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From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: Common Cause Comments on Baker Running Bush Re-election Campaign
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:43:56 GMT

Press release from Common Cause
 Common Cause Comments on Baker Running Bush Re-election Campaign
 To: National Desk, Political Writer
 Contact: Jackie G. Howell or Colleen O'Day, 202-736-5770,
          both of Common Cause

   WASHINGTON, July 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Common Cause today urged
President George Bush to ensure that if Secretary of State James
Baker takes on the responsibility of running the Bush reelection
campaign, he leaves the government and carries out these
responsibilities at the Bush campaign organization.
   "It is obvious to all that if Mr. Baker leaves his current
position as Secretary of State, it will be for the purpose of running
your reelection campaign," Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer
wrote in a letter delivered to President Bush.  "Under these
circumstances it would be wrong and improper for Mr. Baker to assume
a White House position or any other government position.  Mr. Baker
should be working for and paid by your campaign in carrying out these
political responsibilities."
   In 1988 when Secretary Baker resigned as Treasury Secretary to run
the Bush presidential campaign, he correctly left the government and
went to work at the Bush campaign organization, Wertheimer noted.
   "This time, however, according to published reports, you are
considering bringing Secretary Baker onto the White House staff to
carry out these responsibilities," Wertheimer wrote.
   Noting that President Bush had stated at the outset of his
administration that a guiding principle would be "to avoid even the
appearance of what is wrong," Wertheimer wrote, "For Mr. Baker to
move from the State Department to the White House staff to run your
reelection campaign appears wrong and would be wrong."
   The practice of officials leaving government to assume leadership
roles in presidential campaigns is well-established, Wertheimer
wrote.
   The Common Cause letter noted examples in the 1976, 1980, 1984
and 1988 presidential elections of public officials leaving their
government posts to assume leadership roles in presidential
campaigns.
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From: 11ASHETTLE%GALLUA.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: RESOURCES: cloth diapers
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:28:24 GMT

    This list is more complete than the old one I sent.

                  <<< USER$DISK24:[NOTES$LIBRARY]QC.NOTE;1 >>>
                             -< The Quiet Corner >-
================================================================================
Note 36.51                       Save the Earth!                        51 of 51
GALLUJ::11ASHETTLE                                   53 lines  28-JUL-1992 17:19
                         -< RESOURCES: cloth diapers >-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    For resources relating to cloth diapers (deemed by
    environmental activists to be more environmentally
    sensitive) contact the following:

    [Information compiled from "50 Simple Things You Can
    Do to Save the Earth" and "The Next Step: 50 More
    Things You Can Do to Save the Earth", both available
    at bookstores or from EarthWorks Press #25, 1400
    Shattuck Ave, Berkeley CA 94709]


    "Mothering" magazine
    PO Box 1690
    Santa Fe, NM 87504
    (can contain info on natural-fiber diapering products)

    Bio-Bottoms
    PO Box 6009
    3820 Bodega Ave.
    Petaluma, CA 94953
    (Wool and other natural fiber products; catalog $1)

    Baby Bunz and Company
    PO Box 1717
    Sebastopol, CA 95473
    (ditto to above; catalog $1)

    Diaperaps
    PO Box 3050
    Granada Hills, CA 91394
    (800) 251-4321
    (cotton and nylon diaper covers)

    The National Association of Diaper Services
    2017 walnut St.
    Philadelphia, PA 19103
    (800) 462-6237
    (referral to local diaper service)

    Activists may want to contact one of the following
    two:

    The King County Nurses Association
    8511 15th Ave. NE
    Seattle, WA 98115
    (Send SASE for brochure on diapering alternatives)

    Diapers:  Environmental Impacts and Life Cycle Analysis
    by Carl Lehrburger, Ph.D
    PO Box 998
    Great Barrington, MA 01230
    ($40 for this study on diapers: reportedly makes cloth
    diaper adovocates happy)

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From: nigel.allen@canrem.com (Nigel Allen)
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Subject: High Speed Trains Win in U.S. Senate
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:25:27 GMT
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Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu

Press release from Joseph Vranich

 High Speed Trains Win in Senate
 To: National Desk, Transportation Writer
 Contact: Joseph Vranich, 703-941-8927

   WASHINGTON, July 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The High Speed Rail/Maglev
Association hailed today's Senate action that would put tax-exempt
bonds for high-speed train systems under the same rules as airport
bonds, allowing planners to use private capital in construction.
   The effort, led by Sens. Steve Symms (R-Idaho) and Bob Graham
(D-Fla.), was an amendment to the Energy Bill.
   The president of the association, Robert J. Casey, released this
statement:

