TUESDAY,SEPT.4,2001
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WWII troops receive award
The Associated Press
LONDONDERRY, N.H. — It's been 57 years since these front-line troops helped stop Adolf Hitler's fierce attempt to push the Allies out of Europe. These troops who faced the brunt of the Nazi counterattack at the Battle of the Bulge were honored yesterday for their bravery.
"I am happy to see it, but I wished more of the other fellows would be here," said a tearful Clarence Hibbs, 75, of Mount Pleasant Mills, Pa. "It's a little late for them. Most are gone now."
Veterans of the 9th Armored Division's Combat Command A received the Presidential Unit Citation for stalling Hitler's all-or-nothing surprise attack through the frozen Ardennes Forest. It is the highest award given to a military unit for exceptional valor.
"I thought we had lost the war," Hibbs said. "The Germans were everywhere, but we held the line."
German researchers and defeated generals long recognized the 9th's role, but until several years ago, German records about the unit's accomplishments were kept behind the Iron Curtain.
"Outnumbered five to one, with its infantry rifle companies surrounded for most of the time -- clerks, cooks, mechanics, drivers and others
It was Dec. 16, 1944. The Allies were euphoric as they prepared for Christmas in newly-liberated parts of Europe and pressed toward Germany.
manned the 10,000-yard final defensive line," the citation reads.
But Hitler sent a quarter of a million troops and 1,000 tanks into a thin line of Allied troops in what became a six-week battle.
George McAvoy was a 24-year-old sergeant stationed near the German borders. He maintains the 9th and other units in the path of the onslaught never received sufficient credit for keeping up the attack long enough for Gen. George Patton and reinforcements to arrive and carry the day.
Much of his unit's fighting was not reported publicly because the 9th was on a military secret list and had no war correspondents, he said. German records of the battle were not available for review until after the fall of the Soviet Union
McAvoy said many men died before they received the recognition they deserved.
"We've lost so many of the men who should be here," he said. "The relatives of these men don't know what these men did, and they should be able, with honor and pride, to look at the record."
DURBAN, South Africa The United States and Israel pulled out of the World Conference Against Racism yesterday, denouncing efforts to condemn Israel in the meeting's proposed declaration.
The Associated Press
Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had remained in Washington and was not part of the U.S. delegation, denounced the draft declaration's "hateful language."
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres announced in Israel that the Jewish state was also pulling out of the conference because of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic comments.
United States, Israel leave forum
"The conference turned into
The Arab League had led a concerted effort to single out Israel and blame it in unacceptable terms for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Peres said.
a tribunal against Israel," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in separate statement. "The conference against racism turned into a racist conference against Israel."
Soon after the U.S. announcement, several hundred angry demonstrators protested outside the conference center, chanting "Shame, shame, U.S.A."
Norway and Canada had attempted to mediate a compromise between the Arab states and Israel on the conference's draft declaration. The United States was part of those talks.
This is the third world conference on racism but the first the United States and Israel had attended. Both countries boycotted the 1978 and 1983 conferences in part because of similar anti-Israel language.
"This is going to be a big disappointment for victims of racism everywhere in the world," said Reed Brody, who led the conference delegation for Human Rights Watch. "The United States is using a political smoke screen to avoid dealing with the many very real issues at this conference."
"The United States is using a political smoke screen to avoid dealing with the many very real issues at this conference."
Reed Brody Human Rights Watch
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