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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 25, 1999 TV Programs
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:22:17 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
8:00 PM Eastern
HIST - HITLER'S SECRET DIARIES - A 1983 discovery of Adolf
Hitler's journals proves to be a hoax.(CC)(TVPG)
9:00
A&E - INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS - "For Better or Worse:
Same-Sex Marriages in America" - Proponents and opponents of
same-sex marriages present their cases.(CC)
DISC - SECRETS OF THE PHARAOHS - DNA tests give clues about
genetic traits and family relationships of the
pharaohs.(CC)
TLC - WHEN DINOSAURS RULED - "Birth of the Giants" - A
French paleontologist examines a dinosaur
nest.(CC)(TVG)
9:30
TBN - JACK VAN IMPE PRESENTS
10:00
NBC - LAW & ORDER (Repeat) - "Haven" - Authorities
seek the person who beat to death a beloved community leader
at his center in Harlem.(CC)(TVPG)
DISC - EGYPT UNCOVERED - "Age of Gold" - Researchers study
the Egyptians' quest and use of gold.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - TEST FLIGHTS: BEYOND THE LIMITS - "Flights of
Discovery" - NASA test pilots risk their lives to take
aviation to the next level.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Russia Today item (8/25/99)
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:36:53 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
RUSSIA, CHINA HOLD SUMMIT WITH CENTRAL ASIA STATES
BISHKEK -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the leaders of China
and three former Soviet Central Asian nations are to hold talks on
Wednesday as host Kyrgyzstan battles marauding gunmen in the south.
http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=87636&text
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Subject: [BPR] - Misc news items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:39:59 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
BOOKSTORE SUED FOR SAYING BIBLE IS GOD'S WORD
"Redwood Bible House in Ukiah, California was sued for claiming
that the Bible is the Word of God. It is the second Christian
bookstore to go to court over the issue.
In December, owners Tony and Neta Fisk began receiving calls
from Queenie Edwards of Willits, California, demanding that they
stop advertising the Bible as God's Word.
The Fisks told 'Christian Retailing' that Edwards visited the
store in December and demanded that the store post a disclaimer
on the door saying that they were falsely advertising Bibles as
'God's Word.' The owners refused . . . Edwards reportedly
demanded a check for $2,500 for 'damage to her reputation.'
Edwards' case against the Fisks was heard January 6 by a judge
who ruled in favor of the bookstore and the Fisks. Edwards took
the store to court again February 14, demanding that the second
court overturn the first ruling, but the court again sided with
the bookstore and its owners." (Sword of the Lord, August 6, 1999)
AMERICAN DEFENSE STRATEGY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM August 24, 1999
The Washington Times reported today: "The White House has
drafted a new global strategy for the next century that makes
the case for U.S. military intervention in a variety of trouble
spots and says the nation is facing its biggest espionage threat
in history. The paper, written by the White House National
Security Council staff, also says the odds are growing for
concerted attacks on the United States by terrorists and rogue
nations. The attacks could come in the form of nuclear,
biological or chemical weapons, or terrorists' bombs or cyber-
attacks military superiority, potential enemies, whether nations
or terrorist groups, may be more likely in the future to resort
to attacks against vulnerable civilian targets in the United
States, instead of conventional military operations abroad,=C6
says the draft document, a copy of which was obtained by The
Washington Times. =E6At the same time, easier access to
sophisticated technology means that the destructive power
available to rogue nations and terrorists is greater than ever.
Adversaries may thus be tempted to use long-range ballistic
missiles or unconventional tools, such as [weapons of mass
destruction] or information attacks, to threaten our citizens
and critical national infrastructures.=C6..."
TOP U.S. BANKS RAISE SPENDING TO REACH Y2K COMPLIANCE August
24, 1999
CNETnews.com reported last Thursday: "Five of the top 15 U.S.
banks have disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission
it will cost more to fix the year-2000 computer bug problem than
they had estimated only three months earlier, according to
reports. Citigroup said it expects to spend $950 million, 5.6
percent higher than its previous estimate, Chase Manhattan
estimates its bill for the year alone at $158 million, 24
percent higher than estimated, and the Wells Fargo expects to
spend $325 million, a 3.2 percent increase. The nation's 15
biggest banks, excluding Bankers Trust, now project a combined
Year-2000 bill of almost $3.51 billion, up 2.6 percent on their
March 31 estimate of $3.42 billion, the Wall Street Journal
said, citing the SEC report..."
Palestinian - Israeli agreement to be endorsed Thursday
Weekend News Today By Andra Brack Source: Arabic News
Tue Aug 24,1999 -- Palestinian and Israeli negotiators have
confirmed that they are going to endorse an agreement on a
schedule for the implementation of the Wye River accord on
Thursday, as the two sides said that progress has been achieved
in the negotiations. Meanwhile, the Israeli authorities decided
to reduce the minimum limit for the age of Palestinian traders
and workers allowed to enter Israel. An Israeli military
spokesman said this decision is to allow about 10,000
Palestinians who were working illegally to obtain work permits
allowing them to carry out their work. The decision will also
allow about 31,000 Palestinian businessmen and traders to enter
Israel.
Iraq puts missiles near civilian's houses
Weekend News Today By Kelly Pagatpatan Source: Reuters
Tue Aug 24,1999 -- The United States said Tuesday that Iraq had
stationed anti-aircraft missiles close to civilian houses in the
northern city of Mosul as human shields against attacking
planes. It said new military reconnaissance photographs showed
the missile sites were within 35 yards of civilian houses, and
proved that Baghdad was willing to use civilians as human
shields to protect weapons that track and fire at U.S. and
British warplanes patrolling no-fly zones in northern and
southern Iraq. The U.S. military's European Command made the
charge in a statement from Germany, the latest volley in a
sporadic, nine-month war of bombs and words with Baghdad. It
also said that Iraqi anti-aircraft fire, not U.S. bombs, fell
back to ground in northern Iraq Monday and killed two Iraqi
civilians.
via: "Pre-trib only" <Rapture@listbot.com>
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Subject: [BPR] - An eBay 'auction' for prayers
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:14:32 -0500
From: owner-bpr@philologos.org
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25 1999
Internet 'auction' for prayers overwhelming
Response 'enormous' for mother killed by drunk driver
By Jon E. Dougherty © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
Holding an "auction" to solicit prayers for a mother of three
killed by a drunk driver is not what eBay executives are used to
seeing on their popular Internet auction site. But to Carol F.
Rommel of Wadsworth, Ohio, eBay seemed the perfect place. She
never imagined, however, the kind of response it would generate.
Before it was all over, Rommel's three-day auction posting
solicited some $11,500 in prayers -- at a dollar apiece -- along
with over 3,000 hits to her site, 300 e-mails from as far away
as Australia, and an avalanche of cards and letters for the
mother's widow.
It all started after Rommel's friend and fellow eBay auctioneer
Christal M. Beckler, 26, also of Wadsworth, was killed by a
drunk driver on Aug. 8. A grieving Rommel said she wanted to do
something to publicize her friend's death "because it was so
real and so tragic."
So Rommel decided on the "auction" site partly because she and
Beckler were regular eBay auctioneers and partly because of the
site's popularity. When she finished, she posted it with this
headline: "Mother of three killed by drunk driver." Soon after
it began to resonate across the Internet.
Rommel told WorldNetDaily she provided URL links to the
original Akron Beacon Journal articles on the site, as well as
links to Beckler's auction page, "because I wanted people to
know this was a real person," not simply another abstract news
article about "somebody nobody knew."
She didn't ask visitors to send money, though.
"Instead, I just asked visitors to please bid on prayers for
the family." She also said she would provide the mailing address
for Beckler's husband, Roger, and their three sons, if visitors
contacted her by e-mail. Hundreds did.
"I wasn't ready for the response," she said. "I already knew
that millions of people visited eBay everyday, but I had no idea
the response to my auction site would be so intense."
Rommel said she initially had trouble answering all of the e-
mail she received, estimated "at well over three hundred."
She said the increased amount of visitors to her memorial
auction site also increased the visits to the Becklers' site,
causing a sharp climb in the number of bids for items they had
listed for auction.
After people began visiting, word spread across the Internet.
