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To: Eclectus who wrote (83675)	3/23/2002 5:16:30 PM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116756

I do not disagree with you.America has been more responsible and genorous with its over whelming wealth and power than any other nation that has enjoyed world(relativly speaking)hegemony that I can think of. It has ,however, been said that where the British were satisfied only to rule, america has wanted to be loved as well. Ps Do you remember the negotiations of selling grain to the USSR in the seventies. Pss. America embargoed oil exports to Japan in the 30's. psss.American aid and birth controll are also stangely tied to one another.

To: Eclectus who wrote (83675)	3/24/2002 2:15:35 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116756

Has America withheld Food like OPEC has withheld Oil? YES! IT HAD ONCE WITHHELD FOOD FROM INDIA. I am not sure exactly when it happened. But I believe it happened during Nixon's first term as president and Indira Gandhi was then the Indian leader. Why? Because India leaned more and more towards the Soviet Union in apparent defiance of the U.S., and so the much needed wheat for the starving millions was withheld to teach India a lesson! The wheat was in fact burnt. This was reported in a British Pathe News documentary. Excuse of the U.S:- There was an excess of wheat. It was necessary to maintain price stability by getting rid of the excess wheat. What BS from the president who later said in connection with the Watergate investigations, "I am not a crook."! Is this incident widely known to U.S. citizens? Of course not: it would have been so embarrassing. But really it doesn't matter because which American in his right mind <ggg> would believe it anyway? <ggg> Not only that. The persistent parochialism of that period "insulated" Americans from awareness of world events elsewhere. It is not an exaggeration to say that people outside the U.S. know far more about America than Americans know about the outside world. I once saw a TV program in which an American was invited from the audience by the TV host to answer the question, "Who was America's first president?" That American just blinked and blinked and his face turned as red an a cooked lobster. Then another member of the audience was asked where American soldiers landed in the invasion of Europe on D Day. Same thing --- no reply. It was incredible!!!

To: Eclectus who wrote (83675)	3/28/2002 9:22:04 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 116756

Arab summit adopts Saudi proposal for peace with Israel BEIRUT -- The Arab summit unanimously approved here on Thursday a Saudi-proposed plan for Arab peace with Israel, a senior Arab official told AFP. The summit adopted the proposal drafted by a commission from seven countries, he said. Libya's representative, Minister for African Unity Abdessalam Triki, spoke before the text was adopted but did not express reservations, he said. With the official adoption of the text, the Saudi peace initiative became a fullly fledged Arab peace project. It proposes 'normal relations and security' for Israel in return for its pullout from Arab territories occupied by the Jewish state since 1967. The senior Arab official did not confirm whether the initial Saudi proposal, put forward by Crown Prince Abdallah bin Abdel Aziz, had been modified. The final draft of the Arab peace deal with Israel had been snagged over the sensitive issue of Palestinian refugees. But the issue was apparently resolved after a meeting earlier on Thursday between Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud and Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu Ragheb. -- AFP

To: Eclectus who wrote (83675)	3/28/2002 9:37:36 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 116756

Arab League endorses Saudi peace plan From guardian.co.uk Staff and agencies Thursday March 28, 2002 Arab leaders unanimously endorsed a Saudi peace plan for the Middle East today at a summit in Lebanon, delegates said. The plan, proposed by Saudi Arabia's crown prince Abdullah, offers a "normalisation" of relations with Israel if it withdraws from all occupied Arab land, accepts a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital and agrees to the return of Palestinian refugees. The Lebanese foreign minister, Mahmoud Hammoud, said that once Israel has fulfilled the Arab demands, "the Arab-Israeli conflict would be considered finished and [the two sides] would enter into a peace treaty and achieving security for all countries of the region and establish normal relations with Israel". Endorsement came a day after the Saudi crown prince presented his proposals at the Arab League summit in Beirut. Three key leaders were absent from the meeting: the Palestinian leader, the Egyptian president and the king of Jordan. The Palestinian delegation temporarily walked out after the host nation banned a televised address from Yasser Arafat. He remains under siege in the West Bank. In his speech to the opening session, the Saudi crown prince suggested that the Arab plan be forwarded to the UN security council. The proposals are based on "normal relations and the security of Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands, recognition of an independent Palestinian state with noble Jerusalem as its capital and the return of the Palestinian refugees". The US state department welcomed a "very positive" speech, while the Palestinian delegation said that most Arab leaders were happy with the plan. Western analysts remained sceptical that the initiative could be the bedrock of lasting peace in the region. They say that Israel is unlikely to meet its main demands. A devastating suicide bomb attack last night, which killed at least 20 people in the Israeli coastal town of Netanya, made an escalation of violence more likely than the enforcement of any peace plan, they warned. Indeed, the Syrian president told Arab countries to support the Palestinian uprising and to sever all ties with Israel. A draft resolution of the summit declaration said that Arab leaders oppose the use of force against Iraq and will call for the lifting of UN sanctions that were imposed against Baghdad after the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.