75ยข DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS 11 TISHREI 5755/SEPTEMBER 16, 1994 The Killing Fields Peace Process A Southfield physician returns from Zaire. ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR j Assessing the effects. break and asked Dr. Zingeser, "How would you like to go to Zaire? There's going to be an epidemic." How could he refuse? A Michigan State University graduate who holds a master's degree in epidemiolo- gy from the University of Michigan, Dr. Zingeser says "with public health, you're trying to make a dent in a huge problem." Israeli army nurse Dorit Naar works with a Rwandan refugee mother. Inset: Dr. James Going to Zaire "allows Zingeser. you to see an effect. are no vaccines for cholera) and a U.N. medical team, Dr. You can see real improve- everything to do with trail mix. Zingeser found nothing more ments." "Before I left, my wife took than a makeshift office when Dr. Zingeser previously me to a camping goods store he arrived in Goma. "They worked with the Peace Corps and bought me some wonder- were still putting up the walls. in Jamaica and with the ful pants," he says. "I also It was a madhouse." Cameroon Ministry of Health. stocked up on 'power bars' and Sleeping accommodations He says his best preparation trail mix. Those were essen- were blankets on the floor, un- for the Zaire trip had nothing tial." til the team moved into tents to do with getting shots (there Traveling with six others on KILLING FIELDS page 8 Bagels Ti4e Hide Tud Once a delicious symbol of our heritage, now its ingredients include assimilation. ARLENE ERLICH SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Story on page 41 JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER 0 RNS PHOTO/REUTERS ames Zingeser's days be- gan, and ended, and were filled, every few minutes, with hand washing. Soap and clean water are the best deterrents to cholera, which engulfed Goma, Zaire, this summer as hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees entered the African nation. Dr. Zingeser, a Southfield native and an epidemiologist, arrived in Zaire soon after the outbreak began Affiliated with the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Zingeser was working in Zaire with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees to help chart the spread and ef- fect of the cholera and subse- quent dysentery epidemic. Dr. Zingeser was in Atlanta when the Rwandan refugees began pouring into Zaire. CDC officials expected a cholera out- n the surface, a year doesn't seem like much in the history of the Middle East. But to local Jewish and Arab leaders, the year since the Israeli-PLO peace accord was signed has brought significant changes both locally and internationally. One sign of that change occurred Tuesday afternoon in the Detroit law offices of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone. There, leaders of the local Jewish and Arab communities gathered at a reception co-sponsored by the National Association of Arab-Americans and the Jewish Community Council. They met to commemorate the declara- tion of peace. Some 90 people of both communities mingled around a large ice sculpture of a dove flanked by olive branches. They munched on Middle Eastern food as lead- ers gave brief remarks regarding the im- portance of the event and the work yet to be done. "Peace in the Middle East, that had been seen as unobtainable, is now pos- sible. We must continue to take steps to- ward lasting peace," said Dr. Radwan Khoury, assistant director of the Arab American and Chaldean Council. David Gad-Hart, executive director of the Jewish Community Council, said discussions in the past year between Arab and Jewish groups in Detroit have been a direct result of the peace accord. `Two years ago, we never would have thought of co-sponsoring an event of any kind, much less one commemorating the peace process," he said. PEACE page 10 Apples & Honey A fun way to start the New Year right. Page 14 Kosher Carry-Out Six local spots offer meals you take home. Contents on'page 3 Page 28