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To: DMaA who wrote (41641)	4/5/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 67261

Start your won athiest scouts. No thanks, we're doing just fine with the program we are in. yes, Minnesota does pay for .... I always thought it would be nice if the public at large had more of a say in the budgets. Not through some kind of winner take all election but a portion of the discretionary could be doled out via poll. TP

To: DMaA who wrote (41641)	4/5/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 67261

OK bc at your hands we have 350K homeless over the past week. You however are operating under a moral imperative so the USA will take care of 20K. That settles that. Bombs away. May 05, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) Moves by some countries to give at least temporary asylum to thousands of Kosovo refugees has split the western allies, with France and Italy in particular claiming it is playing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's game. Germany has promised to take in 40,000, Greece 5,000, Norway 6,000, Turkey 20,000, Canada 5,000 and the United States 20,000, NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said Sunday. Germany also said that Austria had agreed to accept 5,000, a Downing Street spokesman said Britain would take "several" thousand temporarily, and Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres said Lisbon could shelter 1,500. Denmark has also reluctantly agreed to give asylum to an unspecified number of the ethnic Albanians being forced out of Kosovo by the Serbs, Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said. But in Paris French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin refused to commit his government, whose ministers said that the refugees should be looked after through international help on Kosovo's borders. "The objective, that these men and women should return to their homes, is very important," Jospin said. "We do not accept the fait accompli of the deportations being carried out by the Serbs." Health Minister Bernard Kouchner added: "We must absolutely ensure that these refugees return home as quickly as possible, and they must primarily be looked after where they are." Foreign aid minister Charles Josselin, who has just visited Albania and Macedonia, said that acceptance of some refugees in France could not be ruled out. But he added that the ethnic Albanians "do not want to come to us, they want to go back to their homes." Refugees already in France have been allowed to stay, and told they can apply for political asylum. Meanwhile in Tirana Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema appealed to the Kosovo Albanians not to disperse through Europe but to stay in Albania in order to discourage "ethnic cleansing" in their homeland. Italy, across the Adriatic Sea from Albania, has long had a problem with Albanian illegal immigrants, many of whom avoid interception by Italian coastguards and police and make their way into other European Union countries. Some 350,000 ethnic Albanians have poured into Albanian and Macedonia, evicted from the Serbian province of Kosovo since North Atlantic Treaty Organization air strikes began against federal Yugoslav and Serbian targets on March 24. The aim was originally to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to grant autonomy to the majority ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo. Shea said NATO aircraft bringing in aid to the refugees had already begun flying some out to other European countries. But a NATO spokesman in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, said none had left there Sunday, and a Macedonian government official said the first refugee evacuations had been cancelled owing to administrative obstacles. The official said the flights would be able to depart within three hours "of receiving authorizations from Germany, Norway or Turkey." Sources at Skopje airport said the first plane had been due to take off for Turkey but had been cancelled after Greece and Bulgaria objected to Turkish Hercules military planes flying over their territory. The Macedonian government had said that Greek and Turkish military transport planes would also help ferry out refugees, as well as planes from Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania. Civilian Macedonian airlines would also help. Italian junior foreign minister suggested that nearer states such as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey take the main load, with the help of EU aid. Bulgaria has already said it can not afford to accept any more refugees, adding that it was also afraid of the conflict spreading. Rasmussen said Denmark's view had not changed, that NATO should not play Milosevic's game, but he added: "The situation is dramatic. It's a matter of life and death." Shea said NATO's aim remained the return of the refugees to their homes. ( (c) 1999 Agence France Presse)