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Subject: Re: [bprlist] Babylon or Jerusalem
From: "Sunday"
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:35:28 -0500

To Sharon and the List,

Thank you for Tom Lamb's website. More and more I am
hearing of people opting out of attending Church and find
myself in that number. I am anything but happy about the
situation and keep looking for a simple, Truth teaching Church. We thought we had found one a year ago and we
loved going there, for a time. Then we discovered the rules
of membership, ladies not to wear slacks even up a ladder
painting the trim on the house or doing gardening or camping. Our Baptism by immersion occuring 20yrs prior
was not accepted and we had to be redone into that Church.
We were considered hypocrites if we owned a television.
Needless to say, we stopped going there, but it did break our
hearts for a time. Anything else in our area is either heavy Charismatic or extremely liberal. We haven't given up yet and are now looking at other towns that surround us. I miss
having Communion with the Saints so much. Anyone else
in the same posistion? May God Bless You - Sunday

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Subject: Re: [bprlist] Babylon or Jerusalem
From: yesiamsam
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:41:09 -0500 (EST)

Yes my wife and myself were saved in a little church on Big Pine Key Fl.
about 25 years ago , we have seen just about every kind of deception you
can think of .I was a teacher and a minister, but the more I studied the
more what the churches were teaching was confusion. what Jesus taught
and what Paul taught was sometimes in conflict .then I started reading
the works of the 19th century theologian E.W.Bullinger. He is long been
dead but others have carried on with His teaching . His teaching is
logical and spiritual. there is a web site called " truth for today ".
The confusion is gone,and we am doing very well without all the garbage
that is in the church ( so called . )

Jerry

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Subject: Re: [bprlist] Babylon or Jerusalem
From: "Vaughan275"
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:43:47 -0800

Hi Jerry,

What is the link for the website pertaining to Truth for Today? I would like to take a look and check this site out. Thanks.

Michelle
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  Yes my wife and myself were saved in a little church on Big Pine Key Fl.
  about 25 years ago , we have seen just about every kind of deception you
  can think of .I was a teacher and a minister, but the more I studied the
  more what the churches were teaching was confusion. what Jesus taught
  and what Paul taught was sometimes in conflict .then I started reading
  the works of the 19th century theologian E.W.Bullinger. He is long been
  dead but others have carried on with His teaching . His teaching is
  logical and spiritual. there is a web site called " truth for today ".
  The confusion is gone,and we am doing very well without all the garbage
  that is in the church ( so called . )

Jerry

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Subject: [bprlist] S.F. start-up to unveil disposable cell phone
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:03:57 -0500

Posted at 7:58 p.m. PST Monday, March 12, 2001

S.F. start-up to unveil disposable cell phone

BY JOSHUA L. KWAN
Mercury News

The newest cell phone on the block doesn't look anything like its fancy,
feature-filled cousins: It doesn't have a keypad, lacks a display screen and
uses a disposable battery. And someday it might be sold in vending
machines and at gas stations for about $30.

Telespree, a start-up in San Francisco, plans to unveil today one of the
world's first disposable wireless phones. Its vision to make cell phones and
prepaid service plans as easy to buy as disposable cameras may open up a
new market for wireless carriers. It also could bring wireless phone service to
young, old and low-income people -- groups that might not otherwise buy a
full-featured wireless phone and service plan, analysts said.

Telespree still has a long way to go before it reaches the ubiquity of
disposable cameras. The first hurdle is convincing a carrier that its
technology works well enough. Then it has to sign distribution deals with
nationwide retailers like Wal-Mart, gas stations like Chevron and
convenience stores like 7-Eleven.

What gives Telespree's phone a shot is the low cost and simplicity, the
company said. Telespree's phone has just two buttons: one to turn the
device ``on'' and the other for placing emergency calls. To dial, speak a
phone number. The phone has two major pieces. Consumers keep the
colorful segment that forms the earpiece and microphone. The ``AirClip''
portion holds a battery and keeps track of how many minutes are left. When
the minutes run out, consumers can unsnap the AirClip, throw it away and
buy a new one.

Telespree aims to sell its technology -- the handsets and network software --
to carriers such as AT&T, Cingular Wireless and VoiceStream, carriers that
use the Global System for Mobile communications standard, or GSM.

Essentially, all the intelligence of the phone would reside in Telespree's
network -- which includes speech recognition technology from Nuance
Communications -- rather than costly components inside the cell phone.

``Where everyone is adding more features on phones, Telespree is making it
simpler and easier to use. They're unique in going in the opposite direction,''
said analyst Charul Vyas of International Data Corp.

Another low-cost disposable phone on the horizon comes from Randice-Lisa
Altschul, a New Jersey woman who hired engineers to develop a cell phone
that's made largely of paper.

The first model from Telespree only makes outgoing calls. Versions that can
receive incoming calls may arrive within the year, said CEO Alon Segal.
Features like an address book and voicemail are also in the works and can
be written into Telespree software; consumers wouldn't have to buy an
expensive gadget upgrade.

Most people who want and can afford cell phones have already signed long-
term contracts with carriers. Now, the challenge is to make service plans
attractive enough and cell phones cheap enough to reach those who don't
want to commit to a long-term deal and a pricey phone, analysts said.

``Buying a cell phone should be no different from buying a book or
magazine,'' said Eddie Hold of Current Analysis, a research firm in Virginia.
``It needs to be a convenient purchase.''

Nearly all wireless subscribers in the U.S. pay a monthly fee for a set
number of minutes. Carriers spend roughly $150 in cell phone subsidies for
each new subscriber, according to Current Analysis. To recover that
investment, carriers lock in the customer to long-term service agreements.
And to protect that investment, carriers run credit checks on potential
subscribers.

Those who fail the credit check are shuffled into prepaid plans, which are
typically much more expensive on a per-minute basis than monthly plans.
Carriers have long treated prepaid customers as second-class because they
tend to jump from one company to the next and don't commit to buying a
regular amount of minutes.

Disposable phones like Telespree's can turn a fickle and ephemeral
customer base into a potentially profitable group for carriers, analysts said..

Bryan Prohm of Gartner Dataquest said that the youth market is perfect for
prepaid plans. Parents can control how many minutes to give to kids, and
the kids don't have to worry about losing an expensive device.

Seniors are another group who might benefit. They can keep a phone for
safety without adding to their monthly expenses.

Carriers are exploring ways to make prepaid service more attractive to
consumers. AT&T introduced a new prepaid program in November, but the
cost of the cheapest package, including cell phone and $25 worth of
minutes, still hit $100.

``Prepaid is now just another option for payment,'' said AT&T Wireless
Services spokeswoman Danielle Perry. ``It doesn't have the stigma it used
to.''

tagContact Joshua L. Kwan at jkwan@sjmercury.com or (408) 920-5232.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/phones031301.htm

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Subject: [bprlist] Arutz-7 News items (3/13/01)
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:07:41 -0500

PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER FAVORS OPENING TEMPLE MOUNT TO
JEWS
Public Security Minister Uzi Landau plans to reopen the Temple Mount to
Jewish visitors - although he said that the government must approve the
decision. Landau said this morning that if the police and Waqf allow
everyone else to enter the holy site, he cannot understand why Jews should
be any different. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres came out against the idea,
citing security concerns. General Security Service head Avi Dichter,
however, supports Landau's position, according to Jerusalem Mayor Ehud
Olmert. Olmert said last night that Dichter told him a few days ago that
he fears the ramifications of the continued closure of the site to
Jews. The Temple Mount has been closed to Jews for almost half a year,
since the beginning of the Palestinian mini-war.

Minister Landau said, "Wherever you give in to threats, you invite other
threats in other places. My recommendation, therefore, is that it be
opened to Jews. The government will have to either accept or reject my
proposal."

New revelations about the petition submitted to the Supreme Court last week
by the Committee for the Prevention of the Destruction of Temple Mount
Antiquities: The group presented evidence that the Moslem Waqf is
attempting, by its illegal construction there, to turn the entire Temple
Mount compound into one giant mosque. Dr. Shmuel Berkowitz, author of a
thorough study on Jerusalem's holy sites and one of the group's leaders,
accused Shimon Peres of giving his successor in the Prime Minister's
office, Binyamin Netanyahu, false information about an alleged "deal" with
the Waqf. Peres told Netanyahu, according to the suit, that the Waqf had
agreed to allow Israel to open the Hasmonean Tunnels in exchange for
unrestricted Moslem prayer rights in Solomon's Stables. The Palestinians
later denied that any such deal existed. It will be recalled that 16
Israelis were killed by Arabs in the violence that followed the opening of
the Hasmonean Tunnels.

PERES SUPPORTS HOLDING BACK
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres stated this afternoon that Israel would not
hand over any funds to the PA, as it is feared that some of the money would
be used to pay the salaries of Force 17 terrorists. A senior spokesman for
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Raanan Gissin, admits that Israel has a legal
obligation to repay millions of dollars worth of taxes owed to the
Palestinian Authority, but it refuses to subsidize the PA's terrorist
activities. The U.S. continues to urge Israel to release these taxes to
ease the PA's economic difficulties - although it insists on a reduction in
Palestinian violence as well. Sharon rejected the United States position,
saying, "They [the Palestinians] have property worth over a billion dollars
all over the world."

IN BRIEF: HISTORY BOOK, JORDANIAN TRUCKS, ISRAELI GAS, ORR
COMMISSION
Education Minister Limor Livnat has banned the controversial 9th-grade
history textbook, "World of Changes." This was the first time such a ban
was imposed, but Livnat was backed by a decision by the Knesset
Education
Committee of last November which unanimously declared that the book, in
the
words of Committee Chairman Zevulun Orlev (NRP), "did not attain the goal
of fulfilling the country's educational and values goals. It is missing
entire sections on Zionism, Diaspora Jewry, the entire story of Soviet
Jewry, no mention of Ethiopian Jewry's aliyah [immigration], the struggle
with the British before the War of Independence, the background to the
Six-Day War - even the Holocaust was presented in a distorted way." The
book has no picture of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister, nor
any mention of other Zionist leaders, the Warsaw Ghetto, or the many
terrorist attacks that Israel suffered over the years...

Israel has banned Jordanian trucks from entering the country, for reasons
of security. Goods from Jordan will now be transferred to Israeli vehicles
at the Sha'ar HaYarden [Jordan River Gate] crossing. Trade between Israel
and Jordan rose by 80 percent in 2000 to $75 million...

The Orr Commission, investigating the deaths of 13 Israeli-Arabs during
Arab rioting and clashes with the police, heard testimony of a different
sort today: from radio journalists covering the riots. At least one of
them, Army Radio's Hadas Shteif, described herself as a "leftist," and said
that she felt "betrayed" by the Arab violence she witnessed during the
September riots in Um el-Fahm. Yoel Krakovsky of Voice of Israel recounted
that after the police left the scene, the Arabs began fighting among
themselves. He said that he felt such great fear at the time that he did
not dare to pass that way again for three months, "even though it was my
regular route twice a week=85"

The Israel Electric Company has decided to buy half of its gas supply for
the coming years from the Israeli consortium Yam Tetis. The decision
complements an earlier decision to purchase the other half from the
Egyptian-Israeli partnership EGM. Gideon Tadmor, Director-General of Delek
Energy, one of the beneficiaries of yesterday's decision, expressed his
satisfaction, but said that Israeli suppliers could have supplied all of
the Electric Company's gas needs. He admitted, however, that he and the
other Israeli companies had been forced to lower their prices in order to
compete with the Egyptian offer. Electric Company Chairman Eli Landau
said
that in the end, "the winner has turned out to be the Israeli consumer, who
will benefit from cheaper prices..."

Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2001 / Adar 18, 5761

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Subject: [bprlist] TV: Nightline (Fwd) Night Eyes
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:53:49 -0500

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TONIGHT'S SUBJECT: Your home is supposed to be private, but what happens
when new technology will allow the police to literally look through the
walls to see what you=92re doing? Technology vs. the right to privacy.

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In the privacy of your own home. Behind closed doors. A man's home is his
castle (I know it's not P.C., but that is the old expression). All these
are expressions saying essentially the same thing. What you do in your
home is supposed to be private. The Constitution says so. If the police
want to come in, they need a warrant, or you need to let them in. News
crews used to be able to just follow the cops in, just like on the "Cops"
TV show, but then a number of stations were sued for trespassing. Now the
camera crews need to wait on the sidewalk.

But technology may be making a lot of our laws outdated -- or at least our
ideas of privacy. At the last Super Bowl, the authorities set up cameras
to that filmed people as they came in, and then used face recognition
programs to check whether any of the football fans were wanted by the law.
None of those fans knew this was going on. But they were in a public
place, so I don't think anyone at the stadium thought that they were at a
private event.

But in your home, that's a different issue. We all assume that we can walk
around in our underwear and no one will see. What happens within those
walls is our business, and no one else's. But there is such a thing as
thermal imaging. This technology was originally developed for the
military. I've seen it used, and it's amazing. In pitch darkness, you can
see people walking around, and you can see what they're doing. This
technology reads heat, i.e.body heat, rather than light. And as it
advances, it holds the promise of being able to literally look through
walls. There is a case before the Supreme Court where the police used
thermal imaging to see heat signatures in the attic of a house. The owner
was using grow lamps to grow marijuana. The police went in and busted him.
They didn't have a search warrant to use the technology. They didn't need
one. They never went on his property illegally. They didn't need to. Law
enforcement will say that this is a great new tool that makes their jobs
easier, and keeps their officers safe. Others say it's an invasion of
privacy.

I remember those ads on the back of comic books for X-ray glasses. Even as
a kid I knew there was no such thing. Well, maybe I was wrong. This debate
will only get more difficult as the technology advances. It should make
for an interesting debate.

Tuesday, March 13, 2001

Leroy Sievers
Executive Producer
"Nightline" Offices
Washington, D.C.

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Subject: [bprlist] Weekend News Today items (3/13/01)
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:23:43 -0500

Army deploys in Beirut amid warnings against anti-Syrian protests

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: AFP

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Lebanese army troops heavily deployed late Tuesday in
the capital after authorities warned supporters of exiled former prime mini ster
Michel Aoun not to stage protests in front of Syrian forces against their
presence in the country. Army troops, backed by military vehicles and
armored personnel carriers, took up position at Beirut's main crossroads an d
staged patrols on the main avenues. Soldiers erected checkpoints on main
roads, stopping cars and checking identity cards, they said.

US warns of ''serious ramifications'' over Russian arms sales to Iran

Weekend News Today
Source: AFP

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- The United States on Tuesday stepped up warnings to
Russia over possible arms sales to Iran, saying such transactions could
have "serious ramifications" and damage US-Russian relations. US
President George W. Bush "is concerned about any sales -- in particular of
missiles -- by Russia to Iran, and the US has made those concerns known
through the State Department," presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer added.
At the State Department, spokesman Richard Boucher said Washington
was still not clear about what type of weapons and other sensitive
technology Putin was referring to when he said Russia was prepared to help
Iran with "defensive weapons." But, Boucher told reporters that any Russian
sale to Iran of advanced conventional weapons, missiles or missile
technology would draw a strong US response.

Scientists thought La Nina faded, but...

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: NASA Space Science news

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Last autumn scientists thought La Ni=F1a had faded, but
recent NASA satellite images reveal La Ni=F1a-like conditions lurking in th e
Pacific for the third year in a row. Will they linger for a fourth? Some
computer climate models predict La Ni=F1a will vanish in 2001 and that a we ak
El Ni=F1o could take its place. If a shift from La Ni=F1a to El Ni=F1o happ ens,
conditions would likely trigger more rainfall in California, where swelling rivers
will increase the output of hydroelectric dams, providing the state with so me
much-needed electricity. Over the next few months, scientists plan to
monitor the situation using data from several satellites -- including the N ASA-
French TOPEX/Poseidon spacecraft -- to see if the La Ni=F1a pattern of Paci fic
sea surface temperatures remains or departs.

"It's almost like it's a new ball game every year between March and May,"
said John Wallace, professor of atmospheric science at the University of
Washington. "That's when (the Pacific) sort of forgets what it's been doing
and decides what it's going to do next year," If La Ni=F1a wanes, an El Ni =F1o
could begin in the fall. But if it does, it shouldn't be like the (record-b reaking)
Super-El Ni=F1o of 1997 and 1998. The next El Ni=F1o is likely to be mild.
"Because we've just had a Super-El Ni=F1o, it's very unlikely that we'd hav e
another big one this year. They tend to be separated by weaker ones," said
Vernon Kousky, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center.

But, just which of the two scenarios plays out depends, in part, on another
larger-scale fluctuation in the Pacific called the "Pacific Decadal Oscilla tion"
(PDO). The PDO is a pattern of sea surface temperatures similar to El
Ni=F1o/La Ni=F1a, but different in that it fluctuates over decades instead of years.
It's also much larger. Some researchers liken it to a swollen version of El
Ni=F1o or La Ni=F1a.

Gamma-Rays from Asteroid Eros

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: NASA Space Science news

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Perched on the surface of asteroid 433 Eros, NASA's
NEAR spacecraft is beaming back measurements of gamma-rays leaking
from the space rock's dusty soil. When NASA's Near Earth Asteroid
Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft left for asteroid 433 Eros five years ago,
scientists weren't certain what they would find when the probe arrived. Was
Eros a 30-km fragment from a planet that broke apart long ago? Or perhaps
a jumble of space boulders barely held together by gravity? Was Eros young
or old, tough or fragile ... no one knew for sure.

But now, after a year in orbit and a daring landing on the asteroid itself,
NEAR Shoemaker is beaming back data that could confirm what many
scientists have lately come to believe: Asteroid Eros is not a piece of som e
long-dead planet or a loose collection of space debris. Instead, it's a rel ic
from the dawn of our solar system. It might sound like an ivory-tower
question, but knowing the makeup of this asteroid -- both its internal
structure and its chemical composition-- has a practical application.

The solar system is littered with space rocks more or less like Eros, and
many come uncomfortably close to Earth. One day we may need to blow
one apart (or deflect one without blowing it apart) to avoid an unpleasant
collision. Near-Earth asteroids are also potential mining resources as
humans expand into space. In either case, knowing more about them is a
good idea! "We're just hoping to get as much data as we can before the
mission ends."

Alaska's Mt. Cleveland volcano update news

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Volcano World

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Following the eruption on 11 March, scientists have
detected a strong thermal anomaly which indicates continued unrest at the
Cleveland volcano. Further explosive activity could occur at any time.

Peru's famous Inca fortress of Machu Picchu may collapse

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Peru sought on Thursday to calm fears that its world
famous Inca fortress, Machu Picchu, could collapse at any moment, saying
the Andean citadel had survived 500 years of natural phenomena and tourists
should not panic. But, London's New Scientist magazine quoted Japanese
geologists on Wednesday as saying the earth below the hallowed site
perched on a mountain saddle 8,366 feet high in the Peruvian Andes was
shifting and at risk of a major landslide. The INC noted that Machu Picchu
and the nearby city of Cusco both lay on the Tambomachay fault, which
caused earthquakes in 1950 and 1986.

Japanese geologists who have been monitoring the movement beneath the
city said the back slope is moving downward at about 0.4 inches per month.
"This is quite fast, and it's a precursor stage of a rockfall or rock slide ," said
Kyoji Sassa of Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute.
"It's not possible to say exactly when the landslide might occur, but that will
be the focus of the next stage of our research." Sassa and his team believe
the landslide could destroy all of Machu Picchu, which is visited by more
than 1,000 tourists a day. Rockfalls have already damaged some structures.

Machu Picchu was abandoned at the time of the 16th-century Spanish
conquest. In 1911, U.S. archaeologist Hiram Bingham rediscovered the
ruins, which historians regard as an important religious center for the Inc a
empire.

Alaskan Volcano Explodes

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Alaska's Cleveland volcano exploded on Sunday, sending
a plume of ash 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) into the sky. The volcano, locate d
on the remote and uninhabited Chuginadak Island in the east-central
Aleutians, last erupted on Feb. 19, when it blanketed the community of
Nikolski with ash. Volcanologists reported Monday that the ash cloud from
Sunday's eruption still measured about 40 miles (65 km) across. According
to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the eruptions lasted for approximately 3
hours. The scientists described eruptions at the volcano as having short-li ved
explosive bursts of ash, which were sometimes accompanied by lava
fountaining and lava flows. They said further explosive activity could occu r at
any time. The symmetrical 5,675-foot-high volcano (1,730 meters) is located
on the west side of Chuginadak Island. Chuginadak volcano and another
volcano, which is unnamed, make up the east side of the island.

Bloodsucking flies with file-like teeth killing & injuring lions

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Discovery Earth Alert

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Swarms of aggressive bloodsucking flies have killed at
least 6 lions and seriously injured 62 others in Tanzania 's Ngorongoro Cra ter
wildlife park. The biting flies, Stomoxys calcitrans, have file-like teeth, which
they use like a rasp to break through the skin of warmblooded mammals,
including humans. The lions died after being bitten repeatedly. Shallua sai d,
"The flies bite the lions and then keep biting their wounds, inflicting a l ot of
pain and traumatizing them. The lions are dying of trauma." Shallua also
noted that the insects typically appear after extreme changes in weather.
Emmanuel Cheusi, principal conservator with Ngorongoro, said in the Arusha
Times that the bloodsucking flies appeared as a result last year's drought,
which was followed by heavy rains.

Ngorongoro Crater, home to more than 20,000 large animals, has also
experienced a mysterious dying off of buffalo, wildebeest, zebras, hartebee st
and three hippopotamuses, as well as seven of the country's remaining 17
black rhinos. More than 600 animals have perished during the past 10
months from the unidentified illness. Scientists from Germany and the Unite d
States have teamed to determine the cause of the disease, and blood
samples have been sent to the Netherlands and South Africa for testing.
Shallua said, "The animal life is being threatened and we're working hard t o
get to the root cause of these deaths."

X-ray map finds universe teeming with black holes

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: CNN

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- The most thorough X-ray survey ever taken of the
universe shows an abundance of active super-massive black holes, leading
some astronomers to believe that black holes of all sizes once ruled the
universe, two independent teams of astronomers said Tuesday.

Syria, Egypt and Jordan to unveil joint power project

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: UPI

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Syrian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders scheduled a
meeting in Damascus to unveil a new electricity link between the countries
and prepare for the this month's Arab summit in Amman, according to Syrian
diplomatic sources Tuesday. Syrian President Bashar Assad, Egyptian
leader Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdallah were to attend a
Wednesday ceremony in Deir Ali near Damascus to inaugurate the power
link between Jordan and Syria. the link is part of the unified Syrian-Jorda nian-
Egyptian electricity network."

