European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday september 27,1994 polled insecure Over Security Washington apr Young americans have More Faith in ufos than social Security according to a poll released monday by third millennium. The nonpartisan organization started by members of the so called generation x said its Survey tells a a chilling tale of Young people convinced that the social contract Between the generations has been according to its poll Only 9 percent of people Between the Ages of 18 and 34 believe social Security will have the Money to pay their retirement benefits. Just Over a fourth say social Security will still exist when they retire compared with 46 percent who think that there Are unidentified flying objects or ufos. A despite their Faith in ufos Young people know that the solution to the social Security funding crisis ? and the National debt crisis a will not fall from the sky a said Richard Thau third millennium executive director. Indeed a draft report by the congressional budget office concluded that no easy fixes to the funding problems of the social Security system right now the social Security Trust funds take in More than they spend. This year alone the co estimates that social Security will collect about $58 billion More than it will pay out in benefits. But during the retirement years of the baby Boomers the generation of people born Between 1946 and 1964, under current projections annual benefits will exceed re the congressional budget experts in their draft report conclude that improving the investment returns of social Security a Trust funds or investing to improve Overall economic growth will not solve the funding problem. In its report monday third millennium said social Security is a hurtling toward its next financial serious structural Reform is desperately needed it said but the political will to make the decisions has not existed. A and As Public Confidence in the retirement system deteriorates in Ter generational conflict becomes an increasingly Likely feature of the american Public landscape a it said. A a a social Security commissioner Shirley Chater said she was concerned about the growing numbers of younger americans who question whether they will Ever receive their benefits. A i am committed to rebuilding Confidence in the program a she said promising to educate the Public about social Security a value to society a was Well As providing americans with the straight facts regarding the programs sound fiscal third millennium said in its report that while generation hers have been labelled selfish and self entered its Survey demonstrates it is the elderly who care most about themselves even at the Cost of future generations. Its Survey found that one third of seniors think they Are getting less than they deserve from social Security though their benefits have far outstripped their contributions. According to the poll 82 percent of the Young people surveyed favored allowing workers to invest a portion of their social Security payments into private retirement funds that they could control. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago sept. 27,1984 a Lebanon s druse militia chieftain Walid Jum Blatt said in a newspaper interview that the United states should change its Middle Eastern policies or Quot nothing can protect its embassy from More bombing 20 years ago sept. 27,1974 a president Ford nominated Gen. Frederick c. Wey land to be army chief of staff succeeding the late Gen. Creighton w. Abrams. 30 years ago sept. 27,1964 a a 17-member civilian Council was inaugurated in Saigon and charged with creating a civilian government for South Vietnam and ending the nation s political turmoil. 40 years ago sept. 27,1954 a a typhoon with winds exceeding 100 Mph overturned a ferry off the Northern Island of hokkaido causing the possible loss of 900 or More lives japanese Media reported. 50 years ago sept. 27,1944 . B-29 super fortresses struck into Manchuria for the third time attacking targets identified by Tokyo radio As Anshan a steel Center 180 Miles Northeast of port Arthur and the port of Darien. E world War ii 1 50 years ago today sept. 27 194 4 German counterattacks Blunt attempts by soviet troops to push on from the Carpathian mountains North of Cluj red army units Force Germany s army group North into the heavily fortified Region around Riga Latvia. . Soldiers launch attacks on the German forts defending Metz in France the japanese defenders of Pel Eliu Are largely isolated in pockets on mount amur Brosgol. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world waru. Bison books corp., 1981u.s. Probes suspect in War crimes Boston apr Why press to strip a . Citizenship from a frail 87-year-old Man because says the government Alek Sandras Lileikis was part of a Campaign to kill 60,000 jews in Lithuania and half a Century Hasni to diminished its Zeal for prosecuting aging War the crimes these men committed Are just As heinous today As they were 50 years ago a said Allan Ryan former director of the office of special investigations the governments nazi Hunting Arm. A a a a a Quot. A. A although they Are old and although it was a Long time ago if we look the other Way we Are saying we done to care i an estimated 10,000 suspected nazis and their collaborators have entered the United states since world War ii according to government prosecutors and nazi Osi set up in 1979, has stripped . Citizenship from 50 people suspected of War crimes. Forty two of them have been deported. More than 300 others Are under investigation. The Pace of investigation has accelerated since the Justice department gained Access to Eastern european and former soviet archives. A they have succeeded in lying Low a Ryan said. A they have succeeded in avoiding detection. But they Are As guilty now As they were government officials describe Lileikis As the first senior lithuanian police official to be prosecuted in connection with nazi Era crimes. They claim he headed the nazi sponsored lithuanian Security police in Vilnius ordering the arrest of jews who violated the nazis anti jewish decrees and turning them Over to German execution squads. A last week the government filed suit to revoke Lileikis citizenship claiming he concealed his links to the nazis when he applied for immigration to the United states in 1955 and for . Citizenship in 1976. Lileikis has refused to comment. He has 30 Days to respond to the complaint. No court Date has been set. A whether he lives to be 5 years old or 500 years old if he is alive in Freedom then he has to be brought to Justice because that a not the Type of signal we want to give that you can get away with murder a said Rositta Kenigsberg president of the International network of children of jewish holocaust survivors. Neighbors describe Lileikis As a pleasant quiet Man who keeps to himself and Aleksandras Lileikis 87, accused of War crimes in nazi occupied Lithuania Speaks to a reporter at the door to his Home in Norwood mass., last week in a shot from to footage. Occasionally attends meetings of the South Boston lithuanian citizens association. He moved to Boston four decades ago working As a supervisor for lithuanian encyclopedia press and later As a House Painter. After his first wife died he mar tied Grace Zakitis Early in the 1980s and moved into her Home. Authorities began investigating Lileikis when they allegedly found his name on documents detailing executions and deportations of an estimated 60,000 jews. One file traces a woman and her 6-year-old daughter from his interrogation to their execution by the germans. A part of this is vindication a that if you commit such crimes you will be chased to the ends of the Earth a and part of it is for education purposes a that if you do such things not Only will you have no peace in your daily life but you will have no peace because the authorities will be after you a said Arie Bucheister the son of holocaust survivors and director of the american gathering of jewish holocaust survivors. Holocaust survivors and their children raise an additional argument for prosecution it serves As a lesson to people committing atrocities today in Somalia Haiti Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. A the lesson of the holocaust is not revenge a Kenigsberg said. A the lesson is to Stop putting people into categories to have tolerance and respect for one another. That a the Healing a the holocaust is a unique event a Bucheister said a but that a not to say that there Arentt Universal
