Word: mistakenness
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...have read with interest your article "EEOC Investigates Racism in Isaac Tenure Case" (April 17, 1976). Your implication that Ephraim Isaac is seeking personal redress is not accurate, and you are mistaken to assume that the issue is just one of Professor Isaac's personal grievances. Peter Hardie The Committee to Support Ephraim Isaac for Tenure and to Defend the Afro-American Studies Department
...mood of young Israeli Arabs, who are far more likely than their elders to identify with the anti-Zionist cause of the Palestinians. Having grown up in the Jewish state, many of these Arab youths speak fluent Hebrew, know the customs of the country and can easily be mistaken for Jews. If sufficient numbers of them were to join the terrorists?a realistic possibility should the causes of Arab unrest continue?Israel might well find itself combatting a war on its home front as well as a threat on its frontiers...
...serve until the national master contract was signed and would prevent employers from being struck. Hundreds of trucking firms-especially small ones fearful that they could not weather a strike-signed up, and their drivers took to the roads with red stickers affixed to their windshields to prevent being mistaken for scabs. Within two days, by Fitzsimmons' estimate, one-third of the Teamsters were covered by interim agreements. "It's the old theory of divide and conquer," Teamster Secretary-Treasurer Ray Schoessling told TIME...
...Rhodesian racial war is a dangerous one. If South Africa were to intervene in such a conflict the result would be even greater bloodshed, and might lead to involvement by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R, and Soviet-backed Cuban troops. If Smith's faith in South African intervention proves mistaken, however, he will have provoked a suicidal race war which would soon destroy the Salisbury regime. Smith's current policies could also provoke further superpower involvement, the result being a long-term American or Soviet presence in southern Africa. Such a dominating presence would jeopardize the stability and independence...
...free speech are going to be enormously better than they were in his years at Leningrad. "In my own judgement this institute will improve the life of many Iranians, maybe all Iranians. If it were appearing to me that my calculation about its ability to do so are mistaken, then I'll withdraw. And," he adds with a slight smile, "I wish I could find a university like this in the Soviet Union...