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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (4/25/00)
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:24:27 -0400

BARAK PLANS MAJOR CONCESSIONS

The talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization will
resume next week in Eilat, Israel's southern-tip port city. The Yesha Council
will conduct protest activities there throughout the two-week round of talks, in
light of reports of far-reaching concessions being planned by Prime Minister
Ehud Barak. The Council claims that the government will discuss, at its
meeting this coming Thursday, a withdrawal from an additional 3% of Judea
and Samaria - mostly around Jerusalem - while in the long run, Barak
appears ready to agree to the uprooting or transfer of 40-50 Jewish
settlements and communities in Yesha. The government's response: "It is
not our custom to report in advance on the agenda of upcoming Cabinet
meetings."

Barak convened government ministers and top aides in his home yesterday,
and told them that an agreement with the Palestinians can be expected
within one or two months. Participants at the meeting said that the Prime
Minister has made up his mind to make "difficult decisions" and do
"whatever is possible" to reach a framework-agreement. He conferred with
them as to how to market the agreement to the public.

P.A. MAY VIOLATE EMBARGO ON IRAQ

Iraqi-Palestinian ties are becoming tighter. A rally was held in Ramallah two
weeks ago in solidarity with Iraq, at which were sounded calls for the
cancellation of the international sanctions against the latter. The
Palestinians appear ready to put their intentions into actions, and are
negotiating with the Baghdad government a purchase of $50 million of Iraqi oil
- despite the international embargo. Palestinian cabinet secretary Abdul
Rahman said that Saddam Hussein recently met with Palestinian
representatives, and expressed his willingness to market the oil to the
Palestinian Authority.

SINGING THE SONG OF THE SEA

Tonight, the seventh and last night (in Israel) of the Pesach holiday, is
the 3,312th anniversary of the miraculous crossing of the Red Sea by the
Israelites during their Exodus from Egypt. The event will be commemorated
with the singing of the Song of the Sea (Az Yashir) at ocean beachfronts
and in synagogues.

Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.ArutzSheva.org>
Tuesday, April 25, 2000 / Nissan 20, 5760

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Subject: [BPR] - Christian Social Worker Fired By Homosexual Boss
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:32:37 -0400

April 25, 2000 -- 9:28 am

Christian Social Worker Fired By Homosexual Boss

INDEPENDENCE, MO (BP -- Larry Phillips loves children. So much so, the
46-year-old Baptist from Independence, Mo., dedicated himself to a low-
paying career helping the most abused, neglected and forgotten kids find a
safe haven while the judicial system decided their fate.

What Phillips didn't expect was a battle with an office supervisor, who
described himself in a newspaper interview as an "in your face queer who
gets angrier every day."

As a social worker for the Missouri Department of Social Services,
Phillips was in charge of interviewing abused children and finding them
quality foster care homes in which to live while the judicial system
decided their fate.

Last fall, he sued his employer for discrimination and won $86,000 in
damages and attorney fees. Another trial is scheduled the week of April 24
to consider three more counts of discrimination Phillips has raised
against his former employer. Phillips is represented by the American
Center for Law and Justice, Virginia Beach, Va.

"My work environment was totally bizarre," Phillips told Baptist Press.
"The supervisor in question was very anti-heterosexual and wanted everyone
to know it, and wanted everyone to agree with him and his work strategies
to encourage children to at least experiment with homosexual sex. I could
not abide by this, especially from a state office charged with protecting
already abused, traumatized children who already were at their most
vulnerable point.

"After three years, a homosexual foster parent can adopt the child. This
gives them a back door into the adoption process. After they adopt the
child, they then believe they are free to raise them any way they want,
and in truth, with laws seeming more and more to protect such perverted
behavior, this strategy is paying dividends for the homosexual movement,"
Phillips said.

When he took a stand opposing a sexually explicit brochure which the male
homosexual supervisor insisted all of his subordinates carry and
distribute to foster children and to school children during talks at
public schools, Phillips said he was taunted for 20 months on the job and
eventually fired.

Sponsors of the pamphlets included the local AIDS education program for
Jackson County, which is licensed by the state of Missouri, Planned
Parenthood, the militant homosexual group ACT- UP and an HIV organization,
Phillips said.

