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Subject: [BPR] - May 23, 1999 TV Programs
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Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 08:52:43 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
2:16 PM Eastern
C-SPAN - Speech - Social and Political Impact of New Media
Length : 0 hr 36 min Event date :05/01/99
Drudge, Matt, Editor and Publisher, Drudge Report
2:54
C-SPAN - Speech - Media and Society at the Turn of the Century
Length : 0 hr 42 min Event date : 04/30/99
Brill, Steve, Editor in Chief 1998-, Brill's Content Magazine
7:00
FOX - INDEPENDENCE DAY *** (Sci-Fi/Fantasy, 1996) -- A
fighter pilot, a computer whiz and other Earthlings fight
back after 15-mile-wide alien ships zap New York, Los Angeles
and Washington, D.C. Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff
Goldblum, Mary McDonnell (180 minutes) (CC) (Violence,
Language)(Rated PG-13)(TV14)(From 7:00pm) (Ends 10:00pm)
CBS(?) - 60 MINUTES - Y2K report
8:00
CNN - NEWSSTAND: TIME - Investigators search for
evidence of crimes against humanity in
Kosovo.(CC)
9:00
HIST - SWORN TO SECRECY - "Weapons of the Shadow War" -
Tools of espionage: weapons, tricks and gadgets.(CC)(TVG)
PAX - BIBLE'S GREATEST SECRETS REVEALED
The Holy Bible: fact or fiction? Between the covers of the Bible
simmer history's most spectacular stories and claims. . .but are
they true? Walk with biblical scholars --and skeptics--through five
of the Bible's most challenging mysteries: Moses parting the Red
Sea, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, the Walls of Jericho
tumbling down, and the mysterious Ark of the Covenant. Watch with
new wonder and insights dramatic re-creations of familiar Bible
stories. See conclusive scientific experiments that put Bible
claims to the test, and compelling new evidence that the Bible is
indeed factual!
10:00
TLC - BREAKING NEWS - Local news reporters and
producers consider ratings as well as news
coverage.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - PLO statehood/Leonids
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:17:21 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
STATEHOOD DATE IS "SET": November 15 is Yasser Arafat's new
target date for the declaration of a Palestinian state. The ALGERIAN
NEWS AGENCY quotes a "senior Palestinian figure" explaining that this
is the date that the Palestinian National Council, sitting in "exile"
in Algeria, declared a state in 1988. He emphasized that this
declaration was based on UN resolution 181 of 1947, known as the
Partition Plan.
Meanwhile, Barak has wasted no time in called Arafat. In a telephone
conversation on Tuesday, Barak promised Arafat that the peace process
would be revived, according to Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rudeyna, HA'ARETZ
reported. (ARUTZ-7, ISRAEL LINE)
Tzemach News Service
Week Ending: 22 May 1999 / 7 Sivan 5759
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The following is a post sent out in October, 1998 regarding the
Leonids and their effects on satellites. If the PLO declares
statehood on Nov. 15th and a war ensues, maybe the Leonids of 1999
which occur around Nov. 16th will play a part in it?
-----begin-----
[Please note that the name of the comet is Tempel-Tuttle, not
TempLE-Tuttle although either way the name is very interesting
(especially regarding the need for dust of the temple to be used in
the bitter water given to an unfaithful wife--see under "wormwood" in
the BPR Research File area of the web site:
http://philologos.org/bpr)]
Air Force News Service
Released: 20 Oct 1998
14th Air Force experts explain upcoming meteor storm
By Capt. Robyn Chumley, 21st Space Wing Public Affairs
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- When the much-anticipated
Leonids meteoroid storm strikes in mid-November, the Air Force will
bank on a handful of experts to have prepared for the difficulties the
service's space assets could face.
Experts like Capt. Bruce Bookout, who first watched Leonids' bright
bolide meteors brighten the nighttime sky while growing up in Florida.
A self-admitted astronomy junkie, Bookout jumped at the chance to work
the first Leonids meteoroid storm in 32 years.
"My first reaction was, 'Oh, jeez, we've got a thousand questions to
answer,'" he said of the initially mind-boggling task. Bookout,
assigned to the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., was
the chief of space surveillance analysis for the 21st Operations
Support Squadron there. His charter was to examine what would happen
to the wing's ground-based missile warning and space surveillance
assets during the Leonids storm.
What are the Leonids?
It begins with the comet Temple-Tuttle -- a fairly "young" comet that
is a couple hundred thousand years old. Comets -- essentially dirty
snowballs -- start spewing off ice and dust as they near the sun's
heat, creating streams of house-dust sized meteoroids behind them. The
comet Temple-Tuttle is no different, except that its 33-year-long
elliptical orbit around the sun -- which takes it almost to Uranus --
leaves clouds of meteoroids right in the Earth's annual orbital path.
This intersection with the comet's meteoroids produces a celestial
fireworks display -- an annual meteor shower that appears to the
casual observer to emanate from the constellation Leo. It's a fairly
routine event, with these dust particles producing a show much like
the summertime Perseids. Ordinary, that is, until the Earth's track
around the sun crosses comet Temple-Tuttle's tail just months after
the comet blew past the sun, something that will happen Nov. 17.
The result: The potential for one son-of-a-gun sandstorm in space for
satellites. Thirty-two years ago, the Leonids produced an estimated
150,000 meteoroids per hour. Researchers place this year's storm count
at anywhere from a stormy 10,000 per hour, to the relatively tame 200
per hour. In comparison, an average shower -- Earth encounters about
12 of them a year -- tends to be benign, with only 10-15 meteoroids an
hour.
But in 1966, there were only 100 active satellites in space; now there
are more than 500. With grains of sand averaging the diameter of a
human hair traveling at 43 miles per second, an impact on a satellite
might put a hole in it -- or, of more significance, create an
electrostatic discharge that could potentially cripple a satellite's
electronics.
That's where Bookout and others like Capt. Joel McCray come into play.
Two years ago, McCray's commander sent him to a University of Western
Ontario conference led by noted Leonids expert, Peter Brown. He left
the conference cautiously concerned about what the 1998 or 1999 storms
could do to the Air Force's space assets.
For 18 months, the chief of the requirements element in the 55th Space
Weather Squadron, 50th Space Wing, Schriever AFB, Colo., immersed
himself in Leonids. McCray's early pivotal role was gathering experts
from each Air Force satellite system together to explore the storms
potential.
As early research unfolded, anxiety amplified -- particularly anxiety
with the speed of those pencil-tip size particles. Meteoroids normally
travel at about 12 miles per second; but because of the relationship
of the Earth's orbit to Temple-Tuttle's orbit, Leonids meteoroids
rocket past at the speed of a 22-caliber bullet.
The collision causes a "plasma discharge," which is when a particle
impact creates an electrostatic discharge that gives a voltage spike
on the surface.
If an impact occurs; if the resulting impact causes a discharge; if
the discharge gets inside the satellite vs. escaping into the space
environment; if the path of that discharge hits an electrical
component, then the result could be a fried satellite. But that's a
lot of "ifs."
Regardless of the uncertainty, the Air Force's Leonids Tiger Team -- a
team of space operations experts -- is considering and preparing for
each potential "worst-case" scenario, said Capt. David Hembroff, a
space environment operations officer at 14th Air Force, Vandenberg
AFB, Calif.
To minimize the storm's damage, the Tiger Team determined a
comprehensive series of mitigation strategies to protect space assets
and allow the Air Force to continue its vital missions. These
strategies include normal precautions such as powering down
unnecessary onboard electronics and reducing a satellite's
cross-section.
"Plan for the worst, hope for the best," Hembroff said of the Tiger
Team's approach.
Bookout likened it to classic military strategy. "We gathered intel on
the 'enemy,' and prepared for the 'enemy,'" he said. "We could be
preparing for the biggest nothing -- but we will be fully prepared for
something and hope for nothing."
Before the storm, satellite anomaly resolution teams [SART] will stand
by to quickly resolve any problem that arises. A SART comprises a
satellite system's contractors, engineers and operations personnel,
and it usually forms to analyze what happened to a satellite after a
problem occurs. Maj. John Kress, operations officer with the 821st
Space Group at Buckley Air National Guard Base, Colo., expects to be
part of a SART during the Nov. 17 storm.
Kress is the Tiger Team's Defense Support Program satellite expert.
Though he initially thought Leonids "a big deal," as his analysis
increased his pucker-factor with the storm decreased.
"Although there is such a difference in analysis, it all comes down to
probabilities," he said.
An unfortunate reality, Lt. Col. Doug Hine said of the probability
factor. "That's why we've done such a thorough analysis
across-the-board with our satellite systems, because you don't know
exactly how things will play out," the chief of current operations for
14th AF said. "We have to be prepared for every contingency."
While most of the key players on the Tiger Team were "subject matter
experts" already -- and astronomy hobbyists to boot -- Master Sgt.
Terry Rich joined the team with barely a surface understanding of the
difference between a meteoroid and a meteorite. A weather forecaster
by trade, and 13 years of computer programming under his belt, Rich's
role was to develop a 3-D computer modeling product to look at
potential places a satellite could be hit. His information helped
satellite operators compile a 245-page contingency plan.
Building that contingency plan was a tremendous learning curve for
Rich, noncommissioned officer in charge of the weapons and tactics
flight for the 50th Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB.
"I knew nothing about Leonids before this," he said. "Now I'm
considered one of the 50th Space Wing's experts."
He found it fascinating from day one.
"Consider the speed (of the meteoroids) and the damage it can cause,"
he said. "A grain of table salt could punch a hole in a satellite. It
amazes me that something that small and that light could do that kind
of damage."
Bookout considers the Leonids storm "a good thing."
"The more we're out in space, the more we need to learn about this,"
he said. "It will help us realize how many 'threats' in space will
make it tough to do our job. It's a learning process that we need to
go through."
It is an important learning process because the Earth will cross comet
Temple-Tuttle's path again in 1999 and some predict next year's storm
will be worse than this year's.
"People can debate all day long about which year will be worse,"
Hembroff said. "Let the scientists debate the scientists. We know the
what and when about the storm. We have to consider the worst-case
scenario -- that we're going to get hit -- then prepare for that, wait
and see what happens."
Two years of work for this Tiger Team, and it all boils down to one
nail-biting day. The chance that one of the Air Force's satellites
will be hit Nov. 17 is relatively small, Hembroff said. "But the fact
there is a chance means we have to be prepared."
via SEDSNEWS@postal.tamu.edu
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Subject: [BPR] - Proclamation to make Sept Nat'l Awareness/Preparedness Month
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:36:08 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
[To be presented to special Senate subcommittee hearing on individual
and community preparedness scheduled for Tuesday, May 25th in
Washington D.C.]
A PROCLAMATION TO MAKE SEPTEMBER
NATIONAL AWARENESS/PREPAREDNESS MONTH
Signed by seven Rogue Valley, Oregon mayors
PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the American people have always valued
industriousness and self-sufficiency as well as knowledge, training
and execution of preparedness methods and strategies, and
WHEREAS, our federal and state government through such agencies as
FEMA, the National Guard, and by mandate, the American Red Cross, has
always provided able assistance to those who experience disruption,
upheaval, and confusion, or otherwise suffer as a result of a
disaster, and
WHEREAS, in the event of a national or global emergency, our
government's resources may be unduly burdened or insufficient to meet
the needs of all who require some level of assistance or intervention,
and
WHEREAS, increasing awareness of possible disasters from earthquakes,
floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters, and the
possibility for some disruptions to normal way of life due to computer
interconnectivity and Year 2000-related problems make overall
individual and community readiness a wise and prudent decision, and
WHEREAS, individual preparedness will richly reward those who are
prepared and be of no negative consequence if little or no demand on
those resources is made,
NOW THEREFORE, WE do hereby proclaim the Month of September, 1999 as
"NATIONAL AWARENESS/PREPAREDNESS MONTH"
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we hereunto set we hand this ____ day of ____,
1999.
