1994_12 The Daily Collegian December 1994

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NEWS
Tuesday, December 6, 1994
Bulge, from Page 1
v farther west, as a result- this sud¬
den and fierce attack took the
allies completely by surprise.
Consequently, the Allied
"dash to the Rhine" rivereameto
a halt They would now be on the
defensive and forced to fight a
series of delaying actions. Gen¬
eral Dwight D. Eisenhower,
"Ike/ realizing this, ordered the
lOfst ^Airttorne Division into
Bas togne and elements Of the 7th
Armoredl$ivisian into St Vithin
order to help accomplish this
objective.
PirivateFirstClass(PrayingFor
Civilian) Jim Lider of the 1st Pla¬
toon Company C was there.
"All of the sudden about the
20th of December as near as I can
recall, they told us to get in our
half tracks...and we started head¬
ing generally south," he said.
Lider's unit kept driving on
through the cold night in their
open halftracks. .
"And it was cold. Boy, every¬
body was dam near freezing," he
said.
After stopping to eat in the
morning, they got back in their
halftracks and started driving
again.
Soon they ran into element of
* the 102nd Infantry Division and
eriher units retreating from the
advancing Germans.
About the time they got close
to St Vith, Lider's unit got into a
fire fight with some German para-
*    troopers who had been dropped
into area earlier.
That night, Lider's platoon
slept in some abandoned build¬
ings at a crossroads. The snow
fell heavily that night
The next day, they headed for
St. Vith and fought there as a rifle
platoon after leaving their
halftracks.
They and other units suc¬
ceeded in retaking the town but
did not hold it for long before the
Germans retook it. St. Vith
changed hands five times. .
The fifth time the Germans
held it as the Americans pulled
back and started fighting a delay¬
ing action.
The action at St. Vith cost the
Germans valuable time and
slowed that part of their offen¬
sive.
Lider's unit kept pulling back
and kept digging in and fighting
and pulling back again doing
everything possible to slow the
German's advance on die Meuse
River to the west
Eventually die 7th Armored
Divisiorr^crossed die Ambleve
River. To the south, the Germans
also met with success in their
offensive eventually surround¬
ing 101st Airborne Division at
the town of Bastogne.
The 101st Airborne would
have to be pried loose because
the town was the junction of sev¬
eral main roads.
As a result, the German com¬
mander "requested" that the
101st surrender at which point
the division's commander Brig.
Gen. Anthony C McAuliffe re¬
plied with the word "Nuts!"
The Germans never did take
the town. The Americans and
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Germans not only faced each
other as enemies, they also faced
everybody's enemy — the cold
weather.
Many Americans and an un¬
known number of Germans be¬
came casualties of the cold. In
many places the temperatures
dropped below zero degrees
Fahrenheit sometimes reaching
-5 or-7 degrees.
Lider became one of these ca¬
sualties. He had gotten frostbite
on Ids feet After coming off of
guard duty, "I took my shoes off
and that was the last time I got
my shoes on till long after the
Battle of the Bulge was done," he
said.
He wassent back to the hospi¬
tal on about the 28th or 29th of
December. The Americans coped
with thecoldasbest as they could.
"We generally put on long
handled underwear and then we
would put on the fatigue sweater
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Conference, from Page 1
Hores points to the example of
farmers harvesting com, who are
falling victim to machines that
can harvest it four times cheaper
than humans. If this is the case,
thendon'tbusinesseshavearight
to do what is best for theii com¬
pany?
"You can live in a society by
justifying its a business," said
Hores, but he feels that there are
two reasons why corporations
cannot use this excuse.
"Businesses have to take a so¬
cial responsibility in its commu¬
nities, and they have tostart think¬
ing in other terms - profits are
O.K., but super profits are not"
Horeshopes that this will help
with the passing of more busi¬
ness laws.
Right now, the national com¬
mission is taking clothing, food
and various other relief supplies
to the indigenous people of
Chiapas.
The other major problem is
the democracy in Mexico, or for
others, the lack thereof.
The people of Chiapas have
great concerns about the true-
ness of the election process.
"There was a tremendous
amount of fraud found in
Oaxaca," said Dr. Bill Florep, a
Chieano and Latin American
StudiesprofessoratCSU. Fresno.
Bill Hores is also working with
the committee.
The CLS professor feels that
this struggle will have the sup¬
port of many students on cam¬
pus.
"When die struggle in Chiapas
-was taking place, a lot of students
took an interest in the situation,"
hesaid.
He also said thatihe Zapatista
movement is planning to return
to Fresno in late January and will
hopefully hold a campus wide
presentation.
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