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Subject: [BPR] - May 12, 1999 TV Programs
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:26:03 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
5:30 PM Eastern
HIST - HIGH POINTS IN HISTORY
The Lucky Ones: Allied Airmen and Buchenwald. It's a terrifying
true story. Allied flyers captured by the Gestapo are not held as
P.O.W.s, but instead interned in concentration camps. Fifty years
after their ordeal, some of these courageous men tell what they
experienced as witnesses to history's darkest days. [TV PG]
7:00
HIST - 20TH CENTURY - Hatred Across America
8:00
HIST - IN SEARCH OF HISTORY
The Cardiff Giant. In 1868, two well diggers on Stub
Newell's farm in Cardiff, New York, unearthed what appeared to be a
10-foot man. Word of the colossus spread rapidly, and Stub soon
charged for admittance. As later revealed, it was a hoax cooked up
by Stub's cousin who sought profit in people's literal belief in
the Bible, where giants abound. (cc) [TV G]
9:00
A&E - AMERICAN JUSTICE - "Martha Moxley" - A girl is
bludgeoned to death in Connecticut; suspects include Ethel
Kennedy's two nephews.(CC)(TVPG)
9:30
TBN - JACK VAN IMPE PRESENTS
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Subject: [BPR] - Russia Today items (5/12/99)
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:38:25 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
YELTSIN AXES PRIMAKOV, NAMES STEPASHIN PM
MOSCOW -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin rocked financial markets and
confronted parliamentary foes on Wednesday by sacking Prime Minister
Yevgeny Primakov and naming First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei
Stepashin as acting premier.
http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/1999051201.html?text
YELTSIN THREATENS TO QUIT KOSOVO TALKS
MOSCOW -- Barely pausing for breath after sacking his prime minister,
Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired a warning to NATO on Wednesday
by threatening to walk out of peace talks on Kosovo.
http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/1999051202.html?text
DUMA CHIEF SEES MORE CHANCE FOR YELTSIN IMPEACHMENT
MOSCOW -- The Communist speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament
said Boris Yeltsin's decision to sack Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov
increased the chances of a successful impeachment vote against the
president. http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/1999051203.html?text
NEW ACTING PM SAYS SURPRISED BY PROMOTION
MOSCOW -- Sergei Stepashin, appointed acting prime minister by
President Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday, said he had been surprised by
his promotion and urged members of the old cabinet to stay in place
for the time being.
http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/1999051204.html?text
YELTSIN ASSERTS POWER WITH RE-SHUFFLE
MOSCOW -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who abruptly sacked his
cautious-minded prime minister Yevgeny Primakov on Wednesday, has
become well-known for his unpredictable Cabinet reshuffles since he
took power in 1991.
http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/1999051205.html?text
SACKED PRIMAKOV WAS RELUCTANT PREMIER
MOSCOW -- Yevgeny Primakov, sacked as Russian prime minister on
Wednesday, is an inscrutable former spy chief who spent a lifetime in
the shadows before having office belatedly thrust upon him.
http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/1999051206.html?text
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Subject: [BPR] - Religion Today items (5/12/99)
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 08:46:10 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Television ads are depicting men and women who have left the
homosexual lifestyle and started families "through the power of
Jesus Christ." The ads, which encourage homosexuals to leave
their lifestyle, are airing in Washington, D.C., where they
appeared on an affiliate of the UPN network over Mother's Day.
Others will be shown in other cities, The Washington Post said.
Stations affiliated with the major networks refused to run the
ads, which are sponsored by a coalition of Christian groups. They were
developed by minister D. James Kennedy's Center for Reclaiming
America (see link #3 below), a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., group. ..."It's
not about hate. It's about hope," the commercial's closing line says.
Similar ads published in several newspapers provoked outrage (see link
#4 below) among homosexual rights groups last summer. "They are trying
to put forward a kinder, gentler kind of prejudice but it won't
work," a spokesman for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation said. A spokesman at Kennedy's ministry said the ads are
being aired in Washington, D.C., because "that's where the
policymakers are."
A teacher fired for his religious beliefs has been reinstated.
Phillip Hudok refused to enforce the Randolph County, W.Va.,
Board of Education's policy of requiring students and teachers to
wear an identification bracelet for security and safety reasons. They
contain the student's name, photo, and an assigned bar code. Hudok
said he opposes "the numbering of God's people" and wearing "the mark
of the beast," the Rutherford Institute said. ...The Randolph County
Board of Education exempted Hudok from wearing the bracelet but fired
him for refusing to enforce the policy in his class. "Forcing others
to participate in a program that he views as evil and immoral is just
as great a burden to Hudok's religion as his own participation in the
program," Rutherford attorney Kim Gilmer said. The West Virginia
Education and State Employees Grievance Board overruled the Board of
Education's decision to fire Hudok and ordered him reinstated with
back pay and benefits.
3: http://www.coralridge.org/cfra/index.htm
4:http://www.religiontoday.com/Archive/NewsSummary/view.cgi?file=1998
082 5.brf.html
http://www.religiontoday.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Euro-Snoops
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:07:55 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
The ENFOPOL connection
Dateline: 5/10/99
Not too long ago, word began to circulate that European governments,
suffering from a nasty case of snoopers' envy over
the English-speaking countries' long-standing ability to eavesdrop
upon phone calls, faxes, and e-mail around the world through the
NSA-driven Echelon system, were cooking up a scheme of their own.
Unlike the trenchcoat-and-fedora efforts of the five-nation Echelon
arrangement, which are focused, at least theoretically, on
communications outside of those countries, the rival European
ENFOPOL 98 scheme was designed to give law enforcement authorities
the legal and technical wherewithal to intercept messages within
their jurisdictions at will. Now though, while the European
proposal is still evolving, it seems to be less of a competitor to
American snooping than part of a full-press effort by cops around the
world to steam open everybody's envelopes.
While the European scheme was originally compared to Echelon, a
long-standing, world-wide surveillance set-up operated by United
States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the
two eavesdropping systems have some important differences. While
Echelon is reputed to be able to intercept virtually any telephone
call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission on the planet and scan the
resulting data for key words and phrases, it's primarily a foreign
espionage system intended to safeguard its operators. Theoretically,
at least, domestic communications of the five host nations are
excluded from the system (and you can take that with as large a grain
of salt as you wish), so the legal safeguards within those countries
are supposedly neither challenged nor relevant.
But, as recently leaked to the UK-based Foundation for Information
Policy Research, ENFOPOL 98 _ which has now been retitled ENFOPOL
19, either as part of the European Union's usual bureaucratic
shenanigans, or in an effort to defuse furious criticism
_ seeks to institutionalize Echelon-like interception as a law
enforcement tool within the European nations, sanctioned by their
laws. Somewhat obliquely, the current version of the proposal refers
to earlier drafts by stating:
The Council notes that the requirements of law enforcement
agencies with regard to network operators and service providers
for the purposes of lawful interception of telecommunications,
as described in the Annex to the Council Resolution of 17
January 1995 (96/C 329/01) are applicable both to existing and
new communications technologies, for example satellite
telecommunications and Internet telecommunications.
As The Guardian newspaper kindly translated, this means that "[t]he
plans require the installation of a network of tapping centres
throughout Europe, operating almost instantly across all national
boundaries."
Under the plan, private and public operators of communications
systems of any sort would have to redesign their systems for
convenient wiretapping. This means that Internet Service Providers
might have to provide secure space to house law enforcement equipment
that would monitor their customers' e-mail and Web traffic. Does this
set off any eerie feelings of d=E9j=E0 vu? It should. It's remarkably
similar to, if a bit tougher than, the Communications Assistance for
Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which was signed into law by President
Clinton in 1994 after heavy lobbying by the FBI.
Don't take that as a coincidence (in life, there are few true
coincidences). It turns out that the European voyeurism scheme now
contained in ENFOPOL 19 is based on recommendations by something
called the International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar
(ILETS). ILETS started as a gathering of cops and security officials
from around the world _ including such garden spots as China _ at
Quantico, Virginia under the sponsorship of (can you guess?) the
Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Which is to say, that cops around the world are now reading from the
same script in crafting and proposing policy for regulating any
semblance of privacy out of communications systems. European
authorities were apparently not even told that the proposals they
were examining were part of a worldwide wish list cooked up by police
and security officials from nations that include overt police states.
The FBI connection to ENFOPOL 19 raises an interesting question that
probably can't be answered quite yet. What role if any does the
National Security Agency, a signals intelligence entity that has
tapped world communications for many years for espionage purposes,
play in crafting proposals that require that communications be easier
to tap? The NSA may be neck deep in this business, or ILETS and its
twin offspring of CALEA and ENFOPOL 19 may simply be a matter of
parallel evolution; after all, the FBI and its law-enforcement
brethren around the world are fully as nosy and inconsiderate of
liberty as any number of spooks. Either way, telecommunications
systems designed to be easy to tap aren't going to disappoint people
who specialize in doing just that.
For now, ENFOPOL 19 is still a proposal, not law, and facing some
ferocious opposition from European parliamentarians who didn't like
the wiretapping scheme when they first saw it, and don't like the
retitled shell game version any better now that it's been revealed.
But there are a lot of highly placed officials pushing for this
scheme, arguing that law enforcement must be "modernized" along with
technology _ although cops never claimed the right to intercept phone
calls as will in the past.
And let's not forget that a very close cousin to ENFOPOL 19, designed
by the kind folks at ILETS, is already law in the United States.
Includes links for more info:
http://civilliberty.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa051099.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - Israel Prepares to Invade West Bank
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:33:41 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Wednesday, May 12, 1999
Israel Prepares to Invade West Bank
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AROL) -- The Israeli army began
training at a new facility that simulates a typical
West Bank village in order to reoccupy the
Palestinian territories, the Isreaeli Haaretz
newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The army's training for house-to-house combat
consists of a single short street with several houses
on each side. The new facility, located at a base
belonging to Israel's Central Command, includes two
longer streets set on a hill, the paper said.
The facility is designed to provide soldiers with
skills they would need in a potential confrontation
with Palestinians in the West Bank. Currently, drills
can be conducted up to the level of an infantry
company. Laser systems will likely be integrated into
the facility, as well as capabilities for joint
exercises with tanks and helicopters.
Amos Harel, Haaretz's military correspondent, wrote
that In addition to staging confrontations with armed
adversaries, soldiers will be drilled on a range of
scenarios, from low-intensity conflict to
full-fledged hostilities. Soldiers training to act
effectively in civilian areas while avoiding injuries
to civilians.
The battle doctrine takes into consideration lessons
learned from skirmishes with Palestinians following
the opening of the Western Wall tunnel in September
1996.
More than 70 Palestinians and 15 Israeli troops died
in battles that raged across the occupied territories
between army forces and armed Palestinian police.
During the last year, the Israeli army has increased
training for its units - including reserve units - in
order to prepare for a possible confrontation with
the Palestinian National Authority on or around May
4, the date the Palestinians considered declaring
statehood.
Army sources told Haaretz's: "The fourth of May is
now a concept, not a date," and that the training
exercises will continue in preparation of a possible
confrontation next January or May.
Haaretz's said that Israel may reinforce its
preparedness in the territories next month, under the
assumption that the Palestinian President Yasser
Arafat will decide on his next steps after the
Israeli elections.
The paper quoted defense officials as saying they
believed the potential for conflict with the
Palestinians would grow during the next year if peace
negotiations do not resume and offer them the
prospect of statehood.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said he will
unilaterally declare an independent state in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip if the goal cannot be obtained
through negotiations with the government which
emerges from Israel's elections next week.
Israel's current hardline leader, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned he will annex areas
still under Israeli control in the West Bank if
Arafat declares statehood -- a move likely to spark
violent confrontations.
http://www.arabia.com/content/news/5_99/wbank12.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - The Moon and Venus put on a sky show
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Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:37:14 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
NASA Science News for May 12:
Star Wars by Moonlight: The Moon and Venus will put on a dazzling sky
show from May 17-19th, as they appear to approach each other in the
southwest sky shortly after sunset. Full Story:
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast12may99_1.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - May 13, 1999 TV Programs
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:42:52 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
8:00 PM Eastern
TLC - MEDICAL DETECTIVES - "Foreign Body" - Tracking
the source of mad-cow disease in Great
Britain.(CC)(TVPG)
8:30
TBN - INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING - Hal Lindsey
9:00
A&E - THE UNEXPLAINED - "Superstitions: Unlucky 13" -
People link tragedies and misfortunes to the number
13.(CC)(TVG)
10:00
PBS - BEYOND BARBED WIRE ** (Documentary, 1997) --
Filmmaker Steve Rosen profiles Nisei who chose World War II
combat over internment in detention camps for Japanese
descendants. Noriyuki (Pat) Morita narrates. (60 minutes)
(CC) (Adult Situations)(TVPG)
HIST - BOMBS - The advent of gunpowder enables the
development of the weapon.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - STEALTH - The development of ``stealth'' technology
has beneficial applications.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Pastor's Defenders Interrupt TV Program in Seoul
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:52:56 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
End Times News Update
Re: False Christs
Scripture: Matthew 24:4
News Source: The New York Times
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/world/korea-pastor-tv.html
Date: 5-13-99
==================================================
Pastor's Defenders Interrupt TV Program in Seoul
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEOUL, South Korea -- The police sought arrest warrants for six church
leaders Wednesday after members of their congregation stormed a
television network in Seoul and interrupted the broadcast of a program
critical of the church's pastor.
About 300 members of the All Holiness Church of Seoul overpowered 50
guards and seized control of the lobby of the network shortly before
the program was to go on the air Tuesday night.
Five minutes after the program began, 50 protesters forced their way
into the main control center and cut it off the air. Network engineers
restored the program, but the protesters interrupted it three more
times. There were no reports of injuries.
The Seoul church was expelled from the Korean National Council of
Churches on April 30 because its pastor, Lee Jae-rok, maintains he is
Jesus Christ.
MBC-TV officials said the interrupted program explored what they
called Lee's "heretical" statements and his gambling habits.
Lee was not among the church leaders for whom arrest warrants were
sought.
The incident followed a sit-down protest by 1,500 church members in
front of the television station on Tuesday afternoon, demanding that
the network cancel the program.
The Seoul church claims a membership of 60,000. It is one of 3,000
Holiness Churches, a Protestant denomination known only in this
country.
The network said it would rebroadcast the program.
via: End_Times_News@onelist.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Clinton Mulls Embassy Site in Israel
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:57:35 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
06:40 PM ET 05/12/99
Clinton Mulls Embassy Site in Israel
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Clinton is waiting out Israel's
elections before deciding whether to block the shift of the U.S.
Embassy to Jerusalem, congressional and administration officials said
Wednesday.
A decision to keep the Embassy in Tel Aviv could set up a
confrontation with some members of Congress who want to bolster
Israel's claim to Jerusalem as its capital.
Israel holds its national elections next Monday. A tight
race
for prime minister could force a runoff June 1, delaying a Clinton
decision further.
Eventually, though, Clinton could be caught in an awkward
struggle with Congress even as he tries to prod Israel into
relinquishing more of the West Bank to the Palestinians once the
national elections are over.
Congress already has legislated the relocation of the U.S.
Embassy from Tel Aviv. But it also gave the White House an out by
including a waiver provision.
That is what Clinton could invoke after the national
Israeli
elections, declaring that shifting the embassy might damage U.S.
national security, said administration and congressional officials,
speaking on condition of anonymity.
A decision along those long has long been anticipated on
Capitol
Hill, giving proponents of relocation time to strategize. Several
members of Congress are primed to require moving the embassy in six
months or a year, according to the office of Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
Kyl and Democratic Sens. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut
and
Charles Schumer of New York may send a letter to Clinton informing
him they will introduce legislation to remove the waiver provision.
That would force Clinton's hand.
Moving the embassy to Jerusalem could have political
implications not only in the Middle East but also among American Jews
_ some of whom support Israel's hard-line stand while others believe
Israel must make concessions for peace.
A bill expected to be debated by the Senate later this
month,
and already approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
would authorize $50 million a year over the next two fiscal years to
build a new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
Clinton, as a presidential candidate in 1992, supported
moving
the embassy to Jerusalem. That would bolster Israel's claim to the
city as its capital.
But after winning the White House, with a big majority
among
Jewish voters, Clinton adopted a neutral position, saying the
future of the city as well as Palestinian claims to a state with its
capital in Jerusalem should be subject to negotiations.
The United States never has recognized Jerusalem as
Israel's
capital, either after the founding of the Jewish state more than a
half-century ago nor after Israel captured East Jerusalem from
Jordanian troops in the 1967 Mideast War.
Congress responded in 1995 with the legislation requiring
both
the relocation and the waiver used by the White House to keep the
U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Most Israelis are determined to keep Jerusalem as Israel's
capital. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud
coalition are opposed to a Palestinian state, while the opposing
Labor Party is more inclined to make territorial concessions to the
Palestinians.
Clinton, in a visit to Gaza last December, gave visible
support
to Palestinian aspirations without explicitly endorsing a state. He
took a similar step in a letter to the Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat this month as the May 4 target date set by Israel and Arafat
passed without a settlement.
But he never specifically endorsed a Palestinian state.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559524818-a6a
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Subject: [BPR] - Russia Today items (5/13/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:01:20 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
The Charges
(http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/special/impcharges.html) -- A look
at the specific impeachment charges that the Duma will consider
against President Yeltsin.
Impeaching the President
(http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/special/imprules.html)-- The rules
of presidential impeachment, according to the constitution.
DUMA BLASTS MEDIA FOR PRO-NATO KOSOVO COVERAGE
MOSCOW -- Russia's Communist-dominated Duma, the lower house of
parliament, angrily attacked the country's media on Wednesday for what
it called biased NATO-influenced coverage of the Yugoslav crisis.
http://www.russiatoday.com/rtoday/news/1999051310.html?text
REFORM CHANCES SEEN EASING UNDER NEW GOV'T
WASHINGTON -- President Boris Yeltsin's shock decision to sack his
government -- for the second time in less than a year -- dealt a new
blow to efforts to contain a deep financial crisis there, analysts
said on Wednesday.
http://invest.russiatoday.com/rtinsight/busnews/1999051301.html?text
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Subject: [BPR] - Religion Today item (5/13/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 09:05:30 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Christians should recognize the pope's authoritative role as a
gift to all churches, Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders say. A
joint international commission produced The Gift of Authority, a
document that says the pope has "a specific ministry concerning
the discernment of truth." The commission is part of a dialogue
aimed at producing full unity between the two churches.
...The document recognizes the pope's special place in the family of
Christian churches, Mark Santer, Anglican bishop of Birmingham, said.
The pope "is a pastor of immense authority in the Christian world as a
whole," he said. The document called upon Anglican and Roman Catholic
bishops to work together to serve their communities and each other.
http://www.religiontoday.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Iranian President Kicks off Landmark Arab Tour
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:58:12 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Thursday, May 13, 1999
Iranian President Kicks off Landmark
Arab Tour
TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
left here Thursday morning for Damascus, the first
leg of a landmark regional tour seen as a sign of a
thaw in the Islamic Republic's relations with the
Arab world.
After Syria, where he is to hold talks with President
Hafez Al-Assad -- his closest Arab ally -- the
Iranian president will travel on to Saudi Arabia and
Qatar.
The visits will be the first by Khatami to countries
in the region, and the first by an Iranian head of
state to Saudi Arabia and Qatar since the 1979
Islamic Revolution.
"President Khatami's visits to Syria, Saudi Arabia
and Qatar are expected to have positive results in
relations between Iran and Arab nations," the
official IRNA news agency said in an eve-of-visit
commentary.
Islamic Iran and secular Syria share concerns over
their common neighbor Iraq, and are united in their
opposition to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
The Iranian ambassador to Syria, Hossein
Sheikholeslam, indicated Saturday that Khatami will
discuss with Assad the Iraqi opposition, relations
between Iran and Egypt and Syria's ties with Turkey.
While in Damascus, the Iranian president is also
expected to meet leaders of Palestinian opposition
groups based in the Syrian capital, notably Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader, George
Habash, the ambassador said.
The Iranian and Syrian leaders are also expected to
discuss their support for Lebanese guerrilla groups
seeking to oust Israeli troops from southern Lebanon.
"Syrian-Iranian cooperation is one of the greatest
pillars of support for the resistance and has allowed
it to continue its armed struggle to achieve its
objectives," the Iranian ambassador said.
Khatami and Assad have met twice before, in July 1997
in Tehran and later during the same year at the
Organization of the Islamic Conference's summit in
the Iranian capital.
http://www.arabia.com/content/news/5_99/iran13.shtml
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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (5/13/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:02:42 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
JERUSALEM DAY TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
Jerusalem Day celebrations begin this afternoon, in commemoration of
the 32nd anniversary tomorrow of the liberation and re-unification of
Jerusalem during the Six Day War. Tens of thousands of people will
march around the city today, and a public memorial ceremony will be
held this evening at Ammunition Hill for the soldiers who were killed
in the battles for Jerusalem. The traditional after-midnight march
will set out from Yeshivat Merkaz Harav Kook to the Western Wall.
Yeshivat Beit Orot will celebrate with a festive dinner and a concert
tonight, followed by a procession to the Western Wall via Lion's Gate.
JERUSALEM DAY INTERVIEW WITH MAYOR OLMERT
Is Jerusalem already divided? This question was posed by Arutz-7's
Haggai Segal to Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert today. "I've heard this
claim before," said Olmert, "but anyone who thinks so simply doesn't
understand the reality of life in Jerusalem. Just because people
don't often visit the Old City? How many Jerusalem residents have
ever visited the new neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo? Would you say that
Meah She'arim is not part of Jerusalem, just because many secular
residents of the city don't often visit there? The claim that
Jerusalem is divided is therefore baseless," Olmert concluded.
Segal responded, "But they don't stay away because of security
concerns, as in eastern Jerusalem." Olmert retorted, "This is a proof
of my point. Even when there's no safety concern, people don't visit
other areas of town... At any rate, this view that 'Jerusalem is
divided' is part of a new faddish subculture that says, `Jerusalem
isn't ours and it belongs to the hareidim and the Arabs anyhow, so we
can give up on it altogether.' I completely negate this kind of
thinking. It's foreign to me, and it reflects a certain superficiality
plaguing elements of the Israeli populace."
Turning to Jerusalem's future, Segal asked Olmert whether he feels a
recent study predicting that the Jewish population in the capital
would be reduced to only 61% by the year 2020 is accurate. "This
forecast could even be considered conservative, in my mind," Mayor
Olmert answered. "The solution, of course, is to do everything to
bring Jews here instead of having them leave. That's why people
should listen to me when I talk about increased construction and the
annexation of more of the surrounding areas into the Jerusalem
municipality, which will ensure cheaper housing and draw people back
to the city. We also must strengthen the city's industrial base, its
institutions of higher education and we must improve Jerusalem's
'cultural profile,' giving citizens a stronger tie to the day-to-day
life of the city... New neighborhoods will be built, such as Har
Homa, which will comprise some 6000 new housing units. Unfortunately,
although this government has done much for Jerusalem, it has not built
Har Homa," said the Likud-party mayor. "The main question now is not
who is going to divide the city, but who is going to build it."
Segal proposed that an insistence on the indivisible nature of
Jerusalem will prevent any final deal with the Palestinians. Olmert
disagreed: "I think it is possible to come to a settlement with them
and preserve Jerusalem - but this obligates us to stand very strongly.
I usually take the opportunity of Yom Yerushalayim to do a bit of
reading, and I enjoy reading Ben Gurion's comments on Jerusalem.
Aside from Menachem Begin, there's no Israeli political figure who has
had such a deep Jewish sensitivity to the city. Ben Gurion writes
that Jerusalem is the center of Judaism, the center of Torah. On
December 11, 1948, he told the Knesset that he has no doubt that the
political, cultural and spiritual struggle for Jerusalem has not yet
begun - and that we have to be strong to deal with what awaits us. He
said that the State of Israel has no hope of survival without
Jerusalem. If we understand Ben Gurion's message, we can withstand
the challenges ahead."
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.a7.org>
Thursday, May 13, 1999 / Iyar 27, 5759 - Day 42 of the Omer
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Subject: [BPR] - Microsoft Eyes European Telecom Companies
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:04:29 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
MICROSOFT EYES EUROPEAN TELECOM COMPANIES
Microsoft, which just snapped up Swedish software firm Sendit for $120
million in cash, is talking with Deutsche Telekom about buying a
$1-billion stake in the German telecommunications giant or its cable
subsidiary. It's also offered to invest up to $4 billion in Britain's
Cable & Wireless Communications' cable subsidiary. (Bloomberg
News/Los Angeles Times 13 May 99)
www.latimes.com/home/business/t000042873.1.html
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Subject: [BPR] - Temple Mount Faithful Planning Jerusalem Day Celebrations
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:07:21 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Temple Mount Faithful Planning Jerusalem Day
Celebrations
(IsraelWire-5/13) Members and supporters of the Temple
Mount Faithful organization will meet at Jerusalem's
Ammunition Hill on Thursday morning, Jerusalem Day,
between 9:30am-10:00am.
According to the organization's leaders, they will then
march to the PLO Authority (PA) headquarters in eastern
Jerusalem, Orient House, where they plan to burn the PLO
flag.
The participants in the organization's events will also
be protesting at the American Consulate, opposing what
they call, "President Clinton's and Secretary of State
Albright's continued support for the enemies of Israel."
The group will then march to Nablus Gate and the other
portions of the Old City, as they do annually, and will
once again attempt to conclude the day's events with a
prayer service on the Temple Mount.
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Subject: [BPR] - Int'l Criminal Court Urged
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:13:19 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
11:10 AM ET 05/13/99
International Criminal Court Urged
By ANTHONY DEUTSCH
Associated Press Writer
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ Peace advocates at a global
conference today urged the quick establishment of a permanent
international criminal court to prosecute serious human rights
violations.
The new court ``is the promise that one day something
greater
than force will prevail, something that does not get traded away,
something worthy of trust,'' Louise Arbour, chief prosecutor of the
Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, told delegates at The Hague Appeal for
Peace.
Despite strong U.S. opposition, representatives from more
than
100 countries overwhelmingly approved a historic treaty in Rome
last July to create the world's first permanent criminal tribunal.
The United States wanted the option to veto the prosecution
of
any American citizen. With U.S. troops deployed in hot spots around
the world, Washington fears they could become targets of politically
motivated charges.
So far, only Senegal and Trinidad and Tobago have ratified
the
treaty setting up the court, which can be built in The Hague only
after 60 countries ratify the pact.
Pierre Sane, executive director of Amnesty International,
said
the United States is one of several countries trying to arrange
immunity from the court before it is established.
Arbour and others cautioned against attempts to alter the
treaty
creating the new court, and spoke of the shortcomings of the U.N.
tribunals in The Hague and Arusha, Tanzania, that are working to
bring to justice those responsible for atrocities in the former
Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Kosovo and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia have been a focal
point for debate among the more than 8,000 government
representatives, Nobel Peace laureates, U.N. officials and
volunteer groups in The Hague for the conference.
Differences among delegates on whether force should be used
to
end the crisis have dashed hopes that the conference would produce a
meaningful peace statement.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559533908-af4
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Subject: [BPR] - Armageddon bra
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:36:28 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
The Armageddon Bra boasts an early warning system
Apocalyptic bra lifts Tokyo pessimists
FROM ROBERT WHYMANT IN TOKYO
EVERY Japanese has heard of Nostradamus, and millions lend credence to
his prophecy that a terrible calamity will strike in July this year -
a war destroying a third of the world's population. Now the lingerie
firm, Triumph International Japan, is cashing in on the nation's
doomsday boom with a hi-tech bra that alerts its wearer to incoming
missiles. Presented at a fashion show yesterday, the "Armageddon Bra"
includes a sensor on the shoulder strap, and a control box to warn of
objects falling from the skies. Ideally it should be worn without
outer garments to work efficiently. Triumph says that it hopes to
utilise the technology in a new generation of bras designed for a
world where catastrophes can strike at any moment. Natural born
pessimists, the Japanese have seized on the doom-laden predictions of
the 16th-century French astrologer as if there were no tomorrow. One
poll showed that about 20 per cent of people believe that
Nostradamus's quatrains are a reliable guide to the future. One large
Tokyo bookshop carries some 185 titles on Nostradamus, and many are
bestsellers. The majority advise readers to take the doomsday
predictions to heart and prepare for the worst. Triumph's choice of
the Nostradamus theme for the bra - which will not be in the shops for
some time - chimes with the collective pessimism of a nation that can
see no end to the deepest recession in more than a decade that has
lead to the worst unemployment in recent memory.
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/05/13/timfgnfar03001.html
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Subject: [BPR] - May 14, 1999 TV Programs
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:43:14 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
6:00 PM Eastern
HIST - HIGH POINTS IN HISTORY
Typhoid Mary. Through her very livelihood, early 20th century cook
Mary Mallon infected scores of her society clients with typhoid.
Mary herself was immune to the bacillus. Join a talented "plague
buster" as he finally tracks Mary down after she eluded police for
years. In total, 51 cases of typhoid and three deaths were directly
linked to Mallon. [TV G]
7:00
HIST - 20TH CENTURY - The DNA Revolution
8:00
DISC - RUSSIA'S SECRET COMMANDOS: KILLING THE KREMLIN - The
Communist regime organizes a highly trained military
group.(CC)(TVG)
HIST - HOAX OF THE AGES: THE PILTDOWN MAN - The skull
of the missing link in 1912 England is a
fraud.(CC)(TVG)
8:30
PBS - WALL $TREET WEEK WITH LOUIS RUKEYSER - "The Price
of Energy" - Oil stocks/prices.(CC)
9:00
DISC - DISCOVERY NEWS - (CC)
10:00
ABC - 20/20 - Queen Noor of Jordan discusses her last
days with the late King Hussein and her future
plans.(CC)
DISC - STORM WARNING! - "Storm Cycles" - Patterns of violent
weather; torrential rains of Brazil;
tornados.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT - Viable aviation
advancements for the future.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (5/13/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:54:16 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Fastest Wind Speed Ever On Earth Recorded
Weekend News Today
By David Attak
Thu May 13 , 1999 -- Scientists have measured a wind speed of 318 mph
inside a tornado that recently struck Oklahoma City - the fastest wind
speed ever recorded on earth. Until recently it was not thought that
such a wind speed was possible
Madagascar: Cholera kills 170
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Nando Times
Thu May 13 , 1999 -- The first ever cholera to hit the Indian Ocean
island of Madagascar has killed at least 170 people, Reuters reported.
The epidemic is spreading fast and has already moved from the remote
northwestern province of Mahajanga to the capital of Antananarivo.
"Nowhere in the East Africa region is now safe from cholera," said
David Dofara of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent societies. More than 2,000 cases of cholera had been recorded
since the epidemic began last month and that it believed many more
cases had gone unreported because Mahajanga is a large province with
many remote communities.
First ever eye-recognition ATM offered in U.S.
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Nando Times
Thu May 13 , 1999 -- Bank United of Texas on Thursday became the first
in the United States to offer iris recognition technology at automated
teller machines, providing customers a cardless, password-free way to
get their money out of an ATM, AP reported. The concept works because
the intricate pattern of each person's iris is more distinctive than
even a fingerprint. Iris identification is already used at 11 banks
outside the United States and may eventually be extended to many other
kinds of financial transactions. Bank United hopes to have more
eye-scanning ATMs up and running within the next year. Several other
banks in the United States are expected to unveil iris identification
teller machines later this year. In response to questions about
privacy concerns, Bank United said the iris pictures will not be
distributed to anyone outside the bank.
Scientists hope to clone extinct Tasmanian tiger
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: SCMP
Thu May 13 , 1999 -- Australian scientists believe they can bring the
extinct Tasmanian tiger back to life by cloning a perfectly preserved
baby tiger found in a bottle at the Australian Museum. The Tasmanian
tiger, or thylacine, has been assumed extinct for more than 60 years.
But Australian Museum director Michael Archer, a professor of
paleontology, says it is possible they could be cloned within a few
decades. "We've discovered the miracle bottle in which this time
capsule is just waiting to pop back into life," Professor Archer said.
The baby tiger was put into a jar in 1866. By chance it was preserved
in alcohol rather than formalin, which would have destroyed the DNA.
Japan rocked by 6.1 earthquake
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Earth Alert
Thu May 13 , 1999 -- An earthquake of magnitude-6.1 jolted
northeastern Japan on Thursday at 2:59 a.m. The quake was felt most
strongly in the country's northernmost island of Hokkaido. The
tremor's epicenter was estimated to be about 62 miles (100 km) beneath
the earth's surface in eastern Hokkaido, seismologists reported.
via: bible_prophecy-news@onelist.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Baptist pastor addresses Clinton
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Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:03:00 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Baptist pastor addresses Clinton on Colo. tragedy in D.C.'s Post
By Art Toalston
WASHINGTON (BP)--In a full-page of The Washington Post, a Baptist
pastor told President Clinton that murder is the common thread in the
school shootings in Littleton, Colo., ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and
abortion in America.
The two teens who gunned down 12 classmates and a teacher in
Colorado "apparently thought it okay to do so" before taking
their own lives, said James E. "Jim" Gibson II, interim pastor of
Brainerd Baptist Church, Chattanooga, Tenn., in The Washington Post
May 10.
"Mr. [Slobodan] Milosevic [of Yugoslavia] thinks it is okay to
commit ethnic cleansing in Kosovo," Gibson continued in his open
letter to Clinton. "You think it is okay to murder thousands of
innocent babies who are in the safety of their mother's womb. Mr.
President, I submit to you there is no difference! They are all the
same. One is murder in Colorado, one is murder in Kosovo, one is
murder in the clinics, and we must see that changes are made."
Gibson first voiced his letter to Clinton in a sermon the Sunday
after the Littleton school shootings April 20. On April 29,
Gibson's sermon appeared in the Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga
Free Press in a two-page ad purchased by a member of the
congregation.
The full-page ad in The Washington Post then was purchased by
another church member.
Gibson has been the Chattanooga church's interim pastor eight
months. He joined the church staff three years ago as associate
pastor and minister of education, after 20 years in youth
ministry in various churches.
Gibson lamented to Clinton, "...through abortion and the teaching of
evolution, [Americans] have come to see that the value of human life
is nothing. The value of human life at conception is nothing, at two
and three years old it is nothing, at sixteen and seventeen years old
it is nothing, and at seventy years of age it is nothing."
Concerning Clinton's various comments about America now being a
"pluralistic" nation, Gibson noted, "But Mr. President, we cannot
ignore the fact that moral absolutes still exist. Absolute truth is
still in place. ... If we remove the Bible from any place then
eventually that place becomes at best amoral and at worst totally
immoral."
Americans "have allowed secular humanism to become the religion
of today and it is in direct opposition to God," Gibson said. "We have
boasted about separation of church and state and yet we must realize
that secular humanism is just as much a religion as any other faith
that is in our country today."
The first chapter of Romans in the New Testament describes "God
giving up people to depraved or reprobate minds," Gibson
recounted. "And that is talking about people who do not honor
God, who do not honor His Word, and who choose to live making
their own choices based upon the brilliance of the smartest
people that have ever lived or who are living today." But, Gibson
said, "I am wondering if God has given our country up to a reprobate
and depraved mind."
The Judeo-Christian ethic, Gibson said, "is what made our country
great in the beginning and it is the only ethic that has any
possibility of making our country great again because that
Judeo-Christian ethic is based upon the Bible, God's holy, inspired,
infallible, and inerrant Word."
Gibson noted "prayer was mandated out of our schools" 40 years
ago, and it is "unbelievable what has happened" in the generation
since.
Teen pregnancy, for example, became an "unbelievably terrible"
problem, Gibson said. In recent years, students who have made a
commitment to sexual abstinence until marriage through the True
Love Waits campaign, "which relates to an absolute truth," have
helped spur "a turnaround in teen promiscuity, but no thanks to
the government," Gibson said.
"I know that [the school prayer ban] was not your decision, but I also
know that you have done very little to change that," Gibson told
Clinton. "Oh yes, students can pray on their own. They can organize
prayer groups around the flagpole and they have done that wonderfully
well. But the leaders of their school, those who are Christians, that
are principals, and teachers, and administrators, are finding that the
law is coming down upon them if they are the ones who initiate these
prayers."
Gibson commended Clinton "for calling on all of us to pray" after the
Littleton tragedy. "But I think it is ironic that we are challenged
rightly to pray after an event and yet, have no avenue to pray prior
to the event." Because "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure," Gibson said, "I believe there are things that could have been
happening that might have prevented this incredible tragedy. ...
"Mr. President, our country is in the pigpen, and I would ask
that you and the governmental leadership of this country come to
your senses, that we return back to that ethic that made this
country great," Gibson appealed to Clinton.
"But if you choose to continue, Mr. President, in the path that
you appear to be guiding us, we must stand up in incredible
opposition to that path," Gibson said. "We must continue to call
upon prayer to come back to the schools and the Bible to be
welcome in our government from the schools all the way up to the
Congress. Mr. President, we are appealing to you, as the leader
to take the steps that I am confident will not be politically
correct, but will be morally right."
Gibson's letter to Clinton is posted on the Internet at
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37357467699f.htm.
In a message to the Chattanooga congregation the Wednesday after
voicing his open letter to Clinton, Gibson discussed the
question, "OK, Jim, what do we do? Where do we go?"
Gibson voiced 12 recommendations:
1) "Secure a copy of the Ten Commandments and place them in a
visible location in your home, in your offices, and in your
places of business. And students, place them in your lockers at
school and on your book covers and any place else that you can.
... We must keep God's Word ever before us."
2) Write to your congressmen "requesting a constitutional
amendment in relation to prayer in the schools and all government
entities."
3) "... determine one day per week that you will fast and pray
between now and July 4, the day that we celebrate the
independence of this great nation, and that you would fast and
pray for righteousness to return to our country."
4) "... pray daily for our president, that God would turn the
president's heart toward God."
5) "Commit to speak out loudly and strongly as individuals and as a
church when we are made aware of the need to do so in regard to any
kind of moral dilemma that we are facing in our community, our state,
or our nation." In Tennessee, for example, the issue of a state
lottery is on the horizon, he said, "and we must speak strongly
against it."
6) Establish a church committee to keep church members aware "of
the developments of issues and how various elected officials in
our areas vote on moral issues."
7) "...commit to and request properly to begin Bible studies in
your workplace and school, and suffer if necessary, for doing
good. For Matthew 5 says, 'Blessed are those who are persecuted
for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you, and say
all kinds of evil against you falsely on account of me. Rejoice
and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great, for so they
persecuted the prophets who were before you.'"
8) "Determine that you will not allow anything to come into your
home by television, radio or any other electronic means that you
would not invite into your home as a guest."
9) "Make sure you know what your children are being exposed to in
their schoolrooms, particularly in the elementary grades and demand
that it be consistent with your biblical moral standards."
10) "Evangelize the lost. For there is no way that we can expect
lost pagan people to uphold the standard of God's Word."
11) "We must fight the evolution and abortion battle forever. We
cannot let up. We must never give up and we must fight that to
the finish."
12) "Confess to the Lord and your family past failures in any of
the above areas and seek forgiveness from him and your family."
Gibson said he has "no doubt whatsoever" that God is still in
control of world affairs.
"But I also know that the Bible teaches that God has a limit. And
there will be a time -- I hope and pray that time has not come -- that
we who are supposed to be the godly people have backed off for so long
that God says, 'It's over for this nation.' I don't want to believe
that is the case.
"But let me share with you something I heard at a seminar a few
weeks ago," Gibson continued. "Numbers are very significant in
the Bible. The number seventy is often used as a number of
judgment. ... [W]hat happened in our country some 70 years ago?
The Great Depression. ... [W]hat happened in our country some 70
years before that? The Civil War. It has been some seventy years
since God has placed a judgment directly upon this country. Am I
predicting he is going to do that? I would not be so foolish as
to do that, but I would say to you that had better cause us to
think, to evaluate, to pray, to humble ourselves, to seek God's
face and to turn from our wicked ways. Then by the grace of God,
he will hear from heaven and heal our land."
Religion Today
Baptist Press for Thursday 5/13/99
http://www.religiontoday.com
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Subject: [BPR] - 153
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:37:58 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
Here is some more info on the number 153 from "Heavenly Designs in
Earthly Patterns" by Donald Morse:
BC 582 Ezekiel's 2nd vision
153 days after vernal equinox
AD 30 Jesus' miracle at Lake of Galilee
153 fish netted by Jesus' disciples
AD 1774 First Continental Congress
153rd day after Nisan 24
Nisan 24 date on which an angel communicated with the prophet Daniel
(Dan 10:4-14)
AD 1879 Edison's first successful incandescent lamp
153rd day after Iyar 29
Iyar 29 date of Jesus' ascension into heaven
AD 1900 Galveston, Texas hurricane
153rd day after Nisan 9-10
Nisan 9 date which the Lord entered town of Bethany in preparation
for His triumphal entry into the Holy City
Nisan 10 date of triumphal entry
AD 1923 Great Japan earthquake 8.3, around 6 minutes in duration,
estimates of 100,000+ dead
153 days after Passover Feast Day
AD 1944 First V-2 rockets launched against Paris
153 days after April 6
April 6 date of Jesus' resurrection
AD 1944 First V-2 rocket attack on London
153 days after Passover Feast Day
AD 1945 First atomic blast in history
153rd day from Tebet 12
Tebet 12 Ezekiel 29:1, prophesy against Egypt
AD 1952 First thermonuclear explosion
153 days before April 3
April 3 date of Jesus' crucifixion
AD 1968 First humans (Borman, Lovell, and Anders) to depart for moon
153rd days after Tammuz 26
Tammuz 26 date of Moses' first descent of Mount Sinai
For a limited time the author is offering free copies of his book.
For your free copy of "Heavenly Designs in Earthly
Patterns" please contact:
Donald Morse
187 Portland Road
Gray, ME 04039 (USA)
or e-mail the author at dmorse@gwi.net.
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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (5/14/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:48:29 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
*** U.S. envoy sets up Jerusalem home
JERUSALEM (AP) - The U.S. ambassador to Israel has set up a secondary
residence in disputed Jerusalem, a U.S. official confirmed Friday.
Establishing the residence could help the White House stave off
congressional pressure to move the entire embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem. Moving the embassy would bolster Israel's claim to the city
and anger the Palestinians who hope to establish their capital in east
Jerusalem, the sector Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast
war. The United States never recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Earlier this week, President Clinton said he would decide after
Israel's election Monday whether to block the move. Larry Schwartz,
the spokesman of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, confirmed that
Ambassador Ned Walker has established a Jerusalem residence and
entertained several Jewish groups there. Schwartz refused further
comment. ###
*** Pope welcomes Iraqi delegation
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope John Paul II welcomed an Iraqi delegation of
Catholic and Muslim leaders to the Vatican Friday, renewing his appeal
for a resolution to the international standoff with Iraq. Catholic
Patriarch Rafael Bedaweed and Hussein Ismail Hayder Al-Sader, a
leading Iraqi iman, led a delegation thanking the pontiff for his
concern for the Iraqi people, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls
said. John Paul has been an outspoken opponent of the economic
sanctions in place against Iraq since the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War,
and of allied airstrikes on the country. Friday, he urged a quick,
"just and final" resolution to the crisis. Italian media said the
possibility of a papal trip to Iraq appeared to be firming up, perhaps
for December. The Vatican had no immediate public comment on the
possibility Friday, but has said previously the pope hopes for a 2000
visit to Iraq, which includes the Biblical birthplace of Abraham.
Christians make up about 5% of Iraq's 22 million people. An officially
secular state, Iraq's people are overwhelmingly Muslim. ###
*** Flu season was deadlier than usual
ATLANTA (AP) - The U.S. flu season was apparently deadlier than usual
this year, the government reported Thursday. The flu season runs from
October through mid-May. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention does not know yet how many people died this season from the
flu. However, in an average flu season, there are about 20,000 deaths,
and about 30,000 when the Type A-H3N2 virus hits - as it did this
year, the CDC said. The deadliest flu season in the past decade was
1989-90, when about 44,000 people died. This year, the flu season got
off to a slow start, with few cases until mid-January. By February,
the flu was widespread in 40 states. The outbreaks had tapered off by
mid-April. The strain most prevalent was Type A Sydney. ###
*** Hail delays Discovery launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Space shuttle Discovery is headed back to
the hangar instead of into orbit next week because of hail damage to
its giant fuel tank. Discovery had been scheduled to blast off May 20
with 1-1/2 tons of cargo for the new international space station. NASA
is now targeting liftoff for no earlier than May 27. Hail gouged about
150 holes into the foam insulation on Discovery's 15-story external
fuel tank during a severe thunderstorm over the weekend. At least 35
of the nicks are in an area that cannot be reached from the launch
pad. Engineers are worried ice could form in the holes when the tank
is filled with super-cold fuel in the final hours of the countdown.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559542499-8aa
*** Wal-Mart rejects contraceptive pill
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, said
Friday its pharmacies will not sell an emergency contraceptive that
can be used up to 72 hours after unprotected sexual intercourse.
Bentonville-based Wal-Mart did not say why it would not sell the drug
at its 2,428 pharmacies. It called the ban a "business decision."
However, family planning advocates criticized the move, saying that
some women, particularly those in small towns where Wal-Mart has
little competition, would have greater difficulty finding the drug,
Preven. Preven was approved for sale last year as a "morning-after"
pill. The drug is not the same as RU-486, which can be used in the
first seven weeks of pregnancy to cause a medically induced abortion.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559543291-875
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Subject: [BPR] - May 15, 1999 TV Programs
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Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 08:27:16 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
6:30 PM Eastern
TBN - ZOLA LEVITT
7:00
A&E - MYSTERIES OF THE BIBLE - Biblical Archaeology
10:00
CNN - CELEBRATE THE CENTURY - "1914-1929" - The years
1914-1929; casualties of World War I; Mickey Mouse; Charles
Lindbergh flies from New York to Paris; the stock market
crashes.(CC)
HIST - THE CENTURY: AMERICA'S TIME - "Boom to Bust:
1920-1929" - The Roaring '20s; radio becomes a national
phenomenon; woman gain more independence; Lindbergh flies
across the Atlantic; the stock market
crashes.(CC)(TVG)
TLC - GREAT BOOKS - "The Odyssey" - Homer's
``Odyssey'' traces the return of Odysseus from the Trojan
War.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - US army recruits witches to guard pagans' rights
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 08:32:13 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001002285563757&rtmo=Q9QkwapR&atmo=9
9 999999&p g=/et/99/5/14/wpag14.html
US army recruits witches to guard pagans' rights
By Ben Fenton in Washington
THE United States army has recognised white witchcraft as a religion
and has appointed chaplains to oversee pagan ceremonies on at least
five bases.
A Pentagon spokesman said yesterday that there were believed to be at
least 100 witches attending covens at Fort Hood, Texas, the army's
largest base with more than 42,000 troops. So respectful has the army
become of the pagan rites that security was increased at Fort Hood's
Boy Scout camp, where covens are held.
The move is to deter members of Christian groups from intimidating the
group. The pagans, called Wiccans, are accorded the same privileges as
practitioners of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. They are encouraged
to have their religious preference stamped on the metal dog-tags each
soldier wears.
Lt Col Donald Troyer, the Seventh Day Adventist army chaplain who has
been given responsibility for Fort Hood's coven, admitted that he was
not overjoyed with his job because fellow Christian pastors
disapproved and had been "cool" towards him. He said: "It's such a
volatile subject. It just sparks a fury."
The Pentagon says it has received several requests for a posting to
Fort Hood because it has such a large pagan congregation. A spokesman
said yesterday: "We are obliged by the Constitution to respect and
make provisions for the religious needs of members of the military and
not to pass judgments on their beliefs.
The Covenant of the Goddess, which claims to represent most American
Wiccans from its base in Berkeley, California, says there are about
50,000 followers of the faith in America. They celebrate earth-spirits
such as the "great goddess Freya" and on their altars give blessings
to water, bread and salt, the three essentials of life, while the
congregation holds hands in a circle around a large bonfire.
Their main festivals are at the vernal and autumnal equinox and at
midsummer. However, sacrifices, either human or animal, are not
tolerated. One Wiccan said: "It is not something we do."
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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend Today News items (5/14/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 08:41:35 +0000
From: "Moza" <moza@butterfly.mv.com>
North Dakota: Worst floods in centuries continues
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo!
Fri May 14 , 1999 -- Only two years after North Dakota recorded its
worst floods in centuries, residents across the east-central part of
the state are bailing out basements again, AP reported. Nearly a week
of heavy rain on already saturated ground has swamped low-lying areas.
State officials said 25 of North Dakota's 53 counties already have
declared disasters due to flooding problems. Conditions also are
worsening around Devils Lake, a closed basin in north-central North
Dakota where the rising lake has been swallowing homes and land for
years. In Grand Forks, forecasters said the Red River would rise to
about 10 feet above flood stage. The Red River crested 26 feet over
flood stage in Grand Forks in 1997, when the region was devastated by
a 500-year flood.
Floods, landslides disrupt traffic in in much of Switzerland; River
level highest since 1859
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo!
Fri May 14 , 1999 -- Floods and landslides caused by torrential rain
disrupted road and rail traffic in much of Switzerland, AP reported.
In the capital Bern, homes and businesses along the Aare river were
ordered evacuated. Switzerland has seen several days of heavy rain,
with the result that many lakes and rivers, already swollen after a
severe winter, had reached or were approaching record heights. Barge
transport was suspended on the Rhine between Bern and the southern
German city of Mannheim, with the river reaching more than 28 feet
above normal at Karlsruhe-Maxau, 35 miles south of Mannheim. It was
the highest level measured at that point since 1859.
Rare earthquake hits Kansas City
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo!
Fri May 14 , 1999 -- A small but rare earthquake with magnitude 3.0
shook a 40-block span of Kansas City early Thursday, damaging a
medical building with about 100 people inside, AP AP reported. The
quake was considered weak but uncommon for a Midwestern state like
Kansas. John Minsch, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey,
said he knew of just one other instance of an earthquake registered in
the area. That quake registered 3.8 in 1931.
Part of Mexico hit by water shortage; State has enough water for only
20 days
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Yahoo!
Fri May 14 , 1999 -- Less than a year after a devastating drought, a
new dry spell is hurting farms and water supplies in the Pacific coast
state of Sinaloa, AP reported. Gov. Juan Millan warned that his state
has enough water for only 20 to 25 days, with reservoirs at only 10
percent of capacity. He said the water shortage was apparently due to
a drought that has also affected farms elsewhere in Mexico and in the
United States.
Chinese delegation to visit Cairo on Saturday
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arabic News
Fri May 14 , 1999 -- Official sources in the Egyptian government said
that a high-ranking Chinese delegation is to arrive in Cairo tomorrow
to hold talks with the Egyptian side concerning the implementation of
what was agreed upon during the visit of the Egyptian president to
China regarding mutual business and manufacturing projects.
Spread of AIDS could be serious threat to stability of Asia, Africa
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: CDC HIV/STD/TB Prevention News Update
Fri May 14 , 1999 -- Lawmakers and researchers in the United States
are warning that the AIDS epidemic in Africa and Asia may destabilize
those regions. On Wednesday, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), the head of
a congressional task force on the international scope of HIV/AIDS,
cited statistics showing that infection rates in the militaries of
African and Asian countries were four times higher than in the
civilian populace. This could go far in undermining the militaries of
developing countries, he said. In addition, Former Rep. Ronald Dellums
(D-Calif.) pointed out that the generation of children orphaned by
AIDS, growing up impoverished and hopeless, would likely create
tension and instability in that area. Dellums proposed an "AIDS
Marshall Plan" in which the government and pharmaceutical firms would
contribute $1 million to help fight the epidemic. Rep. Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) called on wealthy countries to meet to discuss the crisis.
The World Health Organization announced this week that AIDS is now the
world's most deadly infectious disease.(Source: San Francisco
Chronicle Online)
N. Korea preparing for war
Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: World Tribune
Fri May 14 , 1999 -- North Korea continues to strengthen its military
and has deployed most of its troops near the border to prepare for a
war against South Korea, the U.S. military chief of staff says. In a
statement to the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense on
Tuesday, General Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said Pyongyang has deployed the majority of its more than 1 million
North Korean soldiers near the demilitarized zone and Seoul. He said
the tensions from this deployment has been exacerbated by Pyongyang's
nuclear and missile program. "Despite its collapsed economy and
struggle to feed its own population," Shelton said, "the North Korean
government continues to pour resources into its military and to pursue
a policy of confrontation with South Korea and its neighbors in the
region."More than one million North Korean soldiers serve on active
duty, the vast majority deployed within hours of the DMZ and South
Korea's capital city, Seoul." Shelton said the US must take the North
Korean threat very seriously. He said the Pentagon has deployed
advanced tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery, attack
helicopters and aircraft in Korea. The chief of staff said the United
States has also deployed the Patriot missile defense systems, improved
surveillance capabilities and upgraded prepositioned stocks. "These
actions have significantly improved our defensive posture," Shelton
said. "Still, the threat remains, and North Korea's substantial
chemical and biological weapons capability, coupled with its continued
pursuit of ballistic missile technology, will demand our attention for
the foreseeable future."
Palm Springs area rocked by earthquake
Weekend News Today
By Staff Writer
Source: Earth Alert
Fri May 14 , 1999 -- An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 shook the desert
near Palm Springs, Calif., early Friday. Centered 19 miles northeast
of the city, the tremor was followed by a swarm of smaller tremors.
Seismologists say the shaking is one of more than 70,000 aftershocks
associated with a giant quake that hit the region in 1992.
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Subject: [BPR] - Potential Pope Declares Jesus is not the Only Way
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Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 09:57:02 -0500
From: owner-bpr@philologos.org
Via: Ed's Discernment List
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http://www.ncinter.net/~ejt/
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POTENTIAL POPE DECLARES JESUS IS NOT THE ONLY WAY
Cardinal Francis Arinze, who's considered a possible successor to
Pope John Paul II, has denied Jesus is the only way to heaven. In a
recent interview the spirited 66 year-old deputy for outreach to other
religions was asked, "So was Jesus wrong when he said he was the
way, the truth and the life?" Arinze responed, "If a person were to
push what you said a little further and say that if you're not a Christian
you're not going to heaven, we'd regard that person as a
fundamentalist...and theologically wrong. I met in Pakistan a Muslim.
He had a wonderful concept of the Koran. We were like two twins that
had known one another from birth. And I was in admiration of this
man's wisdom. I think that man will go to heaven. There was a
Buddhist in Kyoto, in Japan. This man, a good man, open, listening,
humble--I was amazed. I listened to his works of wisdom and said to
myself, "The grace of God is working in this man." The interviewer
then repeated the question, "So you can still get to heaven without
accepting Jesus?" "Expressly, yes [he laughs with the audience]"
(Dallas Morning News, 3/20/99)
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