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Subject: [BPR] - Oct 11, 1999 TV Program
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 08:47:47 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

8:00 PM Eastern

 PBS - GOING PLACES - "Madrid" - Madrid, Spain; hotel;
   stone streets; fortresses; Roman aqueduct;
   train.(CC)(TVG)

 A&E - BIOGRAPHY OF THE MILLENNIUM: 100 PEOPLE ... 1,000
   YEARS - The countdown ends with the selection of Person
   of the Millennium.(CC)(TVG)

 HIST - ASTEROIDS! - Space rocks; past collisions;
   future threats.(CC)(TVG)

9:00

 PBS - RED FILES - "Secret Soviet Moon Mission" -
   Sergei Pavlovich Korolev helps the Soviets achieve triumphs
   in rocket science.(CC)(TVPG)

 DISC - SCI-TREK - "Transplant" - Cloning,
   xenotransplantation, cellular and genetic technology,
   pharmaceuticals offer renewed hope.(CC)(TVPG)

10:00

 PBS - HOSTAGE - "Release" - Diplomacy resolves the Beirut
   hostage crisis; Hezbollah leaders explain the kidnappers'
   actions.(CC)(TV14)

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Subject: [BPR] - Middle East Newsline items (10/11/99)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:04:12 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

ELEVEN NATIONS PREPARE FOR BRIGHT STAR EXERCISE CAIRO [MENL] --
Thousands of troops from 11 countries continued to arrive in
Egypt on Monday to prepare for the largest U.S.-led exercise
outside the Gulf.

Bright Star 99/00, which begins on Friday, will comprise more
than 50,000 members of armed forces from such nations as
Britain, France, Italy, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates,
participants in previous exercises. Germany, Greece, Jordan and
the Netherlands are participating for the first time in the
exercises, a biannual affair that begin in 1981.

Both Egypt and Jordan have refused to participate in naval
maneuvers that comprise of Israel, Turkey and the United States.
On Sunday, Egyptian newspapers called on the United States and
Turkey to postpone the planned joint naval exercises scheduled
for December.

The United States plans to deploy 18,000 troops for the
exercise. Bright Star will end on Nov. 1 with an amphibious
landing, missile practice and field combat training.

Officials said that for the first time Bright Star will include
a computer-aided command exercise meant to quickly relay
satellite images to commanders in the battlefield.

U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen is expected to attend the
Bright Star exercises. He is scheduled to arrive in Cairo and
hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak and leading Egyptian
officials on Oct. 21.

Officials said Cohen will discuss arms sales to Egypt. In June,
the United States allowed Egypt to purchase more than $3 billion
worth of fighter-jets and tanks.

Earlier, Gen. John Keane, the U.S. Army's vice chief of staff
said the military must improve its ability to respond rapidly to
crises. "We find ourselves at the end of the 1990s not being as
responsive to events around the world that we think we need to
be responsive to," Keane told the Association of the United
States Army's Annual Meeting. "We've got to get the Army more
strategically responsive."

U.S. NUKE EQUIPMENT SMUGGLED TO IRAN LONDON [MENL] -- Iranian
agents have smuggled U.S. nuclear equipment from Sweden, state
television reported on Monday.

The television said U.S. electronic equipment used in Swedish
reactors was smuggled out of Sweden and arrived in Iran. Swedish
television said a man was arrested for forging export permits.

Iran has been seeking nuclear technology for its weapons
program, Western intelligence sources said. They said that the
effort might have been increased over recent months as the
United States presses Russia and China to downgrade their
nuclear ties with Teheran.

On Monday, the Washington Times quoted a new U.S.
counterintelligence report that China is recruiting scientists
around the world to acquire weapons technology from other
countries. The newspaper said the Chinese are pressing to gain
foreign technology even as their government claims its nuclear
weapons and other arms technologies were developed domestically.

In Teheran, Iranian efforts to improve relations with Germany
appeared in jeopardy on Monday as Teheran authorities ignored an
acquittal of a German businessman facing the death sentence and
kept him in jail.

Helmut Hofer was scheduled to be released from a Teheran prison
on Sunday after being acquitted on charges of adultery with a
Muslim.woman. But the 55-year-old businessman was ordered kept
in jail, prompting the German consul to walk out of the courtroom.

