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...conference of 44 countries and more than a dozen Jewish, cultural and business groups. The conferees agreed on a set of guidelines to retrieve and return Nazi-looted art to rightful owners and also to return communal property -- from former synagogues and schools, for example -- to Jewish communities. Stuart Eizenstat, head of the U.S. delegation which sponsored the gathering that concluded today, pronounced himself "impressed" and "overwhelmed" by the results...
...Clinton Administration faced pressure from environmentalists and foreign governments that argued that as the greatest greenhouse-gas emitter on the planet, the U.S. should take the lead in cutting back--a position the President himself took seriously. In the end, Clinton split the difference. Chief U.S. negotiator Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, arrived in Kyoto with a proposal to cut emissions back to 1990 levels, no lower, between...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A report compiled under Commerce Undersecretary Stuart Eizenstat blasts Switzerland for buying $400 million in Nazi gold between 1939 and 1945, providing cash Eizenstat said "had the clear effect of supporting and prolonging Nazi Germany's capacity to wage war." The persistence of a "business as usual attitude" by Switzerland, he told reporters, was "inexplicable." The Swiss do not find that attitude so hard to explain. Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti reminded the U.S. that in 1939, Switzerland was an avowedly neutral country surrounded throughout the war by Axis regimes. On what grounds should it have refused? The report...
...American-led crusade for financial restitution and a fresh reading of history has by no means reached its end. In April, Under Secretary for International Trade Stuart Eizenstat will unveil a potentially explosive examination of American wartime records, including the controversial U.S. role in tracing Nazi assets...
...next afternoon, Bronfman met President Clinton in the White House. After the Jewish leader had described the Swiss bank issue, Clinton looked pensive. Then he said, "Edgar, if it is necessary, I will work with Senator D'Amato on legislation on this matter." Moving fast, the President ordered Secretary Eizenstat to investigate the U.S. archives. With the ammunition Singer and D'Amato had dug out of the Safehaven trove, emotional Senate hearings in April and again last October matched testimony from Holocaust survivors with hard evidence of Swiss service to the Reich...