"This was one sick piece of literature they were passing out, with sick
drawings and language, including [profanity], that would get a radio
station's license revoked if read over the air," Phillips said.

Called, "What They Won't Teach You in School," the brochure reads, in
part, "Sex can be a lot of things, women with women, men have sex with
men, women have sex with men -- and sometimes the best sex is with
yourself."

"The supervisor in question is a very militant homosexual who has no
business serving as supervisor of Child Abuse Neglect. Having a militant
homosexual in that job is more than bizarre if you think about it,"
Phillips said. "While I was working there, he began to actively promote
the homosexual agenda everywhere, all the time."

Phillips said the supervisor was brazen in supporting the homosexual
lifestyle, even having a cynical poster on his office wall that questioned
the causes for heterosexuality.

The supervisor, who Phillips said he would not name to avoid any
repercussion from the judge, once walked into Phillips' office with a
baseball bat, smacking it against his hand in a threatening way. Phillips
said he testified in the first court case about this, as well as the
pamphlets and other subtle and obvious forms of harassment he endured on
the job.

"I could not in good conscience support his active promotion at work of
what I believe is a perverted lifestyle. I crossed him early on by saying
I would not support his search to find homosexual foster parents for the
children I was charged to protect," Phillips said. The supervisor was so
blatant in his lobbying for the homosexual lifestyle that he even poured
tainted blood in the city council chambers, but was not arrested, Phillips
said.

"It was a bizarre time. This was not just about one homosexual, but one
agency supporting a whole homosexual agenda. This is about the director of
the State Division of Family Services, and two different supervisors,
wanting to actively license and recruit homosexual foster parents,"
Phillips said.

"Kids in the foster care system are at their most vulnerable stage. They
are very needy, often already abused victims of sexual and physical abuse,
crying out for help, wanting a mom and dad. I had a child, age 9, beg me
to get her out of the home of a lesbian. She was very afraid. As a result
of that interview with her, I was called into my direct supervisor's
office and told not to register that in my report. I registered it anyway.
Eventually the girl got out of that situation," Phillips said.

In October 1999, Phillips won a lawsuit charging his employer with
discrimination, based on his religious beliefs. A judge recently upheld
the jury's decision, turning down an appeal of the trial by the state.
Phillips was awarded $26,000 in actual and punitive damages and $60,000 in
attorney fees. The state has indicated it will appeal those payments to a
higher court.

A new trial has been ordered to begin April 26 to try three more counts of
discrimination by the Department of Social Services for the state of
Missouri against Phillips. The new trial has been ordered because the jury
in the October 1999 trial was deadlocked on three additional charges of
discrimination Phillips raised against his former employer.

On March 29 of this year, U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey denied
Missouri's motion to overturn that verdict. The judge also awarded
Phillip's attorneys from the ACLJ $60,000 in fees.

Neither the punitive damages nor the attorney fees have been paid as yet,
said Francis J. Manion, regional director of the Midwest office of the
ACLJ, who served as lead attorney in defending Phillips.

The judge ordered a settlement conference April 17, but Manion said the
Attorney General's office for the state of Missouri said it will not agree
to settle the case. "They offered us $5,000 to walk away. Needless to say,
we will not. We will go to court next week and hope to win," he said.

"We were willing to accept the jury's verdict and the punitive damages and
attorneys fees, but the state of Missouri has said it intends to keep
fighting and will not settle," Manion said. "By ruling to uphold the
original trial verdict and awarding attorney fees, the court sends a
strong message that government officials must not take action against
employees because of their religious beliefs."

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: A Response to Resurrection Sunday, Sounds Good toMe...
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:48:55 -0500

Resurrection Sabbath,(based upon further study and understanding), Sounds
Good to Me...

I really appreciated the exchanges on this subject over the last few days.
It has led me to an accurate understanding of the events chronicled.
A most helpful explanation that I was referenced to by a friend was,

"The Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan"
Peter A. Michas
1997, Wine Press Publishing

This book led me to an understanding of the proper interpretation of the
Greek involved in the accounts and to the Jewish feast days involved...
BTY this process has helped strengthen my faith...
THANKS BPR PARTICIPANTS!

