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From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)
Subject: Free Software Workshop, Moscow, 4/19-23
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:30:05 GMT

	     CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

   There is a conference on Free Software taking place in Moscow,
Russia, April 19-23, 1993.

   The conference is hosted by SUUG, the Society of Unix User Groups
(formerly the Soviet Unix Users Group), the Russian Center for Systems
Programming, the Russian Chapter of the Free Software Foundation, and
the International Center for Scientific and Technical Information.

   Participant specialists are coming from North America, Europe and
Japan.  We have just learned that Richard Stallman, founder of the
Free Software Foundation, and recipient of the ACM Admiral Grace
Hopper Award and MacArthur Fellowship, will attend.

   The main topics of the Workshop include:
   - the current state of the GNU project and other FSF projects;
   - "free" software means information freedom and sharing;
   - free software portability in Open Systems environments;
   - user experiences with free software;
   - free software in education and training;
   - legal aspects of free software;
   - relevance of free software to NIS modernization and democracy;
   - how NIS scientists can contribute to free software.

   Concurrent with the conference, there will be a small exhibition
demonstrating free software in a networked heterogeneous environment.

   The conference encourages submissions of original designs, papers
and ideas, and it welcomes the participation of computer and software
companies.

   In the past, a conference of this kind has drawn 120-140 attendees
from within the former Soviet Union, including 20-30 computer
specialists, 60-80 enthusiasts, 20-30 persons from the commercial
sector and members of the public.  This year the turnout is expected
to be larger, because there is great interest in free software among
all kinds of programmers and users.

   The precise location of the conference will be announced in the
coming months.

   For further information, you may contact any of the following
members of the program committee:

Name                        Telephone            E-mail
--------------------------  -----------------    ----------------------
Moscow
  Sergei Kuznetsov (Chair)  +7 (095) 272-4425    kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su
  Peter Brusilovski         +7 (095) 198-7055    plb@plb.icsti.su
  Dmitry Volodin            +7 (095) 231-2129    dvv@hq.demos.su
Boston
  Geoffrey S. Knauth        +1 (617) 891-5555    gsk@marble.com

   Please send proposals for participation, paper abstracts and texts
via e-mail to the Chair <kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su>.

-- 
Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc.                Member BCS-NeXT, LPF
gsk@marble.com, (617) 891-5555                             Standard Disclaimers
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: hm@cs.brown.edu (Harry Mamaysky)
Subject: Re: Dacha System Abolished
Organization: Somewhere East or Somewhere West
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:28:23 GMT

In article <ag9JwB2w165w@halcyon.com>, mashina <novost@halcyon.com> writes:
|> Per a UPI report, Yeltsin has abolished the policy of giving
|> dachas to high ranking government officials.  Have a copy of
|> the report if interested.
|>                           Jeff

Oh no. What incentive does this leave me to join the party?
What has this world come to?

Harry.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu
Subject: Re: BUYING RUBLES, Alaska+
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:37:08 GMT

In article <N37FwB1w165w@halcyon.com>, mashina <novost@halcyon.com> writes:
> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
> 
>> 
>> They buy and sell rubles or know some who do.. Rubles at last I heard were
>> going for on a normal exchange for good of about 40 to 1. But you can by some
>> fro a few dollers..
>> 
> 
> As of Christmas eve the exchange rate was approximatley 500 to 1.
> 
>                           Jeff

Well it might have changed here.. The Nome rate is not the "Official" rate..
Not to say its "Black Market" its just the locla rate.. But I will have to
check my sources, my info is some months old..
Michael Adams alias Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu



Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: kosinov@ceg.uiuc.edu (Greg Kosinovsky)
Subject: Re: Communism as a Russian guilt (racist conception)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:39:13 GMT

muh@physics1 (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:

>In article <kosinov.725057990@ceg.uiuc.edu> kosinov@ceg.uiuc.edu (Greg Kosinovsky) writes:
>>  So now I return to my question which Mr. Mukharsky mocked: Can anyone name me
>>any book -- written in Russian, Kalmyk, Native Papuan, or anything else -- which
>>dealt with a life of a Soviet 

>Landau, by Anna Livanova. 
>V Kruge Pervom, by Solzhenitsyn.
>....
>These what came to mind, I usually do not care about nationality of characters
>that much, but just open some book in Russian and read it. You'll find couple
>of Jews there, in 50% of them. So what? 

