HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Tibet: Teacher's Sentence Extended
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 08:15:11 GMT

/** gn.peacemedia: 173.0 **/
** Topic: Tibet: Teacher's Sentence Extended **
** Written 11:10 pm  Sep 29, 1992 by gn:peacemedia in cdp:gn.peacemedia **
TIBET: NEW PRISON SENTENCE
FOR SCHOOL TEACHER

[Peace Media Service] A Tibetan prisoner serving a 19-year
sentence for shouting pro-independence slogans has received an
additional eight-year sentence for yelling more slogans, according
to reports received by the Tibet Information Network in London.

The prisoner is Jigme Zangpo, a 63-year old primary school
teacher. His current 19 year sentence has been increased because
he shouted his support of the Dalai Lama while three Swiss
diplomats were inspecting his prison last year. The delegation,
which included Switzerland's Ambassador to China, visited Drapchi
prison in Lhasa on December 6. Jigme Zangpo is known to have been
severely beaten and placed in solitary confinement as punishment
for his protest.

News of the new sentence has distressed the Swiss Government.
Chris Meuwly, a spokesman for the Swiss Foreign Affairs
Department, said that Bern had intervened several times with the
Chinese on behalf of Jigme Zangpo. ``This may have repercussions
on the way we will promote human rights values in our contacts
with the Chinese authorities,'' he added. ``We shall continue all
efforts in favor not only of Mr. Zangpo but of all the cases
listed on the documents we have handed over to the Chinese
authorities.''

Jigme Zangpo previously spent 15 years in prison, 1960-1975, for
not punishing a child who had written an anti-Mao slogan at the
Number One Primary School in Lhasa. After this sentence was
completed, he was sent to the Forced Labor Brigade at the Nyethang
lime works.

If he lives to complete the current sentence, he will have spent
at least 42 years in prison for nonviolent political offenses. In
2010, the year he is now scheduled for release, Jigme Zangpo will
be 81 years old.


** End of text from cdp:gn.peacemedia **

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: NEWS: 7 Activists Arrested During Action Against Chlorine Carrier
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 16 Oct 1992 23:17:47 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu

[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]

SEVEN GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED DURING ACTION AGAINST 
CHLORINE CARRIER IN THESSALONIKI, GREECE 
  
ATHENS September 15, 1992 (GP) This afternoon, the port 
authorities of Thessaloniki decided to end a five day blockade of 
the chlorine carrier BALDER PHENIX by Greenpeace activists. 
BALDER PHENIX is carrying 2,000 tons of vinyl chloride (VCM), a 
toxic, carcinogenic, and explosive chlorinated substance used for 
the production of PVC plastics. For five days crew members from 
the Greenpeace vessel MV Sirius had been chained to the anchor 
cable of the ship to prevent it discharging its potentially 
deadly cargo at the jetty of EKO, the main chlorine industry of 
Greece.  
  
Greenpeace demands a stop to the expansion of EKO and a phase-out 
of all chlorinated products. EKO was not ready to accept any of 
the Greenpeace demands, and rejected them during the negotiations 
while the blockade was going on.  
  
This afternoon, the State prosecutor asked Greenpeace activists 
to stop the blockade at the request of EKO. At 13:55, 5 Coast 
Guard boats, tried to remove the Greenpeace activists from the 
anchor of the chlorine carrier. This was only achieved by the use 
of very aggressive tactics by the coastguard crew members. This 
included heaving the anchor whilst the activists were still 
attached to it. Two of the activists narrowly escaped being 
crushed to death by the anchor. After 45 minutes, 7 Greenpeace 
activists were arrested, and two of their inflatables badly 
damaged. The arrested activists were sent to the State Prosecutor 
where they are at present still held.  
  
This action comes at the same time as the release of the 
Greenpeace report "DEATH IN SMALL DOSES" on the effects of 
chlorinated substances on aquatic life and health, which 
yesterday received worldwide publicity. Organochlorines are 
substances containing chemically combined chlorine and carbon. 
Most are toxic, persistent, and tend to bioaccumulate in the 
environment. These qualities make them, arguably, the most 
dangerous group of chemicals to which natural systems can be 
exposed. Chlorine production, the source of organochlorines, now 
exceeds 40 million tonnes per year. Organochlorines are now 
present in water, in air and in living things everywhere on earth 
- from the deep sea bed to the stratosphere, from the Arctic to 
the Antarctic. Enough is known about the toxicity and persistence 
of organochlorines for governments to realize the need to end the 
release of all these compounds into the environment.  
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,alt.politics.elections,bit.listserv.politics
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: The Decline of America:  A "Kinder, Gentler Nation" (II)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 03:59:41 GMT

The Decline of America:  A "Kinder, Gentler Nation" (II)


=======================================================
    Number of people killed with handguns, 1988-90:
=======================================================

COUNTRY                TOTAL  PER MILLION

United States          9,602     38.3
Switzerland               53      7.9
Israel                    25      5.7
Sweden                    19      2.3
Australia                 13      0.8
Japan(21)                 46      0.4
Canada                     8      0.3
United Kingdom             7      0.1

Sources: Handgun Control, Inc. (Washington, D.C.); U.S. Department of
Justice, Uniform Crime Reports 1990 (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1991),
p. 12; Text: Handgun Control, Inc. and the Death Penalty Information
Center (Washington, D.C.).

