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To: SOROS who wrote (433)	9/22/1998 2:02:00 PM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 1151

BUTCHERS AVOID ANSWERING Why do Clinton supporters never have an answer to the partial-birth abortion issue? They know it is brutal murder and can't bring themselves to admit it. On this issue alone, no one can claim to be of any religious persuasion and support this. Anyone who disapproves of the partial-birth abortion and votes for someone who approves of it is condoning this action. They are just as guilty as the "doctor/butcher" who performs it. Anyone who approves of this procedure is an agnostic or atheist in their heart. If they claim to be otherwise, they are a liar also. When a nation butchers the young and innocent, I pity the judgment that comes to them. It is coming. It will control your destiny whether you laugh about it or not. Remember this as you get your mark and give up your US sovereignty. I remain, SOROS

To: SOROS who wrote (433)	9/22/1998 2:04:00 PM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 1151

By Patrick Worsnip WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States, predicting another poor harvest in North Korea, said Monday it would contribute 300,000 more metric tons of wheat this year to combat famine in the isolated communist state. The grain will be provided as part of an initiative announced July 18 by President Clinton to buy 2.5 million metric tons of U.S. wheat for donation overseas, the State Department said. The new contribution, to come in three roughly equal tranches through the rest of this year, adds to 200,000 metric tons the United States contributed in response to an appeal in January by the U.N. World Food Program (WFP). ''Chronic food production shortfalls have resulted in widespread malnutrition in the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), and this year's harvest is again expected to fall far short of production targets,'' State Department spokesman James Rubin said. Two years of floods followed by drought have led to hunger and malnutrition among North Korea's 22 million people. A U.S. congressional team estimated after a recent visit that 300,000 to 800,000 people died in each of the past three years. An official of the Catholic aid group Caritas said in Hong Kong Saturday that North Korea was bracing for a harvest even worse than last year's because of bad weather and a shortage of fertilizers. The final shipment of the previous U.S. 200,000-metric ton contribution is due to arrive in North Korea this month. Rubin said the U.S. assistance would be targeted at the most vulnerable North Korean civilians, including children in nurseries, schools and orphanages, pregnant or nursing women, handicapped people and hospital patients. It would also go to food-for-work programs to rehabilitate agricultural land damaged by deforestation or natural disaster, he said in a statement in New York, where Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is attending the U.N. General Assembly. Part of the aid will be channeled through the WFP to the U.S. Private Volunteer Organizations Consortium, which has monitored the delivery of past shipments. Washington is concerned the food should go to the needy, not to the country's military. The WFP appealed in January for 603,000 metric tons of food for North Korea, of which donors including the United States had so far contributed 300,000 tons. The new donation makes the United States far and away the biggest contributor. U.S. officials deny any link between food aid and other issues between Washington and Pyongyang, but analysts note that food donations tend to be announced at times when North Korea has agreed to push ahead with political and military talks. Earlier this month, the two countries agreed to resume four separate sets of stalled negotiations on various issues. They include bilateral talks on North Korea's missile program, on terrorism and on a 1994 nuclear agreement, as well as four-party talks on a peace treaty for the Korean peninsula that also involve South Korea and China.