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To: JohnM who wrote (26651)	4/23/2002 10:03:03 AM
From: William B. Kohn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

What I find appalling was information I heard yesterday that the American Association of Forensic Pathologist offered to send senior fellows at no charge to Jenin to determine what happened and that the UN was not interested in their participation. I believe that not allowing American Pathologists with specific expertise and training in these kinds of situations is very troubling. If this is a political undertaking rather than a fact finding mission, everyone interested in the truth will be losers.

To: JohnM who wrote (26651)	4/23/2002 10:06:34 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

more optimistic than LindyBill Good Morning, John. I hope you are right, but I just don't think any UN sponsored group is institutionally capable of issuing a fair report on Israel. They never have in the past. Here is another report though, that I found interesting on Foreign Aid. It gives a totally different view of the outcome of the Marshall Plan. It says that the economist Tyler Cowen has noted that the European countries that received the most Marshall Plan aid after World War II suffered the slowest growth over the next eight years, while those who got the least aid grew the fastest. Cato Institute's Global Economic Liberty Project. The verdict is in. The model of a centralized command economy is discredited the world over. It brought ruin in Eastern Europe, a $450 billion noose of foreign debt in Latin America, and in sub-Saharan Africa per capita incomes that are lower in 1990 than they were in 1970. With the verdict on central planning so clear, the United States and other Western governments should dismantle the international insti- tutions that counsel and finance it--the World Bank, the related regional development banks, and the International Monetary Fund. cato.org