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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 08:27:09 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:27:09 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] U.S. Facing U.N.-Mideast Dilemma

U.S. Facing U.N.-Mideast Dilemma

By CHRIS HAWLEY
.c The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United States faced a diplomatic dilemma
Sunday: how to say ``no'' to sending U.N. observers to the West Bank and
Gaza Strip without worsening the violence or enraging the Arab world.

The Palestinians want the U.N. Security Council to back the deployment of
observers to help stop six months of bloodshed, and say they have mustered
the nine council votes needed to pass such a resolution.

Standing in the way during negotiations Sunday was the United States,
Israel's strongest ally in the United Nations. Israel opposes sending
observers and wants direct talks with the Palestinians instead.

The United States could use its veto to block the resolution. But Washington
fears a veto could trigger more violence and anger oil-rich Arab countries
whose support it needs to strengthen sanctions against Afghanistan and
Iraq.

``It's our feeling that the Americans are not taking the issue of a veto lightly,''
said the Palestinian representative, Nasser Al-Kidwa.

The Security Council met Saturday and again Sunday afternoon in search of
a compromise. The talks were expected to continue Monday.

European nations in the council fielded a watered-down resolution that
postponed any decision on an observer force but criticized the Israelis for
expanding settlements and imposing blockades on Palestinian towns. It also
noted that most of the more than 400 people who have died in the violence
since late September have been Palestinians.

Negotiators want to find a compromise before a summit of Arab leaders
Tuesday in Amman, Jordan. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in
Amman on Sunday, and the council wants to arm him with a resolution that
will satisfy Arab leaders increasingly concerned about the violence.

``We believe that through this resolution we'll be able to give a fresh
momentum to the resumption of (Israeli-Palestinian) talks,'' said Bangladeshi
Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, who heads the block of developing nations
on the council that support the Palestinians.

``And we believe the secretary-general ... should know what this
organization, the Security Council, is telling him to do,'' Chowdhury said.

Acting U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham would not comment on the
closed-door talks in the Security Council on Sunday.

Only the five permanent Security Council members - the United States,
Russia, China, France and Britain - can issue vetoes. They try to be sparing
with them, in part because vetoes anger less powerful members who are
resentful that five countries can essentially dictate U.N. policy.

The United States has only vetoed five resolutions since 1990 - four of them
dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The last U.S. veto, in 1997,
quashed a resolution demanding that Israel stop construction of a settlement
in east Jerusalem.

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 08:34:58 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:34:58 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] Zenit items (3/25/01)

VATICAN NOT RUSHING TO JUDGMENT ON JOHN XXIII'S REMAINS
Pope's Face Found to Be Preserved During Exhumation

VATICAN CITY, MAR. 25, 2001 (Zenit.org).- Pope John XXIII's face was
found to be perfectly preserved when his body was exhumed earlier this year .
But Vatican officials for the time being are not calling it a miracle.

The bishops and technicians who took part in the canonical recognition of
the mortal remains of John XXIII had a surprise when his body was exhumed
Jan. 16: His face had not changed since his death in 1963.

The examination was necessary after John Paul II expressed the wish that
the body of the "Good Pope" be taken from its resting place in the Vatican

grottoes, in the basement of St. Peter's Basilica, to an altar elsewhere in the
basilica, as has been done with Pius X.

John XXIII, beatified last Sept. 3, was not embalmed. When he died June 3,

1963, the technicians of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Rome injected
formaldehyde into his body, to allow the body's exposition for the faithf ul,
before its burial. The practice has been applied to the Popes who have died

since the mid-20th century.

The surprising official report of canonical recognition was published Satur day.
Among others, it included the testimony of Cardinal Virgilio Noe, archpries t
of St. Peter's Basilica. The final phase of the examination was attended by
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, and Archbishop
Leonardo Sandri, substitute of the state secretariat.

The document states: "Once freed from the cloth preserving it, the Blessed 's
face appeared whole, with the eyes closed and the mouth slightly open, with

those features that immediately remind one of the familiar look of the
venerated Pontiff."

According to the report, John XXIII's hands held a crucifix, in the posit ion in
which the Pope had been buried with his pontifical ornaments.

"The objective fact is that the body is preserved," said Father Ciro
Benedittini, vice director of the Vatican Press Office. "However, this does not
allow one to comment or hypothesize on supernatural events, which could
not be corroborated by what has happened."

John XXIII died at 82, after a five-year pontificate during which he convok ed
the Second Vatican Council.

While awaiting its final resting place, John XXIII's body has been placed in a
lead coffin. It will soon be embalmed and treated for preservation.

Vatican experts hope to have more details Tuesday, when Cardinal Noe
publicly presents the book "The Tombs and Funeral Monuments of the
Popes in the Vatican Basilica of St. Peter."

ZE01032503

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PAPAL BLESSINGS AVAILABLE THROUGH INTERNET

VATICAN CITY, MAR. 25, 2001 (Zenit.org).- Commemorative parchments
announcing papal blessings are now available through Internet.

The blessings are listed on a parchment document and are available for
special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries, baptisms, first
Communions and ordinations.

The Vatican does not sell the blessings. To make them accessible, the
Vatican has entrusted their distribution and authentication to companies
selling religious articles. The companies charge a moderate fee to meet the

expenses incurred in producing and mailing the parchment.

For decades, these parchments could be purchased in religious-articles
stores in the Vatican. Now they can also be obtained through Internet. San

Michele Arcangelo (http://www.sanmichelearcangelo.com) is one of the first

companies to offer this service.

ZE01032504

http://www.zenit.org

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 08:36:14 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:36:14 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Official Fatah Editorial: A Summit Of Challenges

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Subject: Official Fatah Editorial: A Summit Of Challenges

Official Fatah Editorial: A Summit Of Challenges

http://www.fateh.net/e_editor/01/150301.htm

Since many decades, the Arab nation has been facing some choking challenges.
The nation has, however, miserably failed to overcome these challenges,
especially the outside ones. The reason for that is our failure as Arabs to
confront the self-imposed challenge that blinded our vision as to what
priorities we need to set for ourselves. As a corollary, primary and
secondary contradictions have been mixed and we can no longer differentiate
between hostile contradictions that result from personal enmities and
differences that may require some litigation.

With the first Arab summit conference about to convene in Jordan, it becomes
apparent that resolving outside challenges hinges on how we deal with the
self-imposed challenges. This demands a moment of truth in order to set our
priorities in the right manner. It is true that each Arab country has its
own priorities based on how it conceives its own interests and security.
However one strategic priority which attracts the required consensus is our
national Arab security.

Since the beginning of the imperialistic Zionist invasion of our region, no
progress has been made in bringing about further independence or unity.
European and American imperialism has adopted a strategy of permanent
tension to allow for the creation of a Zionist entity as a foreign body that
seeks to encourage divisiveness and backwardness among the peoples of the
region to prepare the ground for more political conspiracies that allowed
for the establishment of the so -called Israel.

Location, political geography, and other talmudic and mythical foundations
in pursuit of imperialist interests helped to victimize the Palestinian
people. But their steadfastness over the years made Palestinians foil all
the foundations upon which imperialist powers based their project. After one
hundred years of bloody conflict in confronting this project, we proved that
Palestine is a land for its people. Moreover, we have been able to protect
our interests in Jerusalem, the city that God blessed.

On March 27, 2001,the Arab summit conference will convene in Amman, Jordan.
The summit will be held amid some serious outside challenges. The most
important of these are Sharon's policies which represent the extreme right
in Israel and the negative attitude of the new American administration vis-
a- vis the Intifada and Arab solidarity.

To diagnose these challenges and to find out ways of confronting them, it is
necessary to tackle aspects related to the self- imposed challenge. These
are inter-Arab relations and differences about relations with Israel and the
U.S.

First: The Self-imposed Arab Challenge

By this we mean the deteriorating inter-Arab relations, especially after the
second Gulf war which rendered meaningless some of the most important
foundations for Arab unity such as Arab solidarity, joint defense and the
ability to distinguish friends from enemies. In addition to the mammoth
material losses of the Gulf States, the security of the region became an
American rather than an Arab concern.

These destructive effects constitute a great challenge to the summit
conference.

The U.S. continues to divide the Arab countries into either friendly or
hostile depending on how "cooperative" each country is .It also tends to
increase the tension in the area as a way of avoiding a unified Arab
position. However, the last Arab conference, which was held in Cairo, proved
that Arabs could defy the aggressive intentions of the U.S. The mere
convening of the conference satisfied the hopes and wishes of the Arab
people after ten years during which the American veto made it impossible for
the Arabs to meet. However, some Arab countries feared that the U.S. would
consider their support for the Intifada as an encouragement for violence.

In expressing their strategy for peace, Arabs are asked to prove their
readiness to confront the aggressor and increase their support for the
Intifada. Only then will the U.S. find itself obliged to pressure Israel
into accepting a just peace deal that is based on international legality.
The U.S. should realize that it can no longer monopolize this legality as it
did in the aftermath of the Gulf war when it imposed on Iraq some measures
such as the non-fly zone without the approval of the Security Council.

Secondly: The Zionist Challenge

Sharon's victory in the last Israeli elections represents the racist and
fascist climax the Zionist movement has reached. The criminal past of the
Israeli prime minister and the policies of the extreme Israeli right he has
been calling for, pose a great danger to all Arab countries.

A well thought out plan to confront Sharon's policies would prove fruitful
due to the weaknesses the Sharon challenge involves. We should know that
only one third of the Israeli electorate voted Sharon into office. The other
two thirds feel some disenchantment because they do not enjoy the stability
they were promised. To introduce any change in the Israeli public opinion,
it is necessary to prove to the Israelis that Sharon and Peres are trying to
replace international legality with some long-term interim agreement. In
other words, they want to legitimize the Israeli occupation.

The Intifada is taking care of the real confrontation on the ground. To
guarantee its continuation, the upcoming summit in Jordan has to find ways
for implementing decisions taken in Cairo regarding the financial support
.It should also decide to boycott Sharon's government as long as it does
not recognize UN resolutions pertaining to our cause. Sharon should
understand that a conflict that has lasted for a hundred years can not be
solved in a hundred days as he promised his people. The atrocities he
committed in Sabra and Shatila will continue to loom over his future.