   "This is the first time the Senate has considered putting
high-speed train systems on a truly equal footing with other modes of
transportation, and the sense of fair play prevailed.
   "I wholeheartedly agree with Sen. Symms' closing statement that
the high-speed rail provision is good energy policy, good
environmental policy, good transportation policy and good tax policy.
   "It's clear from the vote that broad-based support exists from
senators of both parties and from every region of the country,
showing that high-speed trains have become a national issue.
   "It was appropriate that the effort was made in conjunction with
the energy bill.  After all, electrically powered high-speed trains
are the most efficient form of intercity transport ever designed.  If
we're serious about reducing oil imports, we must build high-speed
train systems.
   "We will work to ensure that the measure is enacted into law as it
moves into the conference committee and is considered by the White
House.
   "Specifically, the provision would remove the requirement that an
allocation under state volume caps must be obtained for 25 percent of
bonds issued for high-speed rail systems.
   "Congress has already recognized the importance of tax-exempt
bonding authority for the development of airports, seaports and
high-speed train systems.  However, the restriction applies only to
high-speed train systems.  Since many states are already operating
near their volume caps, the 25 percent allocation requirement has
served as a barrier to the use of tax-exempt bonds to build such
systems."
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: WHITTLE WATCH: Channel One News
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:15:37 GMT

/** media.issues: 201.0 **/
** Topic: Whittle Watch **
** Written  1:39 pm  Jul 23, 1992 by studycommerc in cdp:media.issues **
                         WHITTLE WATCH: 
A glimpse of the battle against Whittle Communications' efforts to reach
captive audiences through the commercialized, in-school news program, Channel
One, and other media. (This column appeared in the July 1992 issue of the
Center for Commercialism's newsletter, "AdVice.")

Legal Action:
~ On June 25, a New Jersey judge ruled that Channel One violates the school's
constitutional guarantee of a "thorough and efficient" education and should be
discontinued.  The State Commissioner of Education has 45 days to accept, alter,
or adopt the judge's ruling.

~ On June 4, a California judge denied a request by the State Superintendent of
Schools, Bill Honig, for a preliminary injunction to ban Channel One in all
state schools.  Instead, the judge scheduled a September trial at which the
Department of Education will try to show that the program wastes public funds. 

Local Action:
~ Some Channel One opponents got a painful education on Whittle's lobbying
force in schools.  In Port Angeles, WA, the district superintendent refused
parents the right to play a video of Channel One at a school board meeting.
When the parents persisted, a shoving match ensued between school board
officials and parents.  The parent group was claiming that Whittle repeatedly
violated its contract with the school system by embedding commercials in the
"feature" segments and promoting sexism in ads. 

~ The Texas chapter of Citizens for Excellence in Education (CEE), a 100,000-
member non-profit, is organizing a boycott of Pepsi for advertising on Channel
One.  CEE objects to commercials in the classroom, and to the provocative Pepsi
"Gotta have it" commercials featuring scantily-clad singers.

How much proof do you need?
~  A University of Michigan study D sponsored by Whittle himself D indicates
that students who watch Channel One do not have greater knowledge of current
events than those who don't. Independently, Michigan State University
researchers also discovered that Channel One students evaluated advertised
products more highly, intended to purchase the products more, and had more
materialistic attitudes.

Corporate Tentacles:
~  Whittle's "Special Reports" will air on the Medical News Network designed for
doctors.  Supported by advertising revenues from pharmaceutical companies, the
program will allow doctors to view and order drug samples at the touch of a
button.

** End of text from cdp:media.issues **
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: NUKE TESTING VOTE FRIDAY 7/24
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:45:21 GMT

/** psr.bulletins: 36.0 **/
** Topic: N-Testing VOTE this Friday 7/24 **
** Written  7:01 am  Jul 21, 1992 by psrnatl in cdp:psr.bulletins **

July 21, 1992

To: N-TEST MORATORIUM SUPPORTERS Fr: Daryl Kimball, PSR National
Subj: VOTE THIS FRIDAY

Dear friends,

This will be the pivotal week in the Senate for the Nuclear
Testing Moratorium Act.  First, the Appropriations Committee will
be marking-up its FY 93 bill by this Wednesday (tommorrow),
including Senator Hatfield's NTMA amendment.  If Hatfield does not
try to attach it in committee, it is likey to be offered on the
floor as soon as Thursday night or Friday when the entire
Appropriations bill goes to the floor.

