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abolition-usa-digest       Sunday, June 13 1999       Volume 01 : Number 139




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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 00:03:34 -0700
From: Andrew Lichterman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) SANTA BARBARA ABOLITION CAMPAIGN UPDATE

Greetings abolition 2000 and US abolition campaign folks.

I am the convener of the "bottom up organizing" working group of the fledgling US campaign.  In order to
encourage discussion on themes relevant to this working group, I have written a strategy working paper which
addresses some of the issues raised in the two organizing meetings which resulted in the current US campaign
structure. If you would like a copy, drop me a note specifying the format you would like to receive it in (I
can do MS word, all wordperfect formats, the various generic word processing formats --asci, rtf, etc.-- and
paper).

Andrew Lichterman
Western States Legal Foundation
1440 Broadway Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612 [phone]

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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 13:46:57 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Letter from Belgrade: "Who is the winner?"

In a message dated 6/8/99 9:51:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<
 Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 03:59:29 +0200
 From: Sava Ristich <[e-mail]>
 To: Orthodox Peace Fellowship <[e-mail]>

 Dear Jim, I appreciate your journal "In Communion".

 Best regards,

 Milan Radovanovic
 Belgrade

 * * *

 THE WAR ON THE BALKANS:

 WHO IS THE WINNER?

 When the war breaks out, everybody says: we want peace. The
 invaders say: we have attacked in order to make peace. The invaded
 say: we are defending ourselves in order to keep the peace. And
 thus the war goes on until a measure of evil has been fulfilled.

 PRAYER

 Lord, if we cannot stop the war, help us at least preserve love and
 peace in our hearts.

 BELGRADE 1999

 I live in the country waging war with the greatest armed forces in
 the world. In the centre of Belgrade, while I am writing this, cruise
 missiles and bombs of enormous destructive power keep hitting my
 immediate surroundings. People I daily meet while shopping for
 bread are getting killed, while the seriously wounded cry all night
 long until they are rescued from the ruins. Children remain
 paralyzed out of shock and fear.

 Lines of refugees of the "opponent" party are running away from
 their homes into insecurity where the only secure things are famine,
 sickness and death.

 The horror of this war, as in all the preceding ones, is that those
 who suffer most are innocent people.

 BATTLE FIELD "YUGOSLAVIA"

 Military technology and preciseness of modern weapon have
 improved considerably over the past decades. That is, if we are to
 trust military experts.

 We, though, who have served as guinea pigs for testing this
 horrible weapon are not impressed by the above-mentioned fact.
 The so-called intelligent rockets and bombs cannot distinguish
 between victims.

 IS THERE A WAY OUT?

 The war has completely spoilt everyday life. Helplessness, despair
 at having lost all property and fear of death are predominant
 feelings in the war. Many people would like to go back to their
 former careless and comfortable way of life, but God does not
 respond to their wishes: "The anger of the Lord will not turn back
 until He fully accomplishes the purposes of His heart; in days to
 come you will understand it clearly", a long time ago used to say
 prophet Jeremia in a situation much like this (23,20).

 For a majority, there is no such thing as a secure place where to
 hide away from death.

 AN OLD PERSIAN STORY

 A rich and powerful Persian was taking a walk in his garden
 together with his servant. The servant started to cry at just having
 met Death, who was threating to take him. He asked his master to
 let him have his fastest horse - to run away to Teheran by night
 time. The master let him do so, and the servant ran away on horse
 back.. On his way home, the master saw Death herself and asked
 her: Why are you threatening to take my servant? "I did not
 threaten him", answered Death; I was just surprised at seeing him
 here - for I was planning to find him tonight in Teheran!"

 JESUS CHRIST

 "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up
 his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life, will
 lose it, but whoever loses his life for me, will find it" (Math. 16,
 24-25).

 FEAR OF DEATH

 Inner restlessness and fear of death are definite signs that we are far
 away from God. Fear of death is, in fact, fear of meaningless life. It
 is fear of coming in the presence of God, without having finished
 one's life work. It is not the war that causes that fear. It only
 reveals it.

 INCAPACITY OF EVIL

 If we have just a little faith, evil has neither the power nor the force
 to knock us down. That is why it is not only the bearers of evil and
 death that are separated from God, but also those who fear that evil
 and death.

