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    As a teenager, US Secretary of State Colin Powell learned to speak a language while working in a Jewish-owned baby equipment store in New York. What language did he learn to speak?

    Question #49449. Asked by badmztaz. (Jul 15 04 4:41 AM)


    Ruby72251

    		Yiddish

    Jul 15 04, 4:45 AM
    Arpeggionist

    		A nice anecdote: the first time Mr. Powell was in Israel, around the time of the first Gulf War, his first words getting of the plane, spoken to then prime minister Itzchak Shamir, were: "Mir kennt retzt Yiddish" ("I could also perhaps speak Yiddish").

    Jul 15 04, 5:07 AM

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