Dr. Theo Waigel

Vorsitzender der Christlich-Sozialen Union

München, 27. Mai 1993

JUN 18 1993

Herrn
Prof. Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue
26th Floor, Suite 400

New York, N.Y. 10022
USA

Lieber Henry!

Zu Ihrem 70. Geburtstag übermittle ich Ihnen persönlich und im Namen der Christlich-Sozialen Union die besten Glückwünsche.

Damit verbinde ich ein herzliches Wort des Respekts und der Anerkennung für Ihr persönliches und politisches Lebenswerk, in dem Sie sich neben den übergeordneten Fragen der "Grand Strategy" und einer "stabilen internationalen Ordnung" stets auch intensiv der Pflege einer engen europäisch-amerikanischen Partnerschaft und der deutsch-amerikanischen Freundschaft gewidmet haben.

In den Jahren von 1969 bis 1977, in denen Sie die Ämter des Nationalen Sicherheitsberaters und des Außenministers bekleidet haben, gelang es Ihnen als maßgeblichem Architekten der "Detente" nicht nur, "die geopolitische Landkarte zu verändern" und das Verhältnis zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und der früheren Sowjetunion und zur Volksrepublik China auf eine neue Grundlage zu stellen. Ebenso haben Sie mit Ihrer

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weitsichtigen Diplomatie dazu beigetragen, den transatlanti-
schen Zusammenhalt und die Verankerung der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland in der westlichen Staaten- und Wertegemeinschaft
entscheidend zu festigen. Dabei haben Sie nie einen Wider-
spruch gesehen zwischen der Wiederherstellung der deutschen
Einheit und der Einbindung Deutschlands in die Europäische
Gemeinschaft und in die Atlantische Allianz.

Als Theoretiker und Praktiker der internationalen Politik ha-
ben Sie sich als pragmatischer Realist stets am real Machba-
ren sowie am tatsächlichen Verhalten der politischen Akteure
orientiert. In Ihrem Buch "Die sechs Säulen der Weltordnung"
schreiben Sie: "Die Kunst des Staatsmannes besteht darin, In-
teressen zu definieren, die eigenen wie die des anderen, um
dann ihren Ausgleich zu betreiben".

In der Tat müssen für den politischen Entscheidungsträger
die besonnene Formulierung der eigenen legitimen Interessen
sowie der kluge Interessenausgleich mit dem Gegenüber ober-
ste Richtschnur des Handelns sein. Diese Maxime haben Sie
als Staatsmann immer befolgt.

Ich erinnere mich gerne an die Gespräche mit Ihnen und an
Ihre Besuche in Wildbad Kreuth anläßlich der Klausurtagung
der Christlich-Sozialen Union. Sie haben mich und meine poli-
tischen Freunde nicht nur durch ihr fundiertes Wissen und
Ihren reichen Erfahrungsschatz auf dem Feld der internationa-
len Politik tief beeindruckt. Es sind auch Ihr erfrischender
Humor und Ihre unnachahmliche Selbstironie, die Sie zu einem
geschätzten Freund und begehrten Gesprächspartner der Christ-
lich-Sozialen Union machen.

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P.O. Box 2511
Houston, Texas 77252
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PUBLIC RELATIONS CONTACT: Christine LeLaurin
(713) 757-2761

HOUSTON, January 20, 1993 -- Michael H. Walsh, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tenneco Inc., issued the following statement Wednesday, January 20:

"Having undergone extensive tests in the last few weeks for what I thought was a recurrent back problem, my doctors informed me late yesterday that they have diagnosed what is, in their words, 'a mid-grade brain tumor, which has been identified at an early stage and is treatable with radiation and chemotherapy'.

"This diagnosis results from a biopsy performed by Robert G. Grossman, M.D., Chief, Neurosurgery Service of the Methodist Hospital and Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery of Baylor College of Medicine last Wednesday and confirmed to me yesterday by a team of medical experts at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center here in Houston. I have thoroughly discussed this matter with my colleagues on the Tenneco Board. It is our joint decision to make this information public at the earliest moment at which the relevant facts are known. Thus this announcement.

"Victor A. Levin, M.D., internationally recognized Neuro-Oncologist at the Anderson Center and Chairman of the Department of Neuro-Oncology there -- who heads my medical team -- informs me that based on extensive past experience, the median survival rate for patients with this condition detected this early, and undergoing the sort of therapy proposed, is approximately five to six years, with half doing better than that, and some much better. Importantly, Dr. Levin and others around the country are working on research leading to new therapies which may produce more promising prospects.

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"It is the judgment of my doctors, including that of Tenneco's corporate physician, Kenneth D. Wells, M.D., that my medical condition will not in any way affect my ability to carry out the full range of my responsibilities at Tenneco. In terms of carrying out my work, I am symptomless. My mental processes and judgments are unaffected. I feel fine. Treatment will begin Monday."

"As indicated in the accompanying letter to Dr. Peter Flawn, Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Tenneco Board, I will continue to keep the Board fully informed as to my medical condition. The Board has been fully consulted and completely supports the course of action outlined in Dr. Wells' letter. Tenneco's corporate physician will continue to have full and complete access to both me and any other doctors involved and will share all information with the Board."

"This unwelcome diagnosis in no way affects my commitment to Tenneco. I remain absolutely committed to continuing the critical work which our excellent team and I began 18 months ago."

"My family and I were as surprised by this news as we know others will be. But anyone who has ever known me knows of my appetite for challenge. While never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I'd face a challenge like this, our shareholders, our employees, and our many friends can be assured I intend to face it with the same commitment to meet it and beat it that I have brought to every other challenge in my life."

Mr. Walsh said he continues to intend to host Tenneco's regularly scheduled year-end meeting with security analysts in New York, February 2, 1993, and to hold the customary press briefing afterwards.

This statement has been approved by Dr. Kenneth Wells, Tenneco's corporate physician and reflects his judgments as well as those of Mr. Walsh's medical team.

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Health Services

Tenneco Building
P.O. Box 2511
Houston, Texas 77252
(713) 757-3111

January 20, 1993

Dr. Peter T. Flawn
Chairman, Audit Committee
Board of Directors
Tenneco Inc.

Dear Dr. Flawn:

I have read the press release that Mike Walsh has reviewed with you, and that was made public today. His statement accurately reflects the medical situation as we understand it today. As Mike has indicated, in my capacity as Tenneco's corporate physician I have been with him in every exam, test, and consultation as this diagnosis has proceeded.

In my judgment, and in the judgment of the other members of Mike's medical team, Mike clearly can continue to carry out the full range of his responsibilities at Tenneco now, during treatment, and for the foreseeable future. In terms of carrying out his work, Mike is symptomless. I see nothing medically that would in any way impair Mike in carrying out his responsibilities.

I am familiar with the sorts of treatments being contemplated in Mike's case. It is my judgment (shared by the other members of Mike's medical team) that Mike is able to carry out the full range of his responsibilities throughout such treatment. He is extraordinarily strong and vigorous and committed to his work. Most importantly, Mike's clear intent is to do this.

Mike has waived all confidentiality regarding medical matters insofar as the Tenneco Board of Directors is concerned. In this regard, I will continue to have full access to all of Mike's medical team and their findings. I have agreed to and will keep you fully informed regarding all aspects of Mike's circumstances and the relevant judgments based thereon.

As I've indicated has been the case so far, I will continue to be involved in all aspects of this matter on behalf of Tenneco. The other doctors involved have been extraordinarily open and forthcoming in response to Mike's direction. I am fully confident that situation will continue.

While this has been an uncertain and difficult situation, I have never seen an individual handle a matter like this any better than Mike has. Neither have the other doctors involved.

