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...roads leading to Athens were plastered with billboards saying NAI (yes) in bold white against a blue background with the legend VOTE YES FOR DEMOCRACY. IT IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS. Having quelled last May's naval revolt against his junta's six-year rule and deposed exiled King Constantine, Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos offered his countrymen last Sunday a chance to vote-but not much of a choice...
...English language has answers of its own-some of them offensive to Jew and non-Jew alike. For 35 years the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Britain's equivalent to the American B'nai B'rith, has tried to persuade lexicographers to change certain definitions in dictionaries. It has had scant luck with the editors of the magisterial Oxford English Dictionary, the most complete and authoritative record in existence of what English is and has been. Next month Marcus Shloimovitz, a 67-year-old textile salesman from Manchester, will take the argument one step further...
Anderson also apologized in print for a column published last year in which he accused President Nixon of ignoring B'nai B'rith appeals for a strong U.S. stand against the persecution of Soviet Jews. The White House letter on which the charge was based, Anderson conceded, "did not represent the President's views...
...celebration at sunset Friday. "In April," announced an ad in Christian Herald, "one million Jews will watch one Christian telecast." If the million are in front of their TV sets, they will be watching something else. In the face of criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the Synagogue Council of America and the New York Board of Rabbis, the New York showing of the film was canceled last week. Stations in ten other cities followed suit...
...EVIDENCE indicates that the crop destruction program is widespread, that cases like that of the Song Re valley are not exceptions, and that the Montagnard people are being systematically destroyed. In Quang Nai and Quang Tin provinces, the food scheduled for destruction in 1970-71 was estimated for the Commission at 14,575 metric tons. That is enough to sustain around 50-70,000 people for a year. The targeted areas of those two provinces are the upland regions where the Montagnards live. The total Montagnard population of those two provinces is just under...