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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 26 Sep 92 13:02 PDT
Subject: Church leaders reject Toricelli
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700528:000:2192
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 26 13:02:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Church leaders reject Toricelli

/* Written  7:13 pm  Sep 25, 1992 by crosenberg in cdp:reg.cuba */
U.S. CHURCH LEADER REJECTS TORICELLI BILL UPON RETURN FROM CUBA
          PRESS RELEASE BY C. WILLIAM NICHOLS

My name is C. William Nichols, General Minister and President of
Christian Church Disciples of Christ in the U.S. and Canada.  We
are a group of 23 people representing two closely linked
denominations: The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the
United Church.  We were invited by the Ecumenical Council of
Churches of Cuba to be their guest this week.  Our purpose in going
was to express our solidarity with our christian brothers and
sisters in Cuba; to learn more about the life of the people now; to
discover the effects of the economical embargo that the U.S.
imposed on Cuba and to try to bring back this information to the
people of the U.S. and to intercede with the government to end the
embargo which we believe to be unjust, inhuman and evil.

We saw the tragedy of hunger, little children in need of milk and
not having any.  People in hospitals being deprived of necessary
medicines and many other tragic injustice perpetrated through the
embargo.

We ask NO MORE for CUBA than the U.S. has already granted to such
countries like the People's Republic of China, which has a much
more restrained communist government.  We NOT ONLY have Free Trade
with the People's Republic of China, we have given them the status
of most favorite nation for trading.

Our interest is not political, but religious and humanitarian.
We deplore the passage of the Torricelli Bill, which will
exacerbate the problem by punishing other nations for trading with
Cuba.

On behalf of the Universal Church and Humanitarian People
everywhere, WE CALL FOR A PROMPT END TO THE EMBARGO AND IN THE MEAN
TIME THE DELIVERY OF MUCH NEEDED FOOD AND MEDICINE TO THE PEOPLE OF
CUBA.

************

Given at the Miami International Airport on Friday, September 25,
1992 about 1:30 pm upon arrival of the Delegation from Cuba. 
Present were the cameras of Channel 51, the Spanish Language TV
Station, and a photographer who we could not identify.
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 25 Sep 92 12:09 PDT
Subject: cops kill 3 at santo domingo columb
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700525:000:1580
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 25 12:09:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: cops kill 3 at santo domingo columb

/* Written 11:33 pm  Sep 24, 1992 by nyt@nyxfer in cdp:gen.racism */

   Via The N.Y. Transfer News Service 718-448-2358, 718-448-2683

COPS KILL 3 AT SANTO DOMINGO PROTEST OF COLUMBUS

Plainclothes cops fired on 300 people marching Sept. 20 to
protest the upcoming 500th anniversary celebrations of the
invasion of the Western Hemisphere by Christopher Columbus. One
of those shot was Rafael Efrain Ortiz, a lawyer who headed the
Dominican Committee of Human Rights.

The leader of the Popular Organizations Collective, Ramon
Almanzar, said Ortiz was shot in the head when he chanted
"Columbus! You're not welcome here!"

Speaking later, Almanzar said "We will continue with our
demonstrations against these acts because our country has no
reason to celebrate the anniversary ... of the conquest and
oppression of our continent and its Native people, which
culminated with the genocide of a peaceful race."

Since the shooting, demonstrators in four cities around the
Dominican Republic have barricaded streets and battled with riot
police. The Popular Organizations Collective and other groups
have scheduled a series of protests during the 500th anniversary
events Oct. 9-12.

(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@mcimail.com".)

     The N.Y. Transfer News Service 718-448-2358, 718-448-2683
 nyxfer@panix.com * All the news that doesn't fit * nytransfer@igc.org

Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
From:  kdv@rimeda.lt.su (Dmitry V. Kolomoitsev)
Subject: Enquire about Washington Proceeding Center E-mail address.
Reply-To: kdv@rimeda.lt.su
Organization: Rimeda
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 92 13:26:59 +0300

Dear Sir/Madam,

Excuse me, if this my question doesn't fit this newsgroup - I cannot
find more acceptable one.