>Yury M.

 I rest my case. The best you can come up with is a documentary on the life
of Russia's greatest contemporary physicist, who happens to be jewish (how much
of the jewish life is covered in that book?), and the book by Solzhenitsyn, where
the identity of murderers with Jewish background is described in detail, unlike
that of the ones with Russian background.
 I'm sorry, but this is pathetic. I'm glad I'm leaving now, so this discussion is
dead.
							     Greg.
From: muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Communism as a Russian guilt (racist conception)
Date: 21 Dec 1992 22:51:59 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.berkeley.edu

In article <kosinov.724974753@ceg.uiuc.edu> kosinov@ceg.uiuc.edu (Greg Kosinovsky) writes:
>  No, you are absolutely not correct. The examples I wanted to hear were of
>people getting imprisoned for teaching Russian language to children, for orga-
>nizing seminars on Russian culture and literature, for speaking openly and
>proudly of their Russian identity.

OK, after substituting as proposed Russian by Jewish it looks like activities
of Birobigan State University, or whatever it was, plus maybe some of Jewish
Theater of JAO (this one exist(ed)) --- official and thus the only way to
exhibit Jewish (Russian/Ukrainian/etc.) national identity. Honorable and well
paid business in Brezhnev/Khruschev/Stalin ... times. If you are speaking on
something not that official, try imagine something like siminar on, say Nabokov
or better Brodsky (I know, I know) or Il'in. Imagined? Got A for imaging.
Now, what you will here there? Praise for great Russian? Well, that is 
beyond imagination.

Yury M.
From: viznyuk@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Will Russia stand beside Serbia?
Date: 21 Dec 92 12:47:12 EST
Organization: Midwest Rat's Hole

In article <Dec.20.21.48.06.1992.581@ruhets.rutgers.edu>, polyakov@ruhets.rutgers.edu (dimitri Polyakov) writes:
> My friend!Do you really think Russia is obliged to Serbia?
> No.Russia is not obliged to the fashist state.
>        Merry Christmas,
>                        -Dimitri Polyakov

  "Dimitri Polyakov" should watch more TV news and read more
newspapers before judging what is fascist state.
Croatia and Bosnian goverment are much more fascist
than Serbia. To arrive to this conclusion one just needed
to see the press-conference of Bosnian Foreign Minister
shown recently on C-SPAN. He argued that Bosnian
goverment needs no food for starving children, but
rather arms to "fight Serbs until victorious end".
Bosnian goverment prevents evacuation of women and
children from Sarajevo in order to be able to hide behind
their backs and cry about cruel Serbs.
 
Serega & Co
From: dharkins@papillon.ucsd.edu (Dan Harkins)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Dacha System Abolished
Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:33:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: papillon.ucsd.edu

In article <ag9JwB2w165w@halcyon.com>, mashina (novost@halcyon.com) writes:

> Per a UPI report, Yeltsin has abolished the policy of giving
> dachas to high ranking government officials. Have a copy of 
> the report if interested.
>                             Jeff

I take everything Yeltsin says with a grain of salt after he told the
Supreme Soviet that someone tried to kill him by throwing him in the
Moscow river. (A subsequent investigation turned up nothing). 

He's just playing to the western press as usual. E.g. he tells WestPress
that Kazakhstan is giving its nuclear missles to Russia while Nazerbaev
(president of Kazakhstan) says he never said anything like that. Or Yeltsin
tells the world he's giving the black box from flight 007 to the Koreans;
it turns out to be a tape of a conversation the Koreans already had.
Or Yeltsin tells WestPress that the US and Russia have agreed on a new
arms treaty. Bush, Eagleburger, etc. say oh really we're not even meeting.
The guy's just a flake.

The government just gives generals, et. al. land anyway. While driving
from the center of Moscow out to Domodedava (airport) I saw scores of
dachas being built all on land that used to belong to the family of a friend
of mine.

