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Subject: [BPR] - France agrees to UN oversight of Mount
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:40:19 -0400

[Please keep in mind that the UN Security Council last week was talking of
adding 5 new permanent members to the 5 they already have making
whomever has control of the Temple Mount being a conglomerate of 10
nations if this passes. This has got to be in the running for the 10 headed
beast of Revelation.--Moza]

Tuesday, September 19, 2000

France agrees to UN oversight of Mount

                  By Aluf Benn and Amira Hass
                  Ha'aretz Correspondents

France has indicated its readiness to take part in an American initiative to
transfer sovereignty over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to the supervision of
the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. This
follows contacts held between Paris and Washington in which the
administration tried to get the French to help advance Israeli-Palestinian
negotiations over the thorny Jerusalem question.

In the meantime, Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday
again blamed Israel for the crisis in the negotiations, claiming Israel had
reneged on agreements reached between the sides. "The Palestinian people
support peace, but not peace at any price," Arafat stated over the Voice of
Palestine radio, in a speech marking the eighteenth anniversary of the
massacre of Palestinians by Christian militiamen at the Sabra and Shatilla
refugee camps in Lebanon.

French President Jacques Chirac will meet today in Paris with Acting
Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami to discuss French ideas on how to get the
peace talks back on track and other developments in the region.

U.S. President Bill Clinton will hold discussions tomorrow with his aides on
how to proceed in the peace process. The group will try to decide whether to
submit an American bridging paper that will sum up the positions of both
sides and suggest solutions, or to continue accompanying the direct talks
between the sides and send peace envoy Dennis Ross back to the region.

Talks between Israel's Gilad Sher and the Palestinians' Saeb Erekat
resumed on Sunday in Israel, but no progress was made, according to a
political source in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Ehud Barak told the cabinet
yesterday after hearing Sher's report that "despite the continuation of the
contacts, there has been no noteworthy progress and no movement is visible
in the position of the Palestinians, so it continues to remain unclear whether
we have a partner for peace."

The second-ranking figure in the Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud
Abbas (Abu Mazen), said yesterday in a Voice of Palestine interview that
Jerusalem is not the only obstacle to peace and that all the other issues on
the agenda must also be resolved.

He stated that the Palestinians' demand was not only for sovereignty at the
holy places but over all of East Jerusalem - the area Israel captured in the
1967 war and then annexed. Israel, he said, had rejected the idea of having
sovereignty at Haram al-Sharif - "the Noble Sanctuary," as the Palestinians
call the Temple Mount - accrue to the Jerusalem Committee of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference.

http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=14&datee=09/19/00&
id=93578

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Subject: [BPR] - U.S. urges U.N. to set up war crimes trial for Saddam Hussein
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:51:16 -0400

U.S. urges U.N. to set up war crimes trial for Saddam Hussein

September 18, 2000
Web posted at: 8:59 p.m. EDT (0059 GMT)

WASHINGTON -- At the same time that the Clinton administration is pressing for the creation of a special war crimes tribunal to try Saddam Hussein for past behavior, top U.S. officials are warning the Iraqi leader not to make new threats against his neighbors or his own people.

During a speech Monday, the U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes issues, David J. Scheffer, urged the United Nations to set up an international court to put the Iraqi leader on trial.

"It is beyond any possible doubt that Saddam Hussein and the top leadership around him have brutally and systematically committed war crimes and crimes against humanity for years," Scheffer said at the National Press Club.

Scheffer said:

• Approximately 5,000 Iranians were killed by chemical weapons between 1983 and 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war

• An estimated 5,000 Kurdish civilians died from chemical weapons in the Iraqi town of Halabja in 1988

• Poison gas killed an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Kurds in Iraq in 1987-1988

• More than 1,000 Kuwaitis and nationals from other countries were killed during Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990-91

• Many civilians were among the 30,000 to 60,000 Iraqis killed by Iraqi forces while suppressing an uprising that began in the south of the country in 1991, after the end of the Persian Gulf War

• Draining of the country's southern marshes beginning in the early 1990s deprived thousands of Iraqi Shiites of their livelihoods

Cohen issues warning

Scheffer quoted a list of 12 Iraqis drawn up by the British-based INDICT campaign of those who share with Hussein "the responsibility for these criminal acts."

The list included Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid -- labeled "Chemical Ali" by the Iraqi opposition for his alleged use of chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians and a southern Shiite uprising -- and Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay.

Scheffer's remarks coincided with international concern over Baghdad's intentions after Iraq renewed allegations that neighboring Kuwait was stealing Iraq's oil, and reports emerged that an Iraqi military plane had this month intruded into Saudi air space.

In recent days, top officials at the White House, State Department and Pentagon have issued stern warnings to Hussein. The Pentagon has even drawn up contingency plans for air strikes in case the Iraqi leader makes a false move in the next few months.

U.S. officials said history shows the American presidential election season is traditionally a time that Hussein spoils for a fight.

"I think that he should understand that the United States and our British friends are fully prepared to take whatever action is necessary to prevent him from trying to repeat his past actions," U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen said over the weekend.

Pentagon updates contingency plans

The public warnings come as the U.S. worries Iraq might move troops and tanks against the Iranian-backed Kurds in the north, as it did four years ago, which, like now, was just months before a U.S. presidential election.

"So far, we have not seen an indication that is out of character of the sort of activity that you would see this time of year in conjunction with their normal training cycle," Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. Craig Quigley said last week. "We'll continue to watch very carefully,"

U.S. officials tell CNN that, just in case, U.S. commanders have updated contingency plans for three days of punishing air strikes, if Saddam Hussein crosses any "red lines."

