Word: jewishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strasbourg, the spanking new European Parliament chose as its first President the elegant and brainy Simone Veil, 52, a former French Health Minister, a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death camp and one of the Continent's hottest political properties. In Lisbon, President António Ramalho Eanes abruptly chose as interim Premier Maria de Lourdes Pintassilgo, 49, a chemical engineer and women's rights advocate now serving as Portugal's delegate to UNESCO in Paris...
CLASS REUNION, Rona Jaffe's account of the lives of four Radcliffe grads from the 50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright, stereotype--Jewish American princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl...
...confiscation of Arab land illegal, it causes serious damage to the peace process." Some State Department officials were pleased with the letter, but there was no public comment from the Administration; it feared that hard-line elements in the Begin government would counterattack with charges of American manipulation of "Jewish family matters." The Israeli Premier must already contend with the fact that both Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman disagreed with the Cabinet's approval of the settlement that inspired the letter...
...signatories do not speak for a majority of American Jews. Theodore Mann, who is chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, declared last week: "That such settlements are legal is not only my view but the consensus in the American Jewish community." Despite this admonition, many of those who signed the letter remained convinced that their criticism was a proper way to dissuade Begin's government from a policy that they felt was not only tactically wrong but morally insupportable...
Says Leonard Fein, a cosigner of the letter and editor in chief of Moment, an independent Jewish monthly: "I expect that all the signers recognize that Elon Moreh is only the tip of a very ugly iceberg. Israel is squandering recklessly its most critical and natural resource-the good will that many people around the world, and in this country in particular, feel for this gutsy country...