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...Accountability for Sudan Simon Robinson's report "Nowhere to Hide" [July 5], on the humanitarian crisis and the genocidal atrocities affecting the Darfurians, non-Arab blacks of Sudan's Darfur region, left me disgusted. I'm convinced that our world is doomed to a brutal and sad end. The article noted, "The U.N. and the U.S. do not call the pogroms genocide?in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians." Excuse me, but what is so wrong with taking action? We cannot afford to wait for 500,000 people...
...using the media to express his views. He made 21 live radio appearances from 1999-2003, mostly in the Philippines. During these spots he would rail against the worldwide Jewish and American conspiracies supposedly out to ruin him, calling the Jews "filthy, lying bastard people" and the U.S. a "brutal, evil dictatorship." When the World Trade Center was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, he announced on Philippine radio: "This is wonderful news. I applaud the act ... I want to see the U.S. wiped...
Simon Robinson's report "Nowhere to Hide" [July 5], on the humanitarian crisis and the genocidal atrocities affecting the Darfurians, non-Arab blacks of Sudan's Darfur region, left me disgusted. I'm convinced that our world is doomed to a brutal and sad end. The article noted, "The U.N. and the U.S. do not call the pogroms genocide--in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians." Excuse me, but what is so wrong with intervention? Already 10,000 people have been killed and a million forced to leave their homes...
DIED. LEON GOLUB, 82, U.S. artist who painted monumental, brutal figures symbolizing the destructive nature of human ambition and who was hailed as a pioneer during the Neo-Expressionist era of the 1980s; in New York City. When he began his career in the 1950s, his subjects were largely mythological, but by the 1970s, he had moved into politics with the anti--Vietnam War series Assassins, and he continued in that vein in the 1980s with images of global military violence called Mercenaries...
...nonboycotted Olympics. And Paul Hamm became the first American man to take gold in the individual all-around. The Koreans protested the scoring; although their appeal was rejected, three judges were suspended, leaving Hamm's victory under a cloud. Behind the graceful façade, gymnastics is brutal...