Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel's security needs," the letter read, "and which presumes to occupy permanently a region populated by 750,-000 Palestinian Arabs, we find morally unacceptable, and perilous for the democratic character of the Jewish state." Among those who signed were Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Saul Bellow, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Jerome B. Wiesner, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Says Leonard Fein, a cosigner of the letter and editor in chief of Moment, an independent Jewish monthly: "I expect that all the signers recognize that Elon Moreh is only the tip of a very ugly iceberg. Israel is squandering recklessly its most critical and natural resource-the good will that many people around the world, and in this country in particular, feel for this gutsy country...
...NAMES. Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, Richard Farina, Dave Van Ronk, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Rush, Pete Seeger, Taj Mahal, Geoff Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, John Sebastian, all spanning a decade. Von Schmidt sees an enduring musical "scene," based on the fact that people wanted to hear this music. Today that scene doesn't exist, and while von Schmidt wants badly to believe that the listeners are out there, he acknowledges popular decline of the folk movement, and the powerful appeal of electronic music...
...Women's groups believe Weber may help them expand their already considerable gains. Even some white ethnic groups that feel left out in the scramble for economic opportunity, such as Poles, Italians, Ukrainians and Czechs, may interpret Weber as a challenge that they cannot afford to ignore. Warns Leonard Walentynowicz, executive director of the Polish-American Congress: "If America's job opportunities and money are to be parceled out to groups, we are a definable group, and we want our share...
...DIED. Leonard Hall, 78, former Republican Congressman from Long Island who, as G.O.P. national chairman in the mid '50s, helped persuade Dwight Eisenhower to run for a second term despite his 1955 heart attack, and then orchestrated his big 1956 win over Democrat Adlai Stevenson; of a stroke; in Glen Cove...