B'NAI B'RITH LEO BAECK UNIT No. 1531, NEW YORK, NY

President

Michael D. Lissner
250 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10107
(212) 307-1499

Vice Pres.

Gerda Freitag
720 West End Avenue
New York, NY 10025
(212) 866-8627

Henry H. Noyer
137-14 Jewel Avenue
Flushing, NY 11367
(718) 261-9087

Hon. Vice Pres.

Ernest Fischel
120 Central Park South
New York, NY 10019
(212) 757-4175

Claire Strausser
210 West 89th Street
New York, NY 10024
(212) 873-8837

Counselor

Ernest Frank

Treasurer

Vera Weinberg
15 H The Cryder House
Beechhurst, NY 11357
(718) 746-9347

Fin. Secretary

Hilde Frank
61-54 78th Street
Middle Village, NY 11379
(718) 639-5357

Corresp. Secretaries

Gerda Freitag
Yvonne Herz
Marianne Lawton
Edith Sommerfeld

Recrdg. Secretaries

Eric Kalberman
Eugenie Weinberg

Trustees

Hannah Deutch
Curt Lindemann
John Steinberg

Guardian & Sentinel

Barbara H. Urbach Lissner

July 17, 1998

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

Attn: Ms. McFarlane

JUL 2 1 1998

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

I wish to refer to my recent and pleasant
conversation with Ms. Amy Issadora who informed me
of your return about this time.

In my capacity as Honorary Vice President and
Program Chairman of the Leo Baeck Unit of B'nai
B'rith, I would like to invite you as my guest
speaker for either Sunday, September 13, 1998 at
1:00 p.m. or Sunday, May 2, 1999 at 2:00 p.m.,
during our membership meetings. We will be
meeting at Congregation Habonim at 44 West 66th
Street, in Manhattan (across the street from Radio
Station WABC).

It would be a great honor and pleasure to have you
in our midst. Your kind and positive reply at an
early day would be much appreciated.

If you accept this invitation, please inform me of
the topic of your speech.

Please reply to me, Ernest Fischel, 120 Central
Park South, New York, NY 10019, telephone number
(212) 757-4175, facsimile number (203) 226-7552.

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JOHANN BÖHM
PRÄSIDENT DES BAYERISCHEN LANDTAGS

MAY 26 1998

Maximilianeum, 20.05.1998

81627 München

Telefon (089) 41 26-22 04

Telefax (089) 41 26-11 70

Herrn Minister a.D.

Prof. Henry A. Kissinger, Ph D
Suite 400
1800 K Street, NW

Washington D.C. 20006

USA

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor Kissinger,

es ist mir eine große Freude, Ihnen im Namen des Bayerischen Land-
tags und persönlich zur heutigen Verleihung der Ehrenbürgerwürde
Ihrer Geburtsstadt Fürth sehr herzlich zu gratulieren. Damit findet
seine Fortsetzung und verdiente Krönung, was 1975 mit der Verleihung
der Goldenen Bürgermedaille begann.

Es waren schwere Zeiten in Deutschland, als Sie in Fürth geboren wurden und Ihre ersten Jugendjahre hier verbrachten. 1938 folgte die Emigration in die USA. Trotzdem haben Sie den Kontakt in Ihre "alte Heimat" nie verloren - nicht zuletzt dank der sportlichen Erfolge "Ihres" Fußballvereins, der heutigen SpVgg Greuther Fürth.

Es würde den Rahmen dieses Briefes sprengen, all Ihre Leistungen und
Verdienste als Politiker, als Friedensnobelpreisträger, als Hoch-
schullehrer und als Publizist aufzuführen und angemessen zu würdigen.
Als Ehrenbürger gereichen Sie Fürth zur Ehre. Ich freue mich mit Ih-
nen über die Auszeichnung, die Ihnen zuteil geworden ist. Zugleich
gratuliere ich Ihnen zu Ihrem bevorstehenden besonderen Geburtstag.

Mit herzlichen Grüßen
und in "fränkischer Verbundenheit"

Congress of the United States

May 29, 1998

Reply to: Congresswoman Mary Bono
c/o NIAF
1860 19th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009

Hon. Henry A. Kissinger
1800 K Street, NW
Ste. 1021
Washington, DC 20006

JUN 0 4 1998

Dear Mr. Kissinger:

Based on the personal recommendation of National Italian American Foundation members, each year we invite several prominent individuals to attend the annual Washington NIAF gala as our guest. As chairman of the October 17, 1998 gala, this year I am pleased to extend this invitation to you.