__________________ Mayor of the City of ________________________
_________________________ (signature)
and do encourage all of our citizens in Jackson and Josephine Counties
to prepare themselves to the level of their comfort, ability, and
protection, for periods of time when an individual, local, national,
or global emergency might occur.
--------------------
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scoundrel; a mischievous person: scamp; a horse inclined to shirk
or misbehave; an individual exhibiting a chance and usually
inferior biological variation; 2. to weed out inferior, diseased,
or nontypical individuals from a crop plant or a field.--Webster's]
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Subject: [BPR] - Bilderberg Meeting - media blackout continues
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 13:04:17 -0500
From: "freeflite" <emerald@dwx.com>
http://www.the-news.net/index.htm
Bilderberg Meeting - media blackout continues
With only two weeks to go before some of the world's most famous and influential men and women arrive in Portugal for the Bilderberg conference at Penha Longa in Sintra, little or nothing is known about their secret "world" agenda. More...
http://www.the-news.net/archives/bilburg22-5.htm
According to James P. Tucker Jr. writing in Washington's The Spotlight: "The US led Nato attack on a sovereign nation is part of a much bigger Bilderb erg plan than stopping Serbians from butchering ethnic Albanians according to a high U.S State Department source.
"'It is important to the Bilderberg scheme for world government to get NATO out from the limitations of its own charter' said the source, a reliable observer for more than a decade."
It would not seem unlikely that the current situation in Kosovo will be high on this year's Bilderberg agenda.
Just how strong the security around the meeting is likely to be, can be judged from an article published in the UK Press Gazette regarding a freelance journalist Campbell Thomas who attempted to cover the 1998 conference in Turnberry Scotland for the Daily Mail.
Thomas decided to gain neighbours' opinions and reactions on the secret meeting being held nearby. Thomas went on to interview a young woman who told him that he was in the hotel's staff quarters and that he should leave immediately, he duly obliged.
A short while later, two local police officers arrested Thomas. Thomas was kept in custody for eight hours. "I was treated in an appallingly heavy-handed way, like a common criminal, the holding cell I was put in was in a disgusting state, with excrement on every wall, and I was in that cell for the best part of five hours."
Thomas was charged with a breach of peace for putting the young woman he spoke to in a "state of fear and alarm", Thomas added "they took my shoes, my belt, my glasses, even the wedding ring off my finger. The whole thing was ridiculous".
Interestingly, Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, listed his attendance at the 1994 Bilderberg conference on his personal CV at the government internet site, which can be accessed at http://www.primeiro-ministro.gov.pt/p-curriculo.html, Guterres was made Prime Minister the following year, and his name has not appeared on the "guest lists" since that date.
Margarida Marante, an extremely successful television journalist with the Portuguese television channel SIC, is alleged to have been invited to attend this year's Bilderberg group meeting in Sintra. The television presenter declined to make any comments to The News through her press secretary.
The News was, after three days of making phone calls and waiting, given the following response: "Dr. Margarida Marante prefers not to respond (to The News' allegations that she will be attending the Bilderberg meeting), and with all due respect to our publication, she is very busy".
The secretary, apparently oblivious to the Bilderberg meeting, asked how Bilderberg was spelt, though she admitted that her employer did not appear surprised when told about the meeting and the interest of our newspaper, adding that no further comment was forthcoming from Margarida Marante.
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Subject: [BPR] - May 24, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 08:30:26 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
7:00 PM Eastern
HIST - 20TH CENTURY - The Menace of Nuclear Weapons
8:00
HIST - THE END OF THE WORLD - Researchers investigate the
role of miracles, visions and prophecies throughout
history.(CC)(TVG)
9:00
HIST - THE NAZIS: A WARNING FROM HISTORY - "Helped
into Power" - Aided by the judiciary and business world,
Germany falls under the control of
gangsters.(CC)(TVPG)
10:00
PBS - THE PRICE OF PEACE - The sacrifices of three
Americans in World War II.(CC)(TVPG)
DISC - TREASURES OF THE EARTH - "Amber and Pearls" - The
opaque gems of amber and pearl have unique
origins.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today (5/23/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 08:36:48 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Israel Court permits Jews to pray on Temple Mount
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Israel Wire
Sun May 23 , 1999 -- According to Jerusalem Magistrate's Court Justice
Shimon Feinberg, Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount of Jerusalem's Old
City would not constitute a significant danger to the well being of
the public. The court was hearing a case against right-wing activists
Mordehai Karpel and Oded Lipshitz, who were facing charges of
disorderly conduct on the Mount from an incident which took place
about four years ago.
About four years ago, the two arrived at the Temple Mount, Judaism's
holiest site, requesting to pray. Police informed them that Jews are
not permitted to pray on the site, which was placed in the custody of
the Moslem Wakf. The two stated they just wished to visit and would
not pray. They were permitted entry with a police escort. When in
proximity of the Al Aksa Mosque, they pulled out prayer shawls and
attempted to pray, an act forbidden to Jews.They were placed in
custody and charged with an unruly behavior in a public place and
interfering with police in the performance of their duty. The incident
was filmed by a Channel 2 Television film crew and it later served the
suspects who denied the charges being leveled against them by police.
Judge Feinberg, in his ruling stated that the Mount was empty of
Moslem worshippers at the time of the incident, and there were only a
small number of tourists. "The defendants were attempting to pray in a
secluded area and were not openly visible," he added. The defendants
were acquitted of the charges
Jordan's king to visit Kuwait
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: TampaBay Online (AP)
Sun May 23 , 1999 -- King Abdullah of Jordan has accepted an
invitation to visit Kuwait, the Kuwaiti Cabinet said Sunday. The two
countries have recently ended a nine-year rift. Unlike Gulf Arab
nations and several Arab states, Jordan did not join the U.S.-led
coalition against Iraq in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Many Kuwaitis
felt Jordan favored Iraq. Relations began to improve in 1996 when
Jordan distanced itself from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A Cabinet
statement said the emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, received a
letter from King Abdullah indicating he has accepted an invitation to
visit. It did not say if any dates have been set. King Abdullah
assumed the throne on Feb. 7, hours after his father, King Hussein,
died of cancer. Abdullah's wife, Queen Rania, grew up in Kuwait, where
her father worked as a physician. The family left after the 1990 Iraqi
invasion. Jordan's embassy in Kuwait reopened in March but is headed
by a charg e d'affaires, not an ambassador.
Three ecomonic agreements between Syria and Jordan
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arabic News
Sun May 23 , 1999 -- Syria and Jordan signed yesterday three
agreements to enhance cooperation in the fields of agriculture,
electricity and mineral wealth. From the Syrian side, Minister of
Agriculture Asad Mustafa signed the agreement, while Jordanian
Minister of Agriculture Hashem Shboul signed for Jordan. Sources said,
"The agreement runs for five years and will be automatically renewed
unless one of the two sides objects." He added that it calls for
establishing a joint marketing front for agricultural products that
include crops and vegetables. Syrian Minister of Electricity Munib
Saim al-Dahar and his Jordanian counterpart Suleiman Abu-Alam signed a
note of understanding that calls for enhancing cooperation in the
fields of energy, electricity and finishing the bilateral electric
link project. Jordanian Minister of Irrigation Kamel Mahadin and his
Syrian counterpart Abdul Rahman al-Madani signed the special
procedures for establishing a dam that was agreed on, providing
necessary money from some Arab and intimate funds.
Jordan, Syria sign agreement on oil
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz
Sun May 23 , 1999 -- In another sign of improving ties between Jordan
and Syria, the two Arab neighbors yesterday signed an agreement paving
the way for closer cooperation in oil and natural gas exploration and
energy sharing. The agreement allows for the use of Syrian expertise
in oil and gas exploration in Jordan, which has no known oil reserves,
Jordan's Petra news agency said. The agreement also envisages swift
measures for linking the two countries' electrical grid later this
year as part of a regional project already underway, the agency said.
Jordanian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Suleiman Abu-Olleim
and Syrian electricity and energy officials signed the accord in a
Damascus ceremony earlier in the day. Relations with Syria improved
when King Abdullah ascended to the Jordanian throne three months ago,
succeeding his father, the late King Hussein. The two countries had a
falling out after Hussein cut a peace deal with Israel in 1994. Syria
last week began pumping water to parched Jordan to help ease its acute
water shortages resulting from a severe regional drought
Orient House goes into high gear
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Sun May 23 , 1999 -- Following the national election upset for the
current administration, officials at the PLO Authority (PA)
headquarters in Jerusalem, Orient House, are preparing to take action
to stop what the PA calls "illegal Israeli construction in eastern
Jerusalem." A group of fifty protestors arrived in eastern Jerusalem
on Saturday, headed by Faisal Husseini, who hold the PA Jerusalem
portfolio. The protestors called for the immediate halt of
construction on the area known as Givat HaZeitim (Ras el-Amud) in the
area, which the PA plans to one day establish as its capital. In
addition, as Prime Minister Elect Ehud Barak prepares to enter into
negotiations to form a government coalition, the PA is renewing calls
for implementation of the Wye land withdrawals from Judea and Samaria
as well as the release of over 700 terrorists from Israeli prisons.
PA now appeals to UN to stop Israeli construction in Jerusalem
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Sun May 23 , 1999 -- Nasser al-Kidwa, the PLO Authority (PA)
representative to the United Nations, has called upon the
international body to order Israel to halt construction in portions of
Jerusalem being claimed by the PA. The PA referred to construction in
eastern Jerusalem, the project known as Ras el-Amud (Givat HaZeitim).
This, despite the fact the building is within the municipal boundaries
of Jerusalem and the fact the building is a private project. The area,
know by the PA as Jebel Abu Ghneim, consists of lands purchased by
American Jew Dr. Irving Moskowitz, who has over the past years
obtained all the necessary permits to allow him to move ahead with his
planned residential neighborhood, shopping facility and health clinic,
intended to serve the areas Jewish and Arab populations. Al-Kidwa
urged the council in his letter "to take immediate action in order to
reverse the Israeli decisions." He said the council's "lack of
decisive action" in the past may have encouraged Israel "to proceed
with such illegal measures."
PA wants Settlement activity stopped
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Sun May 23 , 1999 -- While PLO Authority (PA) Yassir Arafat waits for
Prime Minister Elect Ehud Barak to assemble his new government, the PA
has called upon Israel to take steps to stop the continued "expansion
of Jewish settlements," located throughout Judea, Samaria and eastern
Jerusalem. The PA officials are referring to the government's
construction in Jerusalem, primarily, the areas of Givat HaZeitim (Ras
el-Amud) in eastern Jerusalem, and Har Homa, in the capital's
southwestern corridor. The PA also objects to any construction in
Jewish communities ("settlements") located throughout Judea, Samaria
and Gaza, including building to accommodate the natural growth of
those communities. The current Netanyahu administration has ordered
the renewal of construction in Har Homa and Har HaZeitim of late, a
move that has been protested by the PA to the US Clinton
administration. US special envoy to the Oslo process, Ambassador
Dennis Ross, is expected to arrive in the region in the near future to
meet with the prime minister elect and to presumably set up a
timetable for the implementation of the Wye memorandum land
withdrawals and other Oslo-related activities.
