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More than 100,000 dead. More than four million refugees. Has it gone on long enough? After the Holocaust the world pledged "never again" to tolerate genocide. Now, fifty years later, we are again witness to abhorrent human rights violations: genocide, systematic rape and the menace of "ethnic cleansing." This time the United States and Western Europe should not stand...
...government. Germany's social security system has awarded $190-a-month payments (a small fortune in the Baltics) to more than 250 disabled SS veterans in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Says Latvian SS veteran and pension receiver Boris Mikhailov: "Thank you, Germany, thank you." Latvian Jews who survived the Holocaust, it should be noted, haven't got a red cent...
...someone with Washington diplomatic experience or a Little Rock loyalist, events that should have garnered goodwill for the pair have sparked only resentment and enmity. The most disastrous incident occurred at the most important affair so far, a White House reception in honor of the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Scheduled to be there at 4 p.m., the President arrived 2 1/2 hours late. By that time, Polish President Lech Walesa, entertainer Mandy Patinkin, House Speaker Tom Foley and others had long run out of anything to say to one another and were squishing in the mud under...
...laid siege to a new brace of Muslim towns. Boris Yeltsin, his referendum victory safe, announced he would no longer shield the Serbs indiscriminately from "the will of the world." Former Secretary of State George Shultz, among others, counseled military force. People compared the Serbian aggression to the Holocaust, thus suggesting that intervention was a moral necessity. Meanwhile, Clinton consulted. Dozens of members of Congress, eyeing polls that said only 30% of the public supported air strikes, rejected the Holocaust comparison for one to the Vietnam quagmire. Others disagreed. The military's top brass debated publicly whether strikes, arming...
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