"They put my announcement out on AOL Café, on a lot of
newsgroups -- it just went all over," she said. "This story of
just one person who was killed by a drunk driver" was making an
impact.
In all, "we got over 3,000 hits," Rommel said. "There was over
eleven thousand dollars worth of 'auctioned' prayers."
Rommel said she "had no idea" the site was garnering such
popularity because she had not kept an eye on it.
"I had to have some minor surgery, so I couldn't keep track of
the responses," she said.
She was surprised, albeit pleasantly, after three days went by
and she examined the auction site's hit statistics. eBay removed
the site shortly thereafter.
"That's a lot of money," she said, adding that she wasn't sure
how she would pay for the high fees generated from the bidding.
"Then I got a letter from eBay telling me they would waive the
fees, and had sent a condolence letter to Roger (Beckler) and
his kids," she said. "That was just great for eBay to do that."
Though eBay's rules prohibit posting an auction for any reason
other "than to sell something of value," Rommel said she
believed her effort was important enough to risk bending the
rules. In the end, she learned, eBay agreed.
The experience has left Rommel filled with hope and faith in
"the human spirit, the human condition."
She believes that "this was a huge response about God, about
prayer. It's heartening, just when you thought the Internet was
Sodom and Gomorrah."
Rommel said other media organizations have contacted her and
have shown an interest in publishing the story. But, she said,
she's afraid some of them "may put a sort of, 'Look at this --
Strange Internet auction,' kind of spin on it. I hope they don't
do that, because that's not what this is about."
"I just don't want them to lose the whole point about God and
how life can be so short," she said. "This was somebody's life.
And God was there for her."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/19990825_xnjdo_internet
_a.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - City may include nativity scene in Christmas display
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:21:10 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
City May Include Nativity Scene In Christmas
Display
ST. LOUIS, MO (MCNS) -- The United States Court of Appeals
for the Eighth Circuit ruled this week that a Missouri city
will be permitted to include a nativity scene in its
Christmas display. The City of Florrissant had been sued by
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for erecting a
display at the City Civic Center.
In early December, the City of Florissant erected a holiday
arrangement that included a five-foot by twenty-foot cr=E8che
along with a large wreath, two Christmas trees and a painted
sign that read, "Season's Greetings." A resident of
Florissant, Scott Weiner, offended by the display, contacted
the ACLU for assistance. The ACLU sent a letter on Weiner's
behalf to the City demanding that the nativity scene be
removed.
Instead of removing the cr=E8che, the City added more secular
decorations to its display to avoid the appearance of
supporting a particular religion. The ACLU then filed suit
against the City, arguing that the display violated the
First Amendment and amounted to a governmental endorsement
of religion. The district court agreed and issued an
injunction against the City. The City of Florissant appealed
to the Eighth Circuit.
In their "friend of the court" brief, Rutherford Institute
attorneys asserted that the inclusion of the nativity scene
complies with the constitutional requirements established by
the U.S. Supreme Court in previous cases and urged the
Eighth Circuit court to reverse the permanent injunction.
"Cities must not be railroaded into excluding all religious
references during the holidays simply because they are
afraid of being sued. According to the Supreme Court, a
display can have religious elements in it and still be
perfectly constitutional," stated Jennifer Schans, regional
coordinator for The Rutherford Institute.
http://www.mcjonline.com/news/news3359.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - Mir's demise caps Soviet space era
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:22:13 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
*** Mir's demise caps Soviet space era
MOSCOW (AP) - Alexander Sperin left his father's birthday party early
to help monitor the blastoff of the Soviets' biggest space station,
just before midnight Moscow time on Feb. 19, 1986. They called it Mir,
or "peace," in a bit of Cold War irony. Some dubbed it the beginning
of a city in space. But Sperin, now a deputy flight controller at
Russian Mission Control, remembers wondering: Can this thing really
last three years in orbit, as its designers claim? It could, and then
some. On Saturday, after 13-1/2 years, more than 77,000 loops around
the Earth and 1,600 breakdowns, the Mir is scheduled to bid farewell
to its final full-time crew. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560867483-89f ***
Also: Americans will miss Mir, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560867492-25f ***
Key statistics about Mir, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560867504-e03
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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 26, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:52:59 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
9:00 PM Eastern
DISC - SCIENCE MYSTERIES - "Monsters of the Lake" -
Scientists are skeptical about sea creatures such as the Loch
Ness monster.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - THE PLOT TO KILL LINCOLN - Secret Service documents,
diaries and letters provide insight into the investigation
that followed the assassination.(CC)(TVPG)
10:00
ABC - NIGHTLINE IN PRIMETIME: BRAVE NEW WORLD - Species
become extinct at an alarming rate; the cahow bird;
exterminating insects; population growth.(CC)
PBS - ECHOES FROM THE ANCIENTS - Excavators travel to
Israel's Galilee and uncover a civilization that battled the
Romans; narrator Anne Bancroft.(CC)(TVPG)
HIST - SPACE SHUTTLE - The NASA aircraft is the world's
first reusable space ship.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - TEST FLIGHTS: BEYOND THE LIMITS - "The Need for
Speed" - Computer advances have revolutionized
aviation.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Six Billionth Person to be Born Next Week
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:35:16 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Sixth Billionth Person to be Born Next
Week
LONDON (Internews) -- Some time next week, a most
significant person will be born.
No one knows if the baby will be male or female or
where the birth will occur. It is most likely to be
in a developing country, probably Africa or Southeast
Asia, but it could be anywhere, in your street, town
or city.
There have only been five other children like him or
her. They were born in 1800, 1930, 1960, 1975 and
1987. Notice their births are getting closer
together. This will be the six billionth per son to
be born in the world.
There are several estimates as to when this event
will occur. Some population counters on the Internet
say it happened last month. The United Nations says
it will not take place until October.
Whoever is right, and the next week seems as good an
estimate as any, it is a significant event.
The human population reached a billion in 1800. Since
then the billion marks have been coming at an
ever-increasing rate.
The five billionth person is 12 years old, the four
billionth is 24, the three billionth is 39 and the
two billionth is 69 years old. With the exception of
the billionth person, born in 1800, they may all be
still alive.
Every 24 hours on our planet some 237,000 people are
born and 140,000 die. Of course they all require
space and resources and a pertinent question is
whether the Earth can cope with them.
It was question that occurred to an English cleric,
Thomas Robert Malthus, more than 200 years ago.
He believed that human population growth would
outstrip the Earth's carrying capacity and that
disease and famines would limit humanity's growth.
Some believe that it may happen like this, other say
that mankind's ingenuity will always provide the
solution to the problems they face.
But as we consider the state of our species just
consider what the world would be like if its
population was shrunk to a representative 100 people
with all the existing human ratios remaining the
same.
It would look like something like this: One would be
near death and one would be near birth. There would
be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans and eight Africans. Of
these, 52 would be female, 48 would be male.
Six people would possess 59% of the entire world's
wealth while 80 would live in substandard housing, 70
would be unable to read and 50 would suffer from
malnutrition
Only one would have a college education and only one
would own a computer.
Will it be the same when the seven billionth person
is born in 2012? No one yet knows.
http://www.arabia.com/content/living/8_99/born_26.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - Jordan Actor Expelled for Contacts with Israel
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:40:40 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Jordanian Actor Expelled for
Contacts with Israel
AMMAN (AFP) -- The director of an international
theatre festival in Amman has been expelled from the
Jordanian actors' union after he invited Israeli
artists to participate, a union official told AFP
Wednesday.
Nader Omran's "violations of the decision taken by
the country's professional unions not to become
involved in normalization with Israel, was one of the
reasons why the union's council decided to expel him
Tuesday," said secretary Nasr Al-Zohbi.
Zohbi said that in spite of numerous warnings, Omran
allowed Israeli troupes to perform at the theatre
festival in April.
The troups included Al-Shuruq and Al-Qassaba, which
he said were "Arab Israeli groups, but which
nevertheless include Jews and are financed by Zionist
organizations based in the United States."
Omran was quoted by the daily Al-Rai Wednesday as
denying the charges, and spoke of "ambiguous criteria
for the concept of normalization."
