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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iranian (according to Iranian law), I am also Jewish and very worried about the fate of the Jewish community in Iran. In the previous months I have been very concerned about the possible dangers to the Jewish community, and I tried to ignore these concerns in view of the necessity for change in that country. Mostly, I was hoping that for once the situation for the Jews would be different. This morning's news release describing Irans' alliance with the PLO confirmed my doubts...
...moment exit from Iran is almost impossible. Perhaps the United States could help people who wish to leave Iran to do so. Admittedly, there are implications of "intervention" here, and in view of the United States' poor experience in countries where it has intervened, it is questionable whether such a policy should be pursued even in this case. But intervention has many facets and a Vietnam-type or Chile-type intervention is not being proposed here. Furthermore, the success of such a policy depends on how one chooses to define success: if success means avoiding possible setbacks in relations with...
Atrocities can be avoided if steps are taken early enough. There are many who doubt that massacres really threaten the Jewish Iranian population. I don't think I have exxagerated in view of the terrible experience of the Jewish populations in Moslem countries in the past few years. Let it also be said that Iran itself has historically experienced pogroms--anti-Jewish race riots. The way in which the Israeli consulate in Iran was ransacked recently adds to my concern. When all this evidence is added up, what other conclusion can one come to? Are we willing to wait? What...
...networks believe that controversial issues of public importance are best presented in the formats determined by broadcast journalists," Schmertz said, adding. "There can be no other points of view except that which the network journalists decide you should...
There was more to Waller's music than the swoony "Honeysuckle Rose," his most famous song. Many of the numbers furnish a disturbingly candid view of Harlem life. The eerie "Viper" describes a marijuana dream, in which the singer imagines "a reefer--ten feet long." And every line in the poignant "Black and Blue" furnishes a clear statement of what being black meant in America then, and sadly enough, now--making a brilliant double-entendre out of the word "black...