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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 07 Sep 92 14:01 PDT
Subject: SalPress Still Threatened
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep  7 14:01:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: SalPress Still Threatened

/* Written  1:41 pm  Sep  6, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua */

10. SALVADORAN NEWS AGENCY THREATENED AGAIN
Less than two months after arson destroyed the offices of
Salpress, the Salvadoran news agency is receiving new threats. On
August 27, an anonymous caller warned, "Salpress will burn
again," and the following day a caller threatened the life of
Salpress Director Ricardo Gomez. There has still been no official
report from any government agency about the Jul. 2 fire, and
officials have interviewed no one but Salpress staff. The threats
against Salpress come during the worst wave of violence to hit El
Salvador since the Feb. 1 cease fire. According to the human
rights group CODEFAM, 39 people were assassinated in the month of
August alone, and another 7 disappeared. 

Meanwhile, two human rights commissions created as part of the
peace agreements are moving forward with investigations which are
almost certain to implicate top Army officers. The Ad Hoc
Commission, whose mandate is to review the records of military
officers, recently requested a one-month extension in order to
compile more evidence. The Truth Commission, responsible for
investigating the most serious human rights cases, opened its
doors to the public in order to hear testimony from survivors.
Thirty names have been presented to the Ad-Hoc Commission in
connection with the murder of six Jesuit priests in 1989, and the
non-governmental Human Rights Commission (CDHES) submitted a list
of 78 officers who are accused of violating human rights. The
attacks against Salpress may be connected to efforts by the Army
to sabotage the work of the Truth Commission and the Ad Hoc
Commission. 
After the July 2 fire, CDHES suggested that the motive may have
been the destruction of archives which could have helped the
Commissions document Army human rights abuses. Urge your
Congresspeople (Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121) to call
President Alfredo Cristiani to express concern over the threats
against Salpress, and push him to investigate the July 2 Salpress
fire and the current threats; also, urge them to end all military
aid to El Salvador: Senators should be encouraged to sign on to
the Specter-De Concini letter, which calls for the transfer of
all military aid into the Demobilization and Transition Fund.
Representatives should be urged to support a conferenced bill
containing similar language. [CISPES Alert 9/1/92]
From: SJWang@PHILOS.umass.edu
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: CPCU's Activities
Date: 10 Sep 92 19:29:26 GMT


Report by Shijin Wang/CPCU SJWANG@philos.umass.edu

On the fifth of Sep., CPCU (Chinese Professionals Club in USA Inc.) held two
seminars seperately in Chicago and Boston. CPCU Chicago Chapter held its
regular meeting and about 70 people joined it. The seminar are of two topics:
1."A.B.C. of Investment in USA For Chinese Professionals and Current Situation
of Investment"--by Dr. Dong Jielin; 2. "The skill of Investment in USA"--by
Mr. Li Xiaobo. After seminar, Cicargo Chapter held a picnic. In Boston, Over 100
people attended the seminar. The topics are also of two: 1."Report of CPCU's
representatives visit to Taiwan, Hongkong, Zhuhai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen and
Possible accesses to Doing Business Related with China Area for Chinese Profes-
sionals in USA"--by Mr. Wang Shijin; 2. "Analysis of Materials of Business
Survey to Mass' Companies by joint Program of CPCU and CEO Ambassadors Associ-
ation"--by Dr. Yu Baoqin. Then CPCU held a pianic there for all attendants.

CPCU is an independently registered, non-political and non-profit organization
consisting mainly of Chinese Professionals in USA (please refer to the special
report in Sunday Version of "Would Journal" of Aug. 30, 1992). Its main purposes
are: 1. To protect its all members and to get more opportunities for its members
development by whole body's efforts and power; 2. to promote the progress and
development of china area in Sci-tech, academy, economy and culture. Now, it has
over 400 members in USA and 3 local chapters. In 28 states it has coodinators
and in its general office it has a database of professionals and a consultian
net. In member's service it has a contract with MCI for favor rate service
and other good service programs are working out. Its delegates will visit
China in early Oct. to have more extentivce contact with those professional
institutes in China for our member's development. To know more about CPCU,
please send your request to Qiu@econs.umass.edu by E-mail or to P.O.Box 523,
North Amherst, MA 01059.
From: lpb@florida.swdc.stratus.com (Len Bucuvalas)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Re: Call of the Qur"an to the people
Keywords: love yourself inorder to be able to love your neighbor
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:48:31 GMT

