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Subject: [BPR] - An Arab call for Peace
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:28:23 -0400

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Subject: An Arab call for Peace

Special Dispatch - PA

October 20, 2000

No. 142

Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
1815 H Street, NW Suite 404 Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 955-9070
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[MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may only be cited
with proper attribution.]

An Arab call for Peace

In an op-ed in the Palestinian daily Al-Quds, October 17, 2000 titled
"There is no Substitute for Peace," Al-'Afif Al-Akhdar (1) writes:

"Former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau said that it is easier
to wage war than to make peace, but the Middle East is complex… because
it is ruled by individuals rather than institutions. The freedom of
discussion within institutions allows for transparency in the
decision-making mechanism, which [in turn] makes those decisions
predictable. Under individual rule, you have to be a skilled
psychologist to be able to interpret the seizures of a ruler's whims and
frenzies. The Middle East is complex because it is still ruled by
insanity and lack of logic, which make symbols and buildings holier than
life. It is complex because it doesn't even know the culture of peace,
namely, tolerance, the recognition of the right to disagree, and the
ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes in order to understand
him and to negotiate with him rather than with yourself…."

"In this volatile situation, the voice of cool reason should be heard…
And what does the [rational] mind tell people and elites on the verge of
war? It tells them that if the present situation in the occupied
territories has lost the legitimacy bestowed on it by the Madrid
conference and the Oslo agreement, and if it is necessary to escape from
this situation, either to war or to peace - then even if war brings an
international solution to the conflict, it will destroy the
confidence-building process that is needed for coexistence in this
region, let alone the wounds of this war, which will not easily heal."

"Therefore, the only option is the hard but necessary peace of which the
conditions are an [Israeli] withdrawal from the occupied Arab
territories and an Israeli recognition of a viable Palestinian state.
Whatever the fate of the present crisis what may be, Israel is fated to
coexist with the Palestinian state and to live in peace with the Arab
states."

"The Palestinians, on their part, need peace no less than the Israelis.
First, in order to be able to exist as a state. And secondly, to be
able to meet the huge challenges that await them. Time does not work in
their favor. Every day that passes without peace complicates their old
problems even more and prolongs their suffering."

"Every temptation to turn the peace process into a war process - which
is demanded by some people who do not think historically, will lead only
to a second 'Nakbah.' (2) Every Palestinian demand beyond the demand
that Palestine be a homeland for two people and Jerusalem be a capital
of two states - is political suicide." (3)

Endnotes:

(1) The author may be Al-'Atif Al-Akhdar Al-Ibrahimi, a former Algerian
politician who is now United Nations Undersecretary-General for Special
Assignments in support of the Secretary-General's preventive peacemaking
efforts.

(2) The first 'Nakbah' was the defeat of the Palestinians in the war of
1948 and what followed it.

(3) This article was originally published in the Egyptian government
daily Al-Ahram.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent,
non-profit organization providing translations of the Arab media and
original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East.
Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background
information, are available upon request.

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Subject: [BPR] - Ha'aretz: Barak to coordinate unilateral separ
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:32:22 -0400

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Subject: [imra-l] Ha'aretz: Barak to coordinate unilateral separation plan with the US
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Ha'aretz: Barak to coordinate unilateral separation plan with the US

Ha'aretz 20 October 2000

Barak, meanwhile, held an initial meeting yesterday on his plan for
unilateral separation from the Palestinians, and decided that all steps in
this direction would be coordinated with the United States.

Barak plans to present the plan to the American administration after
finishing internal discussions of it. A government source said that the
separation plan "is an Israeli security necessity, and the fact that we are
holding this discussion now shows that we don't intend to wait for a
decision from the Palestinian side" - namely, the declaration of a
Palestinian state.

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Subject: [BPR] - Ha'aretz: Italian TV network RAI closes its Jer
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:33:25 -0400

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Subject: [imra-l] Ha'aretz: Italian TV network RAI closes its Jerusalem offices, Italian Canale 5 recalled its special correspondents out of fear of "revenge" by the Palestinians
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Ha'aretz: Italian TV network RAI closes its Jerusalem offices, Italian
Canale 5 recalled its special correspondents out of fear of "revenge" by the
Palestinians

Ha'aretz 20 October 2000

The board of directors of the official Italian television network RAI
decided yesterday to close its Jerusalem office and recall its journalists
from Israel and the territories "for security reasons," according to a
source in the management.

RAI was widely criticized after its correspondent in Israel, Riccardo
Cristiano, published a front-page ad in the Palestinian newspaper Al-Hayat
Al-Jadedah in which he denounced a private Italian television network for
showing of footage of the lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah
last week.

"The necessary security conditions can no longer be guaranteed for RAI
journalists," the press release announcing the closure said.

A source in the Italian news agency Ansa said that the Israeli government
was placing "heavy pressure" on RAI and that the Palestinians were also
"looking for the Italian journalists." The source quoted an anonymous
government source as saying that the government should give Cristiano a
prize for providing proof of the pro-Palestinian bent of certain media
players.

The affair is ammunition for the extreme right in Italy, which is critical
of the support for the Palestinians on the part of the government-controlled
media and leftist elements within it.

The photos of the lynch were taken by a crew from Rete 4, one of three
private stations owned by Silvio Berlusconi, who is also the leader of
Italy's right-wing opposition. Canale 5, another of his stations, recalled
its special correspondents from Israel and the territories out of fear of
"revenge" by the Palestinians.

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Subject: [BPR] - ENS items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:38:26 -0400

RADIOACTIVE SOIL FROM NUCLEAR PLANTS MAY BE SOLD TO
HOMES, FARMS

By Brian Hansen

WASHINGTON, DC, October 19, 2000 (ENS) - A controversial plan that
would allow nuclear power plant operators to market their radiologically
contaminated soils to construction companies, farmers, golf courses and
other commercial entities is moving closer to reality.

For full text and graphics visit:
http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2000/2000L-10-19-15.html

TRANSGENIC ANIMAL FEED COULD AFFECT DAIRY PRODUCTS

LONDON, United Kingdom, October 19, 2000 (ENS) - The genetically
modified maize under scrutiny at a government public hearing in the UK has
not been thoroughly tested and should not be sold commercially, according
to two scientists called as expert witnesses, Wednesday. Called maize in
much of the world, in North America the grain is known as corn.

For full text and graphics visit:
http://ens-news.com/ens/oct2000/2000L-10-19-10.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Ha'aretz: UNIFIL peacekeepers do nothing on Isr
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:42:16 -0400

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Subject: [imra-l] Ha'aretz: UNIFIL peacekeepers do nothing on Israel/Lebanon border
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Ha'aretz: UNIFIL peacekeepers do nothing on Israel/Lebanon border

By Sharon Gal Ha'aretz Correspondent Ha'aretz 20 October 2000

Since the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces from southern Lebanon in
May, there has been a "summer camp" atmosphere in the UNIFIL (UN Interim
Force in Lebanon) positions stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the
Syria-Lebanon-Israel border to the east. The border area has not been quiet
over the past month: Three IDF soldiers were kidnapped by Hezbollah
guerrillas; two grenades were thrown at IDF positions; and stone-throwing
incidents have become more frequent. Nonetheless, UNIFIL soldiers did not
get involved in any of these instances.

The main reason for the absence of any involvement of the UNIFIL troops is
the fact that their nine positions are situated at a distance from any of
the crisis points. Many of the IDF officers in the Northern Command believe
that this is a conscious decision on the part of the UN.

"They do the absolute minimum," an IDF officer said. "In other words, they
do nothing."

Since the pullout, Israel has filed 636 complaints with the United Nations
against the government of Lebanon for violations along the border between
the two countries. In practice, this is purely a formality.

Even the reinforcement of the peacekeeping force with 1200 more soldiers
since the withdrawal - bringing the total to 5700 - has not done much to
keep the border quiet.

"The fact that they are situated across from our positions instead of across
from Hezbollah posts reflects what they are doing or, more correctly, what
they are not doing," a senior IDF officer said yesterday. "Their presence
has been felt even less since the kidnapping of the soldiers. One would
expect them to be more active, to take preventive action, to first of all
position themselves correctly," he added.

UNIFIL spokesman, Timor Goksel, is familiar with the Israeli claims
regarding the passive approach of the peacekeepers and does not reject them
off hand. Nonetheless, "the responsibility lies with the government of
Lebanon," he said. "UNIFIL cannot fulfill the function of the Lebanese
police," Goksel explained.

The UNIFIL position across from kibbutz Manara includes 10 soldiers from the
Ghanean Battalion, six tents, an observation position and an armored
personnel carrier. A single guard was on duty when we arrived. The rest of
the soldiers were taking an afternoon nap.

"It's boring here. We sleep and watch television all day," one of the
soldiers told us later.

What would happen if someone tried to cross the border?

"If it's in our area, we will try to talk with them and convince them not to
cross. Whoever wants to cross should do it over there," the UNIFIL soldier
said pointing at a point far removed from him. "There is no longer our
problem."

