Oxford
Corners
Special
Care Unit

Created
with your
family's
needs
in mind.

For Memory
Impaired
Disorders

Pleading With U.S.:
Get Tough On Terror

Introducing Oxford Corners

Day Program

Services now
available

JAMES D. BESSER

Washington Correspondent

Phone 661-1700
for additional information.

Oxford Corners Special Care Unit provides .. .

■ Specially-trained personnel assisted by the
Alzheimer's Association.
■ Family participation in Care Planning/Family Support
Groups.
■ Flexibility to accommodate individual needs
including Respite Care.
■ Specialized activity therapies including art and
music therapy by Wayne State University interns.
■ Comfortable surroundings designed for the
therapeutic needs of residents including a new
courtyard area.
■ Visual modifications including the use of selective
colors, visual cues and pictures to create a
stimulating environment.
For information and a private tour, please contact
Kathy Everett at 661-1700.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1991

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Marry Levin 661-9715
Eva Kraus 661-0838

o most Americans, the
destruction of Pan Am
Flight 103 in
December 1988 was just one
more burst of horrible news
— a series of ghastly televi-
sion images and thumping
denunciations by politicians
who were long on indigna-
tion, short on action.
But for Susan Cohen, it
was the end of her life — or
at least the pleasant, happy
life she had known.
Ms. Cohen, a children's
book author, lost her only
child, Theodora, on the ill-
fated flight, and then watch-
ed with growing horror as
the U.S. government chose
to ignore the death of
American citizens because of
its improving relations with
Syria.
• Ms. Cohen was in Wash-
ington last week with a
group of families whose lives
have been touched by the
plague of terrorism. Their
goal was to send a hard-to-
forget message to
policymakers here.
"Our concern is that the
administration and Con-
gress need to take the issue
of _terrorism seriously," she
said. "With the upcoming
Middle East peace con-
ference, we are concerned
that terrorism has not really
been considered. We want
that changed."
Specifically, the group
demanded that this country
insist on the extradition of
known terrorists, that all
terrorist bases in Syria be
closed, and that no terrorists
now in jail be released as
part of any negotiated set-
tlement.
But what came across most
st rongly was the feeling of
abandonment that forms a
disturbing bond between
these families.
"Everybody feels the same
way," Ms. Cohen said. "We
feel that there's been a cer-
tain amount of grandstan-
ding by President Bush and
President Reagan. They'd go
out and make strong
statements about terrorism
— but nobody actually does
anything."
The families who have
been ravaged by terrorism,
she said, have been shunned
by the administration and
Congress.
"I feel as if we have been
treated as if we were an em-
barrassment," she said. "We
are a symbol of the failure of
the government."

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Ms. Cohen is particularly
troubled by shifts in U.S.
policy aimed at
rehabilitating Syria's Hafez
al-Assad.
Initially, she said, officials
in Washington agreed with
assessments putting much of
the blame for the Pan Am
bombing on Syria.
But as U.S.-Syrian rela-
tions improved in the wake
of the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait, the administration
made a clear effort to shift
the blame to Libya, she said.
"It's hard to avoid the con-
clusion that they're trying to
shift the blame to a country
we are not negotiating
with," she said.
"Our government wants to
make Assad respectable,"
she said. "We are asking
that if they deal with these
people, that they make it
clear that things aren't
forgiven and forgotten.
These countries have to pro-
ve that they have changed
through their actions. The

Ms. Cohen also
had harsh words
for Jewish
organizations that
did not want to get
involved in the
efforts of the
victim families.

fact is, the same people in
power now in Syria were in
power when these things
happened. It's like dealing
with Nazis."
The lives of the Cohen
family — her husband,
Daniel, is also a children's
book author — were forever
changed by the bomb blast
over Lockerbie, Scotland,
killing their daughter who
had gone to London for a
semester abroad.
Ms. Cohen turned herfeel-
ings of betrayal into
relentless activism.
She began to reach out,
first to other relatives of Pan
Am 103 victims, then to
those whose families who
had been affected by other
terrorist actions.
Represented at last week's
news conference were the
families of a Navy diver
killed in a 1985 hijacking, a
parent whose child died in
the Rome airport massacre
and several families of vic-
tims of the 1983 Marine bar-
racks bombing in Beirut
"We all have similar
stories," she said. "It's more
than outrage; we feel aban-
doned, forgotten. We feel

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