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By ANNE THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer
BERLIN With a "march of
silence" and plans for new syna
gogues, Germany's Jewish commu
nity marked the 60th anniversary
yesterday of Kristallnacht the
"Night of Broken Glass" when
Nazi storm troopers burned and
ransacked Jewish businesses and
temples.
Germany's Jewish community
numbered 530,000 before the Nazis
took power; it now is 70,000 strong
and growing. But neo-Nazi inci
dents also are on the rise, and Jew
ish leaders are more determined
than ever that the Holocaust not be
forgotten fighting what they see
as a trend toward emphasizing
Germany's future at the expense of
remembering its past.
Politicians, including Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder, religious lead
ers and members of the Jewish
community gathered for anniver
sary speeches in a cavernous,
mosaic-covered Berlin synagogue
where windows were shattered
during the Kristallnacht violence
that presaged the Holocaust.
Topic No. 1: How to remember
the past while moving Germany
into the 21st century and its seat of
government back to Berlin, Adolf
Hitler's capital. Underscoring all
the speeches was the theme that
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Germans still struggle for the right
way to preserve the horrors of the
Holocaust as a lesson for future
generations.
Ignatz Bubis, the leader of Ger
many's Jews, lambasted what he
calls an "intellectual nationalism"
represented in comments by a
prize-winning German author who
says repeated media references to
Nazi atrocities are designed to per
petuate German guilt.
Bubis contends novelist Martin
Walser has given neo-Nazis main
stream arguments for anti-Semitic
assaults, such as the small
swastikas found yesterday etched
into a monument commemorating
the mass deportation of Berlin's
Jews to concentration camps.
"Whenever someone who is
counted among the spiritual elite of
the nation makes such statements,
they carry a weight of their own,"
Bubis told the audience of 2,000. "It
is certain that right-wing extrem
ists will refer to Walser."
The Kristallnacht anniversary
has particular significance this
year, which saw the election of
politicians too young to have mem
ories of World War 11. The genera
tional change, coupled with the
move to Berlin and the new gov
ernment's emphasis on a forward
looking Germany, has sparked con
cern that there is a desire to return
to a "normal" Germany unbur
Police check a Jewish stone monument on a railway bridge in Berlin
yesterday on the 60th anniversary of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom in
Germany and Austria. Three small swastikas had been scratched into
the monument. It is unknown when the vandalism occurred.
dened by the Holocaust.
"For me, normality is to be a Jew
and to be able to live in Germany
again," Bubis said. "'Normality'
cannot mean that we supplant
memory and live with a new anti-
Semitism and new racism."
Berlin's Jewish community held
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its first "march of silence" yester
day in remembrance of Kristall
nacht. Some 2,000-3,000 people
formed a sea of umbrellas on a
dark, drizzling afternoon. A march
also was held in Duesseldorf, along
with ceremonies in Buchenwald,
Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich.
Reward offered for killer of doctor
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Attorney
General Janet Reno posted a
$500,000 reward for capture of the
sniper who killed Dr. Barnett Slepi
an, and she set up a national task
force to prosecute and prevent
attacks and threats against other
abortion providers.
The slaying of Slepian last month
by a rifle shot fired into his subur
ban Buffalo, N.Y., home "was just
one more act of violence in a series
of savage attacks against providers
of reproductive health care," Reno
told a news conference yesterday.
She noted that:
■ Four other abortion doctors
in upstate New York and Canada
have been shot and wounded in
recent years.
• Twenty clinics in Florida,
Louisiana and Texas were splashed
this summer with foul-smelling
butyric acid.
■ Two North Carolina clinics
suffered arson attacks and
attempted bombings this fall.
■ And 10 clinics in Indiana,
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By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Thou
sands of U.S. Army National Guard
troops could be heading for Central
America to help rebuild nations
that were devastated by Hurricane
Mitch, the Army's top civilian
leader said yesterday.
Some 3,000 Guard members had
been slated to travel to Honduras
on a variety of exercises between
January and June of next year, but
the destruction wrought by the
storms in the region necessitates
taking a new look at their activi
ties, Army Secretary Louis Caldera
told reporters at the Pentagon.
"We are ... going to look at the
planned engagement activities that
we have not just in the coming
year, but in the years following
that to see how we can enhance
those programs, because the recov
ery effort to rebuild the infrastruc
ture in those affected countries is
going to be a long-term effort and
certainly one that we can help con
tribute to," Caldera said.
The Army secretary visited Hon
duras, Nicaragua and Guatemala
over the weekend to meet with
local officials and the top U.S. mili
tary commander for the region, in
Tennessee, Kansas and Kentucky
received letters last month falsely
claiming to contain deadly anthrax
spores
"These attacks and others seek
to undermine a woman's basic con
stitutional right the right to
reproductive health care," Reno
said. "And while some people may
oppose that right, no one should
ever use violence to impede it."
In announcing the $500,000 for
information leading to the arrest
and conviction of Slepian's killer,
Reno asked anyone with informa
tion to call 1-800-281-1184.
The new National Clinic Violence
Task Force will be headed by Bill
Lann Lee, acting assistant attorney
general in charge of the Justice
Department's civil rights division.
Since 1994, the division has
brought 27 criminal and 17 civil
cases under the federal Freedom of
Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
Neither Reno nor Lee would say
there is evidence of a national con
spiracy behind the attacks, but
Reno said the task force would
focus on "connections that may
exist between individuals engaged
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American military's response to
the crisis
The 3,000 Guard members haj
been slated to work on engineering
projects in Honduras.
Their expertise might prove
valuable in helping the region
rebuild its fractured infrastruc
ture, the secretary said.
Often in the past they have built
structures such as schools or med
ical clinics.
Caldera said the members were
expected to come from units
throughout the country. "We would
not change the flow (of units), but
it would change the projects they
would do," he said.
Nearly 1,000 Army troops are in
the region, primarily helping to
switch food and medicines from
incoming planes onto Army heli
copters. They are then flying to
areas that have been made other
wise inaccessible by damaged
roads and bridges.
The Army has flown 221 mis
sions and transported some 376
tons of food and emergency med
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The Army Corps of Engineers is
working on an assessment of the
damage in order to set priorities
for repairs, Caldera said.
in these acts." Lee said his team
would review investigations of the
attacks and threats "looking at
the national picture."
From mid-1994 until early 1996, a
federal grand jury in suburban
Alexandria, Va., searched in vain
for evidence of a national conspira
cy behind an earlier wave of anti
abortion violence. But it did find
evidence used later by other feder
al grand juries to bring indict
ments in several clinic arson cases
around the country.
The new task force will use fed
eral grand juries to gather evi
dence wherever attacks or threats
occurred, a senior federal official
said, requesting anonymity.
The task force will also will train
local law enforcement and abortion
providers in how to respond to and
prevent such attacks. Two training
sessions are already scheduled for
December.
Reno said she wanted federal
prosecutors to share information
about the requirements for a FACE
Act prosecution, the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to
provide data on bombs.
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