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Polish schools are beginning to deal with the long-suppressed history of the country's Jews. The mournful music of Golda Tencer, a singer at Warsaw's Yiddish Theater for 23 years, is occasionally featured on television. Last year 120 non-Jewish children signed up to learn her music. Tencer recalls a recent essay contest sponsored by the Polish ministry of education on the subject ``One Thousand Years of Jews in Poland.'' ``We thought maybe 100 or 200 would participate,'' she says. ``There were...
...Israel's darkest hour, Richard Nixon, heedless of the consequences, ordered the Defense Department, over their objection, to start a 24-hour-a-day emergency airlift which Prime Minister Golda Meir claimed was invaluable in turning the tide of the battle, Only the Portuguese and the Dutch supported him (Prime Minister Heath refused the use of British airbases), but his resolve did not waiver. And the consequences were severe: the oil embargo, doubling of gasoline prices and a fall in the polls from which he never recovered. But President Nixon had the satisfaction of doing what was right...
...spirits befuddled by modernity. When Presidents need to pray, it is Graham whom they call; he ministered to Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, spent the night with the Bushes on the eve of the Gulf War. Richard Nixon offered him the ambassadorship to Israel at a meeting with Golda Meir. "I said the Mideast would blow up if I went over there," Graham recalls. "Golda then reached under the table and squeezed my hand. She was greatly relieved." When Billy arrived for a crusade in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1989, Hillary Rodham Clinton invited him to lunch...
...difficulty of that cannot be overstated. For decades, Arafat and other Arab leaders would not even utter the word Israel. When they absolutely had to name the enemy, they referred to "the Zionist entity." On the Israeli side, former Prime Minister Golda Meir denied there were any such people as Palestinians, and one of her successors, Yitzhak Shamir, implied that Palestinians are not quite human; he described them as "grasshoppers compared...
Unlike Britain's Margaret Thatcher or Israel's Golda Meir, Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro claimed power not through proven political skills but on the strength and symbolism of their family ties. For much of the Third World, the idea of the nation-state has not evolved too far from the idea of kingdoms; rulers are still heads of extended tribes or vast families, rather than chief executives of the machinery of government. Politics very often pits clan against clan, all the way from Machiavellian patriarchs to the wives and daughters, whose chief duty is still procreation and the maintenance...