Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They don't have the same responsibilities. We're expected to learn our lines, get the reporters steadied down, train the campaign managers and press secretaries, put up with the fellow who shows up with the sandwich sign and the Uncle Sam suit, remember which one is Evans and which one is Novak, explain why we tolerate William Loeb's tarnal foolishness in the Manchester Union Leader, and then put on DeKalb Seed Corn caps and decide which of a dozen self-swollen hot-air balloons is least likely to lead the nation to shame and ruin...
...Jews were angered and alarmed by the spectacle of the Rev. Jesse Jackson embracing Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, and of the Rev. Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference joining Arafat in a chorus of We Shall Overcome. But to those who interpreted these odd scenes as a sign of black antiSemitism, a contradicting voice sounded last week. Said Vernon E. Jordan Jr., head of the National Urban League, in a widely publicized speech to a Catholic audience in Kansas City: "Black-Jewish relations should not be endangered by ill-considered flirtations with terrorist groups devoted to the extermination...
...interview took place at the Ayatullah's residence in the holy city of Qum and lasted, in all, for about three hours. As a sign of respect for Khomeini, Fallaci decided to wear a chador, the traditional floor-length black veil worn by Muslim women in Iran. "I don't wear blue jeans to interview the Pope," she explained. As it happened, the chador produced the most dramatic moment of the interview. In the midst of several questions about the role of women in an Islamic society, Fallaci charged that the chador was symbolic of the segregation into...
John Paul elected not to reply and stuck to his prepared speech, an old-fashioned appeal for religious commitment by nuns. To him that is symbolized by the wearing of "a simple and suitable religious garb" as a "permanent" sign of their calling. As he spoke, about 50 nuns stood silently in protest of his policy on women priests; every one was clad in street clothes. Remarked Moral Theologian Charles Curran of nuns' garb, "Most American women thought that issue had been settled years...
...brass were sympathetic. "This program wasn't supposed to be David Frost vs. Henry Kissinger," said William Small, president of NBC News. "It was supposed to be an interview with Henry Kissinger." Indeed, the unedited transcript reveals that the Interviewer talked more than the interviewee, always a bad sign. But Frost had felt all along that this verbal tactic would be essential. Said he: "To set up a detailed discussion of a subject like Cambodia, you have to start with a long question and then come back with sustained follow...