The UN spokesman in southern Lebanon said that at one trouble spot, the Tomb
of Rabbi Ashi, UNIFIL soldiers stationed there had asked Lebanese civilians
to refrain from throwing stones at IDF soldiers. "But they responded that it
is their country and that they can do whatever they want," Goksel said.

"So, what can we do? We have no right to arrest them or to take action
against them. What would we do at the Fatma [gate]?" Goksel continued. "The
UN has appealed to the Lebanese with regard to the Israeli complaints and
its response was that the withdrawal has not been completed because of the
Israeli presence at Sheba Farms [a claim not recognized by the UN]."

So then, what is your role along the border?

"To ensure that there is no violence. When something happens, we immediately
go to the Lebanese government.

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (10/20/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:51:42 -0400

*** Airliners grounded by radar failure

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Across the country and around the world, hundreds
of flights headed into or out of the Southwest were grounded Thursday
because of repeated breakdowns in the region's air traffic control
radar. By the time the order from the Federal Aviation Administration
was lifted more than four hours later, airports around the country
were gridlocked with aircraft lined up on the ground, flights
canceled and thousands of passengers stranded or delayed. The problem
called into question again the safety of the nation's air traffic
control system. The malfunction took place at the FAA's Los Angeles
Center in the Mojave Desert community of Palmdale. The air traffic
control center covers much of California and parts of Nevada and
Utah. The system broke down twice in the morning. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570685528-383

*** Ailing killer confesses to murders

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Not long after Robert Spangler learned
he was dying of cancer, detectives came knocking at his door on the
chance he had something he might want to get off his chest before the
end came. He didn't disappoint them. Spangler matter-of-factly
admitted killing his family in 1978 and pushing his third wife to her
death at the Grand Canyon 15 years later, investigators said. Now
Spangler, 67, is under arrest on murder charges. Detectives had had
Spangler under suspicion for years, and some of his former in-laws
suspected the worst of him all along. But the alleged confession came
as his shock to friends and neighbors, who knew him as an all-around
good guy who refereed youth soccer and acted in dinner-theater
productions. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570679187-1ff

*** Man admits to 13 murders in Wash.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A man pleaded guilty Thursday to killing 13
people dating back a quarter century, taking a place among the
nation's most prolific serial killers. Robert L. Yates Jr., a
48-year-old father of five, will be sentenced next week to spend the
rest of his life in prison. He still could face the death penalty if
he is convicted of two Tacoma-area slayings and an additional murder
in Spokane County. Yates pleaded guilty to 10 Spokane-area slayings
from 1996 to 1998, the murders of a young man and woman in southern
Washington in 1975 and the murder of a woman in the state's
northeastern corner in 1988. He also pleaded guilty to the attempted
murder of Christine Smith, 32, of Spokane, the only victim known to
have escaped his attacks. Most of the victims were involved in drugs
or prostitution, and all had been shot. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570682579-b6e

*** Mistrial in Wash. abuse case

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A mistrial was declared Thursday in the assault
case against a man accused of trapping his wife aboard a filthy
sailboat for two decades while he collected state payments for her
care. Jurors were unable to reach a verdict on the assault charge
against Victor David, 60. A new trial date was scheduled for Dec. 11,
the same day the Canadian will be sentenced for being an alien in
possession of a firearm. The case drew national attention and
prompted changes in the way state social workers oversee vulnerable
adults who receive state assistance for their disabilities. Linda
David, now 52, was discovered in 1997, crammed into the bow of her
husband's boat. She was covered in vomit and lay amid feces from
seven German shepherds that also lived on the 30-foot vessel in
Everett, north of Seattle. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570685911-844

*** Doctor convicted of fondling patients

CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) - A neurologist has been convicted of fondling
several female patients, sometimes after commenting on how beautiful
their eyes or bodies were. Dr. Bashir Yousufzai, 44, was found guilty
Wednesday of six counts of indecent assault at his practice in
DuBois, 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The mother of a 22-year-old
woman who said the doctor rubbed her buttocks testified that her
daughter looked so distraught afterward that she thought the doctor
had told her she was going to die. Defense attorney Jeff DuBois said
none of the women asked Yousufzai to stop, meaning the allegations
did not meet the definition of indecent assault. Yousufzai said the
women misunderstood him and that he did not intend to have
inappropriate contact. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570679626-723

*** Accused child killer attacks lawyer

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A man accused of fatally stabbing an
8-year-old boy knocked his own attorney cold with a left cross
Thursday at the conclusion of a court hearing. As the session ended,
Gregory D. Murphy stood up, said nothing and threw the punch that
laid out attorney Jonathan Shapiro. He did not get up and was taken
from the courtroom on a stretcher. Shapiro declined to talk to
reporters when he was released from the hospital later in the day.
Murphy faces the death penalty if convicted. He is accused of
stabbing Kevin Shifflett to death on April 19 while the boy was
playing with other children in front of his great-grandmother's home
Alexandria. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570687613-7e8

*** Serb students pelt U.S. troops

BRCKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Bosnian Serb students pelted U.S.
peacekeepers with eggs and stoned Muslim-owned businesses Thursday to
press their demand that Bosnian Muslims leave this ethnically tense
city. Two people were injured and 10 were arrested, police chief
Dusko Kokanovic said. He urged authorities to declare a state of
emergency in Brcko, where the students demonstrated for a third
straight day. Hundreds of young Bosnian Serbs - high school and
college students, most in their late teens - ran through the streets
chanting the name of indicted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic and
shouting "This is Serbia." see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570680569-067

*** Hollywood pushing Satanic themes

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hollywood is playing devil's advocate. With
Halloween approaching, a rush of films starring the Prince of
Darkness is hitting theaters, from apocalyptic thrillers to
lighthearted romps. Harold Ramis, director and co-writer of the
comedy "Bedazzled," which opens Friday, said the current crop of
satanic flicks may be a carryover from the millennium fever last
year, when such end-of-the-world movies as "End of Days" and
"Stigmata" came out. Or it could just be coincidence. "It's not like
we call each other up and ask what devil movie is going to be hot
this year," said Ramis, who has directed "Analyze This" and
"Groundhog Day." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570679985-5d5

*** Mir likely to be dumped soon

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian officials said Thursday that the Mir space
station, an aging symbol of Soviet space glory, is likely to be
discarded soon for lack of money. But officials also said no decision
has been made yet, and the fate of the 14-year-old station was not
even discussed at a meeting of space experts. Deputy Prime Minister
Ilya Klebanov, the Cabinet official responsible for the space
program, reiterated what the government has said before: It cannot
afford Mir. But he then appeared to offer some hope that Mir could
stay aloft, pointing out that the station's lifetime has been
extended by private investors once already. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570680586-3a2

*** Hong Kong ID plan stirs fears

HONG KONG (AP) - A government plan to issue electronic identity cards
is under fire from critics who say they would contain too much
personal information and would be an invasion of privacy. The
government said Thursday it hoped to introduce the cards by 2003,
saying they would "better serve the community" and would be good for
Hong Kong's high-tech image. Each card would track its holder's
residency status in Hong Kong, which is plagued by illegal
immigration, mostly from mainland China. It would include such
information such as name, age and fingerprint image and could also
function as everything from a driver's license to a debit card. ee
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570684454-ec7

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Subject: [BPR] - Israel Radio: PA Security Chief Dahlan responsi
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:52:33 -0400

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Subject: [imra-l] Israel Radio: PA Security Chief Dahlan responsible for attack on bus
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Israel Radio: PA Security Chief Dahlan responsible for attack on bus

Aaron Lerner Date: 20 October, 2000

Israel Radio reported this morning that Israeli security officials
have determined that Gaza PA Preventive Security Head Col. Mohammed
Dahlan was behind the 18 October bombing of an Israeli bus in Gush
Katif in the Gaza Strip.

Dahlan is part of the team working with the CIA to enforce the Sharm
cease fire

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director
IMRA (Independent Media Review & Analysis)
(mail POB 982 Kfar Sava)
Tel 972-9-7604719/Fax 972-3-5480092
INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il
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Subject: [BPR] - Human brain equivalence on a chip by 2005?
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:57:08 -0400

Human brain equivalence on a chip by 2005?

Senior Associate RobertBradbury writes "EE Times has a very interesting
article about how the German startup Pact GmbH is producing a new
microprocessor packing 128 32-bit arithmetic logic units. Initial models pack
~13 GigaOps, but they plan to go to 400 GigaOps (4*1014 ops) by 2002.
This is putting you in the range of human brain equivalence as I discuss
here. As they project a petaop (1015 ops) on a chip by 2010, even if the
conservative estimates of brain ops (1017 ops) are correct, you will be able
to get human brain equivalence in a filing cabinet sized
machine this decade!"

http://nanodot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/18/225250

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Subject: [BPR] - Daywatch items
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:59:24 -0400

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A three-judge federal panel Wednesday
released a report criticizing Hillary Rodham Clinton for giving
"factually false [and] inaccurate" testimony about her role in
the White House Travel Office firings, but said there wasn't
enough proof to prosecute her. Headed by Independent Counsel
Robert Ray's office, the report comes just three weeks before
Clinton faces Republican Rick Lazio in New York's Senate
election.

