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Shimon Peres
Peres In D.C. and U.S.
With Egyptian-
Jordanian Plan On
The Table
See Pages
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Ann Loeb Sikora
Ann Loeb Sikora
Honored
Posthumously by
Texas State Senate,
April 27, 2001
See Page 6
Liener Temerlin
Top Community
and National
Worker Liener
Temerlin Set For
Ad Roast May 8
See Page 6
My Cousin, Chaim
(C opyrtghl 2001 by jimmy W*cb>
Through we usu-
ally referred to
him as "Chaim,"
his Hebrew name,
my cousin Chaim
was legally named
Hyman and was
often also called
"Hymie"
Chaim, like his
five older broth-
ers. never fin-
ished high sch(H)l
and by the time
he was 14 was
already a veteran plumber. He looked more like a
movie actor than a master plumber. He had large,
almost black eyes and was, as many women would
emphasize, "tall, dark and handsome."
When Tyrone Power became a movie idol 1 always
thought Chaim had a kindship with him, though Power
was of slighter build which was confirmed when we once
met in Houston and I had a moment to chat with him.
Power, too, was somewhat reserved but he was able
to metamorphosize his feelings and earn his stardom
through his international army of dedicated and
devoted female fans.
JAWIN p. 22
Bush Gets More Involved In
Tense Mid-East Diplomacy
Bob Kerrey
By Matthew E. Berger
WASHINGTON, - The Bush adminis-
tration intensified its involvement in the
Middle East conflict, making plans to
meet with Middle Eastern leaders and
facilitating meetings in the region
between Israel and the Palestinians.
President Bush and Secretary of State
Colin Powell spent part of their week dis-
cussing the troubled region.
Administration officials spoke frequently
with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
and made plans to welcome two other
Israeli leaders - Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres early next week and President
Moshe Katsav at the end of May.
"You don't have to look far to see that this
administration is engaged," Powell said
Wednesday after meeting with Lebanese
Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. “It takes a
great deal of President Bush's time.”
In a telephone conversation with Sharon
on Thursday, Bush discussed “ways of
securing peace in the region,” White
House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
In a hearing Thursday before a sub-
committee of the House Appropriations
Committee, Powell said he and Bush are
“fully engaged.”
“We're doing it quietly, not with a billboard
announcement every day,” Powell said. “But
believe me, there's no lack of engagement on
the part of this administration.”
Powell said he had seen a bit of progress
in the past week, “but it is as tough as I
have ever seen it before in the region.”
In earlier interviews, he said the
United States was operating on two
tracks - holding conversations with
Mideast leaders and supporting direct
communication between Israeli and
Palestinian officials.
American officials in the region have
been participating in security talks
between the two sides. State Department
officials have defined their task as to
“facilitate, monitor, and report back.”
The CIA is again involved in Israeli-
Palestinian security talks. The CIA
played a key role during the Clinton
administration but was publicly
removed from its mediating duties in the
weeks after Bush took office.
see BUSH p. 17
Russian Fascists Form New CIA Files Show Nazis Were
Nationalist Political Movement Real ‘Winners Of Cold War
Much More!
By Lev GorodeLskv
MOSCOW. - A new fas-
cist group in Russia is
arousing the concerns of
some Jews - and. apparent-
ly, the support of other ones.
“Eurasia Above All,”
cried out Alexander Dugin
at last week's conference of
the All-Russian Political
Movement Eurasia in
Moscow. The cry was the
Russian equivalent of
“Deutschland uber alles," a
slogan often used by the
Nazis at their rallies.
The conference attracted
300 participants from across
Russia, including Russia's
two top Muslim leaders.
What is particularly
alarming, some observers
say, is the movement's
leader: Until recently,
Dugin was a leading figure
in the ultranationalist, anti-
Semitic newspaper Zavtra.
Dugin. 40, says he pos-
sesses “intelligence infor-
mation that agents of the
CIA are now working in the
Chechen opposition.”
Dugin repeatedly stresses
his admiration for Russian
President Vladimir Putin -
and what he calls Putin's ide-
ological affinity for the val-
ues of Dugin's movement.
For a number of years,
Dugin was seen as a mar-
ginal figure, but his position
as a legislative aide to the
speaker of the Russian
Parliament means he now
has established a main-
stream foothold, said Micah
Naftalin, the national direc-
tor of the Union of Councils
for Soviet Jews.
"Although Dugin's writ-
ings are not explicitly anti-
Semitic, his past affiliations
with anti-Semitic extremist
groups like Pamyat” - a
Russian neo-fascist group
that peaked in popularity in
the late 1980s and early
1990s - are alarming,
Naftalin said.
But some other Jewish
organizations and individuals
apparently think otherwise.
The new movement
RUSSIAN p. 17
By Sharon Samber
WASHINGTON, - Newly declassi-
fied CIA files provide an inside
glimpse of the extent to which U.S.
intelligence officials relied on suspect-
ed Nazi war criminals for information
about the Soviets after World War II.
According to the files, some of the
Nazis on the CIA's payroll lived the
high life after the war, apparently
profiting from stolen Jewish property.
Perhaps the most famous Nazi on
the U.S. intelligence payroll was
Klaus Barbie, a Gestapo officer
known as the “Butcher of Lyon” for
ordering the murder of French Jewish
children during the war.
Among the files' other findings was
that Gestapo head Heinrich Mueller
likely died at the end of World War II,
and therefore never worked for the CIA,
contradicting previous assumptions.
Nearly 10.000 pages were made
available to the public last Friday
under the Nazi War Crimes
Disclosure Act of 1998, but historians
were quick to point out that many
questions linger because the files
must still be analyzed.
The files focus on 20 Nazi figures,
including Adolf Hitler and Adolf
Eichmann.
Included in the Hitler file was a doc-
ument involving an informant who
said in January 1937 that he had
talked with a surgeon who had
observed Hitler. According to the
informant, the surgeon believed
Hitler was "a border case between
genius and insanity,” and potentially
could become "the craziest criminal
the world ever saw.”
In April 1937, the doctor told the
informant that Hitler had begun to
swing toward insanity and that
Germany therefore was doomed,
according to the document.
Austrian officials claimed that the
documents prove that Kurt Waldheim,
the former U.N. secretary-general and
Austrian president, was not guilty of
Nazi-era war crimes.
But an official from the U.S. Justice
Department's Nazi-hunting unit, Eli
Rosenbaum, said the files only
showed that Waldheim had not
worked for the U.S. intelligence com-
munity after the war. Waldheim may
have worked for Soviet intelligence
organizations, Rosenbaum added.
The Waldheim file shows the United
CIA p. 15
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