All the Jordanian professional bodies reject any
normalization with Israel, which made a peace treaty
with Jordan in October 1994.
http://www.arabia.com/content/culture/8_99/jordan_26.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - Free PC Bible
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:44:29 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Welcome to the FreeBible home! Thanks for checking us out! The
FreeBible is written by Steven Kollmansberger to provide PC users with
a quality, friendly Bible program that is free. The FreeBible is
geared toward the serious Bible student as well as those just
interested in glancing through a few verses. The program is available
free if downloaded, and for a small charge to have it mailed to you on
compact disc.
http://www.freebible.com/
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Subject: [BPR] - Mark of the Beast
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:14:33 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Dayona <croteaunet@ime.net> sent some stuff through earlier this week
about the four horsemen and the following caught my eye and I have
added it to the "Mark of the Beast" file on the website
http://philologos.org/bpr/research.htm [I added the stuff in brackets
in Dayona's commentary and the quotes from the website.]
It is interesting to compare the black horse [in Revelation 6]. Why
are there scales, when the *wheat* and *barley* are measured by
volume? Awfully expensive items; I wonder if these grains symbolize
two distinct groups of people. Hmmm. The unit of currency is the
denarius, of which the word "dinar" evolved.
[Rev 6:5,6 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the
third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black
horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A
measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a
penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.]
Introducing the New Islamic Dinar and Durham:
http://www.murabitun.org/WITO/intro.html
"Abu Bakr ibn Abi Maryam reported that he heard the Messenger
of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say: 'A time
is certainly coming over mankind in which there will be nothing
[left] which will be of use save a dinar and a dirham.'" (The
Musnad of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal)
____________________
"The Revelation undertook to mention them and attached many
judgements to them, for example zakat, marriage, and hudud, etc.,
therefore within the Revelation they have to have a reality and
specific measure for assessment [of zakat, etc.] upon which its
judgements may be based rather than on the non-shari'i [other
coins].
"Know that there is consensus [ijma] since the beginning of Islam
and the age of the Companions and the Followers that the dirham
of the shari'ah is that of which ten weigh seven mithqals [weight
of the dinar] of gold. ... The weight of a mithqal of gold is
seventy-two grains of barley, so that the dirham which is
seven-tenths of it is fifty and two-fifths grains. All these
measurements are firmly established by consensus." Ibn Khaldun,
Al-Muqaddimah
This new gold standard currency is of course, a specific measure of
gold by weight.
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Subject: [BPR] - Religious Say Quake Is Divine
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:07:45 -0500
From: owner-bpr@philologos.org
Religious Say Quake Is Divine
By Paul Geitner Associated Press Writer Wednesday, August 25,
1999; 5:58 p.m. EDT
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Outside his neighborhood mosque, the
old man leans forward to explain why secular Turkey was hit with
a killer earthquake.
``God is punishing us,'' Fevzi Kisioglu says. ``We've lost our
way.''
The sentiment is not uncommon among devout Muslims who survived
the 7.4-magnitude temblor that struck Turkey on Aug. 17, killing
more than 12,000 people and leaving many more homeless.
But it remains to be seen whether such piety -- combined with
public outrage at the government's post-quake fumbling -- will
translate into increased support for radical religious movements
that Turkey's secular government and military have been seeking
to suppress.
The quake hit the heartland of secular Turkey, but has stoked
religious fervor among some Turks looking for reason behind the
random devastation.
A radical Islamic group, Hezbollah, smashed windows and bottles
at a state-owned liquor store in Istanbul the day after the
quake, blaming booze peddlers for bringing damnation on Turkey.
A construction worker blamed such things as the state's closing
of religious schools, restrictions on Koranic courses and its
ban on headscarves in public buildings.
``I believe God is punishing us because of that campaign,''
said the young man, who wouldn't give his name.
Former prime minister Necmettin Erbakan, the Islamist leader
who was pressured out of office by the military in 1997 for
violating the country's secular principles, called the quake a
``divine warning.''
So far, the Islamic Virtue Party, which sprang from the roots
of Erbakan's banned movement, has been stressing cooperation
with Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit's secular government.
The party captured 15 percent of the vote in April elections
and is the third-largest group in Parliament.
A leading Virtue Party lawmaker, Lutfu Dogan, said in
Parliament that all parties should be united in times of
national emergency.
On Wednesday, though, the party asked lawmakers to open an
investigation into the government-affiliated Turkish Red
Crescent, accusing it of not fulfilling its responsibilities in
the wake of the quake.
Analysts expect Ecevit's 4-month-old government to survive the
post-quake criticism.
``At the moment there's no overt attempt to capitalize on
this,'' said Ilter Turan, a political scientist at Istanbul's
Bilgi University. ``Dissatisfaction with the slow way the
government has responded has not yet turned into a political
movement. People are still occupied with the urgency of the
situation.''
But others are predicting eventual political repercussions.
``The people, the voters, they are the best mechanism to
evaluate this,'' said Kemal Usta, deputy mayor of the Istanbul
suburb of Sultanbeyli, a Virtue Party stronghold. ``We expect
this government will not survive for long.''
Virtue Party supporters have been mobilizing aid in the quake
zone, following a model that helped build fundamentalist
movements in other mostly Muslim countries.
The Virtue Party, though, takes pains to avoid the
fundamentalist label, stressing its commitment to democracy. It
has not received any donations from Islamic countries, according
to Abdullah Gul, a senior Virtue Party lawmaker.
The party holds the mayor's office in Istanbul, Turkey's most
Westernized city, a post it won in 1994 by wooing poor laborers
who flocked from the countryside looking for work.
They were also the ones hardest hit by the earthquake, which
hardly touched central Istanbul.
Within days, the party plastered posters around Istanbul's poor
outskirts showing the crescent moon of Turkey's flag -- plus a
heart -- and a reassuring message for the shaken populace:
``Let's heal the wounds together.''
In one hard-hit neighborhood, Avcilar, where some 10,000 people
were left homeless, the party is distributing hot meals to
people living in tents, arranging medical care for the injured
and trying to arrange temporary housing in empty college
dormitories, said Sahin Yavuz, a local party leader.
Hulya Bulaca, a 34-year-old hairdresser, has been living in a
tent with six others for a week. Dressed stylishly in black, she
says she's grateful for the meals the Virtue Party has provided,
but has no intention of switching her allegiance from Ecevit's
liberal Democratic Left.
A short distance away, 36-year-old Semaka Uzun, wearing a
Muslim headscarf, tends to her three children, ages 4, 10 and
15, and tries to stay warm and dry in a blue-and-orange tent
loaned by a neighbor.
``We don't think about political parties any more,'' she said.
``We are thinking about ourselves.''
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990825/V000548-082599-i
dx.html
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Subject: [BPR] - Muslims protest amazon.com video review
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:10:11 -0500
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MUSLIMS PROTEST; AMAZON.COM PULLS VIDEO REVIEW: Amazon.com
today took offline a video review that Muslims had protested as
offensive after an Internet alert by the Council on American-
Islamic Relations (CAIR) called it to their attention.
Amazon.com's review of the 1991 Sally Field film "Not Without My
Daughter" said that under Islamic law women are subservient and
a wife "may be subject to beatings and a slavelike existence."
The company apologized, saying "it is certainly not our
intention to malign anyone's religious faith." . . . "It is not
our intent to stifle anyone's views," said Omar Ahmad, CAIR
chairman, "but when those views cross over into hate speech, we
have an obligation to defend our faith." Ahmad said the movie
itself is "one of the entertainment industry's worst examples of
Islamophobic stereotyping." . . . According to CAIR, there are
six million Muslims in America and 1.2 billion worldwide, and
Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in the U.S.
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Subject: [BPR] - "Smart Dust"
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:21:22 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990828/newsstory2.html
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NEWS 28/8/99
Dust bugs
Duncan Graham-Rowe
CLEANLINESS FREAKS have a new rationale for their pathological hatred
of dust--it could soon be spying on them.
Packed full of sensors, lasers and communications transceivers,
particles of "smart dust" are being designed to communicate with one
another. They could be used for a range of applications from weather
monitoring to spying.
The tiny "motes" are being developed at the University of California,
Berkeley, as part of a programme to produce the smallest possible
devices that have a viable way of communicating with each other.
