Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week Sindona mysteriously reappeared in a public telephone booth at 10th Avenue and 42nd Street, just west of New York's sleazy Times Square...
...Jesse Jackson embracing Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, and of the Rev. Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference joining Arafat in a chorus of We Shall Overcome. But to those who interpreted these odd scenes as a sign of black antiSemitism, a contradicting voice sounded last week. Said Vernon E. Jordan Jr., head of the National Urban League, in a widely publicized speech to a Catholic audience in Kansas City: "Black-Jewish relations should not be endangered by ill-considered flirtations with terrorist groups devoted to the extermination of Israel. The black civil rights movement has nothing in common...
...change the direction of recent arguments about black-Jewish relations, a problem that surfaced after the resignation of U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young following secret contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sent a statement last week to the N.A.A.C.P.'s 1,700 U.S. branches urging that "our historic close working relationships with the American Jewish community" be maintained and strengthened...
...Progessive National Baptist Convention, sneered that the Jordan-Hooks statements proved that the Urban League and N.A.A.C.P. operate under "financial constraints imposed... by their white members and supporters." The implication that Jordan and Hooks had been subverted by Jewish donations was oddly timed, because it became clear last week that some black organizations are getting Arab cash. Jackson's PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) acknowledged receiving an $8,000 contribution from a group that is called the Association of Arab-American University Graduates...
...State's Woody Hayes. Three hours before A.S.U. was scheduled to meet Washington, Kush called a hasty press conference and beat university officials to the punch in announcing that he had been fired. Like Hayes, whose roundhouse right to the throat of a member of the opposing team last season led to his dismissal, Kush was canned in the wake of reports that he too had struck a player...