 GOD

 While the war goes on, we feel God as being very cruel. He is not
 malicious, though. He expects us to respect His will, to be His
 collaborators in this world. He is always willing to help us do so.
 Difficult circumstances, such as war should not prevent us from
 doing so. On the contrary. The more difficult the conditions, the
 greater the glory.

 GUILT

 When the war happens, we tend to blame exclusively the opponent -
 adversary side. It seems to me that God looks at the war in a
 different way; for Him everyone who has not found his way in
 God's sight is to blame.

 PEACE

 In wartime everybody agrees that the most important thing is to
 stop the war and make peace. This is the way people see it. In
 God's view, the silence of arms is not enough; He wants the peace
 to dwell with love in people's hearts.

 FLOWER

 I keep watching a beautiful rose in my garden. It blossoms and
 gives off fragrance, even now when I'm not tending it. It doesn't
 mind the war, or the reed that keeps choking it, or the fact it has not
 been watered or dug up for months. From year to year it has been
 doing what God had created it to do. It is strange how distant we
 are from a mere rose.

 VICTORY

 The most important battle in this war is not going on in a battle
 field or against an invisible enemy. Our goal is not to destroy other
 people, or to do our best to make them better. Every battle must
 begin and end up with the victory within ourselves.

 Evil will be beaten only when we allow Divine peace and love to
 settle down in our hearts forever.

 Milan Radovanovic
 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia

 * * *
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:07:10 -0400
From: War Resisters League <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) SANTA BARBARA ABOLITION CAMPAIGN UPDATE

Andrew,

Please forward a copy to me.  I prefer WordPerfect, but MS Word is fine
too.  Whatever is easiest for you.

Thanks,

Chris Ney


At 12:03 AM 6/8/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Greetings abolition 2000 and US abolition campaign folks.
>
>I am the convener of the "bottom up organizing" working group of the
fledgling US campaign.  In order to
>encourage discussion on themes relevant to this working group, I have
written a strategy working paper which
>addresses some of the issues raised in the two organizing meetings which
resulted in the current US campaign
>structure. If you would like a copy, drop me a note specifying the format
you would like to receive it in (I
>can do MS word, all wordperfect formats, the various generic word
processing formats --asci, rtf, etc.-- and
>paper).
>
>Andrew Lichterman
>Western States Legal Foundation
>1440 Broadway Suite 500
>Oakland, CA 94612 [phone]
>
>-
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**********
War Resisters League
339 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10012
212-228-0450
212-228-6193 (fax)
1-800-975-9688 (YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon)
[e-mail]
web address: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl

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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:07:35 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) The Peace March

For the last six months I have been promoting the idea of an ongoing series
of local peace marches to effectively unify the global peace, justice, and
environmental movements into an effective activity of conscience as
humankind to change the path of human history off of the path towards total
destruction and onto the path towards global peace and prosperity.

This latest initiative in my 20+ years experience and involvement with
various peace walks has come at the suggestion last Fall of a member of the
coalition for Nuclear Abolition 2000 for a peace walk in the year 2000
across the United States to further the abolition of nuclear weapons.  I
have received a strong response from the Global Peace Walk project initiated
in 1995 and numerous individual messages of support for the idea but no
concrete commitments for organizational or financial support for this idea.

Following the vigorous and sage advice of one member of this loose-knit
coalition to abolish nuclear weapons, Anne Fagan Ginger, I am now appealing
to you and the organizations(s) that you are affiliated with for your help
in this effort to establish a Peace March Coalition to organize and
coordinate local peace walks and a Peace March 2000 from San Francisco,
California, (leaving on the birthday anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., January 15, 2000) and walking to Washington DC for
Columbus Day, October 12, 2000, before concluding in New York City for the
United Nations 55th anniversary, October 24, 2000, to bring attention to the
need for all survival issues to be addressed as part of a comprehensive plan
to fulfill the original objectives of the United Nations Charter to remove
the scourge of war from the future generations in order to redirect human
and financial resources towards solving today's global social and
environmental
emergency before it is too late to save all life on Earth.

Please consult with your colleagues and organizations that you represent and
let me know as soon as possible that I can count on you for your help as
part of such coalition to co-sponsor The Peace March to fulfill these
objectives.

For more information on the organization and planning of this effort so far
please see details at the website below.