Arab summit, Powell and Sharon on agenda of three-way Damascus meeting

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: AFP

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- The upcoming Arab summit, the "threat" posed by new
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and US declarations on Jerusalem will
top the agenda of the three-way summit to be held Wednesday by Syria,
Jordan and Egypt in Damascus, a Syrian MP said. Yasser Nehlawi, the
parliamentary rapporteur of the national security committee, told AFP
Tuesday that the meeting between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his
Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, and Jordan's King Abdullah II "will be
an opportunity to take counsel together following the inauguration of Ariel
Sharon".

"The repression, the continued murders and destruction in the Palestinian
territories, the declaration of US Secretary of State Colin Powell on movin g
the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Arab summit as well as
other political and economic issues" would be discussed, he said. Powell,
questioned in Congress last Wednesday, infuriated Arabs when he said
President George W. Bush was committed to moving "the embassy to the
capital of Israel, which is Jerusalem."

On Tuesday, Al-Baath, the Syrian ruling party's mouthpiece said Sharon's
plan on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will lead to a flare-up in the Mid dle
East. "The five points of the Sharon plan announced yesterday (Monday),
especially the one on security, clearly show the Israeli cabinet is a war
government par excellence and will lead the region to erupt", Al-Baath said .
"Sharon did not fortuitously omit the peace process in his first cabinet
meeting. It means he is trying to shirk the agreements which have been
reached" with the Arabs since the peace process was launched in 1991, the
newspaper said.

Lebanon resumes diplomatic relations with Iraq

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Arabic News

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Lebanon has decided to resume its diplomatic relations
with Iraq following seven years of cessation. A ministerial source told
SANA's correspondent in Beirut that the last session of the cabinet decided
to resume diplomatic relations with Iraq but without defining the level of this
relation.

Israel seeks quick peace agreement with Lebanon

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Israel National News

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- While touring the northern border today, Defense Ministe r
Binyamin Ben-Eliezer stated that Israel is looking to reach a quick peace
agreement with its northern neighbor. He added that a quiet border is a
prerequisite to such an agreement, and that in its absence =93the IDF will
respond quickly and effectively if asked to do so.=94 Ben-Eliezer further n oted
that Syria has not acted in the least to curb Hizbullah activities. He also
claimed that stabilizing the whole region is completely within the capabili ties
of the Syrian government.

U.S. considers retreat from no-fly zones after failed strikes

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: World Tribune

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- The Bush administration is reviewing a plan to
significantly reduce U.S. and British patrols of no-fly zones in southern a nd
northern Iraq. Officials said the plan presented to the Pentagon is based o n
the assessment that Iraqi anti-aircraft capability could eventually shoot d own
a U.S. or British warplane. The administration has also concluded that the
overflights are hurting Washington's drive to maintain even limited
international sanctions on Baghdad.

Last month, U.S. and British warplanes attacked anti-aircraft sites around
Baghdad in an attempt to stop the linking of batteries to radar systems. Th e
Iraqi project, carried out by Chinese technicians, was said not to have bee n
affected by the allied bombing. Officials said the British have complained that
their warplanes are particularly vulnerable to Iraqi missile attack. They c ited
the lack of British electronic warfare planes to jam Iraqi radar.

Israel worried over U.S. strategic ties with Egypt

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Middle East Newsline

Tue Mar 13,2001 -- Israel is urging the United States not to supply new lon g-
range systems to Egypt in its drive to serve as a protector of the Gulf reg ion.
Israeli defense officials said the issue was placed at the top of the strat egic
agenda during the tenure of then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak. They said they
expect this to remain a priority under the administration of Ariel Sharon. The
new prime minister meets President George Bush and senior U.S. officials in
Washington next week.

"To the best of my knowledge, Ehud Barak's main concern as defense
minister was the bolstering of Egypt's readiness for war," said Israeli
parliamentarian Yuval Steinitz, regarded as an expert on Egypt's
conventional military capability. Egypt and the United States plan to discu ss
a strategic alliance during the visit of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak t o
Washington in April. Mubarak will meet President George Bush on April 2.

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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:40:50 -0500

Human cloning project the ultimate male dream?

Makiko Tatebayashi Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent

WASHINGTON--"Why are such excellent people as the Japanese opposing
human cloning?" asked Severino Antinori, an Italian doctor specializing in the
treatment of infertility.

Antinori made the remark to me during an international conference on
"Human Therapeutic Cloning" held in Rome on March 9. I attended the
gathering, the first of its kind, representing The Yomiuri Shimbun.

The meeting was sponsored by the Italian doctor and Prof. Panayiotis Zavos
of the University of Kentucky. In January, they announced plans to produce
embryos using cloning technology within two years for the benefit of infertile
couples who are unable to conceive using conventional methods.

Since the successful cloning of a sheep named Dolly was announced in
1997, various groups have proposed plans to clone humans. However,
reporters from around the world flocked to the Rome meeting as it was the
first time both cloning and fertility experts had joined to announce such
plans.

The question Antinori posed for me indicated his discomfort over
announcements made by Education, Science and Technology Minister
Nobutaka Machimura and Takashi Sasagawa, special minister for science
and technology, both of whom had issued statements declaring that no
Japanese should be involved in human cloning projects overseas.

In his lecture, Antinori said fertilization technologies in the past have always
been widely criticized initially before later being accepted.

Antinori found in a survey of patients that 30 percent of couples unable to
conceive due to the father would consider using cloning technology.

Yet for couples unable to conceive due to the mother, 98 percent of those
surveyed by Antinori said they would consider implanting eggs from others in
order to conceive.

Loud voices and boos dominated the meeting as doctors and scientists
criticized the way reporters have covered the cloning issue. Watching the
cool face of Antinori, who ignored questions he did not wish to answer, an
idea occurred to me: "Is human cloning a sort of ultimate dream for men?"

I am not a sexist at all. A few days before attending the meeting, I
interviewed a professor who specializes in animal behavioral science at the
California Institute of Technology. His comments on the behavior of animals
may have affected my way of thinking.

In the animal world, male animals sometimes risk their lives to produce
offspring.

While women can feel their ties with their children through conception, men
have no choice but to believe their partner when she says, "This is your
baby."

Yet in the world of small birds, females take it for granted that they can have
extramarital relationships with other males, so the birds, even if they
cooperate in making a nest, often deliver offspring with genes different from
those of the couple's father.

Until the invention of cloning technology, men with infertile wives were forced
to rely on the eggs of other women, who they may not have felt comfortable
with. Considering this factor, it appears natural that the cloning project has
been proposed by male fertility experts.

Recently, I interviewed Rael, the leader of a U.S.-based religious sect called
the Raelian Movement, who has advocated human cloning. He said
producing cloned humans is just the first step for the sect's project. At the
second stage, it plans to develop the technology to rapidly grow cloned
humans to the age of 15. The ultimate purpose of the project is to allow
people to download their memories and consciousness on their own clones.
He said people currently aged under 50 will become immortal under the
sect's plan.

This kind of revolutionary way of thinking has helped in the development of
scientific knowledge. Considering the human rights of cloned children
however, human cloning should not be put into practice without a number of
safety measures.

I wonder why I oppose such a project. Is it because I am a woman, or
because I am Japanese. It may be just because I learned in my childhood
that humans are mortal.

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Foot-and-mouth found in France,
U.S. bans European meat imports

http://morrock.com/

The U.S. took the dramatic step Tuesday of banning meat imports from the European Union, after the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease was discovered in France.

The report of the French outbreak was the first sign that the disease, which is apparently not communicable to humans, but in animals causes weakness and severe weight losses that are ruinous to the livestock trade, had crossed the English Channel into Europe from Britain. It was the first such infection in France in 20 years.

The European Union immediately ordered France to halt any exports of cattle, sheep or pigs -- the cloven-hoofed animals that are susceptible to what used to be known as "hoof-and-mouth disease."

Officials in Britain had taken extraordinary steps to stop the disease from spreading. News photos showed England's Queen Mother walking across a disinfecting area to kill bacteria on her shoes as she joined other Britons at a horse race. Britain has ordered the mass slaughter of potentially infected herds, with nearly 200,000 animals to be killed altogether.

In France, officials had ordered 20,000 sheep that were imported from Britain in February destroyed, along with 30,000 French sheep that may have had contact with them.

The U.S. order, which was followed by a similar order in Canada, affects a $500 million flow of imported meat, mostly from Italy, Britain and the Netherlands.

The reports from France deeply disturbed other European countries. "This is very bad news," an official of a German meat cooperative group told the Reuters News Service. "With the disease having reached France, it considerably increases the risk of it reaching us."

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Subject: [bprlist] Federal Rule: Your Medical Records to Be Shared
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:29:42 -0500

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

Federal Rule: Your Medical Records to Be Shared

NewsMax.com
Tuesday, March 13, 2001

A key part of Hillary Clinton's original health care plan that would have
allowed third parties to collect your private medical data and records may
become federal law in a matter of weeks.

President Bush's new Health and Human Services Secretary, former
Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, is considering whether last-minute
regulation changes made by Bill Clinton should go through.

The new federal rule would allow doctors, hospitals, druggists, HMOs and
insurance companies to pass and share your medical information without
your permission.

But Thompson put the rule changes on hold, partly because they allow
marketers access to private medical records they can use to sell their
products.

The new rules were ordered by then-President Bill Clinton and due to
become effective Feb. 26, but have been delayed until April 14.

The rule changes are supported by powerful special interests in the health
care and insurance industries.

But privacy advocates are worried about a system that will work much like a
credit bureau, but with information far more important than one's financial
status.

The issue has gotten little ink, but consumer advocate and nationally
syndicated columnist Robert Heady has highlighted concerns about the new
federal rule.

The rule was issued by the Clinton administration in December pursuant to
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Under the Congressional Review Act, before major regulations can take
effect, a federal agency must submit to Congress a report containing a copy
of the rule, the proposed effective date and a concise general statement
about the rule. For the most part, the regulations become effective 60 days
after the later of the date that: (1) Congress receives the agency's report , or
(2) the rule, if published, appears in the Federal Register if Congress tak es
no action in that time frame.

The privacy regulation was published in the Federal Register on Dec. 28,
2000. However, because of an error, the regulation was not sent to Congress
until the week of Feb. 12, pushing back the effective date to mid-April.

There are problems with the new rules, however, and Thompson wants time
to study them.

Sharing Your Records With Marketing Firms

Although intended to improve the confidentiality of medical records, the
regulations contain a sleeper provision that allows health care providers t he
right to use confidential medical information for selling their products th at
could make such noble intentions into a sick joke.

Under the proposal, doctors can even share the information with a "business
partner" who can conduct marketing on behalf of a provider.

"It's perfectly legal under the rule for someone to knock on your door and
say, 'I've learned from your doctor you have hemorrhoids; would you like to
buy this treatment?' " said Bob Gellman, a medical privacy consultant and
former congressional staffer.

"You can only opt out after you have been marketed to. I've been working on
this issue for 20 years, and it's the worst anti-privacy thing I've seen."

Right now, there are no federal limits on the use of medical information fo r
marketing purposes, so the new rule will not allow the industry to do
anything it can't do already.

Traditionally, ethical concerns and logistical impracticalities have preven ted
much marketing from taking place.

In the long-gone days of family doctors, the medical field didn't seem so
driven by profits as it is today in the world of HMOs, Gellman said.

Also, he noted, medical records =96 more and more stored electronically =96
weren't so easy to get hold of in the old days.

The marketing loophole is part of the "final privacy rule" that HHS publish ed
on Dec. 28, 2000.

The regulation is part of the effort to implement the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 =96 a bill that sought to fill t he gaps
in health coverage that commonly occur when workers get laid off or change
jobs.

An important part of that law requires HHS to develop electronic standards
that all health care providers and insurance companies must use to
communicate with one another about treatment and bills.

The idea is that, if records are stored electronically according to a stand ard
protocol, a patient can change medical coverage and care easily and
efficiently. In short, HIPAA requires the entire medical industry to enter the
digital age.

A problem is that electronic storage makes your medical records easily
accessible to many people who you may not want to know that you take anti-
depressants or have a urinary tract infection.

Gellman isn't the only one who's unhappy with the final draft.

On Feb. 23, Thompson said that his department would reopen public
comment on the final rule. Thompson has called for more discussion and
cautioned against too much regulation.

"While I don't pretend to have all the answers, I can tell you one thing,"
Thompson said, "it should not be a top-down, federally mandated solution."

Privacy critics and consumer advocates worry that Americans =96 who were
consumed by the aftermath of the election and the agenda of a new
president =96 may not have noticed that such a serious threat to their priv acy
is under way.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/3/12/212002.shtml

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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Lebanon building pumping station on Kinneret headwaters
From: "research-bpr" <research-bpr@philologos.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:36:40 -0500

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To: imra@imra.org.il
Subject: Lebanon building pumping
station on Kinneret headwaters

Lebanon building pumping station on Kinneret headwaters

Jerusalem Post website 14 March 2001

[IMRA: In 1964, Syria sought to implement a plan to divert the sources of
the Jordan and prevent their waters from reaching Israel. This provoked a
series of border incidents; the Syrian plan was ultimately thwarted by IDF
operations in the spring of 1965. Today Syria, that relies of the supply of
water originating in Turkey, is in the curious situation that it shares
Israel's interest in opposing the unilateral diversion of water by source
countries.]

Israeli security sources are concerned about Lebanese plans to build a
pumping station on the Hatzbani River, one of the headwaters of the Jordan
River.

The work is being carried out on the banks of the Hatzbani near the village
of Rag'ir on the Lebanese side of the border.

Part of the village is in Israeli territory.

Water Commissioner Shimon Tal says the Hatzbani supplies nearly one quarter
of the water flowing into the Kinneret, and warns any program by the
Lebanese to divert the flow would likely have serious consequences for
Israeli water management.

Water for numerous communities in the north of the country comes from the
Hatzbani.

Israel faces a severe water shortage and the Kinneret is posting its lowest
level in years.

Tal made the statements during an interview with Army Radio this morning.

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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:37:19 -0500

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Subject: The Israeli Position regarding
Negotiations with the Palestinians

The Israeli Position regarding Negotiations with the Palestinians

Jerusalem, March 13, 2001

Israel Government Press Office

The following policy directives were issued by Israeli Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres after coordination with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon:

1. The Government of Israel is determined in its aspiration to achieve peace
with its Palestinian neighbors.

2. The Government of Israel has placed at the top of its priorities the
primary goal of restoring security and calm, in order to ensure the
well-being of the citizens of the State of Israel.

3. The Government of Israel takes the position that the conduct of peace
negotiations calls for tranquillity.

4. The Government of Israel is seeking to stabilize the situation in the
territories, and to improve conditions for those living there. Such
improvements will be implemented in a way that will not impact upon
security. The Government of Israel has no desire to burden the Palestinian
civilian population not involved in terrorism and violence. If calm prevails
in particular areas, the necessary improvements can be implemented there
immediately.

5. The steps taken by Israel in recent days in the area of Ramallah do not
constitute a change in existing Israeli policy. These steps were meant to
provide a specific security response to a grave security alert. This is
demonstrated by the fact that the Prime Minister and Defense Minister
decided last night (12 March) to lift the closure which had been placed on
the West Bank towns of Tulkarm, Kalkiliya, Bethlehem and Hebron.

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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:41:37 -0500

CITY LAW SCHOOL HONORING BARRED BUBBA
Wednesday,March 14,2001

By CARL CAMPANILE

Bill Clinton, who has been barred from practicing law, is getting an award
from a prestigious city law school - and some students are up in arms.

Two student groups at Benjamin Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University
will on Monday give their "Advocate for Peace" award to the ex-president,
who agreed to surrender his Arkansas law license for five years and pay a
$25,000 fine in a deal with the independent counsel.

"I'm offended. It's embarrassing. It doesn't reflect well on our school, the
administration or the student groups . . . bestowing the award on him," said
student Marc Stein.

"We're honoring a man who has no respect for the law, a man who admitted
to misleading a federal court, if not perjuring himself. The guy has to give up
his law practice as a result of the special counsel's investigation - and we're
giving him an award."

Joseph Bonventre argued that Clinton is a bad example for prospective
lawyers.

"It's wrong. It's hypocritical," he said.

Seth Alhadeff said he was perplexed as to why Clinton is getting a peace
award, considering that Mideast peace talks blew up, and tensions and
violence in the region are the worst in years.

"It's irresponsible to bring someone with Clinton's character to the law
school. He was disbarred, impeached, and he wanted to win the Nobel
[Peace] Prize," Alhadeff said.

"I don't see him as a role model as a leader, lawyer or a peacemaker. In the
international realm, he didn't accomplish anything."

But many students enthusiastically welcome Clinton.

"I think Clinton was beneficial for the Middle East. He was a great diplomat,"
said Mattias Eng.

"The award is for his overseas effort. You have to separate his personal life
from his professional life."

Student Jodi Tesser said Clinton's visit is a coup for Cardozo.

"He's done great things for the country on the economy and international
issues. His presence at Cardozo reflects favorably on the school."

Rachel Zentz said she's a big Clinton fan, and urged critics to cut him some
slack.

"He's getting a peace prize, not an ethics award. I'm sure he's not the only
attorney who's cheated on his wife," Zentz said.

"I wish Clinton were still president. I think he's sexy."

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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:43:15 -0500

Young Christians back unmarried sex

YOUNG Christians disagree with their Churches' moral teachings and believe
sex outside wedlock is morally acceptable.

A survey of social attitudes among teenagers of all faiths found that, while
most young Muslims accepted their religion's values, Christians did not. The
findings represent a further blow to the Church of England, which is
struggling to keep younger worshippers.

Eighty-two per cent of young Anglicans reject life-long marriage and believe
divorce is acceptable. Among Roman Catholic teenagers, 85 per cent
dismiss their Church's teaching that sex outside marriage is wrong.

In comparison, 42 per cent of Muslims believe divorce is wrong and 49 per
cent say sex should be confined to marriage. Half the young Roman
Catholics thought abortion was wrong and 31 per cent of Anglicans. Most
Muslims (58 per cent) were against abortion.

The research was conducted by the Rev Prof Leslie Francis, of Bangor
University, and was published yesterday in The Fourth R For the Third
Millennium, a book on religious education. Questionnaires were completed
by 15,000 children, aged between 13 and 15, asking them to state their
religious affiliation and their attitudes to personal, family and social
teachings.

Prof Francis said: "These are highly disturbing findings for Christians. They
demonstrate a significant gap between traditional Church teaching on major
moral issues and the beliefs of the younger generation."

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From: "Sunday"
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:47:40 -0500

To the List,

I thought I would throw something out to the List and I hope I
am not being inappropriate in doing so. This article on Young Christians and their views about unmarried sex seems to be world wide. I have adult children (in their 30's)
who have been trained in the Scriptures regarding God's Word on this subject, yet they have abandoned or pooh-hooed that teaching. When the next live-in friend appears on the family scene, they feel we are to totally ignore the fact
that they are not married and welcome the new person with
open arms. We do not. This stand of ours has totally broken our family relationships. If someone had told me that
this would happen 35yrs after they were born to us, I would
have said that's impossible, but it is happening. They have
banded together and the parents are on the outs, and I mean
outs! It has been heartbreaking for my husband and I, we love our children very much but we will not give up our Belief's. The first time this happened and perhaps the second, we took a more congenial stand by saying that we did not like it.......but........we didn't come down too hard on them even tho we knew we should have. As the divorces
began happening and new partners began moving in and then moving out, we straightened up our backbones and made a stand. Very costly to us personally, but then Jesus
said this would happen in life. I wonder, are there others on
the list who have experienced this and would care to share
their views on it and how they are handling the situation? May God Bless each and every one of you - Sunday

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From: "Beverly
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:41:10 -0500

Wow This is an open book isnt it?I have one grandaughter who is living with
a guy my sons girl . Another one has just moved out and did the same and
I am picking up the pieces.. My Daughter is devastated and she never once
can figure out how this happened. LIke yours, this girl was brought up in
church and this is sooooo heartbreaking.. WE would have never thought this
would happen.. Lives are in the balance now.
The other grandau ,her mom would never acknowledge God in any way and my son
never made any stand so this does not surprise me . It does not hurt as much
as the one brought up in the ways of the LOrd. They are both in sin and
need a lot of prayer.. I wish I had the answer . The one who was raised
christian is a waitress at REd LObster and she says the church is full of
hypocrites they come in and order drinks and are rude and do not even appear
as christians . She hates to work on Sundays as the church people are the
worse she says. What bothers her is one guy a worship leader comes in and
gets drinks and acts like a arrogant ? Yet he gets up Sundays in front of
the church and acts holier than thou . What do we do we cannot police our
own? .
I think the fact that our people don't act like christians hurt the churches
a lot. God has to clean up the people somehow and that is almost
impossible today. I remember my uncle used to tell me" in life remember
everything painted Red" ain't "a fire truck" . I know everything that says
it is a christian "ain't". I can accept this but the younger ones want
things to be black or white and they want it to be now , they are looking
for "something" to be clean and perfect and HOLY but we lack in the
churches to give them something to look up to.
As a mother of 5 this did not happen to me but it has happened to my
children and it affects the whole family . I have 12 grandchildren and if
the LOrd doesnt return soon , I don't know how we can survive .Or how the
churches can survive. The younger generations are out of control.. God help
us....

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From: "saintsusan"
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 05:16:27 -0800

    Just to let you know that the demonic is raging against all Christian
families,and the focus is on the youth.The cultures so steeped in defilement
from every avenue that I have found that only a firm stand will bring light
to the warfare.This means no compromise with the word or your walk
or the values you maintain in your home.
   Do not be complacent, have a battle plan as if today was your last day on
the planet.Speak to the Lord daily about your strategy,it will involve
prayer and the word in your spirit...it may be a time to fast,go into your
cave with the Lord or the divine appointments may arise and you will need
the full armor on to bring forth words of clarity and restoration.
  Know that you are not alone...and seek out others who are serious about
the battle to join you in fasting and praying a hedge of protection around
our loved ones and to break the spiritual strong holds that have derailed
them.We need to not forget who we are and start to Trust our Awesome
God...but again change does not come by apathy or inaction...it is a
spiritual battle for sure,let the warrior awaken,take up your armor and
begin the battle today.

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From: "Cynthia
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:25:20 -0700

How many demons are we letting into our own consciousness by judging others?
We are not God, we are simply caretakers of children until they are old
enough to make their own choices. Even Jesus suggested wiping the dust from
our feet if others don't accept his teachings. That dust I take to be the
stuff that weighs us down and distracts us from the soul work we need to be
doing for our own salvation. Obviously, the answer is not in our churches.
They are 'managed' by human beings, with frailties just like everyone else.
The Christ tells us to go into the closet. That pretty much tells us to
mind to our own salvation and love the attributes in others that reflect the
sweet amenities of Christ. I take this to mean to bless the attributes
covered in the Beatitudes. These attributes did not include human behavior,
they address spiritual qualities. We may KNOW that some behaviors must
cease before salvation can be achieved, but from our own inner work, we also
know that knowledge and understanding come slowly, sometimes. The 'wink of
an eye' may be many generations on angel time.

