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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 07 Sep 92 15:04 PDT
Subject: Bougainville relief boat to sail
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700435:000:2638
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep  7 15:04:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Bougainville relief boat to sail

/* Written  3:27 pm  Sep  2, 1992 by gn:peacenews in cdp:wri.news */
/* ---------- "Bougainville relief boat to sail" ---------- */
PETER D JONES



##A network of Australian activists concerned with the deteriorating

health and human rights situation on Bougainville are currently gathering

medical supplies which will be sent to the island on board the 1900

Norwegian pilot cutter _Flinders_. 



Since the 1989 attempted invasion of the island of Bougainville in the

North Solomons by the Papua New Guinea (PNG) military, a blockade has

been imposed on the island, effectively stopping all but a trickle of

humanitarian aid.



Three years on, this all but total blockade has meant that almost no

consumer goods, clothing, or -- most seriously -- medical supplies have

reached this island of about 200,000 people. Malaria, respiratory

illnesses, childbirth complications, and asthma are among the biggest

killers.



It is clear that this blockade by the PNG military represents an

appalling abuse of basic human rights and contravenes several

international laws, including the Genocide Convention of 1948.

Australians feel particular responsibility for the situation on

Bougainville because it was the activities of an Australian company, the

RTZ subsidiary Bougainville Copper, which initially provoked the

rebellion by Bougainville separatist forces which led the PNG military to

invade. The Australian government has supplied patrol boats and

helicopters to PNG government forces; it is acknowledged that the

helicopters have been used as gunships in the past, but Canberra refuses

to accept new evidence that abuse of this equipment has continued. The

PNG government has been unable to constrain its own military on

Bougainville, and abuses have been directed against the people of the

island as well as against members of the insurgent group, the

Bougainville Revolutionary Army.



The _Flinders_ will leave in September for the voyage to Bougainville,

where it will attempt to run the blockade, or at least ensure that the

medical aid reaches the people of Bougainville in some other way. The

voyage is expected to take three months.



Australian Humanitarian Aid for Bougainville, 50 Moor St, Fitzroy,

Melbourne VIC 3065 Australia (fax +61 3 417 7448).



Reprinted from _Peace News_ September 1992. (number 2358). Please credit

if reprinting. Peace News and War Resisters' International, 55 Dawes

Street, London SE17 1EL, England (tel +44 71 703 7189; fax 708 2545;

email gn:peacenews or gn:warrresisters)
From: ifcss@WAM.UMD.EDU (IFCSS HQ)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: IFCSS HQ NR-4018: MFN
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:31:10 GMT


**************************************************************
IFCSS Headquarters News Release No. 4018    September 15, 1992
                MFN BILL PASSED SENATE
**************************************************************
Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS)
   733 15th Street, N.W., Suite 440, Washington, D.C.20005
         Tel. (202)347-0017  Fax: (202)347-0018
                Email: ifcss@wam.umd.edu


                MFN Bill Passed Senate
                ======================

     On Monday, September 14, the Senate passed a bill placing
conditions on the renewal of China's most favored nations 
status. Since the bill has passed the House earlier, it will
be sent to President Bush who will likely veto the bill.

     In another event related to China, a congressional commission 
recommended on September 14 that the United States create a new
radio network that would broadcast daily news to China and other
Asian nations under totalitarian governments.

     On the protection bill, no definite date has been set for
the Senate to consider the bill, but like in the House, the
Senate may pick up the bill at any time. There was a possibility
in last week, but a Senator died and legislative activities
in the Senate was suspended last Friday. We believe that between
today and this Friday, the bill will be picked up by the 
Senate.




