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...truth is that Mr. Begin is a Jewish patriot, honest, compassionate and peace-loving, as are the majority of Israelis who support him and are pleased with his leadership...
...against the fates over a vast and richly colored terrain, ranging rom the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s to the Kennedy era of the '60s. Brady plunges into the rebellion: he captains a bloody ambush and emerges as hero and cherished aide to the historical patriot Michael Collins, whose negotiating team he accompanies to England. But the resulting treaty triggers civil war at home, and Brady's family, save for infant Micko, is wiped out. Bitterly, Colman and son embark for America...
DIED. Aram Khachaturian, 74, prolific Soviet composer whose works pulse with the rhythms of his ancestral Armenia; after a long illness; in Moscow. A patriot who celebrated the "wrath of the Soviet people waging a struggle for humanity" (Second Symphony, 1943) and a Roman slave insurrection (the ballet Spartacus, 1953), Khachaturian won numerous Soviet prizes, returning one 50,000-ruble Stalin award during the war and asking that a tank be built with the money. From the start of his career in the 1930s, he also involved himself with Communist Party politics, eventually becoming deputy chairman of the Union...
Editorials hailed him as "a luminous figure, a celebrated Communist leader, a passionate patriot, wise chief of party and state." Broadcasters saluted his "creativity of exceptional value in philosophy, scientific socialism, political economy, history, education, science and culture." In other encomiums, he appeared variously as still "the first peasant among peasants" and a fellow who was "born a peasant, became a worker and is now an intellectual...
...would like to nominate a true patriot, a man who is trying to make America strong again, a man who is trying to make America great again, a man who is trying to make America a better place to live in, Ronald Reagan...