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FEB 25 1993

MICHAEL H. WALSH

1010 MILAM STREET
P. O. BOX 2511
HOUSTON, TEXAS 77252-2511
BUS: (713) 757-1300
FAX: (713) 757-1410

February 12 1993

Dear Friends:

The outpouring of concern, support and love following the announcement of my recent diagnosis was simply overwhelming. There's no other word for it. Hundreds of letters and phone calls, ranging from a girl in my kindergarten class in Binghamton, New York, who wondered if I remembered her chasing me home (I did. Who said women's liberation is something new!) to letters from people I've never personally met -- conductors/brakemen on the railroad -- to old and very dear friends who said things both too personal and too complimentary to do anything with but privately treasure.

In one sense, for Joan and for me and the family the last few weeks have been very tough. In another sense, though, they have been challenging and uplifting. The intensity with which many of you expressed your convictions that if anybody could beat this, I could, was incredibly reinforcing. Equally, the offers of help -- largely encouragement, and from a lot of you, prayers were heart warming.

I would like to answer each letter and call personally and at length. As I'm sure you understand, that's impossible -- at least now.

To bring you up to date:

1. I completed the first week of intensive chemotherapy and radiation without any apparent problem (no nausea/fatigue, etc.) -- and go into the second week (February 15) with the resolve that the result will be similar. (It's not 100% mind over matter, though -- I am starting to lose my hair!)

2. Following this rather intensive up-front regime, intensive chemotherapy will follow over the course of the next eleven months. (The therapy is, as I understand it, pretty well confined to a week a month -- and there are breaks between the "courses".)

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3. I continue to work without any major changes. I'm doing this for one reason -- along with my family, my work (demonstrating that behemoth organizations can be made to change -- and that American industrial companies can become globally competitive) is what I care about. Many of you have counselled me that it's time to put myself first. I agree. It's just that my "self" and my "work" are not easily or simply separable. The "bottom line", though, is that I won't allow "work" to in any way interfere with my treatment, understanding that the physical aspects of treatment are not especially time consuming and provided, as I continue to expect, the side effects are minimal/manageable.

4. The family -- and especially the kids -- are doing remarkably well with all this. They, as I, deeply believe we will beat this. They, too, believe there is some kind of purpose, however hard to define, in all this. (It's not to bring us together as a family -- I don't know how much closer we could be.) But, whatever it is, it is, and we may never know or understand it.

5. What we do know, though, is that we have world-class medical care. Equally, the obvious need to make quick and full public disclosure -- however personally painful -- was very well received. At a year-end meeting with 120 security analysts on February 2 -- only ten days after the announcement -- there wasn't a single question about my health and, by the end of that week, the stock was up more than ten percent above its level the day of the public disclosure. (Whoever said honesty/openness wasn't the best policy!) The confidence this reflects says a lot about just how fundamental the changes we've made are. This is a big "upper" for me.

6. Joan is gradually getting over the "shock" which has been both real and deep. When you read the literature about cancer and families, there are suggestions that all this may be harder on the spouse than the patient. As I observe it, there is a lot of merit to that view.

7. As for me, I'm not bitter about any of this. I can't explain why. There's not an ounce of "denial" in all this. While optimistic by nature, no one who really knows me has ever suggested any compromise with realism on my part. (Just the opposite, I think.) Maybe it's because I choose to focus my energies on things I can do something about: continuing to run the company; helping family/friends through all this; getting through treatment successfully; slowing down at least a bit to smell the flowers; and getting back in shape fast.

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PUBLIC RELATIONS CONTACT: Thomas C. Hayes (713) 757-5843

MIKE WALSH MEDICAL STATEMENT

HOUSTON, November 1 -- Mike Walsh, chairman and chief executive officer of Tenneco Inc., confirmed today that his doctors had assured him that the brain tumor discovered last January had stopped growing and was beginning to break up.

The doctors also concluded after recent tests that there was no reason to believe that Walsh faced other than a normal life span, barring unforeseen circumstances, he said. Walsh is 51 years old.

"Obviously my family and I could not be more delighted," said Walsh. "Thank God for modern medicine."

Walsh said that the recent tests revealed no active tumor lesions anywhere in his brain. Doctors told Walsh that he will continue to have residual physical symptoms (left-side weakness) until time provides the opportunity for further break-up and removal of dead tumor tissue.

Walsh announced January 20 that doctors had identified a "mid-grade" brain tumor, which was then at an early stage and was seen to be treatable with radiation and chemotherapy. Since that time, Walsh has continued his regular duties at Tenneco.

Walsh also said in the January statement that, according to his medical team, the median survival rate for patients with this condition, detected at an early state, was approximately five to six years.

The advice provided to Walsh was based on highly sophisticated, state-of-the-art imaging technologies and nuclear brain scans that were completed in October. These tests underscored the success of Walsh's treatment program.

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The results were reported by his medical team, which includes doctors at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. These two independent institutions are recognized by many specialists as the leading treatment centers for brain cancer in the world.

"The program of accelerated radiation combined with aggressive chemotherapy has been tough, but it has worked," Walsh said today. "That's all that matters."

Walsh said he continues to feel fine and is working a normal schedule. He said that he will continue with a full regimen of chemotherapy through next spring, a treatment intended to prevent a recurrence of the tumor. There are no plans for further radiation treatments.

Tenneco Inc. (NYSE:TGT) is a Houston-based, diversified industrial corporation with major business interests in natural gas transportation and marketing (Tenneco Gas), farm and construction equipment (Case Corporation), automotive parts (Tenneco Automotive), shipbuilding (Newport News Shipbuilding), packaging (Packaging Corporation of America) and chemicals (Albright & Wilson).

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TOAST TO HENRY KISSINGER ON HIS 70th BIRTHDAY

With all sincerity, I am terrifically honored to be asked to speak tonight. I am not a Head of State .. I have never been involved in peace negotiations, and I have never worked for Henry, but I am here to represent the legions of women who love Henry Kissinger, and to say a few words as well about the woman whom Henry loves above all others. I am also here to speak of loyalty and friendship. For what has sometimes been written to make Henry even more controversial, is to question his loyalty and friendship. How could anyone, looking around here tonight, question that? For me, Henry Kissinger has been, for almost 30 years, the most loyal and considerate and fascinating of friends. His accomplishments will be touched on by others. I want to speak of the personal side.

I had first met Henry Kissinger in the 1960's when he was Chief of National Security for Richard Nixon. He was just becoming known, and I was doing an interview with him for the Today Show. Henry complains that I spent six minutes explaining to the audience who he was, and the interview itself was only five minutes long. But I will never forget it. It was at a time when all of Washington was discovering Henry, and he was particularly popular with the women. In the interview, I asked, "Tell me, Dr. Kissinger, how do you feel about being Washington's newest sex symbol?" And he answered, "Oh, I love it. Now, when I bore people, they think it's *their* fault."

2.

I would like to tell you that Henry's brilliance, that capacious mind, was recognized from the earliest days. But, I must share with you that in one of the many interviews I have done over the years with Henry, I also talked with his mother, Paula Kissinger. A woman of unusual honesty. May I read from that portion of the interview?

**Barbara:** "Mrs. Kissinger, when your son, Henry, was young, a little boy, did he show signs of the man he was to become? Did you know that he was brilliant?"

Mrs. Kissinger's answer, "No, I didn't think of him as brilliant at all."

Striving to do Henry some good, I went on. "Well, didn't it occur to you that someday he might do great things?"

**Mrs. Kissinger:** "No, never. It's been a complete surprise."

Henry begged us to edit his mother's words out of our interview, but for the sake of historical accuracy, it remained in.

