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...entered the gate marked ARBEIT MACHT FREI and found some 7,000 starving, sick, pitiful survivors of Auschwitz. Young and gaunt then, aging and gray now, some of them returned last week to remember and to grieve. They walked, once again, down the street of death from the rail spur to the ramps where they saw the last of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. They shuddered before the gas chambers, peered into the wooden barracks, stood in silence amid the ruins of crematoria dynamited by the Nazis in a failed attempt to hide the evidence of the greatest crime. They...
Self-reliance has even taken hold on the governmental level. Disenchantment with all things federal has helped spur a New Federalist movement led by such Governors as Utah's Michael Leavitt and Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson. Though voter turnout is lowest in elections for local government, that is the most popular form of government. In a 1993 survey, only 23% of Americans said they got the most for their tax dollars at the federal level, down from 39% in 1972. By comparison, support for spending at the local level rose from 26% to 38% during the same period...
...early 1980s, Ronald Reagan told Americans that their problem was government itself and promised that his plan to cut taxes would spur economic growth, increasing tax revenue. This brand of "supply-side economics" was known as "Reaganomics," but was best described by George Bush in a 1980 campaign debate as "voodoo economics...
...California woman who sued Dow Corning Corp over health problems related to silicone breast implants. The woman claimed that she contracted a painful disease after her silicone breast implants ruptured. Dow Corning had contended that the damages awarded by a lower court were excessive. The lawsuit helped spur other legal complaints brought by women who claimed to be injured by breast implants made by the firm...
...Archbishop of Milan, Europe's largest archdiocese, Martini, 67, is promoted by moderate Catholics as the single most papabile prince of the Roman Catholic Church. Suave, brilliant, cosmopolitan, he hews closely to John Paul's dogma but is reputed to harbor less conservative inclinations. Some are convinced Martini could spur reform on issues such as celibacy and women priests. On contraception, he once said, "I believe the Church's teaching has not been expressed so well . . . I'm confident we will find some formula to state things better, so that the problem is better understood and more adapted to reality...