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...most eloquent of all Holocaust survivors, Elie Wiesel, made his feelings on the subject clear. In the midst of his speech at the dedication of the Holocaust museum, he turned to President Bill Clinton, who sat nearby...
Other new Overseers were Counselor for the State Department Timothy E. Wirth '61, who was ranked second with 21,629 votes, and President of Rockefeller University Torsten N. Wiesel, who placed fifth with 18,355 votes...
...Bosnia is closing in on Bill Clinton. A growing number of Americans feel the same moral imperative to act that Wiesel expressed. Would that it were so simple. All week Clinton wrestled with the conflicting advice offered by his foreign-policy makers, themselves divided between the go-slow counsel of Christopher and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell and the more robust preferences of Defense Secretary Les Aspin and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake. When the President was asked at his news conference on Friday how he evaluated the options, his body language spoke volumes. He rolled his eyes, taking...
After the Holocaust ceremony, the President said he accepted Wiesel's plea as a challenge to the West "to take further initiatives in Bosnia." In answer to questions at his press conference, he said he was convinced "the U.S. should lead" in trying to solve "clearly the most difficult foreign- policy problem we face." But he was not prepared to act unilaterally if the NATO allies, Russia and the U.N. Security Council did not support his proposals. "I do not think we should act alone," he said, "nor do I think we will have...
FROM WASHINGTON TO WARSAW TO JERUSALEM, commemorations of the Holocaust took many shapes. In the U.S. capital President Clinton, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel and 8,000 guests -- including a few hundred who were spared in the death camps -- listened as survivor Elie Wiesel dedicated a Holocaust Memorial Museum. In Poland Vice President Al Gore honored the memory of resistance fighters killed in the Warsaw Uprising 50 years ago last week. Jerusalem received a most unexpected visitor: Martin Bormann, son of the Hitler aide of the same name, came to pay tribute at that city's Holocaust memorial. There were discordant...