"If there are attacks or provocations against the Kurds in the north; if there are threats against the neighbors and against our forces; or a reconstitution of the weapons of mass destruction -- we do have a credible force in the region and are prepared to use it in an appropriate way and a place of our choosing," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said.

Some additional U.S. troops, including a Patriot missile battery in Europe, have been put on alert for possible quick deployment.

But the Pentagon insists it doesn't need reinforcements to handle Iraq, that it has plenty of firepower in the region, including the USS George Washington aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf.

CNN Military Affairs Correspondent Jamie McIntyre, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/09/18/us.iraq.tensions/index.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Who's testing our genes - and why?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:56:00 -0400

Who's testing our genes - and why?

Health warning: As DNA screening takes hold, Americans find it can leave
them unemployed and uninsured

Special report: the ethics of genetics

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday September 19, 2000

The US equal employment opportunities commissioner, Paul Miller, has
called for tougher safeguards for workers against genetic discrimination after
it emerged that hundreds of people have already lost their jobs or insurance
protection as a direct result of advances in genetic screening. "Just as it is
illegal to refuse to hire an individual because of their race or gender, it should
be illegal to make job decisions based solely upon genetic information
without considering that person's ability to do the work," Mr Miller wrote in an
article in the University of Maryland's Journal of Health Care Law & Policy.

"It is simply bad science for an employer to use the presence of a predictive
genetic trait or marker to make workplace decisions, because those traits
cannot predict how well that person will succeed in the workplace."

Civil rights activists are growing concerned that if such Orwellian practices
develop at the same pace as the race to decipher the human blueprint they
could create a "genetic underclass" considered unemployable because of
the chemical codes they carry inside them.

'Flaws' cost jobs

In a recent survey carried out by the Shriver centre for public health in
Massachusetts, doctors and genetic testing centres reported 582 cases of
people who were turned down for jobs or health insurance because of "flaws"
discovered in their genes.

Another watchdog organisation, the Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG),
says it has documented more than 200 cases of genetic discrimination by
employers.

Researchers believe these figures are the tip of an iceberg. In most cases
the corporations involved are not keen to publicise their practices, and nor
are the victims, anxious to avoid further stigmatisation. In the cases cited by
the genetics council the victims are not referred to by their full names.

They include Kim, a social worker, who mentioned at a staff workshop that
her mother had died of Huntington's disease, giving her a 50% chance of
developing the potentially fatal genetic condition. A week later she was
dismissed.

In another case a 40-year-old woman with an exemplary employment record
agreed to take part in a genetic research survey and tested positive for
BRAC1, a gene linked to some breast and ovarian cancers. Despite having
preventive surgery she lost her health insurance and then her job.

Mr Miller is calling for new federal legislation to close the legal loopholes that
allow employers and insurance companies to gain access to genetic
information on prospective employees and use that information in hiring and
firing.

An attempt to get Congress to pass an anti-discrimination law - led by the
Democratic leader in the Senate, Tom Daschle - has been blocked by the
opposition of the insurance industry and the corporate lobby in Washington.

Watching the bill being shelved until next year at the earliest, the senator
warned: "We simply cannot afford to take one step forward in science while
taking two steps backwards in civil rights."

The scientists leading the race to decode the human genome - like the
physicists before them who first split the atom - also know the dangers that
are inherent in their mission.

As the first draft of the human genome map was unveiled to a great fanfare in
June one of its principal authors, Francis Collins, director of National Human
Genome Research Institute, said: "Already, with but a handful of genetic
tests in common use, people have lost their jobs, lost their health insurance
and lost their economic well-being due to the unfair and inappropriate use of
genetic information."

Records unprotected

Recent research has found that the fear of future discrimination can be as
damaging as discrimination itself, as people forgo screening for potentially
treatable conditions for fear the information will be used against them in the
future.

A study by Georgetown University in Washington found that fear of
discrimination has led one in 10 people at risk deciding against testing for
genetic traits linked to cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, colon cancer
and other conditions with a hereditary link.

The US department of labour has found that many women are avoiding breast
cancer screening because they believe a positive finding would go on their
medical records and become available to employers or insurers.

Their fears are justified in an unregulated market, where medical data are
often treated as a tradable commodity, bought and sold by medical centres
and insurance companies. In the words of one executive at a medical data
company: "There are more controls over the disclosure of your video rentals
than your medical records."

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,370119,00.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Is a headless human possible?
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:59:58 -0400

Is a headless human possible?

September 18 2000 at 09:45AM

People can obviously live with missing arms, legs, kidney, lung, gall bladder,
eyes, ears, nose, and much more. But wouldn't a headless human be
impossible?

If you think so, you haven't been tracking the breathtaking breakthroughs of
genetic engineering, where cloning of Dolly the sheep and creation of a
headless frog embryo prompted Dr Patrick Dixon, author of The Genetic
Revolution, to forecast cloned colonies of headless humans kept as spare
part factories in the future.

Given its technical feasibility, there will be enormous economic pressure
for this to happen, Dixon told the British Press Association. It will
probably occur in countries where there is little or no gene legislation.

Already the world has "Miracle Mike", the headless chicken of the 1940s, as
an example. Earmarked for supper, the Colorado rooster met a bizarre fate
when a poorly aimed hatchet took off his head but left neck and brain stem
intact - enough to keep Mike's body strutting about for a couple of years, fed
via an eyedropper through the open hole of his oesophagus.