In article <66wLqB2w164w@oneb.almanac.bc.ca> jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca writes:
>I know that we all should practice forbearance and tolerance
>towards others to foster communication and all that.  how ever
>I feel moved to communicate my feelings and perceptions about
>my experience of Islam especially after reading that long 
>blather exhorting the rest of us to get with it and convert.
>I travelled extensively in Islamic countries, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan
>Saudi Arabie , U.A.E., Egypt, Pakistan.  Just recently , Iwas 2nd officer
>of a ship which loaded cargo in Jubail S.A.. Basically, I would have to
>say that Islam is the most intolerant, violent,arrogant religion on the
>planet, anti life, anti sex, anti women,  S.A (where we were not allowed
>ashore) is a desert, and I mean as far as Pleasure,laughter,culture,
>intellectual life. Unless of course you happened to belong to the inbred
>ruling class , which of course uses all this fundamentalist bullshit
>to keep people ignorant, then your can really live high on the hog as they 
>surely do... I could rant on, but basically  when I read arrogant tripe
>about the wonders of Islam,,, I say bug off....
>I quess this message means that you fundamentalists will now feel
>free to come over to canada and kill me because I dare to blaspheme.
>
>           jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (John Cross)
>     The Old Frog's Almanac  (Home of The Almanac UNIX Users Group)    
>(604) 245-3205 (v32)    <Public Access UseNet>    (604) 245-4366 (2400x4)
>        Vancouver Island, British Columbia    Waffle XENIX 1.64  

I think what must be done here is to look at the belief
structure at the kernel level...then take a look at any
add-ons the local governments might have made. In general it
is my experience the belief structure, as applied by any
ruling government, does not adhere to it's original intent the
originator had in mind.

Len

--
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The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very
use of the law is the instrument of illegality.
		-- Ralph Nader @ Harvard Law School, 1/15/92
From: sachz@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (SAS)
Subject: ISO's Greek sister organisation facing treason charges over Macedonia.
Followup-To:  soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.greek
Originator: sachz@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU
Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:03:04 GMT

 
Article from "The Socialist" No. 268, September, 1992.
 
 Solidarity work continues for the five comrades in the ISO's Greek sister 
organisation facing treason charges.
 The English translation of the pamphlet defending Macedonian national 
rights over which they have been charged continues to sell well. It has 
been publicised in the Australian Macedonian Weekly.
 News of the arrests has been carried in student newspapers like Rabelais 
and Catalyst, and articles have been reproduced on Internet, the 
intercampus computer network.
 With the first court appearance this month, the defence campaign is 
launching a petition drive among academics, politicians and trade 
unionists. To help the defence campaign, write to GPO Box 1473N, Melbourne 
3001.

SAS.
From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Re: Part I, Doctors Secretly Inject Cancer Cells Into Patients
Keywords: Dr. Mengele, human medical experimentation
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:15:46 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.

In article <1992Sep8.134839.28659@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) writes:

>    in such patients. We do not have patients with debilitating
>    diseases, other than cancer at Memorial or James Ewing Hospitals.

>Meaning patients with debilitating diseases. Now think about that
>for a moment. Let me show you the absurdity of what I've just read.
>Here is a top scientist stating that we don't have patients with
>debilitating diseases. We just have patients with cancer.
>You could have fooled me! I thought that cancer IS a debilitating
>disease. Now clearly, someone is not viewing cancer as a
>debilitation of the immune system as compared to other diseases.
>They're making it, somehow, a unique and distinct disease entity.

Too bad the poor fellow never learned to read.  The quote says
"debilitating diseases *other* than cancer"  To me that means
he considers cancer a debilitating disease.  No statements
about the immune system can be inferred from this.  Cancer
is thought to be more likely to occur in patients with faulty
immune systems, and some forms of cancer can certain harm the
immune system.  

I think in order to evaluate this properly we have to know
exactly what this communication is and who it is from.  Is
the claim that in 1992 patients are being injected with live
cancer cells without their knowledge, and that this has been
approved by the NCI?  I'd be willing to bet $100 that this isn't 
true at Ohio State.  No IRB would ever let that happen.