And now, I would like to talk of the other Mrs. Kissinger, who planned tonight's superb evening and who, for the rest of the year, will have to apologize to all of those who wish they had been invited.

3.

There is a greatness about Henry Kissinger, and there
is a greatness about Nancy Kissinger. She has traveled
with him all over the world and met every Head of State and
never offended. I have known Nancy for almost as long as I
have known Henry. She is the same person I met all those
years ago. She has never changed, except that her hair is
shorter. But this is not a week to discuss haircuts. Suffice it
to say of Nancy, that when Henry is stabbed in the back, it is
Nancy who bleeds.

How to describe their relationship .. They are not
ostentatiously holding hands and smooching in public.
Nancy rarely makes toasts or speaks publicly. My words
cannot really explain what they are to each other. So, let
me quote their words. This from a rare interview with Nancy
done when we profiled Henry for "20/20."

Nancy on Henry. Henry on Nancy.

Barbara: How would you describe your marriage?

Nancy: I think it's a very cozy one.

Barbara: What a nice word. That's not what people, I
think, might associate with him.

Nancy: Really? Cozy, yes, that's our marriage.

4.

**Henry on Nancy:** She's been the central part of my life for 25 years. We've been married 15, but I knew within a week of meeting her that I was going to marry her, or that I would want to marry her. It was really as close to "love at first sight" as the sentimental movies of the '30's showed.

Later, I asked Henry ... "When you reflect back on your life, what do you think about?"

**Henry:** Well, when I was a child, I lived in a totalitarian state, so I, therefore, knew what a dictatorship was. And when I came to this country, I knew what a democracy was. Then when all this debate went on about the Vietnam War, and when everybody was running down the United States, I simply could not accept this. I could see imperfections in this country, but I could never go along with the tendencies of some intellectuals to dump on the United States in this masochism of self-criticism. And secondly, there's no other country in the world where a foreign-born who came here at the age of 15 could become Secretary of State. And in all the mail I used to receive, in very passionate moments, nobody ever wrote and said, "Who exactly are you, with an accent, to be Secretary of State of this country?"

"How do you want to be remembered?", I asked. "You know," Henry replied, "speaking as a historian, that's very hard. Maybe as somebody who made a difference."

BARBARA WALTERS

NOV 08 1993

Dear Nancy and Henry,

I am not sure I have properly thanked you for having me invited to that magic carpet of an evening in London. It is not just that you were honored (and deservedly so), but you both went out of your way to make me feel so wanted and welcome.

Henry, I hope you know how much I appreciate your thoughtful words about me to Her Royal Highness, Princess Diana. And beyond that, there was the beauty of Spencer House, and the inclusion of all of those important people paying tribute to you. Again and again, I tell myself how fortunate I am to have Nancy and Henry as friends. I treasure you both.

November 4, 1993

HENRY A. KISSINGER

July 26, 1993

Dear Sandy:

United Cerebral Palsy's Humanitarian Award will be presented to General H. Norman Schwarzkopf at a gala dinner to be held on December 8, 1993 at the New York Hilton.

I am sure you are aware of the important work that UCP does, both to prevent cerebral palsy and to provide vital lifetime services to children and adults in need of help. Your support would not only assist UCP but would also be a fitting tribute to General Schwarzkopf.

As last year's honoree, I can assure you that this is a wonderful event. If your schedule permits, I hope that you will be able to attend as a Dais guest.

An invitation with the details is enclosed, and I very much hope you will be able to accept.

Warm regards,

Henry A. Kissinger

Mr. Sanford I. Weill
Chairman & CEO
Primerica Corp.
65 East 55th Street
New York, NY 10022

TWENTY-SIXTH FLOOR • 350 PARK AVENUE • NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10022 • (212) 759-7919

HENRY A. KISSINGER

June 23, 1993

Dear Mr. President:

I am taking advantage of the visit to Israel by my associate, Alan Batkin, to extend my belated congratulations and good wishes on your election as President. In these crucial times, it is reassuring to know that Israel will have the benefit of your wise counsel and leadership.

I have many warm memories of our conversations in the past and always valued our meetings. I hope we will have an opportunity to get together again sometime soon.

His Excellency
Ezer Weizman
President of Israel

NOV 0 2 1993

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

October 27, 1993

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue, 26th Fl.
New York, NY 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

On behalf of President Clinton, I would like to invite you to
join a group of distinguished Americans supporting the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for an event at the White
House this coming Tuesday, November 2, 1993.

As you know, the President has made the passage of NAFTA one of
his highest priorities this fall, and he is particularly grateful
for the time and effort you have pledged to this critical
national effort. Please plan to attend a briefing at 11:00 am,
followed by a luncheon at twelve o'clock noon. Afterward, you are
invited to join the President in the East Room of the White House
for an event to help kick off the last phase of the President's
campaign for NAFTA.

The breadth of support NAFTA has attracted is an unmistakable
sign of its importance to America's economy and its workers, as
well as to our international economic leadership. Your commitment
to support its enactment is deeply appreciated.

President Clinton is committed to an all-out effort on behalf of
NAFTA in the coming weeks. He is looking forward to welcoming you
to the White House on Tuesday. Please call Sandy Mancini at 202-
456-2801 as soon as possible to confirm your attendance.

I look forward to seeing you on November 2nd.

Department of Political Science

THE UNIVERSITY OF
**ARIZONA**
TUCSON ARIZONA

JAN 28 1993

315 Social Sciences
Tucson, Arizona 85721
(602) 621-7600

January 18, 1993

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

As you may know, Professor Allen Whiting has been nominated as Regents Professor at the University of Arizona. I write to you in that connection. The Regents Professorship is the highest faculty rank reserved for professors with exceptional achievements that have earned them national and/or international distinction.

A number of us in the department believe that Dr. Whiting is exceptionally well suited for this honor. An advisory committee, consisting of senior faculty members, evaluates all nominations and makes recommendations to the President of the University, who will make the final appointments.

We understand that you are familiar with Professor Whiting's status as a specialist on China and East Asia and that he served as an advisor to you on U.S. China policy in 1969 and 1971-72. We would appreciate it very much if you could comment favorably on his nomination. I would appreciate it greatly if you could send a letter of recommendation in his behalf, at your earliest convenience.

Please address the letter to:

President Manuel Pacheco
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721

However, since I am compiling the file, please send the letter to me:

Thomas J. Volgy
Department of Political Science
Social Sciences 315
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721

HENRY A. KISSINGER

July 27, 1993

Dear Tony:

I am pleased to have the opportunity to second the
nomination of Elie Wiesel for membership in the
Council.

Scholar, author, advocate for human rights, Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate, Elie is one of the most
widely respected figures of our time. We have
known each other for many years, and I have the
highest regard for him. His perspectives would
add an important dimension to the deliberations of
the Council, and I believe he is an outstanding
candidate for membership.

