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To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (593)	3/26/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 765

Eddy, Re:The problem is,that the ordinary people on the street do not believe in the overnight conversion of our leaders who for decades have done nothing and still do nothing about various regimes which equally terrorize,prosecute and kill their minorities. Go no further as to look at Turkey and the Kurds. This abandonment of the Kurdish cause by Western powers is shameful! The Kurds deserve some kind of respect from the international community and the US should strongarm the Turkish authorities on this matter... Yet, once again, I'll blame the European Union on this issue as well: Turkey has applied to be part of the European Union. A few months ago, it received a humiliating ''NO'' from the EU Commission, and I remember that the following day, the Turkish government signed an important contract with Boeing instead of Airbus... I know that Turkey is far from being a perfect democracy... Yet, the Turks have done their best to please the Europeans: they had a woman as a prime minister, they've enforced a secular regime (ie cracking down on their islamist party) and, last but not least, as a member of NATO, they participate in the defense of Europe. Furthermore, Turkey is much richer than all these would-be EU members from Central Europe --whether it's Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, etc... All in all, if Europe would have welcomed Turkey as a new European member, it would have been all the more easier for European humanitarian lobbies to weigh on Turkey's policy toward the Kurds, the political prisoners, the freedom of expression, etc... And, as part of such a large political union, Turkey would have certainly complied with the EU viewpoint on these matters. But Europe didn't want of a Muslim body in its Christian community and, consequently, left Turkey outside in the cold... Now, tell me Eddy... if France was able to reconcile with nazi Germany about 50 years ago, why Europe can't reconcile with Turkey today? Are the Turkish crimes against Human Rights worse than the German crimes?

To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (593)	3/27/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: BillCh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 765

NATO front cracks as members raise doubts By Sheryle Bagwell, Berlin Cracks were beginning to appear in NATO's united front against Yugoslavia on Friday with a call by the Italian Prime Minister, Mr Massimo D'Alema, for a return to diplomacy after the first wave of allied air strikes. Greece, a NATO member with strong religious ties with Yugoslavia, was also showing signs that it was prepared to break ranks and oppose continuing raids. One of the four neutral members of the European Union, Austria, was also reportedly refusing to allow NATO planes to fly through Austrian airspace. But a spokesman for the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, dismissed suggestions that European leaders were no longer united in continuing their offensive against Yugoslav military targets. "Our sense is that NATO is absolutely united on this," he said. Mr D'Alema, whose country is the main land base for NATO air forces participating in the campaign, told journalists at a European Union summit that the first wave of bombing had forced the Serbs to halt a crackdown in Kosovo. "Based on the information we could receive, the first military action by NATO had significant results because it has weakened the Serb military potential and, it seems, has forced the Serbs to suspend the military offensive they were conducting against the civilian population of Kosovo," he said. His statement, however, was at variance with NATO reports that the Serbian crackdown was continuing on Thursday. Mr D'Alema said the time for a diplomatic initiative on Kosovo was approaching and praised a Russian call for a meeting of the big-power Contact Group in charge of Balkan diplomacy. "We think that the time to give politics and diplomacy their say is approaching," he said. "This will be our commitment in the next hours." However, NATO planes took off from bases in Italy a few hours later for a second night of strikes on Yugoslav targets.

To: Eddy Blinker who wrote (593)	3/28/1999 4:11:00 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 765

<<<he priority of TV business is to gain the attention of as much as one can.German audiences are presently brainwashed as never before on one single subject, namely the Kosovo.>>> I agree totally Eddy,,, Notice how they don't mention the fact that they are still bombing Iraq every day,, and still keeping the noose tight on a starving nation..I think it is because the people would start to balk at this and maybe go hey wait a minute here,,, What's going on--???-- But no ,, they just do a soft fade... I know that this stuff must bother most decent people deep down-- It has to --- The war machine knows that and shuts up the media.... Sometimes I think that all these newspapers and reporters is all hogwash, or staffed by exceedingly lazy people.. All they ever seem to print or spew is what appears to come off of a teletype as a news release.. They never dig it up or find out anything themselves-- just regurgitate what some state department or stock promoter, or movie promoter tells them..... Peace V