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Wednesday, April 12, 1995
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Holocaust survivor discusses U.N.'s faults
The Associated Press
FRANKFURT, Germany — The German parliament should use the 50th anniversary of the capitulation of the Third Reich to formally apologize to Jews worldwide for Nazi crimes, Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel says.
He also said he wanted former President Jimmy Carter, "a man with vision," to become U.N. secretary-general.
In an essay written for the magazine Die Zeit, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate wrote that the United Nations had been ineffectual is halting new human tragedies, such as those in Bosnia and Rwanda.
During World War II, the Hungarian-born Wiesel was deported with his family to Auschwitz, in Nazi-occupied Poland, where his mother and sister were killed. He and his father were later sent to Buchenwald, where his father died.
In the lengthy essay published yesterday, exactly a half-century after arriving American troops freed a teen-age Wiesel from Buchenwald, he wrote:
"I think this 50th anniversary is a good opportunity for the Bundestag to plead in the name of all Germans to all Jews in the world for forgiveness."
The Bundestag is the lower house of the German parliament.
In Poland last September, President Roman Herzog asked Poles to
forgive Germany. Though German officials often express shame at what the Nazis did, that apparently was the first time a German official had asked for forgiveness.
"It's a very nuanced question. The principle is that only an individual can be guilty of something, while an entire people can be shamed," said Hartwig Bierhoff, spokesman for the German parliament.
The Bundestag was shut down for the beginning of the Easter holiday, and there was no further comment.
Wiesel criticized some German historians who have tried to put the Holocaust into perspective by comparing it to the terror and killings in Stalin's Gulags, the Khmer Rouge massacres in Cambodia and other
"They would like to show that others also did bad things. And they would like, if possible, to diminish their guilt," Wiesel wrote. "I think that's wrong, but I can understand it."
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In his essay, Wiesel also mentions the United Nations' failure to stop carriage in Bosnia and Rwanda.
"I think, however, that this is more the fault of the person of the general secretary. (Boutros) Boutros-Ghali is part of the problem of the United Nations," Wiesel wrote.
"In this position, the world needs a man with strong vision," he wrote. "I think Jimmy Carter should be the next general secretary of the United Nations."
At the halfway point in a decade-long campaign called Healthy People 2000, federal officials said yesterday that the project was showing mixed results and may require increased efforts to achieve goals set in 1990.
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"We have good news but not good enough," said J. Michael McGinnis of the U.S. Public Health Service, which is coordinating the national program.
Additionally, he said, 15 percent of Americans are not covered by health insurance. Among African
"We are failing to close the gap between the rich and poor in health care," McGinnis said. Financial barriers to preventive services existed in 16 states at the beginning of the program and now exist in 17 states, the report said.
The program set 300 specific goals, with baseline measurements at the start and target measurements for 2000. Data — not available for some goals — come from
The program has three primary goals: Increase the span of healthy life for Americans; reduce the differences in health trends among various American populations; and provide access to disease-prevention services to all Americans.
Also getting worse, McGinnis said, are efforts to provide disease-preventive medical care for the poor.
WASHINGTON — A program to improve Americans' health is making progress against the killer diseases but is faltering in caring for the poor, reducing teen pregnancy and persuading couch potatoes to start exercising.
Americans, 21 percent are not covered, and 32 percent of Hispanics are not covered, he said.
McGinnis said that deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke all were moving down at a pace that would achieve the target values by the year 2000. But the rates of obesity, teen pregnancy, homicides and pneumonia and influenza deaths are actually worse than five years ago.
Healthy People 2000 is an effort by the PHS, state health departments, professional organizations and voluntary organizations to systematically promote healthful habits and good medical care.
The Associated Press
Program looks to doctor U.S.'s long-term health woes
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A progress report on the project is to be published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Among the improvements:
Deaths from all causes: 426.9 per 100,000 at the start; 394.7 now, and 341.5 target goals.
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