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15 AGUSTUS 1992 NEWS MAKER perketat a tak pernah mempersu- eka," katanya. Pasaribu a, kabar tak benar itu se- itiup-tiupkan oleh para ■g ingin mengeduk keun- besar. "Dari mana me- mu prosedur mencari izin, atang ke kantor saja tak "katanya, seraya meng- warga masyarakat yang encari pekerjaan di luar er. agar minta izin ke -ibu sangat menyayang- kan saja ulah calo tetapi dakan calon TKI yang faatkan jasa calo. "Kita nah mempersulit izin al mereka membawa su- rangan. Tetapi nyatanya lebih suka mengambil mtas," keluhnya. "Mereka ya tidak mau peduli de- ibat yang timbul di ke- ■hari," kata Pasaribu. a ejarah uh," katanya lagi. engharapkan generasi gar jangan beranggapan enjadi anak pejuang jika enjadi tentara. Ingatlah bahwa bangsa Indone- hirkan dari bangsa yang g. "Ketahuilah bangsa ia lahir karena sejarah," esepuh masyarakat NTB tu sisi, Kasubdit Pembi- mum dan Pembinaan Ma- at Disospol NTB Drs. Mou ecara terpisah kepada st mengungkapkan, ke- aan antara sesama pe- erlu dipupuk. Sebgai con- anisasi kepemudaan ha- mperlancar komunikasi anggota, sehingga segala Sus diperoleh atas nama a. "Tidak lagi menjadi as- pihak," katanya. menyebutkan, komuni- tara sesama anggota da- ganisasi pada umumnya urang. Sejauh ini perma- pokoknya, kurang keter- n di antara us. sesama yaknya jabatan rangkap an organisasi penyebab nya keterbukaan dalam rganisasi tersebut. Sebe- , banyaknya jabatan ppimpinan tidak menjadi h. Hanya kembali kepada salahan manusia memi- erbatasan," ujarnya. Ba- a jabatan rangkap bukan kurangnya kader, tetapi nya kader yang berkuali- s). Diadili marga Rp 3 juta, sedang tersebut dihargakan Rp a. Asta Gunastra, saksi korban) yang tidak hadir sidang perdana itu, me- tarik dengan janji muluk wa. Belakangan diketahui a sedan yang dimaksud 0. adalah pinjaman, milik bermaksud menyerah- spanya jika SA dapat me- kan sedan dimaksud. Te- a hari kemudian, SA da- agi dengan maksud am Vespa itu. Asta mem- nya, kendati sedan tidak g diperlihatkan SA yang an sedan tersebut masih s. Utang harga perkutut mata tidak dilunasi SA, milik Asta pun dijualnya, sedan yang dijanjikan SA etahui wujudnya. terdakwa yang masih jang tersebut, tidak ba- menanggapi dakwaan an keterangan dua saksi ajukan hari itu. Pada ba- khir persidangan, ter- yang tidak didampingi cara itu diperingatkan ajelis hakim untuk tidak rsulit persidangan. "Ka- mpai menghambat sidang, saya akan tetapkan agar a harus masuk rumah n negara," ujar ketua ma- kim. Sidang dilanjutkan pekan depan untuk men- kan keterangan saksi a. (040). lan mong" ngunan pedesaan, Muna- ng setelah dilepas kebe- tannya Rabu lalu oleh Bu- ombok Tengah Haji Ir- untuk mewakili NTB penilaian di tingkat nasio- arta, sekaligus mengikuti acara kenegaraan 17 s 1992, sarana media in- i melalui Kelompencapir kan sangat mendukung an dan keberhasilannya an kelompoknya. Bahkan, pencapir yang juga diberi "Cemerlang" ini pada ta- 989 lalu berhasil meraih II lomba Asah Terampil at Prop. NTB. ati Haji Irch'am menyata eberhasilan yang diraih Kelompok Tani Cemer- i menjadi kebanggaan dan arumkan daerah. Karena edikat teladan ini diharap- mampu memacu petani- lainnya di daerah ini, se- kesejahteraan petani ber- keluarga dan masyarakat in meningkat, pintanya. mentara itu, Kepala Dinas mian Tanaman Pangan ok Tengah Ir. Subhan ke- Bali Post menyatakan, pre- sebagai KTNA teladan isandang Munahar adalah karena figur ketua Kelom- ani Cemerlang ini dapat di- ni oleh anggotanya. a tidak hanya sekadar ngo- tetapi ditunjukkan dulu hasilnya kepada anggota- ahkan mengorbankan--fa- yang dimilikinya untuk atingan bersama tidak ung-tanggung," kata Ir. n. (Hardy). Abolqassem al-Khoei His Death Blow To Iraqi Role THE demise of Grand Ayatollah Abolqassem al-Khoei is set to deprive Iraq of its centuries-old role as the rpime seat of Shi'ite Moslem learning and leaves his followers groping for religious direction. Khoei's death shocked Shi'ites all over the world. Some reli- gious leaders called it an irreparable loss to Islam. Moslem experts said Iran was likely to emerge as the pivotal spiritual centre of the Shi'ite world given its theorcatic gover- nment and Iraq's repression of the minority Moslem sect. Most of the world's one billion Moslems belong to the orthodox Sunni branch and only about 10 per cent are Shi'ites. Iran