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...Germany, Bergen-Belsen was built to contain 10,000 prisoners and was run, like all the camps, by the SS. In 1944 the commandant, SS Major Josef Kramer, later known as the Beast of Belsen, began accepting inmates from other camps who were too frail to continue their slave labor. The population of 15,000 Jews was swollen by thousands of new prisoners, most of them starved and diseased after weeks of forced marches. By early 1945 Bergen-Belsen held 41,000 inmates. Rations were less than meager. Inmates were beaten and abused. There was virtually no medical attention...
...permanent symptom of Europe's subordinate, postwar place in the nuclear-dominated world. In Western Europe's uncertain mood, governments and institutions have begun to recognize that there are limits to their ability to deal with change. Authority and self-confidence have come under some strain. Once mighty traditional labor unions are on the defensive, losing membership and influence. Newly militant interest groups are striking or demonstrating with increasing frequency to dramatize their grievances. As French Columnist Michel Noblecourt, writing in the left-leaning daily Le Monde, has put it, "Everyone is preoccupied with his own situation, that...
...invitation because the former Defense Minister played an important role in the 1979 Camp David peace talks, and is generally thought to be the Egyptians' favorite Israeli politician. To assuage the feelings of Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc and the next Prime Minister under the Labor-Likud coalition agreement, Peres described the Weizman mission as a "private visit." That was agreeable to Shamir until word got out that Weizman was hoping to discuss a possible summit meeting. In a talk with Likud activists, Shamir declared that Weizman, a member of the small Yahad Party, had decided...
...with two ministers abstaining and two absent. Furious, he told a colleague, "One cannot work this way." In effect, Peres gave the Cabinet an ultimatum: if it did not back him on the i'ssue, he would pull his party out of the coalition and try to form a Labor-run government, a threat that has some support among Labor Party members. With the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon almost complete and the state of the economy gradually improving, Peres' popularity is rising. A recent poll in the newspaper Ma 'ariv found that 47.2% of those questioned...
...presented a 17 million--signature petition for debt relief at a G-8 meeting, and he has bent German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's ear on the topic. In the 1980s, Brazil's CLAUDIO CARDINAL HUMMES backed strikes and defied his country's dictators by letting leftist labor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (now Brazil's President) make speeches during Mass. He has spoken out in favor of the organization of the landless in Brazil. Asked his priorities by Time, he immediately replied, "Evangelization and solidarity with the poor." Some outside the Third World have been almost as involved...