Each mote is made up of a number of microelectromechanical systems, or
MEMS, wired up to form a very simple computer. At present each mote is
5 millimetres long, but Kris Pister, one of the developers, says that
in future they could be small enough to remain suspended in air,
buoyed by the currents, sensing and communicating for hours.
The latest version (see Diagram) not only has a thick-film battery
powering it but also a solar cell to recharge it. "This remarkable
package has the ability to sense and communicate, and is
self-powered," says Randy Katz, a communications engineer on the
project. He presented the latest work at last week's Mobicom99 mobile
computing meeting in Seattle.
MEMS are made using the same photolithographic techniques as
integrated circuits, so once perfected they should be easy to
mass-produce. Patterns are etched out of a silicon wafer to create
structures such as optical mirrors or tiny engines.
Each mote in a smart-dust system will need to survive on extremely low
power, while being able to communicate kilobits of data per second. To
this end, says Katz, the team has designed motes that shut down parts
of themselves when they are not being used.
The latest challenge has been to devise a system that enables the
motes to communicate. Katz and his colleagues decided to use optical
transceivers because of their low energy demand compared with radio
communications. According to Pister they have already shown that they
can monitor the dust 21 kilometres across San Francisco Bay. "There's
no way you're going to get that kind of range except with optical
devices," he says.
"The base station may actually reside in a hand-held unit, much like a
pair of binoculars," says Katz. This would allow for simultaneous
viewing of the scene from afar while superimposing any measured data
on the image. He adds that this approach could be especially useful
for hazardous applications such as detecting chemical weapons or
sending the dust into space.
The next task is to build distributed intelligence into the dust to
produce "swarm behaviour"
From New Scientist, 28 August 1999
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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (8/26/99)
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:25:21 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
WYE WITHDRAWAL MAY BE SET FOR JANUARY
It's not yet final, because the prisoner-release issue has not yet
been concluded, but it appears that the last Wye withdrawal will be
postponed for only a month and a half. The last withdrawal will
begin, according to reports emanating from the Israeli-Palestinian
talks, in mid-January - although Prime Minister Barak had wanted to
delay it until the final-status talks. A Prime Ministerial press
release issued last night after a meeting between the two sides
stated: "Israel made it clear to the Palestinian Authority that it
expects to receive satisfactory answers regarding the need to achieve
a full permanent settlement, as well as the final date for carrying
out the redeployment according to the Wye Agreement."
Late this morning, the Prime Minister's bureau announced that despite
earlier reports to the contrary, Israel would not oppose a signing
ceremony in Cairo "for the implementation of the Wye River Memorandum
and for the beginning of talks on the permanent settlement" in the
presence of U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright and Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak. The bureau added, however, that it has not
yet received such an invitation from Egypt.
PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS DENY HOLOCAUST
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright - who will meet today in Washington with PA
official Abu Mazen - to pressure him to publicly retract his claim
that the Nazis did not murder six million Jews. Abu Mazen, whose real
name is Mahmoud Abbas, is the author of a book, "The Other Side: The
Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement," which
argues that the Nazis may have really killed less than one million
Jews and that "the Zionist movement was a partner in the slaughter of
the Jews."
Other senior Palestinians have also engaged in Holocaust denial in
recent years, notes ZOA President Mort Klein. On December 8, 1998,
Dr. Samir Sahda - General Secretary of the PA's Desk of National
Institutions - wrote in the official PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida
that "Israel convinced the world of the lie of the massacre and racism
which they were exposed to in Germany, and [thus] gained world
sympathy." PA Communications Minister Imad al-Falouji and PA
General-Secretary Ahmed Abdul-Rahman were among the leaders of a
January 19, 1998 rally in Gaza in support of Roger Garaudy, who was on
trial in Paris at the time for his Holocaust-denial activities.
Abdu-Rahman said that films and books about the Holocaust "have told
what happened to the Jews in an unbelievable and exaggerated manner,
so why not give Garaudy the right to state his view of the issue?"
Arutz Sheva News Service
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Thursday, August 26, 1999 / Elul 14, 5759
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Subject: [BPR] - Misc. news items
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:38:07 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
A lawsuit was filed in Cincinnati to block a school system from
observing Jewish holidays as days off. The American Civil Liberties
Union accused the suburban Sycamore Community School District of
favoring the Jewish religion over others by giving students a day off
on Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, which falls on Sept. 20 this
year. Citing First Amendment prohibitions on establishing one religion
above others, the suit asks the court to block any religious holidays
from being observed as special days off.
An expression of "deep and sincere regret" for 200 years of injustice
to Aboriginal people was approved by Australia's Parliament on a
motion presented by Prime Minister John Howard. It called the period
"the most blemished chapter" in the nation's history. But some
Aboriginal leaders called the apology halfhearted.
The last full-time crew aboard the space station Mir is scheduled to
leave tomorrow, signaling the beginning of the end for the aging
Russian orbiter. As they leave, the cosmonauts plan to switch it to
auto-pilot. Over the next six months, the station is to sink into a
lower orbit. A "cleanup" crew is to remove equipment and experiments
in late winter before Mir plunges back into Earth's atmosphere, where
most of it is expected to burn up.
Iceland is ranked No. 1 in per capita use of Internet
The current issue of Yahoo! Internet Life says Western Europe is
experiencing a "staggering" growth in use of the World Wide Web, along
with Central and South America. In total volume, of course, the US
leads in Internet use, but from a per capita perspective, four
European nations exceed it. The monthly magazine's "World's Most Wired
Nations" with the number of Net users per 1,000 people in each:
1. Iceland 320.3
2. Finland 305.4
3. Norway 304.1
4. Sweden 289.8
5. US 283.0
6. Australia 234.1
7. Canada 211.5
8. New Zealand 190.1
9. Denmark 178.6
10. Singapore 140.0
11. Switzerland 138.2
12. United Kingdom 137.3
13. Netherlands 124.8
14. Hong Kong 98.7
15. Israel 95.7
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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 27, 1999 TV Program
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:30:30 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
7:00 PM Eastern
HIST - 20TH CENTURY - The Changing Face of Warfare.
8:00
DISC - INSIDE AIR FORCE ONE - The recent history of the
presidential plane.(CC)(TVG)
HIST - U.S. INVADED! - The Japanese launch balloon
bombing-raids against the United States in World War
II.(CC)(TVG)
8:30
PBS - WALL $TREET WEEK WITH LOUIS RUKEYSER - "The
Future of Telecommunications" -
Telecommunications.(CC)
9:00
DISC - DISCOVERY NEWS - (CC)
TLC - ATLANTIS: THE LOST CONTINENT - Computer graphics and
digital video explore the lifestyle and environment of the
lost island.(CC)(TVG)
10:00
PBS - THE FACE OF RUSSIA - "The Facade of Power" -
Architecture; wooden churches; baroque palaces; St.
Petersburg; novels; Gogol; prose;(CC)(TVG)
CNN - THE RUSSIA FACTOR - Russia fights a dispirited
economy in the wake of democracy.(CC)
TLC - TEST FLIGHTS: BEYOND THE LIMITS - "The New Frontier"
- A new generation of supersonic passenger jets includes one
aiming to surpass Mach 8.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Bridges for Peace items
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:18:51 +0000
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1,000 IMMIGRANTS ARRIVE IN A SINGLE DAY
More than one thousand immigrants arrived in Israel on August
25, the highest number to arrive in one day in the last five
years. In the early morning hours, a flight chartered by the
Jewish Agency arrived bearing 342 immigrants from Russia. During
the day, additional flights arrived from the Commonwealth of
Independent States carrying 945 immigrants in all, about 800 of
them from Russia.
The increase is due to the dramatic rise in immigration from
Russia, apparently the result of the severe economic crisis
there and the wave of anti-Semitic incidents triggered by the
crisis. Additionally, the Jewish Agency has been working in high
gear recently, attempting to bring many immigrants so that they
can arrive in Israel before next month's High Holy Days.