Arafat to meet with Syrian dictator
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Sun May 23 , 1999 -- PLO Authority (PA) Chief Yassir Arafat is
expected to meet in Damascus with Syrian dictator Hafez el-Assad in
the near future. According to the report in the local PA papers, the
meeting will signify a bridging of relations between Arafat and
Damascus
via: bible_prophecy-news@onelist.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Religion Today items (5/24/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 08:53:29 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox leaders in Chile have
signed an historic agreement recognizing baptisms performed in
each other's churches. Each church will honor all water baptisms
"celebrated as a sacrament" in the name of the Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit, Latin American and Caribbean News Service said.
...Baptism is an unbreakable tie that unites Jesus Christ to all
Christians in all times and places, a document signed by the
leaders says. It recommends that a common format for baptism be
established. This is "a step along the way toward the visible
unity of the single Body of Christ, so that the world can
believe," the document says.
...Ten theologians from the churches worked for two years to
create the document. Signers include Catholic Archbishop of
Santiago Francisco Javier Errazuriz; Sergio Abad, Metropolitan
Archbishop of the Orthodox Church; Martin Junge of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church; and Bishops Neftali Aravena of the
Methodist Church and Jose Flores of the Communion of Brothers
Church.
...It also was signed by pastor Narciso Sepulveda of the
Pentecostal Mission Church, Bishop Carlos Navarrete of the Church of
the Evangelical Reform, Bishop Roberto Garrido of the Evangelical
Wesleyan Corporation, Bishop Sinforiano Gutierrez of the Free
Pentecostals Church, pastor Juana Albornoz of the Universal Apostolic
Mission Church, and Sister Blanca Vitalia Cancino of the Evangelical
Corporation of Sendas Antiguas.
A U.S. commission that will investigate violations of religious
freedom around the world is fully staffed, funded, and ready to
start work. Congress approved funding for the 10-member
Commission on International Freedom May 20, the office of U.S.
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) told Religion Today. The commission was
created as part of the International Religious Freedom Act, which
Congress passed last year.
...The commission will recommend a range of
policy options to the administration depending on the severity of the
persecution. Its findings will be submitted to the Congress, the
secretary of state, and the president by May 1 of each year. The
commission will "make a big difference in helping to identify and put
an end to religious freedom violations around the world," Wolf said.
...An ambassador-at-large will head the Office on International
Religious Freedom at the State Department. Robert Seiple (see link #1
below), former president of the Christian relief and development group
World Vision, was sworn into that position (see link #2 below) May 5.
...Commission members are Elliott Abrams, president of Ethics and
Public Policy; Laila Al-Maryati, president of the Muslim Women's
League; John Bolton of the American Enterprise Institute; Firuz
Kazemzadeh, an official in the Baha'i religion; Archbishop Theodore
McCarrick of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark, N.J.; Rabbi David
Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center; Nina Shea,
director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House; Charles
Smith, a judge on the Washington State Supreme Court; and Michael
Young, dean of George Washington University Law School.
A group of Native American and white Christians are walking
together through the Southeast United States. They stop at sites
that were ancient Cherokee homelands before the tribe was driven
away by British and American troops, and at places where treaties with
the tribe were broken, Gene Brooks, a member of the group, said. White
members ask the Cherokee members to forgive the acts of their
ancestors, then pray that God will forgive and heal divisions between
their races.
...The team completed part of its journey, a 250-mile
trek through South Carolina, on May 20. It will travel through western
North Carolina in the fall, and go to Tennessee and Georgia next year.
..."We have wartime records of what happened in these towns. It was
unadulterated genocide," Brooks said. It's time a generation
confessed these acts and asked for "the healing of our wounds," he
said. Forgiveness is difficult to extend, Ad Winn, a Cherokee, said.
"The anger that would rise up in you was overwhelming. When I
released it, then I could forgive in the name of Jesus."
Jordan's only Protestant seminary can buy land to build a new
campus in Amman. The school received approval from the
Intelligence Services April 29 after a nine-month wait, Compass
Direct News said.
...The school offers bachelor's and master's degree programs and
internships to train Arab church leaders. There are more than 100
full-time students from Jordan and 13 other countries, and about
one-third are women. Intelligence Services officials expelled three
students from Jordan this year. They are former Muslims who converted
to Christianity
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Subject: [BPR] - Barak, Arafat in accord on Jerusalem
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Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:39:36 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
05/23/99- Updated 10:48 PM ET
Barak, Arafat in accord on Jerusalem
By Matthew Kalman, USA TODAY
JERUSALEM - Israeli prime minister-elect Ehud Barak
and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have reached
an outline of an historic agreement on the future
of Jerusalem, senior Israeli and Palestinian
officials told USA TODAY Sunday.
If a final text can be adopted by legislatures on
both sides, it would remove one of the thorniest
impediments to a final peace agreement between
Israel and the Palestinians.
Arafat has declared his intention to establish a
state with Jerusalem as its capital. Barak has
vowed never to re-divide the city. The compromise
means that each side could claim it has achieved
its aim.
Under terms of the agreement, Arafat is prepared to
give up his claim to large parts of Arab East
Jerusalem in exchange for control of the 150,000
Palestinians living in the city, as well as several
religious sites, the officials said.
Israel's new Labor government also would not oppose
Arafat's intention to declare a Palestinian state
by the end of this year with its capital in Abu
Dis, a village two miles east of the Old City, the
officials said. The area was handed over to the
Palestinians in 1996.
Abu Dis lies just outside the municipal boundary of
Jerusalem as defined by Israel since it captured
the eastern half of the city from Jordan in the
1967 Six-Day War.
But the Palestinians can also claim that Abu Dis is
within the city of Jerusalem because it falls
within administrative boundaries recognized by the
Ottoman Empire from 1516 to 1917. Israel would
agree not to challenge that interpretation.
But the deal is far from done. Barak still needs to
form a coalition government that would present the
plan to a new Israeli parliament, or Knesset. Only
then, will the Knesset begin debating the plan.
Talks will begin Monday on forming a form a
coalition from among the record 15 political
parties who won seats in the Knesset.
The question of Jerusalem, with its holy sites
sacred to Christians, Jews and Muslims, has always
been the most problematic issue in any potential
peace agreement. Both the Palestinians and Israelis
have vowed to have Jerusalem as their capital.
Senior Palestinian officials said the outline of
the agreement means that they are closer than ever
to fulfilling Arafat's goal to pray at the Al-Aqsa
mosque in Jerusalem.
The new Palestinian parliament building under
construction now in Abu Dis includes an office for
Arafat with a view to the Old City and the al Aqsa
mosque.
Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials confirmed
that the two sides had agreed in principle that no
land in East Jerusalem would be handed over to the
Palestinians.
"Jerusalem shall remain the eternal and undivided
capital of Israel," Barak said. "On this question
there is no room for doubt, nor any political
haggling. Jerusalem was, is, and will remain the
united capital of our nation."
The White House Sunday refused comment on the
report.
Under the plan, Israeli and Palestinian officials
said that the Palestinian flag will be allowed to
fly over several of Jerusalem's holy sites, which
will effectively have the same legal status as
foreign embassies.
It would also establish a safe passage corridor
from Abu Dis through East Jerusalem so that
Palestinians from the West Bank of the Jordan River
can travel to the Old City of Jerusalem without
having to pass through Israeli security
checkpoints.
Palestinian and Labor party leaders worked out the
agreement in secret meetings held in European
capitals.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/nwssun03.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - Statfor Weekly Analysis May 24, 1999
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Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 09:26:06 -0500
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STRATFOR's
Global Intelligence Update
Weekly Analysis May 24, 1999
http://www.stratfor.com
Israel, Ehud Barak and the non-Revolution in Israeli Foreign
Policy
Summary:
Outside of Israel, from Damascus to Washington, the election of
Ehud Barak is being hailed as the rebirth of the peace process.
The process will be reborn, but the levels of optimism are
unwarranted. The 1999 election had less to do with foreign policy
than it did with fundamental domestic issues, particularly
whether Israel is a secular or religious nation. Even on
domestic issues, the outcome of the election was not particularly
clear. However, given Barak's domestic agenda, he may have less
room for maneuver than foreigners think. With Clinton urgently
in need of a foreign policy triumph in the next 18 months, this
points to increased U.S.-Israeli tension once the honeymoon is
over.
Analysis:
Most outside observers welcomed the victory of Ehud Barak in
Israel's elections last week. Everyone from the United States to
Syria welcomed the fall of Benyamin Netanyahu, who was regarded
as the main obstacle to a comprehensive peace agreement in the
Middle East. Barak's election, it has been immediately assumed,
means greater flexibility on a host of issues, from the
management of Israel's withdrawal from Southern Lebanon to
openness to Palestinian statehood and, finally, a peace treaty
with Syria, even one involving the return of the Golan. The
assumption has been that Barak and a government dominated by
Israel's Labor Party was more likely to reach accommodation on
these issues than had the Netanyahu-Likud government.
There is no doubt that Barak is more personally committed to
reaching an accommodation. This does not mean that he will
succeed or that he is as flexible as outsiders might think. But
the most important error most observers are making about the
election was that it had to do with Israel's foreign and defense
policy. Obviously these were elements in campaign, but not as
decisive has outside observers might think or even that the
rhetoric of the campaign might indicate. In a very real way, for
the first time in fifty years, national security was not at stake
in the election. National identity was.
The central issue in the election was the relationship between
secularists and religionists. Israel, like many countries in the
world, is divided into two general factions. There are those who
see Israel as the homeland for ethnic Jews, understood as all
those who could make a genealogical claim to Jewish descent.
Beyond that, the secularists saw the State of Israel, like other
Western states, as being essentially neutral on matters of
religion. To be somewhat more precise, it was understood that
one could be Jewish without practicing Jewish ritual law or even
believing in the Jewish God. The state was seen as the guardian
of rights and freedoms, and in some vague sense as the heir to
some Jewish tradition, but a fundamental distinction was drawn
between Israeli citizenship and Jewish religiosity.
There were three factions that were directly responsible for the
founding of Israel. All three were secular. There was the
liberal democratic tradition embodied by Theodor Herzl, founder
of Zionism, who was a nationalist in the simplest sense of the
term. There was the socialist tradition, embodied by David Ben-
Gurion, first Prime Minister, that was wholly secular. Finally,
there was the romantic nationalist tradition, embodied by
Menachem Begin, which flirted with religion and could comfortably
ally itself with the religious, but which was not really
religious in terms of its own commitment to using Jewish law as a
substitute for secular law.
It must be remembered that the most profoundly orthodox Jews
opposed the founding of an independent, secular Israel. Beyond
the theological claim that the creation of Israel had to be the
work of the Messiah and not of men, there was a deep suspicion to
the motives of the secularists creating Israel. The extreme
orthodox saw the distinction between Israeli citizenship and
Jewish ethnicity on the one side, and Jewish religious practices
on the other, with the secularists importing alien teachings from
the French and American revolutions into Jewish culture. Israel
was, in this sense, anti-Jewish.
Most of the anti-Zionist Orthodox made an interesting shift
following the founding of Israel. They had opposed the creation
of Israel as blasphemy. Once Israel was created, they were no
longer participating in a blasphemous act. Israel was now a fact
and participating in its political life was not a violation of
Jewish law. They participated deeply and effectively. They were
aided by the fact that Israel was divided from its founding
between two factions. On the one side, there was the dominant
socialist faction. On the other side, there were the romantic
nationalists in uneasy, occasional alliance with the small,
liberal faction.