Life magazine ran a photo of him amidst his barnyard brethren, captioned:
"Chickens do not avoid Mike who, however, has shown no tendency to mate."

http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?click_id=187&art_id=iol969263138
160S365

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Subject: [BPR] - Sept 19, 2000 TV Programs
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:27:36 -0400

10:00 PM Eastern

 CNN - CNN NEWSSTAND - Demand for DNA testing creates
   a backlog in the nation's laboratories.(CC)

 HIST - DISASTER TECHNOLOGY - Technological tools help
   science mitigate nature's fury.(CC)(TVG)

 TLC - ANCIENT AUTOPSIES - Deadly diseases are becoming
   resistant to antibiotics.(CC)(TVG)

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Subject: [BPR] - Asteroids could shut down Earth
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:52:40 -0500

Asteroids could shut down Earth

http://www.the-times.co.uk/ 9/19/2000
BY MARK HENDERSON SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT

URGENT international action is needed to reduce the risk of a large asteroid striking Earth, a government panel of experts said yesterday. The danger of a catastrophic impact is so great that any private company incurring comparable risks would fail British safety standards, the Near Earth Objects Task Force said.

A collision with even a medium-sized asteroid would put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk from the initial energy blast, tidal waves and a "nuclear winter" effect, the task force found. At worst, the impact could destroy human life on earth: a similar event 65 million years ago is believed to have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

International co-operation to track potentially hazardous asteroids and comets, and research into ways of deflecting them from Earth, is the only answer to the threat, the report concluded. Britain should take the lead in the construction of a powerful new telescope as a key component of a "spaceguard" early warning system, it advised.

The panel, which was chaired by Harry Atkinson, a former chairman of the European Space Agency, was set up in January by Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the Science Minister. Other members were Sir Crispin Tickell, a former British Ambassador to the United Nations, and David Williams, Professor of Astronomy at University College London.

Lord Sainsbury is expected to respond to the findings by the end of the year. Estimates of the total cost of the recommendations range from £15 million to £70 million.

The report was "a sober and scientific assessment of perhaps one of the most important subjects for the human race", Dr Atkinson said. None of the asteroids and comets that are known to astronomers will present a threat to the Earth within the next 50 years, but new objects are being discovered every day, leaving Earth at a definite risk.

The probability of a devastating collision is low, he said, but the effects of a medium-sized asteroid made present levels of risk "intolerable".

An asteroid 0.6 miles across, which strikes Earth every 100,000 to 200,000 years, would explode with a force 65,000 times as powerful as a hydrogen bomb, causing a "nuclear winter" effect and killing up to 1.5 billion people.

Smaller objects, which strike at an interval of 70,000 years, could kill as many as 500,000 people, depending on the place of impact. The effects would be worse if such an object were to land in the ocean: one impact, south west of Chile 2.15 million years ago, generated a tsunami 229ft high that had reached Japan within 20 hours.

Under the panel's recommendations, a 9ft telescope would be built in the southern hemisphere in partnership with other countries to search for medium-sized objects to complement a Nasa initiative.

A second European telescope should then be dedicated to tracking the orbits of objects found by both projects.

A national centre should also be established to co-ordinate British research into near earth objects, the report said.

Lembit Opik, the Liberal Democrat MP who has campaigned for action to counter the threat from asteroids, urged swift implementation of the recommendations.

"This is not science fiction, it's science fact," he said. "The risk of dying from an asteroid impact is 750 times higher than the chance of winning the National Lottery. I'm determined to change that."

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Subject: [BPR] - Real World News - 09/19/00
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Selected items from...

REAL WORLD NEWS 09/19/2000

Visit Real World News online at http://www.realworldnews.net

IRAQI PRESS PREDICTS WAR WITH U.S.
A week after Iraq made threatening gestures to Kuwait, the Iraqi
press Monday predicted a U.S. attack, another sign of the tension
that pushed gas prices to post-Gulf War highs. The Iraqi press
charged Monday that Washington was preparing an attack on Iraq, the
influential newspaper Babel saying "The American administration is
planning a new aggression against Iraq, relying on its failing actors
in the region, the rulers of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia."
http://cbsnews.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,233586-412,00.shtml

WEST NILE OUTBREAK WORSENS IN ISRAEL, U.S. WORRIED
Ten people have died and more than 120 have been infected with West
Nile virus in an outbreak in Israel, a researcher said on Sunday.
U.S. health officials are watching with worry as more and more birds
become infected. The virus, which can lead to paralysis and even
death in susceptible people, seems to be becoming entrenched, the
officials told a meeting of infectious disease experts.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000917/sc/health_westnile_dc_1.html

BEILIN: MOUNT SHOULD HAVE STATUS LIKE EMBASSY
As Prime Minister Ehud Barak rejected the idea of Islamic sovereignty
over the Temple Mount at yesterday's cabinet meeting, Justice
Minister Yossi Beilin, in an interview with The Jerusalem Post,
raised anew an idea first hinted at in the 1995 "Beilin-Abu Mazen"
plan: extra-territorial status for the sacred site. Under this plan,
said Beilin, the mount would have a legal status similar to an
embassy's. "For the last 52 years, no one has entered [an embassy]
without permission," Beilin said. "It is theoretically on Israeli
soil, but only an emergency of the highest level would warrant
Israeli intervention there."
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/09/19/News/News.12468.html