In all, 16,439 immigrants have arrived in Israel from Russia
since the beginning of the year, 2,000 more than arrived in all
of 1998. The number of immigrants from the CIS is also greater
this year, 38% higher compared to the same period last year
(35,095 this year, compared to 25,350 last year). (By Yair
Sheleg, Ha'aretz, August 25, 1999)
BURGER KING CAVES IN
In our August 13th Current News and Prayer Update, I ran a
piece congratulating Burger King for not bowing under the
pressure of the Arab Boycott to close a recently opened
franchise in a new mall in Maale Adumim, a Jewish city 10
minutes east of Jerusalem in the Judean Desert.
Well, the Arab pressure finally won the day, and yesterday
Burger King caved in and announced that it was closing the Maale
Adumim restaurant. In a company statement read in their Miami,
FL headquarters, they said, "Burger King has no interest in
taking sides in the Arab-Israeli peace process, except to
welcome its early and mutually acceptable outcome.
Burger King regrets that its name and reputation have become
entangled in matters that have nothing to do with providing
quality food and service to its customers, " said David
Williams, president of Burger King in Europe, the Middle East
and Africa.
Editor's note: For Burger King to say that they do not want to
politicize its business and not take sides in the Arab-Israel
peace process, and then proceed to pull out of the mall because
of Arab and Moslem pressure, is in fact taking sides. They
should have just left the restaurant where it is, made the non-
political statement, invited all to enjoy their good food and
service, making it clear that their presence was not a political
statement - which it has now become.
Rikamor, Ltd. the Israeli franchise holder, was accused by
Burger King of breach of its contract by placing the franchise
in the territories in the first place.
However, Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation
League, called the announcement a "blatant capitulation by
Burger King to American-Arab and Moslem organizations. It makes
Burger King an accomplice to efforts to resurrect the use of
boycotts against companies doing business in Israel."
Burger King has more than 10,000 restaurants worldwide,
including 46 in Israel, 40 in Saudi Arabia and 31 in Kuwait.
JAPAN FINANCES NEW BRIDGE OVER JORDAN RIVER
The new Sheikh Hussein bridge across the Jordan River has been
dedicated by Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and Jordanian
Foreign Minister al-Hatib and the Chairman of the lower house of
the Japanese Diet, Mr. Koki Chuma. The construction of the
bridge was financed by Japan. Following the ceremony, the
foreign ministers held a private meeting.
The bridge project is part of the Japanese contribution to
strengthen peace following the signing of the peace treaty
between Israel and Jordan in October 1994. The construction of
the bridge began immediately afterward and was completed on
schedule. The bridge will be used by tourists and for the
transport of goods. It has four lanes and is expected to meet
regional needs for the next 20 years. (Communicated by Foreign
Ministry Spokesman, GPO, August 22, 1999)
PEACE PROCESS MAY AFFECT ISRAEL'S WATER RESOURCES
A new book called "The Politics of Water in the Middle East,"
written by Dr. Martin Sherman of Tel Aviv University and the
Ariel Center for Policy Research, claims that Israel cannot
afford to give up the Golan Heights, even if only for its water
value. Sherman said that the Golan affects some 1/3 of Israel's
water supply, as the entire Sea of Galilee (Kinneret) is
dependent upon the Golan. "If we forfeit the Golan, we lose the
drainage basin and have effectively lost control of the
Kinneret... Those who wrote that the Golan has only 10% of
Israel's water supply are probably referring to the amount of
water physically present there at any given time."
When Arutz 7 reporter, Segal, spoke with Sherman, he asked his
opinion of the working assumption of those supporting a peace
deal with Syria, which is: "the Syrians will commit themselves
not to disrupt the flow of water from the Golan to the
Kinneret." Sherman's response: "If I would tell you that you
are about to sign a contract with a cruel murderer and drug
dealer who pledges that he will guard your precious resources -
would you sign it?" Segal said, "Well, let me rephrase the
question: Syria is also dry and in need of water. If Israel
does not forfeit the Golan, Syria's problem will intensify,
ultimately leading to a war between the countries." Sherman:
"... Now you are suggesting that Syria may go to war with us if
it faces a water shortage, while you previously said that Syria
could be counted on to guard Israel's interests in a peace deal
between the countries. If Syria finds itself in trouble at any
time, why should it prefer Israel's water interests over its
own? In any event, the Golan's water is not what will cause
Syria to go to war - if anything, it will be Turkey's control
over the Euphrates River waters... Incidentally, Syria has
already shown that it does not abide by water deals. In the
past, it failed to honor all sorts of joint arrangements it
signed with Jordan involving dams on the Yarmuk River."
The Oslo process, too, threatens Israel's water supply, says
Sherman. "The mountain plateau of Judea and Samaria also
provides another 1/3 of the country's water, in very rough
terms. In addition, the plateau plays a critical role in
national water management, as a place where surplus Kinneret
(Sea of Galilee) water is stored during particularly rainy
years. This function becomes crucial in dry years. If we give
up on the mountain plateau, this system simply breaks down."
(Arutz 7, August 20, 1999)
JUDEA AND SAMARIA TERROR WATCH
According to the IDF, since the signing of the Cairo Agreement
on May 4, 1994 until July 14, 1999; 1) 43 soldiers were killed
throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza, 2) 656 soldiers were
injured, 3) 34 Israelis were killed, 4) 435 Israelis were
injured, 5) 1,357 firebombs were thrown, 6) There were 422
shooting incidents, 7) 69 cases of arson, 8) 183 explosive
devices, 9) 46 fragmentation grenades and 10) 200 stabbings.
(IsraelWire, August 20, 1999)
PALESTINIAN EXILE, SAID, "FALSIFIED" LIFE STORY
Edward Said, the leading Palestinian intellectual, was accused
of falsifying his life story to give the impression that he was
brought up in Jerusalem and forced into exile by the Israelis in
1947. Prof. Said, a darling of the American Left, has written
that he spent most of his "formative years" in Jerusalem and has
suggested that he was made to leave, under Jewish threat, in the
months before the Israeli War of Independence. A prolific author
and energetic public figure, his story has made him a powerful
symbol of the Palestinian dispossession and subsequent exile.
His version of events has been promoted in newspaper and
magazine articles and television appearances around the world.
But after three years of research, an Israeli academic is
challenging his story. According to Justus Reid Weiner, scholar
in residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Prof.
Said "has served up - and consciously encouraged others to serve
up - a wildly distorted version of the truth, made up in equal
parts of outright deception and of artful obfuscations."
In an article in the New York magazine Commentary, Dr Weiner
reports that Prof. Said did not live in Jerusalem, did not go to
school there and was not a refugee. A house he claimed to have
grown up in is registered in the name of his aunt and her five
children, he claims.
In fact, Dr Weiner says, the family lived comfortably in Cairo,
where Prof. Said's father, an American citizen, ran a successful
business. Later, Said moved from Cairo to the USA, where he has
lived ever since. The professor, who teaches English literature
at Columbia University in New York, is the author of such works
as Blaming the Victims, The Politics of Dispossession and
Orientalism, which denounces the Western tradition of Eastern
studies as a form of colonialism.
Many Israelis were delighted at the research into his past.
David Bar-Illan, spokesman for the former Netanyahu government,
said: "I never had much respect for the intellectual integrity
of Prof. Said. This proves that my suspicions were not
groundless."
Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of the Jewish settlement of Efrat on
the West Bank, said: "Truth and fiction converge very easily in
this part of the world. Edward Said is taken seriously here."
Said was not available for comment, but is said to be working
on a revised version of his childhood, Out of Place, which
correctly places his childhood in Cairo, but offers no
explanation for his past claims. Dr Weiner said: "I and my
researchers interviewed 85 people over three years, including
Edward Said's cousin, Robert, in Amman, Jordan, and a family
friend in Cairo. I think people told him that the house of cards
was looking perilous."
Dr Weiner concludes: "The young Edward Said resided in
luxurious apartments, attended private English schools, and
played tennis at Cairo's exclusive Gezira sporting club, as the
child of one of its few Arab members. Whatever we finally make
of all this, there can be no denying that the parable is a lie."
(By Alan Philips in Jerusalem and Daniel Johnson, Telegraph
(UK), IMRA, August 21, 1999)
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Subject: [BPR] - Misc news
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:27:34 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
CHINA AND RUSSIA CEMENT NEW MILITARY AND STRATEGIC COOPERATION
AGAINST THE WEST August 25, 1999
UPI reported today: An ebullient Russian President Boris
Yeltsin has told reporters he is ready for a fight, especially
with westernizers, before meeting his Chinese counterpart, Jiang
Zemin, in the remote Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek on Wednesday.