Throughout the period from 1948-1973, the socialists dominated
Israeli political life. The fundamental issue was foreign policy
and national defense. Internally, the massive, inefficient trade
union movement dominated economic life and its patronage helped
keep the Labor political machine in power. However, that was a
trivial matter compared with the survival of Israel in an
extraordinarily dangerous environment. Labor's ability to
project itself as the most skillful manager of foreign policy and
national security kept it in power for a generation.
However, it must be remembered that even during the period of
political hegemony, the socialists were forced to form coalitions
with religious parties. The reason had to do with the peculiar
electoral system created at the founding of Israel, called
proportional representation. Voters cast ballots for political
parties nationally. Any party that received, on a national
basis, a very low threshold of votes, received a seat in the
Knesset. Parties with a bit more than 1 or 2 percent of the
votes were seated in the Knesset. The result was a multiplicity
of parties, no clear majority for anyone and political wheeling
and dealing that would have embarrassed Boss Tweed.
The net result of this system is that small minority parties
became indispensable for creating governments. The small
religious parties, divided among themselves along doctrinal lines
and cults of personality, represented a small minority in Israeli
life. They nevertheless had a hammerlock on Israeli political
life, for unless the large left-wing and right-wing coalitions
(today Labor and Likud) formed grand coalitions with each other,
the religious parties would have to be induced into coalitions
with one of them. After every election, bidding wars were set up
in which the dominant coalitions bargained with the small
religious parties and the small religious parties bargained among
themselves. The Orthodox accumulated power far beyond what their
numbers would dictate. They controlled key ministries that in
turn made crucial decisions over the texture of daily life in
Israel. On issues ranging from allowing public transport on the
Sabbath, to whether Reform Rabbis could perform legally
recognized conversions, the religious wielded power
disproportionate to their strength.
It would be a mistake to see the religious as universally opposed
to a Palestinian state or to the Oslo accords. In many ways, the
religious were as divided on these issues as was the rest of
Israel. That faction of the orthodox that saw the Oslo accords
as a violation of Jewish law was not much larger among the
religious than was opposition to Oslo in the rest of society.
What the Orthodox were committed to was building an Israel based
on Jewish religious principles and they saw themselves as the
guardians of those principles and therefore the soul of Israel.
They were far less concerned with strategic issues than they were
with whether movie theaters would be opened on the Sabbath.
Last week's elections were viewed as a referendum on the peace
process. They really weren't. They were in part a referendum on
Netanyahu's personality, which grated as much on Israelis as it
did on Bill Clinton. But far more, and far more seriously, the
election was a revolt by secular Israel against the hammerlock
the religious parties have over the social life of Israel. The
revolt against Likud had much less to do with the West Bank than
with the sense that Likud had written a blank check to the
religious parties on domestic policy and the feeling that the
religious parties had become corrupt with unearned power.
It is important to understand that Israel's national security
debates are not as socially divisive as they might be in the
United States, for example. Critics of Bill Clinton's defense
policy personalize the debate with the fact that Clinton is
ordering men into combat without himself ever having served.
Both Netanyahu and Barak have served with distinction in combat.
The policy debate does not generate a class debate as it does in
the United States, as Ivy League graduates make defense decisions
to be carried out by high school graduates. Indeed, in Israel,
it cuts the other way. Everyone but the Orthodox theology
students serve in the military. Part of Barak's platform was to
end this religious deferment. In Israel the doves have as
distinguished combat records as the hawks.
This means that anyone expecting Ehud Barak to make serious
compromises on national defense issues are going to be
disappointed. He may accept a Palestinian state on the West Bank
on the theory that the distinction between the Palestine National
Authority and a Palestinian state is meaningless. However, he
will neither abandon Israeli Defense Force deployments on the
Jordan River line nor permit the Palestinians to build a military
beyond a police force. If he withdraws from south Lebanon, it
will be a decision made from the perspective of a man who
personally been under fire there. That makes for very tough
negotiating with a high probability of failure.
What is going on in Israel is, in the long run, far more
important than where the Palestinian flag flies. The social
fabric is torn apart by utterly incompatible visions of what
Israel as a society should look like. At one extreme, we have
the Rabbinic tradition going back to the fall of the Second
Temple. On the other hand, there is the Israel whose primary
concern is building an Internet company that IPOs on the NASDAQ.
This division is present in most societies. In the United
States, for example, the same debate takes place between the
Christian right and secular humanists. In Israel, however, it
cuts to the heart of Israel's self-understanding. Is Israel the
Third Temple, a light unto the nations, or is it a homeland where
ethnic Jews can come, be safe and make money.
In Israel, the battle is far from over. Barak has personally won
a mandate, but in the Knesset, he holds a minority and must build
a coalition. One of the big winners in the Knesset was Shas, a
religious party representing poorer immigrants from North Africa,
which takes a very hard line on religious and social issues. It
has almost as many votes now as Likud. It takes a fairly hard
line on the Palestinian/Oslo question, but is obsessed with
religious governance. Left out of the coalition, Shas and Likud
leave Barak with a bare majority, just enough for ongoing
paralysis.
When outsiders look at Israel, what is on their mind is a
settlement of the Palestinian question. This is far from the
only issue on the minds of Israelis. It is not even the most
important issue. Israel, at fifty, is undergoing an identity
crisis of gargantuan proportions. It is the crisis it should
have had at the founding but couldn't afford at the time. All of
the postponed issues are pouring out of the closet now, and
foreign policy issues are on the table primarily as they connect
to these social issues.
Bill Clinton badly needs a foreign policy success before January
2001. With his Balkan adventure somewhere between a stalemate
and a calamity, he will undoubtedly focus on the Barak election
as a chance for a comprehensive, lasting peace that can be
Clinton's legacy for the ages. The problem is that, like most
elections, the real issues in Israel were, while profound, quite
local. Indeed, if Barak is to deliver his domestic agenda, he
will probably have to make some compromises on foreign policy.
Heavy American pressure for a comprehensive peace settlement
creating a Palestinian state, a withrawal from Lebanon and a
settlement with Syria will be driven by the Clinton
Administration's ticking clock. But it must be remembered that
Barak's parliamentary position as opposed to his personal
numbers, does not give him anywhere near the mandate needed to
deal with all of these issues. Moreover, he faces a Likud in
opposition. Likud has always been much more effective in
opposition than governing.
So Barak is going to be focusing on domestic issues when a huge
and urgent blast from Washington is going to descend on him.
Misreading the election as a sea change in Israeli views of Oslo,
the administration will find Barak both preoccupied and with a
very different agenda than the one Washington would prefer to see
implemented. Clinton will feel himself betrayed by Barak, whom
he clearly favored in the election and who used his good
relations with Washington as a reason to favor him over
Netanyahu. Barak, with much less room for maneuver than Clinton
will believe, will first cooperate and then resist as Clinton
pushes him beyond where the former Chief of Staff of the IDF will
want to go and where Israeli politics will permit him to go.
Barak is bound to disappoint a lot of people, since his primary
mission is to please a large segment of the Israeli public on an
issue having nothing whatever to do with foreign policy. Far
less has changed in Israel than would appear at first glance.
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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (5/24/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 17:22:16 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
*** Japan expands U.S. military alliance
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's upper house of Parliament voted into law Monday a
set of bills expanding the country's military alliance with the United
States and its role in regional security. The new guidelines, the
first update of the U.S.-Japan military alliance since 1978, allow
Japanese forces to provide greater assistance to American troops in
Asia and give the U.S. greater access to airports and seaports in
Japan. More than 47,000 American soldiers serve in Japan under a 1960
security treaty and other bilateral defense accords. In the event of a
regional crisis, Japan's Self Defense Forces will help with technical
support, search and rescue, minesweeping and evacuations. The United
States will supply the military hardware and forces used in battle.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559665164-117
*** Germany marks 50 years as democracy
BERLIN (AP) - Postwar Germany marked its 50th birthday Monday with
pride over its prosperity and a remarkably successful democracy, but
the nation also heard a warning never to forget the Holocaust. For
many Germans, the occasion to reflect on their most successful period
was overshadowed by NATO's war for Kosovo and Germany's first combat
since World War II. At a sober ceremony in the historic Reichstag
building, President Roman Herzog insisted that a Germany increasingly
at ease with its past has a duty to fight for human rights in Kosovo
to show it had learned from Nazism. Human rights "must also be put
into practice - and, as a last resort, enforced," Herzog said in the
last major speech of his five-year presidency. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559666597-601
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Subject: [BPR] - May 25, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:47:35 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
7:00 PM Eastern
HIST - 20TH CENTURY - Submarines
8:00
PBS - ODYSSEY OF LIFE - "The Unknown World" - Microscopic
creatures, malignant and benign, inhabit human bodies and
dwellings.(CC)(TVG)
HIST - ALIEN HUNTERS - Scientists search for evidence
of alien civilizations.(CC)(TVG)
9:00
A&E - CLEOPATRA'S WORLD: ALEXANDRIA REVEALED - Scholars
seek to understand the historic capital city and its
queen.(CC)(TVPG)
HIST - THE NAZIS: A WARNING FROM HISTORY - "Chaos and
Consent" - Germany's search for a scapegoat ends in the
persecution of Jews and the disabled.(CC)(TVPG)
10:00
HIST - THE SUBMARINES - The sea vessels revolutionize the
world of water warfare.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (5/24/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:58:25 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
King Abdullah of Jordan to meet with pope
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Reuters
Mon May 24 , 1999 -- King Abdullah of Jordan is to meet Pope John Paul
in the Vatican on June 4, an envoy of the pope said on Sunday. `King
Abdullah will be received by the Pope,'' said Dominique Rezeau, charge
d'affaires of the pope in Amman. He gave no further details of the
king's trip and Jordanian officials declined to confirm the meeting,
which would follow King Abdullah's planned visit to France on June 2
and talks in Amman with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah on June
3. Jordan's Abdullah, king for only three months, has already
travelled to the Gulf Arab states and North Africa. He has yet to
return from a four-nation tour of the Europe and North America and is
due to travel Tunis and Algeria at the end of this month. He has
repeatedly expressed optimism about the Middle East peace process and
said Arab states would respond positively if Israel showed real
commitment to make peace with Palestinians and with neighbouring
Syria.
Abdullah talks peace with NY Jews
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Jerusalem Post
Mon May 24 , 1999 -- Jordan's King Abdullah II, continuing his rounds
in the US, yesterday eagerly reiterated his euphoria with Prime
Minister-elect Ehud Barak's victory at a breakfast meeting with the
Presidents Conference at Manhattan's Regency Hotel. "There's such a
sense of euphoria in the Middle East now, replacing the months and
years of frustration," said Abdullah."If something doesn't happen in
the next three or four months, I fear that the backlash will be even
worse than it was a couple of months ago." Barak and Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat "see eye-to-eye on how to move
ahead," he told New York's Jewish leaders, a Park Avenue site known
for the "power breakfast." The buoyant monarch deftly sidestepped
questions about UN resolution 181, the 1947 partition resolution,
which he referred to as part of the agitation during the Israeli
election campaign. He did not assign any blame, saying instead that
both sides have created "complications." "I think we have to put the
past behind us," said Abdullah, who employed all sorts of standard
phrases to indicate that, as far as he was concerned, the past is
past. There was, he said, both a new start and a clean slate. When
asked a general question about refugees, Abdullah said: "We do believe
in the right of return," but then quickly added that the final-status
issues are "complicated."
