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To: Lou Weed who wrote (129879)	4/23/2004 1:40:35 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 281500

Hapless New York Times runs Coors picture with Klan murder report By Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News April 23, 2004 Thursday's New York Times misidentified GOP Senate candidate Pete Coors as a Ku Klux Klan member who murdered a black sharecropper. The Coors campaign found the error "so outrageous it's kind of funny," said spokeswoman Cinamon Watson. "It could have been worse," she joked. "Pete could have been identified as John Kerry." The Times story concerned a federal court decision upholding Louisiana resident Ernest Avants' 2003 conviction in the slaying. The story indicated the accompanying photo was of Avants. But the picture actually was of Coors on the day the Golden beer baron announced he was running in Colorado's open Senate race. Coors' picture ran on page 21 of the A section in the Times' national briefs package. Prosecutors maintain that the Ku Klux Klan plotted to kill White in 1966, in an attempt to lure Martin Luther King Jr. to the state so it could assassinate the civil rights leader. Watson said she notified the Times after the Rocky Mountain News spotted the mistake. "I think there will be a correction," she deadpanned. The Times did not return a call from the News.

To: Lou Weed who wrote (129879)	4/23/2004 2:04:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I asked the question with respect to the Arab world, not just the Palestinians I don't think the figures are much lower in the rest of the Arab world. Check out the Pew poll figures for the questions designed to examine sympathy for Islamist purposes and means; there is a sizable pool of sympathy. Christians believe the same thing too and look at the history books to see how many people died because of it!! The Crusades have been over for some time now. The wars of religion ended in Europe with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. That was over 400 years ago. I am talking about today. Today the menace comes from the Islamic lands. haven't seen any Arab nations recently pre-emptively strike another in order to spread their "values and principles" like we boldly profess! Really? Where were you on 9/11/2001? Suicide bombers and helicopter gunships are not working and you've all but given up on any peace process. Everybody tried very hard to negotiate with Arafat from 1993 to 2000. His word is worthless and his actions (and words too, if you read Arabic) show that he wants the armed struggle. So I don't see any choice but to continue the war process until something changes. Israel seems to be winning at the moment and the Sharon plan will help consolidate the win and set the defacto border. If Arafat goes, then it may be time to reconsider a peace process again.