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Israeli politicians have long taken for granted American aid of $4 billion a year. Now, American Jews must warn Israel that such aid is in danger as long as ties to South Africa persist. Black members of Congress, who are ordinarily loyal members of the pro-Israel coalition, will bolt unless Israel cleans...
Baker, as author Phyllis Rose observes in this elegant, judicious biography, actually "had little subtlety and less angst." Still, as the evolution from cabaret "jungle bunny" to boulevard nobility suggests, she was a woman of Cleopatra-like variety and contradiction. Baker was cheerfully promiscuous, yet loyal in a way to a few paternalistic men who meant more to her than a year of one-night stands. Childless herself, she eventually adopted twelve infants of different races, accumulating a rambunctious family she called the "Rainbow Tribe." Baker built her career in Europe, partly to escape the humiliations of a racist America...
...Loyal Servant: Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 takes his loyalty to Harvard seriously. Very seriously. So while University administrators nationwide have complained that a massive federal antitrust probe is costing them thousands of dollars in legal fees, Steiner said he would gladly bear the brunt of that cost himself. "The legal costs come out of my budget, so my family won't be eating for a while," Steiner said with a laugh. "But that's all right. Anything for Harvard...
What kind of rebel officers risk their lives to storm the lair of a hated military dictator, capture him at gunpoint, decline either to kill him or to turn him over to U.S. forces standing by to receive him, then let him contact his mistress, who calls loyal troops to his rescue...
...pointed to U.S. Army helicopters that passed close to the Comandancia during the fighting and the hundreds of troops who were deployed, within areas under U.S. jurisdiction, in positions blocking two of the roads leading into the city. That forced Noriega's allies to use alternate routes to transport loyal units from the elite Battalion 2000 to the fighting...