CALIFORNIA -- A Web site offering to provide thousands of votes
for president to the highest bidder is under investigation for
possible voter fraud. Voteauction.com boasts that it is
"bringing capitalism and democracy closer together" and quoted
the going price at $19.61 per vote in California and $12.38 in
Illinois. The Web site asks voters to fill out personal details
such as nationality and household income, and then sells the
votes in blocks to the highest bidder.

NORTH CAROLINA -- When Tipper Gore visited a Greensboro church
event last week, she walked out with a pastor's endorsement for
her husband, Al Gore, in next month's presidential election.
Michael King, a Greensboro pastor, said, "God is on our side.
He has ordained this," referring to the election of Gore as
president.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20001019a.htm

OKLAHOMA -- Christians who have died for their faith will be
honored at a new museum that opens in Tulsa next month. A
multimillion dollar collection of artifacts and historical pieces
will be unveiled on Nov. 12. The opening of the martyr's museum
comes at a time when missionary observers say there is more
persecution of Christians around the world than ever before.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20001019c.htm

INDIA -- Indian authorities have taken 23 suspects into custody,
charging them with civil rights violations and committing
criminal violence against Christians. Houses of prayer and a
priest in Kandhamal district were the most recent targets,
IndiaExpress.com reported.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20001019e.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Jesus, The First Communist?
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:03:13 -0400

                 Jesus, The First Communist?
                 French Communists Recruit Jesus,
                 Top Models to Boost Image

                 P A R I S, Oct. 19 =97 With their finances shaky,
                 ranks thinning and leaders on trial for
                 corruption, France=92s communists are turning to
                 supermodels and Jesus Christ to drum up some
                 cash and boost their flagging image.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/france001019.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Bare-Breasted Poet Takes on Loggers
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:07:32 -0400

Thursday October 19 11:19 AM ET
Bare-Breasted Poet Takes on Loggers

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - She thinks she knows what lumberjacks want.

A California performance artist has launched what she hopes will be a new
women's movement against logging ancient redwoods -- baring her breasts
and reciting poetry to stunned timber crews.

``They stop their chainsaws and they stop their trucks and they pay
attention,'' Dona Nieto, who goes by the name ``La Tigresa,'' as she prepared
another demonstration.

``I've changed some of these guys' lives. But I'd like to change the laws, and
I'd like to change history.''

La Tigresa has brought what she calls ``Goddess-based, nude Buddhist
guerrilla poetry'' to timber and logging sites in an area some 120 miles north
of San Francisco that is one of the main battlegrounds in the fight between
environmentalists and timber companies.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001019/od/loggers_dc_1.html

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From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Khazneh")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:07:01 -0400

Acronym Definition
OPS Operations
OPS Off-Premise Station
OPS Oil Pressure Switch
OPS On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (baseball)
OPS Open Profiling Standard
OPS Operational Project Stocks
OPS Operations Per Second
OPS Operations Process System (Bellcore)
OPS Operations Productivity System
OPS Operations Provisionable System (AT&T)
OPS Operations Shelter
OPS Operations Squadron
OPS Operator Services
OPS Ophthalmic Photographers' Society
OPS OPSEC (Operations Security) Professionals Society
OPS OPTera Packet Solution (Nortel Networks)
OPS Optical Pulse Simulation
OPS Optical Sensor
OPS Oracle Parallel Server
OPS Order Processing System (Sprint)
OPS Organizaci=F3n Panamericana de la Salud (Pan American Health
Organization)
OPS Other Personal Services

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=3Dops&Find=3DFind&Strin=
g=3Dexact

3359 metopon {met'-o-pon }

from 3326 and ops (the face); TDNT - 4:635,591; n n

AV - forehead 8; 8

1) the space between the eyes, the forehead

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4383 prosopon {pros'-o-pon}

from 4314 and ops (the visage, from 3700); TDNT - 6:768,950; n n

AV - face 55, person 7, presence 7, countenance 3, not tr 1, misc 5; 78

1) the face
    1a) the front of the human head
    1b) countenance, look
        1b1) the face so far forth as it is the organ of sight, and by
             it various movements and changes) the index of the inward
             thoughts and feelings
    1c) the appearance one presents by his wealth or property, his
        rank or low condition
        1c1) outward circumstances, external condition
        1c2) used in expressions which denote to regard the person in
             one's judgment and treatment of men
2) the outward appearance of inanimate things

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Subject: [BPR] - Human brain equivalence on a chip by 2005?

> Human brain equivalence on a chip by 2005?
>
> Senior Associate RobertBradbury writes "EE Times has a very interesting
> article about how the German startup Pact GmbH is producing a new
> microprocessor packing 128 32-bit arithmetic logic units. Initial models pack
> ~13 GigaOps, but they plan to go to 400 GigaOps (4*1014 ops) by 2002.
> This is putting you in the range of human brain equivalence as I discuss
> here. As they project a petaop (1015 ops) on a chip by 2010, even if the
> conservative estimates of brain ops (1017 ops) are correct, you will be able
> to get human brain equivalence in a filing cabinet sized
> machine this decade!"

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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. RABBI HERLING BURIED
   2. SUMMARY OF THE BATTLE
   3. BARAK'S RESPONSES
   4. PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
   5. ...AND THE SHOOTING GOES ON
   6. YESHA COUNCIL MEETING
   7. IN JERUSALEM
   8. FROM THE MEDIA...

1. RABBI HERLING BURIED
Thousands of people accompanied the funeral of Rabbi Binyamin Herling in
Kedumim today. Even before the identity of the victim of yesterday's
battle was known, rumors were making their speedy way around Yesha towns
that the victim was a "well-known tzaddik [righteous man]." Kedumim
resident Rafaela Segal said last night that Rabbi Herling was known as a
kind and modest Torah scholar of the first order, who lived with his wife
in the same small structure that his family was assigned when he and the
original settlers first moved in 23 years ago. He traveled to his various
classes by hitchhiking, and would study Torah with whoever was the driver
on the way. A lover of the Land of Israel, he worked the land on Fridays
when he did not teach.

A shaken Kedumim Rabbi Daniel Shilo told Ma'ariv, "He was one of the model
personalities that developed here in Yesha, in Bnei Akiva, and in our
yeshivot. A real Torah scholar and a spreader of Torah. He was a
paratrooper in the army, one in whom no fault was found, "not in the eyes
of G-d and not in the eyes of man.'" Karnei Shomron Council head Yehuda
Lieberman said, "He was unbelievably modest. He tried always to make peace
between people. He spoke quietly and pleasantly, was loved by everyone,
and was never involved in controversy."

Yehoshua Herling, one of eight children of Rabbi Herling, called today on
Yesha residents not to carry out personal acts of vengeance for his
father's death, nor even to do so verbally. Rabbi Eliezer Waldman said at
the funeral, "This terrible murder must send shock waves to the government,
the nation, and throughout the land!" Rabbi Chaim Druckman accused the
government of blindness as to what is happening in the country: "Master of
the World, what else has to happen for us to open our eyes to the truth of
this 'process!' And there are still 'understandings'! We can't believe
even one word Arafat says!" Rabbi Daniel Shilo said, "I do expect
vengeance - but not of the private kind. I expect the country and its
government to take proper vengeance on what happened yesterday."

2. SUMMARY OF THE BATTLE
Ze'ev Chernin, one of the hikers on yesterday's tragic hike, recounted the
events for Arutz-7:
"We left Kedumim on an organized, army-approved trip, to the site of
Joshua Bin-Nun's altar when he entered the Land of Israel, and a look-out
point for Joseph's Tomb. Four soldiers in jeeps accompanied us - over 30
people, including women and children. At one point, we were on a mountain
side, about 300 meters from the outer houses of the Arab camp Askar, and
some of us wanted to see another site. About nine of us, including myself,
chose not to go; one soldier remained with us, while the other three went
with the others. Right then, the Arabs began firing at us. We took cover,
even though it was very hard to hide, because the mountainside was very
open and uncovered. At one point, I was forced to fire back. The Arabs
were firing massively at us, while we had to be very careful with shooting
since we didn't have much ammunition. Despite this, one Arab was
killed.. Even heavier firing was directed at the other group. Our people
also shot back, but they most certainly did not start the firing, as the
Arabs claim!... At one point, IDF helicopters arrived, and circled
overhead. At first they did not fire, which was a great disappointment to
us. Later, they did shoot, but then they were shot at, and they left. All
this time we were there on the mountainside under heavy fire. Only after
four hours did I see an army reinforcement coming on the top of the
mountain. The soldiers started shooting very heavily, but they were still
unable to come get us. Later, after dark, they came to us and the rescue
started..."

3. BARAK'S RESPONSES
Prime Minister Barak feels that the IDF performance yesterday is less of an
issue than that of why a hike took place there. He told a group of
American-Jewish leaders today that the army acted swiftly and correctly in
seeking out all possibilities of rescuing the wounded. He said, however,
that the question of why the hike was approved by the army is under
investigation. Barak blamed the Palestinians for a "grave violation" of
the Sharma-Sheikh understandings in yesterday's protracted attack on the
Israeli hikers. Barak later visited the south-Jerusalem neighborhood of
Gilo, where a Border Guard policeman was gravely wounded this week by
Palestinian sniper fire.

