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Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir accepted an honorary LLB at Brandeis University last week, as pro- and anti-Zionist demonstrators stayed determinedly separate outside...
Inside Brandeis's Spingold Theater, Meir told 850 guests gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the foundings of both Brandeis and Israel that she accepted her award as "just a chance representative of the Israeli people who have to their credit such extraordinary deeds...
...wonder whether many people are aware that the mere fact of being a Jew and being alive and head up is already an achievement," Meir said...
Students had begun lining up for the 425 tickets allocated them the night before distribution, and many were turned away. Invited guests included John McCormack, the recently retired speaker of the House of Representatives, and Congressman Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), who reportedly told Meir he was her "Congressman...
...Someone once asked me to describe Israel in one sentence," Meir said. "I told him it was a Yemenite woman learning how to read and her husband not daring to prevent...