The Iranian order threatened to stymie efforts by President
Mohammed Khatami to improve relations with Berlin on the eve of
his trip to Europe. Khatami is scheduled to visit Paris later
this month and will also address a United Nations conference.

Last week, demonstrations were organized throughout Europe in a
protest against Khatami's planned visit.

The European Parliament has condemned the death sentences
handed down to four students in connection with July's riots as
well as the arrest of 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for
Israel and the United States.

On Tuesday, Greek President Kostis Stephanopoulos is scheduled
to arrive in Teheran in what Greek officials termed a highly
important visit. that Greek officials here called their "most
important visit" yet to a Gulf state. Stephanopoulos, leading a
200-member delegation for the four-day visit, will be the second
EU president to visit Iran over the last month.

"It will be the most important visit [yet] by a Greek president
to a Persian Gulf littoral state," Greek ambassador Dimitri
Tsikourtis said, cited by the official IRNA news agency.

Greek imports close to $600 million in Iranian oil and exports
$10 million to the Islamic republic.

In an unrelated development, European sources reported on
Monday that U.S. nuclear equipment was smuggled out of Sweden to
Iran. No further details were reported.

PA MINISTER: ARAFAT INDULGES IN EXCESS RAMALLAH [MENL] -- In
the highest level of criticism of Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat, a Cabinet minister acknowledged at a public
meeting that the Palestinian leader engages in "significant
excess" of power.

PA Parliamentary Affairs Minister Nabil Amre told a Hebron
audience on Oct. 9 that Arafat indulges in the excess of power.
"We must realize that Arafat is a special case," he told the
Palestinian Civil Society Forum. "And we can't hide the fact
that he indulges in excess, sometimes significant excess."

Amre's remarks, reported by the Quds press agency, marked the
first open criticism of Arafat from within his Cabinet.

The PA minister, quickly added that Arafat has used his power
to advance Palestinian society. "But, in order to be fair, we
must also look at the light side not just the dark side," he said.

Asked whether Arafat is too powerful, Amre was cautious. "I
can't say that your question is far-fetched," he said.

PA Cabinet Secretary Ahmed Abdul Rahman added that the PA "is
not the ideal authority." He said the Palestinian leadership was
working to advance the peace process and create a democratic
civil society.

Abdul Rahman said, however, that the two goals are not feasible.

At the meeting, Khader Shikrat, director of LAW, the
Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the
Environment, said he did not forsee any major improvements under
Arafat. He said Arafat was the biggest obstacle to improving the
human rights record of the PA, "because he refuses to order his
subordinates to carry out court orders."

Shkirat said he doubted Arafat would allow new Palestinian
elections unless he was certain of victory.

via: "menl" <menl@actcom.co.il>

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Subject: [BPR] - WorldNetDaily Commentary Headlines
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 05:58:39 -0500

From: owner-bpr@philologos.org

New Year fear: Y2K or terror? Serious threat of cyber-attacks
disguised as Y2K failures

By David M. Bresnahan
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com

Is it the Y2K bug, or is it a terrorist attack? That may be the
question government officials will be asking themselves on New
Year's Eve.

Computer-based attacks by terrorists take place every day,
according to a leading senator. But top government and corporate
computers are not adequately protected against cyber attacks.

"There is the possibility that a terrorist organization could
disrupt a major computer system and make it look like it was Y2K-
related," said Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, in an exclusive
interview with WorldNetDaily.

Full story:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991011_xex_new_year_f
ea.shtml

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[Must Read!]

Dark rumors from Russia

J.R. Nyquist
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com

An American businessman in Moscow, the managing director of
Matrix Technologies, recently described conditions in the
Russian capital. He said the city is heavily patrolled by police
and army units. Vehicles are routinely searched, papers are
inspected, civil rights are violated. But Moscow's police are
not simply looking for terrorists. They are also looking for
"military-aged individuals" and persons with medical experience.
These are being taken for military training as part of a
"general preparation for war."