He became mildly somber when asked about Jerusalem. "For everyone,
Jerusalem is the most sensitive issue," he said. When asked about
access to the Old City, Abdullah said that Jerusalem had been kept
"extremely well," and made no reference to Jordan's previous
sovereignty of the city, in which Jewish access to the holy sites had
been barred. "Jerusalem is bigger than the boundaries of the city,"
Abdullah said. "It touches hearts everywhere."
Jordan raising its profile among Arabs
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz
Mon May 24 , 1999 -- Jordan is raising its profile as a venue for
high-level diplomatic contacts in the region, with Lebanese President
Emile Lahoud going to Amman with Iranian Foreign Minister Kamel Harazi
this coming Saturday, and a high-ranking Saudi Arabian delegation due
next week. According to a front page article in A Ra'i, the official
newspaper of the kingdom, the visits are part of King Abdullah's
effort to position his country as an intermediary capable of helping
the peace process because of Jordan's unique position as a friend of
both Israel and the Arab world. The paper specifically noted that with
the departure of the extremist Likud and the arrival of the moderate
Labor Party in the Israeli government, Jordan will have a central role
in bringing viewpoints closer.
Egypt, Syria, and Arafat may meet together
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arabic News
Mon May 24 , 1999 -- Sources close to Palestinian President Yasser
Arafat say he may head with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to
Damascus in order to convene a tripartite meeting with Syrian
President Hafez al-Assad. A team representing high-ranking Palestinian
officials is holding talks in Damascus with Palestinian opposition
groups in Syria. The paper added that among these officials is the
chairman of the PLO political department, Farouk Qaddoumi, and PLO
executive committee member Asaad Abdul Rahman, who is also the
chairman of the refugee department at the PLO. In Abu Dhabi, the
official in charge of the Palestinian refugees in the Palestinian
Authority, Asaad Abdul Rahman, said that a Syrian-Palestinian summit
bringing together President Hafez al-Assad and Yasser Arafat will be
held within the next two weeks in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Abdul
Rahman, who is also in charge of the Palestinian relations with Syria,
said the past phase had witnessed a rehabilitation of relations
between the Syrian leadership and the PLO leadership.
Egyptian - Israeli meeting soon
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arabic News
Mon May 24 , 1999 -- Informed Egyptian sources stated yesterday that
Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak plans to visit Egypt after
finishing forming his government. The sources expected "convening a
summit meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Barak in
Sharm El-Sheik City after Barak's visit to the U.S.A and before the
visit of President Mubarak to Washington." The sources said, "The
summit's discussions will focus on new points that bring back balance
and the missing warmth to Egyptian - Israeli relations as well as
bringing back trust and joint work for achieving required tasks in the
peace process." They added that Barak believes that improving ties
with Egypt is the main start for Israel to regain its relations with
the Arab states. The sources said in press declarations, "Egypt makes
a condition for accepting the Israeli demands: knowing Barak's future
plans for implementing the signed peace agreement and resuming
negotiations with Syria from the stopping point."
Arafat meets with Egyptian President Mubarak
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Mon May 24 , 1999 -- PLO Authority (PA) Chief Yassir Arafat met with
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to discuss the Oslo process in light
of the recent election turn-around in Israel. Arafat, who arrived in
Cairo on Saturday, reportedly spoke to Mubarak regarding the
resumption of the Oslo process between Israel and the PA. Arafat said
his talks with Egyptian leaders focussed on the "need to protect the
peace process in light of the changes in Israel." Egyptian and
Palestinian officials said the talks, which included lengthy
discussions with Foreign Minister Amr Moussa that lasted until the
late hours of the night on Saturday, mainly concentrated on "finding a
common Arab stand in dealing with the next phase of the peace
process." Moussa told journalists after his talks with Arafat that
"there is a need to create a safety net for the Arab negotiator and to
clear the air'' with Israel. He said Cairo expects to "see clear and
practical steps, not just intentions, (from Israel) that will lead to
moving forward the peace process and not obstruct it.'' Other
officials said the two sides also discussed the possibility of holding
a summit of Arab countries neighboring Israel - Jordan, Egypt,
Lebanon, Syria and the PA.
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Subject: [BPR] - Company trying to clone pets
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:04:59 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
03:07 PM ET 05/24/99
Conn. Company Trying To Clone Pets
FARMINGTON, Conn. (AP) _ Two entrepreneurs are charging pet
owners to store their beloved animals' DNA in anticipation of the day
when science can clone Fido or Fluffy.
For $1,000 per pet _ plus a $100 annual storage fee _
Heather J.
Bessoff and Ron D. Gillespie will take a genetic sample from a
living or dead animal and keep it frozen at their lab.
Their company, PerPETuate Inc., has signed up six customers
since it began in October. Bessoff is a veterinarian and Gillespie an
agricultural consultant. They run the company from Bessoff's
basement.
``There could be people who don't agree with what we're
doing.
We understand that,'' Bessoff said. ``But we feel there are so many
benefits.''
So far, scientists have cloned only mice and farm livestock
such
as sheep. Recently, a dog owner donated $2.3 million to Texas A&M
University to try to clone his beloved Missy.
Martha Westerfield, who stored a tissue sample of her
Maltese
dog Lacy, who died of cancer, said: ``It's a comforting feeling to
know that maybe someday we can have her back.''
Lisa Lange, a spokeswoman for People for the Ethical
Treatment
of Animals, suggested people instead adopt one of the millions of
homeless animals that are put to death every year.
Animals ``are not commodities to be manufactured like
tomatoes
or grapefruit,'' she said.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559666858-be9
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Subject: [BPR] - India begins worshipping AIDS goddess
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:06:30 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
India begins worshipping AIDS goddess
Monday 24 May, 1999 (7:30pm AEST)
A temple consecrated to a new god, the deity of AIDS, has been
established in a southern state of India.
The temple, dedicated to "the goddess of AIDS", in Karnataka, was set
up by a schoolteacher who was moved by the plight of an ostracised
couple who died for want of medical treatment.
The deity is a half-man, half-woman figure painted on stone with the
words Human Immuno-deficiency Virus written on the head.
The pillars of the temple bear awareness messages and people come to
offer worship for the cure and prevention of the disease.
The teacher says there was initial opposition from Hindu
traditionalists but villagers from nearby areas have requested him to
set up similar shrines.
http://www.abc.net.au/
news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-24may1999-77.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - Baptist Press item (5/24/99)
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:13:25 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Canadian Supreme Court strikes down law's heterosexual 'spouse'
definition
By Don Hinkle
OTTAWA, Canada (BP)--Dismayed Canadian Southern Baptist and
evangelical leaders expressed grave concern for their country
after a Canadian Supreme Court decision May 20 that the
heterosexual definition of "spouse" is unconstitutional.
By its 8-1 vote, the court's landmark ruling effectively changes
the meaning of "spouse" to include homosexual partners. It
challenges the biblical definition of a marriage and could lead
to the rewriting of hundreds of Canadian laws, giving same-sex
couples all the legal benefits of a common-law marriage, said
church leaders and legal analysts.
"This recognition [of same-sex partners as spouses] is just one
more cog in the machine that seems bent on destroying the
definition of the traditional family," lamented Gerry Taillon,
executive director of the 8,700-member Canadian Convention of
Southern Baptists.
"At every avenue, tolerance has increased at a cost of the
fundamental values that society needs," Taillon said. "The
attitude in Canada is that we will tolerate anything. At this
point, the attack is on the foundational unit of society -- the
family."
In its ruling, the court struck down Ontario's Family Law Act,
calling it unconstitutional because it denies homosexuals the
right to apply for alimony from each other. But legal experts say the
ruling, while stopping short of recognizing same-sex unions as
marriages, will force changes in federal and provincial laws which
contain hundreds of references to spouses, ranging from marriage and
adoption of children to pensions and taxes.
Denying homosexual couples the same legal rights as heterosexuals is
an affront to "human dignity" and sends a misguided message that
homosexual relationships don't deserve respect, the high court stated.
"Certainly same-sex couples will often form long, lasting, loving and
intimate relationships," wrote Justice Peter Cory for the majority.
"The choices they make in the context of those relationships may give
rise to the financial dependence of one partner on the other. When a
relationship breaks down, the support provisions help to ensure that a
member of a couple who has contributed to the couple's welfare in
intangible ways will not find himself or herself utterly abandoned."
Justice Frank Iacobucci, who wrote the majority opinion with
Cory, said the ruling will allow estranged homosexual couples to
enter family courts to seek redress instead of being forced onto
welfare. That, he concluded, is more important than ever, since
homosexuals are increasingly raising children.
"Although their numbers are still fairly small, it seems to me
that the goals of protecting children cannot be but incompletely
achieved by denying some children the benefits that flow from a
spousal support award merely because their parents were in a
same-sex relationship," Iacobucci said in the 182-page ruling,
one of the longest in recent years.
Justice Charles Gonthier wrote in his dissenting opinion: "While
individuals must be treated with equal respect and must not be
discriminated against on the basis of the stereotypical
application of irrelevant personal characteristics, the state is
not barred from recognizing that some relationships fulfill
different social roles and have specific needs, and responding to this
reality with positive measures to address those differences."
Gonthier objected to the notion by his colleagues in the majority who
ruled that, unchanged, Ontario's Family Law Act promotes the idea that
homosexuals are "less capable or worthy of recognition or value as a
human being." Gonthier said the law was meant to address the financial
inequities suffered by women during a marriage breakdown. He added
that homosexual couples tend not to have the same degree of dependence
or wage differential between them.
"It's a disastrous ruling," said Jordan Lorence, general counsel
for the Northstar Legal Center, a conservative public interest
group in Fairfax, Va. "It's the first time in modern times that
the highest court of any major country has equated traditional
marriage with homosexual partnerships.
"They are making marriage a choice -- like peas and carrots -- at a
sexual cafeteria. They are trivializing marriage, making it no
different than any type of sexual activity. It is a spooky and
chilling thing to see."
While the ruling does not recognize same-sex couples as marriages in a
technical sense, it does in a rhetorical sense, Rainer Knopff, a law
professor at the University of Calgary, told the Calgary Herald.
"I think it's a big step in that direction," he said, noting that the
ruling was a case of the judges short-circuiting government
policy-making. "I think it's one of the more pronounced examples of
judicial activism."
The Calgary Herald blasted the ruling on its Sunday editorial
page May 23, referring to it as "yet another in a long and
tiresome line of arrogant judicial violations of society's
democratic principles. It is unacceptable in a free society that
eight judges can alone decide that the dictionary definition of a word
and its long-entrenched significance in the social lexicon no longer
mean what they've always meant." The Toronto National Post also
criticized the court, calling the decision "yellow-belly politics
(because elected leaders did nothing, allowing the courts to
irresistibly decide the issue) ... a power grab" and a case of
"judicial activism."
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, along with Focus on the
Family Canada, intervened in the case, but to no avail. A
spokesman for the Evangelical Fellowship told Reuters that if the term
"spouse" is to cover all domestic partnerships, it becomes useless in
addressing "the unique needs of marriage and heterosexual spousal
relationships."