I have a wonderful adult son. He is merciful, pure in spirit, is by
profession, and inclination, a peace maker. He is strong on tolerance and
always tries to see the other person's point of view. I may not approve of
some of his lifestyle choices, but they have nothing to do with the essence
and goodness of the son that God created, not me. If Jesus could bless the
whore, who bathed his feet with her hair, who are we to judge the frailties
in others? I'd rather be at the party, frankly, than be a prisoner of my
own, human, limited ego. If I go to 'war' for someone else's transgressions
I'm neglecting the battle within me - to judge others or to heal myself.

Just my two cents worth - of no value to anyone but me, I'm sure. But as I
quell my own demons I find that it's easier to see the good in others. It's
peaceful in this place. blessings, cynthia

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> Just to let you know that the demonic is raging against all Christian
> families,and the focus is on the youth.The cultures so steeped in
defilement
> from every avenue that I have found that only a firm stand will bring
light

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From: Rimsky58
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:31:48 EST

True, yet neither are Christians called upon to condone or sympathize with
sinful behavior, particularly in the guise of Christianity.

Timothy

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From: "acolquhoun"
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:27:25 -0000

This is my first attempt at sharing in this group as I am still extremely new to computers.
On the above subject I wonder why so many Christians are surprised by what is taking place.
Young people and young Christians must find it very confusing. Why? Because on the one hand we have "The Church" going down the same road as the world, that is accepting almost anything. You only have to look at the Church's stand if you can call it that on homosexuality to see why young people and young Christians would be confused.
"The Church" now accepts homosexuality yet the Bible The Word of God explicitly condemns it.
"The Church" accepts all kinds of weird and unbiblical practices like Toronto, Brownsville, Pensacola etc. none of these things have ANY Scriptural backing yet the Church throws open her doors to them all. " The Church it seems has nothing to say concerning sex outside marriage in fact you will find many Churches who condone this. Yet Scripture again is absolutely clear that this is a sin. No wonder young people and young Christians are confused. What amazes me is that people continually talk about THEIR Church, OUR Church, when Scripture tells us that it is His Church that is The Lord Jesus Christ's Church. Walking in the world that is being disobedient to God has always and will always result in God's judgement befalling us. A good example of this is found in
Judges Chpt. 6. Gideon says in verse 13 " and Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites". Why has this happened? see verse one And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
"The Church " must stop walking in the world and return to the Word of God. Only then will we see young people and young Christians being given the true instruction which is needed to live a life honouring and acceptable to a Holy God.
The true Church must rid itself of liberalism and the idea that ALL things are acceptable to God again Scripture tells us that this is untrue. So waken up Church be cleansed by the precious blood of The Lord Jesus Christ. walk not in the ways of the world but in His ways.
Andy Colquhoun

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From: jbonner
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 16:39:38 EST

Andy wrote:

>"The Church " must stop walking in the world and return to the Word of God.
Only then will we see young people and young Christians being given the true
instruction which is needed to live a life honouring and acceptable to a Holy
God."

Perhaps what we need is not for The Church to get rid of liberalism, but for
the members of the Body of Christ to recognize that there are a whole lot of
people who don't know God in the worldly organism called the Church. The
Church is a great mission field for those who have the stomach.

Yours in Christ,
JaneB

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From: Neil
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:58:29 +0200

Hi Sunday

Moral values are becoming less and less observed these days. What has caused
youngsters to incline themselves this way? Has television that projects free
expression of sexual activity done this? or has easy access to sexual
activity across the internet done this? or has rock or rap music with its
sensual suggestions through its lyrics inticed sexual practice done this?
All three have in fact, and which are reducing our next generation of people
to conform more and more to the spirit of ungodliness. The generation that
now controls the administration of society in the world today have many
coming out of the hippy era or the 60's where the experimentation of drug
use, and the acknowledgement of Budhist and Hindu deities was strongly
influenced through the music groups such as "The Beatles" and many rock
groups after them. Could it be said that those coming out from the 60's are
potential agitators to the present immorality in society?
My advise to any parent is to pray that your child is protected by the
present and overbearing evils of today, and also the company of friends they
associate with.

Neil

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> To the List,
>
> I thought I would throw something out to the List and I hope I
> am not being inappropriate in doing so. This article on Young Christians
and their views about unmarried sex seems to be world wide. I have adult
children (in their 30's)
> who have been trained in the Scriptures regarding God's Word on this
subject, yet they have abandoned or pooh-hooed that teaching. When the
next live-in friend appears on the family scene, they feel we are to totally
ignore the fact
> that they are not married and welcome the new person with
> open arms. We do not. This stand of ours has totally broken our family
relationships. If someone had told me that
> this would happen 35yrs after they were born to us, I would
> have said that's impossible, but it is happening. They have
> banded together and the parents are on the outs, and I mean
> outs! It has been heartbreaking for my husband and I, we love our
children very much but we will not give up our Belief's. The first time
this happened and perhaps the second, we took a more congenial stand by
saying that we did not like it.......but........we didn't come down too hard
on them even tho we knew we should have. As the divorces
> began happening and new partners began moving in and then moving out, we
straightened up our backbones and made a stand. Very costly to us
personally, but then Jesus
> said this would happen in life. I wonder, are there others on
> the list who have experienced this and would care to share
> their views on it and how they are handling the situation? May God Bless
each and every one of you - Sunday
>
>
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:44:41 -0500

Palestinian Mufti urges protection of mosque

GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinians' highest religious authority called on
Tuesday for international protection for al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem,
saying this was a more urgent need than Buddha statues destroyed in
Afghanistan.

The Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Ikrima Sabri accused the Israelis of
digging under the mosque compound which he said could destabilise the
mosque, one of Israel's holiest shrines. Israel denies the charge.

The mosque is in territory occupied by Israel since 1967 but is run by
the Waqf Islamic religious council.

Sabri also expressed fears that the mosque may be attacked by Jewish
extremists. It has already seen considerable violence.

In 1969 a disturbed Australian tourist tried to burn the site down, and
in 1985 Israeli authorities accused a Jewish underground group of
plotting to blow up the mosque.

On Easter Sunday in 1982 a Jewish-American gunman opened fire in the
compound, killing one person and igniting weeks of Palestinian unrest in
which four Arabs died.

The compound is also Judaism's holiest place, known by Jews as Temple
Mount and revered as the site of the biblical temples.

"We are calling on all international institutions, Arabs and Muslims to
rush to the rescue of al-Aqsa mosque," Sabri, who is appointed by
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation
(PLO), said in telephone interview.

It was not clear whether he planned to make an official appeal for
international help.

The Mufti said he was surprised the world community had not expressed
more concern about the mosque, and referred to international efforts to
protect two Buddha statues eventually destroyed by the ruling Taliban in
Afghanistan because it deemed such statues un-Islamic.

"A priceless Islamic heritage such as al-Aqsa needs more urgent help
than two statues in Afghanistan," Sabri said.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Israel had not dug under
the al-Aqsa mosque.

"There is no country in the Middle East that better preserves holy sites
and respects sites that are holy to three religions than Israel," she
said.

"Therefore this is unclear to us. The Mufti may be asking for
international protection but it certainly is not because Israel is
digging under the al-Aqsa mosque."

Israeli archaeologists also say the Waqf has carried out unsupervised
construction of the site which is destroying archaeological remnants,
and that any digs have been outside the compound's walls.

Sabri said the old shrine needed constant renovation and maintenance
which had been undertaken by the Waqf authorities.

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Subject: [bprlist] EU ups pressure on PA to halt Intifada
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:52:50 -0500

Monday, March 12, 2001

EU ups pressure on PA to halt Intifada

By Daniel Sobelman

The lead story in yesterday=92s Al-Hayat, the international Arabic-language
newspaper published in London, reported that the contributing nations of th e
European Union are stepping up pressure on the Palestinian Authority to end
the Intifada.

They will make any further economic assistance to the PA conditional on an
end to violence, the report said. The European Troika =96 European Union
Special Envoy Miguel Moratinos, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and
the EU=92s Commissioner for External Affairs Chris Patten =96 will shortly meet
with Israeli, Egyptian and Palestinian leaders.

The Al-Hayat correspondent quotes a diplomatic source as saying the EU
representatives will =93encourage both sides to restore quiet so that secur ity
and economic cooperation between them can be reestablished.=94 The article
noted that the EU and the United States have asked Israel to transfer funds it
owes to the PA because they fear it will collapse.

The article also noted that the contributing countries would hold a confere nce
on the weekend. The newspaper added that the countries are demanding
=93greater transparency=94 from the PA in expenditures and tighter supervis ion
over the outlays of the Palestinian treasury. This comes =93in addition to other
steps to fight corruption and deficient administration=94 in the PA.

A =93well-informed source=94 told the correspondent that these demands comi ng
from the EU at a time when the PA is in the midst of a severe economic
crisis are tantamount to =93diplomatic pressure on the PA because of its
refusal to end the Intifada.=94

Arab funds are also held up. The Palestinian ambassador to the Arab
League, Mohammed Subeih, said yesterday the PA had received only $10
million of the billion dollars promised them at the Cairo Arab summit in
October.

=93The mechanism to establish funds is excellent for investment companies
but is unsuitable for a nation at war,=94 Subeih said. =93Arab countries co mmitted
to transfer $697 million to these funds, but only $260 was deposited in the
Islamic Development Bank, and only $10 million has been transferred to the
PA and the Palestinian NGOs.=94

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Subject: [bprlist] Assad may be ready to meet Arafat
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:54:49 -0500

Monday, March 12, 2001

Assad may be ready to meet Arafat

By Daniel Sobelman
Ha'aretz Correspondent

The Arab Monitoring Committee established after the recent summit of Arab
leaders in Cairo to discuss the situation in the Palestinian Authority,
convened yesterday, and is expected to recommend a $40 million transfer to
the PA to help prop up the Palestinian government. Meanwhile, Syria
indicated that President Bashar Assad may be ready to meet with PA
Chairman Yasser Arafat.

The committee, including the foreign ministers of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,
Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Morocco and the Palestinian Authority, met to
discuss the upcoming Arab summit on March 27 in Amman. They drew up a
draft proposal for the summit calling for an international court to judge Israeli
"war crimes," and a call for a United Nations investigative committee to look
into the events involving Israel and the Palestinians.

Concerning Syria and Lebanon, the committee will recommend that Arab
leaders express their support of the two Arab countries, in view of the
"threats" by Israel against them. The threats, they will say, are "an attack on
the Arab nation" as well as to the stability of the region.

Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq Shara said yesterday that a summit between
Syrian President Bashar Assad and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser
Arafat might be held even before the upcoming Amman summit. He added
that such a summit could also be held during the Amman summit, on
condition that the results are favorable to the interests of the Palestinian and
Syrian nations. The Palestinian leader has been trying in recent years to
warm relations with the Syrian leadership, but without success. If Arafat
succeeds in this effort, it will be a notable achievement for him, because it
will be interpreted as the formation of a united Palestinian-Syrian front
against Israel.

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Subject: [bprlist] Celebrations and a curfew in Hebron
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 08:57:01 -0500

Monday, March 12, 2001

Celebrations and a curfew in Hebron

By Amos Harel, Amira Hass and Nadav Shragai
Ha'aretz Correspondents

A few hundred settlers in Hebron held a Purim parade in the area under
Israeli control yesterday, while tens of thousands of Palestinian residents in
the same area were placed under curfew. Israeli military sources said that
the curfew was not imposed because of the parade, but rather due to the
shooting incident Saturday, when a resident of Petah Tikva was lightly
wounded by Palestinian gunfire.

Initially, the army said the curfew would remain in place for two weeks, but
this decision is likely to change in light of a dispute over the issue at Central
Command, where there is growing unease about the tight sieges and
closures imposed in recent weeks on the Palestinian population in the
territories.

A few hundred settlers and some supporters from outside Hebron,
participated in the traditional Ad-Lo-Yada Purim parade along Shuhada
Street in the city. Among the crowd were children dressed up as Dr. Baruch
Goldstein, the doctor who massacred some two dozen Muslim worshipers at
the Cave of Patriarchs during Purim in 1994.

Large police and military forces provided security for the parade, which came
under a barrage of stones from Palestinians as it passed through Gross
Square in the city. The soldiers responded by firing rubber bullets at the
stone-throwers. There were no reports of injuries in the incident.

The IDF barred Palestinian journalists from entering the area of Hebron under
Israeli control, to report on the parade. The journalists protested at one of the
crossings into the city, complaining that by preventing them from entering
the Old City of Hebron, the IDF was giving into the demands of the settlers.
But the IDF spokesman said the ban was designed to prevent unnecessary
friction in the area.

MKs Mussi Raz and Yossi Sarid of Meretz condemned the curfew that was
imposed on the Palestinian civilians living in the area. The fact that more
than 10,000 Palestinians were placed under curfew because of a parade of a
few hundred settlers was unacceptable, Raz said, expressing hope that by
next Purim, the settlers would hold their parade within the pre-1967 borders
of Israel.

Sarid also harshly criticized the decision to impose a curfew on the
Palestinian residents of the area, while MK Ophir Pines-Paz (Labor) termed
the settlers' parade "frightening and dangerous."

The spokesman of the Jewish community in Hebron, Noam Arnon, said that
"those who oppose the traditional Purim parade were sworn haters of the
settlement enterprise in the city and as such, their criticism did not deserve
a response."

Meanwhile, the IDF released three residents of the Magen David outpost on
Mount Hebron who were detained Friday on suspicion of shooting and
seriously wounding a Palestinian in the area. The three were released after
the IDF was unable to find evidence linking them to the incident. The man
remains hospitalized in critical condition.

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MARY IS IMAGE OF TRUE LIBERATION, POPE SAYS
Focuses on Apocalypse in General Audience

VATICAN CITY, MAR. 14, 2001 (Zenit.org).- In a world where the believer
may feel
the weight of lack misunderstanding, or even the violence of persecution, J ohn
Paul II presented the comfort of a powerful force: the figure of Mary.

Addressing pilgrims who filled Paul VI Hall for the midweek general audienc e
today, the Pope said: "For the Church, which often feels the weight of hist ory
and the siege of evil, the Mother of Christ is the luminous emblem of
humanity
redeemed and enveloped in saving grace."

The Bishop of Rome addressed a topic characterized by mystical overtones.
The
book he quoted most often was the Apocalypse. He described the struggle
between
good and evil, represented by the woman who gives birth to a son, and the
raging
dragon bent on destroying them.

Both against the Church, and the Mother, of which she is a figure, "is
unleashed
the monstrous devastating energy of violence, falsehood and injustice," the
Pontiff said.

In the great battle, John Paul II added, "Mary, her Son and the Church
represent
the apparent weakness and littleness of love, truth and justice." Neverthel ess,
"the final verdict is entrusted to =B4the salvation, strength, the Kingdom of our
God, and the power of his Christ."

However, like the woman of Apocalypse, John Paul II said that one must
keep in
mind that "in the time of history the Church might be obliged to seek refug e in
the desert, as ancient Israel did on the way to the promised land."

Yet, "the woman remains in this shelter ... only for a limited period," he said.
The sacred book itself states, he noted, that the "time of anguish, of
persecution, of trial is not, therefore, indefinite: In the end there will be
deliverance and it will be the hour of glory."

Thus, the Holy Father was able to affirm that, "Mary, next to her Son, is t he
most perfect icon of the liberty and deliverance of humanity and the cosmos ."

He added: "Let us fix our gaze, then, on Mary, icon of the pilgrim Church i n
the
desert of history, but outstretched to the glorious end of the heavenly
Jerusalem where she will shine as the Bride of the Lamb, Christ the Lord."

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CARDINAL MCCARRICK TURNS HEADS AT BAR SERMON
Joins in a "Theology on Tap" Session

WASHINGTON, D.C., MAR. 14, 2001 (Zenit.org).- It was Happy Hour at
Lulu=B4s, a
downtown bar. The place was thick with people and cigarette smoke. Beer
mug in
hand, secretary Sheila Johnson was just beginning to sink into the mood.

Then she turned around and saw the silver-haired man in black, with the
cleric=B4s
collar: His Eminence, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. She wasn=B4t the only on e
to do
a quick double-take, the Associated Press reports.

"You have to go where the people are," Cardinal McCarrick, 70, said over th e
blare of pop music and bar chatter. "Many of these people are probably
saints.
If I were holier, I might be able to tell you which.=B4=B4

Cardinal McCarrick made a statement about his personal theology Tuesday
night,
becoming one of the first cardinals in recent memory to take part in a
Catholic
outreach program called Theology on Tap, AP said. The 20-year-old program
puts
priests in bars and invites Catholics and non-Catholics alike to relax and
listen to a short sermon.

Few, if any, cardinals have ever spoken at the event, according to the
Archdiocese of Washington.

Some regular patrons, like Johnson, found Cardinal McCarrick=B4s presence
disconcerting. "This is a bar. I=B4m Catholic, but I don=B4t come here for
religion,=B4=B4 she joked.

The cardinal made only a brief stop at Lulu=B4s main bar before heading int o a
room crowded with about 500 young Catholics, drinking beer and ready to
listen.
A few non-Catholic patrons wandered in to listen as well.

The sermon was riddled with jokes and a few personal revelations.
Apparently,
Cardinal McCarrick was thrown out of high school for disciplinary reasons.
And
when he was about to be given his commission by John Paul II last month in
Rome
he was thinking, "I hope I don=B4t trip.=B4=B4

But the sermon also had its serious moments. "You have to make the effort
to
take control of your life and make sure that you are becoming all that God
wants
you to be, all that you can be,=B4=B4 Cardinal McCarrick said. "It is possi ble to
rush through all of this and end up with nothing.=B4=B4

Those who came to see Cardinal McCarrick speak didn=B4t find the setting to
be a
distraction. "Catholics don=B4t have this whole aversion to alcohol,=B4=B4 said Monica
Miller, 27, a graduate student at Georgetown University. "So it is natural for
people to meet over a few drinks and talk about God.=B4=B4

Still, Cardinal McCarrick says he realizes some Catholics might not approve
of a
cardinal preaching in a bar. "I could understand their concern, but to the
average person, rank doesn=B4t mean anything,=B4=B4 he said. "We need to be about
spreading the good news of our Lord and savior. The good news is that God
wants
to walk with you, wants to love you, every single day.=B4=B4

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ELDERLY ARE TREASURE, NOT A BURDEN, U.N. IS TOLD
Agency Preparing for Assembly on Aging

NEW YORK, MAR. 14, 2001 (Zenit.org).- In rich nations, the elderly are ofte n
neglected, something that is not common in poor countries, the Vatican=B4s
permanent observer at the United Nations said recently.

"Who are these older persons?" Archbishop Renato Martino asked during the
meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the second World Assembly on
Aging.
"Are older persons those who have reached 60, or 70, or 80 years? Maybe it
depends upon the direction from which the age is viewed."

The Vatican representative wondered why the elderly in the developed world
must
end their days "abandoned or forgotten in a care center or nursing home,
while
so many in the developing world view old age with reverence, and older
persons
are respected and valued as a treasure of wisdom, tradition and heritage?"

Archbishop Martino added that it "is horrible to think that just as the wor ld
begins to make great advances in prolonging the lives of individuals, a
reverence and respect for life has been lost. It seems impossible to believ e
that the taking of life has become, in some places, an acceptable
alternative."

Referring directly to euthanasia, Archbishop Martino said that for "many ol der
persons, such changes in legislation or medical practice, or the threat of
those
changes, have become a new source of fear and anxiety, and can indeed
weaken the
fundamental relationship of unconditional trust that they have a right to p lace
in those whose mission is to care for them."

To live longer should not be regarded as exceptional, or as "a burden or
challenge," but rather as "the blessing that it is. Older persons enrich
society," he stressed during the Feb. 26 meeting.

Therefore, the "United Nations must ensure that the world is prepared to
recognize and respect the human dignity of older persons and enable them
to be
full participants in society, rather than viewing them as a challenge to th e
community," the permanent observer concluded.

The U.N. General Assembly has decided to convene a second World
Assembly on
Aging sometime in 2002, in part to adopt a revised plan of action and a
long-term strategy on aging.

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MOTHER TERESA STATUE UNVEILED IN CALCUTTA

CALCUTTA, India, MAR. 14, 2001 (Zenit.org).- A life-sized, bronze statue of
Mother Teresa was displayed here today, in the city where the founder of th e
Missionaries of Charity spent most of her life helping the destitute and dy ing,
the Associated Press said.

British sculptor Jonathan Wylder depicted Mother Teresa with her hands in a n
often seen pose of praying. Amid hymn-singing, the statue was unveiled at
the
Mother House, the Missionaries of Charity headquarters, a Catholic nun born
in
Macedonia.

Naresh Kumar, a worker at Mother House who was instrumental in having
the statue
made, said that Wylder initially made Mother Teresa=B4s hands very delicate .
"But
Mother=B4s hands were really strong, the strongest I have seen," Kumar said .
So
alterations were requested to make the hands sturdy.

Wylder=B4s fear of flying prevented him from attending the unveiling in the Prayer
Hall, outside the room where Mother Teresa=B4s tomb is located. "I think th is is
the best thing I have done,=B4=B4 Wylder said in a letter read during the
ceremony.

"When we see the statue we feel she is there,=B4=B4 said Sister Nirmala, th e
superior general of the Missionaries of Charity who succeeded Mother
Teresa. "We
are reminded of the love and blessings of Mother who may not be physically
among
us but guiding us from above."

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ADDRESS AT WEDNESDAY GENERAL AUDIENCE
Mary Shows Way to Full Union With God, Pope Says

VATICAN CITY, MAR. 14, 2001 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of John Pau l
II=B4s address at today=B4s general audience.

1. We began our meeting hearing one of the most well-known pages of John=B4 s
Apocalypse. In the pregnant woman, who gives birth to a son, before a blood -
red
colored dragon that rages against her and against him whom she generated,
Christian liturgical and artistic tradition has seen the image of Mary, the
Mother of Christ. However, according to the primary intention of the sacred
author, if the birth of the baby represents the advent of the Messiah, the
woman
obviously personifies the people of God, whether biblical Israel or the Chu rch.
The Marian interpretation is not opposed to the ecclesial meaning of the te xt,
since Mary is a "figure of the Church" ("Lumen Gentium," 63; see St.
Ambrose,
Expos. Lk, II, 7).