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

Page 134

 Percentage of households with handguns, according to survey
 respondents, 1989, and percentage of people who say killing in
 self-defense can be justified sometimes or always, 1981-83:

                                 SELF-DEFENSE KILLING
COUNTRY           HAVE HANDGUNS     JUSTIFIABLE

United States         28.6            84.1
Switzerland           13.9            ----
Finland                7.1            63.2
Germany                6.7            63.0
Belgium                6.4            69.0
France                 5.9            82.5
Canada                 5.2            82.8
Norway                 3.7            73.0
Spain                  2.2            80.4
Australia              1.6            86.8
Netherlands            0.9            75.7
United Kingdom(40)     0.4            73.1
Japan                  ---            38.3

Sources: Jan J. M. van Dijk et al., Experiences of Crime across the
World, 2nd ed. (Deventer, the Netherlands: Kluwer, 1991); personal
correspondence with Jan van Dijk; World Values Survey.

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

From:
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  
_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   

    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   


Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: dredge@EE.Stanford.EDU (Michael Eldredge)
Subject: Wanted Book: "Organizing For Innovation", J.Morton
Keywords: book,out of print,management,bell labs
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 19:30:21 GMT


 I have been looking for a book for some time now.  It is:

	"Organizing for Innovation"
	Jack Morton	(J.A. Morton)
	McGraw-Hill 1971

 Does anyone have a copy that I could buy?  I have found a copy at the
 UCSB library (computure searches are so great!) and borrowed it.  But
 I would like to have my own copy for reference. (It isn't in books in
 print; no bookstore that I've contacted has it, etc.)

 It is a bit old (they show a picture of a "1,024-bit memory module
 containing 32 silicon chips of 32 memory bits each and 12 silicon
 access circuits" and mention "As our yields improve, we can increase
 the number of bits per silicon chip...".  But the ideas are excellent.

 Thanks,
 Mike


--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
 Michael J. Eldredge - Michael_Eldredge@Centric.COM
 Manager, Framework Development/Software Engineering
 CENTRIC Engineering Systems, Inc.
 3801 East Bayshore Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303
 Phone: +1-415-960-3600   Fax: +1-415-940-1252
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From: navon@cs.unc.edu (Jaime Navon)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Book details wanted -RPC
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:59:02 GMT

>Does anyone have the full details on the following book:-
>
>Book name: RPC
>Author:    John Bloomer
>date published: 1992
>publisher: O'Reilly & Assc. (??)
>ISBN: (???)
>
>
>Many Thanks
>Dilip Tailor
>MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre,
>Harrow, LONDON, UK      Email: dtailor@crc.ac.uk


Book name: Power Programming with RPC
Author:    John Bloomer
date published: February 1992
publisher: O'Reilly & Assc.
ISBN: 0-937175-77-3

Price: $29.95
       ___/    ___/    ___/  _/     _/   ____/  Jaime Navon [navon@cs.unc.edu]
       _/   _/    _/   _/   _/_/ _/_/   _/      University of North Carolina
      _/   _/___/_/   _/   _/  _/ _/   ___/     Dept.of Computer Science
 _/  _/   _/    _/   _/   _/     _/   _/        707C Hibbard Dr.
_____/   _/    _/  ___/  _/     _/   _____/     Chapell Hill,NC 27514
From: rock@kami.uucp ( Rock Lee)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: LA bookstores
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:10:53 GMT
Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (CS2)

>Douglas Comer and David Stevens
>Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume III:
>Client-Server Programming and Applications
>Prentice Hall, 1992.
>ISBN 0-13-474222-2

Can someone comment on this book?
Thanks in advance.


-- Y. Rock Lee
   rock@mpd.tandem.com
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: quanbook@world.std.com (Quantum Books)
Subject: New Book: Inside Windows NT
Keywords: windows,NT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:01:36 GMT

Inside Windows NT
by Helen Custer
$24.95 pb / 385 pages / ISBN 1-55615-481-X / Microsoft Press
 
From the back cover:
 
... provides an accessible, inside look at the design of this revolutionary 
operating system.  Written by a member of the Windows NT team during 
the system's development, Inside Windows NT reads like a wide-ranging, 
in-depth discussion with the Windows NT developers.  The author begins 
with a description of the Windows NT operating system and a discussion 
of the design goals, providing an overview of Windows NT and the 
architectural model on which it is based.  The author then covers, in 
technical detail, such topics as:
 
Client-Server Protected Subsystems
--the source of Windows NT's ability to simultaneously run MS-DOS, 16-
bit Windows, POSIX, and OS/2 programs.
 
