Word: wallenbergs
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...Scandinavia, no concessions had to be wrung from the government or from private sources. During the German occupation, Denmark had saved some 7,000 Jews by spiriting them to Sweden; and before he disappeared in Russia, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish citizen, had saved nearly 30,000 Hungarian Jews by arranging special trains and supplying false papers. Yet no matter how the commissioners praised members of the Danish resistance, the veterans kept insisting that they had only done "the normal thing." Conceded Christian Theologian Roy Eckardt, chairman of Lehigh University's religion department: "Perhaps it was the normal thing...
...again? The authors think not, citing the Kennedy experience: after Republican Catholics voted for Democrat John Kennedy in large numbers in 1960 to disprove the notion that a Catholic could not be elected President, Catholicism never again was a major voting issue. Now that Carter has won, Scammon and Wallenberg believe, the Southern issue is dead...
...conferences at ten colleges and universities this fall under A.E.I. auspices. For further prestige, A.E.I. can boast the consulting services of Academic Adviser Milton Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, and Senior Fellows Irving Kristol, Henry Luce Professor of Urban Values at N.Y.U., and Ben Wallenberg, the conservative Democratic election analyst...
...marriage broker was Swedish Banker Marcus Wallenberg, whose powerful family holdings include control of Saab-Scania. Said Wallenberg of the merger: "It's good for the workers, good for the companies and good for the country." Just about everyone seemed to agree. Since no jobs will be lost, even Sweden's sometimes contentious unions expressed no opposition...
...hand on the Hill that charged Warnke had proposed "unilateral abandonment by the U.S. of every weapons system that is subject to negotiation at the SALT talks." The memo was the work of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a Washington-based group of moderate Democrats headed by Ben Wallenberg, who has often served as an adviser to Jackson. The organization prepared the criticism of Warnke more than a month ago, when he was mentioned as a possible choice for Secretary of Defense...