Word: rith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When confronted with the records last week, Waldheim replied, "I hear for the first time (now) that there were deportations of Jews from Greece." Countered Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith: "If he did not know what was going on . . . he was probably the world's most incompetent bureaucrat. If he knew, he is a liar...
...tentative" when the original itinerary contained no such word. Only public pressure can prevent such moral oversites from occuring, and only apathetic criteria can augment them Reagan might change his mind, but the intent was there, Kenneth Bialk chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, says, "What kind of symbolism does one attach to a visit that includes a ceremony to the agents of the Holocaust at the same time that he has chosen not to show the same kind of reverence for the victims...
...were already offended because Reagan had vetoed a stop at the site of a concentration camp during his six- day German tour. "Visiting the gravesites of one's former enemies is an act of grace," said Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. "Doing so while bypassing the gravesites of the victims of that enemy--especially so brutal an enemy--is insensitive." Charitably deflecting the blame from the President, Perlmutter said that Reagan "has been the victim of awful advice...
...rith's Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which investigates extremist groups, says that Ayran Nations and the Klan have set up computer networks that can be reached through telephone numbers in Idaho, Texas and North Carolina. The computer system was established by Louis Beam, a Texas Klan leader and the Aryan Nations' "ambassador-at-larg e." It provides anti- Semitic and racist reading for hackers, as well as an "enemies" list of organizations like the A.D.L...
...exactly sure when the most recent church-state debate began, though it is certain that President Reagan's Dallas prayer-breakfast speech and Walter Mondale's vigorous B'nai B'rith counterattack mark the high points of the current cycle. A low point of sorts was reached when Jesse ("God is not finished with me yet") Jackson declared himself dismayed to find Reagan injecting religion into politics. When Jackson, Reverend and aspiring President, was practically running his campaign out of churches earlier this year, the issue seemed less pressing...