-----Original Message-----
From: bpr-list@philologos.org [mailto:bpr-list@philologos.org]
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 12:51 PM
To: bpr-list@philologos.org
Subject: [BPR] - Re: A Response to Resurrection Sunday, Sounds Good to
Me...

I just finished reading the post by "Jackie" and I also researched and came
to the same conclusion as she has concerning the Resurrection.

I also researched easter and found it to be very pagan in origin and do not
find it at all to be honoring to the Father or to the Son.

For many years I have been celebrating Resurrection Day on the day that it
actually occurs, rather than an easter sunday.

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From: ""Jackie"" <bpr-list@philologos.org>
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Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 5:58 PM
Subject: [BPR] - A Response to Resurrection Sunday, Sounds Good to Me...

> I just finished reading the post submitted and I too find myself
> disagreeing with the editor and agreeing more with them. I have done
some
> research on the resurrection and to my surprise my findings show that the
> resurrection took place on Saturday. The phrase "one of the Sabbaths", is
> incorrectly translated "the first day of the week" which would give the
> impression that He rose on Sunday morning.

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Subject: [BPR] - Tufts shuts out Christian group
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:24:28 -0500

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/20000425_xnfoj_tufts
_shut.shtml

TESTING THE FAITH

Tufts shuts out Christian group

Religious club de-funded in secret meeting because it
wouldn't accept lesbian leader

Tufts Christian Fellowship was stripped of its official
"student organization" status in a secret, midnight meeting
because the group would not allow an admitted homosexual to
hold a leadership position. Though Tufts University
<http://www.tufts.edu/source/welcome.html> administration
says Tufts Christian Fellowship has not been "banned,"
organizers of the group -- an affiliate of international
college ministry InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
<http://www.gospelcom.net/iv/> -- say the decision to de-
recognize TCF has the same effect as a ban. In fact, TFC is
no longer allowed to refer to itself as "Tufts Christian
Fellowship," it has been stripped of its student
organization funding, meetings may not be held in regularly
reserved rooms and the group may not advertise its meetings
or events on campus. The decision to divest TCF of its
organizational rights came from a student-run governing
body called the Tufts Community Union Judiciary. Tufts'
administration gave the TCUJ authority to recognize student
groups; however, no student group has ever been derecognized.

According to a statement from the office of Tufts
President John DiBiaggio, "the Tufts Christian Fellowship
has ten days to appeal the TCUJ decision to the Committee
on Student Life. The Committee on Student Life has members
of the faculty and undergraduate students." "The Tufts
Christian Fellowship has indicated, through its counsel,
that it will file an appeal. While the matter is proceeding
through the students' judicial system, it would be
inappropriate for the administration to comment on the
case," the brief statement concluded. The TCUJ's decision
was prompted by a complaint against the Christian club by
Julie Catalano, who claimed she had been discriminated
against because of her sexual orientation. Catalano sought
a leadership position within TCF and asserted her belief
that homosexual practice is a biblically acceptable
lifestyle. Current leaders in the club, who choose leaders
for the next academic year, did not consider Catalano,
saying her beliefs do not reflect the "religious tradition"
of the group. Curtis Chang, TCF's leader and affiliate
chaplain at the university, told WorldNetDaily, "TCF's
religious tradition ... believes the Bible is clear on the
topic of homosexual practice. It is listed along with a
long list of practices that are deemed to not be in accord
with God's wishes for human relationships." Chang noted
"the TCF senior leadership's position on homosexual
practice does not stem from homophobia. [Leaders] have
consistently affirmed their desire for homosexuals in
general, and Julie in particular, to be members of the
group. They affirm the dignity and worth of every human
being, created in God's image. They also distinguish
between homosexual orientation and homosexual practice."
According to TCF's chaplain, no one from the group's
leadership was invited to the "emergency" meeting called by
Tufts Community Union Judiciary chair Jessica Branco to
answer accusations of discrimination. However, campus media
were present at the two-hour hearing, which began around 10
p.m. on April 13, and TCF was notified by voice mail of the
decision at 12:39 a.m. "But more importantly than the
secretive and rushed nature of the judgment," said Chang,
"the ruling threatens the freedom of all campus religious
groups to practice their respective faiths."

