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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eager and worried Egyptian seemed determined to pursue his all-out style of public diplomacy. Before leaving for the U.S., Sadat last week sent off "An Open Letter to American Jews," published in the Miami Herald. He urged them to "revive the spirit of accommodation and meaningful coexistence" in order to "reinforce our belief in the oneness of the human cause." He complained that "the Israeli government in the past few weeks has been negative and disappointing...
...English. A draconian law known as Bill 101, approved by the legislative assembly last August, makes French the only "official" language in Quebec.* Under its terms, all business with the provincial government must be conducted in French. All professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, must display "appropriate" fluency in order to practice in Quebec. Corporations will be monitored by a government board to ensure that French becomes the "language of work." To pacify English-speaking Big Business, the Quebec government has promised to tailor exceptions for some 40 national and international corporate head offices located in Montreal...
...most influential personalities in U.S. religion? The Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...
...response to a student's question about the problem of sensationalism in journalism, Freed said he sees a much greater danger in the growth of large conservative newspaper chains that avoid covering controversial issues in order to maximize their income...
...skis. I'm talking about the guys whose last game of anything was an emotional outburst of drunken nerf football between halves of the Super Bowl; whose last emergency was having to miss their scheduled beer runs during the second and third periods of Monday's Beanpot opener in order to watch John Hynes do his sprawling, miraculous Eddie Giacomin saves in the face of repeated Northeastern B-52 raids. I'm talking about the fans, not the players...