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Volume XCIV, Number 45 University of Southern California Tuesday, November 8, 1983
Wiesenthal: Nazi pursuit past, present and future
By Marc Igler
Editor
It is said that many people die for causes while others live for them. Simon Wiesenthal has been living his for more than 38 years. He lives for the dead as much as he does for the living.
The famed "Nazi Hunter" realizes that his mission is more symbolic than practical. After all, he can neither return life to the six million victims of the Holocaust nor hope to punish the thousands responsible.
Since 1945, Wiesenthal has devoted his life to the pursuit of those who took part in the extermination of Jews during Worid War n. By gathering and preparing evidence, his research and actions have led to the capture of more than 1,000 Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Gestapo's Jewish Section, and Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treb-linka death camp.
SIMON WIESENTHAL
On campus Monday, he told an overflowing audience at Bovard Auditorium, that his is a mission of love, not of revenge but a warning.
"You want to know the reason?" he asked. "You young people are the reason...you who were bom after World War II. It's for your benefit, so you can leam from our tragedy."
The 75-year-old Wiesenthal, making his fourth stop on a fundraising drive that has taken him across the country, received three standing ovations from the audience and responded with humble bows each time. He speaks without a trace of bitterness and said he is "only a survivor who pays with dedicated work to remain alive."
Wiesenthal lost 89 members of his family during the Holocaust's six years. He was one of the 34 prisoners out of an original 149,000 that escaped death in 1945 when an American armored unit liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria. He had spent four years in and out of the death camps, and emerged from Mauthausen weighing 90 pounds. Shortly thereafter, he tried to kill himself. The scars still show on his wrists.
After a brief stint with the War Crimes Section of the U.S. Army following the war, he became a fulltime "Nazi Hunter" with an extensive informer network composed of former concentration camp inmates.
"I decided to live for the dead," Wiesenthal said. "These crimes were so enormous they cannot be punished. In my opinion, the trial has always been more important than the verdict. How can you punish someone who had millions of people put to death."
Over the years he painstakenly tracked Nazis of all rank, primarily in Europe and South America, where he and other officials nabbed Eichmann, who was executed in 1961 following a conviction for war crimes from an Israeli court.
Wiesenthal is still on the trail of Dr. Josef Men-gele, the Nazi physician known as the "Angel of Death," who sent millions of prisoners to the gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and killed thousands more in genetic medical experiments. He considers bringing Mengele to trial his ultimate objective.
He added that finding war criminals can be a frustrating and enervating task. Many have
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Simon Wiesenthal, discusses his 38-year career in pursuit of Nazis Monday in Bovard Auditorium.	%
Beer representatives compete for drinkers
By Joann Galardy
Assistant City Editor
Miller? Coors? Budweiser? Does it make a difference to most college students which brand they drink? Each beer distributor surely hopes so. In fact, in light of increased competition among the breweries, the loyalty of the college student has become an important commodity.
In order to gain the support of university students, two of the dominant beer companies employ campus representatives — university students who are paid by the beer companies to promote a particular brand of
Afghan denounces Soviet invasion
By David Jefferson
Staff Writer
It was three years ago today that Zaman Stanizai arrived in the United States after sneaking out of his homeland in Afghanistan disguised as a fruit vendor.
Stanizai, along with his wife and son, had been sentenced to die by the Communist government. He is just one of an estimated four million Afghans who have fled their country since the Soviet invasion in 1978. Others have been less fortunate. Tw» and a half million Afghans have lost their lives since the Communist takeover, among them 18 of Stanizai's relatives.
Stanizai had visited the United States as a student twice before. "The third time, I came out of no choice," he said.
Stanizai, 35, is now a graduate student in political science here at the university and a teaching assistant at the American Language Institute. His goal is to let the world hear what he calls the "truth" about the war in Afghanistan.
He serves as president of the newly-formed university chapter of the Afghan Freedom Society, a Los Angeles-based group that supports the anti-communist efforts of the Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan. In addition, Stanizai serves as editor-in-chief of Freedom, a newspaper published by the society.
"We support the Afghan cause for freedom," Sanizai said of the group. "We are not a political party and we are not seeking offices in any future government, nor are we supporting any individual for that purpose. Instead we are fighting for the people of Afghanistan."
Stanizai's group is sponsoring a speech tomorrow at noon in Bovard Auditorium by Dr. Samad Hamed, Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan in 1970. Stanizai said Hamed is one of the few government officials who have survived since the takeover. Of those officials arrested by the Communists, 90 percent have been executed, he said.
"The purpose of inviting Dr. Hamed is to reveal to the people of the United States and the students at USC the facts on Afghanistan as objectively as possible. Soviet disinformation has been very successful, even in the United States, by portraying the Afghanistan war as a civil war. . .or a 'holy war1 waged by religious fanatics. Dr. Hamed is going to talk about the issue of Afghanistan not in the form of propaganda, but in an analytical manner," Stanizai said.
"If anyone wants to see the true image of communism,: they should go to Afghanistan. I have had close contact with the government, and I know how communism works," he said.
"Most government and military officials were asked to join the Communist party when the Russians came in. If they did not, they were forced to retire. They are the ones who formed the backbone of the Freedom Fighters who are opposing the communists," Stanizai said.
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Zaman Stanizai, an Afghan refugee, lost 18 relatives in the Communist invasion. He started a chapter of the Afghan Freedom Society on campus.
beer and hopefully persuade students that one brand is indeed better than another.
"Basically, the job of a campus representative is to increase brand awareness so that when a person goes to a bar or a liquor store they will choose our brand," said David Rosenberg, * the regional college coordinator for Miller.
There are currently three college representatives on campus — two from Anheuser Busch and one from Miller. Their job is to push their product through university campus media. Practice called unethical
Some critics, such as national-ly-syndicated columnist Colman McCarthy, have attacked the concept of promoting beer on campus as unethical. An analogy popular among such critics is that the promotion of beer on campuses is like the promotion of cigarettes on college campuses during the 1920s. They point out that the marketing of cigarettes on campuses led to a nation of smokers — and lung cancer victims. They say a similar promotion of alcohol will lead to a nation of drinkers — and alcoholics.
But despite those fears, campus administrators have so far adopted a hands-off policy toward industry beer peddlers.
While Logan Hazen, director of residential life, does not believe that beer-sponsored events create a problem at the university, he does admit that events which are co-sponsored by beer companies can cause trouble because of the availability of alcohol and the number of people generally involved.
"I think (having events sponsored by beer companies) definitely increases drinking among students because it makes alcohol more available," Hazen said.
He added that events sponsored by the companies draw large crowds which are difficult to regulate because of the difficulty in obtaining proper identification from beer buyers.
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