Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...palace in Riyadh, which I visited in November 1973, was on a monumental scale. Preceded by two sword carriers, I was taken to a tremendous hall. Dozens of men (women being strictly segregated) in identical black robes and white headdresses were seated along the walls, immobile and silent. What seemed like 100 yards away on a slightly raised pedestal sat King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, aquiline of feature, regal of bearing. He rose as I entered, forcing all the princes and sheiks to follow suit in a flowing balletlike movement of black and white. He took one step...
...thirds of the way through the second half, after Harvard had for the second time cut Princeton's lead to two points on a series of jumpers by guards Dixon and Bob Ferry. The Tigers' unenthusiastic fans--saddened by a mid-week loss to the men from Philadelphia--fell silent, and in cavernous Jadwin Gym you could hear every grunt the giants battled inside...
...LAST seven years, a group of Jews has been tortured, imprisoned, and executed because of their religious beliefs. They have been forgotten by a silent world and ignored by their fellow Jews. The Falashas, the Black Jews of Ethiopia, face a perilously uncertain future...
...American Jewish Student's Network sponsored a speaking tour for Zacharius Yona, an Ethiopian Jew. The tour, and the demonstration in Israel that same year, forced the Knesset in November to debate publicly the Falasha question for the first time. The legislators resolved that "the Government...should not keep silent but should...[help] our Jewish brothers from Ethiopia." Prime Minister Begin created committees to study possible rescue attempts, and for a brief while, progress seemed likely: during 1980, 665 Falashas were rescued. Within a year, however, apathy reappeared. Israeli diplomats and civil servants now again are discouraging public discussion...
...Sugarman, '83 who organized the Harvard lobbying group, said yesterday the United States must make it advantageous for the Soviets to allow emigration. If the United States shows no concern, then the Soviet Union will ignore the issue, she added. "The worst thing we can do is to be silent...