Therefore, in the depths of the faithful community, the profile of the Moth er of
the Messiah is perceived. The dragon, who evokes Satan and evil, rises
against
Mary and the Church, as already indicated in the symbolism of the Old
Testament;
red is the sign of war, slaughter, spilt blood; the "seven heads" crowned
indicate a tremendous power, while the "ten horns" recall the impressive
strength of the beast described by the prophet Daniel (see 7:7), also the
image
of the prevaricator=B4s power that rages in history.

2. Thus, good and evil confront one another. Mary, her Son and the Church
represent the apparent weakness and littleness of love, truth and justice.
Against them is unleashed the monstrous devastating energy of violence,
falsehood and injustice. However, the song that seals the passage reminds
us
that the final verdict is entrusted to "the salvation, strength, the Kingdo m of
our God, and the power of his Christ" (Apocalypse 12:10).

Certainly, in the time of history the Church might be obliged to seek refug e in
the desert, as ancient Israel did on the way to the promised land. Among
other
things, the desert is a traditional shelter for the persecuted, it is the s ecret
and serene ambit where divine protection is offered (see Genesis 21:14-19; 1
Kings 19:4-7). However, the woman remains in this shelter, as the
Apocalypse
underlines (see 12:6,14), only for a limited period. The time of anguish, o f
persecution, of trial is not, therefore, indefinite: In the end there will be
deliverance and it will be the hour of glory.

Contemplating this mystery from a Marian perspective, we can affirm that
"Mary,
next to her Son, is the most perfect icon of the liberty and deliverance of
humanity and the cosmos. It is to her that the Church, of which she is moth er
and model, must look to understand the meaning of her mission in its
fullness"
(Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Libertatis conscientia," Marc h,
22, 1986, No. 97; see "Redemptoris Mater," No. 37).

3. Let us fix our gave, then, on Mary, icon of the pilgrim Church in the de sert
of history, but outstretched to the glorious end of the heavenly Jerusalem
where
she will shine as the Bride of the Lamb, Christ the Lord. As the Eastern
Church
celebrates her, the Mother of God is the Odighitria, she who "shows the
way,"
namely Christ, only mediator to lead us fully to the Father. A French poet
sees
in her "the creature in her first honor and final flowering, as she came fr om
God in the morning of her original splendor" (P. Claudel, "La Vierge =E0 Mi di,"
ed. Pl=E9iade, p. 540).

In her Immaculate Conception, Mary is the perfect model of the human
creature
who, full from the beginning of that divine grace that sustains and transfi gures
the creature (see Luke 1:28) always chooses, in her freedom, the way of
God. In
her glorious Assumption to heaven Mary is, instead, the image of the creatu re
called by the risen Christ to attain, at the end of history, the fullness o f
communion with God in the resurrection of a blessed eternity. For the
Church,
which often feels the weight of history and the siege of evil, the Mother o f
Christ is the luminous emblem of humanity redeemed and enveloped in saving
grace.

4. The ultimate end of human events will take place when "God may be
everything
to every one" (Corinthians 15:28) and, as the Apocalypse announces, the
"sea was
no more" (21:1), namely the sign of the destructive chaos and of evil will
finally be eliminated. The Church will present herself to Christ as a "Brid e
adorned for her Husband" (Apocalypse 21:2). That will be the moment of
intimacy
and flawless love. However, already now, by looking at the Virgin taken up to
heaven, the Church has a foretaste of the joy that will be given to her in
fullness at the end of time. In the pilgrimage of faith through history, Ma ry
accompanies the Church like the "model of the ecclesial communion in faith,
charity and union with Christ. Eternally present in the mystery of Christ, she
is, in the midst of the Apostles, in the heart itself of the Church being b orn
and of the Church of all times. In fact, the Church was congregated in the
upper
room of the cenacle with Mary, who was Jesus=B4 moth!
er, and with his brothers. Therefore, one cannot speak of the Church if Mar y,
the Mother of the Lord, is not present with his brothers" (Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith, "Communionis notio," May 28, 1992, No. 19; see
Cromazio
di Aquileia, Sermon 30,1).

5. Let us then sing our hymn of praise to Mary, image of redeemed humanity, sign
of the Church that lives in faith and love, anticipating the fullness of th e
heavenly Jerusalem. "The poetic genius of St. Ephrem of Syria, defined as " the
zither of the Holy Spirit,=B4 has tirelessly sung Mary, leaving a still liv ing
impression on all the traditions of the Syrian Church" ("Redemptoris Mater, " No.
31). He it is who represents Mary as the icon of beauty: "She is holy in he r
body, beautiful in her spirit, pure in her thoughts, honest in her intellig ence,
perfect in her feelings, chaste, firm in her resolutions, immaculate in her
heart, eminent, filled with all the virtues" (Hymns to the Virgin Mary 1,4; ed.
Th. J. Lamy, Hymns of Blessed Mary, Malines 1886, t. 2, col. 520). May this
image shine at the center of every ecclesial community as a perfect reflect ion
of Christ and may it be as a sign raised among the people, as a "city place d
at
the top of a mountain" and "an oil lamp on a !
pedestal, to give light to all" (see Matthew 5:14-15).
[Translation by ZENIT]

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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:32:05 -0500

Arafat aide warns of more terror if blockade is not lifted

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Jerusalem Post

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- While the IDF slightly eased its blockade of Ramallah
yesterday, Fatah leaders declared today another "day of rage" and a senior
adviser to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat warned the
government that unless it lifts the "siege" by this Saturday, "Israelis wil l not
be safe anywhere in Israel." Senior PLO and PNC official Bassam Abu Sharif
said if the blockade is not lifted by Saturday, Israelis should stay away f rom
cafes, restaurants, bus stops, and other public places.

Putin warned that aid to Iran could backfire

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Middle East Newsline

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has been warned that
his policy of aiding Iran's missile and nuclear programs could backfire. In an
unusual departure, a senior parliamentarian and strategist asserted that Ir an
could use the missile and nuclear technology to threaten Moscow within 15
years. The parliamentarian warned against what he termed was Putin's
strategy of helping such U.S. rivals as China, Iran, Libya, North Korea and
Pakistan.

Alexei Arbatov, deputy chairman of the Duma's Defense Committee, told a
news conference that Putin has again pursued the interests of the former
Soviet Union in developing relations with such countries Iraq, Libya, and t he
Palestine Liberation Organization. Arbatov raised the prospect that Russian
technology could help produce an Islamic bomb that might be supplied to
insurgents fighting Moscow. The Russian army is dealing with such an
insurgency in Chechnya, which he said is being given increasingly rhetorica l
support by Teheran.

"I would advise him to be very careful in our military-technical cooperatio n
with such countries as China and Iran," Arbatov said. "We should deliver
weapons to them. This is commercially beneficial and it promotes our
partnership, but we shouldn't deliver systems that will lend a marked
offensive character to their armed forces because we can never tell whether
that potential would not be directed against us in 10 to 15 years time."

Foot-And-Mouth Spreads to Middle East

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Reuters

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has rocked
Europe spread to the Middle East Wednesday, as Saudi Arabia and the
United Arab Emirates reported finding 10 cases. The cases were the first
found in the Gulf states, which import most of their meat. UAE Agriculture
and Fisheries Minister Saeed al-Ragabani said eight imported cows were
found to have the disease, and the official Saudi Press Agency said two
calves had been diagnosed with the highly contagious disease in neighboring
Saudi Arabia. It was not yet clear where the imported cows had originated.

Online voting system claimed to prevent repeat of US fiasco

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: AFP/Yahoo news

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- US-style voting debacles could be a thing of the past
under a hi-tech new system developed by Japan's NEC Corp. to ensure the
secrecy of digital ballots. The electronics giant said Wednesday it had
created a platform for network voting that could allow citizens one day to
cast their ballots from home or the office. "The controversy of last year's US
presidential election highlighted many problems of the current voting syste m
and as a result emphasis on improving existing voting techniques has
intensified," NEC said in a statement. "The new network voting middleware
('Digishuff') developed by NEC ... is able to maintain vote secrecy while
certifying the vote authenticity, and verify the total result on a large sc ale over
the network securely." Previous online voting systems needed far too much
computing power to be practical for the demands of a general election, the
company said.

The concept could spread in three stages, according to the project's
manager at NEC, Kazue Sako. Firstly, electronic voting at current polling
stations, then voting at designated computer booths set up in public areas
(where Digishuff would come in), "and finally moving to network Internet
voting from a computer."

Bush Highlights Church Program to Push Faith-Based Plan

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: FOX news

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- President Bush is exploring a church program that
embodies his spending proposals for education and faith-based initiatives. He
was traveling Wednesday to New Jersey to tour an after-school program at
Plainfield's Grace Episcopal Church. The president's visit comes as
opposition is building to his bid to send federal dollars directly to relig ious
groups. Two key senators said Tuesday that a central element of Bush's
plan =97 charitable choice =97 might not be included in the legislation. Un der
charitable choice, congregations and other religious groups competing for
government money would not be required to separate the religious and social
service aspects of their programs. Critics say that threatens to blur the
separation between church and state. Bush, however, was not looking to
wade into that battle.

Aides said Bush would urge parents, community leaders and teachers to
teach children right from wrong, using recent school shootings as a context .
In a speech to Treasury Department workers last week, Bush said he'd like
for more Americans to "remember priorities in life" and put a greater
emphasis on family, particularly their children.

McDonald's Forcing Beef Industry To Comply With Mad Cow Rules

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: FOX News

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- McDonald's Corp. is starting on its own to enforce
widely disregarded federal regulations aimed at keeping the our nation's be ef
supply free of mad cow disease. The fast-food giant has given packers until
April 1 to document that the cattle they buy have been fed in accordance
with the federal rules. The action by the nation's largest buyer of beef ha s
had a ripple effect throughout the industry, officials say. Major meatpacke rs,
including IBP Inc., Excel and ConAgra, have told their cattle suppliers the y
must document their compliance with the feed rules. "If McDonald's is
requiring something of their suppliers, it has a pretty profound effect," s aid
Janet Riley, a spokeswoman for the American Meat Institute, which
represents packers.

"While this latest food safety effort will involve considerable additional work
and inconvenience to the markets and dealers as well as our customers, we
must all do our part to assure high consumer confidence in the meat
supply." The FDA reported recently that hundreds of feed makers had failed
to comply with its feed regulations, which are designed to keep the brain-
wasting disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, from spreading if it eve r
reaches this country. "Here in the U.S., it's always been BSE-free. We want
to keep it that way," McDonald's spokesman Walt Riker said Tuesday. Mad
cow disease is linked to a new variation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, whic h
has killed some 80 Europeans since the mid-1990s, mostly in Britain.
Sheep, goats, deer or elk =97 are other animals that get similar brain-wast ing
diseases, which we have had problems with in the US. Beef processors will
be audited by McDonald's to ensure they have the required records, Riker
said.

Foot-and-mouth threat spreads international panic

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Reuters/ABC news

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- The threat of foot-and-mouth disease spread
international panic on Wednesday as countries banned meat from Europe
and warned they would disinfect travellers arriving from Europe. Barriers
sprang up inside the European Union itself, as German police guarded
normally unmanned border crossings with France, where the first case of foo t-
and-mouth on the European mainland was found on Tuesday. Britain is the
epicentre of the outbreak of the highly infectious disease, which attacks
livestock such as cattle, sheep, pigs and goats. But the French case shows
it has crossed the Channel, and U.N. experts warned no nation was safe.
Although the disease is endemic in many parts of the globe, the news of its
spread within Europe prompted the United States, Canada, Mexico,
Australia and South Korea to immediately halt imports of EU meat products.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation called for coordinated
international action, urging stricter controls on immigrants and tourists a nd
warning that the disease, which is generally not harmful to humans, could
strike around the world. "When we look at how the virus spreads, it's very
clear that every country is threatened," Yves Cheneau, chief of the FAO's
animal health service told Reuters. More aid should be made available to
tackle the virus in the endemic areas of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and
South America, Cheneau added. But the focus remained on the ever-
widening outbreak in Britain, where the three-week-old emergency risks
igniting a full-blown political crisis, and its potential spread across mai nland
Europe.

Farmers and other rural businesses face financial ruin: the movement of
livestock is strictly limited, tens of thousands of animals are being culle d and
burnt on giant pyres and much of the countryside is effectively a no-go zon e.
The number of confirmed cases in the United Kingdom has reached 205.
Irish Natural Resources Minister Hugh Byrne earlier this week said Britain
had to take tougher measures and called the country "the leper of Europe."

European tourists visiting North America faced the undignified prospect of
being herded through footbaths filled with disinfectant on arrival at airpo rts.
The U.S. government also said it would scrub the shoes of American tourists
returning from Europe and warned them not to visit British farms, zoos or
other animal facilities. Within Europe's own "open" borders, caution was al so
urged. A senior government official from the German federal state of North
Rhine-Westphalia said Germans should not make trips to neighbouring
France in case they brought back the disease. Foot-and-mouth is so
infectious it can be carried on clothes and vehicles or even transported by
the wind.

Poll shows Americans back Israel in intifada

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Jerusalem Post

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- The majority of Americans are on Israel's side in its
conflict with the Palestinians, and views Palestinian Authority Chairman
Yasser Arafat as a terrorist leader says a new poll released yesterday. 140 0
participants from across the US were interviewed between January 25 and
February 17, and participants were divided into four groups: 600 in a gener al
public category, 200 elites, 400 American Jews, and 250 influential
Americans. According to the poll, which has a margin of error of 2-3 percen t,
American Jews and their non-Jewish counterparts are on the same
wavelength regarding Israel, with as much as two-thirds of the general publ ic
and 75% of elites viewing Israel favorably, while less than one third of
Americans view Arafat favorably. Among Jewish Americans polled, 15% view
Arafat favorably. Less than a third of those surveyed support a Palestinian
"right of return" to Israel.

Israel's relationship with the US is seen in a favorable light throughout t he
country, with more than 80% agreeing that the US and Israel "share common
values, including a commitment to freedom and democracy." Nearly two-
thirds agreed that the US should defend Israel if needed, and 78% of the
public supports US involvement in the peace process. 49% of Americans,
and 77% of Jews, think Palestinian leaders "put children on the front lines of
violence for propaganda purposes." A majority of Americans think the
Palestinians instigate the clashes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and
Americans blame Palestinians more than Israelis for the violence by a
margin of 3 to 1.

For the most part, Jewish leaders were pleased with the results of the poll .
"There was a sense of anxiety and panic as the intifada continued and the
coverage continued," said ADL national chairman Abraham Foxman. The poll
"should calm the American Jewish community," he said.

The End is Mir

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: NASA Science news

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- When the space station Mir returns to Earth over the
remote South Pacific later this month, it will be big news. And rightly so. The
135-ton Russian outpost is the heaviest thing orbiting our planet other tha n
the Moon itself. "Asteroids weighing as much as Mir hit Earth perhaps 10
times each year," says Bill Cooke, a member of the Space Environments
team at the Marshall Space Flight Center's Engineering Directorate. "We
know this because we observe the flashes of the explosions in the upper
atmosphere via Department of Defense satellites." Just last year a 200-ton
asteroid startled Canadians with a sonic boom and a brilliant fireball as i t
disintegrated above the Yukon territory. Scientists later recovered a
smattering of meteorites from nearby Lake Tagish, none larger than a few
hundred grams.

However, Mir will never make it that close to the ground. As Cooke
explained, "the atmosphere is very good protection and it breaks up
meteorites and other space objects well before impact." Indeed, if Mir were
an asteroid, it wouldn't merit classification as a potentially hazardous on e.
Nevertheless, scientists expect the space station to put on a good show
when it returns. Mir is a beautiful but gangly-looking assortment of solar
arrays, laboratories and living quarters -- obviously not designed for
aerodynamic flight through the atmosphere. The station will quickly fall ap art
as it descends toward Earth. "We expect Mir to break into 6 or more main
pieces when it hits the atmosphere," says Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist
and program manager for orbital debris studies at NASA's Johnson Space
Center. Each piece will resemble a blazing meteor that spits smaller fireba lls
as the pieces crumble and burn.

5 of Mir's modules are still pressurized with air inside for humans. When t hey
explode, sky watchers (mainly sea birds) could witness a once-in-a-lifetime
display as incandescent fragments streak across the sky. "Of Mir's 135
tons, the Russians say about 20 tons might reach the surface -- mostly in
small pieces," noted Johnson. Even now Mir is sinking 1.5 km each day
because of atmospheric drag. Left to itself, the station would naturally pl unge
to Earth from its 250 km orbit no later than March 28th. But that would be an
uncontrolled descent. Instead, Mir will be guided to its final resting plac e by
a Progress spacecraft attached to the station. On March 20th Russian
ground controllers plan to fire the Progress's engines.

No one knows more about dumping spacecraft in the remote Pacific than the
Russians. Since 1978 they've deorbited 80 Progress spacecraft and five
Salyut space stations in the same area, 2 have already gone down there this
year. Mir will be the 3rd this year, and much bigger at about 135 tons. The
twenty tons of Mir-bits that scatter across the Pacific will be traveling 1 00
to150 mph when they reach the water -- a bit too fast for comfort! Russia's
fabled space station is easy to see, but don't wait --because the end of Mi r
... is near.

Controversial Powell statements blamed on slip of the tongue

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: CNN.com

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- The State Department is playing down comments by
Secretary of State Colin Powell, who officials say misspoke twice last week
on key mainstays of U.S. international policy -- one relating to Jerusalem,
the other to Taiwan. The controversial statements came during Powell's
testimony to Congress about President Bush's international affairs budget
and hot spots for U.S. policy.

One comment involved U.S. policy on Jerusalem, which both the Israelis and
the Palestinians claim as their capital. The United States has long
maintained that the fate of Jerusalem is a "final status" issue to be
negotiated between the parties.

But last Wednesday, when asked by the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee about President Bush's plans to move the U.S. embassy out of
Tel Aviv, Powell said the president was committed to moving "the embassy
to the capital of Israel, which is Jerusalem." State Department spokesman
Richard Boucher called the comment an inadvertent mistake and said U.S.
policy on Jerusalem remained unchanged. The mistake, however, provoked
strong reaction in the Arab world, and several Arab nations denounced
Powell, accusing the United States of being biased in favor of Israel. Offi cials
say Powell's other mistake came during testimony last Thursday before the
House International Relations Committee when Powell, while talking about
arms sales to Taiwan, twice referred to Taiwan as the Republic of China.

Worst flooding in decades in Australia

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Weather.com

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- Emergency teams used helicopters and boats to
evacuate 2 eastern Australian towns today, after heavy flooding destroyed
the sewer systems. Health officials worried that raw sewage flowing in the
streets would cause a disease outbreak in Gladstone and Smithtown, about
300 miles north of Sydney. Heavy rain has caused the worst flooding in
decades across SE Queensland and eastern New South Wales. About
3,000 people were moved from the flooded areas over the weekend. In some
cases, helicopters were used to reach people stranded on the roofs of their
flooded houses. State Emergency Service workers are airlifting food and
supplies to areas cut off by high water. The flooding also has damaged the
main north-south highway. In Queensland state, two people drowned over the
weekend when floodwaters pushed their cars into rain-swollen rivers.

Study: U.S. religious congregations growing

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: Yahoo News/AP

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- Half of U.S. religious congregations are growing and
most are thriving, especially those that embrace contemporary worship and
social outreach, according to a new study released Tuesday. "Worship is at
the core of growth and financial stability in America," said Carl Dudley, w ho
co-directed Faith Communities Today, a profile of religion in the United
States by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research in Connecticut.

The study of 14,301 houses of worship and 41 faith groups is billed as the
broadest survey of its kind ever conducted in the United States, which has
more than 300,000 congregations. The research was done over five years
with support from the Lilly Endowment and the faith groups. It found that 5 1
percent of congregations, especially those on the West Coast, report
growing memberships.

Another factor contributing to membership growth: Congregations are
sponsoring more social ministries that reach out to the poor. Most offer a
food pantry; more than one in three are involved in tutoring youth; and two in
three sponsor a thrift shop. To draw more worshippers, many of today's
religious services require less formal dress and emphasize storytelling mor e
than doctrine, the survey found. Many Christian services include "less God
as judge, and more Jesus as friend," Roozen said.

Catholic bar to throne 'must be ended'

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: Guardian Unlimited

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- The British government's senior law officer gave his
backing at the weekend to the Guardian's campaign to end the ban on
Roman Catholics succeeding to the throne. Lord Williams of Mostyn, the
attorney general, said the Act of Settlement 1701, which bars Catholics and
other non-Protestants from the line of succession, was discriminatory and
should be amended.

Asked about removing the ban on Catholics, he replied: "My personal view is
that there should not be any such bar." Reform of the act would raise
questions about the monarch's role as head of the Church of England. Lord
Williams said he favoured a debate on the Anglican church's role as officia l
state religion. "I am a member of the Church in Wales, which has been
disestablished since the 1920s and it works very well. It's healthy to have a
debate about this in a community which now has many different faiths." The
Act of Settlement also prohibits the sovereign from marrying a Catholic. Th e
act was passed at a time of political crisis, at the dawn of the 18th centu ry,
when there was a widespread fear of Catholics.

Catholic-Muslim statement calls for Mideast peace

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: Religion Today

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- A joint Catholic-Muslim committee has produced a new
statement decrying the continuing violence in the Middle East and calling f or
cooperation among all believers in pursuit of peace. The statement
pronounces the committee's "horror at the increased loss of life, the bodil y
harm, the damage to property" in the Middle East. The text specifically
remarks that the violence has been most pronounced "in the unjustly
occupied territories" of the Palestinian West Bank. The signers voice their
hope that "peace based on justice and international legitimacy may prevail,
thus bringing an end to those sufferings."

The joint committee of monotheistic religions met at the Al-Azhar Universit y
in Cairo, Egypt, late in February, to approve the draft statement. The
document was signed for the Vatican by Cardinal Francis Arinze and Bishop
Michael Fitzgerald - the president and secretary, respectively, of the
Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue.

The Catholic and Muslim signers pledge their support for free access to the
holy places of Jerusalem, and their desire for international guarantees of that
free access. The document also calls for a "peaceful solution" to the confl ict
between Christians and Muslims in Nazareth, where the construction of a
large mosque adjacent to the Basilica of the Assumption has provoked
religious clashes in recent months.

U.S. lawmakers told of atrocities against Moluccan Christians

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: Religion Today

Wed Mar 14,2001 -- Illustrating their personal testimony with photographs
and horrific video images, American civil rights workers and Indonesian
atrocity victims told U.S. policymakers Friday of a systematic butchering o f
Christian civilians by Islamic warriors in Indonesia's Moluccan islands.

