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Scandal Over Proselytizing Hits Air Force
The U.S. Air Force Academy is embroiled in a growing scandal over alleged religious coercion, following an investigation triggered by complaints from a Jewish student distressed over evangelical Christian proselytizing. Earlier this year, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a Washington-based advocacy group launched an investigation. Its report alleges that academy leaders, including…
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Why Is Medicaid Ailing?
Medicaid is a program that was introduced in 1965 as a piece of companion legislation to Medicare, which was effected the same year. Medicare and Medicaid were different in two important respects. First, Medicare was based on age — 65 or older. Medicaid was based on need. Second, the federal government ran Medicare directly; Medicaid…
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Possible Bush Pick Irks Neocons
Neo-conservatives are reportedly marshaling forces against the possible appointment of an ideological opponent as ambassador to the European Union. C. Boyden Gray, who was White House counsel in the administration of George H.W. Bush, is a top contender to be named to the increasingly important diplomatic position in Brussels. This is said to have angered…
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Aipac Probe To Focus on Meetings With Reporter, Diplomat
washington — conversations that two staffers at the most influential pro-israel lobbying organization in washington had with a reporter and an israeli diplomat appear to be a focus of an american government investigation that could lead to espionage charges. There is mounting evidence that the government plans to indict two former officials at the American…
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Low Profile Hurting Abbas in Congress
WASHINGTON — For Senator Joseph Biden, trying to help Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has been a priority — and a frustration — for the past six months. Biden, a Delaware Democrat and arguably his party’s most respected voice on foreign affairs, met with Abbas in January, on the eve of the Palestinian presidential election….
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Top Diplomats in Dust-up Over Madonna
WASHINGTON — In September 2004, Madonna came to Israel preaching tolerance and understanding. But the fallout from the pop diva’s visit may have served as the final straw in an increasingly bitter power struggle between Israel’s two most important diplomats. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom has reportedly decided to drive Daniel Ayalon, Israel’s ambassador to the…
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Palestinians Remember a ‘Catastrophe’
TEL AVIV — While Israelis celebrated their 57th Independence Day last Thursday with fireworks, street concerts and barbecues in the park, Palestinians quietly marked what they call Nakba Day, stemming from the Arabic word for catastrophe. Arabs in Israel traditionally organize their Nakba events on the same day that Israel celebrates its independence, following the…
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Neo-Nazi Brotherhoods Gain Influence
BERLIN — Less than 24 hours had passed since Thorsten Heise and his fellow neo-Nazis were forced to call off their planned show of force here last week. Their failed efforts on the 60th anniversary of the fall of the Third Reich were being celebrated in local papers, under banner headlines such as “A Red-letter…
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Africa Question Puts Ross on Hot Seat in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa — Dennis Ross, America’s point man on the peace process during the 1990s, came to Iowa last week to talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict. But his speech, made to 450 people at a local Conservative synagogue, took an unexpected turn when a tall man in traditional African garb approached the microphone during…
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Mayor Virtually Assured of Jewish Agency Job
JERUSALEM — Ze’ev Bielski, mayor of the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana, can be seen in the mornings opening car doors for school children, ushering them toward their classrooms with a smile. Now Bielski, 58, may be heading to one of the most powerful offices in the Jewish world: chairman of the Jewish Agency for…
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Race Tension Vexes Contest For Senate In Maryland
Racial tensions are simmering in Maryland’s Democratic senatorial primary race, in which a nationally known black leader, former congressman Kweisi Mfume, is squaring off against a white congressman, Ben Cardin, who is Jewish. While the contest is still in its early stages, and other candidates — both black and white — may enter the race,…
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