The NT Kernel
--its kernel objects, interrupt and exception handling, thread scheduling 
and dispatch, and multiprocessor synchronization.
 
Virtual Memory Manager
--the implementation of its 32-bit linear addressing scheme, versatile 
paging software, and memory-mapped files, as well as its interface to the 
kernel, the cache manager, and the process structure.
 
Object Management--the naming and sharing of system resources.
 
Processes and Threads, I/O and File Systems.
 

Chapter Headings:
 
1.	The Mission
2.	System Overview
3.	The Object Manager and Object Security
4.	Processes and Threads
5.	Windows and Protected Subsystems
6.	The Virtual Memory Manager
7.	The Kernel
8.	The I/O System
9.	Networking
 
-- 
Quantum Books		    | A Technical and Professional Bookstore   
----------------------------+------------------------------------------
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From: opnsgreg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Gregory J. Schaffer)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Books on tech. Nintendo
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:48:00 GMT
Followup-To: misc.books.technical
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <3366@carroll1.cc.edu>, mars@carroll1.cc.edu (Sean Tyler Mars) writes...
> 
> I am looking for anyone who would know where I could find some books
>on how a "Light Gun" actually works in Nintendo.  I am doing a senior
>project with this type of application on a pc.  
> 
>If there are no books on Nintendo, could someone lead me to some books that
>would help at all?
> 
> 
>Thanks for any response.
> 
>-Sean
>mars@carroll1.cc.edu

How about contacting Nintendo?  Last year I did a project on a landing gear 
component in a C-130, and went straight to the source...Lockheed.  They were
extremely helpful.

Greg
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,misc.wanted,alt.books.technical,ba.general
From: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Carl Dichter)
Subject: Re: Wanted Book: "Organizing For Innovation", J.Morton
Keywords: book,out of print,management,bell labs
Organization: SPS
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:24:22 GMT

Another interesting book along these lines is:
    Innovation, The Attackers Advantage.
        Richard N. Foster.
        Simon & Schuster.

Which is probably still in print.

----------------------
Carl R. Dichter               "iwannanugui"
Motorola ASIC Division
email: dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com
/*
** Quick to judge, quick to anger.... slow to understand. 
** Ignorance and prejudice, and fear, walk hand in hand."
** --Neil Peart"
*/
From: livefree@apres.UUCP (J.P. Wieser)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Manual needed
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 23:32:55 CDT
Organization: Applied Research, Cary, Illinois

     I need a manual and schematic for a model MW-511 well-type gamma 
scintillation counter, made around 1973 by (or for) General Medical Systems. 
Anyone? :-)

--
livefree@apres.UUCP (J.P. Wieser)
Applied Research (cryptography & security BBS)  1 708 639 8853
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: n933x@pnet16.cts.com (Et2 Rich)
Subject: Re: New Feynman biography by Gleick
Organization: People-Net [pnet16], NCTAMS EASTPAC
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 16:56:26 GMT

krm@sdc.boeing.com (Keith Michaels) asked about the new bio of Richard Feynman
by Gleick.  I read the book around one month ago and found it excellent food
for the mind.  While not a technical book, the account of his doings while
investigating the Challenger crash came close enough for me, and I thoroughly
enjoyed the rest of the non-technical accounts of his life.  Two thumbs up!

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/ Electronics Technician       truth is after all so poorly lit."\
/ U.S. Navy                          -Neal Peart                 \
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From: krm@sdc.boeing.com (Keith Michaels)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: New Feynman biography by Gleick
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:56:19 GMT
Followup-To: misc.books.technical
Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA

Has anyone read the new biography of Richard Feynman?  
-- 
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------*
 * Keith R. Michaels       | The Boeing Company                      *
 * krm@sdc.boeing.com      | Seattle, WA.                            *
 * Warning: May cause drowsiness.  Do not operate heavy machinery.   *
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From: ajs@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Alastair Scobie)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: LA bookstores
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:41:09 GMT
Reply-To: ajs@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Alastair Scobie)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh

I'm going to be visiting Longbeach, LA, next week. Can anyone point
me in the direction of good computing bookstores in the area. I'm 
specifically looking for newish O'Reilly books and Mac-programming
books (prob Addison-Wesley). 

