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Pastimes : JFK Jr., Is this an assasination? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (391)	8/16/1999 9:22:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542

He was serious about reforming language, but not that way! I assume you once read '1984' by George Orwell. 'newspeak' was designed on the plans Churchill had propagated. The main ideas were reduction of semantic abundance and introduction of a more systematic orthography, based on the words' phonology instead of of its' history (etymology). The 'ghoti'-fish explains the crux of the etymologic principle, especially for an ecclectic language like English. In German we have had the first 'major' orthography reform this time last year since more than 75 years, and only last week (most of) the papers started using the new forms. Since the planning phase was so long (around 35 years, with beginnings right after the last reform), the direction of the reform was opposed to what would have been reasonable today: many words borrowed from other languages are now spelt according to their (German) phonology instead of keeping their foreign spelling. Nowadays, during internationalisation of individual work and globalisation of economy, the opposite change should have been made. Thanks for advice, regards MNI.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (391)	8/16/1999 12:59:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542

Another good piece of 'conspiratorial history' by Steve Mizrach: Murder in the Vatican? The attempt on the life of John Paul II. In 1982, when the world found out that an attempt had been made on the life of John Paul II, there were immediate cries of conspiracy. Right-wing observers, noting the new Pope's anticommunist stance and support of Solidarity in Poland, suggested that behind the assassin Mehmet Ali Agca was a "Bulgarian connection." The Bulgarians, who were suddenly thrust into prominence as "international traffickers" in arms, heroin (despite the fact that even today most of U.S. heroin comes from the "Golden Triangle" in Southeast Asia), and terrorism, were also supposed to have wanted to kill the Pope on behalf of the Soviet Union. In 1983, three Bulgarian secret service operatives - Antonov, Aivazov, and Vassilev - were tried and acquitted on insufficient evidence. Despite concerted propaganda efforts by right-wing Catholics and others in the Reagan administration, the "Bulgarian Connection" just wouldn't stick, although they (through Radio Free Europe, etc.) succeeded in convincing many that such a conspiracy existed, and that there was some super-secret group called "Kintex" behind the whole affair. (Which sounds strangely familiar to "Permindex," the dummy corporation that Jim Garrison tried to show was behind JFK's assassination...) In fact, if one looks closely at the matter, Agca's background is clearly fascistic. He belonged to the pan-Turkish group Gray Wolves, which has ties to the CIA and many fascist groups in the "Black International." Agca clearly changed his story whenever his whims so moved him; though he claimed Bulgarian backers at one point, he also testified to being Christ at another. So much for his credibility. Nonetheless, Celik, Ozbey, and other members of the Gray Wolves who knew him, said he had written a note stating quite clearly that his goal was to kill the Pope, who he saw as "another representative of the anti-Islamic Crusades," in order to create unrest and other conditions for a fascist coup in Turkey. Many of the supposed points of evidence for Agca's "travels" in Bulgaria are specious, but it is clear he has been to Italy... and Agca and other Gray Wolves may have met with Cuban exiles in Miami in 1981. If anything, Agca's attempt on John Paul II has striking connections to the death of that pope's immediate predecessor, the first John Paul. [...] Full stuff: clas.ufl.edu