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Some Israelis were outraged that Vorster, who was interned by his own country during World War II as a Nazi sympathizer, was permitted to lay a wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the 6 million dead of the holocaust. Israelis also recalled that before black African friendships dried up, their government consistently opposed apartheid. Premier David Ben-Gurion in 1961 condemned South Africa as a "deplorable regime of racial discrimination." When Israel later decided to give money to black liberation movements, the Pretoria government retaliated by blocking contributions to Israel from South Africa...
Without Venom. A Mercenary describes a far different victim of the Holocaust. Stanislav Lushinski is a Polish Jew who survived both the Nazis and the Russians and now works as the U.N. representative for a small African nation. Colleagues mock him as the "P.M."(Paid Mouthpiece), but his past has put him beyond their taunts - and, he hopes, beyond any pain other humans can cause. His cold irony makes him a perfect manipulator of international diplomacy. "Don't try to ram against the inevitable," he advises a young black assistant. "Instead, tinker with the timing." If Lushinski...
After the robbery. Patty escaped the holocaust of May 17, 1974, when six S.L.A. members died in the shootout with Los Angeles police. Along with millions of other Americans, she watched the death struggle live on television-the macabre media event of the year. There followed the 16-month chase as the FBI searched for her across the country while she traveled from the West Coast to a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania and back again. Then, on Sept. 18, 1975, two lawmen crept up the stairs of a small house in San Francisco and knocked on the door, which swung...
...eulogistic message sent by Tania after the holocaust sounded to Singer-because of its phrasing-as though it had been composed by Emily Harris. Singer also said that Emily and her husband William Harris had concocted portions of the "Tania interview," a lengthy question-and-answer manuscript that the trio had been preparing for use in a book about the S.L.A. During the interview, Patty called her parents "rich pigs" and told how, far from being forced to join the S.L.A., she had actually had to persuade some of the terrorists to accept her. ("After only a couple of weeks...
...Psychology of Totalism) and, like West, one of the nation's outstanding experts on mind control. Lifton interviewed hundreds of P.O.W.s after the Korean War, as well as dozens of victims of Chinese Communist brainwashing; he also conducted a detailed study of survivors of the Hiroshima holocaust...