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         IFCSS Headquarters Office    Signature
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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 07 Sep 92 13:40 PDT
Subject: JAMAICA: ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONER
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700430:000:2577
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep  7 13:40:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: JAMAICA: ILL-TREATMENT OF PRISONER

/* Written  9:14 am  Sep  4, 1992 by gn:geonet in cdp:omct.sostortur */

Case JAM 020992
At the request of Antenna International, member of our network, we
call upon you to intervene URGENTLY on behalf of the following
situation in Jamaica.
Brief description of the situation:
The Jamaica Council for Human Rights have expressed their concern
over the fate of prisoner Keith WHITE, an inmate of the General
Penitentiary in Kingston, Jamaica.
According to the information received, Keith WHITE, who faces charges
of murder, has been constantly harassed and physically abused by
prison warders.  On numerous occasions since February 1992 he has
been the victim of serious beatings, including one incident in which
he was beaten with a cricket bat, which have resulted in injuries to
his elbow and the back of his head.
As a result of the ill-treatment he has sustained he now has
difficulty hearing and at one point when he contracted an ear
infection, he complained but officials allegedly refused to take him
to a doctor.
According to the same information, eye-witnesses have apparently
substantiated Keith WHITE's claims of ill-treatment and beatings.
The Jamaica Council for Human Rights fears that Keith WHITE's life is
in danger given the constant and serious physical and other abuse.
Action requested:
Please write to the authorities in Jamaica to demand that they ensure
the physical and psychological integrity of Keith White at all times
and that they provide him with the necessary medication for his
condition. Demand that they put an end to the ill-treatment and
harassment and that they open a thorough and impartial inquiry into
the above incidents in order to identify those responsible and punish
them in accordance with the law. Urge them to ensure the respect for
human rights and fundamental freedoms in the country at all times.
Addresses:
Hon. P. J. Patterson, Prime Minister, Vale Royal, Kingston 6, Jamaica
Fax: + 809-92-90005
Hon. Howard Cooke, Governor General, Kings House, Hope Road,
Kingston, Jamaica
Mr. K. D. Knight, Minster of National Security and Justice, Ministry
of National Security & Justice, Ocean Boulevard, Kingston, Jamaica,
Fax: + 809-922-6950
Jamaica Record, 7 West Street, Kingston, Jamaica  Fax: + 809-92-21055
The News Room, Daily Gleaner, 7 North Street, Kingston, Jamaica  Fax:
+809-92-26223


3 September 1992
Please inform us of any action undertaken, (kindly mention the code
number of the appeal in any related correspondence).
LAYOUT 000
From: garrett@Ingres.COM (QUOTE OF THE YEAR)
Subject: Re: Pursestrings
Summary: Taking everything into account
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Keywords: 
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Ingres Product Division
Distribution: usa
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:55:53 GMT

In article <1992Sep15.040944.2455@midway.uchicago.edu>, wag5@midway.uchicago.edu         writes...
>I have a question-

Let's take this one at a time...

>	Which body of government 'controls the purse strings?'

Which body of government has veto power? Which body of government has
failed to over-ride a single veto over the last 4 years? When a executive
can write  an uncontested veto whenever he wants, but doesn't, doesn't 
that make him an accomplice?

>	Who then, in fact, is responsible for the 'legislation'
>	which costs us so much?

Which branch of government offers a budget proposal to Congress each
year that Congress uses as a working draft? Who failed to submit a 
balenced budget to Congress even once?
> 
>	Would it not be the job of the executor to 'beat-back' that money-
>hungry mob? 

Yes

 And isn't Bush the one ready and willing to beat back
>those porkers?

Hasen't he already had four years to this? What makes you think he
is going to start now?

>				J. Wagner
> 
-Garrett
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 07 Sep 92 14:17 PDT
Subject: ETAN/Can release on NAM summit
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700434:000:2352
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep  7 14:17:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: ETAN/Can release on NAM summit

/* Written  1:15 pm  Aug 30, 1992 by web:etantor in cdp:reg.easttimor */
East Timor Alert Network/Canada

For immediate release 				31 August 1992


INTIMIDATION STEPPED UP AS NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT OPENS IN 
INDONESIA
Human rights groups face increased repression on eve of international 
summit

	The government of Indonesia is stepping up repression directed at 
human rights organizations as it prepares for tomorrow's opening of the 
Non-Aligned Movement of states (NAM) summit. Observers believe that the 
government is trying to prevent protests during the triennial gathering of 
Third World leaders. 

