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To: Rande Is who wrote (4950)	4/3/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57584

Humbly report, Rande, There was a silence, which Svejk himself broke with a sigh: 'And so [the Archduke's] already lying with God and the angels. Glory be! He didn't even live to be Emperor. When I was serving in the army a general once fell off his horse and killed himself without any fuss. They wanted to help him back onto his horse, to lift him up, but to their surprise he was completely dead. And he was going to be promoted Field Marshal. It happened at a review. These review never come to any good. In Sarajevo there was a review too. I remember once at a parade like that I had twenty buttons missing from my uniform and they sent me into solitary confinement for a fortnight, where I lay for two days trussed up like Lazarus. But in the army you must have discipline, otherwise why would anyone bother at all? Our Lieutenant Makovec always used to say: "There's got to be discipline, you bloody fools, otherwise you'd be climbing about on the trees like monkeys, but the army's going to make human beings of you, you god-forsaken idiots." And isn't that true? Just imagine a park, let's say at Charles Square, and on every tree an undisciplined soldier! It's enough to give you a nightmare!' From "The Good Soldier Svejk" chapter 1, page 9. Question, is this laughing at or with? Does it matter? May I humbly leave you with these question for now? Time to tend to something more important for the rest of the evening, and most all of tomorrow - love. Cheers, Svejk proofsheet.com

To: Rande Is who wrote (4950)	4/3/1999 10:08:00 PM
From: Rande Is	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 57584

CHINESE LEADER WARNS OF GLOBAL WAR Premier Zhu Rongji says NATO's military intervention in Yugoslavia sets bad precedent Saturday, April 3, 1999 MIRO CERNETIG GLOBE AND MAIL EXCLUSIVE; China Bureau Beijing -- Alarmed by NATO's attacks on Yugoslavia, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji warned yesterday that such intervention could lead to global conflict. "All the internal matters should be left for the country itself to resolve. If we should refuse to recognize a country's sovereignty, I'm afraid that would lead to a world war." In an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. Zhu called for an immediate halt to the air attacks on the Yugoslav army by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, arguing that they are accomplishing nothing but bloodshed. He warned that the world community is casting aside a vital principle when it interferes in the internal affairs of countries, even when ethnic conflicts erupt as they have in Kosovo. "We respect human rights," the powerful 71-year-old Premier said in the wide-ranging evening interview, attended by Globe publisher Roger Parkinson, inside the red-walled leadership compound of Zhongnanhai, not far from the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. "However, we do not think that we can possibly disregard the sovereignty of a country in the world. And if military interventionism is to be allowed in all the internal matters like a question of human rights of any country, that will open a very bad precedent in the world." He also attacked U.S. plans to develop an anti-missile shield (known as the Theatre Missile Defence) and position it in Southeast Asia to protect Japan and Taiwan from ballistic-missile attacks. "No matter what, we oppose the inclusion of Taiwan into the TMD," he warned. "Should that happen, it will become very dangerous." Asked what he meant by that, the Premier glowered and raised his voice: "Didn't you get me? I said it would constitute an interference, encroachment upon Chinese sovereignty. Taiwan is part of China." Part of the U.S. argument for developing the missile defence was North Korea's launch of a rocket over Japan in August. North Korea's government is believed to have nuclear ambitions and harbours deep antipathy toward Japan, South Korea and the United States. However, Mr. Zhu countered that China still does not know whether North Korea launched such a missile or, as North Korea and Russia insist, merely a satellite. "It is our assumption that the said danger should not be taken as a pretext for the attempt to develop TMD," the Premier said. "In our view, the proposal to establish a TMD does not conform with the international treaties on missiles. By doing so, it will not serve the interest of peace in the world. On the contrary, it will only trigger an arms race." Mr. Zhu, who says he came close to cancelling his coming visit to the United States over the Yugoslav bombing and anti-China sentiment, is scheduled to spend two weeks in the United States and Canada, beginning Tuesday in California. His comments highlight the widening philosophical gulf between the West and China over the Kosovo issue. The Premier affirmed that non-intervention should be the overriding law governing international relations. That is a philosophy that plays to Beijing's view that the outside world should play no direct role in Taiwan and Tibet, where independence movements also exist. He said the principle of non-interference remains paramount with respect to Taiwan, which China regards as a breakaway province that must be returned to Communist control, by military force if necessary. Many countries face internal instability and separatist movements, said Mr. Zhu, citing Canada and Quebec, Britain and Northern Ireland, as well as China and Tibet. But he added there is no international body with the moral authority to make the decision of when it is appropriate to intervene militarily in such internal disputes. "But who should be the person to make all these judgments or to make all these decisions? Because now we do not have a world tribunal or a world police for this. So who should be the person to make the decision to use all this military force . . . ? I don't think anyone can be in the position to make that decision." - - - - - - more here: theglobeandmail.com