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Subject: RE: Reuter's Revisionist History and Waldheim the Nazi UN Secreta ry General

      I agree that these net clips are distorting history , but I was
surprised that you did not comment on Stalin as well.  he was a lot more
important than Waldheim.
 The  description of Stalin is  also revisionist bland-" brutal
industrialization" makes him sound like a capitalist repressing the
masses and "party purges"  like a  clever politician 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dawn Star [SMTP:dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 15, 1999 1:02 PM
> To:	burmanet2-@xxxxxxxx
> Cc:	burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Reuter's Revisionist History and Waldheim the Nazi UN
> Secretary General
> 
> This is what is happening to history on the net. get this,
> Waldeim, who I personally know, and had ocassion often to talk to
> at the UN. Not an honor believe me. He was a NAZI and manipulated
> because of it, only after he stepped down did the Israelis and the
> Americans, and for that matter the Russians, let the truth be known.
> It has been all through the press. This is revisionist history, and
> further, it is not a highmark of the United Nations at all. A former
> NAZI secretary general. You probably can find the photos of him
> wearing
> his boots. He may even have been SS, but I dont remember that. He was
> a
> commanding officer linked to atrocities.
> 
> One very wierd thing, his confidential special advisor at the United 
> Nations, a former secretary general of the socialist international,
> is a jewish american austrian. This world is a very strange planet.
> 
> dawn star
> 
> 1918 - Kurt Waldheim, former Austrian president and former
> secretary-general of the United Nations, born. On the same date in
> 1971,
> he was elected U.N. secretary-general to succeed U Thant of Burma. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Reuters historical calendar - December 21
> > 
> > 
> > LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
> > have occurred on December 21 in history:
> > 
> > 1118 - Thomas Becket born. As Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 he
> > fought with England's King Henry II over the rights of the church.
> He
> > was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
> > 
> > 1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet and scholar, died. Best
> > remembered as the author of the earthy stories taken from popular
> tales
> > of the time titled ``The Decameron.''
> > 
> > 1401 - Masaccio, Influential Florentine painter, born as Tommaso di
> > Giovanni di Simone Guidi. His realistic depiction of biblical events
> > made him a pioneer of the early Renaissance.
> > 
> > 1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman, novelist and twice
> prime
> > minister (1868 and 1874-80), born in London.
> > 
> > 1846 - The first surgical operation under anaesthesia in Britain was
> > performed at University College Hospital, London by Robert Liston
> who
> > amputated the leg of a servant.
> > 
> > 1879 - Josef Stalin born. After the death of Lenin, he transformed
> the
> > Soviet Union by brutal industrialisation and party purges. He
> > successfully repulsed the German invasion in World War Two and his
> > armies carried on to occupy most of Eastern Europe. He died in 1953.
> > 
> > 1913 - The first crossword puzzle was published in the weekend
> edition
> > of the New York World and was compiled by Liverpool-born Arthur
> Wynne.
> > 
> > 1917 - Heinrich Boell, German novelist, born. Noted for his novels
> ``The
> > Clown'' and ``Acquainted with the Night,'' he won the Nobel
> Literature
> > Prize in 1972.
> > 
> > 1918 - Kurt Waldheim, former Austrian president and former
> > secretary-general of the United Nations, born. On the same date in
> 1971,
> > he was elected U.N. secretary-general to succeed U Thant of Burma.
> > 
> > 1937 - ``Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,'' the first full length
> > feature cartoon in colour, by Walt Disney, was premiered in Los
> Angeles.
> > 
> > 1937 - Jane Fonda, U.S. film actress and daughter of film star Henry
> > Fonda, born. Her films include ``Klute'' and ``Coming Home'' for
> which
> > she won Oscars. She also appeared with her father in the film ``On
> > Golden Pond.''
> > 
> > 1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. short story writer and novelist,
> died.
> > Famous for his depictions of the jazz age, (the 1920s) he is best
> > remembered for his novel ``The Great Gatsby.''
> > 
> > 1945 - General George Patton, brilliant tank commander in World War
> Two
> > and referred to by his men as ``Old Blood and Guts,'' died after a
> car
> > accident in Germany.
> > 
> > 1948 - The Republic of Ireland Bill was signed by the president of
> Eire,
> > ending the association with Britain.
> > 
> > 1958 - Charles De Gaulle was elected the first president of the
> fifth
> > Republic of France with 78.5 percent of the votes cast by the
> electoral
> > college.
> > 
> > 1960 - King Saud took over the government of Saudi Arabia after
> Crown
> > Prince Faisal resigned as prime minister.
> > 
> > 1963 - Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer, died. Regarded as one of
> the
> > world's greatest batsman of his time, in 1953 he became the first
> > cricketer to be knighted.
> > 
> > 1967 - Louis Washkansky, the world's first heart transplant patient,
> > died 18 days after surgery.
> > 
> > 1968 - Apollo 8, with astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and
> William
> > Anders, was launched by a Saturn 5 booster from Cape Kennedy. Three
> days
> > later they carried out the first manned flight around the moon.
> > 
> > 1972 - After nearly two decades of Cold War hostility, East and West
> > Germany established diplomatic ties in a treaty which committed them
> to
> > good-neighbourly relations, paving the way for international
> recognition
> > of East Germany.
> > 
> > 1973 - The first peace conference between Israel and its Arab
> neighbours
> > opened in Geneva attended by Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the United
> States,
> > the Soviet Union and the United Nations.
> > 
> > 1975 - Terrorists of the ``Arm of the Arab Revolution'' led by
> ``Carlos
> > the Jackal'' raided the OPEC headquarters in Vienna and held 11 oil
> > ministers and their staff hostage.
> > 
> > 1979 - In Britain, the Lancaster House conference on Rhodesia ended
> > after a peace agreement was signed.
> > 
> > 1988 - A Pan Am Boeing 747 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland,
> > killing all 259 passengers and crew and 11 people on the ground.
> > 
> > 1989 - Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu declared a state of
> > emergency in the western district of Timis, where security police
> had
> > earlier crushed anti-government riots.
> > 
> > 1990 - Albania tore down eastern Europe's last towering statues of
> > Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
> > 
> > 1992 - 54 people were killed when a Martinair DC-10 charter plane
> > carrying Dutch holidaymakers crashed in flames at Faro, Portugal;
> the
> > plane was carrying 327 passengers and 13 crew.
> > 
> > 1993 - President Boris Yeltsin abruptly abolished the former KGB
> > security police, saying the huge force Russian citizens feared for
> > decades was ``incapable of being reformed.''
> > 
> > 1995 - In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways
> for
> > more than 15 years, 75 people were killed and 76 injured when a
> crowded
> > train ran into the back of another in fog at in the town of
> Badrasheen,
> > 28 km (17 miles) south of Cairo.
> > 
> > 1997 - Milan Milutinovic, Socialist candidate and a close ally of
> > Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, won 58.6 percent of the vote
> in
> > Serbia's presidential election run off.
> > 
> > 18:57 12-14-99
>