Mr. Kempton Dunn
Director of Membership Affairs
Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street
New York, N.Y. 10021

WIESEL, ELIE, educator, author; b. Sighet, Transylvania, Sept. 30, 1928; came to U.S., 1956, naturalized, 1963; s. Shlomo and Sarah (Feig) W.; m. Marion Erster Rose, 1969; 1 child, Shlomo Elisha. Student, the Sorbonne, Paris, 1948-51; LittD (hon.), Jewish Theol. Sem., N.Y.C., 1967, Marquette U., 1975, Simmons Coll., 1976, Anna Maria Coll., 1980, Yale U., 1981, Wake Forest U., 1985, Haverford Coll., 1985, Capital U., 1986, L.I. U., 1986; LHD (hon.), Hebrew Union Coll., 1986, Manhattanville Coll., 1972, Yeshiva U., 1973, Boston U., 1974, Coll. of St. Scholastica, 1978, Wesleyan U., 1979, Brandeis U., 1980, Kenyon Coll., 1982, Hobart/William Smith Coll., 1982, Emory U., 1983, Fla. Internat. U., 1983, Siena Heights Coll., 1983, Fairfield U., 1983, Dropsie Coll., 1983, Moravian Coll., 1983, Colgate U., 1984, SUNY, Binghamton, 1985, Lehigh U., 1985, Coll. of New Rochelle, 1986, Tufts U., 1986, Georgetown U., 1986, Hamilton Coll., 1986, Rockford Coll., 1986, Villanova U., 1987, Coll. of St. Thomas, 1987, U. Denver, 1987, Walsh Coll., 1987, Loyola Coll., 1987, the Sarbonne, 1987; Phd (hon.), Bar-Ilan U., 1973, U. Haifa, 1986; LLD (hon.), Hofstra U., 1975, Talmudic U. Fla., 1979, U. Notre Dame, 1980; HHD (hon.), U. Hartford, 1985, Lycoming Coll., 1987; D of Hebrew Letters, Spertus Coll. Judaica, 1973. Disting. prof. Judaic studies CCNY, 1972-76; Andrew Mellon prof. humanities Boston U., 1976—; Henry Luce vis. scholar in Humanities and Social Thought, Whitney Humanities Ctr., Yale U., 1982-83; Disting. vis. prof. Lit. and Philosophy, Fla. Internat. U., 1982; chmn. U.S. Pres.'s Commn. on the Holocaust, 1979-80, U.S. Holocaust Memb. Council, 1980-86; hon. chmn. Nat. Jewish Resource Ctr., U.S. Com. to Free Vladimir Slepak, N.Y.C. Holocaust Memb. Commn., Am. Friends of Ghetto Fighter's House; hon. pres. Am. Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors; bd. directors. Nat. Com. on Am. Fgn. Policy, 1983—, Hebrew Arts Sch., HUMANITAS, Internat. Rescue Com., 1985—, Am. Assocs. Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev; bd. govs. Oxford Ctr. for Postgrad. Hebrew studies, Haifa U., Tel-Aviv U.; bd. trustees Yeshiva U., 1977—; colleague Cathedral St. John the Divine, 1975—; mem. adv. bd. Boston U. Inst. for Philosophy & Religion, Nat. Inst. Against Prejudice & Violence, Internat. Ctr. in N.Y.; mem. jury Neustadt Internat. Prize Lit., 1984; lectr. Andrew W. Mellon Ann. Lecture Series Boston U., 92d St. YMHA, YWHA Ann. Lectr. Series, ann. radio broadcast series Eternal Light for Jewish Theol. Sem. Am. Author: Night, 1960, Dawn, 1961, The Accident, 1962, The Town Beyond the Wall, 1964, The Gates of the Forest, 1966, The Jews of Silence, 1966, Legends of Our Time, 1968, A Beggar in Jerusalem, 1970, One Generation After, 1971, Souls on Fire, 1972, The Oath, 1973, Ani Maamin, 1973, Zalmen, or the Madness of God, 1975, Messengers of God, 1976, A Jew Today, 1978, Four Hasidic Masters, 1978, The Trial of God, 1979, Le Testament D'Un Poète Juif Assassiné (France's Prix Livre-Inter 1980, Bourse Goncourt, 1980, Prix des Bibliothécaires, 1981), 1985, Images from the Bible, 1980, Five Biblical Portraits, 1981, Somewhere A Master, 1982, Paroles d'Etranger, 1982, The Golem, 1983, The Fifth Son (Grand Prix de la Littérature, City of Paris), 1985, Signes d'Exode, 1985, Against Silence (3 vols., ed. Irving Abrahamson), 1985, Job ou Dieu dans la Tempée, 1986, Le Crépuscule, au loin, 1987, A Song for Hope, 1987, Discours d'Oslo, 1987; editorial and adv. bds. Midstream, Religion and Lit. (U. Notre Dame), Sh'ma: Jour: of Responsibility, Forthcoming: Jewish Imaginative Writing, Hadassah Mag., Acad. of the Air for Jewish Studies; chmn. editorial bd. Holocaust and Genocide Studies: An Internat. Jour. Chmn. adv. bd. World Union Jewish Students, 1985—; comité d'Honneur Ligue International Contre le Racisme et l'Antisemitisme, 1985—; founder Nat. Jewish Ctr. Learning and Leadership; mem. adv. bd. Andrei Sakharov Inst.; mem. soc. fellows Ctr. Judaic Studies, U. Denver; bd. overseer Bar-Ilan U., 1970—. Recipient Prix Rivarol, 1963, Jewish Heritage award, Haifa U., 1975, Remembrance award, 1965, Prix du Souvenir, 1965, Nat. Jewish Book Council award, 1965, 73, Prix Médicis,

1968, Prix Bordin French Acad., 1972, Eleanor Roosevelt Memb. award, N.Y. United Jewish Appeal, 1972, Am. Liberties medallion Am. Jewish Com., 1972, Martin Luther King Jr. medallion, CCNY, 1973, Annual award for Disting. Service to Am. Jewry, Nat. Fedn. of Jewish Men's Clubs, 1973, Faculty Disting. Scholar award Hofstra U., 1974, Rambam award Am. Mizrachi Women, 1974, Memb. award N.Y. Soc. Clin. Psychologists, 1975, First Spertus Internat. award, 1976, Myrtle Wrend award Hadassah, 1977, King Solomon award, 1977, Liberty award HIAS, 1977, Jewish Heritage award, B'nai B'rith, 1966, Avoda award, Jewish Tehrs. Assn., 1972, Humanitarian award, B'rith Sholom, 1978, Joseph Prize for Human Rights, Anti-Defamation League, 1978, Zalman Shazar award State of Israel, 1979, Presdl. Citation, NYU, 1979, Inaugural award for Lit., Israel Bonds Prime Minister's Com., 1979, Jabotinsky medal, State of Israel, 1980, Rabbanit Sarah Herzog award Emunah Women of Am., 1981, Le Grand Prix Littéraire du Festival Internat. Deauville, 1983, Internat. Lit. prize for Peace, Royal Acad. Belgium, 1983, Lit. Lions award N.Y. Pub. Library, 1983, Jordan Davidson Humanitarian award Fla. Internat. U., 1983, Anatoly Scharansky Humanitarian award, 1983, Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur award, 1984, Congressional gold medal, 1984, Voice of Conscience award Am. Jewish Congress, 1985, Remembrance award, Israel Bonds, 1985, Anne Frank award, 1985, Freedom of Worship medal FDR 4 Freedoms Found., 1985, Medal of Liberty award Statue of Liberty Presentation, 1986, Nobel Peace Prize, 1986, First Herzl Lit. award, First David Ben-Gurion award, Nat. UJA, Gov.'s award, Shaarei Tzedek, Internat. Kaplun Found. award Hebrew U. Jerusalem, Scopus award, 1974, Am.-Israeli Friendship award, Disting. Writers award Lincolnwood Library, 1984, First Chancellor Joseph H. Lookstein award Bar-Ilan U., 1984, Sam Levenson Memb. award Jewish Community Relations Council, 1985, Comenius award Moravian Coll., 1985, Henrietta Szold award Hadassah, 1985, Disting. Community Service award Mut. Am., 1985, Covenant Peace award Synagogue Council Am., 1985, Jacob Pat award World Congress Jewish Culture, 1985, Humanitarian award Internat. League Human Rights, 1985, Disting. Foreign-Born Am. award Internat. Ctr. N.Y., Inc., 1986, Freedom Cup award Women's League Israel, 1986, First Jacob Javits Humanitarian award UJA Young Leadership, 1986, Freedom award Internat. Rescue Com., 1987, Achievement award Artist and Writers for Peace in the Middle East, 1987, La Grande Médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris, 1987, La Médaille de la Chancellerie de l'Université de Paris, 1987, La Médaille de l'Université de Paris, 1987, First Eitinger Prize, U. Oslo, 1987, Lifetime Achievement award Present Tense mag., 1987, Spl. Christopher award The Christophers, 1987, Achievement award State Israel, 1987, Sem. medal Jewish Theol. Sem. Am., 1987, Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Boston U., 1987, Spl. award Nat. Com. on Am. Fgn. Policy, 1987, Grà-Cruz da Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil's highest distinction, 1987, Profiles of Courage award B'nai B'rith, 1987, Centennial medal U. Scranton, 1987, Citation from Religious Edn. Assn., 1987; honors established in his name: Elie Wiesel award for Holocaust Research, U. Haifa, Elie Wiesel Chair in Holocaust Studies, Bar-Ilan U., Elie Wiesel Endowment Fund for Jewish Culture, U. Denver, 1987. Fellow Jewish Acad. Arts and Scis., Am. Acad. Arts & Scis., Timothy Dwight Coll., Yale U.; mem. Fgn. Press Assn. (hon. life), Amnesty Internat., PEN, Writers & Artists for Peace in Middle East, Writers Guild of Am. East, The Author's Guild, Royal Norwegian Soc. Scis. and Letters, Phi Beta Kappa. 15 books written on Elie Wiesel. Address: Boston U 745 Commonwealth Ave Boston MA 02215