is the bastion of Shi'ism, while newly-independent Azer- baijan is the only other predominantly Shi'ite state. Iraq, the burial place of the most revered of Shi'ite saints, has historically been the spiritual focus of the faith with the city of Najaf serving as a magnet for aspiring clergymen for the past 1,000 years. "The departure of Khoei leaves the Iragis without a spiritual leader and shifts the focus to the city of Qom in Iran. Khoei was by far the most learned Shi'ite scholar with the largest following," said London-based Bager Moin who has written a biography of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Other Moslem experts believe there is no living Shi'ite scholar to match Khoei's religious authority and popular appeal among the faithful in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. They said only the 92-year-old Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Golpayegani, who lives in Qom, stood a chance of taking on Khoei's mantle and increasing his followers. Natural deaths in the past decade and religious repression in Iraq, including the execution and exiling of Shi'ite scholars, have denuded the Shi'ite world of its top clergy and left a leadership vacuum difficult to fill, experts say. The past decade has seen the deaths of other top Shi'ite Najafi. The task of finding a Shi'ite marja (source of emulation) is particulary difficult since spiritual leaders are not appointed. They rise through the ranks after decades of tortuous studies and by surpassing others in knowledge of theology. Normally it is the junior clergy who first opt for a certain marja and the advise the other faithful to follow. A leader wins fame by the size of his following. It took Khoei, who left his native Iran at the age of 13 for Iraq then under Ottoman rule, half a century to become a top religious leader. (Rtr). James Baker SABTU, 15 AGUSTUS 1992 Bali Post_m Shootings Rutine In Serb Camp, Ex-Prisoner Says Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina - English Corner "Forget Omarska. It never existed," the guard told Esad when he was released. But the 17-year-old Moslem is unlikely to forget the fear, shootings and beatings which says were routine during the 51 days he spent in the most notorious Serb-run internment camp in Bosnia. He took out a pencil drawing of a young man with wide bulging eyes and sunken cheeks covered by a scraggly beard sketched on the back of a cardboard box. "That's me in Omarska," he said. "A friend drew it." Esad was released from the camp on July 15. He is a little ful- ler in the face now but still a far cry from the smiling, round- cheeked boy in family photo- graphs in the little house in Prije- dor's Moslem quarter. Omarska, about 25 km (15 miles) southeast of Prijedor, casts a shadow over the entire re- gion, where Serb authorities are intimidating non-Serbs into fleeing as part of a campaign of "ethnic cleansing." The interview is conducted in hushed tones. Esad suddenly stops when two men wearing blue informs walk by the window. They pass and relief spreads through the room. "I'm afraid," Esad says. "They said they would kill me if I ever talked about Omarska." With encouragement from an older brother he continues. Their eldest brother is still in the camp. "It was five minutes to six in the evening when the police came," Esad said, decribing his arrest on May 15. "I was taking a bath. I looked at the clock when they came in." Esad said that the police told him he would only be taken for 15 minutes interrogation. He said he was beaten in the police station and then taken to a ceramics factory he was held un- til he was sent to Omarska with 1,220 other men. "We arrived in Omarska at one in the morning," Esad said. "The guards ordered us out of the bu- ses and lined us up. Then they took us to the barracks. Then they locked the doors." He said there were five bar- racks with 670 men in each and another barrack which housed 30 women. One policeman remained in the barracks at all times. Waiting to be beaten Asked what prisoners did du- ring the day, Esad said: "We sat until somebody came to beat us." He said one prisoner was killed every day. he did not see the shoo- tings but heard them. When pri- soners were led single file to get fool by guards who beat them as they walked, they saw bodies