Thirdly: The American Challenge

Arabs are unanimous in their belief that in the final analysis both
challenges , the Zionist and the American ,are directed against all Arab
countries. However, the U.S. has a much more complex net of relations with
the Arab world. It maintains good relations with Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, and
the Gulf states. On the other hand, it shows bias against Lebanon,
Palestine, Syria and Sudan. As to Iraq and Libya, it continues to impose a
harsh siege on them.

The new American administration seems to have taken a worse position
compared with that of the previous administration whose policies towards the
Middle East were masterminded by people like Denis Ross. Statements made by
George W. Bush and his Secretary of State indicate their support for the
Israeli aggression .The two men bombarded Iraq to try to divert the World's
attention from the situation in the occupied territories.

Powel's visit to the area proved the American bias to Israel. He did not
hesitate to consider the Intifada a case of violence and aggression against
Israel. He failed to recognize the difference between the Palestinian stone
and the U.S -made Apache that Israel used to assassinate Palestinian
leaders.

The new American President seems to be acting out of a sense of vengeance
for his father who was defeated twice, once by Clinton who won the election
and another by Saddam who remained in office despite all attempts. Now that
he defeated Al Gore, the Democrat, he is turning his attention to Iraq to
fulfil a hidden agenda. His attempt to put together the fading anti-Iraq
alliance has failed to attract the support of the Arab world at both the
formal and informal levels.

The upcoming summit in Amman should voice what Arab leaders have
individually told Powel concerning Iraq. It should emphasize the fact that
Arab national security is an Arab concern. And the U.S. should know that its
policies, which favor Israel, are harming regional stability and that it
should no longer monopolize international legality. The U.S. should respect
UN resolutions which call for the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the
occupied territories, the dismantling of settlement, the return of refugees
and self determination. It is important to add here that George Bush and
his then-Secretary of State, Baker, considered Israeli settlement illegal
and an obstacle to peace.

The summit should not declare the war against the U.S. But it should ask the
U.S. to stop the Israeli war against the Palestinian people and to withdraw
from the West Bank , Jerusalem, the Syrian Golan, and the Shib'a farms.
This is how Arabs should face the American challenge to ensure a new Middle
East that has an Arab identity, will, and sovereignty.

Revolution until victory.

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 08:38:36 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:38:36 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Ha'aretz: After all the threatening, they stayed in Kiryat Shmona

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Subject: Ha'aretz: After all the threatening,
they stayed in Kiryat Shmona -
population figures above projections

Ha'aretz: After all the threatening , they stayed in Kiryat Shmona -
population figures above projections

By Sharon Gal Ha'aretz 26 March 2001

Had the forecasts that filled the media on the eve of the Israeli military
withdrawal from Lebanon come true, the population of the town of Kiryat
Shmona would have numbered a few thousand residents less than it does today.
But the prophecies of doom did not come to be: In fact, since March 2000,
and through to the end of the year, the number of residents has increased,
albeit only marginally, by 68. In December last year, Kiryat Shmona boasted
a population of 23,049 residents (according to the municipal population
register) - more than the optimistic forecasts that were made based on
population growth data from the Central Bureau of Statistics.

An example of the panic that characterized the early days of May 2000 - when
it became apparent that the Israel Defense Forces was preparing to withdraw
from southern Lebanon and a sense of uncertainty hung over the towns of
northern Israel - can be found in a report that appeared in one of the daily
newspapers at the time: "The desertion of Kiryat Shmona: A drop of 50
percent in registration to schools," the headline read. The body of report
proceeded to tell the story of Nava Danino, 42, a resident of Kiryat Shmona
who was presented as one of those who were planning to leave the town.

"It's enough," the newspaper quoted Danino as saying. "I want my children to
have a normal childhood - I was born in Kiryat Shmona; I love the town and
have been living here for 33 years already, but I want to lead a normal
life. I don't want to be scared to send my children to after-school
activities and parties; I don't want my children to live in constant fear."

Then-chair of the Knesset Education and Culture Committee, MK Zevulun Orlev
(National Religious Party) promptly issued a warning. "There is a danger of
a mass exodus of residents from Kiryat Shmona," Orlev said. "I have spoken
to residents and I have found that many of them have lost faith in the
policies of the government."

An anonymous real estate agent then stoked the fire, revealing that within a
week, he had been approached by 38 families who had asked him to find buyers
for their apartments.

But Nava Danino didn't pack up and go, and neither did many others who had
been portrayed in the media as being on their way south. "I guess I really
love the place," Danino told Ha'aretz this week, adding that following
publication of the report last May, she had been admonished by her parents,
who had been among the early residents of the state who, in the 1950s, had
been forced to cope with the harsh living conditions in the area.

"I suppose we were anxious about the withdrawal," Danino says in retrospect.
"For 30 years, we endured everything; we were robbed of our childhood. My
conscience often nagged at me, asking whether my children should also be
forced to go through the same things I did as a child. But the people here
give you strength; I suppose our roots are very deeply embedded here."

For the past decade, the Kiryat Shmona municipality has had a strategic
planning department that works at absorbing strong populations and expanding
the size of the town. Rachel Sukar, the director of the department, says she
was not one of those who had spoken of the catastrophe facing the town on
the eve of the IDF withdrawal. It was a campaign initiated by politicians
who felt threatened by the situation, she says.

"No one asked my opinion," she recalls. "I realized that the political team
was somewhat panicked. I was also in a panic," she admits, "but I knew that
the city was strong."

The strategic planning department is more concerned about what the coming
years have to bring rather than about the security situations, she adds.

Sukar speaks of a cyclical pattern, which, if not maintained, will cause the
entire future of the city to be at risk - education, employment, quality of
life, proper housing and then back to education. "If one of these elements
is neglected, everything gets stuck. This is why we are now making every
effort to ensure that the Tel Hai College will be able to offer masters
degree programs and that high-quality construction takes place in Kiryat
Shmona. Our position today allows us to approach Tadiran Communications and
unabashedly say: 'It's nice that you have a production facility, but where's
the development?'"

It appears that the most pressing issue facing Kiryat Shmona is the shortage
of land reserves for high-quality construction. The dispute with Kibbutz
Kfar Giladi over the so-called "Tel Hai platform" - a 750-dunam area
(750,000 square meters), some 500 dunams of which fall under the municipal
jurisdiction of Kiryat Shmona, with the remaining 250 dunams belonging to
Kfar Giladi - is yet to be resolved. The town wants the kibbutz to hand over
the 250 dunams, arguing that the area is the only land reserve available.
The kibbutz, however, wants compensation: a quarry, without a tender.

The Israel Lands Administration is considering the matter. The legal adviser
to the Finance Ministry, Yamima Mazuz, opposes the demand of the kibbutz, as
reported last week in Globes. Kiryat Shmona, for its part, has no intentions
of easily forgoing the potential of the construction of some 740 housing
units, 200 of which will be built as private homes.

"Because of the land shortage, we will have to build there with certain
compromises too," Sukar says. "Relatively dense construction will be
unavoidable." The area designated for the private construction will include
houses of 350 square meters and duplexes, she says, "because we have no
choice."

The accelerated building taking place at the kibbutzim in the area
constitutes a threat to the city, although the community neighborhood
projects - which involve building houses alongside the farmsteads - are
still facing statutory problems and are not progressing as the kibbutzim
have planned. Apart from Kibbutz Snir, alongside of which foundations for
the first houses have already been laid, the remaining kibbutzim are still
busy with planning operations and efforts to secure the necessary approvals.

"Who would be crazy enough to come from Tel Aviv to live in the apartment
buildings of Kiryat Shmona?" Sukar asks when commenting on the possibility
of the city absorbing new residents from afar. "What we have here is a
situation in which we are competing against each other in this area. I
believe we'll be on the right road only when we manage to resolve the
problem of the quality construction," she says.

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From owner-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 08:43:21 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:43:21 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant hidden on a Baltic Island?
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Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 14:50:46 -0000

Did a secret order of knights hide the Holy Grail, Ark of Covenant on a Baltic
island?

By PETER STARCK, Reuters
Dec. 25, 2000

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/forum/skyline.htm

COPENHAGEN -- The Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant may have been
hidden by a secretive religious order of crusaders, the Knights Templar, on the
Baltic Sea island of Bornholm some 830 years ago, according to a new book.

The whereabouts of the grail and the ark -- legendary religious relics of
immeasurable value to Christian and Jewish believers --have intrigued
historians and archaeologists for centuries and films about quests to locate
them, notably the "Indiana Jones" series, have thrilled movie audiences
worldwide.

No one knows exactly what the relics actually are but the ark is believed a box-
type container that held the stone tablets inscribed with the 10 commandments
which Moses received from God on Mount Sinai.

Legends differ about the Holy Grail but it is most widely thought to be the
chalice which Jesus and his apostles drank from at last supper before he was
crucified.

Some scholars speculate that treasures amassed by the Knights Templar
ended up in Rosslyn chapel in Scotland. Others have hinted at locations in
Ethiopia, Spain and Canada.

In a 194-page book "The Templars' Secret Island," Denmark's Erling
Haagensen and Henry Lincoln of Britain say medieval round churches were
built at sites on Bornholm based on the sacred geometry used by the Knights
Templar elsewhere in Europe, most famously at Rennes-le-Chateau in southern
France.

The book, studded with graphs, plots the churches' geometric layout with
mathematical precision and the authors suggest the design may be a map to
hidden treasures.

The Danish archbishop Eskil visited Knights Templar Grand Master Bertrand
de Blanchefort in France in 1162, nine years after the death of his predecessor
Bernard of Clairvaux.

The historically recorded purpose of Eskil's visit -- coming at a time when the
Knights Templar may have feared becoming vulnerable because of the
influential Bernard's demise -- was to prepare a crusade against pagans
inhabiting the Baltic Sea's northeastern coast in what is today Estonia and
Latvia.

The book suggests that Knights Templar who joined the Baltic crusade built
Bornholm's churches and may have taken the opportunity to stash some
treasures there.

"The need for a secure hiding place would have been paramount...It would
make sense to conceal whatever may have been the Order's treasures in more
than one place.

"Better still to provide a hiding place which was remote and had no apparent
connection with the Order. Bertrand's involvement in the planning for the
Baltic Mission would have offered him the perfect opportunity.
Bornholm...now becomes a trump card," says the book.

