European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Tom Wicker latin nations debt burdens need direct cuts As president Carlos Salinas do Gortari snarls his term in Mexico his country is paying out $9 billion every year in interest and debt service on its $10-1 billion foreign debt. At Hal Rale about 4 j percent of its Export earnings Mexico like older Dent Ridden latin nations has virtually Noho Peol  Prosperity sooner or later in some of these nations Hal Means social upheaval and the loss of democracy. In Mexico harsh economic pressures compound the difficulties of structural Reform in an outmoded political system. Those who Giuld the debt moreover including sonic of the largest . Wants have no real Prosper of recovering the Lull amount of hair Loans so default by the i Alin nations would threaten the stability of Banks Here. While debtor nations remain so overburdened their economics cannot sustain the imports Hal would help redress the . Trade deficit. In i i interests of Huth debtors and creditors Hitre fore and for Shoih social and economic reasons a Solu Tion to the latin debt crisis has in be found sooner rather than later and As one of the first major efforts of the Tlush administration. Rolling Over the Dehl narc More that it. Emend.-, ing existing Loans while lending the debtor nations More Money la pay huge interest Hills Only worsens the problem. With so much of their outside earnings going into debt service. Atlin nations cannot mate needed investments in their own economic growth. I contend Hal Hie solution to the debt growth . Rosenthal relationship cannot lie in More debt Salinas recently Lold Larry renter the new York times correspondent in Mexico cily. In his inaugural address the new presi Dent said his highest priority was a return to growth though he would try to avoid confrontation. A bipartisan commission headed by former presi dents Ford and Carter in a report prepared for i Risi Dent elect Bush listed the debt problem among Thorp requiring immediate decisions and actions by a new president. In i9so, the commission noted Rich nations transferred a net of $35 billion to poor nations but now there is a s.10 billion annual be Transfer from poor to Rich  in Mexico where from i9jo to 19do economic growth averaged 6 percent annually a slicing Many of the foreign Loans that now Burden the mexican Economy Rohler reports that Gross National product has declined in some recent years by As much As 4 percent real incomes Are Down by More than 40 per cent and the inflation Rale is about 60 percent. The Ford Carter commission agreed with Salinas Hal a solution should Lead to a reduction of the incl outflow of capital from debtor countries. It also argued that a debt plan sponsored by James Baker the former Treasury Secretary now the Secretary of slate design Alc. Had been bypassed by Venis the Baker plan alled for increased lending Al lower interest and designed to help debtor nations improve economic growth and for Market oriented re forms by those nations. Falling commodity prices reducing Export earnings by developing nations limited lie plan s effectiveness. As a reminder in the world Bank and other lenders and pointedly to Brazil the Carter Ford report made a rarely heard argument thai Ileal Relief should be used to encourage third world countries to protect and not destroy their rain forests and other Environ mental resources.". After seven years of a debt crisis Hal has Only be come More threatening Many helpful Steps arc Possi ble but one real remedy is needed a direct reduction of the debt Burden borne by Mexico and other latin nations either by a write off of existing debt or by Long stretch outs and Sharp reductions in interest Rales. Last september Lite United nations conference on Trade and development called on commercial Banks to forgive Al least 30 percent of the foreign debt of 15 nation including Mexico and nine other latin countries. The Carter Ford commission did not go Hal far and agreed Wilh . Banking officials that country by you nary solutions were preferable. Both Groin s nevertheless made the essential Point. As Kenneth dad in of the . Conference put it the real threat stems from the continuous Posl Pine mint of development in the poorer nations. And the Carter Ford report  Hal the longer the problem continues the greater the Chance one of the big latin debtors will suffer a social political or eco nomic  a More accurate word would be disaster the consequences of which surely would be fell in the . Too. C new Rort Timoi the search for fhe murderers of fhe innocent. V1knna Well Good Friend Tell me what truths you have discovered in 40 years of Hunting Down lie murderer of the inn vol. Tell me what message does Simon wisc Plhal have that i can pass alone to those who fear that the evil in Man that spawned the a i Kilkus May spill out again to Iii fear is Pari of Simon Wiesenthal s life at 80 As it was when he left the gaits of a a i concentration Camp. On the table bulb to him n a Book he wrote listing each Day of the year and All Ilie pogroms religious murders and evil edicts against the jews that were committed that Day. Hiick year Niter ear fur hundreds of years the apartment at 6 Sah Orvisse. The we Singhal f of ume Lalion Center is crowded with the files of Nam he has tracked and those who could not be found. And in one room a Young woman works Al card drawers Wilh names of the organisations that Eam to be the Succes sors to the nazis. For the United Stales alone,.her files Lis Kongo a i groups. Bui of course pics Anthal has no Flash of comforting revelations to pass on and Chase away inc dark no Amu less. The conditions that he thinks made the nazis popu Lar arc not limited to any one time past and could come together again the preaching of hatred dictatorship a crisis of War or society the minority used As victims.  he has no convenient Solace for us he. Docs have some beliefs that could be useful. Never rest until the murderers arc dead or captured though it takes tin.1 Hunter s lifetime. Information is de Inse so survival requires vigilance. Perhaps most of All he believes in inc brotherhood of a ism s victims jews poles russians czechs Gyp sies All uniting to fight any threat or act of hatred against any one of them. This sounds obvious and Bland. Jul in often puts him in opposition to men of thought like Elie i Csc who Are sensitive to the sufferings of other victims but feel that jews must guard against Iri via ligation of inc nazi attempt to wipe out jews and Judaism entirely the holocaust. Later in the Dav pics Anthal attends a meeting of jewish and Christian clergymen and academics from Europe and the United states. It is held a couple of minutes walk from Stephan Slalz. That is where edicts casting jews Oul of the life of the country and denting their dignity As human beings were posted by the authorities of this City on May 12, 1267. The meeting is three Days of concentrated attempts to talk through again " the doctrine of hatred that connects staph Amplatz with  and leads Back to a Vienna that threw itself into a passion of Welcome for Adolf Hitler. There Are no easier answers in the Homburg meet ing room than Al the Sally Ortasse apartment but on the second Day the seminar sponsored by the Small band of european intellectuals called the Institute for the study of Mankind begins to soar above clerical restraints and . ,. .-.,this seems to be the heart Issue How to change what rabbi Marc Tannenbaum of new York Calls the culture of contempt with which christianity surrounded Juda ism for centuries with what Franz Cardinal Konig of Vienna pleads for the common ground of Mutual Dign ily based on religion and ethics. -. But ornate that mean More than pities the people at the meeting have to ask questions of one another. Several men and women catholics and jews ask Why the Catholic Church did not Muster its strength against Hitler. A West German professor asks if people who live under a terrible tyranny have the obligation to risk their lives by opposing it Eugene Fisher of the . Confer ence of Catholic Bishops says certainly those who Lay claim to religious or moral leadership do indeed. There is Praise for Pope John Paul s words of support and admiration for Judaism. Professor Michael Wyschogrod of new York s City University says he wishes the Pope would speak More of such things when headdresses catholics and not Reserve them so largely for speeches to the jews. To Iree or four people Al the seminar say that christianity made Judaism synonymous with satan dehumanizing the jews. Rabbi Tannenbaum says the dutch re formed Church did the same thing with South african Blacks. V -. Awhat about genocide practice today against such Rople As the kurd Why the silence of the world asks lord Weidenfeld of Britain. On inc last Day a polish priest Speaks briefly. He says Hal after Auschwitz we cannot give the same old answers we cannot talk about god As we did before. Wiesenthal and inc others listen each searching out his own meaning