co- vered by sheets, he said. "I heard wailing, then a shot, then silence," Esad said. He said he was sure there was only one shooting a day because otherwise he would have heard it. "On the first day, three people were killed," he said. "After that it was one a day. every day." He said the choice of prisoners to be executed appeared to be random. There were some Serbs among the prisoners, he said, among the rend who he thinks was accused of trying to smuggle arms for the Moslem. "I saw him one day at lunch," he said. "After that I didn't see him again. A few days later his girlfiend whispered to me Igor is dead." Esad said that she was the only Serb among the women pri- soners whose ages ranged from their early twenties to their fif- ties. (Rtr). INDRYDOCK The luxury ocean Liner Queen Elizabeth II spends its first night in Boston, Massachussets drydock after being hauled in for repairs to its hull, August 12. The ship sustained the damage THO Halaman 5 Bali Post/Rtr. when it ran aground off Cape Cod last Friday. Repairs are expected to take several weeks. U.N. Approves Force In Bosnia China Actress Shuns Prize "Tainted By Corruption" United Nations - The Security Council has ap- protary force as a last resort to ensure relief aid for Bosnia with those nations able to provide air strikes or ground troops hoping they would not have to use them. Thesolution, adopted on Thur- sday by a 12-0 vote with China, India and Zimbabwe abstaining, was accompanied by harsh state- ments against "ethnic cleansing" -- the expe Moslems and Croats from Serb-controlled areas. "Belgrade's vile policy of 'et- hnic cleansing -- actually ethnic extermination -- is only intensi- fying," U.S. ambassador Edward Perkins said. "We are witnessing some of thest egregious abuses of human rights that Europe has seen since Wolrd War Two." But at the same time the Uni- ted States, Britain, France and Russia were cautious in threate- ning force, reflecting lack oent on possible options and the pitfalls in using any of them. Unlike a 1990 resolution aut- horising force to drive Iraqi troops from Kuwait, Western Eu- ropeans, the United States and Islamic nations have not yet for- med a working coalition with clear-set goals. Turkey has already troops to join a possible multi-lateral force and Bosnia's ambassador Muha- med Sacirbey said offers for help would be accepted from "Iran to Israel." But both China and Zimbabwe believed the resolution handed a blank cheque to any nation to use force for humanitarian or politi- cal reasout accountability to the world body. For the United Nations itself, the dilemma was expressed by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in a private letter cautioning that the security of 15,000 U.N. forces in Croatia and Bosnia could be endangered. He asks for warning before any military force is used so the United Nations could "minimise the dangers" to U.N. personnel. Senior U.N. officials have said privately the 1,500 lightly-armed troops in Bosnia itself, and pos- sibly U.N. relief workers, would be withdrawn if shooting began. For the Boernment. Austria and Morocco, the resolution did not go nearly far enough, particu- larly in avoiding specific refe- rence to Serbia, which diplomats said was done at the request of Russia. Bosnia's Sacirbey, said the measures "at best ad is some of the symptoms but basic prob- lem at all." He said his governi nt wan- ted air strikes against Serbian positions and the lifting of an arms embargo so Bosnia could ac- quire heavy weapons. Specifically, the new resolu- tion authorised "all measures ne- cessary are humanitarian aid reaches Bosnia. A second resolution, adopted by a unanimous 15-0 vote, de- mands unimpeded access for the Red Cross to prison camps throughout the former Yugosla- via and warns violators of the Ge- neva Conventions they are to be held individresponsible for human rights. Both resolutions were sponso- red by the United States, Britain, France, Belgium and Russia and were prompted by searing ac- counts of wanton killings and atrocities in Bosnia where Serb militant are battling the gover- nment's mainly Moslem and Croat forces. Beijing- One of China's top stage actresses has refused to accept the nation's most valued prize for theatre, saying the award had been "tainted by corruption." Song Dandan, in an