From: Farrell McGovern Area: Mundane To: Gotterdammerung 24 Apr 95 14:14:34 Subject: Re:Bombing Victims UpdReq * Original Area: Meta * Original From: Gtterdmmerung (1:9631/0) * Original To : Bard (1:9631/523) |15 > strong and wild but I would like to ask that we ban together and and help > those that have died by using our energies and power to bring justice to > those that have no respect of life...And to help heal the damage they those |07 More importantly, let's make sure that the justice we dole out is truly just, and not merely executed (no pun intended) to quiesce the masses and silence the issue. Doing justice involves a way and not just an end. [40m [14C[0;36m [1;33mHOB[0;36m/[1;33mFEDZ[0;36m/[1;33mDDE [0;36m [A[31C[1;37mGtterdmmerung [0;36m [1;33mAUFHEBEN! [0;36m [0m [Moderators note:] Please do not post chat messages in Metaphysical. It is an echo *EXCLUSIVLY* for the posting of Magazine style articles ONLY! Repeated failure to follow this rule can lead to your ejection from the Magicknet Trio of echos. If you have any questions, you can post them in Mundane. ttyl Farrell /Magicknet Moderator, Magicknet Trio -Mundane \Metaphysical 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Mundane To: All 29 Apr 95 22:58:58 Subject: Japanese slaves? UpdReq By Linda Sieg TOKYO, April 28 (Reuter) - A Japanese cabinet minister said the United States appeared to be using the yen's steep rise against the dollar to enslave the Japanese people, media reported on Friday. "There was a time (in the United States) when black slaves from Africa were bought and produced wealth," media quoted Transport Minister Shizuka Kamei as saying in a speech on Thursday. "Now I have recently noticed U.S. moves which make me suspect they are saying, 'Can't we skillfully use the diligent Japanese as slaves?' and that they are actually doing so," Kamei said. The media reports said Kamei, an outspoken hawk in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), made the comment in reference to Washington's stance on foreign exchange. Many Japanese politicians are frustrated with what analysts term Washington's "malign neglect" of the dollar, whose slide of more than 20 percent against the yen is doing little damage to the U.S. economy but threatens to derail Japan's recovery. Kamei also said he had a feeling that the United States, the free country upon which Tokyo depends most, had recently turned cold towards Japan, the reports said. "These may be the words of a jilted woman, but I have such a feeling a bit," he was quoted as saying. On Friday, Kamei told reporters he had intended his comments to be off the record. But he added: "Extreme currency market movements are dealing a huge blow to the Japanese economy and I want the U.S., a key currency nation, to understand that as an ally." "If it is an ally, it ought to be the stance of an ally to help those who are weak," a domestic news agency quoted him as telling reporters. Top economic policy makers from the Group of Seven (G7), worried that the slumping dollar might erode economic recovery worldwide, agreed on Tuesday to seek an "orderly reversal" of the decline. But they failed to come up with any quick fixes. "The United States should be more serious, more sensitive about maintaining the dollar's value," Koichi Kato, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) Policy Affairs Research Council, told Reuters in an interview earlier this week. The dollar has firmed to round 83.70 yen since then, against a post-World War Two record low of 79.75 hit last week. But market participants say the dollar might slide again, especially if U.S.-Japan trade talks scheduled for next week fail to make progress in settling a long-running dispute over trade in cars and car parts. ... Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. - Nietzsche 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Albertus Magnus Area: Mundane To: All 29 Apr 95 23:01:18 Subject: Internat'l terror UpdReq WASHINGTON (Reuter) - The number of international terrorist attacks fell to a 23-year low last year but the number of casualties they caused rose, the State Department reported Friday. In an annual report, the department spotlighted an increase in attacks by militant Islamic groups, especially those opposed to the Middle East peace process, but a decline in those by secular organizations. ``Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1994'', a report required by Congress, said there had been 321 international terrorist attacks in 1994, down from 431 the previous year and the lowest since 1971. The peak year was 1987, with 665. Of the 1994 attacks, 66 were anti-United States, compared with 88 the previous year, it said. The report did not cover incidents considered to be the work of domestic groups or individuals. Despite the overall drop, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in a letter to Congress accompanying the report, said the number of casualties from international terrorist acts -- 314 dead and 663 wounded -- had risen last year. He blamed this on the car-bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed about 100 people and injured 200 last July. The report said the attack might well have been carried out by the Iranian-backed Hizbollah, based in Lebanon. The State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Philip Wilcox, said 1994 reflected ``a trend in recent years of a decline in attacks by secular terrorist groups and an increase in terrorist activities by radical Islamic groups.'' ``Extremists opposed to the Arab-Israeli peace process dramatically increased the scale and frequency of their attacks in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza,'' where more than 100 civilians died, he wrote in an introduction to the report. Wilcox told a news conference this represented a ``very dangerous and vicious rearguard action'' led by the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups. He said reasons for the decline in international terrorist acts included the end of the Soviet Union, the transition to majority rule in South Africa and the beginnings of peace in Northern Ireland. But he said another reason was that more and more countries were starting to fight terrorism. ... Culture owes its peaks to politically weak ages. - Nietzsche 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718