The Canada Family Action Coalition launched a campaign to get the
country's federal government and provinces to ignore the decision
under a rarely invoked clause in the country's Charter of Rights. The
clause is a part of Canada's constitutional structure that provides
checks and balances against unwarranted Supreme Court dictates which
impinge upon laws passed by politicians acting on the wishes of
voters.
"I think Canadians are going to be pretty upset by this,"
coalition spokesman Peter Stock told Reuters. "They understand
marriage to be a man and a woman and they're not going to accept
this."
Canadian homosexual groups were jubilant over the ruling. "It's
about recognition," said John Fisher, head of the homosexual
right group Egale. "It's about respect. It's about a more equal
Canada."
But Richard Blackaby, president of the Canadian Southern Baptist
Seminary in the Calgary suburb of Cochrane, said it is more about
leading people to Christ and less about relying on the nation's court
system to intervene in such matters.
"One man and one woman is the biblical standard of what a
marriage constitutes and it is disturbing when the courts get
involved in something like this," Blackaby said. "The church
needs to continue to set the standard of what a family is. I
don't place my hope in the court system when it comes to setting
morality for my country. That's why it's important for the church to
teach and preach the gospel."
While, of course, the Canadian Supreme Court ruling carries no
weight in the United States, pro-family groups expressed alarm
over the growing acceptance of homosexuality by their neighbors
to the north and the indirect influence it could have in the
States.
"The reasoning of the Canadian Supreme Court may serve as an
example for courts in the U.S.," Bill Duncan, assistant director
of the Washington, D.C.,-based Marriage Law Project, told Baptist
Press. "An appeals court in Oregon held something very similar last
year.
"Citizens need to speak out more. When courts in Hawaii and
Alaska recently ruled that same-sex unions were equal to
heterosexual marriages, citizens in those states acted quickly
and decisively to pass state constitutional amendments that
refuse to legally recognize same-sex unions."
Duncan noted 29 states have passed laws declaring that they will
not recognize same-sex unions. The Massachusetts State House is
presently debating such a bill, despite harsh criticism from
homosexual groups and supporters.
"I have faith in America that we can stop such things from
happening here," Duncan said. "My only question is how dramatic
will the solution be."
The more these kinds of rulings are handed down in other
counties, "the easier it will be for our culture to accept this,"
Lorence said. "Ultimately, that would be disastrous."
The Vermont Supreme Court is about to consider whether its state
constitution discriminates against homosexual couples and the
California legislature is about to ponder an extensive extension
of rights and privileges for unmarried partners, with pro-family
groups fearing it will lead to similar privileges for homosexual
couples.
Congress passed a national Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, and
President Clinton, under pressure from conservatives, signed it
into law. It denies federal recognition of homosexual unions and
permits states to ignore the union of homosexual couples married
in other states.
"We are witnessing a culmination of 30 or 40 years of attacks
against marriage," Lorence said, referring to the Canadian court
ruling and increased legal activity in the United States. "It
started with easy divorce and now this. Some 150 years ago when
Mormons tried to force polygamy on America, society rose up and
rejected it. There is no vigor in society to fight homosexual
unions."
Lorence said homosexual unions get even more insidious because
there is no equivalent of an abstinence movement in the
homosexual community. "We're beginning to see challenges to
abstinence programs in our schools because groups like the ACLU
say they are a religious concept," he added.
Despite the Canadian court's action, Taillon and Blackaby believe --
with God's help -- the church can have an even greater impact in
Canada.
Taillon said the convention's response will be to accelerate
church planting and evangelism efforts across Canada.
"The answer is conversion, a change of hearts that can only come
through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ," he said.
Added Blackaby, "Our convention is praying that we can start
1,000 new churches in the next two decades. We appreciate
America's prayers for Canada because it is really not a Christian
nation."
He said only 7 percent of Canadians identify themselves with an
evangelical church.
The Supreme Court ruling comes just prior to the Canadian
Convention of Southern Baptists' annual convention, which opens
May 25 in Winnipeg.
Taillon said it is possible that a resolution could come from the
convention's executive board or from the floor expressing the
convention's disagreement with the high court's decision.
The Canadian Supreme Court ruling is the latest attempt by the
Canadian federal government and judiciary to force acceptance of
the homosexual lifestyle among Canadians. The federal
government's Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
recently ordered a Winnipeg radio station to stop making on-air
anti-homosexual comments. The nation's most influential judiciary
watchdog group, the Canadian Judicial Council, recently rebuked -- and
for a while pondered the removal of -- Alberta Court of Appeals
Justice John McClung for saying in part that including homosexuals in
human rights laws could result in the validation of sodomy. The
council called his comments "flippant, unnecessary and unfortunate"
and "reflected negatively" on the judiciary. McClung made the remarks
after a 1996 case in which he ruled against a fired Edmonton
schoolteacher who was a homosexual. The same Supreme Court which
declared the term "spouse" unconstitutional May 20 later overturned
McClung's ruling.
http://www.religiontoday.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Update Water Flowing/Islamic Diggings
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:37:33 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Update on the Water from the Temple Mount
Islamic Diggings and Remains on the Temple Mount
Important news about the water flowing from the Temple Mount comes
from the Israeli newspaper, HaTsofer. In the 15th May edition of the
Journal, (pg 5) Eliazer Sheffer states that his Arab neighbour,
Mohammed shared with him very secretly, and very emotionally, that
water had stated to flow from the rock on the Temple Mount. Mohammed
told him that he had not seen it himself, but that he had heard that
the Islamic Mufti of Jerusalem is very concerned by this happening
because, according to Islamic writings, this is a good sign for the
Jews and a bad sign for the Muslims. People who we have sent to check
the situation could not see the water but the information that we have
received and which was spread throughout Israel states that the Arabs
on the Temple Mount have done everything possible to stop the flow of
water, including by means of special pumps that they brought in for
the purpose.
As we know, and our people have checked this and even photographed it,
the Arabs, with the help of hundreds of workers from the Islamic
Movement in Israel are busy with very intensive excavations on the
Temple Mount., the purpose of which is to destroy the last remains of
the First and Second Temples and in this way to deny the Jewish
identity of the Temple Mount. According to one account, during these
diggings they broke into one of the water sources and that the water
started to flow out of the rock and in trying to stop the flow, they
temporarily diverted the water in another direction which is currently
unknown. It is very well known that under the Temple Mount there are
many water sources and it is not surprising that one or more of them
started to flow out. This news which was spread all over Israel put
joy and great hopes in the hearts of the Israelis as an important sign
of redemption.
One of the most damaging excavations is being undertaken under the
Israeli police station on the Temple Mount which is not far from the
location of the First and Second Temples and the Holy of Holies. The
Arabs do not allow any Israeli to check these diggings and it may be
that the source of the water is from here and perhaps the purpose of
these diggings is to discover important hidden remains and vessels
from the Temple.
Another of the terrible excavations and destructions that the Arabs
are undertaking on the Temple Mount is in the great and beautiful
halls of the historic Hulda entrance to the Temple Mount through which
millions of Jews used to enter the Temple Mount for pilgrimage and
worship. We have recently written about this but people who were sent
to again check the situation, were shocked to see that this barbaric
work of destruction of one of the last remains of the Temple which has
remained intact over the last 2000 years continues and even
intensifies. More than this, during the diggings, the Arabs discovered
other halls which had not previously been known about. These had also
been part of the complex of the Second Temple. Our people also saw
that covered trucks were going out from the diggings and we are very
worried that they have discovered important vessels from the Temple
that were hidden by the priests before the destruction of the Temple.
The purpose of this work s, on one hand, to destroy and cancel the
Jewish identity of the Temple Mount and, instead, to build a fourth
mosque on the Temple Mount in the Hulda halls and other secret rooms.
This is the same as the did in the past few years in the so-called
Solomon Stables on the Temple Mount which were not stables but another
important part of the Second Temple complex where they built the third
mosque. This is a terrible abomination on the most holy place of the
Jewish people and all the world. It is a criminal action against G-d
Himself, the Jewish people and all mankind for whom this is the
holiest and most important place in all the earth. It is a crime
against Israeli laws and the destruction of very holy and important
remains that are irreplaceable. It breaks the heart of everyone in
Israel, especially because the Israeli governments are too weak to
immediately stop it and bring the perpetrators to court. They are
frightened of the Islamic and international reaction and we also blame
the UN which so quickly reacts when Israel does something for her
safety but agree with such a terrible, barbaric crime against mankind
by keeping silent. Where is the President of the United States who, as
a Christian, should know the holiness and importance of the Temple
Mount and the remains of the Temple? Why does he react so quickly when
Israel when Israel builds houses in Jerusalem for the honour of G-d
and to glorify Him in His holy city, the capital of Israel and now he
is silent? Such hypocrisy and joining with the enemies of G-d, Israel
and the most important values of all mankind!
This terrible news is breaking the hearts of all of us in The Temple
Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement and we have contacted the
authorities in Israel to stop this barbaric destruction, theft of holy
vessels and the building of more mosques in the most holy place of G-d
, Israel and all mankind. If for any reason, this is not immediately
stopped, we shall immediately make a petition to the Supreme Court of
Israel. We are also going to send an urgent letter to the Security
Council of the UN asking them to immediately stop this barbaric crime
against all mankind, even though we don't expect that they will do
anything as they are such good friends and supporters of the Arab
enemies of Israel. But we shall do it nevertheless, because we want to
show their hypocrisy to all the world. This terrible event occurs at a
very critical time in Israel. On the one hand there is the major event
of the godly redemption of Israel on the other hand there is the
campaign and efforts of the enemies of Israel to stop this godly event
and to destroy Israel and her historical godly values. Again we feel
the need to warn all of them that they have bitter delusions if the
expect to succeed in their anti-Israeli activities. They have never
learnt anything from history especially their own experiences with the
G-d and people of Israel. They want to forget what the G-d of Israel
showed them and everyone in the world again and again, that only He
controls the history of Israel and He will not allow anyone to touch
His people or to stop His determination to accomplish the redemption
of Israel. At the same time G-d is expecting us to undertake the
battle for Him and for His prophetic plans with Israel and not to
allow the destruction of the most holy remains of His house; to trust
in Him alone and not to fear any power which will try to attack Israel
in such a situation. Everyone in the wold is called on to immediately
send letters and to contact their leaders and governments, the
government of Israel, and the UN to protest this barbaric activities
and to ask them to immediately stop it. G-d will never forgive us if
we remain passive and silent.
via: Temple Mount Faithfull<gershon@templemountfaithful.org>
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Subject: [BPR] - Arcot plans to outsmart smart cards
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:45:57 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
ARCOT PLANS TO OUTSMART SMART CARDS
Internet startup Arcot Systems is advocating a new approach to buying
over the Internet. Arcot's software authenticates transactions that
can be sent to any PC with a Web browser, eliminating the need for
extra equipment such as "smart card" readers. The technology uses an
approach known as "chaffing and winnowing," whereby the important
information (a user's password) is hidden in unrelated gibberish in
order to protect it. "It's like protecting your house by hiding a
million keys under your doorstep," says a security expert who's
studied the system. "Only you know which is the right one." Arcot
plans to give away the PC software, while selling the server programs
to companies that process confidential data, such as medical or
financial records. (Wall Street Journal 25 May 99) http://wsj.com/
NewsScan Daily, 25 May 1999 ("Above The Fold")
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Subject: [BPR] - 60 Minutes Y2K transcript
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:44:05 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Below is the Internet link for those interested in the 60
MINUTES' transcript on Y2k. The news story was very well done.