	More than 1,500 soldiers have been moved to Jakarta, the capital of 
Indonesia and site of the summit. Soldiers have surrounded the offices of 
INFIGHT (Indonesian Front for the Defence of Human Rights) and SKEPHI 
(Indonesian NGO Network for Forestry Conservation) and cut phone and fax 
lines into the offices. General Kentot Harsono, military commander in Jakarta, 
has ordered soldiers to shoot without hesitation anyone who joins "protests 
or any other trouble that can send the city into chaos."

	A protest by pro-independence youths in Indonesian-occupied East 
Timor last November 12 ended in bloodshed when Indonesian soldiers 
opened fire without provocation on an unarmed crowd, killing over 100 
people. 

	Military operations have also been stepped up in East Timor, a country 
invaded by Indonesia in 1975. Indonesia has ignored resolutions at the 
United Nations and previous NAM summits calling for it to withdraw its 
troops from East Timor and allow the East Timorese their right to self-
determination. Indonesia's colonial rule in East Timor has claimed the lives 
of more than one third of the indigenous population, according to Amnesty 
International and other sources.

	The East Timor Alert Network calls on the world community, 
particularly leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement states, to ensure that 
human rights (including the right to peaceful protest) are respected during 
the NAM summit and thereafter in Indonesia. ETAN further calls on the 
NAM, which has a proud tradition of anti-colonialism going back to 1955, to 
urge Indonesia to withdraw from East Timor. 


For more information:
David Webster (416) 539-9589/531-6154
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Re: Part I, Doctors Secretly Inject Cancer Cells Into Patients
From: scb1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Sam Blackman)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:34:10 GMT
Reply-To: scb1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics
Keywords: Nonsense, Rumors, Trash, Worse-than-Gerarldo

In article <1992Sep8.134839.28659@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
(Jo
hn DiNardo) writes:
>
>        I made the following transcript from a tape recording
>        of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio station

[reams and reams of absolute trash deleted so as not to offend others ...]

Do us a favor, Mr. DiNardo, and do yourself a favor - while you have the 
absolute right and privledge to absorb and believe whatever crap you are
presented with (and your posting demonstrates that you have been exposed
to a large load of such crap), please do not post this type of drivel to
a group dedicated to medical science.  Perhaps you would be better off
posting to and reading alt.rumors as it seems to be more your speed (and I
say this more because of your wish that this crap be posted in hardcopy in
other places).    

If you, and the individual who made this little radio show, have the desire
to needlessly frighten people, weaken the doctor-patient relationship, and
impede the progress of clinical research by scaring the hell out of patients,
then I truly hope that you will also express your distaste and distrusts for
medicine by not asking any of the licensed physicians to treat you, not should
you accept any cure or medicine that came about as a result of hard work and
clinical research.  Put your money where your (big) mouth is.

-- Samuel C. Blackman
-- Clinical Research Scientist
-- University of Chicago


-- 
Samuel C. Blackman        ! InterNet : scb1@midway.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago     ! Disclaimer : Who cares what I say, I'm a student!
Lost on the south side    ! Quote : Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!
Chicago, IL  60637        ! Phone : 312/752-1082 (h)   312/702-6582 (w)
From: fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands)
Subject: Re: To Laura
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:32:22 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Sep03.193449.227@microsoft.com> bobsarv@microsoft.com (Bob Sarver) writes:
| 
| 
| The Arab student going to college gets more acceptance than the militant
| pan-Arab socialist.  Once you get to know an Arab student, it becomes
| very hard to crack "camel jockey" or "sand nigger" jokes; the cognitive
| dissonance in your mind prevents you.

The presence of many "normal-looking" Jews in Germany did not prevent the
Holocaust.  The large German-American population did not prevent 
incredibly-vicious anti-German-culture propoganda in the US during WWI.
Middle-class Japanese-American communities did not stop the amazingly-
racist Hollywood movies during WWII.  The presence of large numbers of
Poles do not stop Polack jokes.  People seem to cope quite well with
cognitive dissonance, thank you.

| By "negative stereotypes", I do not mean a man who is naturally
| soft-spoken, gentle, or effeminate.   And I don't mean a woman
| who is confident, outgoing, or masculine.