Gary L. Wilson
Chairman

NOV 29 1993

November 18, 1993

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Thanks so much for your October 21 note regarding our helping your wife on a recent trip from Tokyo. Obviously, we were happy to help a customer, and we hope that she had good service on the flight and that we can have your continued patronage on our airline. We feel we have a good product and hope you agree.

As it turns out, we met recently at Robert Day's dinner in Los Angeles honoring your son and daughter-in-law. Barbera and I are close friends of the Days, and I used to be the executive vice president of The Walt Disney Company before we bought Northwest Airlines in 1989. I still continue as a director of Disney.

When you get to Los Angeles to visit your son, give me some advance notice, and Barbera and I would love to have you and your wife over for dinner.

rmh

NOV 0 1 1993

CONTRARIAN

GROUP, INC.

October 27, 1993

Mr. Ahmet M. Ertegun
ATLANTIC RECORDS
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019

Mr. Lamar Hunt
UNITY HUNT RESOURCES, INC.
1601 Elm Street, Suite 1962
Dallas, TX 75201

Mr. Henry A. Kissinger
350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10022

Mr. Jay A. Pritzker
PRITZKER & PRITZKER
200 W. Madison Street
Suite 3800
Chicago, IL 60606

Mr. William E. Simon, Sr.
WILLIAM E. SIMON & SONS
310 South Street
P.O. Box 1913
Morristown, NJ 07962-1913

Gentlemen:

As you know, the Board has discussed the subject of Alan Rothenberg's compensation as President and Chief Executive Officer of World Cup USA 1994, Inc. on several occasions. At the last meeting, the Board voted to grant Mr. Rothenberg a bonus following the conclusion of the games. However, a number of Board members, all of whom have expressed their support of the Board action, either were not present or left early. Therefore, at this time, I would like to ask you to indicate your support for paying such a bonus. In doing so, I think the chronology of events leading up to the last Board meeting would be of interest to you.

The Board first addressed the subject of Mr. Rothenberg's compensation at a Board meeting on March 10, 1992, where the Board unanimously voted in favor of paying Alan a salary of $300,000 per year. After that meeting, Mr. Rothenberg wrote a letter to the Board declining the offer of salary, but requesting instead that we consider the success of the event and compensate him with a bonus at the conclusion of the games.

At the February 9, 1993 Board meeting, the Board discussed the adoption of the Employee Transition Plan, which contemplates bonuses to be paid to all employees and officers of World Cup, including Mr. Rothenberg. At that meeting, the Board declined to approve the Plan as it related to Alan, requesting more information regarding the manner in which Mr. Rothenberg's compensation would be calculated.

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DIRECTOR'S LETTER

October 5, 1993

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Since that meeting, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors contacted Strategic Compensation Association, a company which specializes in analyzing compensation packages, to recommend a formula for compensating Mr. Rothenberg based on the relative financial success of the 1994 World Cup. After consulting with outside tax counsel and ethics advisors to determine that the recommendation was sound and complied with the World Cup's charter documents and applicable tax laws, and after obtaining the support of the other members of the Compensation Committee, both of whom could not attend the September 14, 1993, the vote was 4 in favor, 3 opposed and one abstain.

Because of the significance of this issue and the fact that you were unable to participate in the vote, as the Chairman of the Compensation Committee, I would like to know whether you are in favor of compensating Mr. Rothenberg with a bonus at the conclusion of the games, subject to a successful outcome. The amount of compensation would be at our discretion based on guidelines determined to be reasonable by compensation specialists, and approved by tax counsel and ethics advisors. If you are in favor, please indicate your support for the time and effort Mr. Rothenberg is contributing to the World Cup, by signing your name along with mine.

Cordially,

Peter V. Ueberroth

Ahmet M. Ertegun

DATE:

Lamar Hunt

DATE:

Henry A. Kissinger

DATE: Nov 2, 1993

Jay A. Pritzker

DATE:

William E. Simon, Sr.

DATE:

JUN 08 1993

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26. Mai 1993

Sehr verehrter Herr Professor Kissinger,

am Tag Ihres 70. Geburtstages ist es mir ein Anliegen, mit
in die Reihe der Gratulanten zu treten und Sie meiner
Hochachtung und Bewunderung zu versichern.

Ich bin stolz, daß die Memoiren einer so bedeutenden
Persönlichkeit in unserem Hause erscheinen konnten und
freue mich besonders darüber, daß auch Ihr nächstes
großes Werk demnächst bei uns erscheinen wird.

Sie haben Ihre Erkenntnisse als Wissenschaftler und großer
Mensch wie kaum ein anderer in praktische Politik
umsetzen können. Und kaum jemand darf wie Sie an
einem solchen Tag auf eine derart facettenreiche Palette
seines Wirkens zurückblicken.

Für die kommenden Jahre wünsche ich Ihnen die
gewohnte Vitalität, die echte Lebensfreude und die
unerschöpfliche Energie, von denen Ihr Schaffen stets
geprägt ist.

Mit den besten und herzlichsten Wünschen

OFFICE OF
HENRY A. KISSINGER

June 3, 1993

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

Dear Mr. Wyschogrod:

Your essay in the April issue of *Moment* has been brought to my attention. Dr. Kissinger is away from his office, but I feel someone should respond to at least a few of your malicious allegations.

- Neither Dr. Kissinger nor Kissinger Associates ever made money from any business in China.

- The Israeli leaders know the truth about Dr. Kissinger's role in the Yom Kippur War. I suggest to refer to the book, recently published in Hebrew, by Israeli Brig. Gen. Arie Braun, the English translation of whose title is *Moshe Dayan and the Yom Kippur War*. The author draws from cables from the Israeli Defense Department which clearly illustrate the falsity of your allegations.

As for your other charges, I will not dignify them by commenting on them.

