "my good friend John," and wished that...
...film stars and politicians have inflated egos, and that not being recognized is, for them, the crowning insult. Later, TIME Correspondent Leo Janos, who traveled with Mrs. Meir, asked how many of them she had recognized. "Only Robinson," she admitted. "What is it? Edward Robinson. I met him in Israel...
Very Much Alive. At last year's carefully sanitized rites, the official speaker took the occasion to rail against Israel. Among those upset by the performance was a 33-year-old radio engineer named Boris Kochubiyevsky. He protested: "Here lies a part of the Jewish people." When a bystander said, "Too bad they didn't get the rest," Kochubiyevsky (whose parents died with the other Kiev Jews in 1941) began arguing with him. At one point, he complained that because he was a Jew "no one in this country considers me a fellow Russian." Kochubiyevsky should have limited...
Kochubiyevsky had felt its sting before. Early in 1968, he was hounded out of his job at a Kiev radio factory because he had dared to defend Israel during a political lecture. When he applied for an exit visa to Israel, his non-Jewish wife was expelled from the Young Communist League for "Zionism" and disowned by her father, a KGB security police officer. Just before Kochubiyevsky was to get his emigration papers, he was arrested for "slanderous fabrications against the Soviet state...
...Egypt and Israel...