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...imprisoned in a labor camp, he escaped to spend two years battling the SS in the forests of Poland. Lerman, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, helped plan and found the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and became its chairman emeritus. He also met with Pope John Paul II and other leaders and spearheaded the effort to dedicate a memorial at the Belzec camp in Poland, where his mother died...
...that he's right. "It's almost a ludicrous argument - 'How long are we going to stay?'" McCain insisted to me between campaign stops in Florida's Panhandle. "It's like asking 'How long are we going to stay in Japan?' Well, we've been there since World War II...
...Poland's Catholic Church, blamed by Gross for doing nothing to stem the wave of post-war anti-Semitism, has lashed out at the book. The Krakow archbishop and close associate of the late Pope John Paul II, Stanislaw Dziwisz, has written a letter to the Catholic ZNAK publishing house, saying that it should not have published the book. A publishing house should "propagate historical truth," not "awake anti-Polish and anti-Semitic demons," said the archbishop. Polish prosecutors are considering charging Gross with slandering the Polish nation...
...controversial Superior General from 1965 until 1983, was another Spaniard who rose up through the ranks in Japan before being chosen to lead the Jesuits. Arrupe's reign was marked by progressive challenges to the Church establishment, including clashes with both Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II. Arrupe's reign, consistent with order's history of experiments with theology and philosophy, saw the rise of radical Jesuit participation in politics, from the anti-war movement in the U.S. in the 1960s to the liberation theology that swept Latin America. That kind of leftist activism was too much...
Still, people need to eat, and since World War II, outright declines in consumer spending in the U.S. have always been modest and brief. That's partly because the government has become so acutely responsive to signs of distress. The Fed is already on the case, with three interest-rate cuts since September and more likely on Jan. 31. There's also fevered talk in Washington of a fiscal-stimulus package--income-tax rebates are a possibility, although so far Congress and the White House haven't been able to agree on anything...