"It was small and easily controlled and protected. Above all, it was remote,
unknown, unlikely to be disturbed, not big enough or rich enough to attract an
errant warrior intent on carving out a kingdom," it continues.

UNIQUE CHURCHES LASTING HERITAGE

The European Templar Heritage Research Network (ETHRN), a non-profit
making association of scholars not affiliated to any religious or political group,
says it has been historically documented that the order of the Poor Knights of
Christ and the Temple of Solomon -- the full name of the Knights Templar --
was founded by aristocrats from the French region of Burgundy early in the
12th century.

The order's classic round churches founded on octagonal geometry,
supposedly based on the design of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in
Jerusalem, are a lasting heritage of the Knights Templar era, the ETHRN says.

Historical records and 20th century archaeological digs indicate that a group
of Knights Templar were searching for something under Jerusalem's Temple
Mount between 1118 and 1127.

Haagensen and Lincoln say that on returning to France in 1127 the crusaders
reported to Bernard of Clairvaux that their "mission" had been accomplished.

A carving on a pillar at the cathedral in Chartres, France, suggests the mission
had been to find the Ark of the Covenant.

Legends say Mary Magdalen, to this day the village saint of Rennes-le-
Chateau, and Joseph of Arimathea, who according to the Bible buried Jesus,
took the Holy Grail to France.

Evidence of the belief in this tale is found in historical records about the Nazis
searching for the Holy Grail at Rennes-le-Chateau during World War Two.

Backing up the theory that Knights Templar treasures may have been hidden
on Bornholm, the book says ancestors of the noblemen who founded the
order lived on this rocky 587 square km (226.7 square miles) island, now part of
Denmark and home to some 45,000 people.

BURGUNDIANS CAME FROM BORNHOLM

The authors point to a find of nearly 3,000 tiny, intricately carved golden
figures unearthed in a 1985-86 excavation of a Bornholm field as lending
credibility to their claim of a Bornholm connection.

The golden figures have been dated to AD 400-600 when the Merovingians --
a clan of Frankish kings who claimed to be, like Jesus, of the house and
lineage of the Bible's King David -- were at the height of their power.
Descendants of the Merovingians later settled in Burgundy.

The book also quotes a AD 417 work by Spanish historian Orosius, which
says the Burgundians came from Bornholm.

The Knights Templar viewed the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant as
their rightful possessions because of their bloodline to the House of David,
scholars say.

The equilateral six-sided shape which forms the star of David is part of the
geometric design formed by Bornholm's medieval churches, the book by
Haagensen and Lincoln shows.

"It is undeniable that those who planned and built the churches of Bornholm
knew exactly what they were doing and why they did it," the authors say,
adding the design "indicated a sure hiding place."

An excavation in 1995 to install heating ducts under the floor of Oesterlars
church, the biggest of Bornholm's round churches, found "unusual and
unexpected stone features...which might be explained by the presence of an
undiscovered crypt," the book says, quoting the official renovation report.

Olsker, another church in the geometric pattern, also features a "curious
indication of a possible underground structure beneath a staircase," the
authors say.

"Neither of these subterranean anomalies has, thus far, been investigated."

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From shofar5 Mon Mar 26 17:39:37 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:39:37 -0500
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Ok, do you think that it is hidden by the Knights Templar and do you think they have both the Holy Grail and the Ark? I have read a few other books saying that the Ark is under the Temple mount in Israel, hidden and sealed off.... Others say it is not under the Mount. Some say it was destroyed... And the Grail meant nothing till long after the Death of Jesus.. and thus it was more than likely just provided to them as were all the rest at the Last Supper room... Who would have thought about the cup?? The Ark has a bit more of a chance to be still here.. and hidden as the Priests would have done before the Roman invasion.

I have been reading the one by J.R. Church. And you think I should read??? Which would be best??

Would the Grail be a part of any end time event to come?? IF the Knights Templar have both could this not be used for power reasons?? Could they black mail Israel with what they have?? Could this be a part of the anti-christ plan of some sorts?? The Knights Templar are suppose to be part of the NWO and so would this not all fit into a bigger picture?? I think you could see were my thinking is going with this.... :)

Your thoughts??

IN HIS GRIP,

Ann

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  Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 14:50:46 -0000

Did a secret order of knights hide the Holy Grail, Ark of Covenant on a Baltic
island?

By PETER STARCK, Reuters
Dec. 25, 2000

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/forum/skyline.htm

  COPENHAGEN -- The Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant may have been
  hidden by a secretive religious order of crusaders, the Knights Templar, on the
  Baltic Sea island of Bornholm some 830 years ago, according to a new book.

  The whereabouts of the grail and the ark -- legendary religious relics of
  immeasurable value to Christian and Jewish believers --have intrigued
  historians and archaeologists for centuries and films about quests to locate
  them, notably the "Indiana Jones" series, have thrilled movie audiences
  worldwide.

  No one knows exactly what the relics actually are but the ark is believed a box-
  type container that held the stone tablets inscribed with the 10 commandments
  which Moses received from God on Mount Sinai.

  Legends differ about the Holy Grail but it is most widely thought to be the
  chalice which Jesus and his apostles drank from at last supper before he was
  crucified.

  Some scholars speculate that treasures amassed by the Knights Templar
  ended up in Rosslyn chapel in Scotland. Others have hinted at locations in
  Ethiopia, Spain and Canada.

  In a 194-page book "The Templars' Secret Island," Denmark's Erling
  Haagensen and Henry Lincoln of Britain say medieval round churches were
  built at sites on Bornholm based on the sacred geometry used by the Knights
  Templar elsewhere in Europe, most famously at Rennes-le-Chateau in southern
  France.

  The book, studded with graphs, plots the churches' geometric layout with
  mathematical precision and the authors suggest the design may be a map to
  hidden treasures.

  The Danish archbishop Eskil visited Knights Templar Grand Master Bertrand
  de Blanchefort in France in 1162, nine years after the death of his predecessor
  Bernard of Clairvaux.

  The historically recorded purpose of Eskil's visit -- coming at a time when the
  Knights Templar may have feared becoming vulnerable because of the
  influential Bernard's demise -- was to prepare a crusade against pagans
  inhabiting the Baltic Sea's northeastern coast in what is today Estonia and
  Latvia.

  The book suggests that Knights Templar who joined the Baltic crusade built
  Bornholm's churches and may have taken the opportunity to stash some
  treasures there.

  "The need for a secure hiding place would have been paramount...It would
  make sense to conceal whatever may have been the Order's treasures in more
  than one place.

  "Better still to provide a hiding place which was remote and had no apparent
  connection with the Order. Bertrand's involvement in the planning for the
  Baltic Mission would have offered him the perfect opportunity.
  Bornholm...now becomes a trump card," says the book.

  "It was small and easily controlled and protected. Above all, it was remote,
  unknown, unlikely to be disturbed, not big enough or rich enough to attract an
  errant warrior intent on carving out a kingdom," it continues.

UNIQUE CHURCHES LASTING HERITAGE

  The European Templar Heritage Research Network (ETHRN), a non-profit
  making association of scholars not affiliated to any religious or political group,
  says it has been historically documented that the order of the Poor Knights of
  Christ and the Temple of Solomon -- the full name of the Knights Templar --
  was founded by aristocrats from the French region of Burgundy early in the
  12th century.

  The order's classic round churches founded on octagonal geometry,
  supposedly based on the design of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in
  Jerusalem, are a lasting heritage of the Knights Templar era, the ETHRN says.

  Historical records and 20th century archaeological digs indicate that a group
  of Knights Templar were searching for something under Jerusalem's Temple
  Mount between 1118 and 1127.

Haagensen and Lincoln say that on returning to France in 1127 the crusaders
reported to Bernard of Clairvaux that their "mission" had been accomplished.

A carving on a pillar at the cathedral in Chartres, France, suggests the mission
had been to find the Ark of the Covenant.

  Legends say Mary Magdalen, to this day the village saint of Rennes-le-
  Chateau, and Joseph of Arimathea, who according to the Bible buried Jesus,
  took the Holy Grail to France.

Evidence of the belief in this tale is found in historical records about the Nazis
searching for the Holy Grail at Rennes-le-Chateau during World War Two.

  Backing up the theory that Knights Templar treasures may have been hidden
  on Bornholm, the book says ancestors of the noblemen who founded the
  order lived on this rocky 587 square km (226.7 square miles) island, now part of
  Denmark and home to some 45,000 people.

BURGUNDIANS CAME FROM BORNHOLM

  The authors point to a find of nearly 3,000 tiny, intricately carved golden
  figures unearthed in a 1985-86 excavation of a Bornholm field as lending
  credibility to their claim of a Bornholm connection.

  The golden figures have been dated to AD 400-600 when the Merovingians --
  a clan of Frankish kings who claimed to be, like Jesus, of the house and
  lineage of the Bible's King David -- were at the height of their power.
  Descendants of the Merovingians later settled in Burgundy.

The book also quotes a AD 417 work by Spanish historian Orosius, which
says the Burgundians came from Bornholm.

  The Knights Templar viewed the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant as
  their rightful possessions because of their bloodline to the House of David,
  scholars say.

  The equilateral six-sided shape which forms the star of David is part of the
  geometric design formed by Bornholm's medieval churches, the book by
  Haagensen and Lincoln shows.

  "It is undeniable that those who planned and built the churches of Bornholm
  knew exactly what they were doing and why they did it," the authors say,
  adding the design "indicated a sure hiding place."

  An excavation in 1995 to install heating ducts under the floor of Oesterlars
  church, the biggest of Bornholm's round churches, found "unusual and
  unexpected stone features...which might be explained by the presence of an
  undiscovered crypt," the book says, quoting the official renovation report.

  Olsker, another church in the geometric pattern, also features a "curious
  indication of a possible underground structure beneath a staircase," the
  authors say.

"Neither of these subterranean anomalies has, thus far, been investigated."

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From owner-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 08:43:21 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:43:21 -0500
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Grail quest

Nobody knows where it came from, who made it or what purpose it served. For

untold years it lay in a corner of a room in the old town hall of Kirkwall, a
painted scroll with mysterious images and symbols incomprehensible to the
secret society of Freemasons that owned it.

Now a Cambridge historian believes he has cracked its ancient code to revea l a
treasure map that could indicate the burial place of the Holy Grail in Scot land.

