Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intensive letter-writing campaign and a great deal of exposure in local media, including a column in The Boston Globe by Mike Barnicle, helped save the business, Donovan said. "Things might have turned out differently without that help," Donovan said...
Carol Lewis, UCAN worker and budget coordinator at Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday that the group's primary efforts are now directed at educating people about the dangers and problems of nuclear energy generation by leafletting, letter-writing, and weekly noon-time educational seminars...
...issue that cuts many ways. The U.S. adamantly opposes the settlements. Says one senior Administration official: "Not only is the 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...
...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...