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October 26, 2001/Cheshvan 9, 5762, Vol. 54, No. 7
Letters to the EditorOctober 26, 2001
New U.S. policy neededDear Editor:My deepest sympathies to all the innocent people who were victims of the Sept. 11 onslaught. Rather than a short-term foreign policy primarily serving the wealth and powerful in our county, it is time for Americans to insist that our country have a long-term even-handed foreign policy based upon protecting the human and economic rights of everyone throughout the world. Many parts of the world have valid grievances against our country. For instance, in 1953 the United States installed the Shah of Iran as an amenable dictator and trained his secret services in "methods of interrogation." In 1965-66 one million people were killed by the Indonesian government with the complicity of the U.S and British governments. In addition, President Reagan's short-term foreign policy resulted in America bankrolling Osama bin Laden and other Muslim extremists in Afghanistan's war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. As Coleman McCarthy recently observed, "In the past 20 years, we have bombed Libya, Grenada, Panama, Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Yugoslavia." Having a foreign policy based upon protecting human and economic rights, while not eliminating all terrorism, will dry up much of the support for terrorism around the world. Mitchell S. Rubin Phoenix Wiesenthal Center seeks Perl associatesDear Editor:The Simon Wiesenthal Center is currently working on a project examining the different forms of resistance during World War II and the Holocaust. To this end, we are attempting to locate people who either worked with or were saved by Dr. William Perl, a prominent figure in the resistance movement in Austria during the 1930s. If you or somebody you know had contact with Perl during this period, please contact me at (310) 772-2437 or e-mail, prosenhaft@wiesenthal.net. Phyllis Rosenhaft Production Manager MORIAH FILMS Simon Wiesenthal Center
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