My advice: ignore everything Yeltsin says.

Dan
  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From:  andrey@leonid.stavropol.su (Mishchenko Andrey Leonidovich)
Subject:    . .
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 21:59:19 GMT
Reply-To: andrey@leonid.stavropol.su
Organization: Partner Ltd

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From: anihta@cs.bu.edu (George Panopoulos)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas everyone!
Date: 27 Dec 92 18:31:03 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <105638@bu.edu> simon1@bass.bu.edu (Simon Streltsov) writes:

>p.p.s. Happy Hanuka to all the Jewish and Greek readers.

	Happy Hanukkah to the Greek readers? Thank you, but we don't
celebrate it in Greece. I didn't even know the word, before coming to
the USA. The only connection between Greeks and Hanukkah is that the
celebration started as a commemoration of the Jewish uprising against
Greek control of Palestine, back in 2nd century BC.

	I'll take the "Merry Christmas" wish, though. Speaking of
which, I was wondering if any of the Orthodox churches of eastern
Europe celebrate Christmas on Dec 25? Or do all follow the old
calendar?

	George Panopoulos
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:00:02 EST
From: <OMARS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: U.N. warns Afghan combatants



Another news item from combined dispatches - December 27:


   U.N. special representative Sotirios Mousouris asked warring factions
   in Afghanistan to end the fighting soon or see a halt in external aid
   to the country.

   The U.N. official demanded that the factions ensure the safe arrival
   of relief supplies, otherwise donor nations may lose their interest
   if a peace agreement is not reached.

   Mousouris, speaking at a press ocnference in islamabad on Sunday,
   said continued fighting is "affecting both the supply of humanitarian
   assistance and the much needed reconstruction efforts."

   "A convoy of about 40 trucks is ready to take more food to Kabul," said
   Mousouris, "but we are not getting the clearance from there."

   Mousouris also touched upon the controversial issue of safe passage for
   the former communist leader Najibullah who is stranded in a diplomatic
   compound in Kabul since his overthrow last April. He said "it is a
   problem for us and we want it to be resolved as soon as possible."
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Monday, 28 Dec 1992 12:14:55 PST
From: Walid Majid <WALID@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Re: Shura criticized

Salam,
I don't know much about the process by which they are (s)electing members
for this new council, but I know that we Afghans here in the Bay Area
have (s)elected someone by the name of Said Faizi to represent us.  Now I
know alot of people here and not a single person is aware of any election
by which this person has been elected.  As far as we know the present
government of Kabul is just nominating their own representatives to this
council.
Does anyone have any idea how this process is supposed to work?
Any information is very much appreciated.
Ba Ehteram,
Walid
From: z_ablesrl@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Import/Export Research
Date: 27 Dec 92 21:32:10 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Hello all,

	We are doing research on various items that international countries
would be intrested in exporting and importing.  The items can consist of
anything from clothing to large machines.  Of course, they must be a legal
product to enter and exit the diffrent countries.  These are some questions 
that we are trying to find the answers to:
 
1.) How would we gather information concerning the legal regulations on
	shipping to your country? 

2.) Who would an individual contact in your country about shipping
	requirements?  

3.) What kind of licences or paper work does a company need to enter
	a foreign market place?


I really would appreciate any help concerning this matter.  Thank you very
much for your time and hope to hear from you soon.




Sincerly,



Ronald L. Ables


z_ablesrl@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
	or
sfa1@jetson.uh.edu
From: ilyess@ECE.Concordia.CA (Ilyess Bdira)
Subject: Re: Shura criticized
Organization: ECE - Concordia University
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:00:16 GMT

I will come back on my pledge not post again in this group, I really need
to understand more about the situation  there, not to interfere in your
affairs but to take lessons from the Afghan experience, as it seems that
many countries are going to be "Afghanized" soon.