ISRAEL, PA LOSING INCENTIVE TO COMPROMISE
Judging from the tone and substance of their public discourse,
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are increasingly adrift, as the
parties appear to have little drive to wrap up an agreement anytime
soon. The Palestinians are now focused on preparing the groundwork
for statehood, which could come as early as November 15, and have
stepped up anti-Israel rioting in Gaza and released prisoners
involved in terrorism in recent days.
http://www.virtualholyland.com/channels/israel_n/icej.htm

PROTESTERS DECRY HIGH FUEL PRICES IN SPAIN, SWEDEN
Angry truckers and farmers in Sweden and Spain blocked transit to
harbors, rail terminals and fuel depots to protest high fuel prices
on Tuesday, while Spanish fishermen called off a protest that had
blocked the entrance to the port of Barcelona for a day. Protests
were expected to intensify Tuesday in Spain, with demonstrations in
34 provinces of the country, including a tractor strike through
Madrid, which could paralyze the Spanish capital.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/091900/fuel_protests.sml

EUROPE-WIDE FUEL PROTEST SPREADS TO MIDDLE EAST
Farmers, truckers and fishermen launched fuel protests from the North
Sea to the Mediterranean Tuesday with crude oil prices close to
10-year highs. The European demonstrations spread to the Middle East,
where Israeli truckers mounted a "go-slow'' along the main
north-south road linking the ports of Haifa and Ashdod. Crude
prices saw 10-year peaks Monday, a level not seen since Iraq's 1990
invasion of Kuwait. Tuesday November Brent dipped 19 cents to trade
at $36.69. http://www.foxnews.com/national/0919/d_rt_0919_10.sml

SURGING OIL PRICES HIT STOCKS AND EURO
Economic uncertainty rippled through world markets Monday, deflating
global stock prices and driving the euro to a new low. The main
culprit appeared to be the price of oil, which climbed to a 10-year
high. Stock markets from Frankfurt to Hong Kong to New York suffered
as fears escalated that high oil prices would crimp corporate
earnings and reignite inflation. Crude oil surged to $36.88 a barrel
in late trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up 96 cents, as
tensions heightened between Iraq and Kuwait, raising concern of a
possible disruption of output from the Gulf region.
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/TUE/FPAGE/amart.2.html

AIDES CONCEDE GORE MADE UP PRESCRIPTION STORY
Vice President Al Gore's indignant tale of a prescription drug
costing more for his mother-in-law than for his dog came back to bite
him yesterday when aides said the story was made up. Mr. Gore, who
told the anecdote in Florida to illustrate the need for his $253
billion drug plan for seniors, fabricated the cost of the drug
itself, the comparative doses for his pet and for Tipper's mom, and
his family's bills for them.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-2000919232831.htm

GORE HAS SUPPORT OF ADULT-ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
They say their support is fervent - but unwanted. Nevertheless,
several thousand members of the Internet adult entertainment industry
are expected to endorse Al Gore for president during "IA2000," an
upcoming trade show in New Orleans. Mr. Gore and the Democratic Party
are the first order of business when the convention opens Friday
morning. A forum called "Adult Community Meeting: Vote Democratic!"
is planned to address the group's political concerns, particularly
the November elections.
http://washtimes.com/national/default-200091922267.htm

GLIMPSE OF 'GOD PARTICLE' REPORTED
Officials at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, the giant
European atom-smasher center outside Geneva, have decided to delay
the start of construction on the $6 billion Large Hadron Collider -
to be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built - because
scientists there may already have observed one of the phantom objects
the new project was designed to find. That entity is so important
that a Nobel physics laureate, Leon Lederman, calls it ''the God
particle.'' It lies at the heart of one of the most important
mysteries of modern science: What mechanism in nature confers the
property of mass on all the stuff in the universe?
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/TUE/IN/cern.2.html

ROME DEBATES HOW TO ADDRESS THE DEVIL
Italian bishops meeting in Turin this week will be grappling with a
tricky linguistic question; how to address the Devil. The Italian
Bishops Conference will be considering how to implement changes to
the official exorcism rite, approved last year by the Vatican. For
centuries Roman Catholic priests have used the classic Latin formula
Vade retro Satanas to drive out the Devil. Now, like the Latin Mass
before it, the phrase is being pensioned off in favour of invocations
in the local language.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-09/italian170900.s
ht ml

PAGANS' SPIRITUAL UMBRELLA OPENS WIDE
The bumper sticker on the sedan parked in front of Suzanne and Duke
Egbert's house declares, "We Are Everywhere." "We" refers to
contemporary pagans, whose spiritual paths lead them to regard nature
as divinely charged. To raise the public profile of pagans - and try
to gain them broader acceptance - the Egberts and others have
established Pagan Pride Day, to be celebrated with events in cities
in the United States and Canada timed to coincide roughly with the
autumn equinox, on Friday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/19/national/19PAGA.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Israel blocks Muslim building at Temple Mount
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:50:56 -0400

Israel blocks Muslim building at Temple Mount

Tuesday, 19 September 2000 13:39 (ET)

Israel blocks Muslim building at Temple Mount
By JOSHUA BRILLIANT

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 19 (UPI) - Israeli police have been preventing Muslim-commissioned trucks from delivering building materials to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, which is known as Haram e-Sharif in the Islamic world.

The mount contains buried remains of the first and second Jewish temples and is topped by the Islamic Mosque of al-Aksa.