Mr. Michael Wyschogrod
c/o Moment Magazine
3000 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20008

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fair to making his continuation as Attorney General untenable. [LC]
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Arment writes that "during Kippur War of 1973, Kippur was the President and Henry Kissinger nonstop (estimate: at least 100 phone calls) for rapid resupply of the Israelis." If the number of calls is correct, they went entirely to Kissinger who was the de-facto President, operating from the basement "situation room" of the White House, while Nixon was engaged wholly in playing and replaying his tapes in the living quarters on the second floor. He was trying to find reasons for refusing to turn the tapes over to Judge Sirica, and it was during this same week that the seventeen-minute gap or blank in the tapes appeared.

We may now look forward to the report Walsh and his staff are preparing. If the intemperateness of the past is any guide to the future, we may expect to learn that Walsh regards George Bush, Caspar Weinberger, and a number of others as guilty, and that these accusations and the OIC's one-sided versions of the evidence will be spread on the public record with no opportunity for effective rebuttal. Individuals will be maligned, their reputations tarnished, and two Republican administrations found morally wanting, and probably criminal.

If the independent-counsel statute did not require the criminalization of policy differences, it certainly permitted just that. If, after Congress has started the process out of political motives, an overly zealous independent counsel is not himself motivated by political considerations, the result is the same as if he were. The institution of the court-appointed independent counsel is an abomination in the halls of justice.

## The Nixon Administration & the Jewish Community

TO THE EDITOR OF COMMENTARY:

Leonard Garment's review of Peter Golden's *Quiet Diplomat: A Biography of Max M. Fisher* [Books

in Review, February] is in itself a strong contribution to the history of the Nixon administration's relationship to the Jewish community. Although I disagreed with Fisher's reliance on a number of issues (I was the first chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jews), IContacts with Mr. Garment, dealt with the problems of Jewish emigration on an almost basis from his office in the Executive Office Building, were instantly positive, forthright, direct on his part. Mr. Garment was an insider who left the Washington scene with his repu- tation; not easy in those

Garment writes that "during Kippur War of 1973, Kippur was the President and Henry Kissinger nonstop (estimate: at least 100 phone calls) for rapid resupply of the Israelis." If the number of calls is correct, they went entirely to Kissinger who was the de-facto President, operating from the basement "situation room" of the White House, while Nixon was engaged wholly in playing and replaying his tapes in the living quarters on the second floor. He was trying to find reasons for refusing to turn the tapes over to Judge Sirica, and it was during this same week that the seventeen-minute gap or blank in the tapes appeared.

In any event, Fisher's calls were unproductive. The war began on a Saturday. On the following Wednesday, in response to urgent pleas from the Israelis and American Jews as well, Kissinger announced that the resupply could not begin until there was sufficient transport to carry the munitions. On the same day, the office of the Secretary of Defense informed Senator Henry Jackson that the resupply could begin immediately if the order to do so were given from the White House basement. As we know, the resupply did not begin until the following Saturday, almost too late for the Israelis.

As for Fisher's attempt to "head off the passage of the Jackson-Vanik amendment," it may well be that he made the estimated 100 phone calls, but they were made to Jewish leaders in the Soviet-Jewish emigration movement, and at the behest of the President. Kissinger's role in this effort has not, to my knowledge, been fully detailed. It is not a story which will reflect favorably on his reputation. But

again, Leonard Garment's role was sincere, direct, and helpful.

RICHARD MAASS
White Plains, New York

LEONARD GARMENT writes:

A natural consequence of Richard Maass's generous words about me is to cause my pen to run almost dry. Suffice it to say, therefore, that his comments about two highly complicated fact issues—responsibility for the delayed resupply of the Israelis in the Yom Kippur War and Henry Kissinger's undefined "role" in the emigration of Soviet Jews—are too allusive for a reply. My point, in any event, was simply that Max Fisher tried hard to expedite both outcomes. Mr. Maass's comments about Richard Nixon can be answered briefly: it is silly (or worse) to suggest that Nixon was "engaged wholly in playing and replaying" his Watergate tapes during the Yom Kippur War. He was, in fact, working hard on a flood of domestic and foreign issues—including the crucial resupply of Israel, a project which succeeded because Nixon overruled his overcautious security advisers and ordered the use of every available military cargo plane to make sure the crucial airlift would be a success. And it was.

## Lessons of the Holocaust

TO THE EDITOR OF COMMENTARY:

In the last footnote of his article, "What the Holocaust Does Not Teach" [February], Edward Alexander chides me mildly for my use of an important document, first published as a facsimile in a book by David Irving, and for citing Irving as a source.

The item in question is an excerpt from the telephone log of Heinrich Himmler, noting an order he was giving in the course of a call at 1:30 p.m. on November 30, 1941, to his subordinate, the Security Police Chief Reinhard Heydrich, who was also the *Reichsprotektor* in Prague at the time. Because of the nature of the order, and the fact that the call was placed from Hitler's bunker, Irving surmised that Himmler was passing on a decision by Hitler himself. The crucial lines are: "Jewish transport from Berlin. No liquidation." Irving did not know where the transport was headed and what happened to it on arrival. The German historian Martin Broszat concluded that the train

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fair to making his continuation as Attorney General untenable, Mr. McKay, admirably issued a statement that "dictme of his McKay's vitiously, and, I believe, ably, that he prose that he has, and that he has not, as a fact, Meese told Mr. McKay, and that he was an insider who left the Meese family in the executive Office Building, were not only not positive, forthright, but he was an insider who left the Washington scene with his repu- lily-charged Meese, and that he was not a true independent." The reasons for most certain him to say that he was an insider, and that he was not a true independent, were not sufficient to release the report and Meese was damaged without a chance to clear his name. It is unheard of for a regular prosecutor to refuse to indict but announce to the world that the man is guilty.

TO THE EDITOR OF COMMENTARY:

in Review, February] is in itself a strong contribution to the history of the Nixon administration's relationship to the Jewish community. Although I disagreed with Fisher's stance on a number of issues (I was the first chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jews), I did not disagree with his contacts with Mr. Garment, or his dealt with the problems of Jewish emigration on an almost basis from his office in the Executive Office Building, were not only not positive, forthright, but he was an insider who left the Washington scene with his repu- lily-charged Garment writes that "during the Kippur War of 1973, I was the President and I was the Kissinger nonstop (estimate: at least 100 phone calls) for rapid resupply of the Israelis." If the number of calls is correct, they went entirely to Kissinger who was the de-facto President, operating from the basement "situation room" of the White House, while Nixon was engaged wholly in playing and replaying his tapes in the living quarters on the second floor. He was trying to find reasons for refusing to turn the tapes over to Judge Sirica, and it was during this same week that the seventeen-minute gap or blank in the tapes appeared.

LEONARD GARMENT writes:

## Lessons of the Holocaust

TO THE EDITOR OF COMMENTARY:

The item in question is an excerpt from the telephone log of Heinrich Himmler, noting an order he was giving in the course of a call at 1:30 P.M. on November 30, 1941, to his subordinate, the Security Police Chief Reinhard Heydrich, who was also the *Reichsprotektor* in Prague at the time. Because of the nature of the order, and the fact that the call was placed from Hitler's bunker, Irving surmised that Himmler was passing on a decision by Hitler himself. The crucial lines are: "Jewish transport from Berlin. No liquidation." Irving did not know where the transport was headed and what happened to it on arrival. The German historian Martin Broszat concluded that the train

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fair to making his continuation as Attorney General untenable, Mr. McKay, admirably, issued a statement that there would be no indictment. But unlike Stein's report of his earlier investigation, Mr. McKay's report stated, quite gratuitously, and far less than admirably, that though Meese would not be prosecuted, Mr. McKay found that he had violated two laws. In fact, Meese had not, and his counsel told Mr. McKay that he had no authority to make such charges when he was not indicting. As Mr. McKay says, the statute requires an independent counsel to state his reasons for not prosecuting; it most certainly does not require him to say that the man is nevertheless guilty. The appointing court, apparently unwilling to be charged with suppression of a politically-charged document, released the report and Meese was damaged without a chance to clear his name. It is unheard of for a regular prosecutor to refuse to indict but announce to the world that the man is guilty.