Barak said that Israel reserves the right to respond to yesterday's
attack. He denied journalistic speculation that in order not to bolster
Arafat and the militant wing at tomorrow's Arab League summit meeting, the
military response would occur only after the summit - and said that it
would take place "at the time and in the manner in which [we] choose."

Dozens of Israelis, including soldiers in uniform, are protesting outside
Barak's home this afternoon against what they call his "abandonment of
wounded in the field."

Communications and Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who symbolizes
the coalition's "hawkish right-wing" after declaring - only a week after
the beginning of the Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault - that the peace process
was dead, said today that Prime Minister Barak feels the same way. He said
that Barak is simply uncomfortable saying so to U.S. President
Clinton. The Prime Minister will meet with opposition leader Ariel Sharon
later today to discuss the increasingly-relevant option of a national-unity
government.

Barak-aide Gilad Sher said this morning that Clinton phoned Barak last
night; and "Barak told him that the Palestinians are not fulfilling their
end of the Sharm understandings, and that if this continues, Israel will
take a time-out from the peace process to consider its next steps." Likud
MK Uzi Landau, speaking with Israel Radio, responded, "Barak has chosen
both to be humiliated and to suffer the results of terrorism... Gilad Sher
said that yesterday's battle was merely a 'local incident' - I disagree
with this fundamentally. This was a local manifestation of the
Palestinians' general policy!" When asked whether Barak's restraint
yesterday might actually be in Israel's best interest, given the Arab
League summit tomorrow, Landau responded, "Even if I agree with you, what
explains Barak's restraint after the Ramallah lynching, and the Joseph's
Tomb desecration, and the burning of the Jericho synagogue, and all the
other events of the past month?"

4. PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
According to a preliminary investigation carried out by Shomron residents
with IDF cooperation of yesterday's Mt. Eval battle, Rabbi Herling was hit
by a bullet at around 3 PM, and no one was able to approach him for a long
while because of the continued Palestinian firing. When help finally
arrived, Rabbi Herling had already died; it is not clear how much time
elapsed between the time he was hit and his death. Participants on the
trip have criticism for the army for not using the helicopters to fire back
at the houses in Askar from where shots were fired, even though they - the
hikers - identified the houses with certainty and reported as much to the
army by cellular phone. The officers apparently wished to wait for the
night hours, partly because they feared the Palestinians' anti-aircraft
weapons. Journalists and residents have raised questions, however, as to
whether the lack of a powerful response by the IDF was politically-motivated.

Other preliminary findings of the investigation: The army did not bother
to contact Eliezer Mizrachi - one of the hikers who was caught behind a
rock during the battle - until 4 PM, over three hours after the beginning
of the battle and after Mizrachi had already spoken on several live radio
and TV broadcasts. He provided the army with its first full picture of the
events there. The helicopters only began firing at 4:30, and even then the
fire was directed only at open areas.

The four wounded from yesterday's hike are all hospitalized in Tel
HaShomer. Their conditions are stable.

Central Region Commander Maj.-Gen. Yitzchak Eitan and Judea and Samaria
Commander Brig.-Gen. Benny Ganz will hold a press conference this afternoon
to explain the army's version of what happened yesterday on Mt.
Eval. Hevron Jewish Community spokesman David Wilder called last night for
the resignations of IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz and Central
Region Commander Eitan. He said that the first is not fit to serve because
he is unable "to convince his boss of the need to save Jews," and the
second is similarly unfit because he "insinuated that responsibility for
being attacked and killed lies with the victim and not with the attacker."

5. ...AND THE SHOOTING GOES ON
Four Israeli soldiers were injured by Palestinian shots this afternoon when
they entered a Palestinian-controlled area by mistake. They were taken to
the hospital, and their condition is unknown. Palestinians opened fire at
an IDF position near the greenhouses of Moshav Katif in Gush Katif this
morning. A Palestinian worker there was injured, and was treated by an
Israeli army doctor. Last night, Palestinians fired on Psagot and
Hevron. Palestinians are burning tires and throwing rocks and bricks at
IDF soldiers at Ayosh Junction this afternoon, and the soldiers are
attempting to disperse the mob with rubber bullets. Arabs are similarly
burning tires and blocking the road to Gush Etzion outside Kibbutz Migdal Oz.

6. YESHA COUNCIL MEETING
The Yesha Council, following an emergency meeting last night in Barkan,
near Ariel, declared that Prime Minister Barak is responsible for the death
of Rabbi Herling yesterday. The Council has planned a demonstration for
tomorrow night outside Barak's home in Jerusalem, demanding that Barak
accept the responsibility and resign.

7. IN JERUSALEM
An Israeli policeman was lightly wounded this morning at one of the Temple
Mount gates, when young Palestinians who wished to enter the Mount for
Friday prayers was prevented from doing so. The police are allowing entry
only to Moslems from age 40 and over, as a safeguard against post-prayer
violence. Dozens of Arabs demonstrated at Damascus Gate in
protest. Thousands of Jewish worshippers attended prayer services this
morning at the Western Wall, below the Mount, in honor of the Sukkot
holiday of Hoshana Rabba.

The following website has information - some in Hebrew - on Joseph's Tomb,
Mt. Eval, Shechem, and the surrounding Jewish
towns: http://www.shechem.org/eindex.html

8. FROM THE MEDIA...
Washington Post Editorial, October 20, 2000:
"More than 48 hours have now passed since President Clinton assured us
that both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would "issue public
statements unequivocally calling for an end to violence." That seems long
enough to expect that Yasser Arafat would screw up his courage and call for
peace--and put his own name behind the call. But Mr. Arafat has made no
such statement. His Palestinian Authority has put forth some words, hardly
unequivocal. But from Mr. Arafat himself, nothing. We are familiar with
the various explanations... But these excuses miss the fundamental nature
of Mr. Arafat's failure. This latest refusal to take a stand is nothing
new. Since Israel and the Palestinian movement began moving toward peace in
1993, Mr. Arafat has never made a concerted effort to prepare his people
for the compromises peace would require; he has never spoken about peace as
a goal or an aspiration... As a corrupt and authoritarian ruler, he seems
more comfortable in a situation of instability... Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak was said yesterday to be meeting with advisers to consider a
plan to contain violence by essentially quarantining much of the
Palestinian population. This would be a dreadful outcome, impoverishing
further many Palestinians. Most of the world all the more would see the
Palestinians as the victims, and they would be right. But their chief
victimizer would be their leader, who refused to accept or speak up for the
peace that could improve their lives."

David Wilder, Hevron Jewish Community Editorial, Oct. 20, 2000:
"One of those injured yesterday is a 19-year old named Shmuel. Shmuel was
hit in the chest when the shooting began. He was left bleeding, with a hole
in his chest, for over five hours. Only after nightfall was he removed. He
is still alive today only due to a Divine miracle. The bullet that hit
Shmuel went through him, from front to back. It didn't hit his heart, his
lungs, or any other vital organs. And Shmuel didn't bleed to death, in
spite of his being abandoned behind a boulder for hours. A genuine miracle.
Today Shmuel is recovering in Tel HaShomer hospital, and will hopefully be
released early next week. Shmuel is one of the lucky ones. Another miracle
is a 27-year old man named Barak. Barak was hit in the thigh, and too, bled
for hours before being evacuated. He, together with Shmuel, had to crawl up
the Aival hillside under the cover of darkness, with bullets still whizzing
by them. These two men were in a group further down the hill, where the
rocks were larger, and where they had a better chance to take cover. Rabbi
Binyamin Herling, the 64-year old father of eight from Kedumim wasn't so
lucky. He was in a group of people further up the hill. He didn't have
anywhere to hide. Rather than try to save him, the IDF let him bleed to death."

Moshe Zak, Jerusalem Post op-ed, Oct. 20, 2000:
"The Sharm summit wasn't a failure. On the contrary, it indirectly led to
the destruction of some dangerous illusions. We finally began to question
Arafat's suitability as a partner. Until now, we were unable to imagine
that the other side would fail to understand the benefits of the fair
compromise we were prepared to offer... But when we reached the moment of
truth, it turned out the Palestinian leadership wanted the whole
cake... We were sure that Israel's economic plan for reducing the
Palestinians' hardship could dry up the marshes in which the mosquitoes of
terrorism were breeding. But when the riots broke out, the Palestinians
torched the industrial park opposite Tulkarm, which was intended to provide
jobs for the unemployed in PA territory. We believed that joint patrols by
Israeli and Palestinian police in border areas would forge understanding
between the two sides, but on the first day of the riots, a Palestinian
policeman shot dead an Israeli colleague on a joint patrol near Kalkilya...
"At Sharm, we woke up from dreams which reflected inaccurate
assumptions. But we still have one dream left: the dream of peace. It will
come. Not within the 48 hours or two weeks, as dictated by the timetable of
the heads of state, it deserves patience. It will come when the countries
of the world realize that the anti-Israeli resolutions adopted by the UN
block the way to stability in the region and provide an incentive for a war
of attrition between Israel and the Palestinians."