What do you mean by "naturally"?

| I am not really concerned about the degree to which a person is
| _naturally_ feminine or masculine.  As has been correctly point out, those
| are probably fixed traits, and there is not much we (as people)
| can do to change what God has given us - - nor should we try.

I disagree about how much such traits are fixed -- we are greater
artists than we give ourselves credit for.

| What I am talking about is the rehearsed, practiced campy acts that
| many gays seem to thrive on.  This is _not_ a personality trait; it is 
| practiced, and rehearsed.  By definition, personality is not practiced--it
| is natural, needing no practice.  

Huh?  What definition are you using, Bob?  I don't know about you, but *my*
personality is an ongoing artwork.  I was a nasty, sarcastic son-of-a-
bitch in my 20s.  My SO at the time had the good sense to shove some
psychedelics in my mouth and start me on the road toward revamping my
personality.  I may be abrasive, now, but, according to people who 
knew me before and after, much easier to deal with.

Look around you on the net -- the personas you "see" in this virtual
space are well rehearsed.

|   The gay movement is decades
| behind the rest of the similar freedom movements.

No.  A decade and a half.  Around 1980, gay political groups were poised
to be significant political forces in major cities on both coasts.  I
know first hand from the politics of San Diego.  Then people started
dying.

   Fritz
From: black@lester.sybase.com (Christina Black])
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: boobs
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:47:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.202937.21238@cis.ohio-state.edu>, amz@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arnold M Zwicky) writes:
> while we're on female body parts and hippophiles: how about a hymn or
> two to women's hips and hip bones?  

I'd say k. d. lang's "Big Boned Gal" qualifies.

-- chris
black@syabse.com
From: markm@ogicse.ogi.edu (Mark Morrissey)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: To Laura
Date: 10 Sep 92 15:21:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: ogicse.42607
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR

In article <1992Sep10.144505.29289@wam.umd.edu> aap@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Adolfo Pinkas) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.141157.25594@spdcc.com> pentangl@spdcc.com (Scott Moir) writes:
>>
>>If someone is going to accept me, I want it to be without strings. I
>>offer the same deal in return. 
>
>I believe that there is no such a thing as "total acceptance without strings".
>Every person in the world has a set of social values, and there is no way you
>can avoid that. So, asking for no strings is asking for a string.

True statement.  Any communications involves expectations of some sort.

Try instead to think of the size of the 'string' involved.  You can have
atomic string, filaments, hairs, wires, etc. all the way up to anchor
chain and beyond.  While a filament does, to some extent, bind, it doesn't
weigh you down or prevent you from being in quite the same way that an
anchor chain does.

It is highy unlikely that I would have to change much to support the weight
of a zero-weight string.  It is highly likely that I would have to change a
great deal, or perhaps even be destroyed, if I were forced to carry around
an anchor chain.

--mark
--
Mark Morrissey           One Hatred to rule them all.  One Hatred to find them.
markm@cse.ogi.edu        One Hatred to bring them all and in the darkness bind
                         them.  In the land of Bigotry where the Shadows lie.
From: wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM (Walt  Peterson)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: AB2601/3825
Date: 7 Sep 92 22:05:44 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Computervision, A Prime Company. San Diego R&D

In article <1992Sep4.220426.28410@tandon.com> tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett) writes:
}Well, I had called a while ago urging the gov to not only get
}his butt in gear with our budget, but to also sign AB2601.  At
}that time, the wonderfully cheerful male operator at the 916)
}445-2841 number asked for my name.
}
}Just now, I got off the phone asking our be-budgeted gov to
}sign AB3825, too.  I called the 213) 897-0322 number this
}time.  I got a sorta tired sounding male who didn't ask for my
}name.
}

During the attempt to get AB101 signed I called several of the
numbers numerous times and never once did any of the people answering
the phone ever ask for my name or any other information. The people on
the other end were mostly males, but there were a few females.

All of them were polite and said something to the effect that they
would pass the information on or check off another "For" call or
such words to that effect.

The same has been true during the current attempt to get AB2601 and
AB3825 signed. So far no one has asked for my name or any other
information.  Even if they did there is no reason to tell them your
real name; this isnt like a petition signing or anything, and you can
bet the rent money that the fundies are making hundreds of calls each.

