Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater freedom of emigration. He said that this restriction had been "self-defeating." Although he did not note that it too had been championed by his potential 1976 rival, Senator Jackson, he said that it had both "harmed" relations with the Russians and resulted in a lower level of Jewish emigration. Western Europe and Japan, moreover, had stepped into the breach to supply trade credits to Moscow, to a total of $8 billion. The result, according to Ford, was that Americans had lost jobs and business that they otherwise could have...
...forces over a 20-year period. He would annex the West Bank to Israel and "turn over the territory east of the Jordan River"-meaning Jordan-to the Palestinians. "The only foreigner in Palestine is King Hussein," Sharon maintains. "The Israelis and Palestinians have been here for centuries." The Jewish state of Israel, he insists, must face the reality of living with a large Arab minority. Sharon would allow Arabs a blunt choice of three alternatives: to become Israeli citizens; to remain as "permanent residents" without citizenship, as some 80,000 others (many of them American Jews) already...
...growing that because Rosenbaum is unable to raise money to pay his debts, which are estimated to be about $136 million, the Swiss may soon lift the moratorium. In that case, the bank would collapse, Rosenbaum would be bankrupt and the thousands of investors and depositors in I.C.B.-mostly Jewish-would probably lose virtually everything that they had put into the bank...
...developed close relations with Israeli leaders. I.C.B. financed oil deals and huge, hushed arms transactions for Israel. Rosenbaum was also highly respected by many Jews around the world, who often used his bank to deposit funds for investment in Israel; indeed, until February he was treasurer of the World Jewish Congress...
...pity that Mr. Richardson felt compelled to present an argument emergent in a political rhetoric not in tune with the Mideast realities. It is such misrepresentations and distoritions of the U.S. role in the Mideast which demand critical examination and unequivocal rejection. Steve Schwarzberg '76 Coordinator, Harvard U. Jewish Student Appeal