I'll be very gratefull, if anybody can send me the E-mail address of

WASHINGTON PROCEEDING CENTER
1111 North 19th Street
Suite 600
Arlington
VA 22209
USA

This center provides the consideration of possible
emmigrants applications.

Thank you very much,
                                        Dmitry V. Kolomoitsev
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E-mail: kdv@rimeda.lt.su
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 25 Sep 92 11:54 PDT
Subject: IGLHRC:Gay Rights in Lithuania
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700522:000:2105
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 25 11:54:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: IGLHRC:Gay Rights in Lithuania

/* Written  8:44 pm  Sep 24, 1992 by jbinder in cdp:reg.ussr */

PRESS RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 24, 1992

from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
IGLHRC
540 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
phone: (415) 255 86 80
fax: (415) 255 86 62
email:jbinder@igc.org

LITHUANIA CHARGED WITH HUMAN RIGHTS OFFENSES BY HOMOSEXUAL
MINORITY

The government of Lithuania has been charged with a series of
human rights breaches on account of its criminalization of
homosexual relations and because of its treatment of homosexual
persons in custody.

Paragraph 122 of the Criminal Code of Lithuania outlaws private
homosexual conduct even between consenting adults, making the same
punishable by up to eight years' imprisonment.

Additionally, the Lithuanian Government is charged with permitting
the rape and deaths by torture of two homosexual men in its
prisons last year.

A petition was filed on 18 September by Mr. William Courson, a New
York City based human rights activist.  Mr. Courson, a member of
the International Association of Human Rights consultants and the
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, was acting
in his own behalf in filing his complaint.

Under the procedures established by United Nations Resolution No.
728-F, the Secretary General will refer the matter to the
Commission on Human Rights and the Subcommission on the Prevention
of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities for the formal
consideration of those bodies and to determine the complaint's
admissibility.

Although in a written statement given in May of this year to two
members of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights
Commission by Mr. S. Sedbaras, the Deputy Minister of Justice, a
promise was made that legislation had been prepared to repeal the
offending legislation, no formal measures have as yet been taken
by Parliament to change the law.

For further information contact:

IGLHRC
540 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94114 phone: (415) 255 86 80
fax: (415) 255 86 62 email:jbinder@igc.org
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 28 Sep 92 10:16 PDT
Subject: SUDAN: deaths and detentions
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700537:000:2893
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 28 10:16:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: SUDAN: deaths and detentions

/* Written  6:34 pm  Sep 27, 1992 by aiusala in cdp:ai.general */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom

DATE: 18 SEPTEMBER 1992

ADDITION TO WEEKLY UPDATE SERVICE 37/92

SUDAN: DEATHS AND DETENTIONS AS JUBA IS DESTROYED

	A grave human rights and humanitarian crisis has developed in the southern
Sudanese city of Juba, now virtually sealed to the outside world, Amnesty
International said today.

"Government forces are reported to have deliberately killed at least 300
unarmed civilians and prisoners and to have arrested hundreds of others,"
said the human rights organization.  "Many of those detained appear to have
"disappeared" and, with re ports of bodies seen floating in the White Nile,
there is considerable concern that detainees have been secretly and
extrajudicially executed."

In a three-page report released today the human rights organization
describes a dramatic deterioration in the human rights situation in Juba
since June this year.

The executions have followed intense fighting between government forces
besieged in Juba and the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).
After government forces regained control of one suburb in early July, they
are reported to have killed at least 200 civilians during house to house
search operations looking for SPLA troops.

There are reports of soldiers stopping civilians in the streets,
interrogating them and then shooting them.  On 16 July two women and a man
were reportedly deliberately killed while they were collecting firewood.

Hundreds of southern Sudanese soldiers, policemen and prominent civilians
have been arrested, apparently on suspicion of sympathising with the SPLA.

"With reports of night-time executions and torture from various
interrogation centres in the city, there is real fear for the safety of
these prisoners," said Amnesty International.

The army has burned down some of the most densely populated housing areas
of Juba to create free-fire zones.  As a result, more than 100,000 people
are reported to be squatting, many in appalling conditions and without
shelter from the seasonal rain s, near the old commercial centre of the
city.