open letter reported on the front page of the official People's Daily, said she could not accept the Plum Blossom prize for 1992 because the judges were crooked. "The scandal of corruption and lies behind the selection process has tainted the purity of the Plum Blossom prize," Song said in her letter, printed on Thursday. "To preserve the sanctity of my artistic endeavour and my mo- ral intergrity, I refuse to accept this tainted prize." Song's public blast at one of the pillars of China's tightly con- trolled cultural establishment follows a string of comments by senior cultural officials in recent weeks saying that artists should be given more freedom. Song was one of 31 actors and actresses awarded the Plum Police Attack Students, 100 Hurt Dhaka. Nearly 100 students were inju- red in clashes with police trying to drive off thousands of youths crowding Dhaka's education of- fice to discover their school final examination results, witnesse Friday. Blossom prize by a panel of judges in March. Four of the theatre community unhappy", the People's Daily said. A spokesman for the official Chinese Association of Dramatists, which oversees the Plum Blossom awards, declined to address Song's allegations of corruption. "This is her own personal decision and viewpoint. Whether or not she wants the prize is up to her," the spokesman said. Song, hailed as one of the brightests young stars to emerge on China's stage in the late 1980s, is officially attached to the Beijing People's Theatre and has also appeared in several films and tele- vision productions. In 1991, Song played the lead in China's first stage production of George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara". It was directed by her father-in-law Roucheng -- a noted liberal actor and director ousted as vice-minister of culture after the 1989 crackdown on the pro-democracy protests. (Rtr). crashed in Fukusha prefecture at They said five students were Three Die In Crash about noon (0300 gmt) during a In Japan Tokyo- tour of power facilities in the re- gion, the official said. arrested and two hospitalised in hours and tear gas. "The students attacked police "Three bodies have been found with sticks and stones protests Three people were killed on at the crash said the official reac- against police actions went un- Friday when their chartered hi-hed by telephone. "We have not witness told lished in a mountainous region of yet identified the victims." northeastern Japan, a local po- lice official said. heeded, one reporters. Education ministry officials said they were investigating the "unfortunate" incident. (Rtr). The helicopter, chartered by the Tohoku Electric Power Co, He said the helicopter went down in a mountainous region but could give no other details. (Rtr). A report by the Intel Commit- Veteran War Crimes Detective Fears New Horrors In Europe tee of the Red Cross accused all warring communities -- Serbs, Moslems and Croats -- of "syste- matic brutality" against innocent civilians. (Reuter) Diplomat Worried By Khmer Rouge Vietnamese Threat Phnom Penh. A Khmer Rouge threat of vio- lence against Ve settlers in Cam- bodia is a dangerous develop- ment which exploits traditional animosity between the two peo- ples, a senior Phnom Penh-based diplomat said on Friday Khmer Rouge President Khieu Samphan, in an interview in the latest Far Eastern Economic Re- view, said that if United Nations peacekeepers did not expel the Vietnamese civilians thenns might attack them. He made a reference to bodies floating down the Mekong River, reviving images of an earlier po- Nol government of 1970-75. lopment," he added, "I think they see this as a major plank in a poli- tical platform." The Khmer Rouge have cited the Vietnamese issue as a main reason for reneging on the peace agreement they and their two non-communist allies signed in Paris last October with the gover- nment set up after the Vietna- mese invasion in 1978. In addition to exploditional an- tipathy against the Vietnamese, the Khmer Rouge feel a particu- lar hatred against Vietnam be- cause of the invasion, the diplo- mat said. The invasion toppled Pol Pot's The diplomat warned that while the Khmer Rouge profes- continued support for Paris peace agreement, the shadowy guerrilla group may be planning another agenda. Vienna- First the hidden