Thank you very much,

David Crockett Williams
General Agency Services
[e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000
Global Emergency Alert Response
661-822-3309 phone
561-658-2735 fax




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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:48:02 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) Chicago area //-ALBRIGHT COMMENCEMENT SPEECH PROTEST

In a message dated 6/8/99 4:40:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail], editor of the SP magazine, The Socialist, sent the
following.

 Subj:     Northwestern University--ALBRIGHT COMMENCEMENT SPEECH PROTEST
 Date:    6/8/99 4:40:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    [e-mail] (Eric A Schuster)
 To:    [e-mail]

 Friday / June 18 / Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

 ALBRIGHT COMMENCEMENT SPEECH PROTEST. (5pm) "Join us in
   protest, so that voices of compassion may ring louder than voices
   of destruction." Sponsors include Voices in the Wilderness,
   Illinois Peace Action, Eighth Day Center for Justice, and many
   others. Northwestern University, Ryan Stadium, Central St. &
   Ashland Ave., Evanston, IL. 773-784-8065, 773-561-5131, or 312-939-
   3316, [e-mail], http://www.webcom.com/ipa
  >>

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 09:02:33 -0400
From: Rosalie Tyler Paul <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) SANTA BARBARA ABOLITION CAMPAIGN UPDATE

Andrew - Please send a copy to us at peaceactionme.mail.ctel.net and to me
here at handinhand. Many thanks, Rosalie Paul

>Andrew,
>
>Please forward a copy to me.  I prefer WordPerfect, but MS Word is fine
>too.  Whatever is easiest for you.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris Ney
>
>
>At 12:03 AM 6/8/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>>Greetings abolition 2000 and US abolition campaign folks.
>>
>>I am the convener of the "bottom up organizing" working group of the
>fledgling US campaign.  In order to
>>encourage discussion on themes relevant to this working group, I have
>written a strategy working paper which
>>addresses some of the issues raised in the two organizing meetings which
>resulted in the current US campaign
>>structure. If you would like a copy, drop me a note specifying the format
>you would like to receive it in (I
>>can do MS word, all wordperfect formats, the various generic word
>processing formats --asci, rtf, etc.-- and
>>paper).
>>
>>Andrew Lichterman
>>Western States Legal Foundation
>>1440 Broadway Suite 500
>>Oakland, CA 94612 [phone]
>>
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>>
>**********
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>339 Lafayette St.
>New York, NY 10012
>212-228-0450
>212-228-6193 (fax)
>1-800-975-9688 (YouthPeace and A Day Without the Pentagon)
>[e-mail]
>web address: http://www.nonviolence.org/wrl
>
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:02:29 +0100
From: "Sally Light" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) International Appeal Opposing US & French Explosive Nuclear Fusion Programs

Friends,

As co-convener of the US Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons working grou=
p
on Research Future of the Nuclear Weapons Complex, I am posting an
international appeal that I and two colleagues (Hisham Zerriffi of
I.E.E.R., USA, and Dominique Lalanne of Les Verts, France) recently creat=
ed
together.

This appeal asks both the USA and France to immediately halt the National
Ignition Facility (at Livermore Lab in the US) and Laser Megajoule (in
Bordeaux, France) projects, and to declare a moratorium on all such
explosive nuclear fusion programs.

As you will read, this appeal is in both English and French, and is
designed for circulation anywhere in the world.  We hope to collect 1,000=
's
of signatures which will give us an international groundswell for stoppin=
g
these dangerous programs.   Completed appeals should be returned to Hisha=
m,
Dominique or myself at the addresses shown below.=20

Thanks,

Sally Light
Nuclear Program Analyst
Tri-Valley CAREs=20


INTERNATIONAL APPEAL OPPOSING US AND FRENCH
EXPLOSIVE NUCLEAR FUSION PROGRAMS
We, the undersigned, state that:

France and the United States both have programs to develop high energy
lasers to achieve explosive nuclear fusion, the National Ignition Facilit=
y
(US) and Megajoule (France).

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is currently under construction in t=
he
US, and Megajoule's funding will be approved by the French parliament in
the fall of 1999.

The goals of NIF and Megajoule include achieving laboratory thermonuclear
explosions and maintaining the two nations' respective nuclear weapons
capabilities.

Both France and the US have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

NIF and Megajoule clearly violate the CTBT that commits the US and France
"not to carry out any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear
explosion."  Further, these programs are proliferation provocative by
encouraging other nations to carry out similar activities.