Experts say the two men are likely to seek close military and
strategic cooperation between their giant nations aimed against
the United States. This is an expanding relationship. The scale
of strategic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing is certainly
growing, said Stephen Blank of the U.S. Army War College in
Carlisle, Penn. There is a basic convergence of views between
them on international issues, particularly on the need to
prevent the United States extending what they see as its global
hegemony. The expanding military cooperation, U.S. intelligence
sources and other analysts said, is likely to see Russia
supplying China with more advanced military weapons systems than
ever before..."
WORLD WIDE WEB RIDDLED WITH Y2K PROBLEMS August 25, 1999
CNN reported yesterday: "With just over 100 days left before
the year 2000 (Y2K) problem is upon us, Web programmers are
still using noncompliant code, says Y2K specialist Jocelyn Amon.
I spent six hours searching Internet Web pages for Y2K errors
and was easily able to find over 300, says Amon. The errors
listed include hard-coding 19 so the rollover from 1999 becomes
19100 instead of 2000, along with numerous errors with the Leap
Day, as well as something Amon calls the booby trap, where
programmers assume the non-four-digit year value in 2000 will be
00. In fact, says Amon, it will be 100 because that's how many
years there are since 1900. She points to almost 70 examples of
this problem alone. The bugs aren't in any one language. Amon
found examples of date-related errors in code written in C, C++,
Perl, Java and JavaScript..."
GROWING GLOBAL Y2K CONCERNS August 24, 1999
CNN reported this afternoon: "The year-2000 crisis is about to
become an international incident. The U.S. State Department on
Sept. 15 will release its biannual consular advisory --this time
including a list of countries expected to experience severe year-
2000 issues. Industry analysts expect that Brazil, Indonesia,
Italy, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand are some of the
candidates for the list. That means companies operating in those
countries and sending business travelers to them need to begin
thinking about developing action plans. Even prior to the State
Department report, some major U.S. corporations with global
operations have already started to make plans of their own
According to John O'Keefe, a State Department spokesman in the
Y2K office of management, the Department's forthcoming biannual
Consular Information Sheets will include year-2000 readiness
assessments for 172 nations. Those sheets will help people make
their own travel decisions by indicating potential breakdowns in
such key areas as telecommunications, energy, and
transportation. The sheets will say, for example, Country X may
have power distribution system difficulties, so travelers could
expect power outages for some periods after Jan. 1, O'Keefe
said. Following right behind the State Department, the Federal
Aviation Administration, along with the U.S. Department of
Transportation, will go online in September with its worldwide
assessment of airline safety. The assessment will include
evaluations control systems, global airport infrastructure
including security, and the aircraft themselves..."
Hizbullah moving to Europe?
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Thu Aug 26,1999 -- The Times of London newspaper recently
reported that Hizbullah is believed to be preparing to move its
base from Lebanon to Europe and has stepped up the recruitment
of Europeans to help carry out its operations. Senior sources in
Israeli military intelligence claim the group is changing its
location in anticipation of a possible peace deal between Israel
and Syria. According to the Times, the head of the Lebanon desk
at Israeli military intelligence said the group had realized the
usefulness of non-Arabs to its cause. The source said: "It
rightly believes that a European can move around in Israel more
easily than an Arab. Police and security forces try to identify
potential suspects by scrutinizing their appearance."
The newspaper said evidence of the involvement of Europeans in
the terror organization came with the recent conviction by a Tel
Aviv court of Stephen Smyrek, 28, a British-educat enemy in its
war against Israel, conspiracy to transmit information to the
enemy in order to harm the state's security, and membership in a
terror organization." Smyrek, described by judges at his trial
as "very intelligent", was jailed for ten years after being
arrested in 1997 on his arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport apparently
on a suicide bombing mission on behalf of Hizbullah.
Smyrek appears to have been recruited by Hizbullah and in 1997
was flown from Brussels to Beirut. After he survived being held
blindfolded for a few weeks in safe houses, the organization
became convinced that his wish to die for the cause was genuine.
Any decision by Hizbullah to move its operations to Europe would
pose a serious concern to security forces in several countries.
It would also represent a shift in its tactics.
Scientists learn key lessons about earthquake behavior
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: AP
Thu Aug 26,1999 -- Scientists say they have learned key lessons
from the deadly earthquake in Turkey that could save lives along
the country's North Anatolian fault and its California twin, the
San Andreas. When the North Anatolian fault unleashed a 7.4-
magnitude quake on Aug. 17 that resulted in more than 13,000
deaths, it behaved in ways scientists had imagined possible, but
never seen. It jumped over lakes and ignited other faults, which
has some seismologists worried the same could happen along the
San Andreas.
Turkey's quake and the 500-mile fault are important to
seismologists and geologists who study the San Andreas, which is
nearly identical in length and type. Both also run along two
tectonic plates grinding against each other. In last week's
earthquake, the North Anatolian fault jumped over three-mile-
wide Lake Sabanca and skipped from one fault to another,
apparently activating the second. The earthquake leveled much of
Izmit, where the epicenter was located, then jumped over nearby
Lake Sabanca, to resume its devastating path of destruction in
the city of Golcuk on the other side. Lakeside homes toppled
into the water, but scientists say the lake itself was
unaffected.
In the San Francisco Bay area, the Hayward fault stops at San
Pablo Bay, and the Rogers Creek fault begins on the other side,
about three miles away. Scientists consider them separate
breaks. "Can those two faults rupture at once? Two weeks ago we
would have said it is unlikely. Now, we can say it is likely,"
Andy Michael, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in
Menlo Park, Calif., said in telephone interview.
The other unexplained event was the quake's apparent skipping
from the North Anatolian to the nearby Duzce fault. San Andreas
is shadowed by the San Gregorio fault, just off the shore of the
San Francisco bay. "Could an event on the San Andreas move to
the San Gregorio?" Michael asked, adding that what is most
worrisome is that "this quake has done things that others
haven't."
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Subject: [BPR] - Back-to-School
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:50:41 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
From: "A Voice in the Wilderness" <voice@cet.cet.com
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:12:23 +0000
Subject: VW: FYI -Back-to-School (00)
Hello Everyone...
At the website "Library" I have posted a little clip from a recent
Federalist/Publius Press article. You with school-aged children will
find it a 'must read'. Lots of statistics regarding America's
education system when compared to other nations. Test scores,
teacher/pupil ratios, dollar expenditures. For all our tax
expenditures and relative wealth, America is essentially at the
bottom of the test scores.
Then, see what they have to say about 'home-schooling'. Even when
the teacher/parent has only had grade school education. And also
notice the cost of home-schooling, compared to the public system.
VW is about proclaiming God's Word and making sure its hearers are
prepared to meet their God; not necessarily here to promote
educational philosophies. But Christian parents are also exhorted to
"train up a child in the way he should go". In case you think I
might be a proponent of home-schooling, you are right. When the
ungodly teach what they do, Christian parents should take any
opportunity they can to train their children in Godly wisdom, when
at all possible.
The piece is called "1999 -Back-to-School" You can also find it at
the bottom of the "What's New" menu.
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Subject: [BPR] - Iraq's (& Russia's) plans for Israeli attack
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:24:24 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Iraq's plans for Israeli attack uncovered according to recent
intelligence By Kelly Pagatpatan, Weekend News Today
Friday Aug 27,1999 -- Joseph de Courcy, editor of the
well-respected "Intelligence Digest," says in a mailing delivered to
subscribers this week: "While NATO congratulates itself on bombing the
Serbs into submission, Israel's Mossad and other Middle Eastern
intelligence sources have discovered that Kosovo was one humiliation
too many for Russia. Now Moscow has agreed to back Saddam's secret
plan of revenge.
With this all-important Russian backing, Saddam is joining with
hated Iran and Syria to launch one final war against Israel.
Amazingly, Saddam will allow Iranian troops to cross Iraqi
territory to join the attack on Israel. And to keep America from
interfering, Moscow has given Osama bin Laden and other terrorists the
means to attack American population centers with weapons of mass
destruction. The threat is real...and the implications terrifying..."
