HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: FCNL: Press release on F-15 Sales
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:09:02 GMT

/** fcnl.updates: 27.0 **/
** Topic: Press release on F-15 Sales **
** Written 12:24 pm  Sep  2, 1992 by fcnl in cdp:fcnl.updates **


NEWS RELEASE
September 2, 1992 Contact:  Joe Volk  202/547-6000

re:  F-16 and F-15 U.S. Weapons Sales


Washington, DC:

The Friends Committee on National Legislation announced its
opposition to the proposed U.S. sales of F-16 fighter planes
to Taiwan and of F-15 aircraft to Saudi Arabia.

      "False promises.  President Bush and Governor Clinton are
trading false promises of U.S. job security for human life when
they advocate these advanced fighter weapons sales," asserted Joe
Volk, executive secretary of the Quaker lobby group.

      "Strong U.S. initiatives for peace conversion at home and
conventional arms control abroad hold real promise for U.S. jobs,
and for protecting democracy and saving lives abroad," said Volk,
who chairs an arms transfers lobby group of about 30 religious,
scientific, and arms control organizations.

      The FCNL, established by the Religious Society of Friends in
1943, said that the U.S.  government is pursuing a dangerous
policy to prop up failing military industries by promoting export
sales of advanced conventional weapons.  Two dangers are
especially apparent.  First, these U.S. sales rachet up regional
conventional arms races, which may escalate out of control,
putting U.S. military personnel at risk of  deployment to combat.
Second, scarce resources for economic development are diverted to
arms races, creating vicious cycles of violent conflict, refugees,
and hunger.  "It all adds up to bad policy, and Congress should
stop these sales before more harm is done," said Volk.
                                   -- 30 --
                               ----------------
The Friends Committee on National Legislation, based in
Washington, DC, is a Quaker lobbying group, founded in 1943.   A
committee of about 250 Friends, the majority appointed by 26
Yearly Meetings and eight other Friends' organizations, sets the
policies of FCNL.

FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION
245 Second St., NW, Washington, DC 20002
** End of text from cdp:fcnl.updates **
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: SOMALIA action materials and news
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:07:01 GMT

Please see the post later in the conference, entitled "Somalia food news"
for confirmation of the disturbing fact that the 145,000 tons of food
will not reach Somalia until December.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: "Family Values" -- Clinton Continues to Miss Opportunity
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:22:39 GMT



	Percentage of Americans which found the following "very
	important" to promote family values:


-- Creating a National Health Care Program: 83 percent


-- Spending more money on education: 88 percent


-- Spending more on Day Care for children: 79 percent


[AP wire story, New York dateline, Mon Aug. 24, 1992, p.17 cited
in Cornell's _The Cornell Daily Sun_]


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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: odin@world.std.com (Hank Roth)
Subject: The Big Lie (PC)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 19:47:28 GMT

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: What it really means.

Political Correctness (PC) is the Big Lie campaign. If you are 
against racism, abortion clinic bombings, union-busting and 
imperialist war--then maybe you're just too "politically correct" 
and a dangerous enemy of the state. As ludicrous as it may sign, 
given the present climate of right-wing triumphalism and 
some "liberal" collaboration, George Bush railed against a 
"notion of political correctness" in a speech he gave at the 
University of Michigan in May, a year ago, and accused the left 
of conductiong an "inquisition," "censorship" and bullying." He 
gave the presidential seal of approval to the race-haters and 
like the Willie Horton propaganda smear campaign, he started this 
witchhunt against this new bogeyman, "political correctness."

Who are the targets. You and I, and a few professors and courses in 
Black and women's studies. Grabbing the mantle of free speech to 
champion the right of punks to hurl words like "nigger" is to 
profane the purpose and spirit of free speech. 

