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Shanker, 43, was born to the harsh controversies of union life. His mother was a staunch member of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Shanker even met his wife Edie at a 1959 teachers' meeting, where she was skeptical of his union. "I organized her," he recalls. "A few weeks later she was our strike captain in Queens...
...Senate -whose professorial facade conceals a core of toughness and ambition. He likes movies and chocolate milkshakes, and has fired subordinates for unduly chewing out people working under them. He is a complex man, a curious mixture of pragmatism and principle, patience and restiveness, at once a staunch, almost pedantic moralist and a calculating, hard-driving politician...
...group, people against Psychosurgery (PAP), tentatively scheduled a forum for may 4. Participants will include Dr. Peter A. Breggin '58, professor at the Washington School of Psychology, a staunch opponent of all surgery that modifies behavior...
Jews also began to feel isolated in other ways. To be sure, they found staunch new allies among many evangelical Protestants, to whom Israel represents biblical fulfillment. Billy Graham's 1970 film His Land was pointedly pro-Israel. But Protestant liberals, once political allies of U.S. Jews and supporters of Israel, began turning their sympathies toward Palestinian Arab refugees in the wake...
...Satmar, and the Lubavitch Hasidim, named after the White Russian town of Lubavitch. The Satmar sect is fiercely loyal to the U.S. but anti-Zionist because only the Messiah can re-establish Israel. They remain small (about 5,000 families), but the Lubavitcher, who accept Israel and are also staunch U.S. patriots, now have perhaps 150,000 members and sympathizers...