Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel, too, was eerily silent about the raid. Begin had instructed his new press secretary, Uri Porath, to prepare an official announcement at short
...communities. In part, the arguments have arisen because of Timerman's political impact. On U.S. television, he has criticized President Reagan's low-key human rights policy and the Administration's efforts to improve relations with Argentina's military dictatorship. Last month Timerman was a silent but nonetheless potent presence at Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Reagan's nomination of Ernest W. Lefever as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Timerman, who has become an Israeli citizen, was not invited to testify at the confirmation hearings, but he had evidently...
Timerman has repeatedly compared the see-no-evil attitude of Argentina's Jews with that of Jewish leaders in Nazi Germany in the '30s, who begged Jews abroad to keep silent about Hitler's persecution in the hope that German Jewry might thereby be saved. In his book, Timerman declared that he had been humiliated not "by torture, by electric shock on my genitals" but "by the silent complicity of Jewish leaders...
...didn't do 30 or 40 takes - usually only four. It was like silent film - shoot only what you need, no waste. Had I had more time and money, it would have turned out a pretentious movie...
...Wall Street toward the Administration's program has sent bond prices plunging. Said Reagan: "They're sitting there watching anything they think may change the interest rates and bond market. I think that they're looking through a very narrow glass." The President also mentioned that "silent Calvin Coolidge" was one of his favorite Chief Executives because he cut taxes, kept the Government small-and still managed to preside over an era of economic growth. Said Reagan with a broad smile: "If he did that by doing nothing, well, maybe that's the answer...