They still remember Vietnam and it haunts them when campuses were 
organizing centers for political protest and "breeding grounds of 
subversion." Now with a New World Odor, campuses but most 
particularly the LEFT must be brought firmly into line and one 
way to do it is to label what we say as "politically correct" and 
therefore unacceptable. How utterly absurd. Do you know what PC 
really is: Ed Herman writes in his doublespeak dictionary, it is 
"The callenge of dissidents and minorities to traditionally 
biased usages and curricula, as perceived by the vested interests 
in existing usage and curricula and those seeking a basis for 
attacking the current challengers." Whereas, "really correct," 
that which is acceptable to the RIGHT is: "The status quo in 
politicized language and curricula; also, whatever line the 
government and establishment wants to take on an issue." 

What these attacks from the Bush camp, petty-bourgeiois students 
and the fascist far RIGHT are doing is inciting straight-out 
racist violence with their forcible repression of independent 
thought and action.....in a LOCK STEP march to total *CONFORMITY.*

The PC hunters rail about constraints on their "free speech", 
----but consider this: Who owns the country and who owns the 
media? If they want to yell "nigger" and threaten Jews and Gays, 
they do so and no one denies that they have that right--but this 
also makes them enemies of the LEFT and it makes their accusations 
that anyone is PC who challenges them for their insensitivity and 
ignorance a ploy by them in effect sustaining their fascist 
witchhunt. 


                        Hank Roth

////------------------------------------------------------------/////
** Peace & Justice **  ** People Before Profits ** ** End Racism **
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Puerto Rico: THE STRUGGLE FOR INTERNAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 02:10:00 GMT

/** reg.puertorico: 33.0 **/
** Topic: Puerto Rico:Constitutional law **
** Written  6:58 pm  Sep  1, 1992 by caribdoc in cdp:reg.puertorico **
From: Proyecto Caribeno de Justicia y Paz <caribdoc>
Subject: Puerto Rico:Constitutional law


AUTHOR: Juan M. Garcia-Passalacqua
TITLE: Puerto Rican Constitutional Law.


[Excerpt]

THE STRUGGLE FOR INTERNAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.

     In the years between 1902 and 1917 constitutional demands, 
reiterated once and again, included those for an elective legislature,
separation of powers and authority over local matters, as well as the 
full protection of the federal constitution, including American citi-
zenship.(1) A government crisis in 1909 precipitated the proposal in
1910, and the approval in 1917 of a new Organic Act that substantially
granted those demans.

     The Jones Act of 1917 in granting a civil government for the 
island, established the basic insitututional foundations of the present
Consititution. It also affected the constitutional relationship of the
island to the island to the federal system, by granting U.S. citizenship
to the Puerto Ricans.

     The decade of the 1930's brought a worsening of the economic pro-
blems that had always plagued the island and the majority's rejection of
the status question as a fundamental one for the people. After 1943, 
however, emphasis was put on improving the system of self-government, 
especialy by the obtention of an elective Governor. For the first time,
the efforts of political leaders were mainly directed towards the inter-
nal structure and functioning of government, the essential question of
constitutionalism. This was to become a crucial turning point in the
constitutional history of the island, since soon enough, an Elective 
Governor Act, enacted by Congress in 1947, gave virtual internal 
self-government to the Puerto Ricans for the first time in their
history. 

     The legitimation of the structure and institutions of local self-
government by means of the peoples' consent came between 1948 and 
1952. As a result of multiple political procedures, including an
anthorization to that effect by Congressional statute and pursuant to
a popular mandate in a referendum, a Constitutional Convention was 
called by local law on July 3, 1951. The Convention was in session from
September 17, 1951 to February 6, 1952, on which day Constitution was
approved by the elected delegates of the Puerto Rican people for the
first time in their history, and subsequently ratified by the people.
This constitution went into effect on July 25, 1952........ 

(1) Munoz-Amato, "Major Trends in the Constitutional History of Puerto
    Rico, 1493-1917", 12 Rev. Col Abo. 242 (1949).