MORE...

[watch the wrap]

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Subject: [BPR] - Fascinating four-chambered fossil find!
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:26:15 -0500

http://www.realworldnews.net/

Fascinating four-chambered fossil find!

Medical X-ray scans reveal the structure of a fossilized
dinosaur's heart!

(Preliminary report)

by Dr. Carl Wieland

News is breaking across the world of a sensational
dinosaur discovery. The fossilized interior of a
Tescelosaurus (a plant-eating dinosaur about 13 feet long
including the tail) was subjected to medical X-ray scans,
and it appears to show very clearly the structure of a four-
chambered heart. If so, this is fascinating for a number of
reasons.

1) It confirms very rapid fossilization, not slow and
gradual over long time-spans. The heart is a soft tissue,
which after death will be very rapidly attacked by microbes
and other decay processes. It is not conceivable that the
structure of the chambers of a heart will last in any
recognizable form for more than a few weeks at the absolute
outset, unless they are subject to rapid preservation. If
it turns out that the tissue has been preserved by
permineralization, then this is further evidence that
permineralization i.e., being infiltrated with mineral
solutions that then harden) does not take long time periods.

2) A four-chambered heart is like that of humans, mammals,
and birds. Reptiles alive today have three-chambered
hearts. It has long been thought that this is inevitably
associated with the fact that reptiles are cold-blooded. So
it will now be claimed that this four-chambered heart is
certain proof that the dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Others
will claim it as showing (in the face of recent spectacular
failures and frauds) that birds did evolve from dinosaurs
after all. Let's examine those claims.

While it is true that cold-bloodedness in extant animals
today is associated with a three-chambered heart, it is by
no means therefore certain that a four-chambered heart has
to mean warm-bloodedness.

On the basis of Genesis creation, it has always been an
open question whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded.
The controversy has long been raging among evolutionists.
Certain aspects of their microscopic bone structure have
suggested the cold-blooded state; then again their
discovery at extreme latitudes has suggested otherwise.

Since dinosaurs did not descend from one common ancestor,
there is no reason why they necessarily need to have all
been one or the other. Perhaps some dinosaur baramins1 were
warm-blooded, others cold-blooded. Some researchers have
pointed out that the very large types would have had such a
huge thermal capacity ("heat sink") in their body fluids
anyway, so it would have been almost a moot issue from an
efficiency viewpoint. After this discovery, other
relatively "intact" dinosaur fossils will doubtless be
scanned in similar ways, so it will be interesting to see
what further design features will be found.

Assuming that dinosaurs were warm-blooded, why would this
prove the dinosaurs-evolved-into-birds theory? People have
four-chambered hearts, too, and are warm-blooded, but it is
not claimed that dinosaurs evolved into people.
Evolutionists might easily claim that the four-chambered
state evolved separately, by "parallel evolution." The
point is that similar design features, to evolution-
believers, can either be explained as evidence of common
ancestry where the story "fits," or where it doesn't fit,
explained away by "convergent" or "parallel" evolution.

In other cases of well-preserved internal organs,
evolutionists who oppose the "dino-to-bird" theory on
scientific grounds (well documented on this Web site - for
example, in the article Archaeoraptor - Phony 'feathered'
fossil </docs/4208news2-3-2000.asp>, especially the
references in Note 4 </docs/4208news2-3-2000.asp>) have
shown that these organs are very reptilian in layout, quite
different from that expected of an ancestor to birds; also,
that the dinosaur lung was of the bellows-type typical of
reptiles, with no sign of changing into the very different
lung of the bird (Blown away by design: Michael Denton and
birds' lungs </docs/4217cen_s1999.asp>). Conclusions:

* If indeed this evidence is what it is claimed to be, it
shows that at least this type of dinosaur could easily have
been fast-moving and warm-blooded. The notion of dinosaurs
as "primitive" or "poorly adapted" recedes still further
into the background.

* This makes even more difficulty for evolutionists trying
to explain the extinction of dinosaurs (in their worldview)
from, for example, the consequences of an asteroid impact.
If the dinosaurs had the same cardiovascular efficiency and
mobility as mammals, why did all dinosaurs die out from
this alleged ecological disaster, and many mammals survive?
The creationist has no such problem, as death and
extinction from the Curse is happening all the time, and
there is no "Age of Dinosaurs" followed by an "Age with no
Dinosaurs" to explain.