Adnan Husseni, the director of the Islamic Wakf (trust), which runs the site in Jerusalem, told United Press International that in the past five days, policemen had prevented trucks from entering the compound. The policemen stop the trucks at the entrance to a short road leading to the Old City's Lions Gate, the only gate through which vehicles can enter the holy compound.

Husseni said the policemen had "stopped allowing in trucks with all kinds of materials -- tiles, cement, some other things" for works in the yard and infrastructure.

This is "the power of occupation," he said.

If the Israelis don't return to their senses, "we (will) have to stop using our mind," he said.

Asked what he meant by that, he said: "I don't know. You can understand."

Jerusalem Police Spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby confirmed that the police were blocking the trucks' entry.

"We are waiting for directives from the political echelon," he said.

Asked to explain the reasons for the blockade, an official in the prime minister's spokesman's office told UPI to ask the Ministry for Internal Security and the Minister for Jerusalem Affairs.

A spokeswoman for the Internal Security Ministry said it did not decide on the move but was just following instructions -- apparently from the Ministerial Security Committee -- and that the questions should be posed to the prime minister's office.

The spokeswoman for the Minister for Jerusalem Affairs did not respond.

The Jews revere the Temple Mount and consider it so holy that they do not allow anyone to even set foot there. The Muslims say it is their third holiest after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia; the believe the Prophet Mohammed had ascended from it to visit heaven.

Both Israelis and Palestinians want sovereignty there.

Israelis have complained about what they call illegal Muslim digging at the site and the dumping of sand and archaeological treasures in a nearby valley.

Husseni, the director of the Islamic Wakf, said those works ended two years ago.

--Copyright 2000 by United Press International. All rights reserved.

http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=119385

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:06:59 -0400

Barak Calls For A Time Out From Oslo Process

Prime Minister/Defense Minister Ehud Barak has announced Israel will be
taking a ‘time out“ from the Oslo process, ordering the cancelation of a
planned Tuesday meeting between Gilead Sher and Saeb Erekat. Barak has
also postponed other meetings for later this week without giving a date
for a resumption of talks.

Sources in the Prime Minister“s Office have indicated that the break in
the talks is the result of the PLO Authority“s (PA) unwillingness to make
any concessions on key issues which resulted in the current deadlock. The
Prime Minister“s Office seems to indicate the postponement was only for a
matter of days, to permit the government to evaluate the situation.

PA Chairman Yassir Arafat and senior PA officials have stated there no
longer seems to be a peace partner, indicating Barak has opted to deal
with domestic issues and place the Oslo process on hold.

“It is obvious now that Mr. Barak is working very hard… He is working on
pressing domestic issues,” Erekat told CNN.

PA officials are not wasting time placing the entire blame for the latest
crisis on Israel, ignoring the reality that it remains tenacious in its
position, not willing to make any compromise on issues concerning
Jerusalem. Israel Wire

PA: Talks Suspended By Israeli Negotiators

Senior PLO Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat reported that Israel has
suspended talks indefinitely. Erekat told reporters that Israeli
negotiator Gilead Sher informed him that planned meetings for this week
would not take place and he could not tell him when negotiations would
resume. PA officials insist that the latest crisis in the Oslo
process rest entirely on the shoulders of Israel. Israel Wire

Russian Plane Takes 120 European Figures To Iraq

A group of 120 European figures, comprising businessmen and members of the
European parliament, will go to Baghdad this September 29 on a Russian
flight, reports the Russian media. Russian air company Vnoukovo has
accepted to lend the plane to the delegation despite the UN 10-year long
embargo on Iraq. The delegation will take part in Iraq in a conference on
the 10th anniversary of the enforcement of UN sanctions on the gulf
country. Last Sunday, a Russian plane carrying an economic delegation had
landed in Iraq in defiance of the UN sanctions. Arabic News

Russia Seeks Active Role In Middle East Peace Talks

Russia seeks an active role in efforts to resurrect peace talks between
Israel and the Palestinians, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in
comments released here on Sunday. Moscow, "as a co-sponsor, has stepped up
its efforts to promote the peace process in the past month," Ivanov was
quoted as saying in a foreign ministry statement.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian diplomats are maintaining
intensive contacts with the parties directly involved in the negotiating
process and with other interested states," he added.

Moscow, a co-sponsor of the Middle East peace process launched in 1991,
has taken a back seat in recent years. But last month it promised visiting
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat it would get more involved alongside the
main player, the United States. Russia Today

Pope John Paul II to Visit Syria in April, 2001

The assistant for the spokesman of the Vatican Sero Peniditini stressed on
Monday was announced by patriarch of Antioch and the Whole East Ignatius
4th Hazim on the intention of Pope John Paul II to visit Syria after the
Easter.

He added " this visit which will not be made this year is actually under
study," recalling that the Pope himself expressed his own desire to visit
Syria in the document which was announced with the beginning of the
celebration of the third Millennium.

To this effect, SANA said that the Pope's visit to Syria might take place
in the second third of April, 2001, but " no final date is fixed yet,"
adding that this visit will last for two or three days."

Ignatius added that " the Pope will hold a sermon in Damascus and will
visit the main churches in the capital, according to a program, whose
final schedule was not set yet."