"The Sudanese Government is allowing its forces to exercise a flagrant
disregard for human rights," Amnesty International said.  "The government
has expelled foreigners and restricted access to the city.  It appears to
be trying to hide the excesses of the army and security authorities."

Amnesty International is calling on the government to take immediate action
to end human rights violations.  This includes issuing orders that the
torture and killing of prisoners and unarmed civilians will not be
tolerated and taking action against all soldiers and security officials
alleged to be responsible for such abuses.
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 01 Oct 92 10:25 PDT
Subject: Fernando's sentence upheld
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700572:000:1577
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Oct  1 10:25:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Fernando's sentence upheld

/* Written  6:14 pm  Sep 30, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor */
Fernando's sentence upheld

Source: Jakarta Post
Date: 26 September 1992
Dateline: Jakarta
Abridged

Comment: Here is a clear example of the judiciary deliberately
failing to notify a convicted person and his lawyers of an
appeal decision,  so as to make it impossible for them to
lodge an appeal within the allotted time for the next stage of
the process!


JAKARTA HIGH COURT UPHOLDS JAIL TERM FOR EAST TIMORESE STUDENT

The Jakarta High Court has upheld the nine-year jail term for
a 26-year-old East Timorese student who was convicted for
subversion, his lawyer said. "We have appealed against the
High Court decision for Fernando Araujo," lawyer Luhut
Panjaitan of the Legal Aid Institute YLBHI said.

Luhut told JP that he did not know why the Court had upheld
the sentence because he had not received a copy of the
decision.

The defence team knew about the decision from Salemba Prison
when they picked up Agapito Cardoso, another E Timorese
student, who was released after ending his term last week.

Luhut said he was told the Court had made the decision on
Sept. 12, but when a colleague told the Central Jakarta
District Court they would appeal against the decision, a
registrar said he had not been informed about this. "She had
to argue with the registrar before he at last accepted our
statement to appeal," said Luhut.

A convicted person has two weeks to consider whether or not to
appeal, according to the law.
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 26 Sep 92 13:20 PDT
Subject: AIUSA calls on Congress re Indones
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700529:000:2936
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep 26 13:20:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: AIUSA calls on Congress re Indones

/* Written 10:02 pm  Sep 25, 1992 by aiusala in cdp:ai.general */
MEDIA ADVISORY
September 21, 1992

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA CALLS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CONSIDERATION IN
APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS WASHINGTON, D.C. --

Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today called on the United States Senate
to urge the Government of Indonesia to improve its human rights record by
taking strong specific steps.

	On the eve of mark-up by the Senate Appropriations Committee of the
Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for fiscal year 1993, Amnesty
International USA expressed its support for the recommendations proposed by
Foreign Operations Subcommmitte Chairman Senator Leahy (D-VT).

	The Leahy proposals are a part of several recommendations Amnesty
International has repeatedly communicated to the Indonesian government to
implement as future protection of human rights in East Timor and Indonesia.

	"These represent the first steps that the Government of Indonesia could
take to fundamentally change its human rights practices." said John G.
Healey, Executive Director, AIUSA.  "If the Senate weakens these steps,
it's members will certainly send the mes sage that it is not serious about
seeing change in Indonesia's egregious human rights record."

	Amnesty International USA noted that the Leahy proposals are obviously not
an exhaustive list of actions the Government of Indonesia could undertake.
The human rights organization would welcome Senate endorsement of
additional recommendations that Amnest y International has conveyed to the
Indonesian government.

	Amnesty International does not take a position on imposing sanctions on a
government, but strongly advocates that human rights be an integral part of
foreign policy debates, such as the foreign aid appropriations.


