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Kamenets-Podolski, and other areas. Such macabre discoveries continue even today. In 1997, 1,100 bodies were

exhumed in St. Petersburg, and another 9,000 were found in a mass grave in the forests of Karelia.

Stephane Courtois, et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press,

Cambridge Massachusetts and London England, 1999, between pp. 202 and 203.

It's time for CBS to produce its evidence.

If you have evidence which demonstrates that the Wiesenthal-Safer accusation is true, I

invite you to break your five-year silence by placing it beside the evidence that I have

adduced so that comparisons can be made and the truth can be discovered. Send me your

evidence, and I will publish it on the Ukrainian Archive web site the same day, and web

visitors will be able to judge for themselves who is right. If you have no evidence on

your side, I invite you to break your five-year silence by withdrawing the

Wiesenthal-Safer Calumny.

If you continue to remain silent, the public will continue to judge not only that you

were in the wrong, but that you lack the integrity to admit it as well.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Mike

Wallace.

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Morley Safer Letter 18 05Apr00 Flip side of French drinking

"In 1991, Morley Safer's '60 Minutes' report on the possible heart

protective effects of drinking red wine led to a 44 percent increase

in red wine sales among Americans." - David Jernigan

"While men in Sweden can expect to live 76.5 years on average, a

French man's average lifespan is 74.1 years." - Cardiologist

Michel de Lorgeril

April 05, 2000

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

51 W 52nd Street

New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

The weight of scientific evidence contradicts

your French Paradox conclusions

My letter to you of 21Apr99 on the question "Does drinking wine promote longevity?"

demonstrated that your conclusion that drinking 3 to 5 glasses of wine per day promotes

longevity could be seen to be unwarranted from no more than the data that you adduced in

its support. Today, I was astonished to read literature published by the Marin

Institute indicating that research literature that you have failed to bring to public

attention, either in your two French Paradox broadcasts or afterward, reveals that the

bulk of the evidence points to conclusions opposite to the ones that you advocated.

Below, I reproduce excerpts which illustrate the nature of this evidence from two Marin

Institute articles:

The Flip Side of French Drinking

by Hilary Abramson (c) 2000 The Marin Institute

Johnny Carson [who underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery last year] has some advice for

David Letterman [who is recovering from a quintuple bypass]:

"Drink more red wine."

That's the message Carson left for Letterman while he was in the hospital.

- Associated Press

One of the fathers of the "French Paradox" believes the time has come to "ban" the

expression his research team published in the mid '80s.

One of his countrymen, whose work helped make famous the paradox of having a high

saturated fat diet and lower than expected death rate from heart disease nearly a

decade ago on "60 Minutes," says that attributing a low rate of heart disease to

daily consumption of wine or other forms of alcohol is wrong.

A growing number of French health researchers have news for the rest of the world: It

is myth that the French are healthier than most everyone else because they drink. In

truth, the French are drowning in the grape and paying a hefty price for it.

"There is no scientific consensus today over the protective effect of alcohol," says

Dominique Gillot, France's secretary of state for health. "The link between the

quantity of alcohol consumed and increase of risk of diseases, particularly cancer,

is, on the other hand, scientifically validated."

The fact is that according to data from the world's largest study of heart disease,

conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) during the past decade in 21

countries with 10 million men and women, French heart disease statistics appear to

have been underestimated and the "French Paradox" overestimated. France's rate of

heart disease is actually similar to that of neighboring Italy, Spain, and southern

Germany - lower than many countries in the world, but hardly as remarkable as

reported in the 80s and early 90s.

The French drink one-and-a-half times more per capita than Americans and their death

rate from liver cirrhosis is more than one-and-a-half times greater than that in the

United States. According to WHO, France has the sixth highest adult per capita

alcohol consumption in the world. (The U.S. ranks 32nd.) Alcohol may be involved in

nearly half of the deaths from road accidents, half of all homicides, and one-quarter

of suicides, according to the French equivalent of the U.S. Institutes of Health.

And while coronary heart disease may be less pervasive in that country of 60 million