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or journalists, who are sup-
posed to be observers, not
participants, a certain op-
probrium is attached to be-
coming too personally invested in
an issue. So what was John Wal-
lach, foreign editor of the Hearst
newspapers, doing with all those
Israeli and Arab kids at a sum-
mer camp in Maine this summer?
Mr. Wallach, founder of the ac-
claimed Seeds of Peace program,
said his effort to demolish walls
between young people grew nat-
urally from his years of reporting
on the Middle East — and his
"personal compulsion" to counter
the dehumanization that makes
reconciliation in thd region so dif-
ficult.
He said that much of his recent
work, including his widely
praised biography of Yasser
Arafat and his book on 'The New
Palestinians," reflected his desire
to give a human face to longtime
adversaries.
"All that led to a certain frus-
tration," he said in a recent in-
terview, "because, as a journalist,
you're always writing about a sto-
ry without being able to change
it."
That frustration peaked with
the World Trade Center bombing
in February 1993: "I felt a com-
pulsion to say, 'Damn it, the ter-
rorists are trying to make
everybody afraid of doing busi-
ness with Israel, afraid of
progress.' There had to be an an-
swer — and the only answer that
made any sense to me was to get
the next generation together be-

fore ... [it was] poisoned by the cli-
mate of their region."
The result was Seeds of Peace,
an independent program that
brings together Arab and Israeli
kids at a summer camp in Maine
for learning, recreation and a
cathartic group experience. Mr.
Wallach tried to get the official
participation of Mideast govern-
ments, but was surprised at "how
threatening this was to most gov-
ernments in the region. There is
a real difference between leaders
signing declarations of their intent
to make peace — and the people
themselves really making peace."
Nevertheless, participants in
this year's program came from
five countries and communities:
Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Israel
and the Palestinian community.
In its two years, 170 youngsters
have attended the program.
"It's been the most gratifying
thing I've ever done," he said.
"When you see the tears flow, the
embraces — when you know the
followup will be just as dramatic
— you get the sense that you can
change things. That sense is very
vital to my own psyche."
Mr. Wallach's psyche was
largely shaped by his status as a
child of Holocaust survivors:
"They came to this country, pen-
niless, in 1941. I was born in 1943
— and can remember lying in bed
at night, wondering why I sur-
vived and 6 million didn't. I don't
know if it's guilt or just a sense of
responsibility — but I suspect
that has something to do with the
way I see this program." ❑

OSI Files Suits
To Revoke Citizenships

New York (JTA) — The U.S. Jus-
tice Department has filed suits
to revoke the citizenship of two
men accused of war crimes in
Lithuania during World War II.
One of the men, Aleksandras
Lileikis of Norwood, Mass., is
ccused of having been the chief of
the Lithuanian version of the
Gestapo, which was responsible
for particularly brutal atrocities
against Jews and others during
World War II.
The case against Lileikis, a 87-
year-old retired publishing em-
ployee, is being heralded as one
of the most important cases the
Justice Department's Office of

Special Investigations has ever
prosecuted.
The case cites documents with
Mr. Lileikis' name ordering the
arrest and transport of thousands
of Jews to their execution.
The other man charged,
Juozas Budreika, a 77-year-old
retired cook living in Gulfport,
Fla., is accused of participating
in Nazi-sponsored acts of perse-
cution while serving in the
Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft
(Protective Detachment) during
World War II.
The case against Mr. Budrei-
ka was filed in U.S. District Court
in Tampa, Fla., by OSI and the