-- 
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Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  it is shameful to surrender it too soon." 
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Re: Part I, Doctors Secretly Inject Cancer Cells Into Patients
Keywords: Dr. Mengele, human medical experimentation
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:31:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Sep8.134839.28659@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) writes:
>GARY NULL:
>It goes on.  Quote:
>
>   "The Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital was suggested to me, as a
>    hospital which had not only the patients, but also an interest
>    in medical teaching and research. The procedure, as I explained,
>    requires simply the hyperdermic injection of a suspension of 
>    tissue-cultured cells at two sites on the anterior thigh or arm.
>    These cells are of two or more cancer cell lines. It is, of 
>    course, inconsequential whether these are cancer cells or not,
>    since they are foreign to the recipient, and hence, are rejected.
>    The only drawback to the use of cancer cells is the phobia and
>    ignorance that surrounds the word, `cancer'."
>
>Unquote.  Now let me review this again -- what I just read. And
>this is a rare, rare, rare, almost never, never viewed insight into
>how science is actually conducted; and what goes on in the mind of
>a scientist when they're not in front of a television camera, and
>offering a more calm and dispassionate view towards what they're
>doing.  This is a man who would never know that this piece of
>personal correspondence would ever be read on the radio. And he's
>saying the following:  We're going to take a hyperdermic needle and
>we're going to give an injection, in the anterior part of the thigh
>or the arm [of an unsuspecting patient], of live cancer cells of 
>two different kinds of strains.

What makes you think "unsuspecting"?  Where in the quote does it say
that the patient was unaware of this.  Teaching/research hospitals
often request volunteers for this kind of thing.  The patients are
paid for their time with the experiment.

And tell me this, assuming that the patients were unaware, how would
the researcher get any results?  He certainly would have a hard time
explaining why he's extracting a large quantity of blood a week later.

No, you're only seeng half of the story.  I suggest you research a bit
more than your sensationalist radio programme did.  I give this about
as much credit as I give Geraldo, Oprah and Montel.
-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "TELEPHONE, n.  An Invention of the devil which
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   abrogates some of the advantages of making a
 ((|,)                          disagreeable person keep his distance."
  ~|~                              --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Quran and such like
From: jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 21:06:25 PDT
Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Nanaimo, B.C.
Keywords: do you get the message

To the fellow who is posting that longwinded and MAYBE well-intended
diatribe about the Koran and the same fellow who answered my message
with another long rant...  Take a reading,, there may be one person
in 5 million over here who is suceptible to that mix of threats and
mindless two-faced bullshit, but Hey fellow most of us on this net
have not had the Operation as of yet and would just as soon you 
kept it to yourself...  best wishes, hope you recover....

           jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (John Cross)
     The Old Frog's Almanac  (Home of The Almanac UNIX Users Group)    
(604) 245-3205 (v32)    <Public Access UseNet>    (604) 245-4366 (2400x4)
        Vancouver Island, British Columbia    Waffle XENIX 1.64
From: sachz@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (SAS)
Subject: World Peace Organisation Recognised Macedonia 
Followup-To:  soc.culture.yugoslavia,soc.culture.greek
Originator: sachz@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU
Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:36:52 GMT


WORLD PEACE ORGANISATION RECOGNISED MACEDONIA

   London (Makpres) - The World Peave Organisation has resolved
to recognise the Republic of Macedonia as an independent entity.

   In a lenghty letter to the President, Kiro Gligorov it is
said that it condemns the Greek government and the European
Community for their behavious towards Macedonia.

   In the letter it is said: "How can a competent decision be
expected by the European Community regarding important problems
when it cannot solve the simple Macedonian problem since
Macedonia fulfilled all the conditions put by the European
Community and the European Community has admitted that those
conditions are met."


Abstrelisko Makedonski Nedelnik, 8 Sep92.
From: ifcss@WAM.UMD.EDU (IFCSS HQ)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: IFCSS HQ NR-4016: URGENT! Protection Campaign Needs Help
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:29:54 GMT


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IFCSS Headquarters News Release No. 4016     September 9, 1992
        URGENT! PROTECTION CAMPAIGN NEEDS HELP
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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

        Urgent! Protection Campaign Needs Help
        ======================================

     This afternoon, the HQ was contacted by Senator Gordon's
office, (Senator Gordon was the major sponsor of the '92
Protection Bill). We were told that the Senate will likely
consider the House version of the Protection Bill in a week
or so and that Senator Gordon is preparing a speech in 
support of the bill.