Also, on Thursday, July 23, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
will hold a hearing on the NTMA.

Also, by Friday Sam Nunn's unique brand of testing language is
likely to be unveiled as part of the Senate Armed Services
Committee's FY 93 Defense Authorization bill.  Nunn is being
forced to respond to this issue because of the overwhelming public
and Congressional support for the one-year moratorium
legislation.

THEREFORE, NOW IS THE TIME TO CALL EVERYONE IN THE SENATE WHO IS
UNDECIDED ON THIS ISSUE AND TO URGE THEM TO SUPPORT THE
HATFIELD-MITCHELL NUCLEAR TESTING MORATORIUM ACT.  MESSAGES TO
APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE MOST IMPORTANT AND SHOULD BE
DELIVERED BY EARLY AFTERNOON ON WEDNESDAY. MESSAGES TO OTHER
SWINGS SHOULD BE DELIVERED BY 5PM THURSDAY.

CO-SPONSORS OF THE NTMA COULD ALSO BE CALLED WITH A MESSAGE OF
THANKS AND A REMINDER THAT THEIR VOTE OF SUPPORT IS VITAL -- WITH
ONLY 52 CO-SPONSORS PASSAGE OF S. 2064 IS BY NO MEANS ASSURED.

Key Appropriations Committee who are not yet co-sponsors of S.
2064, the NTMA, include: Gorton (WA), Bond (MO), D'Amato (NY),
Kasten (WI), Garn (UT), and Johnston (LA).

Other key members not yet co-sponsors of the NTMA include:
Durenberger (MN), Cohen (ME), McConnell (KY), Brown (CO), and
Graham (FL).  Good luck in urging these folks to support the NTMA.
Call Daryl Kimball at PSR (202-785-3777) if you have questions.

Thanks! Daryl Kimball
** End of text from cdp:psr.bulletins **
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From: nyxfer%panix.com@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (N.Y. Transfer)
Subject: Recovery? Don't Count on It /WW
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:14:02 GMT


Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit

                   Recovery? Don't count on it.

                          By Andy Stapp

George Bush's plan for economic recovery is to lower taxes again
on the Yacht Club set. The only specific employment increase
Clinton offers in his platform is the hiring of 100,000 more
police.

And now Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, the
banker's banker appointed by Reagan, testifies before Congress
that whoever gets in the White House, unemployment is going to
remain high. He predicted the jobless rate would decrease only 0.8
percent by the end of next year. Big deal.

That means the number officially out of work will decline from 10
million to 9.2 million. Unless he's wrong and it gets worse, as
has been the case over the past couple of months.

Greenspan, after all, is the guy who announced a year ago last
July that the country was in "a solid recovery." People merely
have the impression that the economy is flagging says the Fed
Chairman. "The recession ended last year," he told the Senators.

As Greenspan was speaking, Smith Corona Corporation, the maker of
typewriters and word processing equipment announced that in the
next sixty days it would lay off every worker it employs in this
country and move its entire operation to Mexico. Something like
this happens every day.

"The positive sign is that people are looking for work," one of
the Federal Reserve Board Governors said a few weeks ago. The
positive sign would be if they were finding it.

Greenspan of course is no fool. He merely intends to convey the
message that the current economic downturn, the worst since the
Great Depression, will be declared over, even if there are still
17 million jobless and half-employed people left stranded. This is
now to be seen as "normal."

"We are looking at a phenomenon which we have not seen for half a
century," he said. Last January Greenspan testified that, "There's
no historical precedent for what's happening to the economy. There
are forces at work that are outside the business cycle that we
don't understand."

As Larry Holmes, a national organizer of the Movement for a
Peoples Assembly put it, "People are losing faith in the system.
The breakdown of the capitalist economy is of an enduring and
irrevocable character. It is time to free ourselves from the two
big money political parties to more effectively struggle against
their misrule at home and abroad."

                               -30-

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; "workers@cdp!igc.org".)


-----
NY Transfer News Service
Modem: 718-448-2358  nytransfer@igc.org  nyxfer@panix.com

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: New Study: MILITARY MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:14:13 GMT

/** mideast.gulf: 30.0 **/
** Topic: MILITARY MEDIA MANAGEMENT - GULF **
** Written 10:59 am  Jul 23, 1992 by cadwallader in cdp:mideast.gulf **
 
SUBJECT: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND WAR
 
        The Center for Public Integrity has published a 
decade-long study by Jacqueline Sharkey.
 
