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After the December slaughter, Washington retracted its planned $1.5 million in aid and The Netherlands withdrew its subsidy, which amounted to a fourth of Suriname's budget. Unemployment now runs at around 10%, and the country's esti mated foreign reserves of $120 million are falling rapidly. Moreover, as head of the country's angry exile community (180,000 in The Netherlands alone), former Prime Minister Henk Chin A Sen is mobilizing diplomatic support from his bases in The Netherlands and the U.S. Last week he published Horb's eyewitness account of the executions. Bouterse...
...University Chancellor John Slaughter publicly reprimanded Driesell for the calls...
Waving anti-Driesell picket signs and chanting "Bench Lefty," representatives from the Student Government Association (SGA), Progressive Student Alliance (PSA), food coop and women's center at the university voiced their displeasure at the reprimanded. The demonstrators vowed to pressure the administration to again open an issue that Slaughter insists is closed...
...remember for survival, and we forget what it is necessary to forget. The author Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, states the case on eloquently pragmatic grounds: "Memory is our shield, our only shield." To Wiesel, only memory can immunize mankind against a repetition of the slaughter...
...Office, who said that both the SS-20 and the proposed counterforce, NATO's Pershing Us and cruises, are essentially political weapons. Mertes maintained that the Soviet Union would avoid war, especially in Europe, because "the Federal Republic of Germany is a good fat cow; they will not slaughter it. They will draw it very slowly from the Western area to the Eastern area. That means that besides the risk of nuclear war, there is the risk of creeping Soviet influence in the Federal Republic...