We know that the Russian military began to expand its manpower
base in April, during the crisis in Kosovo. At that time nearly
170,000 new recruits were called up in a special Russian
military draft. There were also reports that between 80,000 and
100,000 volunteers were recruited to fight NATO in the Balkans.
Throughout Russia, as well as other former Soviet republics,
there have been rumors that hundreds of thousands of convicts
have been offered amnesty in exchange for military service. If
you examine the naval and marine exercises of the past six
months (especially in the context of the mobilization of
Russia's Black Sea Fleet), one cannot escape the suspicion that
naval and marine reserves have also been mobilized.

We know from Russian press reports that troops of the Interior
Ministry and Federal Security Service were secretly mobilized
last month. Exact numbers have not been published, though the
strength of MVD and FSS reserve forces is probably well over
200,000. What we have inklings of, and what we read about in the
Russian press, suggests a large-scale military preparation. This
preparation cannot be explained by the situation in Chechnya.
After all, Chechnya is a small place, without a real army or air
force. It should be pointed out that these Russian mobilizations
are too large for the Chechen theater of operations.

Full story:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_nyquist/19991011_xcjny_dark_rumor
shtml

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Irreconcilable differences?

Jon E. Dougherty
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com

Last week WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah keenly and
completely identified the true political machinations of the
modern political elite. Fascism, he says, is the problem here,
though I would contend that some of our "elite" -- Ted Turner of
CNN, for example --defer to other political leanings like
socialism.

The leftist/fascists would most certainly deny this -- they
love to paint the far right as fascists in the image of Hitler,
Mussolini and others. They're wrong -- as usual -- but that's
not relevant anymore. Millions of Americans know that millions
of other Americans hate them, don't trust them, revile them,
demonize them and chastise them because of what the political
left has portrayed them as.

In essence, the left's ultimate goal of "divide and conquer"
has been completely successful, in my view, and I wonder now if
America's right and left have reached the point where our
differences are irreconcilable. I say "the right" and "the left"
because "the middle" -- ostensibly those Americans who really
don't have an opinion about anything -- are immaterial and will
follow success wherever it leads them. At this point, most in
that group take their cue from the left because that group has
so completely taken over government, media and entertainment.

All kinds of generalized instances of our irreconcilable
differences abound today, but here are some of the most divisive
issues and why I believe they are incompatible with the survival
of this nation as a distinct world power:

Full story:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty_com/19991011_xcjod_irre
concil.shtml

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The truth about the income gap

Jane Chastain

The number of people living in poverty in this country has been
reduced. That is a cause for celebration in most circles, but
not in the circle around the Washington beltway. You see, many
people who live there have jobs that are tied to programs for
the nation's poor. These statistics mean their empire is in
danger of shrinking, and, in order to justify their high
salaries, they are working overtime to see that this doesn't
happen. The poverty police have latched on to a new U.S. Census
Bureau report on income inequality.

Welfare reform has forced many people to go to work. As a
result, these people now are moving up the economic ladder.
"That's fine, as far as it goes," the poverty patrol tells, "but
the gap between the rich and the poor is increasing, not
decreasing, and we have to do something about this terrible
inequity."

The statisticians at the Census Bureau divide our population
into quintiles. Now you would think that each of these quintiles
would represent 20 percent or one-fifth of the population, but
that's not how it works. No, the folks at the Census Bureau
tinker with the numbers, and the end result of this tinkering
exaggerates the income gap.

Full story:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_chastain/19991011_xcjch_the_truth
_.shtml

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Subject: [BPR] - Net addresses to symbolize Palestinian statehood
From: bpr-list@philologos.org(BPR)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:05:57 +0000

From: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-818167.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.1005-200-818167

Net addresses to symbolize Palestinian statehood
By Reuters
Special to CNET News.com
October 11, 1999, 8:15 a.m. PT

JERUSALEM--Palestinians striving for a state of their own will be
asserting independence on the Internet, ending their addresses with
".ps" to signify a Palestinian state, an official said today.

Palestinians have been using ".wg" at the end of their Internet
addresses to signify the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli addresses end in
".il."

"It is a sign toward the independent Palestinian state," Palestinian
deputy minister of planning Anis al-Kak said, adding that technical
preparations will be completed within two weeks.

He said the Palestinians have been working with the United Nations
Department of Economics and Statistics to arrange for the addresses to
reflect statehood rather than territorial status.

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, who began negotiating peace with
Israel in 1993, aims to establish an independent Palestinian state in
the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

via: bible_prophecy-news@onelist.com

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