                  RECOMMENDATIONS PROPOSED
                             BY
                SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY (D-VT)


          (1)  the Government of Indonesia has published a
     list of names of all those killed and missing as a
     result of the November 12 massacre and indicated what
     steps are being taken to determine the identity of
     those responsible for disposal of bodies;

          (2)  the Government of Indonesia has identified
     all military personnel who were responsible for
     ordering, authorizing, or initiating the shooting of
     demonstrators at Santa Cruz, East Timor, and is taking
     steps to bring them to justice;

          (3)  the Government of Indonesia has undertaken to
     review the sentences of all East Timorese civilians
     convicted in connection with the November 1991
     demonstrations in Dili and Jakarta for the purpose of
     their commutation, reduction, or remission;

          (4)  observers representing international human
     rights organizations are being permitted access to East
     Timor.
From: rich.bellacera@amail.amdahl.com
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: re: The Origins of Idioms for Homosexuals
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:24:53 GMT
Return-Path: <amail.amdahl.com!rich.bellacera@juts.ccc.amdahl.com>

> Faggot:

Hmmm.  Donald's response is on a similar track, but not quite the
understanding I have been lead to believe.  Here is what I've been
told as the origin of the slanderous term "Faggot."

Faggot is indeed a word meaning a "bundle of twigs" (fag = twig), and is a
common reference in older times for kindling firewood.  For example a faggot
is used to get a fire going.

The term was imposed on homosexuals as a slanderous reference to the
concentration camps of Hitler where homosexuals were routinely burned
alive.  To call someone a faggot is to imply they should be killed for
being a faggot.  This term should have the same disdain as for a black
being called a "nigger" or other similar terms.

I understood that the "pink" and "black" triangles also had their roots
from this same time.  But I don't quite understand what a "triangle" had
as a negative connotation.  Is it suppose to be an inferrence to a "third"
sex?

Can someone correct me if I am wrong.  THank you.

-Rich
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Liberties Civil or Otherwise (was Re: Civil War in Oregon)
From: elle@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ellen Keyne Seebacher)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:08:30 GMT
Reply-To: elle@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:
>>I readily agree that many people would say it does reflect
>>badly on the university if some schmuck gets really out of hand. 
>
>The issue here is, I think, less one of how the content reflects on
>the university than of how the formal aspects of the posting reflects
>on the university's net.citizenship.

Thanks, Melinda:  that's exactly it.

>Clobbering someone for massive cross-posting or 60-line .sig files or
>even for violating the charter of a newsgroup is a very different mattern
>than coming down on them for the actual content of what they post.

Melinda preceded me as news admin here, so she knows whereof she
speaks.  :)

[I may answer the rest of your article later, Jess, dear.  I'm wearing
 a button right now which says "Deadlines amuse me", which should give
 you an indication of what this week is like.]

--                    __
Ellen Keyne Seebacher \/             elle@midway.uchicago.edu
From: rdonahue@spdcc.com (Bob Donahue)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: enough already.
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:53:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Oct1.215331.16440
Organization: insert anything here

anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

>In article <1992Oct1.164538.9540@netcom.com>
>stephena@netcom.com (Stephen Arrants) writes:

>>"He's not making this up, you know!" 
>>(Small, insignificant prise for the first person who gets the significance of 
>>the above line.)

>Too easy, give it to someone who isn't very big, very brave,
>and er, ...  just forget the whole thing, OK?

	Be CAREFUL, Jess, be CAREFUL!

BBC, a furry torso,
but not blue...
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: fun!  more recipes!
Date: 26 Sep 92 20:57:10 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group
Keywords: butch, spinach, garlic, virgin mary

In article <1992Sep25.213635.9651@cis.ohio-state.edu> amz@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky) writes:
[deletions]
>
>the bull-cook books wander over the crazy-paving of history, travel,
>and food, with an almost constant dinging of george herter's idiosyncratic
>beliefs and opinions about every goddam thing, and following no organization
>beyond the simple association of ideas, and sometimes just sunspots.
>
>one of our faves is SPINACH MOTHER OF CHRIST (it comes right after SPINACH
[deletion]
>
>but the spinach really is good.  on the other hand, i wouldn't quote
>any of the true historical facts (on the first page: "Corned meat
>originated in the town of London, England in 1725").  nor would i
>entirely trust the advice about "what to do in case of hydrogen or
>cobalt bomb attack".  caveat lector.
>

Arnold, you've made me so happy today, unutterably,
inexpressibly wild with joy. One of my hippie housemates
back in the 60s introduced to the collected works of George
Herter. And we cooked out of it all the time, as well
blowing everyone's minds with sample readings (smoke some
dope, drop some acid or choke down some peyote, and then
someone cries out Herter! Herter! Tell us about Spinach
Mother of Christ! -- I kid you not -- Herter was one of our
religions). In fact, The Whole Earth Catalog referred to
Herter's catalog, which were pearls beyond price themselves,
as the extreme right-wing version of the Whole Earth
Catalog.