[TAKEN FROM: Revista del Colegio de Abogados de Puerto Rico, Vol. 35,
           Febrero, 1974, No. 1, p. 29-31]
** End of text from cdp:reg.puertorico **

Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject:  re: Electronic Activism, Part II, first half.
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:37:55 GMT

   Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 08:26:53 PDT
   From: Griff Wigley <gwigley@igc.apc.org>

   Ok Harel I'll take a look at this and get back to you.

   Griff

Good to see you're back...

By the way I realized that in my excitement in adding in a
section about "democracy through informaion access" at the last
minute, I left out the short note about "active footenotes" that's to
be included in the section explaining about the Automatic Archiver.

Regards,

Harel


Along with more straightforward applications, one novel use of the
Automatic Archiver is in what might be called "active footnotes"

"Active footnotes" meaning you can instantly look them up. For
example, by the time we had Noam Chomsky's article _The Victors, Part
II_ from Z magazine, we already had online an Amnesty International
report about the killing of street-children in Brazil that Chomsky
refers to in the article, as well as the _Excelsior_ article with the
estimate of 100,000 children dying each year from air pollution in
Mexico City. So in our online version of _The Victors: II_ there are
side-notes next to these points in the text giving brief instructions
to readers on how to have the Automatic Archiver email them those
documents Chomsky refers to. Surely this idea suggests many
possibilities for innovative uses.

	[\footnote:
	Send the 1-line email message consisting of
	GET CHOMSKY VICTORS2 ACTIV-L
	to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET or LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU
	for a copy of the article]

[another footnote earlier on will give the general GET command format:

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    archiver (files are two words  separa-
    ted by a space), send the 1-line message

    GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L

    to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
    [or: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU]
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    files available with the GET command.

e.g., send GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET to be
emailed the index of archived files.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: South End Press: new titles (autopost)
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:30:04 GMT

                       Fall's Progressive Best
                       =======================

>From South End Press, 300 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 08818
$2.50 postage/handling on first book and $0.50 for each additional.
[From: In These Times, Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 1990]

              Visa/Mastercard orders call 1-800-533-8478
                WRITE OR CALL FOR A FREE CATALOG TODAY

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Introduction by Ramsey Clark

A corrective to U.S. government misinformation and "patriotic"
complacency; includes a comparison of Nicaragua's wartime record on
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$14.00          256 pages
------------------------------------------------------------------
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By bell hooks

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, hooks' fourth book takes on
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$12.00          248 pages
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Documets from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the U.S.
By Ward Churchilll and James Vander Wall

Hundreds of FBI documents reveal that the Black Panthers, the American
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Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
From: EcoNet via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.activism,talk.environment
Subject: RESOURCE: Sourcebook on Sustainable Development
Followup-To: talk.environment
Date: 1 Sep 1992 22:58:52 GMT
Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
Originator: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu

[From EcoNet en.announcements Conference]

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
publishes the "Sourcebook On Sustainable Development." This book
will interest organizations and individuals who want to know who
else is thinking and acting globally - about sustainable
development. The book, organized in the form of a directory,
with introductory pieces, is divided into these sections:
 
o Organizations. A list of 70 mostly international
  organizations and their contribution to sustainable
  development. This list includes some NGOs, selected
  international research and development organizations,
  key organizations of the United Nations, etc.
o Publications. Seminal material as well as academic and
  research publications. These (about 450 titles) have been
  assembled by searching the major online databases and other
  sources. The literature covered indicates ongoing research.
o Audio-visual. The most contemporary and important producers
  and distributors of audio-visuals about sustainable
  development and their work are described.
o Computer networks. Computer networks and conferencing
  systems pertinent to sustainable development are
  characterized. Includes APC, TCN, GeoNet, BitNet, the
  Internet, Usenet, CompuServe, etc. Input from specialists at
  Web (Rory O Brien) and of Paul Osborn (The One Foundation)
  is acknowledged.
o Online databases. The most important sources or host systems
  and databases are described and the results of searching for
  information on sustainable development are explained. This
  will interest librarians, and others, as well as specialists
  seeking online sources of information on sustainable
  development.
 
