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While most Jewish groups were soliciting direct aid to Israel, others tried to bring pressure on the U.S. Government. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a registered Jewish lobby, poured out a stream of appeals by mail, telegram and telephone. Jews were urged to contact their Senators and Congressmen to support prompt military and diplomatic aid to Israel. Committee Chairman Isaiah ("Si") Kenen, known as Israel's man on the Hill, called a meeting of some 30 Jewish leaders, after which they urged Congress to pass a resolution accusing the Arabs of starting the war and demanding more military...
...Harvard Freshman Council also voted yesterday to send a telegram to House Majority Leader Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.), urging the House to impeach Nixon. The council passed the motion to send the telegram by a wide margin...
...kidnapers that it would alter its policy in exchange for the lives of the hostages. It was made because Austria, as one government official explained it, "was gradually becoming a battleground" in the continuing Israeli-Arab conflict. Jerusalem's Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek protested in a telegram to Kreisky: "Anyone who applies different standards to Jews than those he applies to others stands accused of antiSemitism, whatever his origin." But the Chancellor, a nonpracticing Jew, denied that his action was discriminatory. He pointed out the Schönau facility was allowed to exist as a special favor...
...want to assure you that I love you very much, and if you had been a woman, I would have considered marrying you." (In a telegram to an old adversary, Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, August...
Apparently, a message never came. What did arrive, curiously, was a telegram from West Germany: IF YOU INTEND TO KILL ALL PASSENGERS ABOARD, DO IT AT ONCE. OTHERWISE, BE HUMANE ENOUGH TO RELEASE THEM. IT SOUNDS RIDICULOUS FOR YOU TO PERMIT THOSE WHOM YOU WANT TO KILL TO RECEIVE REFRESHMENTS AND MEALS. It was Signed: 13,569 INHABITANTS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. At first thought to be coded instructions to the skyjackers, the telegram proved to be a humanitarian plea from a group of concerned West Germans. However naive, the message may have had an effect. Almost...