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YOUR LIFE
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MEDIA MONITOR
Waldheim Analyses
Forgot Moral Issues
BY BERL FALBAUM
Special to The Jewish News
The Western media, applying
traditional standards of political
interpretation, are analyzing the
"victory of former U.N. General
Secretary Kurt Waldheim" in
troubling terms.
Almost immediately after the
Austrian tally indicated that
Waldheim had received a major-
ity of the vote, the media collec-
tively reported that the charges
of Waldheim's Nazi past may
have helped him in the election.
All reports indicated that Wal-
dheim is almost certain to win
the election in the runoff he now
faces next month.
And political analysts, by im-
plication, are placing the "blame"
on those — primarily Jewish
organizations — who laid bare
Waldheim's somewhat checkered
past.
It is standard procedure to
analyze political campaigns in
terms of the damage done by ac-
cusations and charges of those
challenging frontrunners. Can-
didates and political observers
engage in all kinds of intellectual
and political arguments on
whether negative charges should
be raised, given the attention it
focuses on the accused and "sym-
pathy" votes it may give him.
They also consider at great
length the potential for a
"backlash" against the accusers.
But the dimension the media is
not considering is an additional
component in this campaign, and
that is a moral standard which is
not a condition in most other
campaigns.
What choice did the Jewish
community have?
It was an absolute moral im-
perative for the charges to be
aired publicly regardless of the
impact on the election. Indeed,
the outcome of the election was
not as important as making pub-
lic the sinister military career of
a man who not only aspires to the
presidency of Austria but who
held a leadership position in the
United Nations.
If the Jewish community, par-
ticularly the World Jewish Con-
gress, had decided for political
reasons to withhold the informa-
tion on Waldheim, it would have
been guilty of the same kind of
moral amnesia from which Wal-
dheim apparently suffers.
The implications of the election
results, of course, are troubling
and disconcerting at best. What
they say about latent — overt is
probably more accurate — anti-
Semitism is tragic.
Austrians cannot hide behind
such euphemisms as "Let the Au-
strians Decide," campaign slo-
gans that cloak the kind of men-
tality which gave impetus to the
Holocaust.
If Waldheim is elected, AuSt-
rians will have to live with their
decision and try to convince the
world that anti-Semitism was not
a factor. But the argument will
be a hollow one.
Meanwhile, the Jewish com-
munity and those who joined in
making public the nefarious
career of Kurt Waldheim need
not hang their heads in shame
Kurt Waldheim
over political strategy gone awry.
Rather they should be proud that
political considerations did not
deflect them from their moral re-
sponsibility.
Waldheim has stated that he
now expects the controversy over
his past to fade as the runoff
campaign begins. The hope is
that he is wrong. The information
regarding his record in World
War II should be presented to the
public from every conceivable
outlet.
Political considerations are not
equivalent to moral obligations.
The lack of action by almost all
segments of the world during the
Holocaust speak to the ugliness
of compromising because of per-
ceived political necessity.
The call "to remember" has no
asterisk which cautions "re-
member only if . . ." It just urges
Jew and non-Jew alike to re-
member.
And the events in Austria on
Sunday tell us why.
West Bloomfield
Salutes Michigan
A variety of activities are
planned in West Bloomfield dur-
ing Michigan Week, May 17-24.
Among them are celebrity
softball games, tours of govern-
ment offices and businesses,
school open houses an awards
breakfast and bike-a-thon.
Art Fair Slated
The Birmingham Art Fair will
take place_ 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. May
17 and 18 in Shain Park in Bir-
mingham, sponsored by the Bir-
mingham Bloomfield Art Asso-
ciation. Admission is free.
Erte Exhibit
Park West Galleries, 29469
Northwestern Highway, South-
field, will continue its "Erte, the
93-year old master of art deco"
exhibition and sale until June 1.
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