Some of the numbers that you can call are:

	(916)445-2841	Gov's Sacramento Office
	(916)445-5106	Gov's Chief of Staff's Office
	(916)445-0658	Gov's Legislative Office
	(415)703-2218	Gov's San Francisco Office
	(213)897-0322	Gov's Los Angeles Office
	(619)525-4641	Gov's San Diego Office


-- 
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Internet   : wlp@calmasd.Prime.COM    |       Silence   \    /   Action
CompuServe : 70441,3177               |          =       \  /      =
"Generic Disclaimer"                  |        Death      \/      Life
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Subject: Re: Anthony Perkins
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:20:38 GMT

According to his obituary in the San Francisco Examiner,
Anthony Perkins put together this statement earlier this
week:

    "I chose not to go public about this because, to misquote
    'Casablanca,' 'I'm not much at being noble but it doesn't
    take much to see that the problems of one old actor don't
    amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.'"

I'm not so sure I'd agree.

On a (slightly) related note, I saw that Arthur Ashe, who just
suffered a mild heart attack but is OK, was arrested last week
while protesting the Bush administration's racist deportation
policy for Haitian refugees.
-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
rod williams -=- pacific bell -=- san francisco -=- rjwill6@pacbell.com
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From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: boobs
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:17:08 GMT
Organization: The Cat Factory

In article <18th13INNgko@mizar.usc.edu> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
}
}In one of the dusty towns in the San Fernando Valley -- 
}Tarzana, I think, but possibly Encino -- is the fabulous 
}"BEA DYKE" swimwear emporium.  It's in a little shopping 
}center on Ventura Blvd., and I used to wonder at the name 
}every time I passed it.  Surely, I mused, the name is more
}commonly spelled "Beah"?  Was this a disguised sapphic
}recruitment center for Valley girls?  I would imagine the
}shop is still there.

There's (or was, anyway) a coffee house in West L.A. called Les Beans.
Nice poeple.  Not a lot of men around ...

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
From: gwb@crosfield.co.uk (George Battrick)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Seybold
Date: 7 Sep 92 17:53:39 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

Following on with the conferences theme, is anyone going to Seybold?
(week of 21 September, San Francisco, Electronic Publishing/Prepress)
[I guess this ties in with the fonts discussion too!]
Newsgroups: soc.motss
From: glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson)
Subject: Re: Orson Scott Card
Originator: glp@merlin
Organization: Citibank IBISM
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:46:49 GMT


In article <1992Sep5.191700.15095@Princeton.EDU>, spencer@dew.Princeton.EDU (S. Spencer Sun) writes:
|> [In response to requests for the Orson Scott Card article]
|> 
|> Didn't someone post a while back (a few months actually now that I think
|> about it) that Mr. Card had specifically ordained that his article NOT
|> be redistributed, on penalty of nasty legal action?  I seem to remember
|> seeing something along these lines.

That someone was me.  Card runs an area on America OnLine and
I sent him mail asking him if I could make his article available.

His response included:

" That one is way out of bounds - it was written to a
Mormon audience and should only be received in its context as part of an
ongoing discussion in Sunstone Magazine.  I would be curious to know how an
electronic copy of that ever came to exist in the first place, and I most
emphatically deny permission for it to be circulated beyond its original
context.  In this case permission definitely IS required in order to
duplicate the essay, and permission just as definitely is denied.  And you
might pass the word to others who might be duplicating that article without
the courtesy of asking permission that my fee for each unauthorized copy made
of the article, including downloads and uploads and xeroxes, is $10,000."

How this can be enforced is beyond me, unless someone
republished it.

In a later message he referred to me as a "spokesman of
repressive (or was it "oppressive"?) tolerance.  Teeheehee.
From a *mormon*, no less.

-- 
Greg Parkinson                  Phone: 212-657-7814  Fax: 212-825-8607
Citibank,111 Wall Street        E-Mail: glp@fig.citib.com
New York, New York  10043
The opinions expressed are my own and not those of the big 'ol bank.
Newsgroups: soc.motss