The NIAF awards dinner is one of the premier annual events in Washington attracting nearly 3,000 people representing the broad spectrum of NIAF members from 42 states. We are proud that every President of the United States has attended our dinner since NIAF was founded. We expect this tradition to continue in October.

Our 1998 honorees will be announced this summer. Past recipients have included Danny DeVito, Al Pacino, Richard Grasso, Frank Sinatra, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Matilda Cuomo, Joe Montana, Leon Panetta, Gian Carlo Menotti, Nicolas Cage, Tony Bennett, Dr. Robert Gallo, John Travolta, Liza Minnelli, Lee Iacocca, Sophia Loren, Luciano Pavarotti, Perry Como, Joe DiMaggio, Alan Alda and others who have brought honor to their Italian heritage.

In order to confirm your attendance, please return the enclosed non-transferable invitation. If you have any questions, please feel free to call my coordinator, John Salamone (202) 387-0600 (fax 202-387-0800).

I look forward to hearing from you.

cc: John Salamone

Enclosure

Not Printed at Government Expense

WHO PARTICIPATES IN THE NIAF

I. NIAF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDEES (PARTIAL LIST)

Liza Minnelli
Lee Iacocca
Danny DeVito
Gian Carlo Menotti
Luciano Pavarotti
Perry Como
Daniel J. Travanti
Frank Sinatra
Paul Tagliabue
Giorgio Armani
Susanna Agnelli
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Joe Montana
Yogi Berra
Donatella Versace
Gianni Versace

Sylvester Stallone
Don Ameche
Richard Grasso
Henry Mancini
Frank Capra
Joe DiMaggio
Phil Rizzuto
Danny Aiello
Paola Fendi
Nicolas Cage
Tony Bennett
John Travolta
Mira Sorvino
William Cafaro
Al Pacino
Leon Panetta

Alan Alda
Sophia Loren
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Valentino
Rose Marie Bravo
Dolores Hope
Judge John Sirica
A. Bartlett Giamatti
George Graziadio
Edward DeBartolo, Jr.
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua
Chazz Palminteri
Jerry Colangelo

II. PROMINENT POLITICAL LEADERS AT NIAF FUNCTIONS

President Bill Clinton
President George Bush
President Ronald Reagan
President Jimmy Carter
President Gerald Ford
Hon. Donna Shalala
Gov. Michael Dukakis
Hon. Richard Gephardt
Hon. Albert Gore
Hon. William Perry
Amb. Peter Secchia
Amb. Charles Gargano
Hon. John McCain

Hon. Jack Kemp
Hon. Tom Foley
Hon. Dan Quayle
Hon. Geraldine Ferraro
Hon. Walter Mondale
Gov. Mario Cuomo
Amb. Ferdinando Salleo
Hon. William Webster
Amb. Boris Biancheri
Hon. Sonny Bono
Mayor Rudy Giuliani
Hon. William Cohen

31 Members of the Italian-American Congressional Delegation

III. PROMINENT GUESTS AT NIAF FUNCTIONS

Dom DeLuise
Frankie Avalon
Annette Funicello
Brenda Vaccaro
Connie Stevens
Joseph Bologna
Jon Bon Jovi
Beverly D'Angelo
Frankie Valli
Julius LaRosa
Faith Daniels
Paul Sorvino
Stanley Tucci
Paula Prentiss
Connie Francis

Ernest Borgnine
Tommy Lasorda
Ben Gazzara
Jack Valenti
Matthew Modine
Al Martino
Susan Lucci
Leo Buscaglia
Ray Mancini
Joe Piscopo
Willie Mosconi
Angelo Dundee
Enzo Stuarti
Mary Lou Retton

Ed Marinaro
Gina Lollobrigida
Bobby Rydell
Jerry Vale
Gay Talese
Bruno Sammartino
Isabella Rossellini
Robert Loggia
Jack Scalia
Joe Regalbuto
Ruth Buzzi
David Faustino
Talia Shire
Jake Lamotta

Franco Harris
Fabio
Rhea Perlman
Tony Franciosa
John Turturro
Corbet Monica
Chuck Mangione
Joe Garagiola
Vince Edwards
Larry King
Daryl LaMonica
Robert Davi
Naomi Campbell
Dick Van Patten

(OVER)

PHONE No. : 5003344

Dec. 29 1997 4:43PM P01

中国国际友好联络会

China Association for International Friendly Contact

Building D5-DG,Jian Xiang Villa,Tel: 62054260 62054261 6205-4282

Chang Ping Road, 62054262

Deshengmanwai, Fax: 62054263 6309-7372

Chao Yang District,
Beijing 100029,China

JAN 05 1998

Beijing, January 5, 1998

Dr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Twenty-Sixth Floor,
350 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10022-6022,

Dear Dr. Kissinger,

I hope this letter finds you well and you and your family have had a pleasant holiday season.

