Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chris Richardson (March 15) quotes Theodor Herzl to prove Israel is a "tool...of imperialist powers." This is equivalent to quoting Marx to explain China's current position and policies. Richardson, ignorant of the history of Zionism, is unaware that the moving element in the foundation of Zionism and the creation of a Jewish national community in Palestine was not Herzl but the poor Jews of Eastern Europe, living under the persecution of Czarist Russia. These Jews were for the most part socialist and their aim was to establish a commonweaath that oppressed nobody. They created the uniquely successful collective...
...nonviolent, especially by comparison to the Americans, and South Vietnamese--although it is easy to be nonviolent when one's enemy isn't putting up a fight. They have taken most of South Vietnam with very little bloodshed and they have not used at all the Americans' most brutal tool of war--mass bombings of civilian and military areas in the cities and countryside. The thousands of refugees now streaming through Vietnam, seem to be fleeing quite understandably from was--not from the idea of communism. And for all the refugees, there are also thousands of South Vietnamese peasants...
...religious zealots against a television station in Riyadh.* There were also stories that the prince was angry with King Faisal because he had been refused permission to live abroad on account of his dissolute ways. Inevitably, radical newspapers in some Arab capitals implied that the prince had been a tool of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agen cy. In light of Washington's well-documented concern for keep ing King Faisal's friendship, the accusation seemed absurd...
...Mesta assembled Senators and Congressmen, celebrities, showpeople and occasionally Presidents for elaborately calibrated soirees over three decades. Perle's gaiety, feigned naughtiness and passion for scandalous secrets charmed a generation of guests. Heiress to fortunes from her father and her husband, a Pittsburgh steel magnate, she mastered machine-tool manufacturing, invested in cattle ranching, campaigned for an equal-rights amendment for women in the 1930s, and buttonholed Southwestern oil barons for contributions to her "hero" Harry Truman during his come-from-behind campaign in 1948. Truman reciprocated in 1949 by creating for her the post of Minister...
...told TIME Senior Editor Marshall Loeb in a recent interview: "Our strength lies precisely in OPEC. We are endeavoring to get the best that we possibly can from the price of oil, not only to advance our development plans but also to use oil as a tool for negotiation and dialogue. We are seeking a balance in commercial relations between Latin America and the developed nations." Speaking of the U.S. and of the international oil companies, he added: "We are reluctant to continue accepting that our interests be manipulated from centers of power in the world...