According to Dr Andrew Sinclair, a graduate of Harvard University, the
artefact is also a priceless "missing link" between the Masonic Order and t he
Catholic Knights Templar of the Crusades.

It was in 1307 that 50 Templars, fleeing persecution by the King of France,

sailed from La Rochelle with sacred relics dating from the Crusades. Some o f
them are said to have landed in Scotland, and it is these knights that Sinc lair
believes may have been carrying the grail -and to have been the Catholic ro ots
of the Masonic Order that flourished several centuries later.

In a film documenting his findings, to be shown at BAFTA in London on
Tuesday, Sinclair identifies the possible site of the grail as the 15th-cen tury
Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh. "Now we know where and how the crusading
Knights Templar passed their eastern wisdom on to the masons of Scotland
and the New World, and where the grail may yet be found," he says.

Other historians, and the present custodians of Rosslyn, are far from
convinced. Initial reactions to Sinclair's thesis range from bemusement t o
scorn, with one authority on medieval religion suggesting it is reminiscent of
the X-Files.

The controversy centres on the hand-painted linen scroll Sinclair saw hangi ng in the
Masonic lodge in Kirkwall. Using radiocarbon dating, scientists at Oxford U niversity
gave the most probable date of its central panel as the 15th century - when Rosslyn
Chapel was built by William St Clair, third and last Prince of Orkney.

Among Templar and Masonic emblems, Sinclair discerned a ground plan of the Temple
of Solomon, with two chambers containing the Ark of the Covenant and other sacred
relics. It matched exactly the plan of Rosslyn Chapel, where he had conduct ed an
excavation of a subterranean vault seven years ago, without result. His wor kmen were
prevented from reaching a larger chamber by a massive wall at least three f eet thick. It is
in this hidden recess that Sinclair speculates the holy treasures of the cr usading
knights may lie.

The Knights Templar were one of the first military orders created to defend Jerusalem
after its capture in the first Crusade, and to protect Christian pilgrims t o the Holy City.
According to Sinclair, the scroll is the missing link between these refugee knights and
Freemasons who inherited their symbols and emblems. "It proves how the Temp lars
contributed to the ancient Scottish rite," he says. "That overturns the who le of Scottish
Masonic history. Its significance is immense. "

Historians in Scotland are in no hurry to put pen to paper, however. Dr And rew Roach,
lecturer in medieval history at Glasgow University, regards the theories as "highly
unlikely". He points out that almost four centuries elapsed between the dis appearance
of the Templars and the emergence of the Masons, and he considers the chanc es of a
direct link between them as remote.

Roach is no more impressed by talk of buried treasure. "I think it's sad. Rosslyn is a
fascinating historical artefact, and the fact that people keep analysing it in terms of this
nonsense distracts from what is really a fine piece of late medieval art."

Dr Gary Dickson, of the department of medieval history at Edinburgh Univers ity, fears
Sinclair has strayed into X-Files territory. "Before you know it, you're going to have the
Loch Ness monster, along with the Freemasons, putting in a cameo role in an all-star
performance with the Scottish Templars."

More seriously, he adds: "The interpretation of any kind of iconography is fraught with
difficulties. Even for experts it is treacherous. If you have your own agen da, the
tendency to impose it and see what you want to see is very great. The dange r then is to
make connections which do not in fact exist, and cannot be documented. The

temptation to connect everything to a great, hidden theme that nobody has p erceived
before ends up in the sort of history which is a combination of folklore an d occultism."

As for the Holy Grail, the legendaryreceptacle of the blood of Christ, Dick son regards it
as no more than a folk tale. "It is a literary invention dating from the 12 th century. There
is a whole mythology about it, but there is no proof, as far as I know, tha t it ever
actually existed."

Whether it did, and lies in a sealed vault at Rosslyn, is likely to remain a mystery - by
law. Since Sinclair's excavations, the chapel on the edge of the Esk Vall ey has been
taken over by a private trust dedicated to its conservation and bound by re strictions
imposed by Historic Scotland.

Stuart Beattie, the project director at Rosslyn, says they are not permitte d to remove a
blade of grass from the grounds without government permission, much less dr ill into
subterranean caverns. "We are not in the business of being grail hunters at the
moment, although I think there are members of the trust and a lot of the pu blic who
would like to see invasive investigations. The immediate priority is to foc us on
conservation work, and then perhaps the trust might turn its attention to m ore esoteric
matters."

Beattie admits Rosslyn benefits from legends and myths that surround the an cient site,
which have fuelled donations for restoration work. He is sceptical about Dr Sinclair's
claims, but is pleased to hear about them. "Rosslyn attracts a huge number of exciting
stories, and I suspect this is one more we shall enjoy. Were we to actually find any one
of the number of relics that we are supposed to have, it would be like winn ing the
lottery."

The mummified head of Christ is among sacred items that legends speak of be ing
smuggled to Rosslyn by the descendants of crusading knights. Sir Walter Sco tt wrote
of Knights of the Grail being buried there. Beattie speculates that the cre w of the Marie
Celeste may be with them in a secret vault.

Visitors intrigued by the Kirkwall scroll may inspect a replica of it, made in 1911, which
has been hanging at Rosslyn for the past two years. Robert Bryden, exhibiti on director
at the chapel, is a great admirer of the original. "It is mysterious, there is no doubt about
it," he says, "and it is extremely rare and historically important. But my own feeling is
that it is not as old as Sinclair suggests. Stylistically it seems to be of more recent
origin."

According to an official history of the Kirkwall Masonic lodge, it may have been the
work of an 18th-century house painter by the name of William Graeme. The bo ok refers
to a minute of a meeting on 27 January, 1786, which records that Graeme pre sented the
lodge with a "floor cloth" on being admitted as a member.

"It seems very likely that what we now call the Kirkwall scroll was the flo or cloth of
1786," the book says. "Graeme, an Orcadian by birth, had been resident in E ngland for
some years. He was a house painter by trade and it may be feasible to sugge st therefore
he had a hand in the painting of it, if not in its design."

Academic controversies over the origin and meanings of ancient artefacts ar e
inevitable, and the scepticism of fellow historians is unlikely to dissuade Sinclair that he
has made an important discovery. He remains convinced that if he is ever al lowed to
burrow into the main vault at Rosslyn, he will find at least all of its Kni ghts of the Grail,
buried in their full armour. As they were official keepers of holy relics i n Scotland, he
suspects the Holy Rood may be lying with them.

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Subject: [bprlist] Violence escalates on summit eve

Monday, March 26, 2001

Violence escalates on summit eve

Settler security officer shot, Palestinian protesters injured

By Amos Harel
Ha'aretz Military Correspondent

With the Arab League summit convening in Amman tomorrow, an escalation
in Palestinian hostilities was evident in the territories yesterday. A settler
was injured in a shooting near Nablus, and dozens of Palestinians were
wounded when the IDF dispersed a mass demonstration near Nablus.
Palestinians, possibly Hamas, fired two mortar rounds in the Gaza Strip, one
of which fell in Israeli territory. In Tul Karm, Fatah activists kidnapped four
Israelis and later released him after PA Chairman Yasser Arafat ordered the
men found and sent home.

The IDF expects more demonstrations, shooting incidents, and bombings in
the next few days until the Arab summit and Friday's Palestinian Land Day
have passed. Land Day commemorates 1976 demonstrations against land
expropriations that ended with nearly a dozen Arab citizens being killed by
police. Leaders of the Al-Aqsa Intifada declared the first day of the summit a
"day of rage", and on Friday the territories will go on general strike.

Senior defense establishment sources said West Bank Fatah leader Marwan
Barghouti's call for a more "popular" non-violent Intifada should not be taken
as a denouncement of terrorism. "The Palestinians are not Indians," the
sources said. "They do not accept passivity and have no intention of limiting
themselves to non-violent protest."

In a shooting at 9:45 A.M. at the Yitzhar junction south of Nablus, the
security officer of the regional council of Shomron, Gilad Zer, sustained
moderate to severe injuries. The shots, fired at Zer's car, were apparently
fired from a passing Palestinian vehicle. Settlers blocked the road between
Ramallah and Nablus in response. Zer's brother, Oren, who lives in Hebron,
long with other settlers, toppled stands in the market and started fights with
Palestinian photographers. The IDF and the police broke the riot up, and
Oren Zer has been held for questioning.

Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated yesterday against the encirclement
of Nablus. According to Palestinian sources, 40 people were injured by
rubber-coated bullets fired at the crowd. A Jewish man was stabbed by a
Palestinian in the Ramot neighborhood in Jerusalem. The man was lightly
injured.

There were several shooting incidents yesterday, including in Nablus, Psagot
and Gush Katif. In recent days shots have been fired from the PA-controlled
"A" areas, in violation of orders issued by PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.

Yesterday's mortar attacks on settlements and IDF posts in the Gaza Strip
are the latest of five such incidents in the last week. Concerns have been
voiced in the IDF regarding continued Palestinian attempts to push the
Intifada into Israeli territory. These efforts were also evident in the bomb that
exploded on Friday in Herzlia Pituach and in the car bomb that was
discovered in Jerusalem last week.

Despite this wave of violence, Israel is not expected to take any serious
counter measures until after Land Day.

Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer yesterday approved the entry of
several hundred workers from the PA into Israel to pick oranges for a month
and a half. Only men of over 40, married with children and approved by the
Shin Bet security service are being allowed in. The workers will be driven to
and from the territories. This is the first time in six weeks that Palestinian
workers have been allowed into Israel.

All permits were suspended after the terrorist attack in Azur, in which seven
soldiers and one civilian were killed by a Gaza bus driver transporting
Palestinian workers.

Israeli security must not be held hostage to Arab summits and international
conventions, the Yesha Council said yesterday in response to the shooting
at Yitzhar junction. Sharon was elected to restore security, and must
fundamentally change the way Arafat's terrorists are dealt with, the Council
said

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:52:51 -0500
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CHURCHES CALLED ON TO RESURRECT PLAGUE HYMN

A forgotten hymn written during the Great Cattle Plague of 1866 has been
found by the Royal School of Church Music, which is encouraging churches
to sing it during the foot and mouth crisis. The Archbishops of Canterbury
and York have asked churches to pray today for farmers caught up in the
crisis, and Wakefield cathedral plans to use the hymn. It was written by
John Mason Neale, best known for his translations of hymns such as O
Come, O Come Emmanuel and All glory, laud and honour, for a fast day in
Lent during the plague.