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Subject: [BPR] - ‘LORD,"Shall We Smite With The Sword?"�
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:34:22 -0400

[This was sent to me by a list member.--Moza]

‘LORD,"Shall We Smite With The Sword?"�

Many Christians are becoming alarmed as the spirit of lawlessness fills the land. Having been "at ease in Zion" for generations, many become apprehensive at the thought of coming societal breakdown and persecution of true Christianity on western shores.

End time Bible prophecy is coming alive before our eyes. The oppressive New World Order is forming rapidly; Jerusalem has become a "burdensome stone for all people"; apostasy in the professing church is breathtaking. The world is gearing up for Antichrist.

Lately, the cry for Christians to arm ourselves with weapons has come from many directions. The question we want to consider carefully is: "As Christians under the new covenant, do we have a biblical mandate to kill or harm anyone?"

Our Savior allowed the apostles to have 2 swords for 12 people. He said two was enough. Enough for what? When the apostles saw what would follow at his arrest, they asked Jesus:"...Shall we smite with the sword?" in Luke 22:49. Before our Lord could answer, Peter cut off the ear of a
relative of the high priest. Lord Jesus Christ who in his whole life "had done no violence" (Is 53:9) quickly reversed the effect of Peter�s offense. The common thought is that the only reason Peter must not use the sword was
because Jesus must drink his Father�s cup to fulfill prophecy. If that were true, then our Lord�s response to Peter is nonsensical.

In Matthew 26:52, our Lord said to Peter: "Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword."

Perish in the Greek is "apollumi" which means to perish, be killed, be destroyed. The destroyer of Revelation 9:11," Apollyon" is derived from that root. Who is our father, God the Father, the God of love who has committed "all judgment unto the Son" or Apollon, the destroyer? We know that not everyone who has killed has died a similar violent death. So in what way would Peter perish?

Revelation 13:9-10 brings up the topic again: If any man have an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

Revelation Chapter 13 refers to the beast that rises from the sea who leads the whole unregenerate world into captivity and overcomes the saints by killing them with the sword. God gives the sword to Antichrist, who then kills many believers, sending them to glory. It is the Antichrist who leads into captivity and to whom God gives the sword . The saints are given the grace to keep the word of his patience and love not their lives unto death.

In Matthew 26:52 and Revelation 13:10, God takes the sword out of the believer�s hand even when it might be regarded as righteous to carnally smite ungodly men, and gives it to the ultimate unrighteous man. Lord Jesus Christ slays the beast and the false prophet with the sword that comes out of his mouth, the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. If we are forbidden to kill in the New
Testament, would we be killed by the same sword?

The two witnesses of Revelation 11 are given power by Jesus Christ in a
specific ministry to prophesy for a thousand two hundred and threescore days. They have permission to kill those who would come against them but not by the sword. They kill with God-given supernatural power manifested as fire coming out of their mouths.

Lord Jesus Christ killed no one when he walked this earth as the Lamb, holy and harmless. We are commanded to walk "as He walked". We have no record that the Apostles killed anyone. They were all killed with the possible exception of John the Beloved.. Nowhere in the New Testament does a believer under the New Covenant kill or physically defend anyone, excepting Peter who was instantly rebuked and the two witnesses who have a special dispensation. When James and John suggested to Jesus that they call down fire as Elijah did to destroy God�s enemies, our Lord responded that "Ye know not what manner spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men�s lives, but to save them". (Luke 9:55-56)

This is in sharp contrast to the Old Testament where it was enjoined to
"deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor" and "cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood". Justice was meted out carnally in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, our commission is save lives by preaching the Gospel and to wait for our Lord to avenge all unrighteousness.

Due to the bringing in of the better Covenant, "there is made of necessity a change also of the law". (Heb 7:12) We are no longer under "the law of a carnal commandment" to avenge injustice physically. God says he will repay. We are to walk in the spirit. Our citizenship is now in heaven not the physical country in which we reside. The kingdom of heaven is a spiritual one until the Lord�s return. "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight..." (John 18:36)

Our Lord says emphatically: "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him to other also". (Matthew 5:39) No self-defense is indicated in this verse but rather "nonresistance". Can we justify "spiritualizing" this verse and pretending it doesn�t apply to physical violence?

James 5:6 says: "Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not
resist you." The just, by God�s standards do not resist.

Under the new covenant, who or what are we to resist? The New World Order, unrighteous laws, the thief at your door?

James 4:7 "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

1 Peter 5:8-9 gives the second witness: "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world."

Lord Jesus Christ in his first coming, is our example in all things. He
resisted the devil with the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God . Satan, not man is our adversary. We must use spiritual weapons for a spiritual enemy.

2 Cor 10:4-5."(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

In New Testament times, the magistrate has been given the sword (Romans
13) to keep order in society. Currently the laws of the land allow us to have weapons and even use them in certain cases. We, as Christians are under a higher law not to use the sword. In case we�ve missed this, God will help us out. As the laws become more repressive, weapons will be taken away. Soon only the government, resisters and criminals will have them. Shall we then resist the power (the government) and get some?

Romans 13:2 says: "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."

If Lord Jesus does not want us to kill unredeemed man thereby sending him to hell then he must be fully prepared to protect us supernaturally as we witness that He lives until it�s time to be offered up. Our weapons include prayer, the word of God and the mind of Christ.

Any scriptural justification for the believers to kill righteously must be taken from the Old Testament. Christians, however, are not called to take life but to save lives by speaking and living the Gospel.

The difference between the two covenants is clarified in the phrase "arm yourselves".

Old Testament - Numbers 31:3 "And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian."

New Testament - 1 Peter 4:1 "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin."

"In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." (2 Corinthians 13:1) Under the new covenant "old things have passed away". We have more than two or three witnesses in the New testament forbidding us to use the sword before the Lord�s return. Shall we not then fear to violate His word?

"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Matthew 10:28

John 12 :48 "He that rejecteth me , and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day."

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Subject: [BPR] - Talk of papal resignation angers Vatican
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:48:06 -0500

Talk of papal resignation angers Vatican
Friday, October 20, 2000
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/pope201.shtml

VATICAN CITY -- An influential European cardinal has added his voice to
speculation swirling for months -- that Pope John Paul II, burdened by age
and illness, may resign.

Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium suggested John Paul might step aside
next year, now that he has achieved his dream of leading the church into the
new millennium.

Mere mention of the issue has angered the Vatican, which sees such talk as
seeking to weaken the papacy. Reaction to Danneels' suggestion was swift.

"This is the personal opinion of Cardinal Danneels, which we do not
confirm," said a one-line statement issued yesterday by the pope's
spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

Danneels, who has been mentioned as a possible successor to John Paul, is
the highest-ranking churchman to go public with the thought, which has been
on the minds of many given the pope's frail condition.

A top German bishop, Karl Lehmann, broke the ice in February when he said he
thought the pope would step down if he thought he could no longer lead the
church.

John Paul will be 81 in May. His speech is slurred and his hands tremble.
Since hip surgery following a fall in his bathroom in 1994, he has had
difficulty walking and climbing stairs.

He looked weak when he received Queen Elizabeth II at the Vatican on
Tuesday, needing a cane for support.

Danneels' comments were reported by Belgian and Italian media from advance
excerpts from a book "Frankly Speaking. Six Conversations with the
Cardinal," to be released Monday.

Speaking about the retirement age for bishops of 75, the cardinal said, "I
wouldn't be surprised if the pope also retired after 2000. He absolutely
wanted to reach the Jubilee year, but I believe he would retire afterward,"
according to published reports.

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Subject: [BPR] - Protestant 'dies after jail beating'
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:53:45 -0500

Friday, October 20, 2000
Protestant 'dies after jail beating'
VIVIEN PIK-KWAN CHAN
http://www.scmp.com/news/China/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20001020031950
848.asp

A member of an underground Protestant church has died after being beaten up
in prison, a rights group said.

Police detained Liu Haitong in a raid on a private home serving as an
underground church in Jiaozuo city, Henan province, on September 4, the Hong
Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said yesterday.

Liu, 19, was worshipping at a service police said was illegal.

Beaten by police and left weakened by the prison's inadequate food and poor
hygiene, he began vomiting and developed a high fever, the centre said. It
reported that the 19-year-old died in the county jail on Monday after police
refused to provide medical care.

A duty officer at the jail said an inmate had died in a local hospital on
October 16 but refused to comment on the case.

The human rights centre said leaders of the underground church in Henan had
called on international rights groups to investigate Liu's death. They were
also protesting to the Government to demand an end to the arrests and police
brutality against its members.

Chinese authorities have in recent months renewed a two-year-old campaign
against people worshipping outside the state-backed Catholic and
non-denominational Protestant churches.

Henan has been at the centre of the crackdown. The province is home to
thriving Protestant "home churches" - so called because they are often
private homes. Foreigners are among the preachers.

Jiang Mingyuan, a bishop from Henan who was ordained but not by official
religious bodies, was detained in the crackdown on the underground Catholic
Church in late August. About 85 Henan Christians were charged under "evil
cult" legislation last month. The crackdown is expected to intensify,
according to the human rights centre.

