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Show A jg r' jgg The Daiiy Herald Tuesday, December 26, 1995 ir l-s- Sss. DOE did study of radiation effects iMjt" n . i n iroimcai leaoeirs qui t, I I 5! '- - 6- - L-Mt'- 1 1 !'J Sit 1996 elections 4 ft By PAUL TOLME Associated Press Writer Derek PerWARNER, N.H. shouse is the portrait of an increasingly disenchanted voter. Like many Americans looking to next year's elections, he senses the nation is at a crossroads and a mere election won't cure its problems. V! , price to pay to uncover the truth," said spokeswoman Carmen MacDougall. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Monday on the $22 million. The figure includes $6.2 million spent by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, the paper reported. The committee recommended that victims of the experiments be financially compensated in cases where the government or researchers deliberately misled them, or where there was no medical benefit and they were physically harmed. "My only reaction to that is, 0 o I 'Wow'" said Robert Newman, "We've got to change the wind, not the sails," said Pershouse, 60, who is struggling to rejuvenate his career after losing his job as a regional planner. A study for the Pew Center for Civic Journalism shows that anxiety pervades America and is growing. Voters are disenchanted with what they see as America's eroding values and economy, and they fear the American Dream is becoming unattainable and political leaders aren't listening or don't understand, the study found. In essence, Americans perceive a major shift in society, said Richard Harwood, a Maryland-base- d opinion researcher who conducted the study. They feel the economy is unraveling, values have disappeared and corporations lay off workers to please stock- ... class-actio- Alien smuggling ring disbanded WASHINGTON (AP) Authorities reportedly have broken up an alien smuggling ring that sent thousands of Latin Americans and Asians into the United States through Central America each year. The Washington Post reports in today's editions that authorities in Ecuador arrested Gloria Canales, 40, alleged head of an organization that traffics in illegal immigrants. Canales, who was arrested earlier this month, allegedly used bribery and an extensive network of airline officials, hotel owners and other contacts from Peru and Mexico to India and China to smuggle at least 10,000 people a year into the United States, according to unidentified U.S. officials quoted by the newspaper. The sources said she charged up to $6,000 a head for the Indians and .Chinese. Latin American authorities were acting on information from the United States, including from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which began monitoring Canales a year and a half ago, the Post reported. An INS spokesman in Washington, Don Mueller, said Monday night he did not have any information about the Canales case. State were officials Department unavailable for comment. Canales, a Costa Rican originally from Peru, was deported Dec. 12 to Honduras via Miami. She awaits trial on charges of smuggling, bribery, falsification of documents and homicide, the Post said. J. I J holders and fatten executives' salaries. By WALTER R. MEARS AP Special Correspondent To date, WASHINGTON there are no defenders of dinosaurs to take offense at the reproduced skeletons in the Museum of Natural History. These days, they'd probably be able to get the displays taken down, bone by bone. Exhibits that stir controversy and criticism aren't doing well in this time of the politically correct. The latest to be dismantled was at the Library of Congress, where black staff members were offended by a display on slavery in the plantation South. Earlier, the Library put off an exhibit on Sigmund Freud, blaming budget problems, although that happened following academic complaints that it would celebrate a man whose ideas have been discredited. Before that, there was the long-runni- dispute over a 50th anniversary exhibit of the Enola Gay, the 9 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. That one ended with an expurgated display of the plane's fuselage, after a museum director resigned to quell the critics. Differing issues; same result The assumption seems to be that museum goers shouldn't be shown things that may offend sensitivities, whether racial, scientific or patriotic. No matter that slavery is an ugly fact of U.S. history, that Freud was a figure of undeniable impact on 20th century thought, and that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki led to Japanese surrender and the end of B-2- ments of historians, who are not infallible, and who are limited in what they can teach by what they can learn. The slavery exhibit depicts life necessity of an atomic bombing. It is nowhere better exemplified than at the Holocaust Museum, opened in 1993, still overbooked by visitors,' and one of Washington's difficult tickets. It shows the horrors of Nazi German genocide against 6 million Jews and others on the plantation in photographs and narrative accounts by former slaves interviewed in the Depression-er- a federal writers project It went up Dec. 18 and was taken down before it was to have opened Dec. 19. Flews Analysis The library's senior adviser for diversity, JoAnn Jenkins, told The Washington Post that about 20 black staff members, and some white employees as well, were offended at what the display included