        Jacqueline E. sharkey is one of this country's 
preeminent international investigitavie journalists. 
During the past eight years, her investigative reporting 
from Central America has won several national awards, 
including an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence, 
a Society of Professional Journalists Distinguished 
Service Award, an Investifative Reporters and Editors 
Award, and the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. Her 
articles on US policy in the revion, which appeared in 
common Cause Magazine, helped lay the foundation for an 
investigation of Col. Oliver North's private contra 
network by a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, and 
were used by investigators for the Iran-contra 
congressional committees. Sharkey, a University of Arizona 
journalism professor, is a former Washington Post copy 
editor, and was a Fulbright fellow in Colombia. She has 
B.A. and M.A. degrees in journalism from the University of 
Arizona, and a master's degree in the study of law from 
Yale Law School.
 
        Thirteen researchers are cited as having participated 
in the preparation of:
 
        UNDER FIRE - US Military Restrictions on the Media 
from Grenada to the Persian Gulf.
 
        This study may be obtained by contacting 
 
The Center for Public Integrity, 
1901K Street, Suite 802
Washington DC 20006
 
Tel: (202) 223 0299
 
        I would have liked to exerpt portions of this study 
for the interest of participants in the network. However, 
discussions are presently under way for its' publication 
as a book. It has been observed that PeaceNet participants 
are a bit chintzy, and I would like to point out that if 
you order this publication - now! - from the Center for 
Public Integrity, you could probably do a better deal. Who 
knows, increased demand might even obtain a better 
royalties deal for Ms Sharkey. Wouldn't it be nice if the 
good guys started doing well? 
 
        It contains information you need to have assimilated 
before we enter yet another Middle East crisis.
 
Rgds,
 
J. Hulme
 
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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Has malnourishment decreased?
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:59:13 GMT

/* Written  6:59 pm  Jul 29, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Has malnourishment decreased?" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


MALNOURISHMENT
 The UN Food and Agriculture Organization claims in a report
released today that the proportion of malnourished in the world has
dropped to 20% from 36% in 1971. This brings the number down from
941 million to 786 million people.

For the first time, the estimations include the populations of
China, North Korea and Vietnam. According to the report, this
inclusion decisively changes the figures since the one billion
Chinese are, the FAO says, relatively well nourished.

But the FAO director general says he is still pre-occupied by the
situation in Africa, which he categorized as "distressing." The
number of malnourished went from 101 million to 168 million people.
(R. France 7/26)

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   ALSO ON THE SUBSCRIBERS-ONLY WORLDP.NEWS TODAY:

News from Algeria, Somalia, Kenya, Togo, Cambodia and Australia.
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 09:35:12 GMT


"War is a racket. Our stake in that racket has never been greater in
all out peace-time history. It may seem odd for me, a military man, to
adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to.  I spent 33 years
and 4 months in active service as a member of our country's most agile
military force--the Marine Corps....

"I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil
interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the
National City Bank boys to collect revenues in . I helped in the
raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of
Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify
Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in
1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar
interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras 'right' for American fruit
companies in 1903...

"Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints.
The best *he* could do was to operate his racket in three city
districts. We Marines operated on three *continents*"

--Marine Corps Major General Smedley D. Butler. Twice wounded in
action and twenty times decorated, Smedley Butler was also one of the
few Americans to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

                        ----------------------

Butler commanded a marine detachment sent to Nicaragua in
1910...here's his description of how he managed that intervention:

"Dr. Madris [the president of Nicaragua] grew cold toward the
Nicaraguan investments of Brown Bros. and Seligman & Co. Another
revolution immediately 'occurred' and our State Department sent a
representative to see that the revolution was successful. Near
Bluefields was the property of a large American gold mine, whose stock
was owned mainly by Pittsburgh financiers and partly by the then
Secretary of State, Philander CD. Knox. President Madris refused to
recognize the validity of the gold mining concession and 225 Marines
immediately were dispatched to Bluefields to 'protect American lives
and property.' I commanded those Marines and in order to be sure that
there was an American life to protect in Bluefields I made certain
that local American consul was on the job. There wasn't another
American in miles..."

["America's Armed Forces", in _Common Sense_, October 1935 to Feb.
1936 (an article in five parts) [see part I, p.6; part II, p.8; part
III, pp. 13-14]]
"The failure of US policy makers to press for a negotiated end to the
war in El Salvador has placed our country in league with a clique of
assassins masquerading as an army...


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