* The four-chambered heart is a design feature found in a
huge number of animals alive today, and there is no reason
at all why such a created feature might not also be found
in animals which have since died out in this fallen world.

* The existence of such anatomical detail in a fossil
creature alleged to have died 66 million years ago is much
more consistent with rapid burial of the animal in a huge
catastrophic Flood than the usual "slow-and-gradual," long-
age scenario of evolution. Note: This is a preliminary
report based on early-breaking news reports only. When more
scientific data are available, this preliminary report and
comment will be modified/updated as--and if--required.

1 Baramin = created kind (from Hebrew bara = create and
min = kind) A small lizard, by contrast, can easily lose
its body heat very quickly on cool days or overnight, so
needs to 'warm up' in the sun. The thinking is that once a
big apatosaurus, for instance, warmed up, it would not lose
its heat quickly enough prior to the next sun-warming
episode, i.e. its internal temperature would be greatly
buffered even if cold-blooded. return to text

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Subject: [BPR] - ReligionToday News -- April 25, 2000
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:43:04 -0500

(Selected items from.... )

C U R R E N T N E W S S U M M A R Y
by the Editors of ReligionToday

April 25, 2000

PAX TV is airing a Bible game show. The family-oriented
network's entry into the quiz show genre, called Genesis:
The Family Bible Game Show (see link #2 below), premiered
on Easter Sunday. PAX calls it the "world's first Bible-based
television game show." ...Genesis is geared for Christians
and Jews. Teams from churches and synagogues test their
knowledge of Bible history, literature, and facts using a quiz
show format. Questions do not relate to sectarian dogma or
interpretation. Prizes go to a charity or community-outreach
program supported by the church or synagogue, and daily
winners have a chance at a free trip to the Holy Land.
Scholars from the University of Southern California's School
of Religion authenticate questions and judge the answers. .
..The show is being called a welcome twist to the general
"greed is good" game-show philosophy epitomized by shows
such as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

A television movie about Jesus Christ done in "claymation"
aired on ABC-TV Easter Sunday. It received positive reviews
from ministries that said it depicted the events of Holy Week
accurately and insightfully. The 2-hour movie The Miracle
Maker was produced by Russian and Welsh animators with
British actors. ...Washington Post critic Tom Shales was less
impressed with The Miracle Maker, calling its use of two-and
three-dimensional animation with small clay figures "peculiar"
and "silly." ...Shales said he was struck by the irony of a
movie about Christ being made in Moscow. "Just think about
it," he said. "Moscow, longtime epicenter of godless
communism, where people were forced to worship in secret
and where the babblings of Marx and Engels were held more
sacred than the Scriptures - that same mad Moscow now
plays host to craftsmen doing the life of Jesus in animated
clay."

Some Easter celebrations were out of the ordinary. In
Annapolis, Md., Riva Trace Baptist Church used its annual
"drive-through passion play" to attract people who don't
usually go to church. "It's all about making church user-
friendly and relevant to everyday living," Dennis Gray, senior
pastor, told Baptist Press. ..."The Scenes of Easter"
consisted of seven live, dramatic scenes on the church
grounds for visitors to see as they drove through in their
cars. Scenes included Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem,
the farewell to His disciples, His arrest in the garden, Peter's
denial, Jesus before Pilate, the crucifixion, and the
resurrection, complete with fog machine and strobe lights as
the stone is rolled away from the empty tomb and an angel
announces that Jesus has risen. ..."People seem stunned,"
church member Carol Thompson said. "They can't believe we
go through all this trouble -- for free. I think many wonder
what motivates us to do this." ...In Tampa, Without Walls
International Church (see link #3 below) held a 250,000-egg
hunt in Buccaneer Stadium. The plastic eggs were filled with
candy and Bible verses. The church is led by pastors Randy
and Paula White (see link #4 below).

