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...Israeli ambassador accused the U.N. of having "prostrated itself before the P.L.O., which stands for the premeditated murder of innocent civilians, denies to the Jewish people its right to live and seeks to destroy the Jewish state by armed force." Tekoah dismissed any need for Palestinian statehood: "What is Jordan," he asked, "if not a Palestinian Arab state?" He also warned that "Israel will not permit the establishment of P.L.O. authority in any part of Palestine. The P.L.O. will not be forced on the Palestinian Arabs. It will not be tolerated by the Jews of Israel...
...meaningful way to compare the Jewish tragedy in Europe to the tragedy of the Palestinians. One of the many differences is the open doors for the Arabs and the closed ones for the Jews. These closed doors and all that followed caused the Jewish demand for immediate statehood at the risk of everything laboriously built up over two generations. It is this Israeli state which has now begun to recognize a Palestinian entity but not the right to an irredentist Palestinian mini-state...
...successively edited the Boston Journal, New York Tribune and the Nation, and became a diehard New Dealer. Named Governor of Alaska by President Roosevelt in 1939, Gruening forced absentee salmon and gold interests to pay their fair share of territorial taxes. After agitating successfully for Alaska's statehood, he went to the Senate in 1959 where, five years later, only he and Wayne Morse voted against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing U.S. action in the Viet Nam War. Unseated in 1968 by Mike Gravel, Gruening at 81 retired to the Nation and continued stumping for liberal causes...
...major threat to Nixon is considered to be those Palestinian terrorists who want to wreck any chance of a peace settlement in the Middle East because they fear that it will ignore their claims to statehood. U.S. intelligence officials report that three planned attempts on Kissinger's life were aborted in Syria during his recent negotiations...
Died. Frederick Andrew Seaton, 64, Secretary of the Interior from 1956 to 1961, who helped win statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; after a long illness; in Minneapolis. Seaton was appointed in 1951 to fill a Nebraska Senate vacancy when Kenneth Wherry died and became a key adviser to Dwight Eisenhower during his campaign in 1952; he remained in Washington as an influential member of the White House inner circle...