concentration camps, the mass graves, the de- nials, then the whitewashing of the past. With chilling echoes of past atrocities, allegations of war cri- mes from the Yugoslav civil war and elsewhere are making the headlines again today. And, perhaps more than any other man, veteran Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal has traced the evils of war crime and the insi- dious process of forgetting that can maks its horrors. In former Yugoslavia and ot- her ethnic battlefields of post- Cold War Europe, he sees war- nings that genocide could happen "No one knows whether they again unless the international are simply playing brinkman- community steps in. ship or whether they have some "No one could have believed other course of action such as re- that 50 years after the collapse of gaining power without having to the Third Reich with all its atro- go through the peace prosess that cities there would be mass mur- would be a sad misjudgement." ders like in Cambodia or a situa- The Khmer Rouge are refusing tion like now in Yugoslavia," said to lay down their arms, as the ot- Wiesenthal. her factions are doing on the A Jew who spent four-and-a- grounds that Vietnamese sol- half years during World War Two diers continue to operate in Cam- in German concentration camps, Central and Eastern Europe prove the threat of the ultra-right won't simply disappear with the passing away of old Nazis. "The extreme left has lost to- day with the fall of communism, and now the extreme right, if they are not fought, will try to poison the young with their ideas," he told Reuters in an in- terview. New Leader Of Bush's Campaign Team from under the U.S. backed Lon regime and sent the Khmer bodia. They also want the all- Wiesenthal says developments in PRESIDENT George Bush shook up his White House team on Thursday, tapping Secretary of State James Baker to breathe life into a listless election campaign while Democrat Bill Clinton attacked Bush on foreign policy, usually the president's strong suit. Hoping to turn his campaign around, Bush said Baker would become his chief of staff a week after the start on Monday of the Republican convention that will nominate Bush for a second term in the White House. Clinton, holding a solid lead over Bush in public opinion polls, said in a foreign policy speech in Los Angeles that the world was a new place and "I do not believe he has a complete vision of this new era. Adding to turmoil over the emotional issue of abortion that could mar the party unity Bush hoped to project at the conven- tion, his wife Barbara contradicted him by saying abortion sho- lud not be mentioned at all in the party platform. The draft platform, which delegates will vote on at the conven- tion next Monday, includes a call for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion -- a stand Bush supports, saying he would rather lose the election than change his stand. "I'm saying abortion should not be in there, pro or con," Mrs Bush said in the interview conducted on Wednesday with repor- ters of three major U.S. news magazines. "It's a personal choice, is what I'm saying, (a) personal thing. The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions," she said. Excerpts from the inter- view were released on Thursday. But unofficially, his immediate goal is to reorganise the Bush campaign to get his campaign wagon rolling after trailing Clin- ton in polls since the mid-July Democratic convention. Bush's campaion has been erratic at best, with key Bush events often distracted by side issues. At times his campaign appeared to be without coordinated leadership. Baker, replacing Samuel Skinner as White House chief of staff, will bring many of his own team from the State Department to work with him in the job he once held under former president Ronald Reagan. Skinner was given a mostly honorary post of general chairman of the Republican Party. There was some mildly good news in a CNN/USA Today/ Gallup poll on Thursday for Bush, which suggested that Clin- ton's still-sizable lead may beroding. The poll said Clinton led Bush by 19 percentage points, 56 to 37 per cent, in a survey that had a margin of error of three percen- tage points. The same poll showed Clinton with a 25 point lead at the beginning of this month. