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Cheney says military has problems
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In recruiting, retention, morale and combat readiness, the U.S. military has serious problems that Vice President Al Gore either doesn't understand or won't tell the truth about. Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney said yesterday.
He admitted, however, that major cutbacks in the military began on his watch as the first post-Cold War defense secretary. And, in response to an irate letter from a Democratic senator, Cheney refused to back down from a campaign statement depicting Gore as being "AWOL" on veterans' issues.
Cheney said he had not seen the statement and until he does, cannot say whether it was appropriate to
use the acronym that means "absent without leave" to describe Gore. But, he said to Meet the Press host Tim Russert, "I have not used that word. I don't think it's appropriate of you to attribute it to me."
Cheney discussed military readiness on three Sunday talk shows.
Cheney said on NBC that the military had trouble with morale, recruiting and retention.
On ABC's This Week, Cheny said that while the United States had a great military, it was headed in the wrong direction.
Gore campaign representative Douglas Hattaway said the Republicans had lost all credibility on defense.
"Cheney already admitted that military downsizing began under
the Bush-Quayle-Cheney administration," Hattaway said. "So either Cheney doesn't know what he's talking about, or they can't get their story together on the military. I think it all shows that Bush is not ready to be commander in chief."
George W. Bush raised the issue of military preparedness last week in a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Milwaukee.
"I think if you match our forces today up against any others around the world, we've got the best force," Cheney said on NBC. "The problem is it's in decline, and this administration has done very little to reverse that decline."
Cheney said that as defense secretary in '89, he was faced with the Cold War. But now, he said, the cuts had gone too far.
Jewish groups demand restitution
WASHINGTON — The international reckoning over the evils of the Holocaust is about to come home to America.
The Associated Press
"There are things that have to be faced up to," said Elan Steinberg, World Jewish Congress, executive director.
The country that would prefer to be known more for its World War II heroism will take its turn in examining how some in corporate America and official Washington also failed Hitler's victims.
In four years of lawsuits, soulsearching, revelations and armwisting, the United States has led in promoting Holocaust truth-telling. And it has helped Jewish groups wrest billions of dollars from European governments, companies and institutions that profited from Nazi Germany.
In the coming weeks, Jewish
"There are things that have to be faced up to."
World Jewish Congress executive
director
organizations plan to push for payments from dozens of American corporations that they accuse of using forced labor.
“It's their turn,” said Steinberg. “American companies were collaborating with Nazi Germany at a time when we were at war because there was an ethos that demanded huge profits at the expense of everything else.”
At the same time, a presidential panel will report on what the government did with valuables that were stolen from Holocaust victims and came under U.S. control before, during or after the war.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced May 1 that it would organize a Holocaust fund. But it hasn't received a single pledge, and officials said the effort was stalled on individual companies' legal and public image concerns.
"We're trying to do the right thing," said the chamber's Stephen Jordan.
With 1,000 aging survivors dying each month, Jewish organizations said they would appeal directly to corporations.
"We are looking at this as an issue to bring up with these companies in September, and we intend to bring it up very firmly and very decisively," said Gideon Taylor of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
"The issue is really whether America companies will face up to their historical responsibility in a way that is moral and proper." Taylor said.
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