He described the Pope's visit to Damascus as " spiritual" aiming at "
following the steps of Prophet Paul who embraced Christianity in Syria and
walked in the Straight street ( Midhat Pasha street in the old town of
Damascus )." Patriarch Ignatius stressed the importance of the Pope's
visit, noting the international dimension of the Pope. Arabic News

 Al-Assad Gets A Message From Putin, Agreements Signed

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday at the Damascus al-Shaab
palace received the minister of industry, sciences and technology and
chairman of the joint ministerial committee for trade, economic and
scientific cooperation in federal Russia Alexander Dondokov. The visiting
minister conveyed to President al-Assad a message from President Putin and
the President asked him to convey reply messages and greetings to
President Putin and the " friendly " people of Russia. Talks dealt with
prospects of future cooperation between the two countries and means of
developing relations between the two countries, in line with the
traditional relations already established between the two countries for a
period of half a century. Al-Assad expressed Syria's welcome to
strengthening relations between Syria and Russia. Arabic News

Major Flu Epidemic Feared Public health officials are so concerned about a
possible major influenza epidemic that they are preparing for the worst,
counting hospital beds and fretting about drug shortages, much as disaster
officials do before hurricanes and earthquakes. Not one person has come
down with the kind of flu that worries them, but the stage is set for a
nasty outbreak that could kill at least 88,000 Americans in one fast
season. The world is due, if not overdue, for a super epidemic, leading
experts say. New flu strains strike humans every 30 to 40 years on
average, and when they do, they are far more deadly than ordinary flu -
and this has not happened since 1968. Already, new flu strains are brewing
among animals, ready to spread to unprotected humans. Yahoo

Committment to Ecumenical Dialogue is Irrevocable This morning the Holy
Father received in audience members of the Mixed Commission for Dialogue
between Catholics and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. The Pope
recalled that they were now in the third phase of the international
dialogue between the World Alliance and the Catholic Church, a phase
dedicated to the theme: "The Church and the Kingdom of God." Referring to
the importance of theological dialogue in the ecumenical movement, John
Paul II indicated that "in this dialogue we clarify our respective
positions and explore the reasons for our differences. Our dialogue then
becomes an examination of conscience, a call to conversion, in which both
sides examine before God their responsibility to do all that they can to
put behind them the conflicts of the past. At that point, the Spirit fills
us with a yearning to confess together that 'there is one body and one
Spirit, ... one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us
all, who is above all and through all and in all.' And we feel this as a
duty, as something that must be done so that 'the world may believe.' For
this reason the commitment of the Catholic Church to ecumenical dialogue
is irrevocable." ewtn

Mother Teresa Nuns Accused Of Torture

The head of the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa, has
surrendered to a Calcutta court after the charity and one of its nuns were
accused of torturing a seven-year-old girl. The organisation's leader,
Sister Nirmala, was granted bail on a surety of 5,000 rupees ($110). But
the case against the Missionaries of Charity was not dropped and the next
hearing will take place in October. A local rag-picker, Kaviran Mondal,
has filed a criminal case against the Missionaries of Charity and a nun,
Sister Francesco, who heads its home for destitute children in central
Calcutta. He has accused them of burning the hand of his daughter as an
act of punishment. BBC

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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (9/19/00)
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:09:16 -0400

REFUGEES BECOMING THE MAIN ISSUE

Although the Israeli-Palestinian talks appear to have stalled chiefly over the
issue of Temple Mount sovereignty, other points of contention are beginning
to come into sharp focus. Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian
Legislative Council, told Palestinian Radio on Sunday that Israel's demand
for settlement blocks - in which Barak has promised that most of Yesha's
residents would remain under Israeli sovereignty - was unacceptable. He
also rejected Israel's insistence on retaining a Jordan Valley strip even for
only 20 years.

An even sharper conflict is beginning to emerge over the issue of Arab
refugees from 1948. Acting Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, currently
Israel's leading negotiator with the Palestinians, told the United Nations
yesterday, "It is historically misleading to claim that the refugee problem is a
result of a mass expulsion... Israel does not and will not assume ethical,
legal, or political responsibility for the finding of a solution."

PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, however, is equally - or more - intransigent. "I
say to all the refugees that there will be neither peace nor security if you do
not return to your homeland," he told a large audience on Sunday. "Return
is a sacred right. People are fooling themselves if they think it can be traded
for a handful of dollars," he said, rejecting a proposal to settle the issue by
way of monetary compensation.

At least one Israeli Knesset Member agrees - Arab MK Azmi Bishara
(National Democratic Alliance). Bishara feels that the Palestinians erred
when they began to weaken in their struggle for the "right of return" for
Palestinian refugees. Speaking at a "No Right of Return = No Peace" rally in
London this past Sunday, Bishara said that the Palestinians should not be
concentrating on Jerusalem or territory, but rather on the issue of the
refugees: "The Palestinian issue needs to be returned to its root: the
refugees of 1948... [This issue] cannot be given up in negotiations. The
PLO was established in 1964, in Jerusalem - which wasn't occupied by
'Zionists' then, but was rather under Arab control. The PLO was set up for the
rights of refugees. The rights of refugees came before the right of statehood...
 We don't want a state without the right of return, but rather a state that
guarantees the right of return."

Ben-Ami, in his speech to the UN, related to this point: "It is ridiculous to
think that it is possible to establish a state in order to return refugees to a
neighboring state."

***As we go to press:
Prime Minister Barak announced that he has decided to call a "time-out" in
the talks with the Palestinians, and canceled the meeting that was
scheduled for today. He said that the Palestinian positions have become
more extreme. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat expressed "sorrow" at the
decision.

