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U.S. HOLOCAUST Memorial Council chairman Harvey Meyerhoff (left), President Bill Clinton and Not36l laureate Elle Wiesel light ah Memorial Museum in Washington.
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TORONTO Canadian Jewish Congress president Irving Abella has asked the federal government to launch an immediate inquiry into CBC reports that cer-taiii Canadian rhilitary personnel are active in white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.
In a letter, Abella urged Defence Minister Kim Carrip-bell (Vancouver Centre) to "immediately remove and recall from active service any suspected white supremacists, pending the findings of the cailed-for government inquiry."
Campbell said in Vancouver that she is examining the charges and that racism in the armed forceis will not be perrnitted. "There is a policy, of no tolerance of racism in the Canadian Armed Forces, It is a policy which is enforced actively."
However, Abella doesn't
feel enough has been done ■ "The Very idea of neo-Nazis within the Canadian Armed Forces should send a chill
Abella calleid for the immediate removal of neo-Nazis in the military, calling them an "anathema and
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down the spine of every: decent Canadian," he exclaimed. "At the very minimum, an immediate government inquiry is,needed to determine the extent of this infiltration and reasons why the Department of National Defence has taken no action." 'i'
The Congress leader continued: "The response, as stated by. CBC froni the Department oj National Defence that it was 'aware of this white supremacist activity, but such activity was nat against military regulations;,' is at once frightening and unacceptable."
dangerous to the principles of deniocracy, safety and equality that we all hold dean" :
The Canadian military has admitted that Cpl. Matt McKay, currently stationed in Sonialia as a peacekeeper with the Canadian Airborne Regiment, has been involved with neo-Nazi groups in the
past. ;
McKay Was photographed in 1990 in an Adolf Hitler T-shirt, giving a Nazi salute while standing undera swastika. The soldier has said he left the white supremacist movement in 1991.
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:By.DEBORAH.KALB;;;-: v;v^ States News Service XVASHINGTON (JTA) — A majority of Americans believes a holocaust against the J ews of Europe could happen a gain, according to a national survey released last week.
The survey was commissioned by a group caHed the Committee of Cphcerned Christians; which describes itself as "the first all'-denpn^inat organization whose sole purpose is to ensure that the Holocaust is never
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Fifty-four percent of respondents said
in Europe.
Arnericans about the H olo-caust, including distribution of a free videotape abpur the Holocaust to 10,000 churchesv and distribution.
Mwo percent said it could not happen again, and the remainder was unsure or did not know.
The survey, released in the office of Richard Halverson, chaplain of the U.S. Senate and a member of the committee's ad vis pry board, sampled 1,022 adults between April 30 and May 2.
Ben Friedman, founder of and spokesman for the committee, said in a statement that the results show most Americans dp not believe the Holocaust-reilated slogan "Never Again" is accurate.
The slogan "is an obsolete and ineffective warning against another Holocaust, and should be abandoned immediately by the Jewish people," said Friedman, -a businessman who was described by the Los Angeles Times as an active member of the Jewish community.
"Unless a full-scale program, is implemented to prevent another Hplocaust, a more accurate slogan is it will happen again,' " said Friedman.
The committee plans to launch a program to educate
dent$ had ever attended a class, seminar or sermon about the Holocaust in. a church or synagogue. A iecent study by the
of copies • pf The Diary of American Jewish Commit-
Anne Frank.
Friedman founded the committee last year in an effort to ensure that' the H plocaust is not forgotten. He has enlisted 1 ;0p0 minis-ters and bishops across the cpuntry in his cause, and... they have pledged to deliver ojne sermPh per year abput the Hplpcaust.
The survey fpund that plder pep pie are mpre likely tp believe a hplpcaust cpuld happen again.
Sixty-pne percent pf pep-ple age 45 tP 64 believe that another hplpcaust cpuld pccur, while pnly 48 percent pf ypunger resppndents felt that way:
Ninety-eight percent of respondents had heard about the Holocaust, the : survey said. It also found . that one. in six Americans is unaware 6f the centuries of persecutiph suffered by the Jews of Europe before World War H.
Only 14 percent of respon-
tee found that many Americans are ignorant about events relating to the Holocaust. '
When asked if they knew what the term "Hplpcaust" referred tp, 38 percent pf adults and 5 3 pe rcen t pf high schppl students in the AJGpmmittee study either said they did npt knpw or offered completely incorrect answers.
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' Withcharacteristicmodesty, Dr. Sydney Segal wpndered why he had been named tP the Order pf B.G. : -
"Well, I dp a lot of vpluntary wprk," the West Vancouver physician said when contacted by The Bulletin."I don't even know who nominated me." .. \[: J]/ . .. ;v.; ' :. ■'■-''■'■y:)/..
A professPr emeritus pf pediatrics at UBC, Dr. Segal is pne of 12 people who will receive British Cplumbia's highest hpnor at a June 15 investiture in Victoria. Lt.-GoV. David Lam is scheduled to present the medals at Government Hpuse.
The fprmer Mbntfealer, whp turns 73 next mpnth, has devpted pver three decades tP pediatries. His field pf expertise wpn him a 1989 npminatipn frpiti Gpv. Gen. Jeanne Sauve tP the Order pf Canada, which was presented tP him by her successPr Ray Hnatyshyn.
Dr. Segal was ihfprmed pf the Order pfB.C npminatipn by phprie, but had npt received an pfficial citatipn by J WB press time^
Thpug;h the dpctor has speciaHzed in fetal medicine, respiratory pediatrics and children with AIDS, he is perhaps best known for his studies of Sudden Infant Death Syn* drome (SI DS), which claimed the life pf one of his own children. ■
He attended a medical conference where the term "SIDS" was coined and helped establish a Vancouver S IDS pa rents'group At a 1990 dinner in Washington, Gaiiadian ambassador Derek Burney recognized him
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