Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...domestic policy of another country. During its two-year peregrination to passage, the bill gave rise to some strange alliances and taut confrontations. Congressional conservatives opposing trade with Russia joined with liberals concerned with human rights and the AFL-CIO, which feared the loss of American jobs. U.S. Jewish organizations were firmly ranged against the actions of a Jewish Secretary of State. Two Presidents vied for power with a Senator who was after their job. The highlights...
SEPTEMBER. Washington Senator Henry Jackson, working closely with U.S. Jewish leaders, links the prohibitive Soviet tax with the trade bill Nixon has placed before Congress. Jackson declares: "The time has come to place our highest human values ahead of the trade dollar...
...President to extend the trade benefits if the Soviets would give specific assurance that they would end harassment of emigres and substantially increase levels of emigration over the high mark set in 1973. Kissinger tells Jackson that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has privately assured him that the flow of Jewish emigres will increase and harassment will diminish...
...exchange of letters between the two Henrys is released. Henry Jackson spells out specific criteria that the Congress expects to be followed, including minimum emigration quotas of 60,000 people a year. Though Jackson and Jewish leaders are now willing to let the amended bill pass, conservatives and labor leaders remain opposed. In Moscow, at a state dinner for U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon, Brezhnev offers a premonitory toast: "Attempts to condition the development of trade and economic ties by putting demands to the Soviet Union on questions totally unconnected with the trade and economic field and lying fully within...
...discourage advances from the Spanish Lady. Paranoia often took the place of ineffective remedies. There were those who thought the bug was the Kaiser's secret weapon, despite the losses his own troops suffered. In Poland, the source of infection was said to be Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. Those whose prejudices were more political called it the Bolshevik disease...