Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jews serve in top positions in a national Administration of either party. At present three members of President Ford's Cabinet are of Jewish origin: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger (who converted to Lutheranism as a young man) and Attorney General Edward Levi. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, is also Jewish, as is Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve. Certain areas of Government employ an abundance of Jewish Americans, particularly the Departments of Justice, Labor, and Health. Education and Welfare...
...grass-roots political life, too, Jews play a vital role. A history of persecution has convinced them that safety lies in an open democratic society, and they are among the most politically active. Says Robert Strauss, national chairman of the Democratic Party: "Because of its background, the Jewish community feels that it must take a keener interest in democracy than anyone else. Jews feel they have a bigger stake in democracy than anyone else." So Jews tend to vote more conscientiously than other people. In his recently published Jews and American Politics, Stephen Isaacs estimates that Jews, who make...
...inimical to the legal and "social principles of the industrial democracies. Financial and political capitals were shocked by the revelations last month that Arab bankers in Libya and Kuwait had threatened to pull their money out of major international bond issues unless certain U.S. and European banking houses with Jewish ties were barred from participation. Now the economic issues raised by such tactics are rapidly becoming a major diplomatic concern as well...
Going Along. At a hearing of Senator Church's subcommittee two Army colonels, William L. Durham and Joseph D. Bennett, explained that in deference to Saudi wishes, the Corps of Engineers made a practice of not assigning Jewish personnel to Saudi Arabia and also saw to it that its civilian contractors did the same. But both denied ever having seen the Arab boycott list...
Some Justice officials are discussing an other approach: a threat of action under civil rights laws against U.S. companies that bow to the blacklist by deliberately excluding Jewish employees from their Arab operations...