Thousands of Australian Christians took part in "Resurrection
Marches" on Easter. Parades across the country were part
of Reclaim Easter, an annual event to publicly celebrate the
resurrection of Christ. ...A parade in Sydney featured huge
puppets representing Jesus and the disciples. Hundreds of
pigeons, symbolizing the resurrection, were released before
the march, said Awakening 2000, an evangelistic group.
Ethnic dancers performed for the crowds and people carried
balloons and sang. Parades were led by donkeys to
commemorate Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem on a
donkey and were broadcast via satellite to all regions of the
country. Anglican Archbishop Harry Goodhew delivered a
message from Sydney....Thousands of Australians prayed all
night on Good Friday during scores of outdoor vigils.
Christians of many denominations recited prayers written by
children across the country, Awakening 2000 said.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians have participated in the
event in the past 11 years, the group said.

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2: http://www.genesisbiblegameshow.com/
3: http://www.withoutwalls.org/index2.html
4: http://www.religiontoday.com/Archive/FeatureStory/view.cgi?file=19990514.s1.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Brushfires in the Sky
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:55:50 -0400

NASA Science News for April 25, 2000

Stargazers around the globe were treated to an unexpected and rare
display of red-colored aurora on April 6-7, 2000, after a vigorous
interplanetary shock wave passed by Earth. This story includes a
gallery of more than 40 images showing the aurora borealis from
Europe and over parts of the United States as far south as Florida.
FULL STORY at

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:15:33 -0400

*** Court throws out Ohio state motto

CINCINNATI (AP) - Ohio's motto, "With God, all things are possible,"
violates the U.S. Constitution as a government endorsement of
religion, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. A
panel of the federal court sided with the American Civil Liberties
Union, which contended that the words had no secular purpose and
appeared to be a government endorsement of the Christian religion.
Ohio took the motto in 1959 from the biblical writings of Matthew.
The ACLU asked the appeals court to reverse a 1998 decision by a
federal judge in Columbus that allowed Ohio to display the motto as
long as it does not cite the biblical origin. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565996103-dc2

*** Elian case affects U.S. jurors

MIAMI (AP) - The Elian Gonzalez saga almost derailed a federal money
laundering trial after four jurors said the seizure of the 6-year-old
boy made it difficult for them to trust the U.S. government.
Alternate juror Carlos Perez and three others hearing a trial Monday
said they might not be able to impartially judge the evidence
presented by federal prosecutors. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz
even stepped down from the bench to put her arms around a weeping
Perez. Perez and the other jurors are in the second week of the trial
of two men who were caught on tape allegedly claiming they could
channel drug money through the Seminole Indian tribe's casinos. The
prosecution's case depends largely on an undercover sting by federal
agents. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565990265-f94

*** Jury flips coin to decide case

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Jurors who couldn't decide whether to convict
a man of murder or manslaughter in the shooting death of his
girlfriend flipped a coin and found him guilty of murder. However,
the judge declared a mistrial after finding out about the coin toss.
Phillip J. Givens II, 28, would have faced life in prison if
convicted of murder in the death of Monica Briggs, 29, last May. A
new trial was scheduled for Sept. 12. The jury deliberated about nine
hours over two days last week before issuing the verdict Friday. Jury
foreman David Melton told The Courier-Journal for Tuesday's editions
the jurors decided to flip a silver dollar to avoid a hung jury.
Because all agreed on the coin toss, they thought it was legal, he
said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565990266-7f7

*** UN criticizes Russia on Chechnya

GENEVA (AP) - The top U.N. human rights body criticized Russia
Tuesday for "widespread and flagrant" human rights abuses committed
during the war in Chechnya, including attacks on civilians. A
resolution to the 53-nation Human Rights Commission was approved by
25 votes to seven, with 19 abstentions. The document, introduced by
the European Union, said it was "gravely concerned by the continued
violence in the Republic of Chechnya...in particular reports
indicating disproportionate and indiscriminate use of Russian
military force, including attacks against civilians." It also
expressed concern at reports of "gross, widespread and flagrant
violations of human rights," but stopped short of demands by human
rights organizations that the world body set up its own probe. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565996458-91d