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000rqn
via: Koenig's International News - Bill Koenig - http://watch.org/
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Subject: [BPR] - May 26, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:16:47 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
9:00 PM Eastern
A&E - MUMMIES: TALES FROM THE EGYPTIAN CRYPTS - "The
Pyramids; The Sphinx" - Experts revise theories about the
building of the pyramids; the Sphinx is a symbol of
eternity.(CC)(TVG)
HIST - THE NAZIS: A WARNING FROM HISTORY - "The Wrong
War" - A non-aggression pact with Russia opens the way for
Poland's invasion.(CC)(TVPG)
9:30
TBN - JACK VAN IMPE PRESENTS
TBS - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER - ``Diving the
Volcano''; ``Pirates of the Wydah''; ``Treasures of the
Deep.''(CC)(TVPG)(Starts 9:35pm) (Ends 11:35pm)
10:00
HIST - DEEP SEA EXPLORATION: CHALLENGING THE ABYSS -
Underwater balloons and minisubs help investigate the life of
the oceans.(CC)(TVG)
10:30
PBS - DIGITAL TV: A CRINGELY CRASH COURSE - Cutting edge
technology changes home entertainment; host Robert X.
Cringely.(CC)(TVPG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (5/25/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:29:13 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Israel hit by 5.2 earthquake
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Israel Wire
Tue May 25 , 1999 -- Quoting Israel Television Channel One News,
IsraelWire reported that an earthquake measuring about 5.2 on the
Richter Scale has hit Israel at about 8:30pm Tuesday evening.A list of
recent quakes in Israel can be found here:
http://geo1.gii.co.il/seis/result_ml_gt_25.asp
Pope's Poland trip to stress unity
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Newsday
Tue May 25 , 1999 -- Pope John Paul II asked for the rigorous schedule
of his upcoming visit to Poland -- 20 cities or towns in 13 days -- to
complete his tour of the nation's 40 dioceses and sum up his 20-year
papacy, a Vatican spokesman said Tuesday. Joaquin Navarro-Valls told a
news briefing the pope would stress Poland's national unity and
reconciliation among Christian churches while celebrating a new era of
the Roman Catholic church. The June 5-17 pilgrimage will ``summarize
the whole pontificate (of more than 20 years) because of the very many
dimensions it has,'' Navarro-Valls said. ``The ecumenical dimension
will be present, the national reconciliation and unity will be present
and religious themes will be present,'' he said. ``The trip and the
meetings will cross beyond Poland's geographic dimension.'' He called
the pope's eighth and longest visit to his homeland a continuation of
the last pilgrimage, in 1997, and the completion of his tour of
Poland's 40 dioceses. The pope, despite his old age and visibly
decreasing health, insisted on such a lengthy visit packed with stops
at an ``enormous quantity of cities,'' according to Navarro-Walls.
John Paul's 20-year tenure is the longest of any pope this century.
Now 79, he's had difficulty walking since hip replacement surgery a
few years ago. Slurred speech and a tremor have led to speculation --
never confirmed by the Vatican -- that he has Parkinson's disease.
Navarro-Valls said no special measures or precautions were taken on
John Paul's trips, apart from the personal doctor who regularly
accompanies him.
Jordan's King To Meet With Arafat
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Newsday (AP)
Tue May 25 , 1999 -- King Abdullah of Jordan will hold talks with
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday during the king's first
visit to the autonomous Palestinian areas. Arafat's office said in a
statement Tuesday that Abdullah and Arafat would discuss the Mideast
peace process. The meeting is to take place at Arafat's Gaza City
headquarters. In Amman, government officials said the talks with
Arafat will focus on forging a unified Arab stance prior to resumed
peace negotiations under a new Israeli government headed by Prime
Minister-elect Ehud Barak. The meeting is part of contacts under way
to convene a five-way summit that would gather Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon,
Syria and the Palestinians, the officials said, speaking on customary
condition of anonymity. Abdullah has said he seeks closer Arab
coordination to thwart any Israeli attempt to divide Arabs by
advancing negotiations with Syria and Lebanon while stalling on a
final settlement with the Palestinians. Jordan signed a peace treaty
with Israel in 1994.
Intense heatwave in Israel
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz
Tue May 25 , 1999 -- Soaring temperatures and a desert wind left the
Electric Corporation without any power reserves yesterday, prompting
the company to prepare for power rationing. Demand for electricity in
the peak afternoon hours reached 6,390 megawatts, just 10 megawatts
short of full capacity of 6,400. The mercury climbed to 49 degrees
Celsius (nearly 122 Fahrenheit) at the Allenby Bridge crossing in the
Jordan Valley, the highest reading in 57 years. A new record was set
in Eilat, as well, where the temperature reached 45.1 Celsius (about
113 Fahrenheit). The heat also continued to set off wildfires.
Firefighters battled a number of blazes in the northern part of the
country, including a fire that destroyed 20 dunams of planted forest
in the Carmel Park near Haifa. Firefighters worked for three hours to
overcome the Carmel blaze, which broke out near the Druze town of
Ussifiya. Thirteen companies took part in battle, including teams from
Haifa, Akko (Acre), and Afula. Two cropdusters sprayed water on the
blaze from the air. Haifa firefighters were also involved in a
three-hour effort to contain a blaze that raged in a natural forest
near the intersection of Dori Road and Hagalil Street. Other Haifa
firefighters fought a blaze at the dump in Rechasim and a brush fire
near Kfar Samir in the southern part of the city. Gershon Zauberman, a
spokesman for the Haifa fire department, said that vacations had been
canceled and all of the department's eight stations were on high
alert.
Sharon stays as FM in Israel, unity government agreement close
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arutz 7
Tue May 25 , 1999 -- Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak and Foreign
Minister Ariel Sharon have apparently reached an agreement on a
national-unity government with the Likud. Sharon, who will be
re-appointed as Foreign Minister, will act to obtain the right-wing's
agreement for both a permanent-status agreement under which Yesha
communities will be uprooted, and a complete withdrawal from the Golan
in exchange for a peace treaty with Syria. It will not go smoothly in
the Likud, however. MK Yisrael Katz says that the Likud need not serve
as Ehud Barak's subcontractor for withdrawals from the Land of Israel.
Katz plans to run against Sharon for acting chairman of the Likud on
Thursday.
AIPAC says OK to Palestinian State
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Tue May 25 , 1999 -- Indicating a significant policy change, the
pro-Israel, AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has
dropped its opposition to the formation of a Palestinian state. The
move by the influential group's executive committee could provide
practical support for Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat in driving
toward statehood. AIPAC lobbyists presumably would be disinclined to
urge members of Congress to oppose statehood. "It is not an
endorsement for a Palestinian state," AIPAC spokesman Kenneth Bricker
said of Monday's action. "It leaves open the possibility." Instead,
the committee gave its support to "a political solution in the search
for peace between Israel and the Palestinians that would permit the
exercise of Palestinian self-government
via: bible_prophecy-news@onelist.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Damage to Temple Mount "under discussion"
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:23:33 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
DAMAGE TO TEMPLE MOUNT "UNDER DISCUSSION"
The security mini-cabinet of the outgoing government convened this
morning, under the leadership of Prime Minister Netanyahu. At issue
were reports that the Palestinians are taking advantage of the current
transition period to create new facts on the Temple Mount. The
Moslems are reportedly building a fourth mosque there, and making
other permanent changes.
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.a7.org>
Wednesday, May 26, 1999, 1999 / Sivan 11, 5759
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Subject: [BPR] - Bilderberg Guest List
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:34:35 -0500
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/
bluesky_exnews/19990526_xex_clinton_pope.shtml
WEDNESDAY MAY 26 1999
The Bilderberg meetings take place in Portugal, June 3-6. Here is
a partial guest list of attendees obtained by WorldNetDaily:
Ackerman, Duane - CEO Bell South
Ahern, Bertie - Prime Minister of Ireland
Alberthal, Les - CEO of Electronic Data
Systems (EDS)
Albright, Madeleine - U.S. Secretary of State
Al Saud, Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz - Saudi Prince
Amichai, Yehuda - Israeli poet
Annan, Kofi - U.N. Secretary General
Arafat, Yasser - Chairman Palestinian Authority
Armstrong, Michael - CEO of AT&T Corrporation
Arison, Ted - Israeli Financier
Assad, Hafez - President of Syria
Aznar, Jose Maria - President of Spain
Belluzzo, Richard - CEO - Silicon Graphics-SGI
Berkshire Hathaway - Warren Buffet
Bolkiah, Hassanal - The Sultan of Brunei
Byers, Brook - Partner KPCB
Beyster, J. R. - Founder and CEO of SAIC
Bialkin, Ken - Skadden Arps
bin-Mohamad, Mahathir - PM of Malaysia
Blair, Tony - Prime Minister of UK
Bondevik, Kjell Magne - Prime Minister of Norway
Bonsignore, Michael - CEO Honeywell
Braverman, Avishai - President of
Ben-Gurion University
Bronfman, Charles - Canadian businessman
Buffet, Warren, CEO Berkshire Hathaway
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique - President of Brazil
Case, Daniel - Chairman & CEO of H& Q
Case, Stephen - CEO of America On-Line-AOL
Caufield, Frank - AOL Board & Partner KPCB
Cayne, James - CEO of Bear Stearn
Chalsty, John - CEO of DLJ
Chambers, John - CEO of Cisco Systems
Chirac, Jacques - President of Franc
Chretien, Jean - Prime Minister of Canada
Clinton, Bill - President of the United States
Cohen, Abby - Market Strategist, Goldman Sachs
Corzine, Jon - CEO of Goldman Sachs
Coulter, David - Former CEO of Bank of America
Cresson Edith - EC Commissioner
Daschle, Thomas - Senator, Minority Leader, U.S. Senate
DeGier, Hans - CEO of Warburg Dillon Read
Dehaene, Jean-Luc - Prime Minister of Belgium
Dell, Michael - Dell Computers
Denham, Bob - Salomon Smith Barney
Dinstein, Yoram - President of Tel Aviv University-TAU
Disney, Roy - Vice Chairman & Nephew - Walt Disney
Ebtekar, Massoomeh - Vice President of Iran
Eisenberg, Erwin - Heir to Eisenberg Group
Ellison, Larry - CEO of Oracle
Engibous, Tom - Texas Instruments-TI
Esrey, Bill - CEO of Sprint
Estrada, Joseph - President of the Philippines
Fahd, King - Leader of Saudi Arabia
Fan, Rita - Chairwoman Provincial Legislature China
Fisher, Max - Chairman, Republican National Jewish Coalition-
NJC
Fisher, Richard - CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Fortune 1000 - Group Focus Letter
Frankel, Jacob - Bank of Israel
Friedlander, Yehuda - Rector of Bar Ilan University
Fuld, Fichard - CEO of Lehman Brothers (acquired Blount Intl)
Gates, Bill - CEO of Microsoft
Gerstner, Lou - CEO of IBM
Glavin, Christopher - Motorola - Strategy Focus
Goh Chok Tong - Prime Minister of Singapore
Goldberg, Ed - Merrill Lynch - Strategy Focus
Grafton, Bob - CEO of Arthur Andersen Worldwide
Grasso, Richard - CEO, New York Stock Exchange-NYSE
Greer, Phil - Weiss Peck & Greer
Grove, Andy - Former CEO of Intel
Gujral, I.K. - Former Prime Minister of India
Habibie, B. J. - Indonesia's Prime Minister
Hammerman, Stephen - Vice Chairman Merrill Lynch
Harari, Chaim - President of Weizmann Institute
Hariri, Rafik - Prime Minister of Lebanon
Hashimoto, Ryutaro - Former Prime Minister of Japan
Hastert, Dennis - GOP - Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives
Hayuth, Yehuda - President of Haifa University
Honeycutt, Van - CEO Computer Sciences Corporation-CSC
Horovitz, Avraham - GM - UMI Israel Chief Scientist
Howard, John - Prime Minister of Australia
Hussein, King - of Jordan and The Crown Prince Hassan (HK:
Deceased)
Ichan, Carl - Wall Street Financier
Jackson, Judge Thomas Penfield - US District Court -
Washington D. C.
