Word: israelism
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Port Salut, Aristide moved with his widowed mother to the capital and was educated by Salesian priests, a group dedicated to charity and spiritual instruction for poor and orphaned children. Even before his ordination in 1982, he began writing protest songs about the exploitation of the poor. Sent to Israel and Canada to study the Bible and psychology, he returned to Haiti in 1985, just in time to participate in the nonviolent anti-Duvalier movement. After Duvalier's ouster, Aristide continued to be a persistent critic of the government and an outspoken proponent of the "liberation theology" movement, based...
...Israelis appear surprisingly calm about the possibility of an Iraqi missile attack, it is largely owing to their faith in the air force, the elite military branch. Last week that trust was deeply shaken when air force Brigadier General Rami Dotan, former chief of logistics and Israel's leading expert on aircraft engines, started talking about his role in the biggest bribery scandal ever to rock the defense establishment...
...government says the money was siphoned from the hefty military aid that Washington gives Israel ($1.8 billion this year), and officials fear the scandal will further strain relations with the U.S. Others have called for air force chief Major General Avihu Bin-Nun's resignation. For now, that seems unlikely, especially given the gulf crisis. In an apologetic letter to his staff last week, Bin-Nun wrote, "I trusted Rami Dotan in exactly the same way that I would trust the aircraft technician from whom I receive a plane before a flight...
...about the U.S. when one tried to explain that America's society was basically good despite segregation. In their hearts and minds, Americans believed that completely -- and eventually, of course, the remnants of at least legal discrimination were abolished. Similarly, Kuwait's problems should be seen in context. Like Israel, an essentially decent nation despite some glaring blind spots, Kuwait before Saddam was a good country in a bad neighborhood. It will surely be that again, but it could be much more. A terrible tragedy has afforded Kuwait the rarest of opportunities, a true second chance. If it rises...
...Jackson-Vanik amendment, which prohibited normal trade relations until Moscow allowed free emigration for its citizens. The Soviet parliament still has not passed a free-emigration law. But in the past year alone, authorities have permitted the departure of more than 150,000 citizens, mostly Jews headed for Israel, and it is likely that a satisfactory emigration law will be enacted next year. Once the law passes, the Bush Administration is expected to grant the Soviets most-favored-nation status, which would vastly reduce tariffs on goods exported to the U.S. "The Soviet Union has tremendous potential resources and capabilities...