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in history to see that all this did
not happen by accident.
In 1919, your Christian
Socialist Chancellor Seipel called
for a "divorce of Austria from the
Jews." His colleague Kunschak
(who in 1945 became the first
president of your parliament)
called for the deportation of all
Jews who came to Austria after
1914. And if this was not possi-
ble, he suggested they be put in
"refugee camps."
But, you cry, that's history.
That happened ages ago.
Yes, but you never admitted
guilt; you never said you were
sorry; you never recoiled in hor-
ror or told your youngsters that it
was Austrian Franz Novak, Adolf
Eichmann's transport chief, who
organized deportation of 1.2 mil-
lion Jews into gas chambers, that
it was Austrian Odilo Globocnik
who organized the destruction of
Jews in Lublin, that it was Aust-
rian Gustav Wachter who de-
stroyed the Jews of Galizia, that
the destruction of Dutch Jewry
was directed by Erich
Rajakowitsch of Graz, etc., etc.
An accounting for these crimes
(only an accounting; an undoing
is impossible) would have meant
-punishing 600,000 Austrians. In
reality 13,000 were found guilty,
less than one out of 40. And what
happened to the rest?
Until April of this year, FPO
(Free Party of Austria) chief
Friedrich Peter, former SS
Obersturmfuehrer, whose unit
was involved in mass executions
of Jews in Russia, was a promi-
nent member of your parliament.
Former SA-sturmfuehrer Scrinzi,
who came from Hitler's "most
faithful county," Karnten (it pro-
duced 46,000 Nazi Party mem-
bers), was an independent
presidential candidate in your
last election.
True, you did have a chancellor
who was Jewish. Bruno Kreisky
went to great lengths to conform
to standards he thought were
necessary to be met. He called
Jews "ein mieses Volk" (a miser-
able nation).
Dear Austrian people, I hope
you realize that it is not so much
that the world's preoccupied with
your new president and his poor
memory but that the world wants
to hear from you. It wants to hear
an end to the lie that Austria was
a victim of Hitler.
One last word: Read German
President Richard von Weiz-
sacher's speech before his Parli-
ament in May 1985. He talks
about a nation's responsibility for
its history and reminds us that,
"Awareness of the past is not a
burden, but rather a liberation."
This remains pertinent for today.
Have you, as Austrians, the
courage and integrity to follow
his act?
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It may be a matter of a few
months, a couple of years, at
best, when we shall see a young
woman Jewish tennis profes-
sional who definitely is not pro-
duced from the typical "jock"
mold. This rising star is Elise
Burgin, whose father is a physi-
cian and whose mother is a
school teacher. Elise is making
her way rapidly up the interna-
tional tennis ladder.
While majoring in communi-
cations at Stanford University,
this energetic lefthander has
balanced academics, campus ac-
tivities, college and pro athletics
and managed them all ex-
tremely well. Fortified with re-
served optimism and extreme
abundance of skill, Burgin em-
barked on her professional ten-
nis career in the spring of 1984.
Her. 1985 tennis earnings
came to $102,943 while her
career earnings stand at
$185,858. Burgin recently won
the Wild Dunes International
Title played at the Isle of Palms.
Her winner's take was $13,000.
Her long-time coach, Lenny
Scheuermann, feels that Elise is
a little ahead of her schedule
with a world ranking of 27. "I
always thought she was better
than people gave her credit for.
I see her in the top five,"
Scheuermann said. "She's got
more shots than any other
female now in full-time competi-
tion."
Coach and protege are work-
ing on Burgin's serve and the
coach wants her to focus all her
thoughts on tennis. Burgin
maintains, "I just want to be
able to reach the potential that
I'm physically capable of acquir-
ing. In all honesty, there have
been times when my mind didn't
allow me to do that; we all know
how much the game of tennis is
mental."
A four time All-American,
Burgin held the number one
singles position at Stanford for
three years. She reached the
NCAA singles semi-finals once,
the doubles twice, and won the
doubles championship in her
senior year. Other honors at
Stanford included the 1983 Out-
standing Female Athlete of the
Year Award, and the Junior
Award for Academic Excellence,
a title she shared with football
hero John Elway.
Burgin's college successes vir-
tually have been dwarfed by her
recent professional results. In
1985, at the Virginia Slims in
Houston she was a singles
finalist — with defeats of Man-
uela Maleeva and Zina Garri-
son, two of the best women
players — and she won the dou-
bles championship with Martina
Navratilova. Additional
triumphs, including both a
finalist finish in singles and the
doubles title at Indianapolis,
have provided ample proof of
her stamina as well.
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