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...early April of 1944, two Slovakian Jews who were prisoners in the extermination camp of Auschwitz achieved one of the only successful escapes from the camp in its history. Together they walked from southern Poland where the camp was located to Slovakia. Their self-imposed mission was to warn Slovakian and Hungarian Jews that the cattle trains which the Nazis would soon order them to board would take them, not to resettlement farms in the East, but to gas chambers. One of these escapees was a 19-year-old former student who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz for nearly...
Vrba submitted an extensive and highly detailed report on Auschwitz to Zionist leaders in Slovakia and Hungary and implored them to warn the nearly one million Jews in the two countries of their impending destruction. But--in one of the great tragedies of the Second World War and one of the few cases of clear-cut collaboration between the Nazis and the Jews--the Zionist leaders failed to warn the victims and attempted to suppress Vrba's report. In return for this service, Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the deportation process, allowed about 1600 people, largely wealthy Jews, relatives...
Encouraging Effects. Doctors have found that the treatment works best on young patients with badly herniated discs and severe sciatica that has not responded to traditional treatment. They warn that chymopapain produces severe allergic reactions in about 1% of the patients and therefore must be administered under general anaesthetic at a hospital, where doctors can deal promptly with any adverse reaction...
...alike, charging $35 and up for weekly sessions of care and feeding of a customer's indoor garden. The emphasis is on keeping a weather eye out for disease or what the Rapps call "preventive medicine." "Mealy bugs and scale are in the air like cold germs," they warn, "Every time you open your door or window, bang! Disease can strike...
Further, Benoit believes that counterforce could lead to irresistible pressure for the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to build more missile defense systems. Under SALT I, both nations are restricted to token defensive systems of two antiballistic missile sites each. Some critics warn that the Russians may look on counterforce not as a defensive measure but as an offensive one, enabling the U.S. to launch a limited first strike...