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...prosaic observers, the figure thus impeccably attired was not really Civilization, but just a powerfully angry American, name of Robert Jackson of Jamestown, N.Y. But to the more imaginative (including Jackson) it was Civilization itself which stood at the prosecutor's rostrum, resonantly accusing the 20 Germans in the dock of vile assault & battery on all mankind...
...timing was masterly. When Presidential Hopeful Walter Mondale stepped to the rostrum at a forum held by the twelfth annual Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) convention last week in Atlanta, he turned to acknowledge the organization's national president, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "President Jackson," he nodded. As laughter rippled through the crowd, Mondale turned to his fellow Democrats on the dais, Senators Alan Cranston and Ernest Rollings, paused and playfully inquired, "President Jackson...
...Sitting in the front row during later sessions, Arafat ebulliently hugged and kissed a long parade of well-wishers who had come to encourage the Palestinian movement. He even had warm embraces for his radical rivals in the P.L.O. when they took their turns at the speaker's rostrum...
...days before his trip to Washington to meet with Reagan, Begin made it even clearer that he would not bow to U.S. demands. Still suffering from a painful hip injury sustained last year, the Prime Minister hobbled to the rostrum at the Pierre Hotel, received a thunderous ovation and then told a United Jewish Appeal gathering that "the Israelis are going to behave as the Czechs in 1938 did not. We shall not succumb to friendly pressure if anyone tries to exercise it on us." Speaking earlier to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Begin proclaimed that...
...address. That demonstration occurred when Gromyko read to the conference a message from U.S.S.R. President Leonid Brezhnev declaring that the Soviet Union "assumes an obligation not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. This obligation shall become effective immediately at the moment it is made public from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly." Brezhnev in his message went on to challenge the U.S. to join in a no-first-use pledge, asserting: "If the other nuclear powers assume an equally precise and clear obligation . . . that would be tantamount in practice...