Thanks, A

Alastair Scobie, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
     Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH9 3JZ
Tel: 031-650-5178   Internet: ajs@dcs.ed.ac.uk   JANET: ajs@uk.ac.ed.dcs
--
Alastair Scobie, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh
     Kings Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH9 3JZ
Tel: 031-650-5178   Internet: ajs@dcs.ed.ac.uk   JANET: ajs@uk.ac.ed.dcs
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: usgtemx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Tracy Monteith)
Subject: IBM Technical Reference Book
Keywords: IBM Tech. Reference Manual
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:02:43 GMT

I would like to find a source for the IBM Technical Reference Manual.
It would be nice to have an electronic copy of this Manual for DOS 5.
I am specifically looking for information on creating and inserting
my own code page to create a new "language" fot hte P.C.

Any help is apreciated...


usgtemx@gsusgi2.edu
From: mike@bronson.uucp (Mike Loukides)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: DNS?
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:24:15 GMT
Organization: O'Reilly and Associates
Summary: DNS book soon available from O'Reilly and Associates

In article <BvzK1D.896@cs.columbia.edu> peter@cs.columbia.edu (Peter Wu) writes:
>Hi.
>
>Can anyone tell me if there are any books on DNS?
>

O'Reilly and Associates is publishing a book on DNS.  The authors
are Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, both of HP.  It is at the printer's 
now, and should be available within the next week.  You should be able 
to order it from your bookstore; if not, get it from us (1-800-998-9338).

The authors did an excellent job; this is one of the most complete and 
comprehensive books on *any* subject that I've ever seen.

Mike Loukides
mikel@ora.com
Editor, O'Reilly and Associates
From: krm@sdc.boeing.com (Keith Michaels)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: New Feynman biography by Gleick
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:17:47 GMT
Followup-To: misc.books.technical
Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA


For me, Feynman's appeal was his ability to operate at the highest
levels of intellectual and scientific thought, while maintaining
an utter lack of pretension in both his professional and personal 
life.  A Feynman biography is a dilemma:  how do you cover the 
towering academic achievements without being accused of being
a panegyrist?  True Feynman aficionados would distain a hagiographic
treatment of his life (God, does that sound pretentious or what! - I
guess I'm no Feynman!).  Anyway, I hope Gleick has managed to cover
the science while remaining true to the subject...

-- 
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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: e_splett@trofs.enet.dec.com (Evan Splett)
Subject: Re: Beauty is Our Business
Organisation: Digital Equipment of Canada - Ottawa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:45:31 GMT


In article <rosen.718569089@sfu.ca>, rosen@fraser.sfu.ca (Wilf Rosenbaum) writes...
>A recent Springer catalog has a blurb for a book called 
>"Beauty is our Business", which they describe as a collection
>of essays in honor of Dijkstra, dealing with "calculational 
>programming". I thought this may be kind of interesting, despite
>my complete ignorance as to what "calculational programming" might
>be. Has anyone else seen this book?

Yes, I have the book, and it contains many excellent articles. 
To understand many of the articles, you will need some background in the
predicate calculus/predicate transformers method of formal program derivation.

A good book for learning this is Ed Cohen's "Programming in the 1990s",
also from Springer.

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Digital Equipment of Canada Ltd.
phone 819-772-7205  Fax 819-772-7226
  e_splett@kaofs.enet.dec.com
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From: mars@carroll1.cc.edu (Sean Tyler Mars)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,alt.books.technical
Subject: Books on tech. Nintendo
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:28:31 GMT
Followup-To: misc.books.technical
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI


 I am looking for anyone who would know where I could find some books
on how a "Light Gun" actually works in Nintendo.  I am doing a senior
project with this type of application on a pc.  

If there are no books on Nintendo, could someone lead me to some books that
would help at all?


Thanks for any response.

-Sean
mars@carroll1.cc.edu
From: rock@kami.uucp ( Rock Lee)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Comer's new book
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:11:55 GMT
Organization: TANDEM Computers, Inc (CS2)

>Douglas Comer and David Stevens
>Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume III:
>Client-Server Programming and Applications
>Prentice Hall, 1992.
>ISBN 0-13-474222-2

Can someone comment on this book?
Thanks in advance.


-- Y. Rock Lee
   rock@mpd.tandem.com
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
Subject: Re: Technical book clubs, book stores.
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:31:27 GMT

dichter@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Carl Dichter) writes:

>I don't know if this is in an FAQ list somewhere or not, but...

>How about make a list of all the bookstores and clubs that sell technical 
>books, and include the types that they carry.

It's coming.  Well, not the list of the books they carry, but we've got
103 bookstores in the database.  Most of them are college or chain 
bookstores, but there are also the usual suspects (Computer Literacy,
Quantum, OpAmp, etc.).

The UNIX-DOS connection that we use is broken, and I haven't figured out
why.  We'd be using a FidoNet-Usenet translator program and it's stopped
as soon as I moved it from C: to D:.  Thinking this was a minor change, I 
didn't do a backup.  I'm about to punt and try something different, like 
a script to login to the UNIX side and post from there.

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