Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only to practicing Orthodox Jews, who constitute a minority of U.S. Jews. But the damage was done. Off to Israel to pick up the pieces went Ben-Gurion's old friend, the American Jewish Committee's Blaustein. Playing his familiar conciliatory role, Blaustein persuaded Ben-Gurion to reaffirm a joint statement they had issued in 1950. Its key points: Israel may not presume to interfere with the affairs of Jews living outside Israel, and emigration of Jews to Israel is and should be at their "free discretion...
...Williams, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, told a Lexington audience yesterday that "the right to self-determination" in Africa "must be achieved." Williams and top level diplomats from 16 African nations were visiting the historic town for the annual Patriot's Day celebration in a gesture to "reaffirm our attachment to the cause of liberty in Africa and America...
...same time they will ask the Council to "reaffirm its role as a non-ideological organization" and its officers to "avoid the association of their personal political views with their prestige or positions as officers of the Harvard Student Council...
Ugly Side. Neither France nor Britain -embroiled as they are with Algeria, Kenya and Rhodesia-could be entirely happy with the U.S. decision, although Stevenson was quick to reaffirm the U.S.'s traditional friendship with its oldest allies. Portugal, as expected, fired off angry blasts at Washington, and in retaliation ordered seven U.S. Navy weather planes to leave Luanda immediately. The U.S. could only say in answer that in time to come, Portugal and other U.S. allies in Europe might be grateful that they had an ally who had established its good faith with the anticolonialist nations of Africa...
...achieved not as a result of environment but by men who made their environment ... If our future is to be worthy of our past, if the fruit of America's promise is not to wither before it has reached full maturity, our present pre-eminent need is to reaffirm the sense of individual obligation...