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Begin's visit to the U.S. last July erased many remaining apprehensions. In Washington, he got along well with Carter and congressional leaders; in New York, he impressed leaders of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect, the Central Conference of American Rabbis and several other groups. Says Miamian Val Silberman, national vice chairman of the United Jewish Appeal: "Everyone went away feeling good about him." Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman told TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy that Begin's main and "probably only real success in the U.S. was to unite American Jewry behind him and Israel...
There is also some evidence that at least one OSHA administrator saw the political advantages in lax enforcement of legislation. In a June 14, 1972 memo to then Labor Undersecretary Laurence H. Silberman (released by the Senate Watergate Committee in July, 1974), OSHA administrator George C. Guenther said that during the 1972 campaign period "no highly controversial standards....will be proposed by OSHA or NIOSH...
...Both Silberman and Guenther claim that none of the suggestions in the memo were carried out; their statement was challenged by the Ralph Nader-affiliated Health Research group. Whether or not the Health Research Group's accusations are true, the fact that a relatively high-level OSHA official viewed his agency as a political tool suggests that some of OSHA's problems are due to a lack of commitment within the agency to the spirit of the original legislation...
institutions generally single out a few stocks-including IBM, Xerox, Polaroid and ITT-for the big play. "This is an airshaft market," complains Shearson Hammill Vice President Lee Silberman. "A hundred or so blue chips move up and down while other stocks languish...
With extensive documentation Jonathon Kozol, Charles E. Silberman, John Holt, and Joseph Featherstone, to name only the most prominent, exposed the fundamental weakness of education in America. Starting either as despondent school teachers or irate spokesmen for minority groups, they arrived at the same dual conclusion: American schools are bad places for learning, and instruments for continuing oppression of large segments of the population...