     Senator Gordon's office requested help from the 
IFCSS HQ. To make the speech more persuasive and more
appealling, the office needs "examples of Chinese
students being in disadvantaged situation in terms of
employment, promotion, study, etc. without the bill."
They want cases, stories, personal experiences which
can be used as typical examples in the speech.

     If you can share your experience with us, please
contact the HQ as soon as possible. This should be
done within two days. 

     Thanks for your attention.
 
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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Date: 09 Sep 92 13:30 PDT
Subject: Action for Vietnam
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700439:000:1904
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!hrcoord    Sep  9 13:30:00 1992


From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Action for Vietnam

From @pucc.Princeton.EDU:SEASIA-L@MSU.BITNET Wed Sep  9 12:47:01 1992

VIETNAM: Writer in Re-Education camp

Vietnamese authorities arrested Nguyen Khac Chinh, a writer and former member
of the Nationalist Party of Vietnam, in December 1975. He has been in
detention since - in solitary confinement part of the time - and in a
"re-education" camp at other times. He has never been charged with or tried
for any crime. During his early confinement he was reportedly tortured.

With the fall of the South Vietnamese Government in April 1975 and the
assumption of power of the provisional Revolutionary Government, soldiers
and officials of the former South Vietnamese Government and real or
suspected critics of the new government were either rounded up or ordered
to report for "re-education". Many were released shortly after, but others
have been held for up to 17 years.

The Communist Government also launched a "purification campaign" against
what it perceived as the "decadent and reactionary" culture of South
Vietnam.

All writers, artists adn intellectuals were ordered to register with the
authorities and many literary works were banned. Nguyen was among a group
of Catholic intellectuals reportedly arrested because they opposed
Communist rule.

At the time he was arrested, he was a practicing lawyer and a member of the
Pen writers club. He has published 19 novels, two plays, a few volumes of
poetry and political articles. He is now 70 years old.

Amnesty International considers this writer a prisoner of conscience,
imprisoned solely for his beliefs.

FOR YOUR ACTION: Please send courteous letters appealing for the immediate
release of Nguyen Khac Chinh to: Vo Van Kiet/Chairperson of the Council of
Ministers/Hanoi/Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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Amnesty Action newsletter, Summer/Fall 1992
From: ifcss@WAM.UMD.EDU (IFCSS HQ)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: IFCSS HQ SR-4032: Open-Letter on Shen Tong Arrest
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:48:46 GMT


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IFCSS Headquarters Special Report No. 4032    September 11, 1992
OPEN LETTER ON THE ARREST OF SHEN TONG, QI DAFENG AND QIAN LIYUN
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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



As part of the effort to rescue Shen Tong and his friends, IFCSS
calls upon Chinese students and scholars organizations across the
U.S. to sign the following open letter. Individuals may also
sign the letter. Please send your name, school and telephone
number to the HQ. For organizations, we need the name of your
organization and the school your organization is located. 
Please give us the contact person's name and telephone number,
which will not be disclosed.

Thank you for your help.

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    An Open Lettere to China's State Education Commission
    On the Arrest of Shen Tong, Qi Dafeng and Qian Liyun 



Mr. Li Tieying
Chairman
State Education Commission
Beijing, P.R. China

Dear Mr. Chairman:

We, the undersigned individuals and organizations, are writing to
request your immediate attention to the arrest of Shen Tong and
two other individuals. 

Shen Tong, a Chinese student studying at Boston University in the
United States, was arrested on the 31 of August at his mother's
residence in Beijing during his home-visiting trip. Arrested at
the same time were Qi Dafeng and Qian Liyun, former schoolsmates
of Shen Tong. The police did not produce a warrant while making
the arrest; moreover, up to now no specific offence has been
identified and released.

The incident has roused tremendous attention in the U.S. as well
as other countries and caused alarm among Chinese students. The
skeptism about the government's sincerity in pursuing an open
policy regarding overseas students has deepened.

Although studying abroad, we are genuinelly concerned with
development and progress in our motherland. We believe that the
above-mentioned arrest was politically unwise and morally
unjustifiable, an incident that could not but discourage the
return of overseas students. Therefore, we strongly urge you to
intervene, through your office, in this case to win immediate
release of the three individuals.

We recognize that the arrest was not an isolated event and that
it reflected a lack of respect for the basic rights of citizen
guaranteed by our country's constitution. We look forward to
seeing general improvements made in this regard. 

Sincerely,


(signed)


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