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Last week, in a significant decision for millions of non-Orthodox Jews, Israel's Supreme Court annulled the Interior Ministry ruling. Said the court: "There are not two nations???one Jewish and one converted to Judaism." Peretz declared he would appeal the decision. Said Miller: "A stone has been lifted from my head...
...Ford. The prophets of the counterculture agreed with that, as they declared history "not relevant." Easy enough to dismiss this as know-nothing arrogance. Yet in their own way, the Pilgrims and the founding fathers also sought to rise above history?that is, above the customary fate of other nations???firmly believing that America was a new start, a new order under the heavens...
...even in hours of international conflict. In the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution, for example, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty sought and received the safety of the U.S. legation in Budapest for 15 years. These principles are spelled out in the Vienna Convention of 1961, which has been ratified by 131 nations???including Iran...
...condemned the session as having been "dictated in advance by the U.S.," and Iran's Revolutionary Council voted to boycott the debate. The U.N. went ahead anyway, and in an extraordinary Saturday night session, speaker after speaker?including those from the Soviet Union and a number of African nations???denounced Iran for holding the Americans. When the debate ends this week, the Council is expected to approve a resolution calling formally for the release of the hostages. Some Council members also wanted the resolution to refer to the Iranian complaints against...
...assessment of the policy is no better than mixed if Carter's aim is to ease the plight of those suffering rights abuses. In some nations???South Korea, the Philippines, Benin, Chile, Iran and Argentina?a number of dissenters have begun receiving slightly fairer treatment. But elsewhere there has been either no relaxation or?as in the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Rumania?there have been new repressive crackdowns...