Source: http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_08_27&item=#935778119
via: End_Times_News@onelist.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Misc. news
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:29:06 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
CHINA TO BUY RUSSIAN PLANES
Telegraph - London
China is preparing to buy advanced Russian fighter jets, the Russian
embassy in Beijing confirmed yesterday. The long-expected deal follows
talks between President Yeltsin and his Chinese counterpart, Jiang
Zemin, during which they pledged to counter-balance Nato's growing
dominance and eastwards expansion.
Full Story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001136033854542&rtmo=Vwsq6wkK&atmo=kk
kkkkku &p g=/et/99/8/27/wjet27.html
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REPORT CLAIMS CHINA PLANNING PUNITIVE ATTACKS AGAINST TAIWAN SOON
Inside China Today
China may launch punitive attacks on Taiwan in the next few weeks if
Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui fails to withdraw claims to
"state-to-state" relations, a Hong Kong newspaper said Tuesday. China
was prepared to begin punitive military action such as a blockade of
the Taiwan Strait, the independent Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao
reported, citing unidentified sources in Beijing.
Full Story: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=87393
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YELTSIN PRESSES FOR ANTI-NATO ALLIANCE WITH THE CHINESE
Telegraph-London
FORMER bitter rivals Russia and China are working on an anti-Nato
alliance because they fear the spreading influence of the West, and
America in particular, in former Communist countries.
President Yeltsin announced: "I am in fighting form, ready for
battle, especially with Westerners," as he arrived for talks with
President Jiang Zemin of China in Bishkek, capital of the former
Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.
Full Story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000163167039689&rtmo=lSAuAHHt&atmo
=99999 99 9&pg=/et/99/8/26/wrus26.html
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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (8/27/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:35:19 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
*** Yugoslav court subpoenas Clinton
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - The justice ministry, apparently miffed at
international war crimes charges leveled against Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, Friday ordered President Clinton and other top
Western leaders to appear in court on similar charges. A justice
ministry statement, carried by the official Tanjug news agency,
charges the leaders with committing war crimes against civilians
during the 78-day NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia. It said
the ministry was issuing subpoenas for the leaders "according to
international regulations." It did not specify when the Western
leaders should appear in court or say how the subpoenas would be
handed to the accused. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560895325-316 ***
And: Milosevic: U.S. helps 'Murderers', see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560891314-667
*** U.S. House staffers visiting Iraq
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration voiced concern Friday
over the decision of a group of congressional staff members to visit
Iraq on a humanitarian mission but a spokesman indicated there would
be no attempt to block the trip. "Certainly, Congress members and
their staff have the prerogative to travel wherever they want. It's
not for the administration to make those judgments," said David Leavy,
a national security spokesman at the White House. Still, Leavy said,
"One of the factors that we have to take into consideration is safety
and security and the well-being of American citizens." The four staff
members were leaving Washington today and planned to enter Iraq
through Jordan. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560895063-316
*** Court OKs real estate discrimination
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Norway's Supreme Court declared Friday it was
legal to use such discriminatory statements as "foreigners unwanted"
and "whites only" in real estate listings - a precedent that worries
human rights activists. "This is a first test of the racism law. It is
an encouragement for discrimination," Jesper Hansen of the Institution
Against Public Discrimination told the Associated Press. In July 1998,
the civil rights group filed a police complaint against the Eindoms
Service real estate brokerage in Oslo on charges of violating Norway's
anti-racism laws in lists of apartments for rent. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560894525-c8e
*** U.S. group lands in Poland with Torah
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Members of a Jewish congregation from the
United States arrived Friday to bring Judaism's holiest symbol to the
only remaining synagogue in Osciecim, the southern town where the
Auschwitz Nazi death camp was located. About three dozen congregants
of the Cherry Lane Minyon in Great Neck, N.Y., will hand over a
specially commissioned Torah scroll to the synagogue on Monday. More
than 1.5 million people, 90% of them Jewish, perished in gas chambers
or died of starvation and diseases at Auschwitz and nearby Birkenau
camps, both in Oswiecim. The Lomdei Mishnayot Synagogue is the only
one of a dozen in Oswiecim left standing by the Nazis. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560896117-0b0
*** E-mail calls you a 'big stupid jerk'
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's Fuji Bank Ltd. inadvertently sent out a
virus-tainted e-mail that makes computers display a message calling
the recipient a "big stupid jerk," the bank said Friday. The bug was
transmitted last week to investors worldwide via a memo detailing Fuji
Bank's alliance with two other major Japanese banks, spokesman Hiroshi
Takahashi said. The accident did not damage computers, and the bank
has apologized to all recipients, he said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560893550-819
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (8/27/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:40:25 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
AL concerns over Middle East peace process
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz
Fri Aug 27,1999 -- The Arab League has expressed concern over the
Israeli government backtracking regarding the Middle East peace
process. Arab League Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs
Zakaraya Ismael said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's peace
statements are vague. This contradicts the optimism that accompanied
his election campaign. Ismael regretted Barak's policy of maneuvering
and his attempts to minimize the US role in the peace process to
assume the role of "postman instead of real participant." He continued
that despite such changes the Arab position is still firm, clinging to
Arab rights, namely regaining the occupied Arab territories and the
rights of the Palestinians and enabling them to establish their own
independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. Ismael concluded by
saying: "We have to wait for the visit of US Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright to the region."
Chirac stresses remarkable relations with Syria, Lebanon
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz
Fri Aug 27,1999 -- French President Jacques Chirac has asserted his
country's readiness to take part in the process of establishing just
and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. He noted the remarkable
relations linking Paris with both Damascus and Beirut. At the
conference of France's ambassadors currently being held in Paris, the
French president said, "Our distinguished relations with Syria and
Lebanon would avail our country to make great contributions to peace
negotiations and the solutions to be reached." Chirac asserted that
France's firm consultations and relations with sides concerned in the
region would enable it and the European Union to carry out their
complete role in establishing a just and comprehensive peace in the
region.
Arabs desecrate ancient Jewish Cemetery
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arutz 7
Fri Aug 27,1999 -- The Ashkenazi Jewish cemetery in Hevron, site of
the tomb of Menucha Rachel Shneerson Slonim, was desecrated again
yesterday by local Palestinian Arabs who dumped garbage at the site
and broke numerous bottles on the graves. Hevron community leaders
called upon the IDF to keep its promise to guard the cemetery and
prevent any further desecration.
Pope's possible trip to Iraq brings concern for U.S. State Department
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: Reuters
Fri Aug 27,1999 -- The State Department said on Friday the Vatican
should consider the political implications of a possible visit by Pope
John Paul to Iraq to celebrate the millennium. "We have expressed our
concerns in diplomatic channels because of the likelihood the regime
in Iraq would attempt to manipulate the visit for political purposes,"
said State Department spokesman James Foley. "We have urged the
Vatican to take this reality into account," the spokesman added.
Prodi vows stronger ties with Arabs
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: Reuters
Fri Aug 27,1999 -- Europe has to forge an active foreign policy with
the Islamic world if peace is to be preserved in the future, the
European Commission's incoming president said Friday. Romano Prodi
said the European Union should formulate common relations between
European and Arab countries, as it has done with Mediterranean
nations. "Until now there have been many relations between European
and Mediterranean countries, but there has never been a policy just
for Arab countries. This can be done only by the EU," Prodi said. "If
Europe does not forge a foreign policy of openness and initiate active
relations with the Islamic world that surrounds it, then it will be
difficult to preserve peace." Speaking to a Catholic conference in
Rimini in northern Italy by video-conference from Brussels, Prodi said
the EU's 15 members had still not created a common policy on foreign
affairs. Apart from his call for a more common approach to the Islamic
world, Prodi said he had two other EU foreign policy objectives. He
said a top priority was EU enlargement, bringing in the countries of
Eastern Europe, which he described as crucial to maintaining peace in
Europe. "Also peace in the Balkans. It is not enough to give the
minimum of relief to people to secure peace. Peace is being able to
tell these peoples that you too are part of Europe," Prodi said.
