Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credits and most-favored-nation status that Moscow seeks are both bottled up in Congress. Amendments to pending trade legislation, notably including one sponsored by Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington, tie M.F.N. status to a nagging political question and one which is directly tied to Jewish emigration to Israel?the right of Soviet citizens to leave the U.S.S.R. without harassment or penalties. Kissinger firmly insists that emigration is a domestic Soviet issue, and he has fought all efforts to tie it to the trade legislation that he considers essential to detente...
...disposition of suspects. Arraignments now usually come within 24 hours, a trial date is set within five or six days, and trial begins in 60 to 90 days on the average. Jail population has -sunk well below 1,000. Court is held 365 days a year. A Jewish judge takes the duty on Christmas...
...faces peer out from across four decades: a baleful Hitler brooding over his destiny, a grinning Goebbels with his new bride, slinky Fräulein in satin smirking over drinks in a Munich nightclub. There are samples of humor: anti-Jewish jokes along with bitter comments on the regime ("In Germany teeth are being pulled through the nose because no one can open his mouth any more"). Excerpts from William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary give an American's impression of the scene. The period photographs and cartoons of Nazism aborning, the vivid paintings of rouged whores...
Changes consists of "a variety of original improvisations" and three one-act plays, one of which is apparently a jam session by local jazzmen. The other two are The Jewish Wife, which I gather is one of Bertolt Brecht's less worthwhile plays, and Michael McClure's The Cherub, which is evidently about someone called The Bed and described only as a sixty-two-year-old actress who must be seen. I have little or no idea what this means. Thursdays (cheaper), Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. at Theater Two, 196 Broadway near Kendall Square...
...Arabs imposed the oil embargo on South Africa partly in order to win favor with Black African nations that detest South Africa's apartheid policies, partly because they were angered by the fact that South Africa permitted its Jewish citizens to send money to Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The direct effect of the embargo has been minimal. Endowed by nature with rich coal deposits, South Africa derives only 20% of its energy from oil, v. 46% for the U.S. Even so, it thoughtfully stockpiled oil in advance. Buried deep in otherwise unused Transvaal coal mines...