*** Jordan's king meets with Arafat

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - As Israeli-Palestinian peace talks enter a
decisive stage, Jordan said Tuesday it would back the Palestinians on
all issues and affirmed the creation of a Palestinian state with east
Jerusalem as its capital. Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul-Illah
Khatib made the assurances in a news conference following a meeting
between Jordan's King Abdullah II and Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah. The two leaders did not
speak to reporters. Abdullah was accompanied by his Palestinian wife,
Queen Rania, during the trip, his first official visit to the West
Bank since being crowned in March 1999. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565993410-997 ***
Also: Palestinians welcome Jordan's king, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565991625-f34

*** German dog plan draws criticism

BERLIN (AP) - People planning to protest a ban on certain breeds of
dogs will be showing "revolting bad taste," if they have their pets
parade through Berlin wearing yellow stars of David, the head of
Germany's Jewish community said Tuesday. Organizers of the planned
mid-May demonstration had said they would have their pit bulls and
other attack dogs wear the emblem - which the Nazis forced the Jews
to wear as identification on their clothes - because they claim a
proposed city ban on such breeds amounts to racism. The Greens party
in the Berlin city council also called on owners of the fighting dogs
to distance themselves from the yellow star plan. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565997079-1e4

*** Israel said to stick to nuke policy

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel will stick to its policy of "nuclear opacity"
- a refusal to confirm or deny the possession of nuclear weapons -
despite renewed pressure by Egypt that Israel reveal its arsenal, a
senior Israeli defense official said Tuesday. Deputy Defense Minister
Ephraim Sneh said he was confident the U.S. would side with Israel in
the expected showdown at the review conference of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty at the United Nations in New York. The
four-week gathering began Monday. Egypt's U.N. ambassador, Ahmed
abul-Ghait, has said all Arab nations, along with the developing
world, would call for identifying Israel by name as the only country
in the Middle East that did not sign. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565988781-8e0

*** China steps up military drills

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - China has stepped up military drills for
bombers and other warplanes on its eastern coast across from Taiwan,
a possible warm-up for a new intimidation campaign against the
island, a military spokesman said Tuesday. Chinese H-6 bombers have
been flying long-range sorties off China's coasts during recent
weeks, and the planes have often been escorted by other aircraft,
Defense Ministry spokesman Kung Fan-ding said. The sorties were part
of exercises involving naval vessels off China's eastern Zhejiang
province, Kung said. China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949,
and Beijing has repeatedly threatened to use force to reunify the two
sides. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565992992-e2f
*** Also: Steve Forbes praises Taiwan leader, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565991938-ae4

*** Japan leader warns of foreigners

TOKYO (AP) - A Cabinet minister warned Tuesday that illegal foreign
residents could use mobile phones to set up drug deals and other
crimes, the latest instance of a Japanese politician singling out
foreigners as a source of crime. The comments by Kosuke Hori, head of
the Home Affairs Ministry, came several weeks after Tokyo's governor
set off a storm of criticism, particularly from Asian immigrants, by
saying illegal foreigners must be watched because they are prone to
crime. Hori did not elaborate on why lax controls on mobile phones
would be of more benefit to criminally inclined illegal residents.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565992610-42c
*** Also from Japan: Sumo leaders deny bout-fixing, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565996774-e95

*** Thai Cabinet bans smoking on TV

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - The Thai government banned scenes of people
smoking on television Tuesday in an effort to keep children from
picking up the habit. The ban, to be implemented by the Public Health
Ministry in coordination with local television networks, will apply
to both local and international programs. No starting date has yet
been set. Cigarette advertising in all Thai media was banned several
years ago. Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai's Cabinet discussed the
measure at its weekly meeting Tuesday and was aware the ban might
contradict constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565992522-ee6

*** U.S. military waste worries Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) - On a U.S. Army dock south of Tokyo lies the
latest irritant between the American military and its Japanese hosts:
100 tons of toxic waste. The PCB-laden garbage, including
transformers, circuit breakers, oil and other debris, was generated
by U.S. bases in Japan and shipped out in late March to a recycling
plant in Canada. Now the waste is back - and many Japanese aren't
happy about it. The shipment was refused by Canada and dockworkers in
Seattle, and was met with demonstrations when it arrived in Yokohama
on April 18. The waste led to daylong TV news broadcasts and
political protests. The refuse will be stored in Japan for up to a
month and then shipped elsewhere. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565987376-ae9

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