Jiang Zemin - President of China
Jobs, Steven - Apple Computers
Jospin, Lionel - Prime Minister of France
Kangas, Edward - CEO Deloitte, Touche, Tohmatsu -
International-DTTI
Kaveh, Moshe - President of Bar Ilan University
Khatami, Mohammed - President of Iran
Kim, Dea.jung - President of South Korea
Kim Young-sam - Former President of South Korea
Kissinger, Kissinger - former U.S. Secretary of State
Kok, Wim - Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Koller, Arnold - President of Switzerland
Komansky, David - CEO of Merrill Lynch
Kohl, Helmut - Former Chancellor of Germany
Lane, Neal - Former Director of the NSF
Laskawy, Phil - CEO of Ernst & Young-EY
Lavie, Arie - Former Chief Scientist - Israel
Lee Kuan-Yew - President of Singapore
Lee Teng-hui - President of Taiwan
Leon, Moshe - Director General, PM's Office Israel
Lerner, Alex - Israeli Scientist
Levin, Gerald - CEO Time Warner, Inc.
Li Peng - Prime Minister of China
Livingston, Robert - GOP Nominee as - U.S. Speaker of the House
Lott, Senator Trent - GOP Senate Majority Leader - US Senate
Magidor, Menachem - President of Hebrew University
Mahathir Mohamad - Malaysian Prime Minister
Mandella, Nelson - President of South Africa
Marron, Donald - CEO of Paine Webber Group - Enterprise
Strategy
McGinn Richard - CEO of Lucent- Enterprise Strategy
McNealy, Scott - CEO of Sun Microsystems
Middelhoff, Thomas - CEO Bertelsmann & AOL Director
Mitchell, George - Former GOP Senate Majority Leader
Moore, Nicholas - Chairman of PriceWaterhouse Coopers-PWC
L.L.P.
Mubarak, Hosni - President of Egypt
Murdoch, Rupert - Austrialian Media Owner
Narayanan, K.R. - Former President of India
Ne'eman, Yaacov - Former Israeli Finance Minister
Ne'eman, Yuval- Israeli Physicist
Obuchi, Keizo - Prime Minister of Japan Oz, Amos - Israeli writer
Palmer, Robert - CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation-DEC
Paulson, Henry - Co-Chairman Goldman Sachs
Persson, Goran - Prime Minister of Sweden
Pfeiffer, Eckhard - CEO of Compaq
Phelan, John - Former CEO NYSE & Director of ML and the BCG
Phypers, Dean - Former CFO of IBM
Platt, Lewis - CEO Hewlitt Packard-HP
Pope John Paul II - Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church-RCC
Pottruck, David - Charles A. Schwab & Company
Primakov, Yevgeny - Russian Prime Minister
Prodi, Romano - Former Prime Minister of Italy
Purcell, Philip - CEO of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Ramos, Fidel - Former President of Philippines
Raymond, Lee - CEO Exxon
Redstone, Sumner - CEO of Viacom - HBO
Reichman, Uriel - President of the Inter
Disciplinary Center- IDC Israel
Reichmann, Paul - Canadian Businessman
Rodin, Judith - President of the University of Pennsylvania
Roosa, Robert - Former Chairman Brown Brothers Harriman (of
blessed emory)
Samuelson, Paul - MIT Economics Nobel Laureate
Santer, Jacques - President of the European Commission-EC
Schiro, James - CEO PriceWaterhouse Coopers-PWC
Schroeder, Gerhard - German Chancellor
Schwab, Charles - Charles A. Schwab & Company
Sharman, Colin - Chairman KPMG
Shipley, Walter - CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank
Spielberg, Steven - Hollywood Film Producer
Slahor, Paul - Founding Investor in IPC
Slavin, Shmuel - Director General of Israel's Finance Ministry
Smith, Jack - CEO of General Motors-GM
Soros, George - President of the Soros Fund
Spector, Norman - Publisher Jerusalem Post
Tadmor, Zeev - President of Technion
Trotman, Alexander - CEO of Ford Motor Company
Tung Chee-hwa - Hong Kong Chief Executive
Turner, Ted - CEO Turner Broadcasting Systems-TBS - CNN
Vajpayee, Atal Behari - Prime Minister of India
Wang Changyi - China's Ambassador to Israel
Wang, Charles - CEO of Computer Associates International-CAI
Weill, Sandy - CEO Travelers-Citigroup
Weinbach, Arthur - CEO of Automatic Data Procesing-ADP
Weinbach, Lawrence - CEO of Unisys
Yair, Yoram - Former Israel Defense Forces
Yehoshua, A.B. - Israeli writer
Yeltsin, Boris - President of Russia
Zedillo, Ernesto - President of Mexico
Zeroual, Liamine - President of Algeria
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Subject: [BPR] - Dolly may be susceptible to premature aging
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 17:34:27 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
http://www.foxnews.com/
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Researchers find Dolly has shorter cap to prevent aging
11.41 a.m. ET (1542 GMT) May 26, 1999
By William Mccall, Associated Press
(AP) _ Dolly the cloned sheep may be susceptible to premature aging
and disease because her genes were copied from a 6-year old sheep,
Scottish scientists say.
There is no direct evidence that Dolly will die prematurely. She is a
healthy 3-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and has delivered lambs in the
past two years.
But the older DNA in her cells shows telltale signs of wear that are
more typical of an older animal.
Geneticists said the finding, published in Thursday's issue of the
journal Nature, provides further evidence that cloning has its limits
and that researchers cannot endlessly manufacture copies of animals
without the original genetic blueprint wearing out.
"I recall when the news first came out, somebody said that Dolly was a
sheep in lamb's clothing,'' said Jerry Shay, a molecular biologist at
the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "I
think that's an appropriate quote now.''
In 1996, Dolly became the first large animal to be cloned from genetic
material extracted from an adult cell.
Scientists inserted a cell from a ewe's udder into an egg from the
same animal after removing the egg's DNA. The bioengineered embryo was
implanted in the ewe's womb and Dolly developed as a clone. Her birth
at the Roslin Institute in Scotland was announced in 1997 and caused
an international sensation.
Now, researchers at PPL Therapeutics, a firm associated with the
Roslin Institute, have determined that the "caps'' on Dolly's DNA that
regulate a cell's lifespan are shorter than average.
All chromosomes are capped with tips known as telomeres that prevent a
cell's genetic code from fraying. When the telomere finally wears down
after repeated cell division, it signals the cell to self-destruct as
part of the aging process.
The shortened telomeres had been predicted as one outcome of cloning,
said Alan Colman, research director for PPL.
As a result, Dolly could age faster and be more at risk for cancer,
which occurs when cells fail to self-destruct and begin uncontrolled
growth. Sheep have a life expectancy of 13 years.
"You'd also expect reduced fertility,'' said David Corey, another UT
Southwestern Medical Center researcher.
Genetic tests are continuing on Dolly's offspring, including Bonnie,
born in 1998, and a set of triplets born this year. Tests on Bonnie
showed no significant telomere shortening, but she was conceived
naturally, and half her DNA came from her father.
Colman said the only problem posed by telomere fraying could come if a
clone were made from a clone, "but we see no reason why sequential
cloning would be necessary.''
Corey said sequential cloning would be like making a copy on a
photocopying machine, and then putting the fresh copy into the machine
and repeating the process. Eventually, the copies are unreadable_ just
as the genetic code would be unreadable.
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Subject: [BPR] - Plans to test "flying car"
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:19:58 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
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Wednesday May 26 6:02 PM ET
U.S. Company Plans To Test 'Flying Car'
LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. aviation company is planning to test a
revolutionary new ``flying car'' that will hover above the
ground and could change the way people travel in the future.
Moller International, of California, plans to take the so-called
Skycar on its maiden journey in the next few weeks and could reveal it
to the press by the end of the year, New Scientist magazine said
Wednesday.
The Batmobile-shaped vehicle will seat four people, do about 5 miles
per liter of gas, have a top speed of over 600 mph and will take off
and land vertically.
``On its first flight, the Skycar will rise to a height of six feet or
so, hover for one minute and then land, just like a Harrier jump
jet,'' the magazine said.
``Later flights will be more ambitious. Once the aircraft receives a
license from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) anyone with a
pilot's license will be able to fly one in the United States,'' it
said.
The vehicle, which will be hand-built and cost about $1 million, is
the brainchild of Paul Moller, who founded the company. He has been
working on the project for 30 years.
The car uses two rotary engines and fans placed inside streamlined
housings known as nacelles. The fans inside the nacelles create an
airflow that generates thrust. Each four-passenger Skycar will have
four nacelles to provide the power.
``At the rear of each nacelle is a set of vanes that can be angled
downwards to generate lift as well as forward thrust,'' the magazine
said.
Once the design is perfected and mass produced, Moller estimates it
could cost about $60,000.
``The first Skycars will be fly-by-wire vehicles. In other words,
while the pilot tells the craft what to do, a computer will actually
do the flying, taking the vehicle's rate of turn, and altitude into
account when it responds to instructions,'' the magazine said.
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Subject: [BPR] - Recognizing Muslim holidays
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:25:44 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Thursday, May 27, 1999
Recognizing Muslim holidays
Paterson, N.J. - A decision by school-district officials in
Paterson, N.J., to recognize two major Islamic holidays is the first
of its kind in the United States, community leaders say. Paterson's
schools will close next year on Jan. 7 for Eid al-Fitr, which marks
the end of Ramadan, and on March 17 for Eid al-Adha.
"We have a growing Muslim presence in Paterson, and this was a
way to recognize that," school-board president William McKoy
told the Bergen Record. Nationally, Muslims are seeking the right to
observe their religion as they see fit.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/05/27/fp12s3-csm.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - May 27, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 08:45:45 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
7:00 PM Eastern
HIST - 20TH CENTURY - Cults
8:00
HIST - THE SECRET BROTHERHOOD OF FREEMASONS - Initiates
swear on pain of death to uphold secrecy; legend and ritual;
influence on democracy.(CC)(TVG)
8:30
TBN - INT'L INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
9:00
A&E - THE UNEXPLAINED - "Tyranny of the Full Moon" -
The mythical powers of the moon.(CC)(TVG)
DISC - MYSTERY OF THE CROP CIRCLES - Researchers explain how
the effect is produced.(CC)(TVG)
HIST - THE NAZIS: A WARNING FROM HISTORY - "The Wild
East" - Eyewitness testimony from victims and perpetrators
reveals Nazi atrocities.(CC)(TVPG)
10:00
DISC - DIVINE MAGIC - "The Witch Hunt" - Witchcraft hysteria
grips 17th-century Europe; contemporary revival of paganism
in Europe and America.(CC)(TVG)
HIST - AQUARIUMS: WINDOWS ON A WATERY WORLD - Technological
innovations change the face of these virtual
oceans.(CC)(TVG)
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