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Guidelines for Americans.

Now wineries want to label their products as health food. In 1999 several wineries

convinced the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) to permit an

ambiguous label on wine bottles suggesting that people write the USDA to learn more

about the "health effects" of drinking alcohol.

Further pressure from the Wine Institute and complaints from Senator Strom Thurmond,

author of the warning label currently on alcohol bottles, prompted BATF to open the

entire issue of putting health claims on alcohol bottles for public comment. The

BATF is expected to hold hearings on the topic around the nation this spring.

To date, no U.S. government agency has recommended that Americans drink alcohol to

protect themselves against heart disease.

[...]

The push to put a health benefits label on alcohol bottles is a marketing ploy, pure

and simple.

[...]

David Jernigan directs international programs for The Marin Institute. He is the author of

Thirsting for Markets: The Global Impact of Corporate Alcohol.

Copyright 2000 Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol Other Drug Problems

The original article from which the above excerpts were taken can be found on the

Marin Institute web site at www.marininstitute.org/NL2000a.html.

What you are obligated to do

(1) Retract and correct The French Paradox. You must bring to public attention two

things: that the evidence presented in your two French Paradox broadcasts was

insufficient to justify your conclusions to the effect that drinking wine prolongs life

(as explained in my letter to you of 21Apr99, already cited above); and that broader

scientific evidence than you reported in your broadcasts, or since, contradicts your

conclusions (as illustrated in the Marin Institute excerpts above). Your unwarranted

and false conclusions advocating wine consumption cannot be left to continue inflicting

harm upon the public as they do today. Your obligation to journalism, to 60 Minutes, to

the public, and to your conscience, demands that you issue such a retraction and

correction without reservation and without delay.

(2) Disclose any conflict of interest relating to The French Paradox. Please

disclose any consideration that you may have received, or that 60 Minutes or CBS may

have received, from the wine or alcohol industries for your two French Paradox

broadcasts. In the absence of affirmations on your part that no such consideration has

traded hands, your broadcasts may tend to be viewed less as defective reporting than as

infomercials. Of particular interest would be the nature of any relationship between 60

Minutes and Edgar Bronfman Senior, chairman of liquor giant Seagram.

(3) Retract and correct The Ugly Face of Freedom. Every day, growing numbers of

people become convinced that you owe a similar retraction and correction for your

similarly incorrect and damaging 23Oc94 broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom.

(4) Disclose any conflict of interest relating to The Ugly Face of Freedom. Please

disclose the degree to which your broadcast The Ugly Face of Freedom was requested by

external sources, who these sources were, and what benefits to 60 Minutes or to CBS

accrued from complying with such external requests. Of particular interest would be any

request originating from the direction of Edgar Bronfman Senior. You need to take some

such step in order to disarm the suspicion that your broadcast was no better than an

eruption of the hatred toward non-Jews, and particularly of the special hatred toward

Ukrainians, which is endemic to Jewish culture.

Lubomyr Prytulak

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Wiesenthal Letter 14 Sep 4/97 The forgotten Bodnar

September 4, 1997

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Documentation Center

Salztorgasse 6

1010 Vienna

Austria

Dear Mr. Wiesenthal:

In your testimony on the 60 Minutes broadcast of October 23, 1994 "The Ugly Face of Freedom" I notice a startling

omission:

MORLEY SAFER: I get the impression from people that the actions of the Ukrainians, if anything,

were worse than the Germans.

SIMON WIESENTHAL: About the civilians, I cannot say this. About the Ukrainian police, yes.

That's all you said! You just left it at that! But in that case, there is something very big missing from your

statement, isn't there Mr. Wiesenthal - something very interesting, very important, very relevant? Something that the

60 Minutes viewer would have found to be quite remarkable? Do you know what it is?

It is the story of the Ukrainian policeman with the surname Bodnar the one who saved your life? Remember him?

Don't you think that this forgotten Bodnar is someone who should have been mentioned in your statement? And doesn't

the story of the forgotten Bodnar somewhat contradict your unqualified statement that the Ukrainian police

collectively were worse than the Germans? And if among what you say is the worst of the Ukrainians (the auxiliary

police) some are saving Jews, then what heroic acts can we expect among the rest of the Ukrainian population?

To refresh your memory about this story which seems so forgettable to you now, I may remind you that you were

about to be executed, but:

The shooting stopped. Ten yards from Wiesenthal.

The next thing he remembers was a brilliant cone of light and behind it a Polish voice: "But

Mr. Wiesenthal, what are you doing here?" Wiesenthal recognized a foreman he used to know, by

the name of Bodnar. He was wearing civilian clothes with the armband of a Ukrainian police

auxiliary. "I've got to get you out of here tonight."