In article <17766@umd5.umd.edu> endevour@snoopy.umd.edu (endeavor) writes:
>>
>>   The Afghan interim government's attempts at convening a national
>>   assembly, known as the Shura-e Ahl-e Hal wa Haqd, which has been
>>   empowered to select the country's next president, is now facing
>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Empowered by whome ? What is the legitimacy of this Shura ? And, really,
>just like our FLAG, was it so necessary to change the original and 
>triditionally Afghan and time tested concept of LOYA GIRGA by this
>out of the blue Hal wa Haqd ?? All I can say is this that some real 
....
I agree with you on the above statement, but I would like to know your 
alternative to the above solutions proposed by Hikmetyar, and how you
think that Hikmetyar would benefit from his proposals, especially the
first one about organizing elections.. After all he is not going to win the
elections if we believe the reports about his lack of popularity..
>
Do you support the return of the Shah? (Dhahir Shah or any other descendent
of his..)
From: anderson@cua.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Re: wedding customs?
Date: 21 Dec 92 22:00:10 GMT
Organization: The Catholic University of America

In article <1992Dec17.154612.3060@peanut>, willemsdawnm@bvc.edu writes:
> I am currently doing a paper for one of my classes on wedding customs of
> different societies.  I would appreciate any information anyone can provide for
> me.

See: Bartered brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal
Society, by Nancy Tapper (Cambridge Univ Press 1991) and a specail
issue of Folk (1982) on different populations in Afghanistan.
> Please send info to willemsdawnm.bvc.edu
> 
> Thanks tons
> dawn
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:55:10 EST
From: <OMARS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Shura criticized




Combined dispatches from Kabul reporting - December 26:



   The Afghan interim government's attempts at convening a national
   assembly, known as the Shura-e Ahl-e Hal wa Haqd, which has been
   empowered to select the country's next president, is now facing
   serious resistance from different quarters. On Saturday, the country's
   Chief Justice, M Fazeli, added his opposition to the Shura's electoral
   process, Radio Kabul said.

   According to the Afghan news source, Fazeli, speaking on behalf of other
   Supreme Court justices, said people were bringing complaints against
   the delegate election process for the Shura, calling it "not fair."
   Several Mujahedeen parties have charged the present interim president,
   Burhanudin Rabani, of having used bribes to get his own men elected and
   to ensure his own re-election. These allegations have not been substantiated
   yet.

   At Rabani's request, The Shura has been postponed until the Supreme Court
   looks into the complaints. A commission has also been set up to propose
   alternative ways of electing the next president. Rabani's tenure formally
   ended on Dec. 15.

   Meanwhile, rival leader Gulbudin Hekmatyar presented three proposals to
   clear the political logjam. Talking through his party's Afghan News Agency,
   Hekmatyar said the country's 10-party leadership council should elect
   another president by consensus.

   Hekmatyar's second choice is for the leadership council to form a
   care-taker government of "non-controversial figures," until the time
   when general elections can be held. His third alternative is to transfer
   all powers to the current vice-president, Mohamad Nabi Mohammadi, leader
   of one of the main Mujahedeen parties. This plan calls for Mohammadi to
   convene the Shura.

   Hekmatyar, whose forces have been involved in several bloody clashes
   with other Mujahedeen and militia forces sinces April, said he has
   received an invitation from Rabani to attend a meeting of the main
   four rival groups, his own Hezb-i Islami, Rabani's Jamiat-e Islami,
   Dostum's militia forces and the Shiite Hezb-e Wahdat. He did not specify
   whether he had accepted the invitation or not.
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:32:34 EST
From: <OMARS@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: holiday blues


I am blaming the holidays for the lack of communication on this group...
what else could it be ?!

This was a redundant message brought to you by your local contributor...
just to let you know that the flame is still alive.

Enjoy.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
From: sion@apache.ctr.columbia.edu (Boudi Sahyoun)
Subject: Re: Syria, President Bush and Drugs -- the Administration's Next Iraqgate
Organization: Free Lebanon
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 04:45:41 GMT
X-Posted-From: apache.ctr.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Dec27.003245.342@eng.umd.edu> ziad@eng.umd.edu (Ziad K. Cheiban) writes:

[......]

>In other words what's the point in posting stale news?
>Do they think they have advanced their cause?
>Can't they find anything more constructive to do?
>
>I don't know, I'm asking.