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found Clinton lea- ding by 18 points, 54 to 36 per cent. (Reuter) The Khmer Rouge have recen- tly increased their anti- Vietnamese rhetoric, claiming at least two million Vietnamese are now living in Cambodia. They describe them as part of an occu- pying force bent on "swallowing Cambodia". According diplomat, the Khmer Rouge threat was a "da- ngerous course of action aimed at encouraging racial tension which could lead to inter-ethnic violence". "I think it's a worrying deve- Rouge reeling into border san- faction Supreme National Coun- ctuaries in Thailand where they cil to be given new powers. regrouped as a guerrilla army On Thursday Lieutenant- witcal support from. General John Sanderson, the Australian military commander of the United Nations Transitio- nal Authority in Cambodia, said the Khmer Rouge had provided no evidence to support their One Million Died At least one million people died from execution, disease and starvation during Pol Pot's rule. The Khmer Rouge threat ap- clain. peared to violate a declaration "They continue to maintain an of human rights that all four fac- massive posture but we have tions signed in April in a cere- some fairly significant indica- mony in Phnom Penh atended by tions in the Cambodian side that U.N. Secretary general Boutros their people are tired of war and Boutros-Ghali. want peace." (Reuter) "Unholy alliance" Wiesenthal says in "unholy alliance" appears to be emerging in certain regions between old Japan Reluctant To Face Shame Of Comfort Women Tokyo- After decades of silence, Japa- nese war veterans and their Asian victims emerged this week to give horrifying accounts of for- ced internment of tens of thou sand of women as battlefront prostitutes during World War Two. "The women were tricked, bea- ten ved," Ichiro Ichikawa, 72, told a Tokyo symposium to mark the anniversary of the end of the war on August 15, 1945. "What we did is so shameful I feel a responsibility to tell the truth the Japanese war veteran said Day after day, former soldiers and military police are coming forth to recount one of the most shocking chapters of Japan's bru- tal occupation of Asia up to 1945 women rounded up and forced to have sex with dozens of Japanese soldiers. In South Korea, Noh Cung-ja, 73, told a symposium that s only 17 and marry in five days when Japanese soldiers stormed her house. rean comfort woman, killed by mostly in their 60s and 70s, over- the Japanese. come their deep shame and came forward to Japanese courts to push their demands for an official apology and compensation. Tokyo insists that Seoul relin- quished all further claims to war- time compensation when it sig- ned a treaty of normalisation with Japan in 1965. Many of these women died of illness or were killed, never to re- turn home after Japan's defeat. The Tokyo government, ever reluctant to face the unpleasant "As I was secreaming for my past, admitted grudgingly in a re- mother, about three Japanese port last month that the military soldiers grabbed me and forced brothels existed but insisted the me to get into a truck," Noh said, "The real problem here is that forcibited or enslaved. women staffing them were never tears streaming down her face. Japan as usual not ready to face "That was when I becam slave the past," said Takeshi Sasaki of Silence Broakry adding that she had sex with up cal) leaders think Japan is being to serve the soldiers," she said, Tokyo University. "Many (government and politi- In North and South Korea this to 40 soldiers a day. week, former "comfort women" -- Seiji Yoshida, 78, one of the Ja- treated as a scapegoat because it Meanwhile, another check of a Japanese euphemism for the panese veterans who attended lost the war." forced prostitutes - broke their the Seoul symposium, described 47-year silence to testify how he and a band of military po- the military's archivesrevealed otherwise. lice dragged Korean girls from the existence of more brothels Li Bok-nyo, 73, told a fact- their parents and tore cryinfrom throughout the Malay peninsula finding Japanese group in North their mothers to take them off as in what is now Malaysia. Korea that she was abducrtheast prostitutes. - the systematic recruitment of China as a young woman and for- Asian prostitutes. Historians estimate that from 100.000 to 200.000 women, about 80 per