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...Cohen takes up the questions that were left unanswered six decades ago. How did these Americans, swept up into the conflicts of a Europe they didn’t understand, react to their situation? How did the degrading incarceration of these troops intersect with broader Nazi racial policies? They are questions well worth grappling with, and they provide valuable new insight into the field of Holocaust studies—a field already seemingly saturated with information...
There was thus little reason for the critics of apartheid, South Africa's system of racial separation, to moderate their tones as they continued last week to shower opprobrium on the Botha regime. At the United Nations' 40th anniversary celebration, high officials from at least a dozen nations stood to denounce the Pretoria government and demand measures against it. "If you don't apply sanctions," President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia warned the leaders of developed nations with investments in South Africa, "hundreds of thousands of people will die and the investments will go up in flames...
...former Bank for International Settlements president, held private meetings with South African finance officials and representatives of 30 multinational banks to discuss repayment of South Africa's $14 billion in short-term foreign debt. The government froze payments on the debt seven weeks ago after many banks, fearful that racial violence would destroy the economy, cut off credit. Sources close to the meetings said their object was to find a way to restore South Africa's credit lines so it can renew normal international commerce and begin debt repayment. South African officials, the sources said, are well aware that...
...side." The champion did not disappoint his public. He KO'd a slew of contenders in his famous "Bum of the Month" campaign of the '30s and '40s, obediently served in the segregated army, raised money for the war effort and spread racial amity...
West Point is a powerful experience, but it does not totally mold its graduates. Their values have already been established before they enter. My class ('69) included almost every ethnic, religious and racial group and, although basically conservative, was a good cross section of America. We did not have the "rigid military-academy mind-set" to which your article referred. You are perpetuating a popular misconception. I am sure today's cadets are much the same as we were. Gary L. Schappaugh Garland, Texas...