The 1866 outbreak, which devastated herds across the country, was caused
by rinderpest, a disease that killed cattle within days. Later that year, a
royal proclamation was issued ordering that a special prayer be said "on
Sunday the 12th Day of August, 1866, and whenever Divine Service is
celebrated, during the prevalence of the Cholera, and of Cattle Plague, in
this Country". The college said that although the hymn applied only
indirectly to F&M disease, it may "help many to pray through these troubled
times". Entitled All Creation Groans and Travails, it acknowledges both the
suffering of animals and the human hardship that follows the loss of
livestock through disease.

Michael O'Connor, the warden of the college, which promotes music in
Anglican churches, said the hymn had been found by the librarian in a rare
collection after an inquiry from a clergyman. "It has not been in circulation
for a century. It shows that the kind of experience we are going through is
not a new one - people have survived this sort of thing before." Suitable
tunes for the hymn include All for Jesus, Cross of Jesus and Love Divine.
(The London Telegraph)

MILOSEVIC BLAMES FALL ON CLINTON'S LIES

In his first interview to an independent Yugoslav media since falling from
power as president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic blamed his present
woes on lies about him by Bill Clinton's administration and on the Hague
war crimes tribunal established he said to feign support for law and justice.
Milosevic told the Belgrade newspaper Danas in the interview published
Saturday that the American public had been deceived about Serbia and the
Serbian people by "heaps of lies" and "the greatest abuse of the media ever
recorded in the world."

This was the personal policy of Clinton and his top officials, who turned the
United States into a state no longer democratic, he asserted. "I sincerely
hope that the new American administration will want in the national and its
own interests to arrive at the real truth about the motives for its
predecessor's closeness with the Albanian narco-Mafia, white slaves
traffickers, murderers and terrorists." He said he expected the Bush
government to pursue a policy of peace, good will and support toward small
nations and to see people with different political views as no enemies.

Speaking about the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, set up in 1993 to try
suspected perpetrators of crimes in ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia,
Milosevic said this institution was part of "the perfected, long-term,
secretive instruments for destroying the Serbian people." The tribunal was
there to make believe that it upholds law and justice, he said. It indicted him
in 1999 for crimes against Kosovo Albanians allegedly committee by
Yugoslav security forces under his command. "This sorry political freak has
nothing to do with either law or justice. Just as the tribunal is false so its
indictments are false."

Before issuing its indictments, the tribunal said it possessed satellite
photographs to prove the existence of mass graves in Kosovo but had failed
to find them 22 months after its investigators had first gone to the province,
Milosevic protested. "Is there need for more evident proof that they
(tribunal officials) are lying?" (United Press International)

LAMB WITH "HUMAN FACE" PERISHES AFTER BIRTH

A lamb reported to have a face resembling a human wearing dark
sunglasses has died hours after its birth in India. The animal did not have
hair on its body and had a nose, eyes, mouth, tongue and teeth like a human.
At a glance the lamb, born near Parappanangady, resembled a bald man
wearing dark sunglasses. It died immediately after birth, but its normal twin
sister is said to be doing fine, reports Indian media. (Ananova)

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From owner-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 10:15:00 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:15:00 -0000
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Subject: [bprlist] Exodus Plagues Illustrate God's Attitude Toward Idolatry

Exodus Plagues Illustrate God's Attitude Toward Idolatry
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/exodus.htm

This link is a good portion of Chapter Two of the book "The Gods Who
Walk Among Us" by Thomas R. Horn and Donald C. Jones, (c)1999.

The article provides in great detail the Egyptian gods that were
judged with each plague brought upon the people. It is very
interesting reading and I was about to recommend the book based on
chapter two alone when I came across this article online. I feel that
a thorough study of the Exodus plagues will give insight into the
plagues and tribulations that will be brought upon the earth during
the endtimes.

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From owner-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 12:35:19 2001
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Selected items from...

REAL WORLD NEWS 03/26/2001

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

SHARON'S STRATEGY: GET ARAFAT AFTER ARAB SUMMIT
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has formulated a plan that aims to target
key aides of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat after this
week's Arab League summit. The plan calls for Israeli restraint
against the Palestinian mini-war until the summit ends, probably
after the weekend. Then, Israel's military would begin a policy of
targeting key aides and commanders of Arafat believed behind the
attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2001/march/headline03_25_2.html

U.S. FACING U.N.- MIDEAST DILEMMA
The United States faced a diplomatic dilemma Sunday: how to say
``no'' to sending U.N. observers to the West Bank and Gaza Strip
without worsening the violence or enraging the Arab world. The
Palestinians want the U.N. Security Council to back the deployment of
observers to help stop six months of bloodshed, and say they have
mustered the nine council votes needed to pass such a resolution.
Standing in the way during negotiations Sunday was the United States,
Israel's strongest ally in the United Nations.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010325/wl/un_mideast_5.html

ISRAEL PREPARES FOR POSSIBLE STRIKE AT MISSILES IN LEBANON
Israel is making preparations for a possible military strike against
new Iranian missile positions in Lebanon -- possibly within the next
72 hours, reports the DEBKAfile intelligence bulletin. The report
says that before returning home to Israel last week, Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon told the Wall Street Journal and President Bush about
the presence in Lebanon of Iranian Pager surface missiles with a
range of 120 kilometers -- capable of striking heavily populated
central Israel. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?
ARTICLE_ID22170

SHARON TO PANEL: 'WE WON'T BE PUT ON TRIAL'
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has minced no words in voicing
opposition to the Mitchell fact-finding committee, will tell the
committee members he is to meet today that Israel will not agree to
be put on trial before an international tribunal. "Sharon will
cooperate with them, but in no way will he allow Israel to be put on
trial before a tribunal of nations," Sharon aide Ra'anan Gissin said.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/03/25/News/News.23462.html

ARAFAT: PREPARE FOR 'ONE HUNDRED DAYS CONFLICT'
Palestinians should prepare for one hundred days of conflict with
Israel, Palestinians Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said yesterday.
Arafat accused the Israeli government and military of preparing to
take over Palestinian autonomous areas and assassinate PA leaders in
a coming assault. Arafat made the statements at a meeting with
intifada leaders held in Ramallah.
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/03/26/LatestNews/LatestNews.23548.h
tm l

EUROPE REELING FROM BUSH' ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY'S
Judge them not by their words, but by their deeds. By this measure,
President Bush is clearly no friend of the Earth, but he could become
its worst enemy. European governments and environmentalists
throughout the world are reeling from his series of U-turns on pre-
election pledges and a string of anti-green pronouncements. European
Commission President Romano Prodi, and Goran Persson, the Swedish
Prime Minister, have told Bush he is heading for a clash with Europe.
http://www.observer.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,462667,00.html

HUNDREDS FLEE FRENCH FLOODS
Heavy rain caused flood waters to rise in France, forcing the
evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes in Brittany and
Normandy. Western and northern parts of the country continued to
face widespread traffic disruption while emergency services remained
on high alert. Roads along the Seine remain under water In Paris,
roads along the Seine remained under water and parts of the central
Ile de la Cite resembled Venice.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1242000/1242811.s
tm

AN APOCALYPIC SIGHT: 500,000 ANIMALS FACE DEATH
The word wasn't used lightly, and the huge mounds of earth piling up
by the side of the disused runway lent it a gloomy
resonance. "Apocalyptic" was how the man in charge of the first mass
grave for hundreds of thousands of culled livestock in the foot-and-
mouth crisis described his task. And just to make sure there was no
mistaking the threat posed by the virus, the army officer in charge
of the burial operation said his troops would be carrying out the job
with suits and chemicals normally reserved for biological warfare.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/frame/direct.asp?
SITEthescotsman.co.uk/uk. cfm?id58520

WORLD FIGHTING GROWING TB THREAT
World Tuberculosis Day has been launched in South Africa, a country
with some of the highest levels of infection in the world. Estimates
say cases have doubled in parts of the country over the past five
years, particularly in poor areas. Increases in TB infection in
Africa as a whole have contributed to a global rise in cases, which
were put at almost 8.5 million across the world in 1999. About a
quarter of these cases result in death.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_1239000/1239407.s
tm

RESEARCHERS FIND BIG RISK OF DEFECT IN CLONING ANIMALS
Four years after researchers in Scotland startled the world by
announcing that they had cloned a sheep named Dolly, scientists say
evidence is mounting that creating healthy animals through cloning is
more difficult than they had expected. The clones that have been
produced, they say, often have problems severe enough developmental
delays, heart defects, lung problems and malfunctioning immune
systems to give pause to anyone thinking of cloning a human being
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20010325/ts/researchers_find_big_risk
_o f_defect_in_cloning_animals_1.html

ENLISTING SCIENCE TO FIND THE FINGERPRINTS OF A CREATOR
In this rural farming community, a high school biology teacher named
Roger DeHart set out to question Darwin's theories of evolution. He
never mentioned God. He dissected such scientific topics as bacterial
flagella, fossil records and embryonic development. Examine the
evidence, he told the students, and ponder the Big Question: Is life
the result of random, meaningless events? Or was it designed by an
intelligent force?
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010325/t000025850.html

BAPTISTS HALT TALKS WITH CATHOLICS
The Southern Baptist Convention is halting 30 years of official
doctrinal talks with the U.S. Roman Catholic Church. The two
denominations, America's biggest with 78 million members between
them, share belief in central Christian doctrines but ecumenical
contacts have been a sore point for some Southern Baptists. ``We're
not ecumenists. We're evangelicals committed to sharing the Gospel,''
explained the Rev. R. Philip Roberts, president of Midwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010323/us/baptists_catholics_1.html

ANALYSIS: IS NEW MIDEAST PATTERN DANGEROUS?
The Middle East is more polarized today, and in greater danger of
destabilization and conflict, than at any time in the last quarter of
a century. The pieces of the complex Middle East political jigsaw
puzzle are slowly falling into a pattern that could lead to a
dangerous, and potentially explosive shift in the area. If the
current climate continues to deteriorate, as it has over the last
several months, it could well result in a precarious situation,
similar to the one that existed in the turbulent 1970s.
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID171050

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 14:50:17 2001
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Palestinian terrorists murder Jewish baby in her mother's arms

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Palestinian terrorists murder Jewish baby in her mother's arms in Hebron

[IMRA note: Meretz MK Mossy Raz was quoted on Israel Radio shortly after
the attack expressing his condemnation of the Palestinian attack and calling
for the removal of the Jews from Hebron in response.]