"Christians I met with on the Moluccan islands witnessed their loved ones
being hacked to pieces by 'Jihad Warriors,'" said Steven Snyder, president of
International Christian Concern, a civil rights group. "Children watched th eir
mothers and fathers being killed in front of them," added Snyder, who
recently returned from a fact-finding visit to Indonesia.

Most of the 2 million inhabitants of approximately 1,000 Moluccan islands
are Muslims who dwelt in harmony with their minority Christian neighbors
until hostilities broke out in early 1999. Since then, 5,000 to 8,000 peopl e
have died in conflicts between the two communities.

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Book Recommendation by Moza

Occult Invasion: The Subtle Seduction of the World and Church
by Dave Hunt

Paperback - 647 pages (March 1998)
Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 1565072693

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From back cover
Occult beliefs march freely across America today powerfully
influencing our children, our society, our government, and even our
churches. The deadly impact of Satan's dominion is seen in the rise
of teen suicide, the increase in violence, and the immorality that
pervades our society. Sharing the knowledge you need to protect your
family from this invasion, noted cult expert Dave Hunt reveals-

how Satan's lies are being taught behind the academic respectability
of science

how demonic activities are presented as the path to enlightenment
through "alien" contacts and paranormal experiences

how pagan religions are being promoted through ecology and "we are
one" philosophies

how evil is being reinvented as good by psychology and the legal
system

Occult Invasion gives you the skills you need to recognize the subtle
incursions of the occult and provides tools you can use to halt its
destructive advance.

Table of Contents
1. Why This Book?
2. Evolution and Its Role
3. What Is the Occult?
4. The Death of Materialism
5. Remote Viewing
6. A Dark and a Light Side?
7. Naturalism or Supernaturalism?
8. Native, Indigenous, and Nature Religion
9. Spirit Communication and Possession
10. Drugs, Imagination, and the Occult
11. Ecology, Shamanism, Science, and Christianity
12. The Influence of Eastern Mysticism
13. New Respectability in a New Age
14. Holistic Medicine
15. Twelve Steps with "God As You Conceive Him"
16. The Seduction of Youth
17. Playing God: The Lust for Power
18. What about UFOs, ETI's and Near-Death Experiences?
19. Apparitions of Angels, Ghosts, and Mary
20. Occultism and the Roman Catholic Church
21. Psychology and the Occult
22. "Christian" Psychology
23. Charismatic/Evangelical Occultism
24. "Spiritual Warfare" and Revival
25. A.D. 2000: Millennial Madness
26. The Coming World Religion
Notes
Index

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:46:22 -0500

Smelly breath

Sniff out infections before you feel ill

A sniff of your breath can reveal that you're in for a bout of flu, up to a week
before the symptoms appear.

Defence researchers discovered the technique by accident when they were
looking for a way to tell whether someone has been exposed to a biological
weapons agent.

Our breath contains about 16 per cent oxygen, 78 per cent nitrogen and four
per cent carbon dioxide. It also contains traces of other gases, including five
parts per billion of nitric oxide.

NO is an important signalling molecule in the immune system, so Robert
Lad at the University of Maine wondered if levels of the gas change when
people contract an infection.

In preliminary tests, Lad's collaborator Richard Riker of Maine Medical
Center found NO levels of around 50 parts per billion in hospital patients
suffering from a wide variety of infections, and also in schoolchildren who fell
ill a few days afterwards.

Molecular sieve

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Lad's
team has developed a hand-held NO sensor that is sensitive enough to
detect the gas at these levels.

The breath from people being tested passes through a "molecular sieve" that
isolates NO, which is then oxidised to nitrogen dioxide (NO2). The gas is
detected by a semiconductor sensor whose electrical resistance changes in
response to its concentration.

The team hopes the breathalyser will help doctors decide if people are going
to be well enough over the following few days to work or to have a
vaccination. They have also noticed that levels of NO are higher in people
with asthma, especially when their asthma is worse.

"We'll look at monitoring patients on therapy," says Jean Cooper of the
Clinical Chemistry and Devices section at the US Food and Drug
Administration.

Correspondence about this story should be directed to
letters@newscientist.com

1900 GMT, 14 March 2001

Eugenie Samuel, Boston

From New Scientist magazine, 14 March 2001.

http://www.newscientist.com/newsletter/news.jsp?id=ns9999517

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Suck it and see

Your tongue could give you a whole new sense of direction

HOW do you find your way around when it's pitch dark? You could try
sucking on an electrode that transmits visual cues to your brain via your
tongue. Its developers hope that some day the system could help blind
people get about easier.

Paul Bach-y-Rita and Kurt Kaczmarek of the University of Wisconsin in
Madison have developed a device they call a "tongue display unit"--a grid of
144 gold-plated electrodes covering an area a little larger than a postage
stamp. In one prototype, a video camera feeds signals to the TDU via a small
box of electronics.

Cheryl Schiltz tested the tongue display by using it to navigate a computer
maze. With her eyes closed, she pushed buttons to move through the maze
as directed by the computer. To signal her to turn left, the leftmost
electrodes tingled her tongue. To go straight, the tingling pulsed from back to
front. "It was just amazing," she says. "Just by feeling it on my tongue, my
brain got the message where to go."

The human tongue is highly sensitive to touch because it contains a high
density of nerve fibres and mechanosensors. "It also presents an electrical
resistance that's consistent over time," says Kaczmarek. A large part of the
brain's cortex is devoted to the sensory perception of the tongue. And
because the tongue is awash with conductive saliva, it is an efficient surface
for delivering electrical impulses--unlike exposed skin, which is covered with
a layer of dead skin cells and can go from sweaty to dry in minutes.

It takes 50 hours of practice to become familiar with the unit, says Bach-y-
Rita. Quite quickly, people stop noticing the weird sensation and learn how
to interpret it, similar to the way people learn Braille.

So far the unit has been used to convey very simple information, such as
computer-generated graphics. But within five years, the researchers expect
to condense the system into an inconspicuous unit that fits in the user's
mouth, with a wireless link from a spectacle-mounted video or infrared
camera. For underwater use, it could be linked to a sonar sensor. US Navy
diving teams have already tested a system in murky waters.

An orientation feedback system to assist people who have lost their sense of
balance may also be on the horizon. Head-mounted accelerometers would
sense roll and pitch so that when the user wobbles, the system signals to
correct left or right.

Schiltz says the TDU produces a "fizzy" sensation, that some people may
dislike. "It's kind of like when you stick your tongue on a 9-volt battery," she
says. "But not as scary."

Caroline Seydel

From New Scientist magazine, 17 March 2001.

http://www.newscientist.com/newsletter/news.jsp?id=ns228239

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:53:34 -0500

March 15, 2001

Chinese Christians Go Underground To Study The Bible

(CHARISMA) -- Capitalizing on caves and tunnels built by Chinese and
Vietnamese to further the cause of communism, Christians are going
underground to study the Bible. According to United Press International
(UPI), growing illegal house churches are training pastors in caves of
northern China, which provided shelter for Mao Tse-tung and his guerrilla
army in the 1940s.

Wolfgang Baake, chairman of the German branch of Voice of the Martyrs,
recently visited one such secret Bible college. "They were no longer than
eight yards and no higher than two," Baake told UPI. "They housed three
instructors, two housekeepers and 37 students from all over China, 16
women and 21 men, aged 17 to 27."

He said the students spend 10 months underground, then do a two-month
internship in their home congregations, and return for another 10 months to
the college. "Then they are pastors, earning perhaps $20 a month and
risking arrest, torture and even death," Baake said.

Baake said the college lacks a library and "is not equipped to teach theolo gy
-- just Bible studies, exegesis and preaching." Baake added that the
students realized they could be martyred if the school is discovered.

China's officially recognized Protestant church numbers some 20 million
members. At least 75 million Christians belong to "illegal" house churches,
which are denounced and persecuted by state authorities.

=A9 2001 charismanews.com

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           ring road through West Bank that effectively
           puts an end to the possibility that
           Abu Dis will revert to PA

Ha'aretz: Committee approves Jerusalem ring road through West Bank that
effectively puts an end to the possibility that Abu Dis will revert to PA

By Nadav Shragai and Baruch Kra Ha'aretz Correspondents Ha'aretz 15 March
2001

The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee a few days ago
approved the plan to build the "eastern ring road" along the capital's
eastern border. The plan will now be put on display to allow the public to
view and comment upon it.

The road is considered important in respect of certain security, political
and transportation issues. The road will divert vehicles traveling between
Bethlehem and Ramallah to a corridor beyond Jerusalem's eastern boundary, so
that they need not pass through the city, as at present.

To pave the 15 kilometer road, 658 dunam (about 165 acres) will have to be
appropriated from the landowners in five Arab villages: Issawiya, Al-Tur,
Azariya, Abu Dis and Ras al-Amud. The government of former prime minister
Ehud Barak was willing to hand these areas over to the Palestinians, but the
government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has declared that the agreements
reached at Camp David, Washington and Taba are no longer valid.

If the controversial ring road plan receives final approval, work on the
road is expected to last at least three years, at a cost of nearly NIS 900
million. The budget for the road was approved by the previous government and
the master plan was approved during Benjamin Netanyahu's term as prime
minister, but the detailed plan was submitted only during Barak's term in
office.

Work has already begun on one of the lateral roads that is to join up with
the ring road - the Mount Scopus road. It would connect the Beit
Horon-Mishor Adumim route in the North to the Beit Sahur-Bethlehem road in
the South.

The ring road plan contains three tunnels, including one 1,200 meters long
under al-Azariya, and three bridges, including a 600-meter structure over
the Kidron River.

The road's planners point out that, apart from the fact that the road will
carry Palestinian traffic outside the city, it will have an enormous effect
on traffic within Jerusalem. The road will carry Jewish traffic in an area
with a very few Jewish residents.

The planners hope the road will encourage economic development in eastern
sections of the city.

MK Mussi Raz (Meretz) said there is a real need for the road, both for
Jerusalemites and West Bankers, but, given the current security situation,
there is no sense in building a road on expropriated lands in areas which
form the background to the recent violence - parts of which may in future be
handed over to Palestinian control.

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Ha'aretz: Katsav calls for end to Palestinian destruction of antiquities on
Temple Mount

By Dalia Shehori Ha'aretz Correspondent Ha'aretz 15 March 2001

The government must not permit the destruction of antiquities on the Temple
Mount to continue, President Moshe Katsav said yesterday.

After meeting members of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of
Antiquities on the Temple Mount Katsav said he would ask Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon to prevent trucks entering the mount and removing
archaeological material. "To hear about hundreds of trucks removing
archaeological material from the Temple Mount causes trembling, to hear
about digging being done [by the waqf - Muslim religious trust] without the
knowledge of the Antiquities Authority causes anguish," he said.

Katsav said after hearing the committee's survey, he could not shake off the
impression that the waqf's goal was not only to reinforce Muslim control of
the mount but "to erase every Jewish trace."

Dr. Shmuel Berkowitz, a committee member, said while the entire world is
outraged by the Taleban's destruction of ancient Buddhas in Afghanistan, the
same world is silent about the destruction of Jewish antiquities on the
mount.

Committee members told Katsav that last Shabbat, trucks entered the mount to
remove additional material and on Tuesday a tractor worked there, damaging
an ancient building and destroying many archaeological remains. They said
they had sent an urgent letter to Sharon and Public Security Minister Uzi
Landau.

Last week, the committee asked the High Court of Justice to order the
cessation of all work being done by the Waqf without archaeological
supervision and the resumption of supervision on such work by the
Antiquities Authority.

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:02:06 -0500

Heavy water

A UN report says depleted uranium contamination is not widespread in
Kosovo, but warns drinking water could be affected in future

Drinking water in Kosovo could end up being contaminated with radioactive
uranium at levels in breach of safety limits, warns the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP). A new study by an international team of
scientists says the water should be monitored and the uranium cleaned up.

Over 30,000 shells containing nine tonnes of depleted uranium (DU) were
fired by US A-10 aircraft at 112 sites in Kosovo during the conflict in 199 9.
The material is very dense and helps the shells penetrate armour.

Because of controversy over how this might endanger the health of local
people, 11 of the sites have been examined for UNEP by 14 scientists from
the US and Europe.

Their report, published on 13 March, concludes that there is "no widespread
contamination" by DU and hence no significant risk to health. It points out ,
however, that the water from wells in heavily shelled areas could be pollut ed
in years to come as the uranium dissolves and leaches into the groundwater.

100-fold increase

The report says a thousand DU shells buried in the ground could increase
uranium levels in water by 100 times. This would push them over the two
micrograms per litre limit recommended by the World Health Organisation.
An A-10 fires up to 150 rounds in a single dive, which can penetrate seven
metres into soft soil.

Pekka Haavisto, chairman of UNEP's DU assessment team, stresses that
there are "considerable scientific uncertainties" about the safety of the
groundwater. "Additional work has to be done to reduce these uncertainties
and to monitor the quality of the water," he says.

The UNEP report also recommends that all the sites in Kosovo contaminated
with DU should be cleaned up. "DU can still pose risks," cautions UNEP
executive director, Klaus T=F6pfer. "Our report highlights a series of
precautionary measures that should be taken to ensure that the areas struck
by DU ammunition remain risk-free."

Plutonium traces

Scientists also confirm that the seven and a half DU shells they found in
Kosovo last November contained traces of plutonium. Although the amounts
were too small to add any significant radioactivity, they did suggest that the
uranium had been burnt in nuclear reactors.

The 19 members of NATO, which co-ordinated the military action in Kosovo,
are currently discussing whether a DU clean-up is necessary and, if so, how
it would be conducted and funded.

"The UNEP report adds further information to the public debate about DU," a
spokesman for NATO told New Scientist.

More at: UNEP report
http://www.unep.ch/balkans/

Correspondence about this story should be directed to
latestnews@newscientist.com

1630 GMT, 13 March 2001

Rob Edwards

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:04:04 -0500

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water station pumps up the tension

Ha'aretz: Lebanon's proposed water station pumps up the tension

By Zafrir Rinat Ha'aretz Correspondent and Agencies Ha'aretz 15 March 2001

Alarmed by a new pumping station across the border with Lebanon, Israel
yesterday warned Lebanon and Syria it will not be able to ignore any
violation of its water rights.

Ra'anan Gissin, an aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said Israel sent a
very sharp message to Syria and Lebanon through the United Nations, warning
them that diverting the waters of the Hatsbani River would violate
international conventions.

Infrastructure Minister Avigdor Lieberman said water is a matter of "to be
or not to be, to live or to die" and Israel could not let the issue pass.
Israel also plans to ask the United Nations itself to halt work on the
pumping station, which began last month. It is not yet in operation.

For now the government is more concerned with the violation of a
long-standing principle - that the status quo on water should not be changed
without agreement - than by any pumping itself. This is because the plan,
which presently calls for pumping only enough water to supply the needs of a
few local villages, will have no noticeable impact on Israel's water supply
in the short term.

More extensive use of the river by Lebanon, however, could dry up one of the
main sources of Israel's principal reservoir - Lake Kinneret. As Defense
Ministry spokesman Shlomo Dror said yesterday, there is concern Lebanon
could eventually build a dam to divert the entire river. Lebanese officials
deny any such intention.

Dror said with water scarcer than ever after a second year of low rainfall,
Israel could not sit quietly by and allow Lebanon to divert the Hatsbani.
"We really expect the Lebanese to understand this is very important to us
and that we won't be quiet over it," he said.

Each year 110 million cubic meters of water flow into the Jordan River from
the Hatsbani, about 24 percent of the Jordan's total intake. Its largest
source is the Dan Spring, which accounts for 54 percent of the water and the
rest comes from the Hermon (Banyas) River.

Most of the water destined for the Jordan passes through the Kinneret on the
way, accounting for two-thirds of the water entering the Kinneret every
year.

About 60 million cubic meters a year is removed from these wellsprings at
source by either Israel or other countries - an amount that has increased
significantly in recent years due to increased pumping by Israeli
settlements on the Golan Heights. If Lebanon were to begin pumping large
quantities from the Hatsbani, the Kinneret would soon be in even worse shape
than it is now.

The Lebanese pumpimg plan could also cause ecological damage to the Nahal
Shnir nature reserve, which stretches from the village of Rajar on the
Lebanese border southward to the Kiryat Shmona-Dan Road. Hillel Glazman of
the Nature Reserves Authority said pumping would significantly reduce the
amount of water that reaches the preserve, causing some of its vegetation to
dry up.

Professor Nurit Kliot of Haifa University, a specialist in international
disputes over the use of natural resources, said that while it is illegal
under international law to divert a river that serves a neighboring country,
it is permissible to take water from that river for the needs of the local
population. Thus Lebanon's pumping plan is legitimate under international
law.

Arnon Sofer, an expert on hydro-politics at Haifa University, said although
international law requires neighboring countries to inform one another of
any project affecting water flow, this is routinely violated in the Middle
East.

Sofer noted that under the 1955 Johnston Agreement, signed only by Israel,
Lebanon was entitled to about 35 million cubic meters of water a year from
the Hatsbani. But Lebanon currently diverts only 10 million cubic meters,
and Israel would probably keep quiet if it took another 10 million.

Kliot said she does not think the Lebanese have any interest in a water war
with Israel, but they also have a serious water shortage. Fights over water
are hardly new. In the 1960s, the Arab countries had a number of plans to
divert the sources of the Jordan away from Israel.

In 1965, the Syrians even began work on such a plan, but Israel bombed the
tractors it was using. This was one of the sources of tension that
eventually led to the Six Day War of 1967.

Nor is Israel the only victim of such disputes. Just a few years ago, Syria
sharply reduced Jordan's annual water supply by taking an extra 200 million
cubic meters a year from the Yarmouk River - after promising to take only
90. Professor Dan Zaslavsky, a former water commissioner, published a paper
recently in which he warned that Syria was liable to do the same to Israel
if it ever regained control of the Golan Heights. "Purely from a water
perspective ... it should be forbidden to let the Syrians get anywhere near
the watershed on the Golan," he wrote.

Regional passions on water can get very steamed up - as in the response of
Uri Saguy, the head of the Mekorot water company, to the Lebanese plan.
"Whoever takes unilateral action will find himself with a unilateral
reaction," Saguy said yesterday. "There is no water in the Middle East.
Therefore, understandings must be reached. If not, it can turn into a war or
a forceful confrontation.

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:16:24 -0500

Special Jerusalem Report - Barbara Richmond

The War takes on a new dimension. One-fifth of Israel s Drinking Water
Threatened by Syrian Approved Lebanese Plan to Divert Key Jordan Source.
The chairman of Israel s water company Mekorot, Uri Sagi, who is also a
former army intelligence chief disclosed Wednesday, March 13, that Lebanon
has begun building a pumping station on the Hatzbani river near the Ajar
village. Israel s water sources are shrinking by the year. The key to its
water supply in a predominantly desert region is the once Syrian-Lebanese
village of Ajar which Israel annexed in the late sixties and declared its
inhabitants of the minority Moslem Alawi sect Israeli citizens. The
villagers were content and with generous Israeli economic support,
prospered. Ajar is situated over the source of the Wazzani river and
commands the convergence point of that river, the Hatzbani and the Litani,
before they flow into the Jordan River which feeds the Sea of Galilee. The
lake water nourishes the entire country and after several dry winter
seasons, its level has already fallen disastrously enough for Israel s
water authorities to consider rationing. Diversion of the Hatzbani would
reduce the national supply by one-fifth and dry out Israel s northern
population, Jew and Arab. Former prime minister Ehud Barak was warned by
military and water experts before he pulled the army out of South Lebanon
last year that it was only a matter of time before Syria blocked the three
rivers and starved Israel of water, creating a national calamity. Barak
told the experts he had discussed the problem with the United States
government and UN secretary Kofi Annan and it was agreed that Israel would
retain Ajar village and control over the three vital rivers. That
agreement did not work on the ground. The Hizballah, urged by Damascus,
immediately declared that as long as Israel retained control of Ajar, it
would be deemed not to have carried out its withdrawal from Lebanese soil.
Barak gave in to the demand and withdrew from the village, explaining to
his critics that the Americans had received a promise from Syrian
president Beshar Assad that the Hizballah would not be allowed to deny
Israel control over the Ajar river junction. At that time, Israel still
entertained hopes of the new Syrian president as a partner for peace
talks, believing that US influence over the young ruler predominated. It
is now plain that none of the assumptions or accords actuating the Israel
withdrawal from Lebanon has held up. The Hizballah, instead of disarming
and converting into a political force, continues its war as though nothing
has happened. Indeed the extremist Shia group has built new positions
close to the Israel frontier from the Mediterranean in the West to Mount
Hermon in the East, and they are armed more powerfully than ever with
artillery and rockets placing Haifa in range. Most of those weapons come
from Syria, whose leader has chosen the most radical, rejectionist path.
The Lebanese have been warned that if construction of the pumping station
goes ahead, Israeli will demolish it; a warning to this effect has been
conveyed to Damascus through Washington. Assad appears bent on a
confrontation with Israel, however limited, and has told the Lebanese to
ignore Israel s warning. In the light of these occurrences, the period
following the Arab summit in Amman will be crucial to developments on
Israel s northern frontier. Syrian President Bashir Assad will meet today
with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian monarch Abdullah II in
Damascus. The three will discuss local events and primarily the continued
tension between the Palestinians and Israel. The leaders will coordinate
diplomatic positions prior to the Arab League meeting to be held in Amman,
Jordan on March 27th and 28th. Sporadic fighting continues in the
territories. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected European requests
yesterday to transfer to the Palestinian Authority tax levies withheld by
Israel, saying that asking Israel to transfer money to the PA that will be
used to pay salaries for members of various Palestinian security forces
engaged in terrorism attacks is =93unethical.=94 The European Union delegat ion
called on Israel to relieve the economic pressure on the Palestinians.
Sharon, according to his spokesman, responded by saying that the economic
crisis facing the PA is a result of the Palestinians choosing to use
violence and terror, abandoning the negotiations, and breaching its
agreements with Israel. Shalom, Barbara www.foryourglory.org

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Subject: [bprlist] Re: Young Christians back unmarried sex
From: Agape
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:15:56 -0800 (PST)

Dear Friends,

We have brought this upon ourselves, because we are to0 worried about coming of the Lord and we
forgetting about maintaining a personal relationship with Him. Can't you see, we have made the
attendance to church a tradition rather than a seek of truth. The church is not the temple of
Christ, we are. Jesus Christ said in Luke 10:27 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,' and "your neighbor as
yourself." as these two commandments enclose the ten commandments stipulated in the Old Testament.
The consecuences about forgetting this two commandments is giving the victory to the Enemy over
our children. The enemy is filling their hearts with lies and confusion about the truth and the
Love of Jesus Christ. The Lord is not about a Sunday tradition, a gathering, the tithe, the dress
attire at church, what the pastor thinks about my "service to the Lord". Which Lord are you
serving, it certainly does not seem like the King of kings. Because if that was the case our
children would see the reality of Christ in our lives. Let's stop concentrating in when the Lord
will be coming to stop our so called "suffering". Do we really know what suffering is? Are we
really doing our job wich is to "Love God with our heart, with our soul and with our strength and
our neighbor as ourselves" If that is the case why do our children say otherwise. Perhaps the
church and ourselves are showing them the reality of Christ in our lives. It makes me so angry to
see people so self-absorved in their needs, what about our childrens' needs? Why are they seeking
the truth with the Master of Darkness and not with the Creator of all things in this World?
Perhaps, is because the Enemy is showing them something more real. We all know that Christ is
real, but do we present that? I don't intend to insult anyone but, come on, wake up!!! Open your
eyes to reality. Let's seek the truth with the Almighty and let him teach you how to love Him
more than anything in the world. More than your life itself. My friends I pray that the Lord
opens your spiritual eyes, wisdom and knowledge. May the Lord come in your heart and teach you
what he wants in your life.

