Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SENATOR JACOB K. JAVITS...
...conflict is that some of Israel's strongest supporters are liberals who led antiwar sentiment in the U.S. during the Viet Nam years. The Senate resolution urging the continued delivery of Phantom fighter-bombers and other war materials was introduced by, among others, Viet Nam Doves Jacob K. Javits and Abraham Ribicoff. Among the "American Professors for Peace in the Middle East" who signed an ad in the New York Times advocating support of Israel was Martin Peretz, an assistant professor of social studies at Harvard and a major contributor to George McGovern's campaign...
British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home said that he believes Kosygin is in Cairo seeking peace. Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) predicted a cease-fire would come in a matter of days rather than weeks, but he gave no evidence to support his prediction...
...other participants in the panel discussion--Jacob Katz, visiting professor of History, Doris Kearns, associate professor of History, and David Landes, professor of History--also urged students to support Israel...
...battle over the literal "inerrancy" of the Bible has been shaping up ever since 1969, when a grass-roots alliance of conservatives succeeded in electing the Rev. Jacob A.O. ("Jack") Preus as president of the denomination. Preus, a former professor of Greek and Latin as well as Scripture, is no simple fundamentalist; like other orthodox Missouri Synod theologians, he believes that some parts of the Bible are poetic or symbolic-such as the Book of Revelation. But he also believes that what the Bible presents as factual is factual, and he holds what could be called a theological domino theory...