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Surely, the Administration was fortunate that the Israeli view of its aims turned from Holocaust hostility to acceptance (if grudging) as rapidly as it did. Reports Correspondent Ogden: "The Administration says it was all planned that way, but that is not precisely true. They knew there would be anger in Israel at first, and they hoped it would help push things forward, but they were not certain how well it would work. There was design, and some skill, involved in this strategy. But there was also luck that it fell in place as well as it seems to have...
...Soviet statement did not mean the U.S. miscalculated in its strategy to stimulate a solution. Instead, they say, the problem lies in Israeli perceptions of diplomatic realities. Says one senior official: "They became hysterical. They read into that statement things that were never there." "It's the Holocaust mentality," said a White House aide. "If we're not behind them 300%, they think we're against them...
...dead. But if I could get this man, my soul would finally be at peace." So says Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi hunter of Vienna. Since his liberation from Mauthausen death camp in 1945, Wiesenthal, now 68, has dedicated his life to avenging the victims of Hitler's Holocaust by tracking down more than 1,100 of their murderers. Yet the most sadistic Nazi war criminal of all has eluded his grasp...
...There has been a closing of the ranks because American Jews are horrified at the prospect of a series of one-sided compromises in which the Israelis will pay." With their acute sense of survival-a sense developed in the ghettos of the Diaspora and the horrors of the Holocaust-most U.S. Jews regard that threat as far more important than Israel's internal politics. Says Marjorie Merlin Cohen, executive director of the National...
While more than 1,000 fire fighters battled the holocaust, some people tried desperately to save their houses on their own. Said Lawyer Ron Cook: "I got on the roof and started hosing it down. We stuck it out until the heat got so bad we couldn't stand it. Then we left with the dog, cat, our daughter and one bag of dirty laundry." By next morning, all that remained of Cook's $100,000 house was a crumbling stone fireplace and a flattened metal garage door...