Immediately after a key Communist Party meeting last week, Public Security
Minister Jia Chunwang ordered police to target members of cults, separatists
and "religious extremists", a reference to people worshiping outside
official churches.

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Subject: [BPR] - SHROUD OF TURIN DISPUTE FOCUSES ON POLLEN CLAIM
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:22:56 -0500

SHROUD OF TURIN DISPUTE FOCUSES ON POLLEN CLAIM
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/printedition/article/0,2669
,SAV-0010190366,FF.html

Tribune wire services
October 20, 2000
WASHINGTON -- An article in Biblical Archaeology Review disputes claims that
pollen embedded in the Shroud of Turin supports belief in the Italian relic
as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

Author Vaughn M. Bryant Jr., director of the pollen laboratory at Texas A&M
University, said he and "most other serious scientists" will remain
unconvinced until new pollen samples from the cloth are studied under
stricter conditions.

In 1973 and 1978 the late Max Frei, director of the police laboratory in
Zurich collected pollen grains embedded in the cloth, using a dozen pieces
of sticky tape. He reported the presence of 54 plant species that occur only
in Israel and Turkey.

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Subject: [BPR] - Palestinian protestors burn U.N. flag for 1st time
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:10:00 -0400

Palestinian protestors burn U.N. flag for 1st time
Friday, 20 October 2000 9:14 (ET)

Palestinian protestors burn U.N. flag for 1st time
By ABDEL MAWLA KHALED

EIN el-HELWEH, Lebanon, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Palestinian refugees protesting
inside a refugee camp in south Lebanon against what they describe as
Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian territories burned a U.N. flag for
the first time Friday.

Some 100 protestors, including women and children, staged a sit-in in the
Ein el-Helweh shantytown on the outskirts of the port city of Sidon in
southern Lebanon to protest the emergency Mideast summit at the Egyptian
Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and at the Israeli attacks on Palestinian
civilians in the West Bank and Gaza.

The demonstrators trampled on a U.N. flag before setting it ablaze to
denounce what they described as the United Nation's failure to stop Israel's
"massacre" of the Palestinian people. In the past three weeks more than 100
people have been killed in violence between Palestinian protesters and Israeli
troops; a vast majority of those killed were Palestinian.

It was the first time that Palestinians vented their anger against the United
Nations since Israel was created in 1948. The protestors also burned U.S.
and Israeli flags and raised placards pledging to free Palestine and the holy
city of Jerusalem, which both they and the Israelis claim as their eternal,
undivided capital.

Sultan Abul Aynain, the Palestine Liberation Organization representative in
Lebanon, told United Press International that the demonstrators set fire to
the U.N. flag as "an expression of their anger and to protest the U.N.'s failure
to pressure Israel into stopping its massacres against the Palestinians."

Timor Goskel, the U.N. spokesman in south Lebanon, said he regretted the
incident and said the United Nations was greatly concerned by the burning of
its flags by Palestinian protestors.

The Palestinians later released a statement that said continued protests
"proved that the Zionist peace process had failed." The statement accused
the Yasser Arafat's Palestinian authority of "weakness" for its apparent
failure to prevent "the continued massacre by the Zionist enemy."

There are some 350,000 Palestinians who have lived in Lebanon, mostly in
refugee camps, since Israel was created in 1948.

http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=129503

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Subject: [BPR] - Israel announces 'time out' in wake of violence
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:14:37 -0400

Israel announces 'time out' in wake of violence

A wounded Palestinian is evacuated after clashes between Palestinians and
Israeli soldiers in Ramallah on Friday

CNN Jerusalem Bureau Chief Mike Hanna and CNN Correspondent Ben
Wedeman contributed to this report.

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel plans to take a "time out" after this weekend's
Arab summit to reassess its position in the wake of a failed ceasefire and
renewed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers that left at least
eight Palestinians dead on Friday.

"We will take time out to re-evaluate the situation of the peace process,"
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview taped for Israeli TV. He
said Israel would take "as much time as is needed to evaluate the situation."

Palestinian spokesman Saeb Erakat described the Israeli announcement as
"inappropriate" and added that "the worst is yet to come."

Israeli government spokesman Avi Pazner said that Israel had done all it
could to ensure an end to the fighting.

"We said we would give 48 hours for the ceasefire to be implemented on the
ground," said Pazner. "What we have seen is more violent incidents than
before ... and the Palestinian Authority has done very little, if at all, to
stop the fighting."

"It is impossible to continue a peace process as if nothing happened in the
last two or three weeks," he said.

The Israelis and Palestinians had agreed to a ceasefire during an
international summit in Egypt at the beginning of this week, but those on
the ground have shown little interest in ending the conflict that has raged for
three weeks.

The violence came as leaders for both sides expressed hope and frustration
toward stopping the confrontations.

The elapsing of the cooling-off period on Friday -- agreed upon by both sides
at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit and announced Tuesday -- came as Israeli
police in Jerusalem were turning away Muslim men under age 40 from the al-
Aqsa Mosque as they arrived for weekly prayers.

Scuffles broke out as worshippers were blocked from the site -- holy to both
Muslims and Jews -- where riots broke out September 28, eventually leading
to the deaths of more than 100 people, most of them Palestinians.

All eight Palestinians who died were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in
the West Bank.

Earlier, Israeli officials said they hoped the cooling off period that ended
Friday would restore calm to the volatile region.

"I certainly hope ... we will have here more calm and tranquility because it is
our intention, it is our objective, to create the necessary conditions for the
renewal, for the proper atmosphere, for talks with the Palestinians," Israel's
Acting Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami told CNN.

"We expect obviously (Palestinian Authority President Yasser) Arafat and
his political entourage to convey to the Palestinian security system the
appropriate instructions," Ben-Ami said. "The problem here is we are not very
sure that the Palestinian system is an orderly system that operates under
clear-cut instructions."

Palestinian officials told CNN a complete ending of violence was up to the
people.

"From our side I believe the (Palestinian) Authority gave all the orders to stop
any kind of clashes," Palestinian Cabinet Minister Faisal Husseini told CNN.
"But we can implement it if we are talking about the Palestinian official
police, but if we are talking about the people, you can't just control the
people immediately. They must see that there is change on the ground, then
they will start changing also their attitude.

"But the most important thing is the withdrawal of the (Israeli) army from
the sensitive areas didn't happen, the continuation of isolating East
Jerusalem from other parts of the West Bank is still there," Husseini said,

The cease-fire agreement made at the emergency summit in Sharm el-
Sheikh, attended by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Arafat, called for
the Israeli military's withdrawal from certain Palestinian-controlled areas and
the end of Israel's closing of the borders surrounding the West Bank and
Gaza.

Clinton continues peacemaking

U.S. President Bill Clinton made phone calls late Thursday to Arafat and
Barak, urging them to abide by the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement.

Earlier Thursday, two more people were killed in fighting between Israeli
defense forces and Palestinians in the West Bank town of Nablus.

Both sides claim the other started the gunfight, which echoed from the hills
above the city.

One Palestinian and one Israeli were killed, and at least 15 other people
were injured, officials said.

Later, Israeli helicopter gunships evacuated wounded Jewish settlers from a
hillside, firing machine guns as they swooped down and then away.

United Nations inquiry

Meanwhile, Israel on Friday refused to cooperate with a United Nations
inquiry into alleged human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement rejecting a resolution
passed Thursday by the U.N. Human Rights commission, which set up the
inquiry and blamed Israel for "widespread, systematic and gross violation of
human rights" during the three weeks of violence.

The resolution, which described some of Israel's actions as "war crimes,"
passed despite the United States and European nations voting against it.

Sharon considers joining Barak

Also, Ariel Sharon, Israel's opposition Likud Party leader, said on Friday
he was still considering joining Barak's proposed unity government, but only if
it took a tough stance on peacemaking with the Palestinians.

Sharon said he was due to meet Barak to discuss terms for setting up such a
coalition, but he did not say when they would meet.

"The situation is dangerous. Unity strengthens us internally and externally
but I will not join a government without a joint agreement which means finding
a new way of handling the peace process," Sharon said.

The current violence followed a visit September 28 by Sharon to a section of
the Old City in Jerusalem that holds sites sacred to both Jews and Muslims -
- control of which lies at the heart of peace talks. Palestinians viewed the
visit by the hawkish leader as a provocation while Sharon defended it as his
right.

Arab summit preparations

Friday's developments in Israel and the West Bank came as Arab foreign
ministers gathered in Cairo, Egypt, to prepare for this weekend's summit of
Arab leaders.

Iraq urged summit leaders to adopt a clear-cut stance toward the Palestine
cause, saying the target is the liberation of Palestine, Iraqi newspapers
said on Friday.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/10/20/mideast.01/index.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Cybersphere brings Star Trek's holodeck closer to reality
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:17:46 -0400

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 20 OCTOBER 2000
Contact: Dr Vinesh Raja
v.h.raja@warwick.ac.uk
44-0-24-76-523924
University of Warwick

Cybersphere brings Star Trek's holodeck closer to reality

The virtual reality world of Star Trek's Holodeck has been brought a step
closer to reality by the development of a Cybersphere (a collaboration
between University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group and virtual
reality company VR Systems UK).

