May 2001 Vol.4, No. 4

Contents Doctor's Firsthand Account of South African AIDS Crisis   by Cecil E. Maranville French Intellectuals See Germany as Potential Threat    by Joel Meeker Reversal of Fortune for Two African Nations    by Melvin Rhodes To Tell the Truth    by Darris McNeely In Brief...World News Review    by Cecil E. Maranville, Ken Martin and Darris McNeely This is the Way...What's on the Front Page of Your Mind?    by Robin Webber To Tell the Truth It isn't easy to face the ugly truth about one's past actions. It's even harder for an entire nation to come to grips with a collective guilt. But if there is ever to be hope that the past is not repeated, then everyone must look at the facts and learn to tell the truth. by Darris McNeely In the movie A Few Good Men the Tom Cruise character demanded, "I want the truth!" The Jack Nicholson character then screamed in reply, "You can't handle the truth!" The whole truth and nothing but the truth can indeed be hard to handle. Sometimes a nation of people must acknowledge a difficult truth about their past before they can move on to tomorrow. It's difficult for the Serbian people in Yugoslavia to come to terms with the truth of the atrocities committed in their name during the ethnic wars of the 1990s. Since the arrest last month of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, there is increased discussion of what really happened during the years of his government. Current president Vojislav Kostunica has established a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to examine and bring to light all the war crimes of the period. It is still unclear how effective this effort will be at overcoming the strong nationalistic feelings among the Serbs. Those feelings were shrewdly manipulated and will be difficult to alter. Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0105/truth.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Table of Contents that includes "To Tell the Truth" Other Articles by Darris McNeely Bosnia: _A 20th Century Retrospective:The Shot Still Reverberating Around the World Serbia: _Any Room at the Inn? _Crisis In Kosovo - A Mixture of Iron and Clay? _"She's Ours" _Balkan Vortex of Violence Threatens Kosovo _The Balkans: A Violent Century War: _Global War Will Strike Again _The Lord of the Refugees _"Neither Shall They Learn War Anymore" _"'Peace, Peace!' When There Is No Peace _The Little Country That Could _World News Review Jul 2001 _Political Correctness Hides the Truth _When 'The Great Game' Is Over _Asking the Tough Question: Has Religion Failed? _The Majority: Unknowing, Unaware and Unconcerned _Two Men and a Valley _A Brief History of America at War _What Have We Learned? _Has the Third World War Already Begun? _The Working Energy of Faith _60 Years After the War in Europe _Seeing It With Your Own Eyes _Food Insecurity in a Hungry World _War's Long Memory _War and Peace _"I Will Fight No More Forever" _Wars of Religion: An Ancient Scourge Reborn _The Coming New Religion _Jesus Christ's Olivet Prophecy: Where Are We Now? _Military Service and War _Introduction (GK) _War and Peace in the Middle East _A World Plagued With Human Suffering _Story Flow of the Book of Revelation _Neither Shall They Learn War Anymore _Does It Really Matter What You Believe? _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Mar/Apr 1997 _Deadly Diseases: Again a Threat to Humanity? _Instant Epidemics: The New Breed of Weapons _When Will Mankind Find Peace? _Staying Alert in a Dangerous World: India and Pakistan _Will History Repeat Itself? _An Overview of Conditions Around the World - Jul/Aug 2002 _Coming Calamities: Does God Offer Protection? _2003: The Storm Clouds Gather _'I Hope We've Learned Our Lesson ...' _The Horsemen of Revelation: The Red Horse of War _What's at the Root of War? _Wars: The Chief Man-made Disaster _60 Years After World War II: What Have We Learned? _War & Peace _Wars of Religion: A Scourge Reborn _Know Jesus, Know Peace _The End of War, Terror and Other Bad Stuff _Man is a Wolf to Man _A Personal View of the Kosovo Conflict _Peace on Earth? _When Will the Middle East Find Peace? _Children of War _Bomb Squad: Removing War's Deadly Aftermath _War to End All Wars _World War II: A View From Underground _The Wonderful World Beyond Today! Part 4: War and Peace Search Our Site Key Subjects Index General Topics Index Biblical References Index Good News Magazine Index Booklets and All Literature Index Home Page of this site