God Bless you,

Erika

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Subject: [bprlist] Re: Young Christians back unmarried sex
From: "Moza"
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:06:16 -0500

In 1 Samuel there is the story of Eli and his wicked sons. Eli did not take the
necessary steps to discipline his sons even though he knew of their
wrongdoing and in effect drew a curse down on his household because of it.
Please note that he is described as being old and weak and that the voice of
God was "precious" in those days because it wasn't heard very often. I
believe he was infirm in these ways because he knew what was right but
continued to ignore it therefore he was not a fit vessel for further truth and
this was also manifested in a physical way--his eyes and ears were dimmed
because he refused to see and hear ("...he that hath an ear, let him hear").
Look at descriptions of Caleb and Moses and some other old-timers in the
Bible, they were used right up until the end even over 100 years of age and
had all their faculties intact--they had ears to hear and eyes to see their
whole lives.

I think that all parents have to take into account that if they won't take the
initiative in their own homes regarding matters that are clearly marked as
wickedness then they won't be trusted with other, deeper areas of service to
the Lord--they will become "dim" by persistent stubbornness in ignoring the
unrepentant child's behavior. It might be easier to ignore the whole situation,
but it certainly won't bless your children and if you won't tell them, God will in
his own way and own time (even if you don't live to see it). The world says
"go ahead, there are no consequences" and you can either let them hear/see
some of the consequences now or let them be surprised by it later...but don't
be fooled into thinking that God will ignore it or that in the end they will call
you blessed for allowing them to continue on this path for the sake of family
harmony. You can't witness for the glory of God while you're wallowing in the
mud.

Moza

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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) PMW special report #34 - Palestinian Crossword Puzzles
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:40:48 -0500

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PMW special report #34 - Palestinian Crossword Puzzles

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
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As part of our ongoing examination of Palestinian society and culture, PMW
yesterday published a report on crossword puzzles that appear in the
Palestinian daily newspapers. Enclosed is the Jerusalem Post story. [The PMW
report was also reported in Maariv, and PMW director was interviewed on 4
radio programs.] The full report is being translated to English and will be
emailed to you shortly.

Even Palestinian crosswords reject Israel
By Jonathan Krashinsky
JERUSALEM (March 15) - Question: What is the well-known port city of
Palestine?

If you answered "Gaza," you'd be wrong - it's Haifa, according to crossword
puzzles that appear in Palestinian media sources routinely enjoyed by
Palestinians of all ages, including children. In fact, going by the clues
these puzzles offer, there is no Israel at all - from Metulla to Eilat, from
the Mediterranean to the Jordan, with the eternal united capital of Al-Quds
(Jerusalem), it's all Palestine.

The normally innocuous medium of crossword puzzles seems to have become just
one more battleground in the long struggle between Israel and the
Palestinians, according to a report released yesterday by Palestinian Media
Watch. The puzzles which appear, notes the report, are full of rejectionist
and antisemitic "clues" - and not only since the outbreak of the "Aksa
intifada."

"It is important to note that these problematic 'messages' are not published
in the Palestinian Authority newspapers in the aftermath of violence or
during times of particular tension in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship,"
reads the report. "Rather, these have appeared over the past number of years
as a routine part of Palestinian culture and amusement, reflecting normative
Palestinian thinking and expectations."

The report cites numerous clues with a deeply antagonistic message against
Jews and Israel, including identifying Yad Vashem as "commemorating the
Holocaust and the lies," the Jewish trait as "treachery," and Jerusalem as
"the Palestinian capital from the dawn of history until eternity."

Moreover, with the exception of Tel Aviv and its immediate environs, every
major city and geographical feature in Israel is identified as Palestinian.
This includes numerous references to Lod, Safed, and Jerusalem as "occupied"
by the Israelis, as well as including Ashkelon, Jaffa, Acre, Caesarea,
Haifa, and geographical features such as Lake Kinneret, Mount Meron, and the
Negev desert in the same category.

"We have observed this taking place since we started following the
Palestinian media some five years ago," said Itamar Marcus, director of the
organization. "This cultural expression is in many ways more significant
than the statements of Palestinian leaders, since it makes us aware of the
deep beliefs of the Palestinians. In all the crossword puzzles we've seen,
we've never found reference to any place in Israel as Israeli. Every place
is called Palestine.

"This isn't incitement... it is an honest expression of beliefs."

Marcus, who intends to extend the Watch's study to all aspects of cultural
expression reflected in the media, criticized Israel's leaders for ignoring
a growing process of radicalization of Palestinian opinion. "I think all the
Israeli governments have made a tremendous mistake in ignoring what has been
called incitement for all these years," said Marcus. "By now, it's no longer
incitement - it has been absorbed and adopted, and it now forms a large part
of the Palestinian national consciousness. In many respects, we are much
further from peace between the people than we were before the signing of the

Oslo accords."

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:44:44 -0000

(1)

Bible Prophecy Research
Title: Drug Abuse/Sorceries
Submitted by: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)
Date: March 12, 2001
URL: http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Misc_Studies/ms079.htm

Drug Abuse/Sorceries

Excerpts from:
Occult Invasion: The Subtle Seduction of the World and Church
Dave Hunt

Chapter 10: Drugs, Imagination, and the Occult

The religious use of mind-altering drugs has a long history going
back to the Oracle at Delphi and beyond=85These substances ushered the
users into another dimension inhabited by the "spirits" that
empowered and guided them. Because it has been traditionally "sacred"
to them, native American Indians have had the right (under the
American Indian Religious Freedom Act) to take peyote for religious
purposes-unless they were on active duty with the armed forces. That
restriction has now been removed provided certain guidelines are
followed.

Medical science has increased the average lifespan remarkably, for
which we are all grateful. It cannot, however, escape responsibility
for the discovery, proliferation, and oversubscription of drugs. We
are an evil and unrepentant society, and (just as the Bible foretells
for the last days) a large part of that evil is due to drugs=85Even
young children are being caught in the drug web. If Johnny
misbehaves, mother increases his Ritalin dose; and to keep herself on
an even keel, she takes Prozac. A large percentage of Americans no
longer know how to stand up to adversity and thereby develop strength
of character. Instead of facing their problems and working through to
a solution, they insist upon a wonder drug to assist them with every
difficulty.

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Bible Prophecy Research
Title: Miscellaneous Tidbits on Revelation
Submitted by: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)
Date: February 26, 2001
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Miscellaneous Tidbits on Revelation
from The New John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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Subject: [bprlist] Churches in truce on homosexuals
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 15 Mar 2001 12:46:19 EST

Thursday, March 15, 2001, 12:00 a.m. Pacific

Churches in truce on homosexuals

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by Richard N. Ostling
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - It's possible that someday U.S. mainline Protestants will look
back upon mid-March 2001 as a turning point in their seemingly insoluble
dispute over homosexual behavior.

At a secret conclave last week near Hendersonville, N.C., 34 top world
leaders of Anglican Christianity agreed to utter no complaint and take no
steps to block increasing tolerance in America's Episcopal Church. That
appeared to remove the last obstacle to U.S. dioceses that ordain actively
gay clergy and allow blessing rituals for same-sex couples.

Then yesterday, liberals in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) won a parallel
triumph, defeating a ban on same-sex blessings.

They will now work to repeal at the nationwide church assembly in June a
4-year-old prohibition on actively homosexual clergy and lay officers.

For the moment, at least, uneasy compromises have been reached: Both
denominations still officially uphold Christianity's traditional teaching
against same-sex relations. While the Episcopal Church takes that formal
stand, it lets dioceses do what they wish.

Presbyterian conservatives won a 1997 ban on actively homosexual clergy, bu t
now liberals have gained the right to bless same-sex couples.

In May, the United Methodist Church decisively reaffirmed bans on both
rituals and clergy, although dissenters plan to continue same-sex
ceremonies. Can this inherently unstable situation persist?

These three closely related denominations, with 14.3 million members and
54,215 local congregations among them, have struggled with this quandary fo r
a quarter-century.

Elsewhere in U.S. Protestantism, the United Church of Christ has long
followed an open policy on homosexual practice. Most other denominations ar e
opposed.

While the Anglican leaders handled the problem at their North Carolina
gathering with closed talks, arched eyebrows and ambiguous communiqu=E9s,
Presbyterian delegates have engaged in public debate.

Last year's Presbyterian assembly passed the ban on rituals and sent it to
173 regional legislatures, or presbyteries, for ratification. By yesterday,
87 had voted no, killing the measure.

Conservatives wanted the measure to overturn a ruling from the
Presbyterians' highest church court. That ruling allows clergy to perform
same-sex union services so long as they are not confused with marriage.

A survey by the denomination shows 57 percent of members at large and 61
percent of lay elders, but only 50 percent of pastors, support a law agains t
clergy giving same-sex blessings.

The Rev. Laird Stuart, a San Francisco pastor and co-leader of the
victorious Covenant Network, says the voting on same-sex rituals has
significance for the separate issue of actively gay office-holders,
currently banned.

The vote, he says, indicates that a change to let presbyteries and
congregations reconsider that matter "would be very attractive."

"The quiet middle is beginning to speak up," Harris says. "In a nutshell,
people are getting tired of intolerance."

On the opposite side, the Rev. Joe Rightmyer of Presbyterians for Renewal i n
Louisville, thinks the June assembly will keep the ban on officeholders. An d
if it passes a repeal measure, conservatives will prevail when the
presbyteries vote.

But Rightmyer sees the long-term scenario as troublesome. "Our denomination
is sorely divided, and apart from supernatural intervention, we are headed
for destruction or schism." He considers Presbyterian disagreements on the
Bible's authority irreconcilable.

In the Episcopal Church, conservatives still harbor hopes that the
international leaders eventually will step in, even though they didn't last
week. But they're obviously on the defensive, saying that at least the
international meeting approved special visiting bishops to serve
parishioners who conscientiously oppose their regular bishop's liberal
policies on gay issues.

However, an aide to the head of the U.S. church said that's not what the
international leaders intended.

At the 1998 Lambeth Conference, 82 percent of all Anglican bishops in the
world voted against homosexual practice. But Hopkins thinks international
events prove that conservative strength has waned since then.

Within the United States, Hopkins is confident the next Episcopal Church
convention, in 2003, will move beyond the current laissez-faire situation
and formally approve same-sex rituals.

As for clergy ordinations, Hopkins says, "We don't see the need for any
legislation. ... It's a done deal." He estimates that a quarter to a third
of Episcopal dioceses already allow openly gay and lesbian priests.

Canon David Anderson, president of the conservative American Anglican
Council, acknowledges that changing the direction of the Episcopal Church
"is a formidable task, but with God all things are possible." He says that
as a parish priest in Newport Beach, Calif., "I see things weekly that sure
look like miracles."

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Subject: [bprlist] Stuart Varney quits Over Turner Remark
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 15 Mar 2001 12:47:33 EST

Wednesday March 14 7:58 PM ET
CNN's Moneyline News Hour co-anchor Stuart Varney quits
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010314/en/television-cnn_1.html
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stuart Varney, co-anchor of Cable News Network's
prime-time financial news show ``Moneyline News Hour,'' has resigned from
his position, the network said on Wednesday, giving no reason for the
resignation.

``He resigned today and we accepted his resignation,'' a spokeswoman for the
Network said, confirming a report in Wednesday's New York Daily News.

CNN, a unit of media giant AOL Time Warner Inc., said it appreciated
Varney's many years with the network and wished him the best.

The Daily News said Varney had quit after disagreements with network founder
Ted Turner and fighting with news executives over the show's direction. CNN
declined to comment on the Daily News reports, while Varney could not be
immediately reached for comment.

According to the New York Daily News, Varney resigned after hearing that
Turner called CNN employees who observed Ash Wednesday ``Jesus freaks.''
Turner apologized for his remark later. The paper said that the relationship
between the two men had foundered more than a year ago after the anchor
questioned Turner during a ``Moneyline'' appearance.

The paper also said that Varney had been critical of the show's direction,
wanting economic and political coverage instead of straight stock market
coverage.

Varney became co-anchor of the show with Willow Bay in 1999 after longtime
host Lou Dobbs quit CNN to start a news Web site, Space.com. Varney, who
joined CNN at its inception in 1980 as an economics correspondent, returned
to the network in 1999 after a year's sabbatical.

CNN said in a statement that Willow Bay would begin anchoring Moneyline out
of New York the week of March 26, working with Moneyline correspondents.

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Subject: [bprlist] Prayers offered for troubled city
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 15 Mar 2001 12:48:21 EST

Prayers offered for troubled city
Breakfast gathering seeks hope after killing of officer
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A gathering of judges, lawyers, police officers and firefighters raised
their voices in prayer yesterday for the city's salvation, after another
police officer was killed in the line of duty.

Differences fell away as more than 100 people responsible for making,
enforcing and adjudicating the law bowed their heads during a prayer
breakfast at downtown's Zion Church of the City of Baltimore.

Though their jobs sometimes force them to be adversaries, sparking disputes
that spill into the public, all shared a vision for peace on Baltimore's
streets yesterday, in the wake of Michael J. Cowdery Jr.'s death.

"The maker of all things and the supreme judge of all humanity, we your son s
and daughters are assembled here today, Lord, coming humbly before your
throne of grace, Father, begging for your blessing and your guidance as we,
the lawyers and judges of this city and this state and this country, strive
to fulfill the awesome responsibilities and duties associated with serving,
rendering justice and sitting in judgment of your people," prayed Baltimore
Circuit Judge David Young.

"Remind us, Lord, that but for your grace and mercy, the tables might be
turned," said Young. "We might be on trial. We might stand accused."

Officer Cowdery's death Monday night in East Baltimore cast a pall and lent
an air of urgency to what was intended as an event of joy and hope.

"My heart is heavy," said the Rev. Bart Pierce of the Rock City Church of
Baltimore. "I thank the Lord ... that we come together to pray. I think it' s
very timely."

He echoed the belief of many gathered yesterday that prayer can unify and
transform Baltimore.

"It is God's desire to bless the city of Baltimore. The heavens can be open
over this city. And I believe that our prayers together here today can make
an impact and change what's going on," Pierce prayed. "God, we ask that you
would bring peace to this city. Lord, as Jesus stood on the bow of a boat
and declared peace to the storm, we declare peace to this city."

He was answered by a chorus of amens.

City officials are using a number of methods in an attempt to turn the city
around. Mayor Martin O'Malley and Police Commissioner Edward T. Norris have
implemented an aggressive crime-fighting strategy.

City officials and religious leaders who attended yesterday's breakfast sai d
they believe prayer could be another tool to spark Baltimore's renewal.

"I believe in prayer, and I do believe it changes things," said State's
Attorney Patricia A. Jessamy. "Individual prayer changes things, but when
people come together to pray, I think it makes a big difference.

"Spirituality is what keeps people ... who work within the system every day
going, knowing that they can make a difference but that God is working to
try and help make it so. We need more than just ourselves."

Circuit Judge Joseph H. H. Kaplan said a little prayer could reduce his
caseload.

"I think prayer makes us look inward and causes us to realize what is
important and what is not," said Kaplan, who hears juvenile cases. Most of
the parents who appear in his court, he said, "are drug addicts. A lot of
kids are being born drug-exposed. ... If [their parents] looked at their ow n
lives with any introspection as the result of going to church, they wouldn' t
be in my court."

Several well-publicized disputes have erupted between O'Malley, the City
Council, Jessamy and her prosecutors and the city's judges over the best wa y
to bring about a more peaceful city. Amid the acrimony, the sense of a
common vision appears lost.

A sense of clarity and a renewal of common purpose are needed, said the Rev .
Holger Roggelin, pastor of Zion Church.

"Both the mayor and the people in the courthouse have a vision for the city ,
and there should be a way to express that common vision," he said. "Prayer
brings together people from different traditions who are normally scattered
in their individual churches. It acknowledges all hardships. It helps to
articulate our fears and anxieties, as well as our hopes, and helps to
balance them."

Yesterday's service grew out of a weekly prayer service that has been held
for several months on Monday afternoons. It started when people in the
state's attorney's office prayed together for a sick colleague. It has
evolved into "Pause For Prayer," a weekly gathering at Zion Church of
lawyers and judges who pray for the city's welfare.

"We just pray. We pray for individual needs, we pray for the leadership. An d
it's open to everybody," said Carolyn Starks Saxon, an assistant state's
attorney who organized the breakfast. "And I believe that God is going to
honor our prayers."

It might take a leap of faith to think a little prayer can solve turf
battles, stop drug wars and bring about civic harmony, but some who started
their day in the trenches after pausing for yesterday's prayer breakfast
said it couldn't hurt.

"We're all here. I see defense attorneys, private attorneys, prosecutors,
fire chiefs, police officers. It's a powerful thing. It's a positive thing, "
said Circuit Judge Audrey J. S. Carrion. "Look at the energy when you leave
here, the positive feeling as opposed to the negative feeling. I think it's
a good first step."

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Subject: [bprlist] Fwd: Presidential Civility and Decency
From: "Patt A."
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:49:00 -0800 (PST)

Koenig's International News <bill@watch.org> wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 08:43:29 -0600
From: "Koenig's International News"
To: watch-news@watch.org
Subject: Presidential Civility and Decency

Presidential Civility and Decency=97Bill Koenig

March 15, 2001

United States President George W. Bush continues to focus on
civility and decency and the bringing back of a positive tone in
Washington D.C. He consistently and sincerely lifts up his fellow
man, showing that he sincerely cares about them.

President Bush also mentions God in most of his speeches, sometimes
numerous times. He speaks frequently about values that are taken
straight out of the Holy Bible.

When I met with him right after his first election as Governor of
Texas, along with Bill Glass of Bill Glass Prison Ministry and
another Dallas businessman, I recall his statement that =93I have to
be sensitive to the fact I represent all the people.=94

I think that our president is doing a great job leading by example
and that he is the right man at the right time to be in that
office, especially if our nation was to go through some challenging
times.

His recent dedication speech at the opening of the museum
commemorating the bombing of the Oklahoma Federal Building was
based on Scripture.

The President continues to come across as a kind man with a good
heart. However, he knows he has flaws, and he makes frequent
reference to Jesus=92 words in Matthew 7:3. =93Why do you look at the
speck of sawdust in your brother=92s eye and pay no attention to the
plank in your own eye?=94

He is very laid back in his style, joking with people, calling them
names, and generally treating them very well. He always emphasizes
one=92s strength, and you will often hear him mentioning that someone
is =93a good man=94 or =93a good lady.=94 He is adept at encouraging
others, and he has a nice calmness about him.

The President shows up for meetings on time or early. He doesn=92t
leave people waiting for minutes and even hours, as did his
predecessor. Members of the press are dealt with directly and
candidly. Even though I know that my colleagues are frustrated at
times by the lack of details and specifics on certain subjects, the
White House press enjoys a good rapport with the President and his
administration.

President Bush has gathered a very competent cabinet team around
him, and everyone can sense it. These key people are cordial,
articulate and very capable. It is quite evident to those watching
and listening up close.

Yesterday I witnessed the Rose Garden ceremony, which honored
Congressman Joe Oakley a Democrat from Massachusetts who has
cancer. The tone and the mood was excellent and uplifting. The
following Washington Times article excerpt and link relate how the
President=92s gesture =93warmed=94 the Democrats=92 hearts.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200131423135.htm

=93President Bush yesterday named a U.S. Courthouse in Boston for
ailing Rep. Joe Moakley in a Rose Garden ceremony to warm the
hearts and perhaps win a few votes of congressional Democrats. Mr.
Bush, agreeing to a request to pose for pictures with Mr. Moakley
and his Massachusetts congressional colleagues, all Democrats,
joked: =91They'll never get re-elected.=92=94

I have also included a link to other comments of President Bush at
a media roundtable on Tuesday. These words also portray his
civility, countering his cynics and naysayers. Relatively few
people have the opportunity to observe this man and his staff on a
daily basis. His body language, his countenance, and his eyes all
reflect his heart. It is hard to fool people, especially those who
are trained in assessing such traits.

http://www.watch.org/showart.php3?idx=3D10064&rtn=3D/index.html&showsubj=3D 1&mcat=3D1

It will truly be special to see how the Lord uses George W. in the
days and weeks ahead. He is not and won=92t be perfect, but he is a
refreshing change for a nation who was looking for new direction.

Better yet, the President is not shy about sharing his faith in
Jesus Christ with others. This witness was never more apparent than
at his inauguration, the prayer events afterwards, and at the
National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. where both he and Vice
President Dick Cheney gave powerful messages about their faith.

Finally, it is worth noting, beginning next week with Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon, that many foreign heads of state will be
coming to the White House in the near future to discuss some very
serious issues.

I am sure they will experience a peace when they meet with
President Bush, as did Britain=92s Prime Minister Tony Blair and
Mexico's President Vincent Fox. Blair was very impressed by his
treatment and the transparency of our country=92s new leader.

The new presidential civility and decency is restoring a positive
and peaceful ambiance to the White House.

=A9 2001 Koenig=92s International News

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Subject: [bprlist] Claim of 'Post-Denominational Era' Defied
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 15 Mar 2001 12:49:40 EST

Claim of 'Post-Denominational Era' Defied
Interfaith Survey Finds That 62% of U.S. Congregations Maintain Strong Ties
to Religious Groups

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A944-2001Mar13.html

By Bill Broadway
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 14, 2001; Page A03

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. congregations maintain strong ties to their
religious denominations, debunking the widely held belief that affiliation
with major religious groups has declined, according to the largest study
ever of congregational behavior, which was released yesterday.