Another tunnel found in PA controlled Rafiah
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Thu Aug 26,1999 -- The IDF has reported that an army-engineering unit
in the PLO Authority (PA) autonomous city of Rafiah found a
fifty-meter (yard) tunnel. According to the IDF, the tunnel connected
from the PA area to Egypt and was most probably used to smuggle
weapons and other items into the PA areas. The IDF reports the tunnel
was the seventh that was uncovered since the first of the year.
Official sources added that the PA has not cooperated in continuing
efforts to uncover the illegal tunnels. A special engineering corps
unit has been deployed to uncover such tunnels by means of unspecified
sophisticated equipment. Israel acknowledged receiving Egyptian
cooperation in the detection and closing of such tunnels.
Russian military satellite launched
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: AP
Thu Aug 26,1999 -- Russia's Defense Ministry sent a satellite into
orbit Thursday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northwest Russia. The
Kosmos-2366 military satellite lifted off on a Kosmos-3M booster
rocket, Strategic Missile Forces spokesman Vyacheslav Davidenko was
quoted by the ITAR-Tass news agency as saying. The satellite was
designed by the Polyot company in the Siberian city of Omsk. It was
the second military satellite launched this month.
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today (8/26/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:44:15 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Reform leader stated Western Wall is not holy
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire
Tue Aug 24,1999 -- According to Rabbi Yehoram Maoz, a leading figure
in the Reform Movement, the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem
is not holy and therefore, he would not chose the site for a bar
mitzvah or other religious events. Moaz explained there are other
sites "no less holy than the wall" and he prefers to hold religious
events at the alternative locations, which offer "peace and quiet."
The remarks of the Reform leader appeared in the first issue of the
Betelem magazine entitled, "Is it important to pray at the Western
Wall?" According to Maoz, the wall was constructed by Herod in his
efforts to expand the Second Temple and therefore, was not of
significance as far as a holy site. Maoz added that during the day,
many worshipers congregate at the location to recite prayers that they
have made holy for themselves. He equates with one praying at the wall
to worshiping idols and has suggested that the Reform Movement in
Israel chose an alternative site for its worshipers. In response to
the article, Rabbi Uri Regev of the Center for Progressive Judaism
stated that abandoning the wall would be a mistake and interpreted as
conceding defeat to the "ultra-Orthodox thugs" who seek to block
alternative prayer services from the Western Wall. Responding to the
two alternative leaders, Minster of Health Rabbi Shlomo Benizri of the
ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Shas Party stated, "Thank G-D that once again
we see that the religion of the Reform followers is not the religion
of the Jewish people. The Reform Movement once again has revealed it
is not a member of the Jewish people but rather a separate religion.
Truthfully, they have no place at the wall and should seek an
alternative location [for their prayers]. Perhaps the Jerusalem
Theatre of Kaan Theatre."
Ecuador's Pichincha Volcano wakes up
Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: Earth Alert
Wed Aug 25,1999 -- Pichincha Volcano near Quito, Ecuador, woke up on
Tuesday, sending up a two-mile-high plume of water vapor. The volcanic
activity sent a wave of fear through nearby cities. Quito's population
of 1.4 million was warned by seismologists last September that lava
levels within Pichincha were rising and there was a threat of an
eruption. Scientists at Ecuador's Geophysical Institute maintained
that a serious eruption from the volcano was not imminent.
Tensions rising at religious sites in territories
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz
Wed Aug 25,1999 -- At the beginning of the week, the IDF conducted a
practice exercise for the medical staff at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus.
For the exercise, the headquarters of the territorial brigade planned
to send medical equipment, which includes dummies used to practice
resuscitation. Palestinian police officers at the site objected. The
dummies, they ruled, would be removed from the tomb site each evening
and returned only in the morning. After an extended crisis, which
included intense contacts between the parties, Palestinian disruptions
of the shuttle buses, which bring the yeshiva students to the tomb,
and stone throwing into the compound, a compromise was reached. This
ended the latest crisis at Joseph's Tomb. In recent months, numerous
similar confrontations have erupted with increasing frequency. The
reasons are mostly prosaic: arguments over the introduction of a
loudspeaker into the tomb site, the planting of grass, the movement of
a medicine chest or the bringing in of plastic chairs for a
circumcision ceremony. Last week, the dispute was about the angle a
Border Patrol jeep was parked at the compound entrance. The
Palestinians suspected the IDF was trying to block the luggage
compartment, hiding the transfer of equipment into the site. The Oslo
agreements contain a commitment to safeguard freedom of prayer and the
status quo at two sites sacred to Judaism in Area A, Joseph's Tomb and
the ancient synagogue in Jericho. The situation in Jericho in no way
resembles Nablus. The disputes generally center around the entry of
equipment into the compound, which Israel feels it has a right to do
so, requiring it at most to notify the Palestinians beforehand. The
Palestinian Authority, on the other hand, considers this a dangerous
violation of the status quo. In order to enforce their will in the
disputes, the Palestinians block entry to the compound to worshipers.
Thus, the regular functioning of the compound is dependent on the good
will of the Palestinians, a rare commodity. The IDF has noticed a
steady erosion in the arrangements and it fears what may ensue. For
the Palestinians (and quite a few Israelis) the yeshiva is a thorn in
the flesh, a possible future site of renewed Jewish settlement. In
addition, there is severe mistrust, a direct result of the riots.
Adding fuel to the flames is Nidal Assouli, assistant brigade
commander of the Nablus Palestinian police. Assouli is usually
responsible for holding up the buses and has organized demonstrations
and has even sent policemen to hurl stones at the compound. The Oslo
agreements have created two Israeli enclaves within Palestinian
territory, Joseph's Tomb and Netzarim in Gaza. The incidents at the
tomb demonstrate the volatility of the situation how easily these
sites can be used to exert pressure on Israel. The implementation of
the final stage of the second withdrawal is likely to place 15 Israeli
settlements in similar situations, in very close proximity to the
Palestinian Authority. The village of Uhm Tsafa will be hundreds
rather than dozens of meters away from the settlement of Neveh Tsuf
after the redeployment, but under such circumstances, it is no wonder
the IDF prefers to turn a blind eye when settlements pave alternative
access roads.
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Subject: [BPR] - Inside China items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:49:42 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
ECOLOGICAL DISASTER WILL BE COST OF CURRENT GROWTH WARN GREENPEACE
BEIJING -- China's breakneck economic growth is threatening a national
and global ecological disaster, Greenpeace said in its first ever
report on the country on Friday.
http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=3D88454&text
CHINA TO CHARGE PROTESTANT LEADER WITH "HARMING STATE SECURITY=F6
HONG KONG -- China, which recently arrested up to 40 Protestant
underground church leaders in a crackdown in central Henan province,
is likely to charge prominent minister David Zhang with "harming state
security," a Hong Kong-based human rights group said Saturday.
http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=3D88452&text
CENTRAL BANK SHRUGS OFF Y2K CONCERNS
BEIJING -- China's central bank has shrugged off reports of potential
millennium bug problems at state commercial banks, saying on Friday
that two nationwide Y2K tests this year had cleared major obstacles.
http://invest.insidechina.com/business.php3?id=3D88458&text
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Subject: [BPR] - Arabia on Line items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 13:09:18 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Gulf Papers Urge Arabs to Use Boycott as Weapon
Gulf dailies urged Arabs to use boycotts as a weapon after Burger King
decided to close an outlet in a Jewish settlement.
http://www.arabia.com/content/news/8_99/boycott_28.shtml
Burger King Faces Jewish Wrath
Jewish settlers are furious with Burger King's decision to pull-out of
Jewish settlement, paper says.
http://www.arabia.com/content/business/8_99/bking28.shtml
EC Chief Calls for United Policy on Arabs
European Commission chief calls for a "unified policy" by the EU
towards Arab countries, source reports.
http://www.arabia.com/content/business/8_99/europe28.shtml
US Muslims Protest Israel Exhibit at Disney World
Muslim organizations wrote the Walt Disney Co. to protest a planned
exhibit called "Jerusalem, Capital of Israel."
http://www.arabia.com/content/culture/8_99/us_28.shtml
Movie Review Offensive to Muslims Changed
Amazon.com has changed a video review that Muslims found offensive.
http://www.arabia.com/content/culture/8_99/movie_28.shtml
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