and what it omitted, and felt it lacked historic context. It is a traveling exhibit, titled "Back of the Big House: The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation," based on a book by John Michael Vlach, a George Washington University professor who said it had been reviewed by three experts, two of them black. It was booked for university and historic site appearances into 1997; five prior showings were without controversy. In the Freud episode, the victims in the concentration killing camps of World War II. President Clinton called it "a sharp thorn" in the memory of nations, a monument to the determination that such things must never again happen. "We must make sure that from now until the end of days, all humankind stares this evil in the face," President Reagan had said in dedicating the site of that museum. That's the point of confronting the horrors, dilemmas and the errors of the past. History won't go away. The retelling of it, by written word or by museum exhibit, can't be done perfectly because it depends on the research and judg Clare-mon- t, speaking a different language. Politicians "don't have a clue as to what we're up against as working people," a Jacksonville, Fla., man said in the study. Talk about taxes, welfare changes and family values by the Republican presidential candidates and President Clinton illustrate the disconnection, Harwood said. The candidates believe they are touching a chord. But in fact, they are deepening the "cynicism and frustration and alienation that people feel about politics," he said. "Tax reform, family values, welfare reform (all) merely skate across the surface of people's concerns, and when people hear those kinds of labels, they say, 'These politicians don't get it. They don't get how deeply I feel these problems and how much they affect me on a basis,'" Harwood said in a telephone interview. A Mason City, Iowa, man said he would like to hear a candidate day-to-d- library's collection of materials and papers of the founder of psychoanalysis were to have gone on exhibit UTAH WITH 'We're becoming more like a lot of foreign countries where there is an extreme upper class, and a lower class, and no middle class," another Iowa man said. Voters want leaders to give realistic expectations and to propose solutions that are attainable even if they will take time, according to the study. Holding "town meetings" and group discussions with voters has become fashionable for politicians. But citizens who take part question whether they are being heard. "Are they listening to us because they really care about what we think, or because they want our vote?" a New Hampshire woman asked. The focus groups confirmed a growing anxiety documented in a survey released in November by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press. Across the board, from affording college to buying a home, voters are more worried about their futures than in the past. When it comes to health care, 66 percent of voters are "very concerned" they won't be able to afford it, compared with 50 percent last year. A third of voters are extremely concerned about losing a job or pay, up from 1994 and nearly double the rate in 1988. Americans to be made that the death and devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were lessons to the Cold War generations that followed, heeded in deterrence when far more powerful nuclear weapons were brandished but never used. jQS Heinne Systems by Bausch & Lomb Only the finest hearing products are worthy of our name. 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They feel politicians and corporate and media executives control their appear to be the aggressors in the display next year, but that was put off until at least late 1997. About 50 scholars had signed a petition against that exhibit, saying it would glorify a figure whose theories have been discredited. The Enola Gay exhibit created a long and bitter dispute over the morality and necessity of the atomic bombings of Japan before the surrender that ended World War II, without the American invasion that was being planned in the fall of 1945. Veterans' groups claimed the mm 3 Hours wnnmi three-hou- r, troubling. Suppressing them doesn't answer them. "Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it," r jm 1M ante community in the computer age. A close community protects its weakest members and leads people to act responsibly, said Pershouse, who was in his 50s when his employer was bought out and he lost his job. Harwood held 15 intensive discussions, called focus groups, with voters in California, Florida, Iowa and New Hampshire crucial states in presidential politics. The meetings were held in communities large and small, from Los Angeles and Miami to N.H., and Davenport, Iowa. were Participants promised anonymity to encourage them to speak freely. The voters said politicians were World War II. All raise questions that can be B l&TKIS : Museum exhibits face political correcntess challenge 1JIW, 1 M miNc: unsT ail of r feist "The fabric of our society now is far less stable," said Pershouse, who did not participate in the study. He feels America's biggest challenge is rebuilding a sense of AP Photo Derek Pershouse stands in front of his home in Warner, N.H., on Thursday. Pershouse lost his job when his employer was bought out, and at age 60, Pershouse is struggling to rejuvenate his career. 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