Such identification, the researchers said, defies the claim of many
sociologists that American faith groups have entered a "post-denominational
era" in which personal spirituality and needs have preempted loyalty to a
single religious heritage.

"The [overall] vitality of these congregations is pretty stunning," said
Carl S. Dudley, who with project co-director David A. Roozen determined tha t
62 percent of all congregations have strong denominational loyalties.

The interfaith survey, "Faith Communities in the United States Today,"
involved 14,301 congregations in 41 denominations or faith groups. It was
conducted by researchers at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut and released
yesterday at Holy Trinity Cathedral Center in New York.

The survey confirms that the growth of less hierarchical, more charismatic
congregations and smaller U.S. faiths such as Islam and the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints is "rapidly putting a new face on American
religion" and diminishing the dominance of traditional churches, Dudley
said.

It also concluded that religious history is especially important to ethnic
groups, with 64 percent of Latino congregations and half of black
congregations responding that their churches are a primary means of
preserving cultural heritage. Fewer than one-third of white congregations
emphasize religious history in the same way.

The 68-page report verifies the rapid growth of evangelical Protestant
congregations and the declining membership of Episcopalians, Lutherans,
Methodists and other mainline Protestant groups.

But Dudley and Roozen, of the Seminary's Hartford Institute for Religion
Research, said religious "trend trackers" have not adequately noted the
corresponding slowdown in new church development among Roman Catholic and
Eastern Orthodox populations, and the surge in new congregations of Baha'is ,
Muslims, Jews and Mormons in the last 20 years.

Newly organized Catholic parishes at mid-century represented about 10
percent of all new churches, Dudley said in an interview. That portion has
dropped to 5 percent, while the combined percentage of new Baha'i, Muslim,
Jewish and Mormon congregations has increased from about 3 percent to more
than 20 percent, he said.

Evangelical Protestant congregations make up the largest portion, 58
percent, of new congregations.

The two-year study was designed to help local congregations develop program s
to attract and retain members and provide services to the needy.

Findings have been posted on the institute's Web site at

hirr.hartsem.edu

Individual churches, synagogues and mosques can plug in their own statistic s
and attitudes for comparison with other congregations and denominations.

"There's nothing comparable in the way of benchmark information on
congregations," said James D. Davidson, a sociologist of religion at Purdue
University. "It's very unusual and very much needed."

In an observation that could have a long-range impact on worship, the study
found that many of the healthiest congregations -- measured by membership
growth and financial stability -- offer alternative worship styles that
appeal to younger worshipers, with electric guitars and keyboards rather
than pipe organs and pianos.

Such congregations are likely to be evangelical Protestant, with authority
based "in the Holy Spirit" rather than in creeds or reason. Rock bands and
contemporary gospel artists frequently take part in worship.

David Wallace, dean of Presbyterian-affiliated Johnson C. Smith Theological
Seminary in Atlanta, said traditionalists will have to accept that many
potential members, particularly families with children, "will expect the
church to be more sensitive and more concerned about contemporary
expressions of worship."

In African American churches, that means the focus "will be more on
gospel-style music," Wallace said. "Younger people will want to see rap
music as part of the worship experience as well."

Dudley and Roozen pointed to another unexpected trend: a "dramatic shift"
from Southern to Western states in the largest number of new congregations,
because of migration patterns. "Congregational development in the West
surpassed even the South in the last decade," they wrote.

Researchers believe the diversity of the participating congregations has
produced survey results that represent "about 90 percent" of an estimated
325,000 houses of worship in the United States.

Participants included Protestants; Roman Catholics; Eastern Orthodox; Refor m
and Conservative Jews; Mormons; Muslims; Unitarian Universalists; and
Baha'is. Denominations that declined to participate included Jehovah's
Witnesses; Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod; Church of God; Salvation Army ;
United Pentecostal Church Inc.; and Baptist Bible Fellowship International.

Among the other findings:

* For reasons that are unclear, the authors said, congregations led by
seminary-taught pastors and rabbis are "far more likely to report" a lack o f
clear purpose and to feel threatened by changes in worship, and they are
less inclined to deal openly with conflict.

* Half of the congregations in the United States were founded before 1945.
Half of all congregations have fewer than 100 regularly participating
adults, and one-fourth have fewer than 50. One in 10 have more than 1,000
adult participants.

* Community outreach, including soup kitchens and homeless shelters, "is fa r
greater than many estimates suggest." Although suburban churches are less
likely to offer such ministries, the "support for soup kitchens in the new
suburban areas seems particularly surprising."

* The adage that "Sunday morning is the most segregated hour" is true, but
it is largely because society in general remains segregated. Worshipers
"represent a mirror image of the racial composition" of the areas where
their congregations are located.

* Advertising and promotional campaigns energize current members but are
less effective in attracting new people.

=A9 2001 The Washington Post Company

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Subject: [bprlist] It's chic to be a Protestant in France
From: Shophar_Sho_Good
Date: 15 Mar 2001 12:50:20 EST

It's chic to be a Protestant in France

Tuesday, 13 March 2001 19:06 (ET)

http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=3D167781

It's chic to be a Protestant in France
By UWE SIEMON-NETTO, UPI religion correspondent

PARIS, Mar. 13 (UPI) - "It's chic to declare yourself a Protestant in
France these days," Dani=E9le Hervieu-L=E9ger, the country's leading sociol ogist
on religion, said in an interview.

"In intellectual circles, it is also chic to reveal yourself as a Jew. But
if you admit to being a Roman Catholic, you'll trigger howls of derisive
laughter," Hervieu-L=E9ger, a Catholic herself, told United Press
International.

Protestants had a painful past in France. During the Saint Bartholomew's
massacre of August 23-24, 1572, between 5,000 and 10,000 were butchered.
This event remains deeply engraved in their descendants' collective minds.

In the 1598 Edict of Nantes, King Henry IV gave the "Luth=E9riens," as they
were called then, considerable rights. But Louis XIV revoked that edict in
1785, forcing hundreds of thousands of his most talented subjects to
emigrate to the Netherlands, Germany, England, and North America.

As a result, the population of Berlin doubled in one year, and to this day
French expressions still spice the dialect spoken in the German capital,
where the local variant of a hamburger is called a "boulette."

The Huguenots, who are Protestants of French descent, gave Prussia one of
its finest poets, Theodore Fontane, and provided the German military with
outstanding generals, who had names like Marseille, Baudissin, and de
Maizi=E8re.

Today, there are a mere 900,000 Protestants of diverse persuasions left in
France, according to Jean-Luc Mouton, editorial director of Reforme, a
weekly newspaper. Of these, 400,000 belong to the Reformed Church of France
(ERF), a Calvinist denomination.

These true descendants of the Huguenots are a tiny remnant, especially if
you consider that no more than 60,000 of them tithe.

Alsace and Lorraine still have state-related churches because these
territories were under German control in 1908 when France broke the
Concordat Napoleon had concluded with the Vatican and Protestant
denominations in 1801.

Thus, the 170,000 Lutherans and 60,000 Calvinists in those Eastern regions
are ministered to by well-to-do clergy with government salaries comparable
to those of high school teachers.

"There are also 100,000 charismatic gypsies and an equal amount of other
Pentecostals, whose number is very much on the rise," Mouton said in an
interview. "The rest are smaller groups."

He added, "The funny thing is that 1.7 million people in this country call
themselves Protestants, even though we know that only a little more than
half of those are members."

In the postmodern or -- as French scholars prefer to say - "ultramodern"
quest for spirituality, it's fashionable in some circles to identify with
anything that does not appear as "old-fashioned" as Catholicism,
sociologists of religions report almost unanimously.

Protestantism is by no means to sole beneficiary of this development.

In a 1999 survey commissioned by the monthly journal Psychologies, 8
percent declared themselves "close to Judaism," although Jews represent les s
than 1 percent of France's population and a much divided sect between North
African Sephardim, Eastern European Ashkenazim, and indigenous Israelites
who have been emancipated for centuries.

"But Judaism in France is undergoing a strong spiritual renewal that is
inspiring Christians as well," Father Jean Joncheray, vice-rector of the
Catholic Institute (university) in Paris explained.

Buddhism enjoys even more sympathy among the French, including Christians
and Jews. Eleven percent said they were close to this East Asian faith. Yet
a mere 0.5 percent of the French population, chiefly native Vietnamese,
Cambodians and Laotians are confessing Buddhists.

However, the most astounding image in the French kaleidoscope of French
religiosity is affinity for a large chunk of this once uniformly Catholic
population that appears to entertain for Protestantism. According to
Psychologies, 19 percent do so. This represents more than 13 million people .

During a visit to the Atlantic seaport city of La Rochelle, the most
important bastion of French Protestantism before Louis XIV rescinded the
Edict of Nantes, this correspondent found that virtually everybody he spoke
to took pride in his or her Huguenot ancestry. Yet of La Rochelle's 100,000
burghers only 600 are members of the local Protestant parish.

Protestantism's popularity is all the more remarkable as the Reformed
Church has just emerged from what Mouton calls a particularly foolish flirt
with far-left ideologies, supporting radical and deadly revolutions in
places like Cambodia and Nicaragua.

Georges Casalis, a Paris professor of theology who went on pilgrimages to
these Communist-ruled countries, was the central figure of left-wing French
Protestantism now declared "dead" by Jean-Luc Mouton.

By Mouton's lights it has died not a moment too soon. "From 1968 until
1980, it has driven away 20 percent of our members, especially the HSP
(Protestant High Society), whom the left had pilloried." For centuries, the
HSP ran much of France's economy, especially the banking business. "Now man y
of them have gone for good."

The movement's death brought about a dramatic theological and aesthetic
turnaround. No longer is the Reformed Church the stark institution it was a s
recently as a decade ago. "It has become much more liturgical," said Mouton .

No longer do pastors sport sloppy attire when preaching, baptizing or
consecrating the Lord's Supper. "The traditional black robe with preaching
tabs has replaced polo-neck sweaters and baggy cords," reported Mouton.

But the most dramatic change is theological, he continued: "Cambodia and
Nicaragua have taught us that left-wing revolutions could not possibly be
the Kingdom of God on earth. This has led some of the younger theologians i n
their mid-thirties to turn from Calvin to Luther."

The two reformers differed over how God is working in the temporal realm.
According to Calvin, there is only one kingdom -- the Kingdom of Christ --
even though the Devil is still the prince in this world. Calvin considered
it essential for man to honor God. To this end, man must forge the world,
including its social, political and economic aspects.

Luther, whom Calvin considered his master, took a more dialectical and at
the same time pragmatic approach. Yes, he said, the reign of Christ had
already begun but so far only for the believer. It was present in the realm
of the Gospel, of grace, faith, and love, in other words, in the Church
where the Word is preached and the sacraments are administered.

But Luther also perceived the discrepancies between the radical demands of
the Sermon of the Mount and the structure of the world's orders. Hence he
devised his doctrine of two reigns complementing each other.

There is the "Kingdom to the Right," the infinite realm of God who
revealed himself in Christ. And then there is the "Kingdom to the Left," th e
finite realm of the hidden God working through secular rulers whose
inevitable foul-ups he will always correct and ultimately use to his own
ends.

The leading lights among the French "neo-Lutherans" returning to the
German reformer's "doctrine of the two kingdoms" are Jean-Daniel Causse and
Elian Cuviellier, two outstanding theologians of the Protestant faculty of
Montpellier.

Both are in their mid-thirties and thus represent the very mainstream of
the Reformed renewal. In a stunning article in Reforme, Causse reminded his
readers of the word "Beruf," that Luther had introduced to the German
language. It means profession or vocation and literally suggests that
everybody had a calling from God to his or her secular work as mother,
student, blacksmith -- and ruler.

Quoting Luther, Causse wrote, "One does not demand of the emperor to have
faith; it is enough for him to possess reason." Thus to Causse, the Luthera n
concept of God's action in the world takes its state more into account than
Calvin's. In working well for the good of mankind, the blacksmith, the
soap-maker, and the ruler were rendering the highest service to God.

It is precisely this shift away from the utopian theologies of the 60s,
70s and early 80s that was attracting French intellectuals today, Mouton
proposed. And this movement seems to be replacing some of those who have
turned away two decades ago.

"Half of our current members were not born into the Reformed Church of
France. They come from other traditions, Catholicism, Judaism or even an
agnostic or atheistic environment."

Because of its new intellectual appeal, the Protestant churches in
France, unlike Roman Catholicism, do not suffer from a shortage of clergy.
"There are no vacancies in our parishes," Mouton reported.

Like Catholic priests, Protestant pastors are paid the minimum monthly
wage of $800 to $1,000 -- and this after excruciatingly long studies. Still ,
"young people are eager to enter the ministry, which means that their wives
must work. What's more, pastors have been pouring in from countries where
they would earn infinitely more, such as Germany and America."

Why?

"Because they want to participate in our church's dynamism."

There is a flip side to this story. "French Protestantism is popular among
urban professionals in their 30s, 40s and 50s. With the exception of the
burgeoning Pentecostal groups, however, French Protestantism does not
attract large crowds of young people," Mouton lamented.

Who gets those?

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DISC 8:00 UFO
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A UFO sighting in January 2000 by a mini-golf course owner was
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this unnatural occurrence.

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Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, March 15, 2001 / Adar 20, 5761

TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. ISRAEL ANNOUNCES: ARAFAT-DIRECTED TERRORISTS ARRESTED
   2. QUICK PALESTINIAN RESPONSE TO REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS
   3. PRO-ISRAEL MOOD IN WASHINGTON
   4. MUFTI WARNS ISRAEL
   5. PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
   6. ISRAEL ON THE ALERT FOR LEBANESE WATER DIVERSION
   7. ARAB BUS-DRIVER MURDERER INDICTED
   8. PARDON REQUEST SUBMITTED FOR HAR-SHEFI
   9. RABBIS CALL ON CHRISTIANS TO BRIDGE
   10. MAKING ONE'S STAMP IN THE WORLD

1. ISRAEL ANNOUNCES: ARAFAT-DIRECTED TERRORISTS ARRESTED
Israel let out a collective sigh of relief today, as the major terrorist
attack - word of which was widely hinted at over the past few days and fear
of which led to the intense closures on Palestinian Authority cities - was
finally revealed and apparently averted.

The security forces revealed that they had arrested three Fatah-Tanzim
terrorists. At least two of them admitted that they had been on their way
to perpetrate major terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, this past Sunday. The
attacks were to have been in the neighborhood of N'vei Yaakov, as well as
in gas stations and social clubs. The terrorist cell is also responsible
for the murder of eight other Israelis and the wounding of 20 in previous
attacks, and was personally commanded by the commander of Yasser
Arafat's
personal Force 17 guard. They admitted to their interrogators that they
enjoyed the protection of Palestinian Authority agents in Ramallah, and
that their connection with them was via soldiers of Arafat's Force 17.

Other proof of Yasser Arafat's direct involvement in terrorism against
Israel was provided by the Israeli Shabak (General Security Service)
today. A PA para-military officer by the name of Abdel Karim Abu Rabia,
under arrest in Israel, told his GSS interrogators about a meeting of
terrorist leaders that took place three months ago in Tulkarm. One of the
men there said that the Palestinian population was suffering as a result of
the activities of one of the local terrorist cells, under the leadership of
Dr. Tabet Tabet. The latter said, however, that he would not stop the
shooting unless he received a specific directive to that effect from Yasser
Arafat. The order never came, and Tabet was soon killed by Israeli
forces. Some criticized the killing at the time, saying that Tabet had
been involved only in political matters. After his death, shooting on
Israeli forces in the area essentially stopped.

2. QUICK PALESTINIAN RESPONSE TO REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS
The decisions made yesterday at the first meeting of the new security
cabinet have begun to be implemented, and the IDF has begun to remove the
restrictions and encirclements from around most Palestinian Authority
villages and cities. Arab traffic is allowed with almost no restrictions
within Judea and Samaria, but not across the Green Line into pre-1967
Israel, and goods and many raw materials are allowed free passage.

The restrictions around the city of Ramallah, however, were not removed
this morning. IDF Judea and Samaria Commander Brig.-Gen. Benny Ganz
announced that this was in light of continued intelligence warnings about
impending terrorist attacks from the city. Shortly after the announcement,
the IDF did an about-face, and began allowing free traffic in and out of
most Ramallah entrances.

Very shortly after that, the first post-closure terrorist attack
occurred: Three Palestinian terrorists shot a hail of bullets towards two
Israeli cars traveling near Ma'aleh Levonah. No one was hurt, but both
vehicles were damaged. Further south, a grenade was thrown towards an
IDF
patrol along the Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafiah. No one was hurt, and
IDF soldiers returned fire. Later this afternoon, an Israeli was wounded
by shrapnel when his car was shot at by Palestinians near Shavei Shomron.

3. PRO-ISRAEL MOOD IN WASHINGTON
U.S. President George Bush refuses to meet with Yasser Arafat until the PA
Chairman either stops the violence against Israel or issues a directive to
his people, in Arabic, to call off the violence. CIA head George Tenet has
informed Bush that he has information directly connecting Arafat with the
violence, and senior sources say that the U.S. has therefore no interest in
security cooperation with the PA. Other West European countries have also
informed Arafat that he will not be a welcome visitor in the near future.

Similarly, the United States and other UN Security Council members have
announced that they will not approve an international peacekeeping force to
the Palestinian Authority against Israeli wishes. Responding to the PA
request for such forces, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told the United
Nations Security Council last night that the PA need only refrain from
engaging in terrorism and uproot the terrorist infrastructure inside its
territory, and there would then be no need for peacekeepers. "Once the PA
stops shooting, there would be no need for defense, since Israel did not
begin the daily violence but only responded to it," Peres said.

In addition, Jerusalem diplomatic sources said that the U.S. will act to
change the charter of the Mitchell Commission investigating the recent
breakout of violence between Israel and the Palestinians. They said that
the change would be made even before Prime Minister Sharon arrives in
Washington next week. The Commission met today with experts on the war
against terrorism in the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, to hear how
they explain the breakout of the intifada.

4. MUFTI WARNS ISRAEL
Palestinian Authority-appointed Jerusalem Mufti Sheikh Akrama Sabri warns
Israel against taking any measures in the Temple Mount area that could lead
to an "additional escalation and reaction by Moslems around the world." He
explained that his remarks came in reaction to possible Israeli intentions
to open the Temple Mount to Jewish visitors. The site has been closed to
Jews since the beginning of the current violence almost six months
ago. Public Security Minister Uzi Landau said yesterday that Jews should
be allowed there, and that the government would have to make the final
decision.

5. PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Education Minister Limor Livnat has announced the winners of the Israel
Prize for Life Works for the year 5761: Yitzchak Shamir, Abba Eban, and
Mordechai Ben-Porat. Shamir was chosen for his service in the Etzel and
Lechi, before the establishment of the State, as well as his contributions
in the Mossad and as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister. The Prize
Committee noted Abba Eban for his role in forming Israel's foreign policy
and his serving as the voice of Israel during his many years as Israeli
Ambassador to the United Nations. Ben-Porat was instrumental in aiding
the
immigration of Iraqi Jewry to Israel and their successful integration in
Israeli society.

6. ISRAEL ON THE ALERT FOR LEBANESE WATER DIVERSION
Israel has sent a stern warning to Syria and Lebanon via UN officials that
the construction of the pumping station on the Snir (Hatzbani) River
endangers Israel's water supply. Israel had previously warned that it
would not tolerate such actions. UNIFIL officials in southern Lebanon
explain that the Lebanese are only installing a four-inch pipe to supply
water for the village of Wazzani. But IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul
Mofaz says that the Lebanese attempt to divert the waters of the Hatzbani
River away from Israel is a violation of international charters. He added
that the matter is presently a diplomatic one, and that there is no need to
talk about war - at present.

On a different topic, Mofaz told Army Radio today that he has asked Defense
Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer to extend his term as Chief of Staff by
another year. Mofaz's three-year term in office is scheduled to end this
July.

7. ARAB BUS-DRIVER MURDERER INDICTED
Halil Abu Olba, who murdered seven soldiers and a civilian one month ago
when he crashed his bus into a crowded bus stop south of Tel Aviv, was
indicted today in the Tel Aviv District Court. He is charged with eight
counts of pre-meditated murder. Olba, a 36-year-old father of five who
lives in Gaza and who was employed as a driver for the Egged bus
cooperative, said that he did not regret his actions. The court remanded
the suspect without bail until the end of the legal proceedings against
him. The judge was angered at the fact that Abu Olba's lawyer did not show
up in court today.

8. PARDON REQUEST SUBMITTED FOR HAR-SHEFI
Margalit Har-Shefi's parents have submitted an official request for a
pardon of their daughter to President Moshe Katzav. She is scheduled to
begin a nine-month prison sentence this coming Wednesday. Har-Shefi was
convicted of knowing in advance of Yigal Amir's plans to murder Yitzchak
Rabin, and of not stopping him. She has consistently denied knowing of
Amir's intentions. Katzav said ambiguously yesterday, "A person who
actually knew of plans to kill someone and stood idly by deserves not nine
months, but 90 years." He said that he will deal with the pardon request
"according to law." Justice Minister Meir Shetreet (fax number: (+972-2)
628-5438) must first approve the request. Articles in Hebrew and English
on the Har-Shefi case can be seen at <www.harshefi.org.il>.

Prof. Shalom Rosenberg, not usually known for expressing right-wing views,
was one of the signatories to the petition published in Ha'aretz yesterday
entitled, "We believe Margalit." Other professors who signed included
Herman Branover, Alex Lubotsky, Carmy Horowitz, Zechariah Dor-Shav,
Ruth
Pel'i, and Daniel Shalit. Rosenberg explained to Arutz-7 today why he
signed:
"I see this as a humanitarian issue. It could be that the trial was
technically correct, but at the same time it could be that justice was not
served. There is a question of time context; words that were said then
don't have the same meaning now. For instance, the high school student
from the U.S. who shot and killed some students last week - people heard
him, but no one thought that he was serious until afterwards. Or, if we
hear a girl saying, 'I could die for him,' and then she kills herself,
should those who heard her say it be held responsible? In addition, there
are other skeletons in the public closet, such as Avishai Raviv... I don't
want to say that she's a scapegoat, but I think that it is time for this
humanitarian gesture, and people on the left should also join in asking for
it. I think it's time for our society to cure the wounds of the
assassination, and not to keep on looking where to pin the guilt -
especially when the circumstances are as unclear as they are..."