Additionally, since the achievement of a CTBT was an explicit decision ma=
de
in the context of the 1995 extension of the NPT, any activities which
violate the CTBT should also be seen as violating the commitments made
under the NPT.

THEREFORE, we urge the United States and France to respect their
commitments to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ba=
n
Treaty by discontinuing the National Ignition Facility and Megajoule, and
immediately declaring a moratorium on all such programs.

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Please return completed appeals to:
In the US:
Sally Light, Tri-Valley CAREs, 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA 94550=
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USA   Tel.: [phone]
Hisham Zerriffi, I.E.E.R., 6935 Laurel Ave., #204, Takoma Park, MD 20912,
USA   Tel.: [phone]
In France:
Dominique Lalanne, Accelerateur Lineaire, 91405 Orsay, France   Tel.: 33 =
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64 46 84 28





Appel international pour l'arr=EAt des programmes am=E9ricain et fran=E7a=
is
d'explosions nucl=E9aires de fusion

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Nous, les soussign=E9s, lan=E7ons l'appel ci-dessous:

La France et les Etats-Unis d=E9veloppent actuellement des programmes de
recherche sur les lasers de puissance, pour r=E9aliser en laboratoire des
explosions nucl=E9aires de fusion, aux Etats-Unis avec le NIF (National
Ignition Facility) et en France avec le M=E9gajoule.

Le NIF est actuellement en construction aux Etats-Unis, et en France le
financement du M=E9gajoule doit =EAtre adopt=E9e par l'Assembl=E9e Nation=
ale lors
du vote du budget, =E0 l'automne 1999.

Les buts du NIF et du M=E9gajoule sont de r=E9aliser des explosions
thermonucl=E9aires en laboratoire, de fa=E7on =E0 maintenir les capacit=E9=
s des
armements nucl=E9aires des deux nations.

La France et les Etats-Unis ont sign=E9 en 1995 le trait=E9 de
non-prolif=E9ration (TNP), et en 1996, le trait=E9 d'interdiction des
essais nucl=E9aires (CTBT).

Il est clair que le NIF et le M=E9gajoule violent le CTBT, qui engage les
Etats-Unis et la France =E0 "ne pas proc=E9der =E0 des essais d'armes nuc=
l=E9aires
ni =E0 tout autre type d'explosion nucl=E9aire". De plus, ces programmes =
sont
de v=E9ritables provocations =E0 la prolif=E9ration, en encourageant les =
autres
nations =E0 mener aussi leurs propres essais nucl=E9aires.

Par ailleurs, du fait que le CTBT ait =E9t=E9 consid=E9r=E9 en 1996 comme=
 une
explicitation du TNP prorog=E9 l'ann=E9e pr=E9c=E9dente,  toute activit=E9=
 qui viole
le CTBT peut =EAtre interpr=E9t=E9e comme une violation du NPT lui-m=EAme.

En cons=E9quence, nous appelons les Etats-Unis et la France =E0 respecter=
 au
plus vite leurs engagements pris au moment de la signature du TNP et du
CTBT, et ceci en arr=EAtant la construction du NIF et celle du M=E9gajoul=
e et
en d=E9clarant imm=E9diatement un moratoire sur tous ces programmes.

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Veuillez renvoyer cet appel apr=E8s signature,

aux USA:
> > Sally Light, Tri-Valley CAREs, 2582 Old First Street, Livermore, CA
94550,  USA   Tel.: [phone]
> > Hisham Zerriffi, I.E.E.R., 6935 Laurel Ave., #204, Takoma Park, MD
20912,  USA   Tel.: [phone]

en France:
> Dominique Lalanne, Acc=E9l=E9rateur Lin=E9aire, 91405 Orsay, France =20
 Tel.: [phone]         e-mail=A0:  [e-mail]






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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 16:19:40 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (abolition-usa) TFF: Is there a way out?

