Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, Sadat is subtly pressing Washington-just at a time when such pressure might affect a U.S. presidential campaign. Specifically he is looking for U.S. military equipment and assistance to replace the Russian aid denied him. In Israel, the idea of Washington arming Egypt has raised angry protests. U.S. Jewish voters, too, are disturbed and uncertain about Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's proposal to sell a package of six C-130 cargo planes to Egypt for $50 million. Supporters of Israel see the C-130s as only the first item on a long list of sophisticated equipment...
...debate the problem of growing disorders on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. What made this particular confrontation of rhetoric interesting was that Israeli delegates would join in the talk-as would representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The debate will thus mark the first time that officials of the Jewish state have participated in a Security Council debate in which the P.L.O. is also involved...
Charles Thompson, University development officer, said this week, "Jewish studies is a rapidly growing field in the United States, but there is a severe lack of qualified educational programs that now exist to fill this need...
Harvard has only two endowed professorships in Jewish Studies now and because of this dearth many of the 30 to 40 students who apply to Harvard every year to study Jewish culture are turned away because of a lack of senior professors...
Similarly the Program for Jewish Studies is directing its appeal to the American Jewish community in hopes that this "valuable resource of charitable money" as one fundraiser calls it, can be tied to the University...