9. RABBIS CALL ON CHRISTIANS TO BRIDGE
Chief Rabbis Yisrael Meir Lau and Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron said that in light
of the current tensions in the Middle East, Christian leaders could be the
bridgehead by which to bring Moslems and Jews to greater mutual
understanding. The Rabbis made the remarks during a meeting this week
with
Cardinal Edward Cassidy, who is about to leave his post as President of the
Committee for Dialogue and Conciliation with the Jewish People. HaTzofeh
reports that Rabbi Lau mentioned that when he met with the Pope seven
years
ago, Rabbi Lau "asked him for his help in bringing back our four missing
soldiers from Lebanon. Since then, another four Israelis have been
kidnapped." He asked the Cardinal to renew his request to the Pope to do
all that he could in bringing the Israelis home.

10. MAKING ONE'S STAMP IN THE WORLD
For the Postal Authority, it seems, every person is a king - and can even
have an official stamp printed in his or her honor. Next week, during the
"Jerusalem 2001" International Stamp Exhibition at Binyanei HaUmah, every
visitor will be able to be photographed for an official Israeli stamp,
framed with various Israeli flowers. A page of 16 personal stamps, ready
and legal for posting, will then be printed on the spot, at a cost of 35
shekels ($8.50). Philatelic Service Director Yinon Beilin says that the
personal stamps, which have proven to be successful in other countries, may
become a permanent product in Israel. Itim News Agency reports that
among
the many stamp enthusiasts from across the world expected to attend the
free-of-charge exhibition is the well-known stamp collector President Moshe
Katzav.

Hebrew News Editor: Ariel Kahane and Haggai Seri
English News Editor: Hillel Fendel

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Subject: [bprlist] LA to send gun-toting kids to see dead bodies in morgue
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:21:57 -0500

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LA to send gun-toting kids to see dead bodies in morgue

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES, March 14 (Reuters) - Los Angeles County lawmakers,
responding
to
last week's shooting rampage by a teenager at a California high school, have
passed a law forcing students caught with guns or making threats to view
dead
bodies and watch autopsies being performed at the coroner's office.

"Young people need to see the results of violent acts," Los Angeles County
Supervisor Mike Antonovich said. "Far too many youngsters are desensitized
to
violence. They need to realize it's not a movie or a video game when someone
is shot."

Antonovich, who authored the resolution that was approved by the County
Board
of Supervisors, said it was the nation's first such law and was modeled
after
a similar program for young drunk drivers that had been proven to work.

He added:"If they (kids) are old enough to bring a gun to school, they're
old
enough to tour the county coroner's office."

The resolution was unanimously passed by the board on Tuesday, just over a
week after a 15-year-old high school student in the San Diego area opened
fire on his classmates, killing two people and wounding 13.

Antonovich said it was also in response to a spate of violence at schools
across the country that began with the April 1999 bullets-and-bombs
massacre
of 15 people at Columbine High School in Colorado.

Los Angeles has reported 11 arrests of minors for making threats or bringing
a gun to school since February 22, he said.

Chris Dickerson, a spokesman for Antonovich, said that under current laws
any
child caught with a gun at school or making "terrorist threats" against his
classmates could be referred to police by the school and ultimately face a
judge to decide if the charges were true.

Dickerson said there was no definition of "terrorist threat" in the new law,
but that in law enforcement terms it meant "a threat to do bodily harm to
one
or more students."

Traditionally, the young offender would face a range of punishments,
including possible probation. Under the new law, the judge would also have
the authority to make the child take a tour of the coroner's morgue,
Dickerson said.

The new law does not set a minimum age at which a child could be forced to
take the tour, but supervisors do not expect judges to send very young
children on a tour of the morgue.

Addressing concerns that it could be harmful to subject young children to
dead bodies or autopsies, Antonovich spokesman Dickerson said the judge
and
probation authorities would act as "stop gaps" to make sure that the
punishment was appropriate.

"Yes, there are concerns that there could be abuses and that's one of the
reasons that we want to work with the schools and the probation
department,"
Dickerson said.

"Its not just that the kid says something or is reported to have said
something and right away the kid is seeing a cadaver at the county morgue,"
he said.

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:22:56 -0500

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Sent: March 15, 2001 8:23:36 PM GMT
Subject: Annual Leadership Engagement Forum (ALEF)

        HOLBROOKE, BERGER AND OTHER LEADERS TO GIVE
        INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD SCENE

PALM BEACH, FL - International leaders and experts will discuss
today's most compelling issues shaping the United States, Israel and the
world at the Annual Leadership Engagement Forum (ALEF) presented by the
American Friends of The Hebrew University.

The forum, entitled "The World in the 21st Century," is
co-chaired by Harvey M. Krueger and Diane Belfer. It will be held March
25-27, 2001, at the Four Seasons Resort in Palm Beach.

Speakers include Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, national security
advisor to President Clinton; Amb. Richard Holbrooke, former U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations and chief negotiator for the historic
1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia; Dennis Prager,
international lecturer, author and radio personality; Amb. William
Brown, former U.S. ambassador to Israel; as well as other experts on
political, social and medical issues.

AFHU's annual meeting will be held Sunday, March 25.

Holbrooke kicks off the program March 26 with a lecture, "The
World in the 21st Century." Panel discussions will follow on "Israel and
the Middle East," "Genetic Research and Ethical Issues," "Democracy in
Israel" and "Israel in the High-Tech Age."

Berger will deliver the luncheon address, "America: The Role of
the Superpower." Monday evening, Holbrooke will receive the Harry S.
Truman Peace Award at a gala dinner.

On March 27, Prager and acclaimed author and Hebrew University
Professor Yair Zakovitch will deliver the opening address, "Jewish Life
in the 21st Century," and a panel discussion moderated by Morton L.
Mandel will follow.

For more information, please call the American Friends of Hebrew
University at (561) 655-8655, (561) 750-8585 or (800) 899-2348.

The Truman Peace Award recognizes outstanding contributions by
individuals of particularly high caliber. To date, the award has been
granted to Simone Weil, Johan Jorgen Holst and U.S. Sen. George Mitchell
for their valuable efforts toward the advancement of peace in Europe,
the Middle East and Northern Ireland, respectively.

The Hebrew University was founded by leading statesmen and
scholars, including Chaim Weizmann, Sigmund Freud, Martin Buber, Albert
Einstein, Judah Magnes and Lord Rothschild. It is a world leader in
research in such fields as technology, medicine and agriculture, and is
making significant contributions in the pursuit of peace and pluralism
in the Middle East. More than 24,000 students from Israel and over 70
countries attend classes at its four campuses.

For 75 years, American Friends of The Hebrew University has
dedicated itself to strengthening The Hebrew University of Jerusalem by
providing resources to perpetuate the cultural, intellectual and
educational traditions of the Jewish people. AFHU's support has aided
Hebrew University in achieving its high level of excellence.

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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:29:07 -0500

5.9 quake hits Nicobar Islands, India

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: USGS

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- Today, a 5.9 quake hit the Nicobar Islands in the India
Region. It was centered about 60 miles (100 km) NE of Misha, Nicobar
Islands.

On a much smaller note, over the last several days in the US, Alaska, Idaho,
and Utah have had small to moderate quakes.

6.0 earthquake also strikes Central Chile

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: USGS

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- Yesterday, a 6.0 hit Indonesia. Today a 6.0 earthquake
struck near the coast of Central Chile. It's depth was 46.7km down. The
quake was about 60 miles (90 km) NNE of Valparaiso, Chile.

6.0 quake hits Sulawesi Indonesia

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: USGS

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- A large magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit the Minahassa
Peninsula of Sulawesi. It's depth was 107.6 km deep. It was 75 miles (120
km) W of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, Indonesia. No news out yet.

Mir space station splashdown delayed 2 days; only 1 chance to get it right

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: CNN

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- The doomed Russian space station Mir will likely plunge
into a watery grave on March 22, two days later than previously announced,
Russian space officials said Wednesday. Splashdown in the South Pacific is
now expected on March 22 at about 1:20 a.m. EST. The final leg of the
station's 15-year odyssey will begin roughly six hours before then. Russian
space officials said they have just enough fuel on board the Progress to
nudge Mir out of orbit and into its deadly descent path. They have only one
chance to get it right.

Should the Progress engines fail to fire for the desired length of time, debris
from the falling Mir could strike land. A burn that succeeds in producing only
50 percent of the expected power, for example, could send pieces raining
down on Europe, according to sources inside the Russian and U.S. space
programs. One that delivers 25 percent could prompt an uncontrolled
descent and expand the swath over which surviving debris might fall to most
of the middle latitudes, home to 5 billion of the planet's 6 billion people.
Ironically, Moscow is one of the few major population centers not under Mir's
track. If the Progress engines fails completely, Mir is expected to fall from
orbit on its own March 28, plus or minus 5 days. The 135-ton Mir is the
heaviest man-made satellite ever to fly in space. The moon is the only object
orbiting the Earth with more mass.

The Russians have a lot of experience bringing down spacecraft in a
controlled fashion in the South Pacific. Over the years, they have safely
brought down six Salyut space stations and 80 spent space freighters. In
1991, the Salyut 7 space station was out of fuel and out of control when it
returned to Earth. It lost altitude faster than expected because of increased
solar flare activity. Parts of that station landed in South America. In 1978, a
Soviet spy satellite dropped radioactive pieces on Canada's northern
territories in another uncontrolled re-entry. The U.S.-made Skylab was
launched without the capability to return to Earth in a controlled manner. Part
of the 100-ton station landed in a remote stretch of western Australia.

Christians attacked in Sri Lanka while praying

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: WorthyNews.com

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- One Christian was seriously injured and 35 more were
hospitalized when about 100 Buddhist extremists assaulted the congregation
of the Sanasum Sevana (New Life) Christian Center as they prayed on
Sunday morning, February 18. The church is located in Nurwarawatte, near
Hinguragoda, 220 kilometers northeast of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.

Masked men had smashed up the church property in the early morning
hours, and the pastor was holding a prayer meeting amid the devastation
when suddenly the mob attacked, wielding machetes. Ironically, the pastor
and some of the congregation had attended an Open Doors seminar,
"Preparing for Persecution," three weeks earlier. The incident represents the
most violent attack on Christians by Buddhist extremists in recent years.

Boosting UN efforts for world peace a priority for Russia, says Putin

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: Russia Today/Agence France Presse

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- Russia's priority in foreign policy is to work with its
international partners to achieve global stability and to reinforce the key role
of the United Nations, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying
Monday by Interfax.

"Equal partnership and cooperation on behalf of the stability of the planet is
the absolute priority of our foreign policy," Putin said at a Kremlin ceremony
to welcome new ambassadors to Russia. "The key to this, in our opinion, is
reinforcing the role of the United Nations and that of other international
forums dedicated to finding workable solutions to current challenges," the
Russian leader added. The most pressing of such challenges were the
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the militarization of space and
the threats posed by international crime and terrorism, Putin said

Israel increasingly sees Egypt as potential threat

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: WorldTribune.com

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- Israeli defense officials no longer hide their concern over
what they say is a massive Egyptian conventional arms buildup. They said
the most impressive achievements have been in the Egyptian navy. They cite
Egypt's procurement of new Ambassador Mk-2 missiles boats and plans for
Moray-class submarines and additional frigates.

"They have stuff that is superior to us, particularly in the sea," a senior Israeli
defense official said. "The Americans love to sell to them because the
Egyptians buy off-the-shelf systems and don't demand modifications or
technology transfer." Israel is urging the United States not to supply new
long-range systems to Egypt in its drive to serve as a protector of the Gulf
region.

A pill for compulsive gamblers?

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: ABCNews.com

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- Researchers showed that the drug naltrexone, which the
Food and Drug Administration approved for alcoholism in 1995 and for drug
addiction in 1985, was able to reduce gambling urges in almost 75 percent of
the 20 people in the study. Those people who received a placebo only cut
their gambling urges by 24 percent.

"My original hypothesis was that I should never delude myself to think that I
have solved the gambling problem," said Dr. Suck Wong Kim, director of the
impulse control disorder clinic at the University of Minnesota. "What I am
trying to say is that we now have promising drug agent that may be working."
Kim believes the drug can help people who gamble because it suppresses
the "rush or a high" they usually got from playing and winning.

More Americans having gay sex, study shows

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: Yahoo News/Reuters Health

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- Positive media images of gay life--like hit TV shows
"Ellen" and "Will and Grace" -- may be helping spur an increase in gay
sexual activity among Americans, a new study suggests. A national survey
has found the percentage of US women who say they recently had gay sex
has increased 15-fold from 1988 to 1998, with rates among American men
doubling over the same period.

"This is about people expressing who they are," said Cathy Renna, news
media director of the watchdog group Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD). She believes that "changes in the cultural environment
have contributed to a culture where gay and lesbian people can be more
safe, more comfortable and more self-accepting of who they are."

In her study, Amy C. Butler of the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, examined
1988-1998 data from the General Social Survey, a poll of adult Americans
over the age of 18 conducted every two years by the National Opinion
Research Center. According to the survey, the number of men who said they
had recently had gay sex rose from 2% in 1988 to 4% in 1998, while rates
among women climbed from 0.2% in 1988 to nearly 3% ten years later. The
results are published in a recent issue of the Journal of Sex Research.

China places second missile base near Taiwan

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Washington Times

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- A U.S. spy satellite detected a newly completed Chinese
missile base opposite Taiwan in the past two weeks, The Washington Times
has learned. The base is located where China has placed its newest short-
range missiles, which target the island, U.S. intelligence officials say. The
missile base, detected in spy-satellite photographs, is located several miles
northeast of Xianyou and some 135 miles from Taiwan. Nearly 100 CSS-7
short-range ballistic missiles and mobile launchers are deployed there. The
base is the second short-range missile base for CSS-7s, said officials
familiar with intelligence reports of the discovery.

B'nai B'rith raps UN funding for PA map

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Jerusalem Post

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- The United Nations is coming under fire from B'nai B'rith
International for funding a map published by the Palestinian Ministry of
Tourism and Antiquities, with funding from the UN's Program of Assistance
to the Palestinian People, marking all land between the Mediterranean and
the Jordan River as "Palestine," and identifying some cities in Israel by their
pre-1948 Arabic names. Moreover, a smaller map of Jerusalem's Old City
marks churches and mosques, but leaves out synagogues and the Western
Wall.

On Monday, B'nai B'rith issued a press release calling on UN Secretary-
General Kofi Annan to audit all UN funds that to go to the Palestinian
Authority, Palestine Liberation Organization, and affiliated organizations and
officers. The publication of the map by the PA, said B'nai B'rith executive vice
president Daniel Mariaschin, appears to be part of a concerted effort "to
incite others as well as its own people against Israel. Rather than educating
for peace as required by the Oslo Accords, the PA - as shown by the map
and other propaganda materials - undermines hope for a better future in the
region," he said.

B'nai B'rith president Richard Heideman slammed the UN's "anti-Israel bias,"
adding that since 1948, the UN has "provided a pulpit for Arab, communist,
and radical Islamic states to attack Israel."

Most Council members favour UN observers in Palestinian territories

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: AFP

Thu Mar 15,2001 -- Members of the Security Council told Israeli Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres on Wednesday that almost all of them favoured
sending UN observers to the Palestinian territories. But Peres caustically
rejected the notion, and the Palestinian observer to the United Nations,
Nasser Al-Kidwa, acknowledged that it would be hard to get it adopted
without the support of the United States.

The council is scheduled to hold a formal debate on the Middle East on
Thursday, and Al-Kidwa told reporters he hoped it would approve a resolution
for "a UN presence" in the Palestinian territories. The debate is due to start
around 11:00 am (1600 GMT). The council president, Volodymyr Yel'chenko,
Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters that "there is no
unanimity in the Security Council" on the proposed force. But, he said,
"almost all members delivered a very strong message to (Peres) that they
are in favour of it." He said there were "many details to be discussed" and
added "there is a role for the secretary general (Kofi Annan) to play,
consulting the parties."

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Subject: [bprlist] Fwd: Foot and Mouth Disease Attack?
From: "Patt A."
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:18:48 -0800 (PST)

"Patt A." <chrispatt@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:58:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Comiverse News
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Foot And Mouth Disease -- A Biological Attack?
March 15, 2001 08:20 CDT

The outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease began early last month in Northumberland in Northeastern England. Veterinarians said the strain was similar to a strain native to Asia. Over the next few weeks, the disease spread throughout the UK livestock business.

The last outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease happened in England in 1967, and was limited to Northwest England. It involved over one thousand cases of the disease occurring in the winter and spring of that year. The disease was thought to have been controlled due to the less developed livestock transport system.

The virus responsible for the spread of the disease has shown to be extremely virulent in this outbreak, and has been spread widely because of large-scale transportation of animals throughout the UK and Europe. Some view this as indicative of the effect of globalism on the agri-business. Even though the entire livestock transportation system has been shut down, the virus has spread like wildfire even though UK Ministry of Agriculture has taken steps to limit its spread.

The initial source of the disease in the UK is still under debate. Initial reports say the farm that started the initial outbreak in Northumberland fed waste food to its animals, which could have contained infectious agents. Outbreaks are also happening in Argentina and in other parts of the world. Meat infected with Foot and Mouth could possibly be imported because of bad practices in examining food imports.

One other possibility is that the UK has been the target of biological warfare by unfriendly nations like Iraq. The danger of biological agents used against population, military, or economy was detailed in a speech by Dr. John M. Deutch, Director of the CIA, at the "Conference on Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Weapons Proliferation and Terrorism" in May of 1996. Deutch described biological warfare as being a "really dangerous and immediate threat." Deutch made an example of Iraq, saying, "Iraq has expertise, hidden components, and a leadership, in case anyone is in doubt, willing to resume chemical, biological and nuclear production." The government of the United States paid attention to Deutch's warnings, and by the end of the 1990s had invested hundreds of millions of dollars upgrading biological warfare facilities like the USDA facility at Plum Island, New York to fight bioterrorism.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that the CIA calls Foot and Mouth Disease one of the 15 animal agents that could have potential as Biological Warfare applications. Their figures show that the cost of developing an effective Economic Biological Warfare weapon to target an enemy's agricultural system is extremely low; perhaps even as low as $10 million.

The following was taken from the USDA report, "The Threat of Intentional Introduction of Foreign Animal Diseases into the United States."

"Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Attack--A terrorist group wishing to show the weakness of the United States has targeted our agricultural industry to demonstrate the vulnerability of the United States to a BW attack. The terrorist group decided to use FMD because of its ease of availability around the world. FMD is a highly contagious viral infection that easily spreads by: 1, direct or indirect contact with infected animals; 2, spread of aerosol from infected animals; 3, feeding contaminated garbage; 4, contact with contaminated objects; 5, artificial insemination; and 6, contaminated biologicals.

Although the direct impact on human health would be minimal to none, its affect on the animal industry would be severe due to the control measures that would be necessary to contain it:

stop movement of animal and animal products in the area affected;

slaughter infected animals;

destroy carcasses;

disinfect vehicles leaving the infected areas; and

mass vaccination campaign.
Considering the current UK outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in the context given in the U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Bioterrorism, it is not inconceivable that the UK is the first casualty of a Biological attack. Original Source: Sightings Related Links:

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From: barb
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:19:20 -0600

It would not at all be a surprise if this were an attack of biological warfare. It does bring to mind some scripture from Ezekiel 14:

12The word of the LORD came to me: 13"Son of man, if a country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, 14even if these three men--Noah, DanielA and Job--were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign LORD. . .

I think it's more signs of the end times.

- barb

"Patt A." wrote:

>
>
> "Patt A." <chrispatt@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:58:01 -0800 (PST)
> From: Comiverse News
> Reply-to: chrispatt@yahoo.com
> Subject: Foot and Mouth Disease Attack?
> To: chrispatt@yahoo.com
>
> Foot And Mouth Disease -- A Biological Attack?
> March 15, 2001 08:20 CDT
>
> The outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease began early last month in Northumberland in Northeastern England. Veterinarians said the strain was similar to a strain native to Asia. Over the next few weeks, the disease spread throughout the UK livestock business..
>
> The last outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease happened in England in 1967, and was limited to Northwest England. It involved over one thousand cases of the disease occurring in the winter and spring of that year. The disease was thought to have been controlled due to the less developed livestock transport system.
>
> The virus responsible for the spread of the disease has shown to be extremely virulent in this outbreak, and has been spread widely because of large-scale transportation of animals throughout the UK and Europe. Some view this as indicative of the effect of globalism on the agri-business. Even though the entire livestock transportation system has been shut down, the virus has spread like wildfire even though UK Ministry of Agriculture has taken steps to limit its spread.
>
> The initial source of the disease in the UK is still under debate. Initial reports say the farm that started the initial outbreak in Northumberland fed waste food to its animals, which could have contained infectious agents. Outbreaks are also happening in Argentina and in other parts of the world. Meat infected with Foot and Mouth could possibly be imported because of bad practices in examining food imports.
>
> One other possibility is that the UK has been the target of biological warfare by unfriendly nations like Iraq. The danger of biological agents used against population, military, or economy was detailed in a speech by Dr. John M. Deutch, Director of the CIA, at the "Conference on Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Weapons Proliferation and Terrorism" in May of 1996. Deutch described biological warfare as being a "really dangerous and immediate threat." Deutch made an example of Iraq, saying, "Iraq has expertise, hidden components, and a leadership, in case anyone is in doubt, willing to resume chemical, biological and nuclear production." The government of the United States paid attention to Deutch's warnings, and by the end of the 1990s had invested hundreds of millions of dollars upgrading biological warfare facilities like the USDA facility at Plum Island, New York to fight bioterrorism.
>
> The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that the CIA calls Foot and Mouth Disease one of the 15 animal agents that could have potential as Biological Warfare applications. Their figures show that the cost of developing an effective Economic Biological Warfare weapon to target an enemy's agricultural system is extremely low; perhaps even as low as $10 million.
>
> The following was taken from the USDA report, "The Threat of Intentional Introduction of Foreign Animal Diseases into the United States."
>
> "Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Attack--A terrorist group wishing to show the weakness of the United States has targeted our agricultural industry to demonstrate the vulnerability of the United States to a BW attack. The terrorist group decided to use FMD because of its ease of availability around the world. FMD is a highly contagious viral infection that easily spreads by: 1, direct or indirect contact with infected animals; 2, spread of aerosol from infected animals; 3, feeding contaminated garbage; 4, contact with contaminated objects; 5, artificial insemination; and 6, contaminated biologicals.
>
> Although the direct impact on human health would be minimal to none, its affect on the animal industry would be severe due to the control measures that would be necessary to contain it:
>
> stop movement of animal and animal products in the area affected;
>
> slaughter infected animals;
>
> destroy carcasses;
>
> disinfect vehicles leaving the infected areas; and
>
> mass vaccination campaign.
> Considering the current UK outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease in the context given in the U.S. Department of Agriculture report on Bioterrorism, it is not inconceivable that the UK is the first casualty of a Biological attack. Original Source: Sightings Related Links:
>
> Original Article
>
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