Word: nai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week Mondale doggedly chased after Reagan from Orange County in California to an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City to a B'nai B'rith meeting in Washington. He poked and prodded, looking for soft spots. To a group of grocery workers in Compton, Calif., he portrayed Reagan as the friend of the rich, and tried hard to show his own indignation. "I'm mad. I'm angry. I'm damn mad," he insisted, looking pained. But speaking in Cupertino, Calif., the day before, Reagan had simply scoffed at "that pack of pessimists...
Just three hours apart last Thursday morning at the cavernous Sheraton Washington Hotel, site of the international convention of the Jewish service organization B'nai B'rith, first Walter Mondale and then Ronald Reagan trooped to the podium to speak on the hottest issue to develop so far in the political campaign−not war or taxes or the deficit, but rather the proper relationship between politics and religion...
...American Jewish Committee: "This is a very, very happy development. I hope this can close [the issue] out." Still, Jackson's pro-Arab views on Middle East issues continue to bother many Jewish leaders. Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, noted that "Jesse Jackson's problem with Jews is bigger than Mr. Farrakhan." Indeed, on Saturday when Jackson addressed Operation PUSH, the Chicago-based civil rights organization he founded, Minister Akbar Muhammed, Farrakhan's chief lieutenant, was onstage, and dozens of members of the Nation of Islam...
Everyone is condemning Louis Farrakhan for his remarks about Reporter Milton Coleman. Blacks are fed up with Uncle Toms who run back to Ole Massa repeating what is said among blacks. When the Knights of Columbus or B'nai B'rith have a meeting, their members do not tattle to blacks...
...very, very frustrating to me as a supporter of Jesse Jackson's campaign to have to read and hear of his insensitivities, ignorance or possibly worse," Newark Mayor Kenneth A. Gibson wrote in a March 8 letter to Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith...