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Jews decry U.S. delegation pick.
Publication: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) Publication Date: 27-JAN-05 |
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COPYRIGHT 2005 Chicago Tribune
Byline: Russell Working
Jan. 27--Myron Kuropas was once known as a man who engaged in dialogue with the Jewish community. He took part in a Chicago-area group that discussed Jewish-Ukrainian relations, and he was appointed as an ethnic affairs specialist in the Ford White House with the support of some Chicago Jewish leaders.
But when the Ukrainian-American joined the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Sunday, charges of anti-Semitism dogged the adjunct professor from Northern Illinois University.
Back home in DeKalb after a trip to Kiev aboard Secretary of State Colin Powell's plane, Kuropas on Wednesday refused to back away from past statements that Jewish organizations have manipulated memories of the Holocaust to raise money and were prominent among the communists responsible for Soviet atrocities in Ukraine.
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