The great thing about George's recipes were his assertions
of authenticity. According to George, there was always one
authentic way to do or cook or anything else; all other
versions were inauthentic, and therefore fraudulent and
cheats. This is, of course, a core belief in the theology of
machismo.

In one of his books, George advises fathers never to let
their children -- toddlers, especially -- clutch the
fathers' pant legs. The reason: when dad pees -- into a
urinal, especially -- his pant legs will invariable get
splashed with his own urine. So, it is not only unsanitary,
but actually disgusting, to let Jr. clutch Dad's pant leg,
even though all children will try to do so.

As for the recipes, we especially treasured his recipes for
refritos -- refried beans -- which was exacting, autentico,
time-consuming, and delicious, thus making a perfect
specimen Herterism.

George dedicated one or more of his books to his brother
Christian Herter, whom the old farts amongst us will
remember as the disgraced press secretary of Eisenhower.

I am under the impression that Herter's went out of business
in the late 70s or early 80s, is that correct?

Thanks for posting this, it's a great trip into my misspent
past remembering George.
-- 
Frank Richard Aloysius Jude Maloney
	"Well, I'm a little muddled." -- Glinda
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: gsmith@lauren.uucp (Gene W. Smith)
Subject: Re: Faggots
Organization: IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 13:44:25 GMT

In article <mcmelmon-230992145104@mcmelmon.apple.com>
mcmelmon@aruba.apple.com (Matthew Melmon) writes:
>In article <1992Sep23.003817.3293@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>,
>psp@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (P.S. Powledge) wrote:

>> Oh, _please_. Maybe the reason you guys are getting flamed here 
>> isn't because there's An Evil Plot being promulgated by Arne, Jess,
>> Jake, Melinda, Gene Spafford, and DARPA. Maybe -- just maybe -- it's 
>> because you're acting like twits. 

>Maybe we're acting like twits because we do so *enjoy* basking in the
>pleasant glow of flames from the likes of the above personages.

Actually, I can't remember flaming Melon, or even alluding to him
obliquely. If I were to do such I thing I suppose I could start with an
infantile bit of word-play on his name or something.  But these days I
only do consensual flames for people who enjoy them.

-- 
     Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University 
               gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: cbe@unlinfo.unl.edu (cbe)
Subject: Re: Jess has designs on *my* little boy!
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 20:11:57 GMT

escott@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Evan Scott) writes:


>Oh fish!  I can't resist an obscure units diatribe with the 
>added bonus of it being a kind of strangely exhibitionist excercise.
>Ok, ok, I made the acquaintance of this pleasant little photon and
>got it to agree to a little test.  I started it at the top of my head
>and got it to race down to my heels.  After questioning it it was
>able to let on that it had done the trip in 6 ns, and along the way
>it had noticed on average 3.8 micrograms per Angstrom pass by.

Tsk! Tsk! Mixing SI and non-SI units.

>Oh great netgods at large forgive me my frivolous waste of these
>precious electron transitions, and my sadly lacking physics theory.

>Ob-motss: well the photon _could_ have been gay ...

well.....there should be a good deal of uncertainity.

Colburn Eigen                               H|u> = E|u>
From: ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Surnames (was: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT)
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:48:56 GMT
Organization: UNIX System Laboratories, Summit, NJ

In article <1992Oct5.055904.5317@midway.uchicago.edu> elle@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Hmmm.  As long as we're casting these upon the waters, what on earth
>could one do with "Seebacher" and "Winnig"?  

I vote for the "Snig's"

Ry
ry@usl.com
Newsgroups: soc.motss