Word: mideast
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...some rabbis, the misunderstandings that have arisen over the Mideast war indicate that even the best-intentioned Christians lack an understanding of certain concepts basic to Judaism. The churches' failure to appreciate Israel's plight, they argue, reflects an inability to comprehend the Jewish sense of peoplehood and the primordial place that the vision of Israel as the homeland for God's people occupies in the Jewish mind. Instead of concentrating on how the two faiths can jointly combat moral evils in the world, dialogue might better be served by greater stress on the fundamentals of Jewish...
...West Af rican correspondent for the New York Times. James Reston writes his New York Times column from Washington; his son Richard is the Los Angeles Times's Moscow correspondent. Red Smith writes a syndicated sports col umn that appears in the Trib; Terence Smith covers the Mideast for the New York Times. When the Washington Post bought into the Paris Trib and the New York Times international later merged with it, all of them tumbled into the same paper...
...much more graceful writer than I am, and can definitely type faster. But I have a better eye for color." He was not at all apprehensive when Daddy, who had been managing editor of the Washington Post, returned to news reporting and was sent to cover the Mideast war. "He did as good a job as anyone who was out there," thinks his son. "He's got a lot of promise...
...Communist world ideal. Perhaps a story on "The Uneven Record of American Diplomacy" would be in order next, for we face the same problem: to act in our self-interest or to further some ideal image of ourselves as leaders of the free world, whatever the cost. In the Mideast crisis we wisely did our best to keep the conflict local, not part of the East-West confrontation. In Viet Nam, we emphasize the role of Chinese and Russian Communists to justify our own position, despite the fact that the aid provided by more than 400,000 troops far outweighs...
...Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney-though he trailed Romney by 9% less than four months ago. Harris showed him leading both Romney and former Vice President Richard Nixon by a 56-to-44 margin. His renewed popularity unquestionably reflected approval of his low-keyed handling of the Mideast crisis and of his meeting with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin...