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Subject: [BPR] - Catholic colleges
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:52:05 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

Catholic colleges will be held to stricter doctrinal standards.
U.S. Catholic bishops voted 223-31 Nov. 17 to require presidents,
board members, and teachers to adhere more closely to church
teachings, The Associated Press said. University presidents and
most trustees and teachers should be Catholics who are loyal to
the faith, the bishops said.
...Theologians must be approved by local bishops. Theologians
"have a duty to be faithful to the church's magesterium as the
authoritative interpreter of sacred Scripture and sacred
tradition," the bishops said. Bishops will grant a "mandate" to
professors who are faithful to church teaching, and have the
power to rescind it if a teacher presents as Catholic doctrine
anything contrary to church teaching.
...Bishops will be encouraged to monitor colleges in their
dioceses for adherence to church teaching, Manuel Miranda of the
Cardinal Newman Society said. "Based on their own willingness,
colleges will continue to be Catholic or not Catholic. Most will
choose to be Catholic and slowly comply. Some may not."
...College administrators and academic groups have opposed the
changes, charging that they will limit academic freedom and the
right to dissent. Pope John Paul has encouraged church leaders
worldwide to strengthen control over Catholic institutions of
higher learning to protect church doctrine. The Vatican must
authorize a document approved by the bishops at their meeting
before it goes into effect.

via: http://www.religiontoday.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (11/17/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:05:03 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

*** Russia tests 2 ballistic missiles

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia fired its third set of test missiles in a
month on Wednesday, sending a message of combat-readiness as the
country wrangles with the United States over a proposed missile
defense system. Two missiles were launched from a submarine in
the Barents Sea north of Scandinavia and struck their targets
about 3,100 miles away on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's
Far East, the Navy's press service said. Like two previous
launches, the move appeared to carry a strong political message.
Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, the commander of the Russian Navy,
congratulated the Arctic Fleet on Wednesday's launches, saying
that "the naval strategic force demonstrated top combat-
readiness and met the highest modern standards." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562122487-187
*** Also: Russia's military gets image boost, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562128424-1f2

*** Clinton focuses on Russia, Chechnya

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - President Clinton, on the eve of a
summit of 54 world leaders, staked out ground Wednesday for a
showdown with Boris Yeltsin over Russia's military crackdown in
Chechnya and the growing toll of civilian casualties. But the
Russian leader made clear he was not interested in being
lectured, saying his colleagues should curb their outrage or
risk failure of their talks. Despite Yeltsin's defiant stand,
Clinton and other leaders intend to use the two-day summit to
express deep concern about civilian losses caused by Russian air
and ground assaults in the breakaway republic and the resulting
refugee flood, National Security Adviser Sandy Berger said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562121850-581

** New U.S.-UN relationship seen

NEW YORK (AP) - With Congress nearing approval of $926 million
in back dues to the United Nations, the United States and the
U.N. are "on the edge of a new relationship," U.S. Ambassador
Richard Holbrooke said Wednesday. Holbrooke invited U.N.
ambassadors to a swearing-in ceremony Wednesday for his new
deputy in charge of U.N. reform - Donald Hays - in a bid to gain
their support for American demands to streamline the United
Nations. "The money is finally there," Holbrooke said, referring
to the $926 million that would be paid to the United Nations in
back dues under legislation before Congress. The White House and
Congress reached a deal on the bill this week after President
Bill Clinton reluctantly accepted restrictions on U.S. funding
for overseas family planning programs. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562126354-2fa

*** Iraqi breakthrough appears unlikely

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States and Britain expressed
hope Wednesday for quick agreement on a new Iraq policy but
Russia and China cautioned that serious problems remain and no
breakthrough is imminent. Reflecting the differences between
Iraq's supporters and opponents on the U.N. Security Council,
Russia and the United States are at odds over a separate and
seemingly noncontroversial resolution to extend the U.N.
humanitarian program in Iraq for six months. The issue wouldn't
be on the table if the Security Council had reached agreement by
now - as Britain and the United States had hoped -on a
comprehensive Iraq resolution that would have included
humanitarian assistance. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562124959-e23

*** Dispute may decide Palestinian map

ARURA, West Bank (AP) - This hilltop West Bank village is the
closest thing to nowhere, a half-hour's drive from the nearest
city on a narrow, winding mountain road. But places like Arura
lie at the heart of the most serious quarrel yet between the
Palestinians and the nearly 5-month-old government of Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak -one that has set off a volley of
angry accusations and held up the handover of West Bank
territory to the Palestinians this week. Israel was to have
turned over 5% of the West Bank on Monday, bringing nearly two-
fifths of the territory under full or partial Palestinian
control. Land handovers like this one are meant to build
confidence and goodwill. The Palestinians claim Israel is
deliberately drawing the handover map so as to cede mainly
remote, thinly populated pockets of land that provide no link
between urban enclaves. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562119789-33b

*** Hitler race project records revealed

BERLIN (AP) - Records of children born under a Nazi project to
breed a German master race will be opened to the children now
trying to track down their roots, a spokesman from the federal
archives said Wednesday. The archives reportedly held files of
some 1,000 children born from Adolf Hitler's quest for a race of
blond, blue-eyed and tall Germans. The files could help some
identify the parents of those children who did not meet the Nazi
racist criteria and were sent to orphanages. An archives
spokesman, Wilhelm Lenz, confirmed that the agency has records
on some of the children. Under the breeding program known as
Lebensborn, or Fount of Life, women deemed by the Nazis to fit
the ideals of the German race were mated with selected men to
"bear a child for the Fuehrer." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562122902-e7d

*** Parents get sportsmanship training

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A youth sports league is adding a
requirement for kids who want to kick soccer balls or wave
pompoms: Their parents must learn how to behave on the
sidelines. The Jupiter-Tequesta Athletic Association is making
parents take an hourlong ethics course, starting Jan. 1. If the
parents refuse, their children won't play. "We just want to try
to de-escalate the intensity that's being shown by the parents
at these games," said Jeff Leslie, the volunteer president of
the association. The group, which serves 6,000 youngsters,
covers such sports as baseball, basketball, football, soccer and
cheerleading. This is the first group in the nation to make
sportsmanship training for parents a prerequisite, according to
the National Alliance for Youth Sports. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562123336-50d

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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (11/18/99)
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:48:31 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

PA FORCES ENTER MACHPELAH CAVE
Armed Palestinian para-military policemen entered the Machpelah
Cave (of the Patriarchs) in Hevron late this afternoon. HaKol
MeHashetach news agency reports that the forces reached the
Machpelah compound in a jeep convoy, accompanying the visiting
speaker of the German parliament. For the first time, IDF soldiers
permitted the PA policemen to enter, despite the fact that this is in
violation of the "Hevron Agreement" signed with the Palestinians by
the Netanyahu government. David Wilder, spokesman for Hevron's
Jewish community, told Arutz-7 afterwards, "It was just
unbelievable. The Palestinians were giving orders, and telling us
who could go where." Another spokesman said earlier that the
incident is "just the next step in a process that will eventually see
the handing of the entire Machpelah cave to Palestinian control."

On the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a Palestinian Arab woman
from Hevron attempted to stab an Israeli Border Guard policeman
with a kitchen knife after she completed her prayers. She was
stopped in her tracks thanks to the quick response by other Border
policemen.

CHIEF RABBIS: ADD EXTRA PRAYERS
Israel's Chief Rabbinate has called upon citizens to insert special
supplications in their daily prayers in light of the drought conditions
Israel seems to be facing again this winter. Forecasters say that
Israel is unlikely to receive rain until at least Monday.

CNN CORRECTS "JERUSALEM PAGE"
CNN - which had removed references to Jerusalem as Israel's
capital from its web page in the wake of an email campaign by anti-
Israel groups - has reversed its position. After discussions between
the network and representatives of the Committee for Accuracy in
Middle East Reporting(CAMERA), the CNN web page now states
that Jerusalem is "the seat of Israel's government and its self-
declared capital, although its status is in dispute."

The new CNN formulation "is not entirely satisfactory," said
CAMERA, "but it is essentially accurate=85 CNN's action was a
welcome change from the pattern of capitulation by other U.S.
businesses under pressure by anti-Israel groups." American
Muslims for Jerusalem (AMJ), an umbrella organization of anti-
Israel groups, launched its campaign against CNN on October 19.
AMJ had earlier spearheaded the boycott threats against Disney
for its plan to refer to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in its
Millenium Village exhibit. AMJ was also active in pressuring Burger
King to shut down its restaurant in the town of Ma'aleh Adumim.

Arutz Sheva News Service
  <http://www.arutzsheva.org>
Thursday, November 18, 1999 / Kislev 9, 5760

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Subject: [BPR] - Leonids Rain in Spain/Israel
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:40:33 -0500

From: "Moza" <moza7@netzero.net>

Leonids Rain in Spain

An outburst of over 1500 Leonid meteors per hour dazzled
observers in Europe and the Middle East.

November 18, 1999: According to preliminary data reported by the
International Meteor Organization and the Leonids Environment
Operations Center, there was an intense outburst of Leonid
meteors over Europe and the Middle East on Thursday morning,
November 18. Maximum activity was recorded around 0200 UT as
the Earth passed through the debris stream of comet Tempel-
Tuttle.

"We observed many, many, many Leonids falling from the sky,"
said Casper ter Kuile of the Dutch Meteor Society, who was
working with a team of observers located between Valencia and
Alicante in Spain. "Our experienced visual observers counted about
30 Leonids per minute!"

The high rate noted by observers in Spain, over 1800 meteors per
hour, was substantially greater than the 500 to 1000 per hour that
most experts had predicted. The storm was even more intense over
parts of the Middle East, where members of the Israeli
Astronomical Association recorded 70 meteors per minute for just
over a half an hour. Like other global observers, the Israeli team
was struck by the abundance of faint meteors and the relative
absence of bright fireballs. Preliminary reports by meteor watchers
in the Canary Islands and near the Gorges du Verdon in France
confirm this general picture of the outburst.

The meteor storm was not seen west of the Atlantic. In North
America sky watchers saw relatively few Leonids -- at most 40 to
50 per hour. The majority of these were fast-moving and dim.

Radio measurements from Japan and the Czech Republic confirm
the results of visual observers indicating a peak between 2:00 and
2:10 UT. This time coincides with the maximum at 2:08 UT
predicted by Asher and McNaught. In their model of the Leonid
meteoroid stream, the 1999 storm was caused by a dust trail
created when the Leonids parent comet, Tempel-Tuttle, passed by
the Sun about 100 years ago. The Asher-McNaught model predicts
even bigger Leonid storms in 2001 and 2002.

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast18nov99_1.htm

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