Bodnar told the [other] Ukrainians that among the captured Jews he had discovered a Soviet

spy and that he was taking him to the district police commissar. In actual fact he took

Wiesenthal back to his own flat, on the grounds that it was unlikely to be searched so soon

again. This was the first time Wiesenthal survived. (Peter Michael Lingens, in Simon

Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 8)

But the story of the forgotten Bodnar is even better than that - Bodnar not only saved you, not only risked his

life to save you, but possibly gave his life to save you. I say that because Bodnar must have known that the

punishment for saving a Jew from execution and then helping him escape would be death. And how could he get away with

it? In fact, I ask you now, Mr. Wiesenthal, whether the forgotten Bodnar did get away with it, or whether he paid for

it with his life, for as you were tiptoeing out, you were stopped, Bodnar offered his fabricated story, and then:

The German sergeant, already a little drunk, slapped Bodnar's face and said: "Then what are you

standing around for? If this is what you people are like, then later we'll all have troubles.

Report back to me as soon as you deliver them [Wiesenthal along with a fellow prisoner]." (Alan

Levy, The Wiesenthal File, 1993, p. 37)

These passages invite several pertinent conclusions which a man of integrity and conscience would have insisted

on bringing to Morley Safer's attention:

(1) You yourself, Mr. Wiesenthal, can see a Ukrainian police official having his face slapped by a German

sergeant, which serves to remind you that Ukraine is under occupation, to show you who is really in charge, to suggest

that the German attitude toward Ukrainians is one of contempt and that the expression of this contempt is

unrestrained.

(2) You yourself see also that Bodnar's flat is subject to searches, indicating that although he is a participant

in the anti-Jewish actions, he is a distrusted participant, and a participant who might feel intimidated by the

hostile scrutiny of the occupying Nazis.

(3) But most important of all, you see that the German sergeant is waiting for Bodnar to report back. Alan Levy

writes that "Bodnar was ... concerned ... that now he [Bodnar] had to account, verbally at least, for his two

prisoners" (p. 37). If Bodnar reports back with the news that you, Mr. Wiesenthal, escaped, then how might Bodnar

expect the face-slapping German sergeant to respond? For Bodnar at this point in the story to actually allow you, Mr.

Wiesenthal, to escape is heroic, it is self-sacrificing, it is suicidal. And yet the forgotten Bodnar does go ahead

and effect your escape, probably never imagining that in later years this will become an event unworthy of notice

during your blanket condemnation of Ukrainians.

What I urge you to do now, Mr. Wiesenthal, is the following:

(1) Conduct a search to determine the fate of the forgotten Bodnar, and bestow upon him the recognition that he

deserves for his heroic action. Hopefully, Bodnar is still alive, so that the recognition will not be posthumous.

Hopefully, Bodnar did not sacrifice his life to save yours, as then your ingratitude would be truly black.

(2) Bring the forgotten Bodnar to the attention of Morley Safer at 60 Minutes, and ask for some correction of the

negative image created of the Ukrainian police.

(3) Search your memory long and hard and determine a version of the story which appears to be closest to the

truth, and then publish it as the official account, because at present, the wildly different versions in your several

biographies create the negative image of someone who just spews tall tales off the top of his head, without any

consideration for making them consistent with earlier versions of those same tales. For example, Mr. Wiesenthal, what

impression do you imagine is created in the mind of a reader who is told in Justice Not Vengeance that Bodnar saved

you alone and took you to his apartment, but then is told in The Wiesenthal File that Bodnar saved you together with

another prisoner and took the two of you to the office of a "commissar" which office the two of you spent the entire

night cleaning? I will tell you what impression is created, Mr. Wiesenthal - it is that of a person lying so

clumsily, that one almost imagines that he does so in order to be caught and exposed so as to finally be able to

confess and to purge his conscience.

Sincerely yours,

Lubomyr Prytulak

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Wiesenthal Letter 15 Sep 8/97 The elusive Lviv pogrom

September 8, 1997

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Documentation Center

Salztorgasse 6

1010 Vienna

Austria

Dear Mr. Wiesenthal:

According to your testimony on the 60 Minutes broadcast of October 23, 1994, "The Ugly Face of Freedom," in three

days following the evacuation of the Communist forces and before the arrival of the German troops, Ukrainian police

killed between five and six thousand Jews:

SAFER: He [Simon Wiesenthal] remembers that even before the Germans arrived, Ukrainian police

went on a 3-day killing spree.

WIESENTHAL: And in this 3 days in Lvov alone between 5 and 6 thousand Jews was killed.

...

SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia, the police, killed 3,000

people in 2 days here.

Now before going beyond what was actually said in the broadcast, we already see a discrepancy which I ask you to

comment on. Specifically, you are the expert on the Holocaust who is testifying on 60 Minutes, and more than that you

are the eyewitness to the Lviv pogrom - the only eyewitness - and you tell Morley Safer that 5 to 6 thousand Jews were