In a message dated 6/12/99 10:07:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,=20
[e-mail] writes:

<<=20
 Press Info #70
=20
 THE NATO WAR, THE ETHNIC CLEANSING -=20
 IS THERE AWAY OUT ?
=20
 June 10, 1999
=20
 By Johan Galtung*
 Dr hc mult, Professor of Peace Studies
 Director, TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network
=20
 TFF Associate
=20
 "Where do I stand: very simply, I am against the NATO bombing, I am
 against ethnic cleansing, whether by Serbs or anybody else -- for
 instance by the immigrants to North America who in the period=20
 1600-1900 cleansed away about 10,000,000 American Indians. I find
 nothing original in my position. The only original position would be to
 be in favor of both, a view probably only entertained by arms dealers.
=20
 There are those who try to make us believe that you have to make a
 choice between NATO and Milosevic; if you are against one for sure
 you are in favor of the other. Nonsense. Early on in this horrible
 decade many of the same people tried to make us believe that you had
 to make a choice between the Gulf war and Saddam Hussein; again,
 perfectly possible to be against both.
=20
 Then, the second example of this terrible dualism, the terror of the
 false dichotomy as we academics say: there was no alternative, if you
 do not accept the NATO bombing it means that you are co-responsible
 for ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Nonsense.
=20
 There was an alternative and even a very good one: step of the number
 of observers in the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) from
 1,200 to, say, 6,000, 12,000. Handies and binoculars, living in the
 villages, bringing in volunteers. But at the same time there was a civil
 war going on from February 1998, and one US ambassador had done
 what the US did in connection with the Gulf war: he (Gelbard) told
 Beograd that the USA was of the view that KLA were terrorists --
 certainly also the Beograd position. The alternative would have been to
 close the border by extending the UN mandate on the Macedonian-
 Kosovo border, step up OSCE, and then call a major conference on
 South East Europe.
=20
 Nothing like this happened; as we know the war was decided early last
 fall; only a question of preparing the public through the media, and
 presenting Milosevic with an ultimatum he could not accept. The
 Rambouillet charade was about this. People started getting suspicious
 when they discovered that the media did not bring the text; it had to be
 dug out from obscure sites on the Internet. I asked some journalists to
 make an inquiry in one of these 19 democracies, my own, Norway: no
 parliamentarian had read the text. Democracy is about informed
 participation. The Serbs knew: loss of sovereignty and territorial
 integrity, unlimited NATO access to Serbia. No state signs itself into
 occupation and dismemberment. The Kosovars also knew: this was not
 the independence they wanted; it looked more like a protectorate under
 NATO. So they voted no. In some way or another they
=20
 were made to change their vote well knowing that the combination=20
 No-Yes would release the bombing of the Serbs. It did, on 24 March, also
 releasing more hatred than ever of the Kosovars, among Serbs. Fresh
 in their memory was how the Croats have driven them out; with the
 help of USA and Germany.
=20
 Anyone could have told in advance; that the Kosovars would escape
 everybody knew. To claim the opposite is only possible if you live an
 isolated existence in some boys' club in a war room, capable of
 whipping the media into obedience so that dissenting voices are not
 hear. There is a difference between now and last time in the Gulf,
 however: on the Internet anybody can read some of the most brilliant
 people of our time as a counterweight to lobotomized media who bring
 important information, like what Rambouillet was about, two month
 later. Too late for democracy, good enough for democratic
 totalitarianism (Zinoviev.)
=20
 Did NATO bombing bring about the ethnic cleansing of the Kosovars
 in addition to producing close to one million refugees, or would the
 Serbs have engaged in ethnic cleansing anyhow? Again, the alternative
 to NATO bombing was never to do nothing, as pointed out above.
 There are fascist forces among the Serbs, the chetniki, Arkan's tigers,
 Sesel's Eagles -- it is almost unbelievable that the media and the
 tribunal have not focussed more on them. Why not -- because
 Milosevic is the symbol of the Serbian nation and the Republic of
 Yugoslavia, he is the one they want to hit, not the key architects of the
 cleansing. But leaving that aside: this is one more case of a false
 dichotomy.
=20
 Of course the NATO bombing was stimulated, among other factors, by
 Serbian ethnic cleansing in Croatia and Bosnia -- regardless of
 complex causes and others who did the same these were facts and the
 West (calling itself "the international community") was frustrated,
 aggressive, "never again".
=20