News from Hebron
The Hebron Press Office hebron@hebron.org.il
March 26, 2001

Terrorist gunfire kills one and injures one in Hebron
At about 5:00 this afternoon an Arab sniper shot and killed a 10 month old
baby girl, Shalhevet Techiya Pass, and wounded her father, Yitzhak Pass,
with two bullets in the legs. They were shot at the entrance to the Avraham
Avinu neighborhood. The baby was in the mother's arms at the time of the
shooting and was hit in the head. Emergency medical teams arrived
immediately. The father was treated and evacuated to hospital. The doctors
were not able to save the baby.

A Hebron spokesman issued the following statement:
For seven months the Hebron community has been shot at from Abu Sneneh and
Harat a'Shech hills surrounding Hebron. Before the hills were transferred
to Arafat, 4 years ago, we warned that the hills would be a source of Arab
gunfire, directed at the community. We were laughed at. Following the
beginning of the war, seven months ago, we again warned that if the hills
were not recaptured by the Israeli army, blood would be spilled. Several
times, Arab snipers have barely missed hitting soldiers and civilians in
the Avraham Avinu neighborhood. This afternoon the sniper hit two people -
a 10 month old baby in her mother's arms, and her father. If Ariel Sharon
does not fulfill hit promise to provide security for Hebron's residents -
if he does not give orders to the army to retake the hills, Hebron's
community will have no choice but to take appropriate action. Ariel Sharon
promised security. Since he was elected, two innocent people have been
killed. If Sharon does not react to today's shooting, why was he elected?

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 14:54:45 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:54:45 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] Syrian- Palestinian summit to be convened in Amman

Syrian- Palestinian summit to be convened in Amman
Syria-Palestine, Politics, 3/26/2001

The Palestinian minister of international cooperation Nabil Shaath stressed
on Sunday that a summit meeting will be held between Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad and the chairman of the Palestinian authority Yasser Arafat
either on Monday evening ( Today) or on Tuesday morning, on the sideline of
the Arab summit in Amman.

Shaath said: " There is one hundred percent a Syrian- Palestinian summit to
be held either on Monday evening or Tuesday morning and will center on the
Syrian- Palestinian strategy to withstand Ariel Sharon," Israel's prime
minister.

Shaath added: " we, and the Syrians are facing Sharon at the same degree
because he threatens Syria the same he does for us," noting that the Syrian-
Palestinian summit will also discuss " the position towards the new
American administration, the peace process and elements of coordination
between the two sides.

He explained that a meeting was held on Saturday evening between him and
the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara and that it was " a very positive
meeting as we both of us, talked that we have a new phase in the Syrian-
palestinian relations."

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010326/2001032613.html

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 18:13:42 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:13:42 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] TV: March 27, 2001

SERIES: Scientific American Frontiers
Tue March 27 08:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) PBS
The Bionic Body. Re-engineering the human body; nerve regeneration; spinal-
cord injuries; Christopher Reeve. (CC) (Stereo) (TVG)

SERIES: Frontline (Documentary)
Tue March 27 10:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) PBS
Organ Farm. Part 1 of 2. Cross-species transplants. (CC) (Stereo)

SERIES: Dateline NBC
Tue March 27 10:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) NBC
Anti-aging treatments. (CC) (Stereo)

LIMITED SERIES: Superhuman Body: The Future of Medicine (Documentary)
Tue March 27 10:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) TLC
Spare Parts. Hand transplants; Parkinson's disease treatment. (TVPG)

SPECIAL: The Pentagon (Documentary)
Tue March 27 10:00 PM Eastern Time (60 min) HIST
The five-sided nerve center for the nation's armed services is the largest office
building in the world. (CC) (TVG)

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 18:17:06 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:17:06 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] Arutz-7 items (3/26/01)

ISRAELIS EXPELLED FROM JORDAN; ISRAELIS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER
P.A.
Six Israeli journalists who arrived in Jordan to cover the Arab League
conference have been expelled. The reporters, from Yediot Acharonot,
Ha'aretz, and Channels 1 and 2, as well as the editor of an Israeli-Arab
newspaper, were told to leave by Jordanian security officers. The
reason: "We cannot guarantee your safety."
09
Israel Police plans to press charges against David Chaim, 25, of Haifa, for

breaking a law banning unauthorized entry into the Palestinian
Authority. Chaim, together with three Israeli-Arabs, entered the city of
Tulkarm yesterday, and the four were kidnapped shortly afterwards by Fatah

activists who realized they were Israeli. The three Arabs were released
after about an hour, but Chaim was taken to the office of the city governor

and was released only after the intervention of Yasser Arafat and
Israeli-Arab MK Ahmed Tibi. Several Israelis who entered PA-controlled
areas mistakenly or purposely in the past few months have been murdered
by Palestinians.

RESERVOIR BURSTS
Infrastructures Minister Avigdor Lieberman has established a committee to
investigate the bursting of the upper water reservoir of Kibbutz Nachal Oz,

just east of the Gaza Strip. The kibbutz, a nearby IDF base, and a Gaza
neighborhood were flooded with 3.5 million cubic meters of water from one
of the largest reservoirs in the country. This is equivalent to about two

centimeters of Kinneret Sea water, or two weeks' worth of water pumped by
the Lebanese from their new pumping station on one of Israel's main water
sources, the Hatzbani River. Damage to fields and infrastructures is
extensive.

Former Water Commissioner Prof. Dan Zaslavsky will head the investigative
committee. Terrorist sabotage is not suspected at present. Minister
Lieberman has also ordered a comprehensive check of all of Israel's other
reservoirs.

KNESSET: JEWISH-STATE LAW; ELON TO CHOOSE JUDGES; BUDGET
"Israel is a Jewish, Zionist, democratic state." So states a proposed
Knesset bill submitted jointly today by Shinui MK Tommy Lapid and NRP
MK
Nachum Langental. The two say that now is the right time for such a bill,

"as a response to those who are attempting to empty the State of its
Jewish, Zionist, and democratic character and turn it into a 'state of all

its citizens.'"

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon happily informed his Likud Knesset faction this

morning, "We have a budget." He based himself on a series of agreements
that the Likud and Labor reached the last few days, paving the way for the

approval of the budget. Sharon, as well as the entire Knesset, is well
aware that if the budget is not passed by the end of this month, five days

from now, new elections must be held. The Knesset today began its
marathon
session on the Arrangements Bill - an adjunct to the Budget Bill - while
the budget itself will be debated and approved later tonight. Labor has
agreed to the Blessed-With-Children Families Law, which grants additional
benefits to families with many children, while the Likud has agreed not to

freeze the Negev law but rather only to reduce it. For instance, only
Negev residents who earn less than 15,000 shekels a month (the average
salary last year was 7,054 shekels) will benefit from tax reductions. A
law allowing a special grant to families with two physically handicapped
children will not be canceled.

MK Benny Elon was chosen by his Knesset Law Committee peers today to
be
their representative on the Judicial Selection Committee, the body that
nominates judges. The committee is composed of representatives of all
three branches of government and the legal profession: the Minister of
Justice, another cabinet minister, the Chief Justice and two other Supreme

Court justices, two Knesset Members - one of whom must be the Chairman
of
the Knesset Law Committee (currently Ophir Pines of Labor), and two
members
of the Israel Bar Association. Benny Elon's father Menachem is a former
Supreme Court justice.

The leaders of the government and the opposition met yesterday for their
first briefing. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon updated Meretz MK Yossi Sarid

on diplomatic and security issues. Sarid told Ha'aretz that it was the
first time the two had met privately since the mid-1970s when Sharon
offered Sarid the number-two position on his newly-formed Shlomtzion
Party. Sarid, who rejected the offer then, said about the meeting today
that both leaders had been "frank and open."

EARTH DAY PREPARATIONS; GAZANS ALLOWED IN TO PICK
Prime Minister Sharon has instructed the police not to close any main roads

during the Israeli-Arab Earth Day protests this Friday. The police,
however, fear that the expected violence and attacks on Jewish targets will

force them [the police] to bolster their forces, and that violent clashes
with the Arabs are likely to result. A senior Northern Region police
commander said, "If rioters from Um el-Fahm go out to the main highway
[connecting Afula and Tiberias with Hadera and Tel Aviv], we will have a
serious problem85 It could lead to a real war."

The Prime Minister, Public Security Minister Uzi Landau, Police
Commissioner Shlomo Aharonishki, and Northern District Police Chief Alik
Ron will meet tomorrow to plan the police preparations for Earth Day. Ron

will attempt to explain that in order to contain the riots and protect
Jewish travelers on the route, thousands of policemen will be required. He

hopes to convince Sharon to change the instructions.

Previous Arab riots last October left 13 Arabs dead in clashes with the
police. A court petition by Israeli-Arab mayors to prevent Ron, who has
taken a tough position against Israeli-Arab instigators, from commanding
the northern police on Earth Day, was rejected by the Supreme Court this
morning.

For the first time since the Holon bus attack, in which an Arab bus driver

from Gaza mowed his bus into a crowded bus stop and killed eight Israelis
almost six weeks ago, workers from Gaza have been allowed to enter pre-
1967
Israel. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer gave the order to allow
hundreds of Arabs to enter for the purpose of helping to pick the citrus
harvest. Half the year's crop remains unpicked because of the lack of
workers, as opposed to 85% at this time in normal years. The workers must

be over 40 years of age, married with a family, and with previous work
experience in Israel. This, despite the fact that similar criteria did not

prevent the Holon terrorist - married with five children and a five-year
veteran of the Egged Bus Company - from deciding to murder Jews. The
situation will be reviewed again six weeks from now.

TEMPLE MOUNT NOT FORGOTTEN
Twenty young protestors demonstrated today at a Temple Mount gate
against
the continued ban on Jewish entry to the holy site. They surprised the
police guards there by arriving from a different direction. The protestors

arrived from the Small Gate, near Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim. Five of them
were detained by police, but a judge ordered their release shortly afterwar ds.

Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Monday, Mar. 26, 2001 / Nissan 2, 5761

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 18:18:57 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:18:57 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] (Fwd) Israel Radio: IDF not expected to act for time being

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From: imra@netvision.net.il
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Subject: Israel Radio: IDF not expected
to act for time being against murder
of baby in Hebron

Israel Radio: IDF not expected to act for time being against murder of baby
in Hebron

Aaron Lerner Date: 26 March 2001

Israel Radio reported on the 11:00 PM news hour program that no serious
action is expected to be taken in response to the murder this evening of a
Jewish baby, Shalhevet Pass, in Hebron until after the Arab summit and the
Israeli Arab Land Day. Israel Radio reported at midnight that, in
consultation with Rabbis, Shalhevet Pass will not be buried until Abu
Sneneh, the source of fire against the Jewish community in Hebron is retaken
by the IDF.

Israel Radio's diplomatic correspondent Yoni Ben Menachem explained that
Prime Minister Sharon does not want to be sucked into a response that would
benefit Arafat at the Arab summit in Amman. Israel Radio Carmela Ben Menashe
reported a series of Palestinian attacks against various Israeli targets and
noted that the IDF was urging Israeli civilians not to respond to the
attacks.

Minister of Defense Ben Eliezer told reporters this evening that the IDF
would "find the time and place" to respond.

There has been renewed Palestinian shooting from Abu Sneneh.

It remains unclear how many Jews the Palestinians can murder before the
Israeli Arabs celebrate Land Day on Friday without eliciting a serious
response from the Sharon government.

It should be noted that Sharon's promise not to surprise President Bush is
rapidly developing into a major error.

By promising not to surprise Bush, PM Sharon implies that anything Israel
does has the approval of the United States.

Until now America could distance itself from Israeli actions it felt damaged
their standing in the Arab world. Sharon's declaration essentially rules
out such an explanation.

PM Sharon now finds himself painted in a corner.

Ironically, a rapid response today - in the heat of the moment with the
murder of a Jewish baby by a Palestinian sharpshooter - could be readily
explained even by the Americans. The same is not the case for an action
launched days later.

In his desire to avoid conflict before the weekend, Sharon has invited
tremendous American pressure NOT to act AFTER Friday.

When Sharon was elected he enjoyed the advantage that the Arab world feared
he would act rather than talk. This is no longer the case.

Dr. Aaron Lerner, Director
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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 18:28:27 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:28:27 -0500
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Subject: [bprlist] Weekend News Today items (3/26/01)

Pennsylvania church members burn Harry Potter, other books 'against God'

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: ABCNews.com

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- The congregation of a church in suburban Pittsburgh
gathered around a bonfire Sunday night to burn Harry Potter books, Disney
videos, rock CDs and literature from other religions, purging their lives o f
things they felt stood between them and their faith.

"Our purpose comes out of the Bible," the Rev. George Bender of the Harvest

Assembly of God Church in Butler County. "We read in the Bible how
people, after they received Jesus Christ as their savior, took things out o f
their homes and burned them. They [the members of the congregation]
received Christ and they willingly did this." The church has a regular Sund ay
evening service, which does not include a bonfire. But this week the
congregation wanted to do a little more, and 35 people brought books, CDs
and tapes that they felt were not in keeping with their faith. "We did it i n the
open so that people would ask why," Bender said, adding that the church
has not asked that any of the material they burned be banned from
bookstores or libraries, and that even among the congregation there was no

pressure to participate. He pointed out that just one-third of the congrega tion
brought things to burn. He said those who participated included a mix of ne w
and longtime members of the church.

Orthodox Jew to become US ambassador to Israel

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Jerusalem Post

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- President George W. Bush is poised to name Daniel
Kurtzer, an Orthodox Jew serving as US envoy to Egypt, as ambassador to
Israel, US officials say. A career diplomat with dovish views regarding the

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Kurtzer has served as a key member of the US

peace-process team for more than a decade. In 1997, Kurtzer sought the Tel

Aviv posting, but was instead directed by then-president Bill Clinton to Ca iro,
where he developed good working relations with Egyptian officials but was a t
times mocked in the Egyptian press for his religious beliefs.

Bush is expected to announce the appointment in the coming days or
weeks, but Kurtzer would not take up the job until the summer, when US
Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk completes his term. Indyk, who twice
filled the job under Clinton, was the first Jew to hold the coveted positio n.
Kurtzer is personally well acquainted with Israeli and Palestinian official s and
is considered by officials in Washington as someone who can quickly adapt
to a posting that will be of crucial importance as the new administration
formulates its policies toward the region.

Israel's enemy - Iran - plans to deploy new intelligence systems

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Middle East Newsline

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- Iran plans to equip ground forces with new military
intelligence systems. This, as a senior military commander said Iran has
launched five military operations nightly over the last month. The effort
included air operations near Iraq meant to stop insurgent attacks supported

by the regime of President Saddam Hussein. The deployment comes amid
heightened tension between Iran and neighboring Iraq. Each has blamed the
other for supporting insurgent attacks in each other's capital cities.

Iranian ground force commander Brig. Gen. Nasser Mohammadifar said the
military will remain vigilant against neighboring threats. The general, wit hout
mentioning Iraq, said Iranian opposition elements are using countries to
launch attacks on the Islamic republic. Such countries, he said, cannot be

friends of Iran.

U.S. agrees to new anti-missile R&D with Israel

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Middle East Newsline

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- The United States has agreed to develop new missile
defense systems with Israel. A senior Israeli official said the systems wou ld
augment the current Arrow anti-missile program. Israel plans to deploy thre e
Arrow batteries over the next three years. Defence Ministry director-genera l
Amos Yaron said the U.S. agreement came during talks last week with the
Bush administration. Yaron said Washington agreed to develop new systems
meant to counter the ballistic missile and nonconventional threat being
developed by Iran and Iraq. "We discussed new systems. I have to say that
the response was mostly positive and I expect a very good future in our
relations with the Americans," Yaron said.

Jordanian army deploys to protect Arab world's leaders

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: AFP

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- The Jordanian army deployed in central Amman on
Monday to secure the luxury hotel playing host to a summit of Arab leaders,

several of whom have survived assassination attempts in the past. Gun-
mounted Toyota Landcruisers and camouflaged armoured personnel carriers
stood guard at the junctions of west Amman's main boulevards, imposing a
five square kilometre (two square mile) "closed security zone." Soldiers
armed with automatic rifles even patrolled the corridors of hotels outside the
zone where no leaders or their ministers were staying.

"It's as if war has broken out," said Jamal, a taxi driver, trying in vain to find
his way through his capital avoiding the concrete roadblocks.Civil servants

and schoolchildren have been given two days off in the area around the newl y
built Palace of Congress, a glass and stone annexe to the five-star Meridie n
hotel where the leaders will meet and sleep, and shopkeepers have been
instructed to close for the Tuesday-Wednesday summit.

At least four leaders attending the summit have already come under attack
from would-be assassins: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Iraqi number two

Ezzat Ibrahim, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi and Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak. Mubarak had just arrived in Addis Ababa for a summit of African
leaders in 1995 when his convoy came under fire from Islamist extremist
gunmen on the road from the airport. Jordan has taken the precaution of
sealing off the desert highway that links Amman with Queen Alia
International Airport to the south where Arafat and other leaders arrived
Monday afternoon before speeding to the capital.

The unveiling of the Digital Angel wristband device

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: Digital news/ADSX

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- Ms. Walton also commented on other recent European
developments: 93Our ability to fully deploy Digital Angel on a global basi s in
each of the vertical markets we have identified requires us to have a great er
physical presence than just our existing facilities in Happauge, NY and
Riverside, CA. The alignment of Signature Industries, whose team has proven

successful in tapping into the key Digital Angel markets of military and
intelligence safety, creates a base of operations in Europe and allows us t o
build greater market awareness in Europe. The need for secure, timely, and

accessible information transcends all industry lines, market segments and
geographic borders.94

About Digital Angel: In December of 1999, Applied Digital Solutions
announced that it had acquired the patent rights to a miniature digital
transceiver -- which it has named Digital Angel. Digital Angel represents t he
first-ever operational combination of advanced sensor technology and Web-
enabled wireless telecommunications linked to Global Positioning Systems
(GPS). The company believes this technology will enable it to tap into a mu lti-
billion dollar marketplace with a number of applications that will prove to be
extremely popular.

Some of the potential applications include: medical and location monitoring

for at-risk patients; emergency location of lost or missing children; findi ng
lost or missing household pets; managing livestock and other farm-related
animals; pinpointing the location of valuable stolen property; and managing

the commodity supply chain. Digital Angel data is transmitted wirelessly, o n
a real time basis, to an Internet-integrated ground station and made availa ble
on a Web-enabled desktop, laptop or wireless device. A new Digital Angel
wristband device will be unveiled at Cyberposium at Harvard Business School

on February 10, 2001.

Schools Near or On Toxic Sites are Making Children Sick

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: ABC Health News

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- An increasing number of schools across the country are
being built near sites contaminated with toxic waste. These schools may be

causing serious health problems for their students. After Southside High
School in Elmira, N.Y. was built on land that had been used for heavy
industry for more than 100 years. People used to joke about it, but no one is
laughing now as at least two dozen current and former students have
developed cancer, including Tommy Patros who is just 1 of 5 Southside
students now battling testicular cancer. Tommy's school was built on land
that has been used for industrial purposes dating back to the Civil War. Wh y
was this aging industrial complex thought to be a good place to build their

school? The price was right. Since the factory had already closed, they
agreed to sell the land for only $1. Cheap land versus childrens' health &

safety.

Surprisingly, this is not uncommon across the country. "I wish it was an
isolated incident," says Lois Gibbs of the Center for Health, Environment a nd
Justice. "Many schools are poisoned. Many students are suffering in the
same fashion." This new report that cites numerous cases where schools
have been built on, or near, industrial sites. In Houston, Texas, Ceasar
Chavez High School sits in the shadow of petrochemical plants. In Los
Angeles, school construction was halted at the Belmont Learning Complex
when parents learned that the location was a former oil field. And in Mario n,
Ohio, two schools were built on a former military dumping ground. There, as

in Elmira, former students have higher than normal rates of leukemia and
other rare cancers.