"Sourcebook on Sustainable Development" fills a void. Richard
Labelle (rlabelle@web.apc.org), developed the book for the
analyst who needs to know the nature and structure of
information on the subject, and how to remain aware of issues
and trends. "Sourcebook is a first stop for those seeking
information on sustainable development, and wanting to know
where to go for more," says Labelle.
 
International Institute for Sustainable Development 
6th floor - 161 Portage Avenue East 
Winnipeg, Manitoba 
CANADA  R3B 0Y4 
fax: (204) 958-7710 
e-mail: iisd@web.apc.org 
 
1-4 copies - CAD $20 each; 5 or more - CAD $18 each; 10 or more
- CAD $10 each. Prices include taxes and surface mail.  For
airmail, add CAD $5 per book.
 
(ref.: iisd@web.apc.org Mon Aug 24 11:50:22 1992) 
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Comp. Lit. Bookshop
Keywords: Mail order Computer Books
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 23:22:06 GMT

In article <29871@goofy.Apple.COM> acw@Apple.COM (Art Willis) writes:
>Computer Literacy, which claims to have the largest collection of computer
>books in the world, says that they accept credit card orders for shipment
>to Europe.  Probably others parts ot the world as well.  They can be
>contacted at:
>
>Phone:    (408)435-1118
>Fax:      (408)435-1823
>email:    info@clbooks.com
	   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I wouldn't place any order by email without first exchanging some email
>with them, but, Hey! that's just the kind of guy I am.

The most recent newsletter has a card release form.  You can FAX a copy
of that.  Books will be mailed to one adress only.

>Art Willis
>acw@apple.com
>Not affiliated with Computer Literacy Bookshops, except that they have
>extracted a great deal of money from me over the years.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  "Friend of the Store" and occasional reviewer.
  clb_sv!eugenem@clbooks.com
  Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
Second Favorite email message: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 3 days
A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Dover publications question
Date: 30 Aug 1992 18:50:46 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

Aren't Dover books too good to be true?
They are well-produced republications of classics which may
often have been out of print otherwise, and they are cheap.

Is Dover driven by a altruistic mission, or why are no other
publications attempting similar book publication?

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: marty@osf.org (Marty Lynch)
Subject: BOOK WANTED ... 
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:47:29 GMT

I'm looking to buy the book "Raging Bull" by Jake LaMotta and
Peter Savage.  I doesn't appear to be in print anymore.

Anybody have a copy they'd like to part with?

Marty
(617)621-8901
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Looking for a book...........
From: reddyp@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Pardhasaradhi A. Reddy)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 19:35:06 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati


	I sincerely apologize for posting an article requesting info.
	about a non-techincal book but, i know a vast no. of people read 
	this news group and hence i posted this article in here.

	A friend of mine is looking for a book titled as follows :

	"RASHDALL'S MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES "
		THE UNIVERSITIES OF EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

		by Hastings Rashdall ed. Powicke & Emden.

		3 volumes. 

		Oxford university Press 1951

		first edition in 1895.

	My friend wishes to purchase it if somebody is willing to sell 
	it. Even if somebody would lend it for reading , he is ready to 
	do so. I would be obliged if some kind soul could send a mail
	provided he or she has the book, to the following address :

	reddyp@ucunix.san.uc.edu

	Preddy@ant.occ.uc.edu

	Thank you.
	Pardha.
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: quanbook@world.std.com (Quantum Books)
Subject: Zen & the Art of the Internet
Keywords: kehoe
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:32:48 GMT

Prentice Hall seems to have grossly underestimated the demand for this
book.  They're out of stock until 10/15.

We still have copies available, however!  While they last.


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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: woyansky@flamingo.ece.cmu.edu (George J. Woyansky)
Subject: Prentice-Hall Email Address?
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:31:53 GMT

I apologize if this question is a repeat, but does anyone know if
Prentice-Hall has an email address, and whether they take orders by email?

Thanks,

-George Woyansky
 ECE Dept., Carnegie Mellon University
 Pittsburgh, PA