REVOLVING P.A. DOORS OPEN WIDE

Prime Minister Barak confirmed yesterday that the Palestinian Authority has
ignored Israeli requests to arrest para-military policemen who fired on IDF
soldiers during the Nakba Day disturbances of four months ago. Hot on the
heels of yesterday's report that the PA had granted "vacations" to dozens of
Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists, Arutz-7 correspondent Haggai Huberman
reports that after Nakba Day, Israel submitted to the PA a list of dozens who
fired on Israelis; almost all of them were arrested, questioned, and released
shortly afterwards. Barak confirmed the information in a response to a
Knesset query by MK Nachum Langental (NRP).

'SECULAR REVOLUTION' UNDER FIRE, TAKES THREE STEPS
BACKWARDS

Chief Rabbis Yisrael Meir Lau and Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron informed the
religious Knesset lobby yesterday that they now object to the closure of
the Ministry of Religious Affairs. They released the following
statement: "Given the situation that has come about, in which the
dismantling of the Ministry has become an integral part of the program
known as the secular revolution, we cannot support or agree to the
dismantling of the Ministry at this time and in this connection."

Barak's "secular revolution" was the subject of a HaTzofeh editorial
today. The paper first noted the main aspects of the program:
* the nullification of the nationality clause on identity cards;
* the closure of the Ministry of Religious Affairs;
* Shabbat flights for El Al Israel Airlines within a few weeks
* public transportation on Shabbat;
* civil marriages for those who want.

The editorial stated:
 "These measures will lead not only to a split in the nation, but to the
removal of the Jewish stamp from the character of the State of
Israel... This stands in absolute contradiction to the Declaration of
Independence, which states that Israel will preserve its unique character
as the State of the Jewish People... The People of Israel hoped not for a
state just like all the others, but rather a Jewish State for the Jewish
Nation... This is not a religious dispute, but rather a national dispute: Will
Israel remain the Jews' state, or it will be just another country?... We must
call upon the Prime Minister to desist from his distorted plans, in the hope
that he too will understand that the special nature of Israel must ever be
maintained..."

Three steps were taken to slow down the pace of the so-called "secular
revolution" yesterday.
* the Prime Minister expressed support for a proposal by Rabbi Michael
Melchior (Meimad) to set Sunday as a national day of leisure - relieving
pressure for Shabbat activities;
* after meeting with Rabbi Lau, Barak froze the plans to transfer the
"yeshiva funding" department to the Education Ministry - causing religious
education leaders to breathe a sigh of relief; * and the closure of Orthodox
conversion courses was called off, in the face of Rabbi Melchior's threat to
vote against the national budget at yesterday's Cabinet meeting.

NETZARIM FIGHTS BACK

While Israeli truckers were holding up traffic this morning on main
highways in protest of rising fuel prices (see below), a traffic protest of a
different sort was being held outside Netzarim. Some 250 Palestinian trucks
were held up at the Karni Checkpoint in Gaza when the residents of the Gush
Katif town of Netzarim blocked the roads for two hours this morning. HaKol
MeHashetach News Agency reports that the residents were responding to
the wave of Arab rock-throwing on their cars in recent days.

DISRUPTIONS ON THE LEBANESE BORDER

Lebanese citizens attempted to disrupt fruit-harvesting activities in Israel this
morning, when they threw stones at a group of foreign workers in the
orchards of northern Metullah. The security coordinator of Metullah, Amir
Shushani, was lightly injured. The workers responded with stones of their
own and hit one of the attackers, who then aimed a gun at the workers. IDF
forces arrived on the scene and dispersed the Lebanese by firing into the air.

Associated Press reported yesterday that some 250 Lebanese citizens
broke through a barbed-wired gate on Sunday and entered Israel. The short-
lived infiltration occurred at the area of the Shab'a Farms. Israeli soldiers
stationed 500 meters away went on full alert, AP reported, but did not
intervene. Syrian and Lebanese elements had demanded that Israel
withdraw from the territory as part of its general from withdrawal, but Prime
Minister Barak said at the time that "90% of [Shab'a] is not part of Lebanon,
and therefore will not be evacuated."

Arutz Sheva News Service
   <http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2000 / Elul 19, 5760

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Subject: [BPR] - JVIM Update items (9/19/00)
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:19:16 -0400

ORIGIN OF EUROPEAN UNION
CONFIRMED TO BE BRAINCHILD OF
U.S. INTELLIGENCE part 1
Sept. 19, 2000

The London Telegraph reported: “Declassified American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement. The documents confirm suspicions voiced at the time that America was working aggressively behind the scenes to push Britain into a European state. One memorandum, dated July 26, 1950, gives instructions for a campaign to promote a fully fledged European parliament. It is signed by Gen William J Donovan, head of the American wartime Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA. The documents were found by Joshua Paul, a researcher at Georgetown University in Washington. They include files released by the US National Archives. Washington's main tool for shaping the European agenda was the American Committee for a United Europe, created in 1948. The chairman was Donovan, ostensibly a private lawyer by then. The vice-chairman was Allen Dulles, the CIA director in the Fifties...”