 And of course the NATO bombing led to ethnic cleansing as pointed
 out above: just imagine the post-Rambouillet hatred and the
 comparison with August 1995. Three times have the Serbs been
 maneuvered into a minority positions exposed to their old enemies
 without the federal protection that was basic to Tito's Yugoslavia: in
 Croatia, in Bosnia, in Kosovo. Three times have they overreacted,
 inexcusably, but not unexplainably.
=20
 Ethnic cleansing brought about the NATO bombing, the NATO
 bombing brought about more ethnic cleansing in a vicious circle of
 mutual causation. Murder, killing, destruction, hatred. trauma; NATO
 torturing the Serbs, the Serbs torturing the Kosovars, soon the time
 will come to the Kosovars.
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 How do we get out of this? Here is one set of ideas:
=20
 Peace, if wanted, could be near; guided by former UN General
 Secretary Perez de Cuellar's advice to Genscher December 1991:=20
 be sure that any recognition is acceptable to minorities, that parts of
 Yugoslavia are dealt with symmetrically, and that there is a policy for
 Yugoslavia as a whole. But first a basic assumption that holds the key
 to a peace beyond ceasefire:
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 [0] Equal recognition of the suffering and rights of all: They are all
 victims, most of them more innocent than others, of a situation most
 nations would have found impossible. They need compassion, help;
 not guns and bombs. Divide them into "worthy" and "unworthy"
 victims, and peace becomes unattainable. They have all the same right
 to recognition and self-determination.
=20
 [1] Build on the symmetry Croatia-Bosnia/1995 and Serbia/1999: The
 650,000 Serbian refugees in Serbia were in part driven out by the
 Croats/USA from Krajina/Slavonia August 1995. Serbian ultra-
 reactions included total condemnation of the international community,
 and "we can do the same". The Western media found little or no space
 for their suffering. Hence, both must be recognized as basic problems,
 they must all be guaranteed their safe return. And then upgrade the
 status of Krajina/Slavonia in Croatia, and Kosovo/a in Serbia, possibly
 to republic status.
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 [2] A possible quadrilateral deal: A (Croats) gives return and status to
 B (Serbs), B gives return/status to C (Kosovars), C gives access to
 mineral resources/harbors to D (Slavic Muslims) and D inclusion of
 the Croat part of Bosnia/Herzegovina to A.
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 [3] A Yugoslav confederation: If some autonomy is given to all
 minorities in Yugoslavia we end up with close to 15 parts. "Jedinstvo",
 a unitary or federal state, is out. But "bratstvo" as confederation of
 human rights respecting countries, is not.
=20
 So much for a peace outcome. For that to happen there has to be a
 peace process. Here are elements of a peace process:
=20
 [4] The killing on all sides stops, NATO/Serbia/KLA forces are
 withdrawn, NATO from the Balkans; Serbian and Kosovar forces from
 Kosova, UN forces with OSCE observers, with a composition
 acceptable to all parties, and in big numbers, take over.
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 [5] The UN Secretary General appoints a board of mediators known for
 wisdom and autonomy, like Jimmy Carter, Perez de Cuellar, Mikhail
 Gorbachev, Nelson Mandela, Julius Nyerere, Mary Robinson, Richard
 von Weizsaecker for one-on-one dialogues with all parties to identify
 acceptable and sustainable outcome.
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 [6] The UN Secretary General convenes a Conference for the Security
 and Cooperation in South East Europe (CSCSEE), with all parts of
 Yugoslavia, and all SE European countries as members, with points
 like [1]-[3] on the agenda, pending the report from the team mentioned
 in [5] above.
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 [7] The Presidents of Slovenia and Macedonia convene a civil society
 conference, using expertise in all parts of Yugoslavia, to project
 images of future relations within ex-Yugoslavia, and does the same for
 future relations within South East Europe (in cooperation with, say,
 Hungary and Greece).
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 [8] The peoples of Yugoslavia are invited to participate in the peace
 process, forming multi-national dialogue groups all over, coming
 forward with concrete ideas based on local dialogues.
=20
 [9] Reconstruction is systematically used for reconciliation by having
 belligerent groups cooperating, doing the task together, not giving that
 enormous task away to outside entrepreneurs.
=20
 [10] If any border has to be drawn or redrawn the principles of the
 Danish-German 1920 Schleswig-Holstein partition are used.
=20
 However, however. I started by saying that I am against both NATO
 bombing and ethnic cleansing. Like most people in the world, I
 assume, perhaps not in belligerent Western Europe, filled with the=20