Virtual environments have been extensively used in planetariums and military
flight simulators where images are projected onto the inside of a large
hemispherical surface or in CAVE systems, whereby images are back-
projected onto walls and the floor of a room. However all of these suffer one
important limitation - i.e. the inability to move around the virtual environment
in a natural way.

Warwick Manufacturing Group researcher Vinesh Raja and VR Systems
Principal Design Engineer Julian Eyre, have found that the Cybersphere can
solve these problems by mounting a large (3.5 metres in diameter), hollow,
translucent sphere on a ring of bearings with an additional low-pressure
cushion of air allowing the sphere to rotate in any direction. The walking
motion of the observer in the centre of the sphere causes it to rotate. The
movement of the large sphere is transferred to a smaller secondary sphere
which is held against the large projection sphere by means of spring loaded
supports. The movement of the smaller sphere is then measured by rotation
sensors, and the signals are used to update the images projected on the
surface of the large sphere allowing the observer to walk, run, or crawl in any
direction.

A number of high power projectors are used in combination to project the
images which combine to provide a fully immersive visual experience for the
observer and gives the illusion of walking freely through the computer
generated environment.

The collaborators are already in discussion with organisations wishing to use
the technology for applications as diverse as computer gaming, military
simulations and manufacturing engineering product and factory design
projects.

A prototype Cybersphere will be one of the new technologies on display
when the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group, launches a
new virtual reality 3D complex on Tuesday 24 October 2000. The complex in
partnership with PTC, and Sun Microsystems will also boast a 3D
visualisation theatre which will employ the largest 3D capable screen ever
installed by virtual reality specialists Trimension.

http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/uw-cbs101900.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Hizbollah Says Pro-Israelis Damaged Its Web Site
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:19:47 -0400

Friday October 20 12:27 PM ET
Hizbollah Says Pro-Israelis Damaged Its Web Site

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group said on Friday its
Web site server crashed earlier this month after being targeted by millions of
hits and hostile e-mails from Israel and the United States.

It said the crash occurred on October 7, the day Hizbollah guerrillas
captured three Israeli soldiers in an ambush at the border in south Lebanon.

``We have names of 8,521 servers mainly in these two countries that have
been hitting our Web site regularly and sending us simultaneously tens of
thousands of hostile e-mails, some of them carrying viruses to sabotage our
server,'' Ali Ayoub, the group's web master, told Reuters.

``This is a well known method used to kill Web sites. This is Israeli
technological warfare.''

Hizbollah's Web site provides detailed information and news on the group's
policies, statements and guerrilla attacks. Hizbollah says the site normally
gets between 100,000 and 300,000 hits a day depending on developments in
the region.

``We noticed that the number of hits on our Web site increased significantly
at the beginning of the month after we started showing live video clips and
information about the killing of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the West
Bank and Gaza,'' Ayoub said.

``The number increased to nine million hits per day, mainly from Israel, the
United States and to a lesser degree from Canada and South Africa. It
became a real e-mail bombing,'' he added.

Ayoub said Hizbollah dealt with the problem by launching seven back-up
sites on different addresses while trying to fix and upgrade the capacity of
the main Web site (www.hizbollah.org) to cope with higher numbers of hits.

Ayoub said the Web site was important for Hizbollah in its campaign against
Israel.

``We will never give up the Internet,'' he said. ``We have successfully used it
in the past when we showed video clips and pictures of the damage caused
by Israeli bombings on Lebanon.''

Hizbollah's war of attrition helped force Israel to pull out its troops from
south Lebanon in May, ending a 22-year occupation.

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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (10/20/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:29:56 -0400

Israeli envoy urges Russian Mideast involvement

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Reuters

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- An envoy sent by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to
Russia was quoted as saying on Friday he had urged President Vladimir
Putin to get more involved in the Middle East peace process. RIA news
agency quoted envoy Roman Bronfman as saying he had brought a message
from Barak to Putin, which stated Israel hoped Moscow would intensify
its efforts as co-sponsor. "Russia can play such a role," Bronfman, a
member of the Knesset, was quoted as saying. Russian news agencies had
earlier said Bronfman had arrived in Moscow to seek Russia's help in
securing the release of four Israelis held captive by Lebanon's
Hizbollah.

Iran leader wants Israel eradicated to end crisis

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Reuters

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on
Friday the Middle East crisis could only be resolved if Israel was
eradicated and called on an upcoming Arab summit to help Palestinians
set up their own state. "The only way to end the crisis in the Middle
East is to dry up its roots. What is at the roots of this crisis? It is
the Zionist regime that has been imposed on the region," Khamenei told
some 100,000 Basij Islamic militia members gathered on the outskirts of
Tehran for military exercises.

Khamenei also called on Arab leaders attending the summit, which opens
in Cairo on Saturday, to help "clean Holy Qods (Jerusalem) of Zionists"
and said those responsible for killing Palestinians in clashes with
Israeli forces should be tried by Arab or Islamic courts. "Decisions
made by the Arab leaders" summit will be judged by history," Khamenei
told the paramilitary volunteers, who waved Palestinian flags and voiced
their readiness to join the fight against Israel. Chants of "Ready,
Leader, we are ready" and "Death to Israel" rippled through the crowd,
which included rows of women militia members wearing traditional Islamic
black veils.

Hezbollah asks Arab leaders to open borders with Israel for
''resistance''

Weekend News Today
Source: AFP

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah called Friday
on Arab leaders at their upcoming summit to supply arms to the
Palestinians and open up borders with Israel for those willing to join
the "holy war" against the Jewish state. "They should adopt decisive
measures for breaking diplomatic, economic and media relations and stop
all kinds of normalisation," the Shiite fundamentalist group said in a
statement.

"The choice of the popular armed resistance has proved that the enemy
only understands the language of force and war," Hezbollah said.
"Negotiations and settlements are a sterile choice which only ...
divides the Arab people and their leaders and subjects them to the
hegemony of the powerful forces, chiefly the United States, which is the
prime backer of the enemy entity and its massacres of Palestinians and
Lebanese," it said. The summit Saturday and Sunday in Cairo "is a
historic chance for Arab presidents and kings to fill the gap between
them and their people by adopting decisions in line with the demands of
the Arab."

Arafat's orders ignored by Fatah supporters

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Middle East Newsline

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is being
defied by gunmen from his Fatah party as well as by security chiefs. PA
sources said Arafat feels he is losing his grip over his security forces
and plans to replace several leading officials. They said Arafat feels
that the security chiefs have defied his orders to ensure their
popularity with Fatah and Islamic militants. Fatah gunmen ignored orders
to end attacks against Israel, including the siege against Jewish
settlers outside Nablus, which lasted late Thursday. Fatah gunmen
attacked an Israeli bus that contained 37 tourists on Mount Ebal.

US sells half the world's arms exports

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: The Guardian

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- The west's three permanent members of the UN Security
Council account for 80% of the world's weapons sales at a time when it
is incapable of mounting effective peacekeeping operations, according to
a report published yesterday by a London-based thinktank.

Britain came second, selling nearly �7bn worth of weapons, while France
was third at almost �4.6bn.

Much of these weapons systems were supplied to the Middle East, the
world's biggest arms market. Saudi Arabia, the world's largest arms
buyer, purchased more than �4bn worth of weapons last year.

UN human rights expert reports ''alarming'' levels of religious
intolerance

Weekend News Today
Source: UN NEWS SERVICE

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- A United Nations expert monitoring religious
intolerance has found "alarming" levels of discrimination worldwide,
according to his latest report, issued today at UN Headquarters in New
York. The report of Abdelfattah Amor, Special Rapporteur of the UN
Commission on Human Rights, examines how the process of worldwide
economic integration is exacerbating problems associated with religion.

"Globalization clearly poses a challenge: we must ensure that its
benefits are not confined to the rich of the developed countries and the
elites of any country, so that excluded population groups will not be
tempted by, or fall victim to, extremism, intolerance and
discrimination," Mr. Amor writes. He notes that inequality can prompt
marginalized groups to seek refuge in religion, and points out that
"religion can be abused for extremist ends."

Jimmy Carter renounces Southern Baptist Convention

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: VIRTUAL NEW YORK

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- Former President Jimmy Carter, the son of a Southern
Baptist Sunday school teacher, has disassociated himself from the
nation's largest Protestant denomination and criticized its
"increasingly rigid creed."

"I have finally decided that, after 65 years, I can no longer be
associated with the Southern Baptist Convention," the 76-year-old former
president said in a letter mailed to 75,000 Baptists nationwide on
Thursday by a group of moderate Texas Baptists. Carter said the Southern
Baptist Convention, which has almost 16 million members, has adopted
policies "that violate the basic premises of my Christian faith,"
including a denominational statement that prohibits women from being
pastors and tells wives to be submissive to their husbands.

He said the "most disturbing" reason he and his wife decided to
disassociate themselves from the Southern Baptist Convention was the
elimination of language in June that identifies Jesus Christ as "the
criterion by which the Bible is to be interpreted."