TO THE EDITOR OF COMMENTARY:

in Review, February] is in itself a strong contribution to the history of the Nixon administration's relationship to the Jewish community. Although I disagreed with Fisher's stance on a number of issues (I was the first chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jews), my contacts with Mr. Garment, who dealt with the problems of Jewish emigration on an almost daily basis from his office in the Executive Office Building, were consistently positive, forthright, and direct on his part. Mr. Garment was an insider who left the Washington scene with his reputation intact; not easy in those days!

Mr. Garment writes that "during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Fisher lobbied the President and Henry Kissinger nonstop (estimate: at least 100 phone calls) for rapid resupply of the Israelis." If the number of calls is correct, they went entirely to Kissinger who was the de-facto President, operating from the basement "situation room" of the White House, while Nixon was engaged wholly in playing and replaying his tapes in the living quarters on the second floor. He was trying to find reasons for refusing to turn the tapes over to Judge Sirica, and it was during this same week that the seventeen-minute gap or blank in the tapes appeared.

### LEONARD GARMENT writes:

## Lessons of the Holocaust

### TO THE EDITOR OF COMMENTARY:

LETTERS FROM READERS/11

other than using the threat of scandal to coerce guilty pleas or testimony—tactics that might be regarded in impolite circles as black-mail. Perhaps Walsh did not know of these investigations into sex; it would be good to think so, but his office is responsible for them.

When Bush pardoned Weinberger, Abrams, and four other officials, Walsh went ballistic. He referred to what he called Bush's "own misconduct." He asserted that Weinberger was guilty. When Weinberger said that Walsh had abused his powers, Walsh proved the point by saying on television that Weinberger "lied just as readily to the media as he lied to Congress. He's making it quite clear that his first line of defense when he has a troublesome problem is to lie." So much for Weinberger's long and distinguished career of public service. So much for prosecutorial responsibility.

Mr. McKay accuses me of "a sweeping denigration of all past and future independent counsels." He reads too hastily. The article expressly stated that "[s]ome independent counsels have performed their tasks admirably." One of these was Jacob Stein who, quite correctly, refused to indict Edwin Meese. Had Stein allowed the staff to discuss what they regarded as Meese's administrative deficiencies in the final report, it is quite possible Meese would not have been confirmed as Attorney General. But Stein did not. His task was solely to discover whether the criminal law had been violated. He was aware of the dangers in the almost unlimited powers of the independent counsel and remarked that, given the office's unlimited staff and budget, "you can overpower anyone.... Nobody can compete with you, especially an individual."

But an independent counsel has powers other than the power to indict or to coerce pleas. One of them is the power to smear by his final report. Mr. McKay, like Stein, investigated Edwin Meese and declined to prosecute him. (Mr. McKay's memory fails him here. The Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General to whom he refers resigned before Mr. McKay announced his decision and hence did not "angrily denounce" it. The AAG said later that he would have indicted but that reasonable men could differ.)

When leaks and rumors about the investigation of Meese bade

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# Myths about Israel and the Middle East (2)
Should we re-examine endlessly repeated platitudes?

In a previous installment in this series of clarifying messages about Israel and the Middle East, we examined certain myths which, by dint of constant repetition, had acquired currency and acceptance. We looked at the myth of "Palestinian nationhood", the myth of the Gaza Strip and Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank") being "occupied territory", the myth that Jewish settlements in these territories are "the greatest obstacle to peace", and the myth that Israel is unwilling to "yield land for peace". And we cleared up the greatest myth of all, namely that Israel's administration of the territories and not Arab determination to destroy the state, is the root cause of the conflict between the Arabs and Israel. But these are not all the myths; there are more.

## What are some of these myths?

**Myth:** The Arabs of Israel are a persecuted minority without civil and political rights.

**Reality:** The 700,000 non-Jews (mostly Arabs) who are citizens of Israel have the same civil rights that Jews have. They vote, are members of the Knesset (parliament), and are part of Israel's civil and diplomatic services. Arabs have full access to the Israeli legal, health and educational systems, including Arabic and Moslem universities. The only difference between the "rights" of Arabs and Jews is that the Jews must serve three years in the military and at least one month a year until age 50. The Arabs have no such obligation. For them, military service is voluntary, but very few avail themselves of the privilege.

**Myth:** Israel should give up Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") because strategic depth is meaningless in this age of missiles.

**Reality:** Israel is a mini-state—about half the size of San Bernardino county in California. If another, even smaller mini-state were carved out of it, Israel would be totally indefensible. That is the opinion of 100 retired U.S. generals and admirals as conveyed to the President of the U.S. If the Arabs were to occupy whatever little strategic depths Israel has between the Jordan River and its populated coast, they would not need any missiles. Artillery and mortars would suffice, since Israel would be only nine miles wide at its waist. Those who urge such a course either do not understand the situation or have a death wish for Israel.

**Myth:** If Israel would allow a Palestinian state to arise in Judea/Samaria and in the Gaza Strip it would be a democratic

state and would be totally demilitarized.

**Reality:** There is no prospect at all that anything resembling a democratic state could be created. There is not a single democratic Arab state—all of them are tyrannies of varying degrees. Even today, under Israeli administration, the PLO, the Islamic fundamentalists, and other factions fight for supremacy and ruthlessly murder each other. A country torn apart by civil strife like Lebanon is likely to be a much better prospect. As for demilitarization, it is totally unlikely that—with Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, all of which are in a declared state of war with Israel at its borders—a power vacuum would be possible. Despite pious promises, the arms merchants of the world would find a great new market; and the neighboring hostile Arab countries would be happy to supply anything else that might be needed.

**Myth:** Israel should make "confidence building" gestures for the sake of peace.

**Reality:** What really is it that the world expects Israel to do for the sake of peace? Twenty-one of the twenty-two Arab countries consider themselves in a state of war with Israel and don't even recognize its "existence". That has been going on for forty-five years. Wouldn't it be about time that the Arabs made some kind of a "gesture"? Could they not for instance terminate the state of war? Could they not finally abolish the economic boycott against Israel that has been in place for over forty years—long before Israel came into the administration of the "West Bank"? Could they not stop the yearly charade of attempting the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations? Any single one of these would be such a "gesture", but none is forthcoming.

Now that the parties to the conflict in the Middle East are engaged, for over a year, in an on-again/off-again peace conference, the old clichés are being trotted out again and the old myths resurrected in order to pressure Israel to make "concessions". Israel is America's staunchest ally and certainly its only true ally in that area of the world. It is in our national interest that stark reality, not myths, govern any peace negotiations.

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PERSPECTIVE

Insidious Symmetry

The Valentine's Day
cover of the *New
Yorker*—Tina
Brown's shocker
embrace by a chasid
and a young black
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cently published
photo storybook for

children about Shlomki and
Muhammad, two 10-year-olds attending
a school where Arab and Jewish Israe-
lis learn together, set me to thinking
about the hazards of symmetry.

