Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale, aware of the rising emotions in which he could be engulfed, blasted Farrakhan's remarks as "venomous, bigoted and obscene," and said, "It is crucial that all of us, including the Rev. Jackson, repudiate Farrakhan." Henry Siegman, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, called Farrakhan "a vulgar...
Jewish leaders were also pleased, although somewhat more guarded on whether Jackson had laid the Farrakhan matter to rest. Said Hyman Bookbinder, Washington director of the American Jewish Committee: "This is a very, very happy development. I hope this can close [the issue] out." Still, Jackson's pro-Arab...
As crowds chanted, "Jesse! Jesse!", Jack son chatted amiably at the airport with Castro. The Cuban gave Jackson a cigar, which the minister, who does not smoke, tried to puff from the wrong end. Castro said that he was releasing the prisoners "as a gesture to Jackson and to the...
Dope dealers and dissidents are among Jesse's 48 freed men
For a time last week they seemed to be merely chips in Jesse Jackson's political game. The 48 prisoners he brought back from Havana were a varied assortment: 26 Cubans jailed for political offenses against the Castro regime, and 22 U.S. citizens, all of whom had been charged...