ORIGIN OF EUROPEAN UNION
CONFIRMED TO BE BRAINCHILD OF
U.S. INTELLIGENCE part 2
Sept. 19, 2000

“...The board included Walter Bedell Smith, the CIA's first director, and a roster of ex-OSS figures and officials who moved in and out of the CIA. The documents show that ACUE financed the European Movement, the most important federalist organization in the post-war years. In 1958, for example, it provided 53.5 per cent of the movement's funds. The European Youth Campaign, an arm of the European Movement, was wholly funded and controlled by Washington. The Belgian director, Baron Boel, received monthly payments into a special account. When the head of the European Movement, Polish-born Joseph Retinger, bridled at this degree of American control and tried to raise money in Europe, he was quickly reprimanded. The leaders of the European Movement - Retinger, the visionary Robert Schuman and the former Belgian prime minister Paul-Henri Spaak - were all treated as hired hands by their American sponsors. The US role was handled as a covert operation. ACUE's funding came from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations as well as business groups with close ties to the US government. The head of the Ford Foundation, ex-OSS officer Paul Hoffman, doubled as head of ACUE in the late Fifties. The State Department also played a role. A memo from the European section, dated June 11, 1965, advises the vice-president of the European Economic Community, Robert Marjolin, to pursue monetary union by stealth. It recommends suppressing debate until the point at which ‘adoption of such proposals would become virtually inescapable“.”

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY ALMOST
READY MARCH
Sept. 19, 2000

Reuters reported: “The headquarters of a European Union rapid reaction force being created to make up for Europe“s weak performance alongside the United States in the Kosovo conflict could be in place by March, an EU source said. British General Graham Messervy-Whiting is now in Brussels with a core team of some 20 officers from EU countries working on creation of a command staff, the source said Monday. He said an EU defense ministers“ meeting near Paris this week would be told the command staff will be in place by March with 90 officers, themselves backed by support staff. ‘They will probably be declared fully operational later in the year,“ he added. The official, who asked not to be identified, was briefing reporters on the Friday meeting of the 15 EU defense ministers at Ecouen castle north of the French capital. He also said up to 15 non-EU states, including some former Warsaw Bloc members, were expected to offer troops beyond the rapid reaction force“s target goal of a 60,000-strong expeditionary unit at a later meeting in Brussels in November...”

MILLIONS THREATENED IN SOUTHEAST
ASIA IN WORST FLOODING IN A
GENERATION
Sept. 19, 2000

The BBC reported: “More than four million people along the Mekong river in South-East Asia are now affected by the worst floods in a generation, aid workers say. Areas of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand have all been hit hard by unseasonably early and heavy monsoon rains. Across the region official figures put the number of dead at more than 160, but aid agencies say they expect that figure to rise considerably before the crisis eases. ‘It is very difficult to estimate (the numbers affected) - almost by definition, the worst hit areas are impossible to get to,“ said Peter Walker, southeast Asia chief for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent...”

ASTEROID EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
BEING PREPARED
Sept. 19, 2000

The London Telegraph reported: “Plans to save the world from a catastrophic asteroid collision were unveiled yesterday by British scientists. Experts urged the Government to create an early warning system to stop the sort of disaster that wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The Near Earth Objects task force also called for more research into ways of deflecting life-threatening objects away from the Earth. ‘Armageddon asteroids“ capable of causing mass extinction are rare, arriving once every few million years. But asteroids and comets large enough to wipe out a city hit the Earth every couple of hundred years. In 1908, a meteor exploded above Lake Tunguska in Siberia, destroying 770 square miles of forest. If the same explosion happened above St Paul's Cathedral, it would destroy London. So far, astronomers have identified 258 potentially hazardous objects in the Solar System but say there are many hundreds more. Yesterday's report was prepared by Dr Harry Atkinson, past chairman of the European Space Agency's Council, Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's former ambassador to the UN, and Prof David Williams, a past president of the Royal Astronomical Society. Nasa is seeking out every object larger than one kilometer but wants Britain to take a lead in the search for smaller objects. Dr Atkinson said: ‘The risk is very small. A one-kilometer asteroid arrives on average every 100,000 years. But if that was the risk of an accident in a nuclear power station, we would spend a lot of money to reduce the risk.“...”

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Subject: [BPR] - Substitute is fired over note on witches
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:23:12 -0400

Substitute is fired over note on witches

Greenwood schools dismisses teacher for giving instructions on how to
become a witch.

By John Masson
Indianapolis Star
September 16, 2000

GREENWOOD, Ind. -- A substitute teacher who gave fourth-graders a "how
to become a witch" note this week has been fired from Greenwood
Community Schools.

"It's not a rampant, infectious thing going on in Greenwood schools,"
Superintendent Pat Garvey said. "There were six notes, and to our
knowledge maybe one or two of them went home."

Garvey said students at Southwest Elementary School asked the teacher on
Monday -- her first day working for the district -- about a story they were
reading that mentioned witches. Then the popular movie The Blair Witch
Project came up. Finally, during recess, the teacher typed up a quarter-page
summary on how to become a witch.

When the children came back to class, she gave the list to six of them,
Garvey said.

The superintendent refused to identify the fired substitute and wouldn't say
what tips the teacher suggested.

"What you really want is a copy of this to print on the front page, and I don't
want thousands of people seeing this. It's inappropriate," he said. "It's kind of
like saying, OK, a kid brought a bomb to school -- and here's the recipe."

Greenwood contracts with Kelly Services to provide substitute teachers, and
the fired teacher was a Kelly employee until the school district reported what
happened.

"She wrote a letter apologizing to Kelly," Garvey said. "She said, 'I didn't use
good judgment,' and Kelly said, 'No, you didn't, to the extent that you're no
longer an employee.' "

Jane Brown, Kelly Services' vice president and district manager for the
Indianapolis area, described the situation similarly. Brown also refused to
identify the teacher.

Kelly has been supplying Greenwood's substitute teachers for three years,
Brown said.

Garvey said firing the woman wasn't a difficult call: "She's gone."

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