Do you have any plan to come to China again in 1998? I am sure you are coming as a good old friend of China and the Chinese people. Please let me know if you make trips to Beijing, so that we could meet again.

It is very kind of you that you have taken time out of your busy schedule to write recommendation letters for my daughter, Yang Yang. I want to express my sincere gratitude to you for gracious and generous help. Please find herewith the addresses of the relevant colleges and universities:

1. Harvard and Raddiffe College
   Office of Undergraduate Admissions
   Cyerly Hall
   8 Garden Street
   Cambridge, MA 02138

2. Wellesley College (early evaluation)
   Board of Admission
   106 Central Street
   Wellesley, MA 02181-9402

THE NEW YORK TIMES **OBITUARIES** SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1997

Jeffrey Moss, 56, Writer and Father of Cookie Monster, Dies

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Jeffrey A. Moss, a writer and composer whose accomplishments included dreaming up the "Sesame Street" characters Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 56.

The cause was colon cancer, said his wife, Anne Boylan.

Mr. Moss was perhaps best known for the many songs he created for the Muppets, including "Rubber Duckie," "I Love Trash" and "Captain Vegetable." These whimsical ditties became the musical bounce for an educational children's show seen by more than 120 million children in 130 countries.

"His wonderful lyrics and music reflected the mood and the style of the show — fun, energetic, sometimes sentimental and always entertaining," said Joan Ganz Cooney, chairwoman of the executive committee and co-founder of Children's Television Workshop, the producer of "Sesame Street."

As head writer and composer-lyricist for the show, he won 14 Emmys and wrote songs for four Grammy-winning recordings. His music and lyrics for "The Muppets Take Manhattan" earned him an Academy Award nomination. He was also the author of more than a dozen best-selling books under the "Sesame Street" name, including "The Sesame Street Book of Poetry."

He also wrote three popular children's poetry collections, including "The Butterfly Jar," "The Other Side of the Door" and "Bone Poems." In addition, he wrote "Bob and Jack: A Boy and His Yak" and "Hieronymus White," stories in verse.

When Mr. Moss helped start "Sesame Street" in 1969 with Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, and the musical director, Joe Raposo, among others, the intention was to appeal to both adults and children. Preschool children could delightedly imbibe the beginnings of reading and arithmetic while adults laughed at the skits and jokes, often performed by famous entertainers.

"He could mix the silly and the profound — not just for children but for adults as well," said Deborah Futter, who edited several of his

books for Bantam. "You laughed and you cried, it hit you on so many levels."

In an interview in The New York Times five years ago, Mr. Moss explained his approach. "I look at kids as being us, but younger," he said. "What makes kids laugh is the same as what makes us laugh. And losing something or someone dear to you is also universal. The key is to keep the vocabulary so children can understand it. That way you keep the kids watching and smiling, and it's something you watch yourself."

In several more recent interviews, Mr. Moss has said his perspective on his own work broadened in recent years as he watched his son Alexander, now 7, enjoy "Sesame Street." He is also survived by his wife and a stepson, Jonathan Smith.

Mr. Moss, born in 1942, grew up in Manhattan. He began writing poetry

and music at an early age. His father was an actor and his mother a writer, and they filled their home with classical music and Broadway show tunes. He graduated from Princeton University, and was offered two jobs by the Columbia Broadcasting System. One was as a news writer, the other as a production assistant for "Captain Kangaroo." He chose the latter. After six months in the Army, he returned to the show as a writer.

He was recruited as a writer for "Sesame Street," a new show intended to enrich the imaginations and intellect of children not able to attend preschool. He came up with ideas for characters in the manner of a fiction writer. In the case of Cookie Monster, he studied one of Mr. Henson's Muppets, then known only as Boggle Eyes. He began to see the character as humorous, with a childlike obsession.

Jeffrey A. Moss with Cookie Monster, a "Sesame Street" creation.

At Cookie Monster's debut hearing, the Muppet, played by the puppeteer Frank Oz, said just two words: "Milk" and "COOOOOOOOOOKIIIIIEEEEEE!" Colleagues recall falling off their chairs in laughter.