Today's report also found that several schools are routinely sprayed with
toxic pesticides and plagued by air quality problems because of insufficien t
ventilation and poor maintenance. Such problems are linked to respiratory
ailments, including asthma and other life-threatening diseases. Are schools

making kids sick? "Absolutely, all over the country," says Claire Barnett o f
the Healthy Schools Network. "These are invisible threats," explains Gibbs.

"You can't see it, you can't smell it. Often even when you can see it, you

don't think it's a problem." At Southside, where the relics of industry sti ll
stand, tests have found toxic contamination in the soil but not enough to
warrant shutting the school down. Even so, there are no federal guidelines to
make sure the environment at school is safe. Today's report warns that
contamination of any kind is a problem when children's health is at stake.

1st time CDC study tracked toxin exposure in Americans

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: ABC Health News

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- The Centers for Disease Control has quantified from the

blood and urine of thousands of Americans their actual exposure to
potentially toxic substances. Such data could help set future environmental

policy. The study involved a random sampling of thousands of research
participants across the United States. For the first time, the CDC has
tracked national exposure levels of the U.S. population for 27 different
substances 97 some to be proven carcinogens, some not. The study
expands on previous CDC studies that tracked the concentrations of lead,
cadmium and cotinine. "This is our first exposure report, and we'll be
continuing to add another 25 chemicals per year," said CDC spokeswoman
Gail Heche. "Over the years, we're going to look at trends, and establish
baselines so we have enough data from a public health prospective to
suggest interventions."

In the past, the CDC estimated population exposures to certain chemicals
by measuring air, water or soil samples. But due to advances in
biomonitoring techniques, it measured the chemicals directly from subjects'

blood and urine samples. "This data is a really big first step," said Dr. J im
Pirkle, who heads up the CDC's environmental health laboratory, and a co-
author of the CDC report. The CDC hopes the data will help public health
officials better understand the relationship between chemical exposures and

health consequences 97 and to ultimately help make more effective public
policy decisions.

"The more we know about human exposure [to different substances], the
better decisions we can make about public health decisions," Pirkle said.
"This new resource is a significant development in the field of environment al
health," said Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson in
a statement. "It will help us to better track the exposures of Americans to

chemicals in the environment and to measure the effectiveness of our public

health efforts." "This is the underpinnings of good environmental health
policy," said Dr. Michael McCally, professor of community and preventive
medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. "The study is a
wake-up call85 These chemicals aren't normal at all. Our grandparents didn 't
have these substances in their bodies. Now, we are living in an industrial

age, a society with 50,000 chemicals in industrial use."

Robotic Pharmacist Works 24 Hours a Day

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: ABC News

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- Having a worker who doesn92t make mistakes is a dream
for any company. In Blount County, Tenn., one high-tech employee is setting

some inhuman standards. 93He doesn92t give us much back talk and down
time is very limited,94 says Don Milsaps, staff pharmacist at Blount Memor ial
Hospital, in Maryville. He92s very busy, so busy, this worker at 200-bed B lount
hospital works 24 hours a day with no lunch breaks or vacation time. Meet
93Fill More,94 so named by the Blount staff. The $500,00097machine, a
pharmacy robot, makes dispensing medicine there more efficient and 30
percent more accurate than with humans. 93[It] can take the information th at
we input from a physician92s order and fill the patient92s medication wit h 100
percent accuracy,94 says Milsaps.

The robot relies on bar code technology. He is 12 feet in diameter and floo r-
to-ceiling in height, works closely with human pharmacy employees, who
give 93him94 the prescription that 93he94 processes. Manufactured by
McKessonHBOC Inc., of San Francisco, the robotic pharmacist or Robot-Rx,
is currently used in 250 hospitals in North America. Blount Cty, TN has had

its robot for 2 years. Robot-RX has been on the market for five years, but the
company has a new adjunct technology on the market, called AcuScan-Rx.
It is similar to a personal digital assistant with a bar code reader. Locat ed at
the bedside, a nurse scans the prescription envelope92s bar code and the
patient92s wrist bracelet to ensure the right drug is going into the right person.
Ten hospitals are now employing this technology, Kurtz says.

But some employees say working side-by-side with a robot has required
some adjustment. 93It took me a while to get used to him,94 says McNelly. 93It
required that we have an open mind about technology,94 says Milsaps. 93Bu t
it92s worked for the better.94

Florida rolling out the red carpet for Spanish royalty visit of King Juan C arlos

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

Mon Mar 26,2001 -- The southern US state of Florida with its large Spanish-
speaking minority was all aflutter Monday in anticipation of the 1st visit by
Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia. The royal couple, scheduled to
arrive Tuesday in Washington, D.C. as the first stop in their five-city tou r, has
stops planned in Miami, in South Florida and St. Augustine, on the state's

north Atlantic coast. "I believe it's going to be as big as the arrival of the
pope," said J.A. Ojeda, Miami-Dade County's director of the office of
protocol, international trade and commerce, recalling the pontiff's visit t o
Miami in September 1987.

Florida has rolled out the red carpet, with prominent Miamians offering the

king use of their yachts and private rooms in Spanish restaurants during hi s
stay. It will be Juan Carlos's first visit to Florida in 16 trips to the Un ited
States, and aims largely to promote commerce and celebrate Hispanic
culture. Also on the schedule during the royal visit are stops in Texas and

Mississippi. Spain's interest in the growing Spanish-language community in

the United States stems in part from the explosion of trade between Spain
and South Florida.

Foreign policy concerns and bilateral ties with Washington figure prominent ly
on the agenda. The royal couple is accompanied by Spanish Foreign
Minister Josep Pique. A meeting with Bush is scheduled on March 28, when
Juan Carlos will also meet the Republican and Democratic party leaders in
the Senate. Both Colin Powell and Spanish FM Josep Pique indicated after
the meeting that their 2 governments would endeavor to expand a bilateral
political, economic and cultural pact inked in January by Pique and former

US secretary of state Madeleine Albright. "We reaffirmed the joint declarat ion
... I look forward to doing my part to strengthening that joint declaration and
building upon it," Powell told reporters.

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From research-bpr@philologos.org Mon Mar 26 18:33:48 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:33:48 -0500
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Arafat gets the cold shoulder
FT.com site; Mar 22, 2001
BY ROULA KHALAF IN WASHINGTON

Yassir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, is coming under fire in Washington f or
sticking to what officials say are old ideas and negotiating styles that ru n
counter to the Bush administration's approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

President George W. Bush will receive Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president,
and King Abdullah of Jordan next month, following his meeting this week wit h
Ariel Sharon, Israeli prime minister. But senior administration officials d o not
expect Mr Arafat to be invited to the White House soon.

"The new administration wants to start anew and Arafat is holding on to
concepts about the way we approach peace and substance that do not
relate to this administration," said a senior State Department official. "W e
want a meeting with Arafat to be constructive, for this we need a better
environment in the region."

European diplomats, however, are warning against giving Mr Arafat the cold

shoulder and insist that undermining the Palestinian leader would only
strengthen more radical Palestinian factions. Diplomats say the US
administration is being influenced by an active pro-Israeli campaign that i s
encouraging the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.

"Isolating Arafat is not a positive thing," said a European diplomat. "The

international community should pursue an active policy of reinforcing him."

Mr Arafat was one of the most frequent visitors to the White House during
the presidency of Bill Clinton, whose huge personal involvement in Middle
East peace failed to produce a final agreement between Israelis and
Palestinians. The Bush administration appears determined to avoid that
experience. Although promising to remain engaged, it is taking more of a
back-stage role in resolving the conflict.

US officials want Mr Arafat to make efforts to end the uprising against Isr aeli
occupation and say that the US will be involved in a new, still to be defin ed
approach to peace when the violence subsides.

The Palestinian leadership cannot afford a deterioration of relations with the
US. But it is also under huge pressure at home to produce political results

from the sacrifices of the uprising, in which the vast majority of the more than
420 deaths have been Palestinian.

Palestinian officials say that US demands on Israel to end its economic
blockades of the territories cannot be the quid pro quo to putting out a re volt
against occupation, particularly after the election of Mr Sharon. The hawki sh
prime minister's peace recipe is long-term interim accords, which the
Palestinians see as a perpetuation of the occupation.

So far the only consolation for the Palestinians is that the Bush
administration has not taken a position on the goal of future negotiations. But
it has made clear it will not be bound by Clinton proposals for a final
settlement.

US officials complain that Mr Arafat is continuing to insist that peace tal ks
with Israel should resume at the advanced stage where they left off with th e
previous Israeli government. This position is acceptable to the European
Union and backed by Arab governments - but the US finds it "unrealistic".

Officials in Washington also criticise Mr Arafat's attempts to use the
administration as a negotiating partner. "The administration feels that the

Palestinians and the Israelis have to negotiate with each other," said a US

official. "We can help but we won't be a negotiating partner and that has n ot
got through."

Palestinian and other Arab officials, however, believe that only the active

involvement of the US and other intermediaries like the EU can produce
Israeli concessions - especially under an Israeli government led by Mr
Sharon.

Both Mr Mubarak and King Abdullah are expected to press home that
message when they meet Mr Bush. They are also expected to lobby for an
invitation to be issued to Mr Arafat.

"US policy will take time to fine-tune and a lot of new people appointed ar e
not yet in their jobs," said a European diplomat. "The US may have differen t
ideas after meeting the Arab leaders."

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Subject: [bprlist] Daywatch items (3/26/01)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Education Association is
expected to take action on a resolution in support of development
of school curriculum and programs designed to meet the needs of
gay and lesbian students when the union holds its annual
convention in July in Los Angeles. A similar resolution in
support of Gay and Lesbian history month was removed from the
union's platform in 1996 after pressure from conservative and
other groups.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/01a/20010326a.shtml

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Only days before a federal regulation left
over from the Clinton administration was to go into effect,
congressional staff for the House Pro-life Caucus discovered
language aimed at redefining when a fetus becomes a child. Under
the new definition, a fetus would only become a child if it were
able to breathe and maintain a heartbeat on its own.
Full Story: http://www.mcjonline.com/news/01a/20010326c.shtml

LONDON -- A British woman whose former boyfriend went to court
last week in a bid to prevent her from aborting their child, has
done so. Stephen Hone, who applied for a High Court injunction in
London to prevent Claire Hansell from having the abortion,
expressed sorrow Monday, and said he would now return to court to
seek permission to bury the baby's body.
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