Word: javitses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To prevent a further fall in the value of the greenback, the U.S. Government, in close cooperation with leading foreign central banks, should step in and buy large quantities of dollars on world markets. This would require assembling a vast war chest of funds to show currency speculators that Washington...
In a reversal of political stereotypes, several Republicans-including Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, Pennsylvania's John Heinz III and New York's Jacob Javits-supported the increased spending. Argued Brooke: "It is cruel to look to our lowest-income citizens as the front line in the battle against...
Javits also rapped Sadat for not following up his peace initiative with much more than "public rhetoric," and he urged the Egyptian to take a more active role in the negotiations. Yet all that certain U.S. Jewish organizations and "spokesmen" seemed to notice were the Senator's comments on...
While the groups that attacked Javits professed to reflect the dews of U.S. Jewry, many prominent American Jews sharply disagreed. Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, a staunch supporter of Israel who drew much heat from the Israeli lobby when he backed the Administration's sale of warplanes to...
Adds a prominent American Jew who has held posts in four Administrations: "Javits absolutely reflects thoughtful Jewish opinion and the feelings of Americans friendly to Israel. The Israeli response was an evasion; it suggested a real lack of readiness to find an answer."