 self-righteousness of their interpretation of how society should be
 governed. Nine hundred years ago, when they launched the Crusades,
 it used to be their special interpretation of God and Jesus Christ, not
 Jewish, not Orthodox, not Muslim. They killed as many as they could
 lay hands on, limited only by their more artisanal killing technology
 those days.
=20
 As indicated above, I feel the problems of Yugoslavia can be solved,
 with more good will, more creativity, a little time and less dualism,
 less demonization. Milosevic is very far from a new Hitler. He does
 not have a new concept of world order, run from above. He is
 essentially an administrator of very unfortunate traits in the Serbian
 psyche, a megalomania and paranoia almost as high as that of the
 USA, about at the same level as can be found in Saddam Hussein's
 Iraq. In addition there are elements of the mafia boss, but they are
 ubiquitous in these globalizing days.
=20
 The other problem, NATO bombing, is more problematic. But the
 bombers have one good question to which they have the wrong answer.
 The question is: what do we do when the doctrine of national
 sovereignty protects the state that insults the human rights of its own
 population? The answer cannot possibly to insult these human rights
 even more. Rather, we could learn from the USA: there are federal
 crimes, and there is federal police pre-stationed all over. How about
 pre-stationing UN observers and UN troops all over as a preventive
 measure?
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 Human rights are universal. They are also indivisible, a country cannot
 detach the economic and social rights, accepting only the civil and
 political. Many criminals would like to do the same to the criminal
 code in their country as the USA does to the International Bill of
 Rights, ratifying one of the 16 December 1966 covenants, not the
 economic and social rights.
=20
 We are heading for a major world confrontation between the 19 NATO
 countries and, probably, much of the rest of the world, particularly the
 part caught in the US pincer move of expanding NATO eastward at the
 same time as they expand AMPO westward. Eurasia, the home of more
 than half of humanity is watching what happens with great anxiety.
 Who is next in line to be bombed? Or, could it be in Latin America,
 like Colombia, the USA not using NATO but using TIAP, the Latin
 American military system?
=20
 The world today has a major problem. That problem has a name. The
 name is not Milosevic, he is the small town villain. The name of the
 problem is United States of America.
=20
 Their sense of exceptionalism, being above ordinary states and nations,
 is attractive. To break that many international law paragraphs can only
 be justified if you are above the law, in a direct relation to a God of the
 universe who "created America to bring order to the world" (Colin
 Powell) or, in more secular terms, "a global nation with global
 interests" (Shalikashvili). Smaller states flock to the Exceptional one to
 reflect, like the cold moon, some of the light, not to mention the heat,
 burning the non-believers. An old Western tradition.
=20
 Let us hope that this intoxicating frenzy of violence to torture the Serbs
 into capitulation will be followed by some soberness. Preferably in
 time to prevent a Third world war.
=20
 * TV/Radio Interviews. Meeting at Sergels Torg, Stockholm May 24,
 1999
=20
 =A9 TRANSCEND, Johan Galtung & TFF 1999
=20
 You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item,
 but please retain the source.
=20
 * * *
 Dr. Jan Oberg Director, head of the TFF Conflict-Mitigation team to
 the Balkans and Georgia
=20
 TFF
 Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
 Vegagatan 25
 S-224 57 Lund
 Sweden
 Phone [phone] (0900-1100)
 Fax [phone]
 Email [e-mail] http://www.transnational.org
=20
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 02:01:32 EDT
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Subject: (abolition-usa) Beware : worm on the loose

 Date:    6/13/99 1:57:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time
 From:    DavidMcR
 To:    [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail], JFKPDX, [e-mail]
 To:    StevenAult, [e-mail], [e-mail]
 To:    [e-mail], [e-mail]
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 BCC:    DavidMcR

 Friends,

 To the best of my knowledge this IS a SERIOUS warning. Note that the problem
only comes IF YOU OPEN AN ATTACHMENT NAMED "ZIPPED_FILES.EXE". One warning
came from France, the other from left contacts in Israel. All I'm waiting for
in a final note from Bombay but I'd assume the warning is valid.

 There is no danger from just getting an email (such as this one) but beware
attachments, downloads, etc.

 David McReynolds

 << >
  >Another dratted trouble maker to watch out for : the latest "worm" finding
  >its way into computors via an attachment. This time it is via email
  >attachments named "zipped_files.exe"  So take care!
  >
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