cent of them Korean, were as army ced to provide sex for soldiers in serve the sexual needs of the Ja- war-front brothels. "The women were forced to panese soldiers. They were trea- one of her friends, another Ko- A handful of South Koreans, Li said her captors tortured ted like animals," Yoshida told her by burning her flesh. She saw reporters. The daily Asahi Shimbun re- ported on Friday that newly di- scovered documents showed that the military set up over a dozen brothels in Malaysia in 1942, shortly after invading the coun- try. (Rtr) communists and fascists, and points to Croatia, Slovakia and Ukraine as prime examples of this development. At the age of 83, the man who has helped bring 1,100 people to trial for Nazi war crimes says there can be no end in the war against forgetting. In Croatia, a city square and nearby school formerly dedicated to victims of fascism have recen- tly been rededicated to leaders from Croatia's independence era, despite the alleged widespread killings of Serb, Gypsy and Je- wish minorities under the World War Two Ustascha regime. Wiesenthal says a similar pat- tern is emerging in western Ukraine, where in the past two years city streets have been rena- med after pogrom leaders. Member of Slovakia's 3,000-member Jewish minority are also expressing concern to his office about what they see as an attempted whitewashing of Slo- vakia's Nazi past by the regional government. thal, who has been actively lob- he has been trying to track down drawing apart of the decades- for four decades are either dead long Iron Curtain. Much of the evidence was trap- or unfit to stand trial. "Things are moving towards a ped in former East Germany, biological solution," he said, ad- which refused to co-operate with ding that less than 10 per cent an its western counterpart in gathe- estimated 150,000 Nazi war cri- ring evidence for prosecution of minals were still alive today. "The important thing is the fight against forgetting. We need war criminals. The voluminous files of the East German secret police are to tell the young generation the now available, but Wiesenthal whole truth so they can recognize says most of the information co- the danger of recurrence," said mes too late. Wiesenthal in his cluttered of- In the most recent war crimes fice, where several hundred open verdict, Joseph Schwammber- files on Nazi suspects are still ger, an 80-year-old former ghetto being kept. commander in Poland received a life sentence in May from a Few Trials German court following a The war crimes trials, the ma- 45-year-long chase by Wiesen- jority of which took place in the thal. 1960's and 70's, are now very few. The trial took nearly a year be- Wiesenthal says each day his of- cause of the defendent's poor fice receives death notices of va- health. luable witnesses or long-sought suspects. "This is only symbolic justice," said Wiesenthal, adding that Schwammberger would probably be released within two years on account of his age. New leads from among the 40 to 50 daily letters he receives are often several years too late. "Sometimes I get really angry. "Why did you wait 40 years be- fore writing? I ask them," says tire. Wiesenthal, who continues to re- Despite his own age, Wiesen- thal says he has no plans to re- "If they can't protest, we have to protest for them," said Wiesen- "I'm going to continue as long bying the newly emerging states ceive a steady stream of guests in as I'm phusicially and spiritually to reverse what he sees as a da- his Vienna-based Jewish Docu- capable," he says. "What I am ngerous trend. mentation Centre. doing is a warning against the According to Wiesenthal, his Other sources of information murderers of tomorrow that they work is far from finished, even are only now arriving from Cen- will be tracked down and cannot though most of the war criminals tral and East Europe after the rest." (Rtr). HOTEL'S ACTIVITIES Visit Of Management College Students The students of Tourism Management College (Stipar) - Bandung were visiting Bintang Bali Hotel. The purpose of their visit for Site Inspection and to gain more information about hotel operations. Seen in the picture are all students posing together with Mr. Leonardo Nangoi (Training Manager), Bintang Bali Hotel Staff & Stipar's teachers (first row). (*). Color Rendition Chart 2cm