It never hurts to remind the Lebanese who are out of touch with their
country of Syria's evils. Furthermore, it is nice to see that the US
is acknowledging, in clear terms, Syria's occupation and illegal activities
in Lebanon.

Most importantly, the non-Lebanese who read SCL should be aware of what's going
on in Lebanon and should know that it is not the Lebanese who are the culprits
when it comes to terrorism and drug trade, but the Syrians.


BTW I didn't see you complain about the redundant UPI articles posted on
this net regarding the HAMAS exilees.


Boudi



Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
From: UPI
Subject: Palestinians, pro-Israeli gunmen clash, killing two
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:10:48 GMT
X-Note: This article was automatically cross-posted to soc.culture.lebanon

[ Article cross-posted without permission ]
	SIDON, Lebanon (UPI) -- Palestinian guerrillas and pro-Israeli
militiamen clashed Saturday at the edge of the border zone in southern
Lebanon, killing one militiaman and one fighter, security sources said.
	Militiamen of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon army spotted a squad
of Palestinian guerrillas trying to infiltrate Israel's self-declared 
``security zone,'' the sources said.
	The SLA gunmen fired at the guerrillas near the village of Rashaf at
the edge of the border zone, east of the southern port city of Tyre,
triggering a firefight that killed one SLA militiaman and a Palestinian
fighter, the sources said. Four others from both sides were also
wounded.
	The SLA-run ``Voice of the South'' radio station confirmed the
killing of its militiaman and said hand grenades and Soviet-made
Kalashnikov rifles were found near the body of the dead Palestinian.
	It was not immediately know to which group the Palestinian attackers
belong.
	Israel has been controlling the nine-mile security zone since 1985 to
defend against guerrilla infiltration attempts.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon
From: UPI
Subject: Israel mines crossing points to Lebanese 'security zone'
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Organization: United Press International
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:50:52 GMT
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[ Article cross-posted without permission ]
	JERUSALEM (UPI) -- Israel mined crossing points to its ``security''
strip in southern Lebanon Tuesday and enhanced its military presence in
the border zone with paratroopers and elite infantry troops, reinforcing
its determination to keep out the 415 Palestinians deported last week.
	The Supreme Court, meanwhile, again postponed a decision on appeals
by Palestinian families and human rights groups to the deportation order
issued last week against members of the Muslim fundamentalist Hamas and
Islamic Jihad organizations. A decision was expected later Tuesday.
	Authorities lifted a weeklong curfew from parts of the occupied Gaza
Strip, allowing at least 2,000 Palestinians to cross into Israel for
work. But most of Gaza remained shut down by army order, confining 500,
000 Palestinians to their homes. In the West Bank, Palestinians kept
their businesses shut for the fifth day in a commercial strike declared
to protest the deportations.
	The strike was also observed by many of Israel's 800,000 Arab
citizens, prompting attacks from right-wing Israelis who accused them of
disloyalty.
	Military commanders beefed up troop strength in the self-declared
security zone in Lebanon after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin reaffirmed
Tuesday night that Israel would not allow the wandering Palestinians to
move toward the security zone.
	State-run Israel Radio said troops had erected barriers and mined the
crossing points between the Israel-controlled 9-mile-wide zone and the
rest of Lebanon. The army also sent in paratroopers and soldiers from
its elite Golani brigade, equipped with riot gear, clubs, tear gas and
smoke grenades to prevent a return of the deportees.
	The Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia fired mortar shells and
tear gas at the Palestinians who had been forced from their makeshift
tent camp by Lebanese troops. At least three injuries were reported.
	``The conditions in the camp of those who were removed are not easy.
It's cold there,'' Rabin said Tuesday. ``But I must admit, in my heart I
have no pity for them.''
	Lebanon has refused to take in the deportees, arguing that Israel
should rescind the mass expulsion and bears responsibility for their
welfare.
	Israel issued the unprecedented deportation order Thursday following
the kidnapping and execution of a border policeman last week. Five other
Israeli soldiers were also killed by members of Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad since Dec. 8.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.lebanon