New York City is beset with tensions. One of them is between blacks and *chasidim* in Crown Heights, fanned into deadly violence when the accidental death of a black child hit by a car driven by a chasid was followed by three days of rioting by blacks, culminating in the murder of a Jewish *yeshivah* student. Over and above this local situation are persistent black community problems of drugs, crime, family breakdown and teenage pregnancies. The Jewish community, while it has all of these problems in some numbers, is not overwhelmed and defined by them, as are many black neighborhoods. Jews, in fact, are visibly successful, possessing power, money and a dominant role in the cultural life of New York beyond their numbers in the population.

The symmetry problem: New York City's troubles and the tensions in Crown Heights between blacks and Jews are not the product of equal wrongness on both sides. Jews may be insensitive. Jews may discriminate against black employees or black tenants. Jews may harbor racist attitudes toward blacks. But Jews do not kill. Jews do not riot and terrorize black families in their homes. Moral equivalence is a disservice to both communities: to the blacks who desperately need to hold themselves to high communal,

family and personal standards of be-
havior and to distinguish the vast ma-
jority among them who exemplify these
standards, and to the Jews who must
face their own shortcomings while
standing strongly against resurgent
antisemitism.

Art Spiegelman's *New Yorker* cover, according to the artist's explanation on page 6, expresses his "underlying wish that people closed off from one another by anger and fear...could somehow just 'kiss and make up.'" No, Spiegelman, closed off, angry and fearful people does not describe New York's black-Jewish problem. Let's call it straight. Jews in Crown Heights have real cause to be angry and afraid of some blacks, of the same blacks who threaten and kill their own people in such alarming numbers. Blacks, on the other hand, have little or no reason to be afraid of Jews; black problems will not lessen until they themselves—not those outside—change.

Again, the symmetry problem: In the extremely attractive children's book *Oasis of Peace* by writer Laurie Dolphin and her photographer husband, Ben Dolphin, young readers meet Muhammad and Shlomki, who study together, play together, visit each other's homes and learn each other's language, religion and customs. All to the good.

But symmetry becomes distortion in
snatches of history provided to the
book's readers. "Since the birth of the
State of Israel in 1948, Arabs and Jews
have fought over this land." As Shlomki
and Muhammad travel to school each
day, we read, "They pass historical sites
that remind them of the wars between
Arabs and Jews. These ruined vehicles
on the roadside were destroyed dur-
ing the war in 1948." Implication: Ar-
abs and Jews were equally culpable for
the war in '48. Fact: Israel's birth in
1948 occurred when Israel accepted
the United Nations partition plan that
gave them a small part of the former
British mandate of Palestine. The birth
took place under fire when neighbor-
ing Arab countries rejected partition
and attacked the new state. The trucks
lying alongside the road up to Jerusa-
lem once contained Jewish drivers at-
tempting to provide relief supplies to
Jerusalem, besieged and blockaded by
Arabs attempting to abort the newly
conceived State of Israel.

Only if Muhammad understands
that Palestinian leaders rejected the
opportunity to have their own state in
1948 and have since then continued
to try to destroy the Jewish state will
he, and others like him, begin to un-
derstand Shlomki's fears and the need
for a new Palestinian leadership that
will indeed build peace for his people.

It is demeaning to people in con-
flict, whether they be Palestinians and
Jews or blacks and *chasidim*, to offer
them pap. False moral equivalence is
no foundation for progress; imaginary
symmetry delays the tough encounter
with the past and the present that must
undergird learning to live with diverse
interests, old hatreds and disparate
dreams.

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1/4 cup chopped parsley

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MICHAEL WYSCHOGROD

Jewishness does not fit into Kissinger's
self-image—his craving for attention,
his immense overestimation of his intellectual
gifts and his profound secularism.

Henry Kissinger is no longer at the vortex of world affairs. Still, there is little doubt that he will occupy a prominent place in American history. But what will his place be in Jewish history? As the first Jewish secretary of state of the United States, Kissinger, a refugee from Nazi Germany who lost 13 of his relatives in the Holocaust, deserves assessment both as a Jew and as an American. The American literature on him is extensive, the most recent being the acclaimed *Kissinger* by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 1992) based on more than two dozen formal interviews with the subject of the book. Kissinger gave Isaacson access to many of his public and private papers and asked relatives and colleagues to help the author. The book can also serve as the point of departure for a Jewish evaluation.

Kissinger was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Furth, Germany that he left, in 1938 at age 14, with his parents and a younger brother. His parents settled in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan and joined Congregation K'hal Adath Jeshurun, known as the Breuer Congregation. It represented the most stringent form of German Orthodoxy.

By the time Kissinger left the U.S. Army in 1947, he had stopped being a practicing Jew. There are many different kinds of Jews with many different degrees of observance, including none at all. The problem with Kissinger is that one can wonder whether he has, throughout most of his career, considered himself a Jew at all. According to Isaacson, in the early 1970s he told a Jewish friend: "I was born Jewish, but the truth is that has no significance for me. America has given me everything. A home, a chance to study and achieve a high position. I don't know what other Jews expect of me, but I consider myself an American first." In

1969, he bumped Helmut Sonnenfeldt from Air Force One with the explanation, "I don't think there should be too many Jews around." In October 1973, when Israel dared surround the Egyptian Third Army, he grumbled, "If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be anti-Semitic." At another moment of exasperation, he remarked that "any people who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong."

Now Kissinger may not have said the things attributed to him by Walter Isaacson, who is assistant managing editor of *Time* (though I have not heard of Kissinger issuing any denials) or he may have meant them in jest. Yet long before the appearance of the Isaacson book, many have felt that Kissinger was not comfortable with his Jewish identity.

There have been other American Jews who have risen to high positions in this country, such as Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter and Louis Brandeis. All of them were proud, identifying Jews and outstanding Americans who did not find it necessary to downplay their Jewishness. And this was before the Holocaust. None of them lost 13 relatives to Nazi antisemitism.

So what's Kissinger's problem? Nationalism must be part of it. Somehow Jewishness does not fit into his self-image with its egotistical needs, his craving for attention, his immense over-estimation of his intellectual gifts and his profound secularism. Kissinger is above all a realist, an advocate of *Realpolitik* and the balance of power for whom the humanities in general and religion in particular do not fit into his anti-spiritual view of the world. Stalin's crack about the Pope—"How many divisions does he have?"—could easily have come from Kissinger's lips. He has never been comfortable with a foreign policy in which moral issues, such as human rights, played an im-

portant role. In his view, the greatest danger is disorder and in most cases, bad government is better than no government at all.

Right after the Chinese Tiananmen Square slaughter in June 1989, Kissinger was preaching against sanctions, emphasizing the importance of keeping up good relations with the Chinese government and insisting that the Tiananmen Square outrage was an internal matter of no legitimate concern to the U.S. government. In a column later that summer, he wrote: "No government in the world would have tolerated having the main square of its capital occupied for eight weeks by tens of thousands of demonstrators." Even long-standing Kissinger admirers were shocked. During this period, Isaacson points out, Kissinger was earning millions of dollars helping American corporations establish business contacts with Chinese government leaders. A more clear-cut instance of conflict of interest is hard to imagine.

His role during the Yom Kippur War is more difficult to assess. There are those who believe he tried to delay U.S. shipments of supplies to Israel to prevent a decisive victory for the Jewish state. The balance of power had to be maintained at all costs. Curiously, it seems to have been Richard Nixon who, despite being enmeshed in the unraveling Watergate disaster, insisted on the emergency airlift. Going back to the biblical Joseph in Egypt and Mordechai in Persia, the just, wise and benevolent Jewish advisor to the non-Jewish ruler is legendary. He is loyal to the Jewish people and serves the best interests of the people whose ruler he serves. Henry Kissinger is not an outstanding example of this prototype.

*Michael Wyschogrod is Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Houston. He wrote The Body of Faith: God in the People Israel (Harper, 1989).*

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