He also put songs in the mouths of Muppets. "I Love Trash," for instance, became the theme song of Oscar the Grouch, who lives in a garbage can and loathes sunshine. It goes: "I hate ice cream, I hate smiles. I love trash in great big piles."

Another "Sesame Street" writer, Christopher Cerf, said Mr. Moss brought integrity even to his silliest writing. "I go for the silly joke every time," Mr. Cerf said.

Mr. Moss began to write children's poetry when the actress Marlo Thomas asked him to write a piece for a book she was sponsoring, "Free to Be a Family." He wrote a poem called "The Entertainer" about a girl who feels put upon because her parents often ask her to perform at parties. Other poems then flowed, and before long he had 90. They became "The Butterfly Jar."

One poem in the collection is called "Meeting Strangers." It is narrated by a shy monster character who epitomizes the fear of not being liked by others. "They act like a monster when I'm the one who's new," he moans.

It was this ability to strike resonant chords that those who knew Mr. Moss mentioned yesterday. His literary agent, Esther Newberg, remembered the awe with which children at the American Museum of Natural History regarded him when he read from his book about dinosaurs. A friend mentioned how today's Princeton students, all weaned on "Sesame Street," would crowd around a piano and join him in belting out "Rubber Duckie."

Mr. Cerf said that the day he died Mr. Moss, who had hidden his cancer for years, was writing a new song for "Sesame Street." The title was "You and You and Me." It describes Elmo. Ernie and Telly trying to figure out who should go through a door first. "Jeff wrote from the heart and still was funny," Mr. Cerf said.

Daisy Anderson, 97, Widow of Former Slave and Union Soldier

By ROBERT MCG. THOMAS Jr.

Daisy Anderson, an old man's daring, who kept the flame of her own

done well since being mustered out of the Army in 1867.

After several abortive farming

tually acquiring a 10-acre farm in nearby Strawberry Park, where she raised geese and chickens, kept a garden ran a restaurant with a sis

Eric Breindel/News Commentator

Eric Breindel, 42, a conservative pundit who moderated the weekly "Fox Newswatch," which examines the media's coverage of major news stories, died March 7 in a hospital in New York. He was being treated for a liver ailment.

He was a senior vice president of News Corp., the company that owns the New York Post, and had served as editorial page editor of that newspaper from 1986 until January 1997, when he joined Fox. He had continued to write a weekly column for the paper.

Mr. Breindel worked as a legislative assistant to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) from 1982 to 1983, then as a correspondent for a Public Broadcasting System news program and the New York Daily News before joining the New York Post.

Eulogy for Eric Breindel by Henry A. Kissinger

March 9, 1998

Eric and I have been friends since 1982 when Pat Moynihan
introduced us. Yet when I learned of his death it was as if
our friendship had just started and now it was already over.
Whenever we part unexpectedly from someone so young and so
vital, a nagging question obtrudes itself: did we ever
convey to him adequately how much he meant to us? Of course
it is never too early to reach out to those we love, but
what Eric really meant to us probably made such reaching out
almost irrelevant. Modest, fragile, charming, intelligent,
Eric endowed friendship with a luminous quality; Eric
bestowed his friendship not as a contract of reciprocal
obligations but an organic part of his life.

Eric cared. I will never forget the pride and affection
with which he introduced his family to me at his 40th
birthday party. And being raised in a family marked by the
Holocaust in a way shaped his life. Eric devoted himself to
furthering a world where the inconceivable has been made
impossible by the battles in which he participated. And he
fought not only for the Jewish people but for all peoples.
A foe of totalitarianism and of hypocrisy that recognizes
only one kind of totalitarian danger, Eric was ever to be
found on the battlements of struggles for a world in which
the just could be free and the weak secure. And he insisted
that such a world required a strong and committed America.
Passionate in conviction, thoughtful and unemotional in
analysis, Eric was an activist on one level, a scholar on
another. He had an extraordinary knowledge of the movements
that had challenged human dignity in our time. And he
fought this battle not in terms of its contribution to human
worth and not by the manipulative method of assembling
fleeting political majorities.

Nancy and I loved Eric for his convictions but even more for
his melancholy humor, his charm and his unselfishness. When
after a severe illness Nancy went to recuperate in the
Caribbean and our host invited us to include a few friends,
we suggested Eric and Lally.

When Eric heard I was writing a volume of my memoirs,
including some episodes in which he had been on the other
side of the controversy, he offered to help edit the
relevant chapters. But being Eric, he did much more and he
did it brilliantly.