Research results forecast another wave of exorcisms

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: UniSci

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- Some people who don't believe in demonic possession
can be convinced they witnessed one as a child, study shows. Couple the
re- release of "The Exorcist" and the upcoming Halloween broadcast of
"Possessed," a TV documentary about a purported exorcism in a mental
hospital, and you've got a prescription for a sudden jump in the number
of reported demonic possessions.

"Quite a number of people who watch these exorcism films will be
affected and develop symptoms of hysteria. These films will be a
full-employment bill for exorcists," said Elizabeth Loftus, a University
of Washington psychologist and memory expert.

Hand transplant amputation sought

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: USA Today

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- Clint Hallam, the man who underwent the world's first
hand transplant, says he wants the limb amputated because his medical
progress has not lived up to expectations.

''I've become mentally detached from it,'' the New Zealander said in an
interview Friday with British newspaper The Times. ''As it began to be
rejected, I realized that it wasn't my hand after all. If this is what
I'm going to have for the rest of my life, I'd rather not have it.''
Hallam was serving a two- year jail sentence for fraud when he lost his
hand in a chain saw accident. A team of surgeons in Lyon, France,
grafted another hand onto his forearm two years ago in an operation that
made medical history. Hallam has infuriated the medical team by
regularly losing contact with them and refusing to follow essential drug
treatment. He says the surgeons have refused to amputate.

Hallam said he is writing a book about his hand transplant experience to
warn others of the pitfalls. He has only one title in mind: ''Wasted
Days and Wasted Nights.''

New vaccine 'may halt AIDS'

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: BBC NEWS

Fri Oct 20,2000 -- Research in monkeys suggests that a vaccine may be
able to stop people infected with HIV going on to develop AIDS. While
the jab was not able to stop the monkeys being infected in the first
place, it strengthened their immune response to fight the virus.

If the results can be reproduced in humans, then it could be of
particular benefit in countries where antiretroviral treatments are not
widely available, as it could greatly reduce the chance of the infection
being spread.

It's important to note that this vaccine does not prevent infection with
HIV and is not a cure.

http://216.219.160.226/cgi-
bin/readnews.cgi?day=00_10_20&item=#972065622

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Subject: [BPR] - Senators warn computers could aid China's military
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:33:38 -0400

Friday, October 20 4:45 AM SGT

Senators warn computers could aid China's military

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (AFP) -

The US Senate has named 50 Chinese firms it warns may use "super
computers" bought from US companies to develop missiles and hi-tech
weapons before selling them to American adversaries.

In a letter to President Bill Clinton, Democratic Senator Russell Feingold and
Republican Senator Jesse Helms, both of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, said the firms were all active in developing nuclear, chemical or
biological weapons.

"We enclose the names of 50 firms that are well-known parts of China's
nuclear, missile and military complex," the letter said.

The senators want the White House to include the firms on a list of high-risk
potential customers of computer technology that is made available to the US
hi-tech industry.

"We are confident that American companies do not want their reputations
damaged by inadvertent sales of computers to China's weapons
manufacturers," the senators wrote.

The US government said in August that it was easing controls on foreign
sales of advanced computers to certain states, a move criticised by the
senators.

"The new controls drop any distinction between military and civilian
customers, thereby allowing powerful American computers to be purchased
directly by foreign entities building weapons of mass destruction," they said.

Feingold and Helms said a current government warning list of Chinese firms
has only six names.

The 50 firms named satisfy the requirements for inclusion on the government
list, they said.

"They are either 'involved in proliferation activities' or present 'an unacceptable
risk of diversion to developing weapons of mass destruction or the missiles
used to deliver those weapons,'" they wrote.

The letter, dated October 6, was published as the Washington Post reported
that a new review of Chinese documents passed on by a defector had led US
intelligence agencies to conclude that China had gathered more information
on US missile technology than on nuclear weapons secrets.

The findings represent a shift in a US investigation which had previously been
tailored to the belief that Beijing had amassed vast amounts of data on the
US nuclear program -- a probe which narrowed in on now-freed Taiwan-born
nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee.

China typically reacts angrily to any suggestions it or its firms are funneling
hi-tech arms around the world.

A CIA report released in August claimed that Chinese suppliers had stepped
up support for Pakistan's missile program and had passed ballistic materials
to US adversaries North Korea, Libya and Iran.

http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/afp/article.html?s=asia/headli
nes/001020/asia/afp/Senators_warn_computers_could_aid_China_s_military.
html

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Subject: [BPR] - EU wants milder UN resolution on Mideast violence
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:41:14 -0400

October 20, 2000

EU wants milder UN resolution on Mideast violence

Reuters

UNITED NATIONS - The European Union tried to soften a UN General
Assembly draft resolution condemning Israel for excessive use of force
against Palestinians ahead of Friday's scheduled debate. The resolution,
which the United States opposes, is expected to be adopted at the end of a
special emergency session of the 189-member assembly that began
Wednesday and resumes late Friday with a briefing by Secretary-General
Kofi Annan followed by some 40 speeches.

Annan returned to UN headquarters from the summit in Sharm al-Sheikhh on
Thursday after helping to broker the agreement between Prime Minister Ehud
Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat aimed at halting
violence. He appealed to all sides for restraint.

"I am glad that they are engaged," he said in reference to the General
Assembly. "But we should all take the necessary steps and pool our
collective effort to calm the situation. And I hope that is what will happen."

"Whether we like it or not, in the end there has to be peace. They have to
talk to each other. They have to live together. They are condemned to be
neighbors," Annan told reporters.

http://www2.haaretz.co.il/breaking-news/peace_process/331828.asp

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Subject: [BPR] - Archimedes' Work Translated
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:42:39 -0400

Friday October 13 3:13 PM ET
Archimedes' Work Translated

BALTIMORE (AP) - Using modern technology to unlock ancient secrets,
scientists have deciphered five pages of the only known copy of a
2,300-year-old Greek text by the mathematician Archimedes.

The scientists hope to complete a translation of the 174-page treatise, ``On
Floating Bodies,'' by next September.

Scholars believe the treatise was copied by a scribe in the 10th century from
Archimedes' original Greek scrolls, written in the third century B.C.

It was erased about 200 years later by a monk who reused the parchment for
a prayer book, creating a twice-used parchment book known as a
``palimpsest.'' In the 12th century, parchment - scraped and dried animal
skins - was rare and costly, and Archimedes' works were in less demand.

Two teams of scientists, from Hopkins and the Rochester Institute of
Technology, are using digital cameras and processing techniques as well as
ultraviolet and infrared filters developed for medicine and space research to
reveal the hidden text.

The Hopkins team used ``hyperspectral imaging,'' recovering images of the
old Greek text by bombarding it with ultraviolet light, causing the parchment
to fluoresce in spots where the vanished 10th-century ink had altered its
chemistry.

``This is cutting-edge science for historically and culturally valuable
documents,'' said William Christens-Barry, a physicist at the Hopkins School
of Medicine.

The manuscript is the only copy in the original Greek of Archimedes' theory
of flotation of bodies. The text and diagrams also contain the roots of modern
calculus and gravitational theory.

The two teams have been working on the so-called Archimedes Palimpsest
since January in a competition to determine who will analyze the rest of the
manuscript. A decision will be made by the end of the year.

An anonymous buyer purchased it at a 1998 auction for $2 million, and
entrusted it to a Baltimore gallery.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001013/us/archimedes__words_1.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Technology promises glowing books
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:48:45 -0400

              Monday, 16 October, 2000, 16:10 GMT
              Technology promises
              glowing books

              Road signs that illuminate themselves and
              books that glow so they can be read easily in
              a dingy room are just two applications of a
              new smart plastic developed at Napier
              University, Edinburgh, UK.

              Professor Janos Hajto has combined
              fluorescent molecules into a polymer that will
              amplify any ambient light by up to 30%.

              If the plastic was incorporated into a book's
              pages, for example, the reader could follow the
              text in the dimmest of conditions.

              "The applications are limitless," Professor Hajto
              told the BBC. "You can make a full-colour
              display for computers, for videos and for
              advertisements because you can collect this
              light without electricity."

              Researchers worldwide are racing to develop
              new display technologies, especially those that
              exploit the low cost and ease of manufacture
              of plastics. Scientists predict a flood of new
              products, including TV screens that can be
              printed on clothing or rolled up and put in a
              pocket.

              Professor Hajto has embedded a fluorescent
              dye in a polymer to make optical fibres which
              will channel light in one direction.

              "Light goes into the fibres and is absorbed by
              the dye molecules," he said. "They re-emit the
              light (they fluoresce), but because they are in
              the fibres the light cannot escape and is
              directed to the ends of the fibres. The longer
              the fibre, the more light you collect.

              "We have shown that you can make the light
              at the end of the fibre 30% brighter than the
              surrounding light."

              Professor Hajto said the technology varied with
              ambient conditions to maintain the contrast.
              He said a road sign made with the new
              material, for example, would be 30% brighter
              whether it was viewed at dusk or at midday.

              The importance of plastics in the emerging
              visual display technologies was recognised last
              week by the Nobel Foundation in Sweden. It
              awarded its prestigious chemistry prize to the
              three men who first demonstrated how plastics
              could be modified to conduct electricity.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_975000/975271.stm

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