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To: Machaon who wrote (7299)	5/7/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Disarm KLA, pour billions into Yugo (Kosovo including-more to Kosovo) Make it prefered trade not war zone....Blacks and White right here in this great country would be killing each other if not for prosperity If you say hate the war..sure Yousay Slob is the only or even big problem is diluting yourself...

To: Machaon who wrote (7299)	5/7/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Now lets see how many refugees can live on $25 mln for one year? Time Warner's 'Jenny Jones Show' Ordered to Pay $25 Mln in Death Lawsuit By Kim Chipman Time Warner's 'Jenny Jones' Loses $25 Mln Death Suit (Update1) (Adds company comment; updates stock price.) Pontiac, Michigan, May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc.'s ''The Jenny Jones Show'' was found guilty of negligence in the 1995 death of a former guest and ordered to pay $25 million to the victim's family, a jury ruled in Pontiac, Michigan. The family of Scott Amedure sued the Chicago-based show, distributor Warner Bros. and producer Telepictures, both units of Time Warner, for $50 million. Amedure was shot to death by Jonathan Schmitz days after the two appeared on a taping of a ''Jenny Jones'' program in which Amedure, a homosexual, revealed his ''secret crush'' on Schmitz. Lawyers for Amedure's family argued that the show's ''ambush'' tactics drove Schmitz, who has said he's heterosexual, to kill Amedure. The nature of the case, as well as the amount awarded in damages, is unprecedented, lawyers said. ''We are stunned by the complete disregard for the facts and the law,'' Jim Paratore, president of Telepictures Productions, said in a statement. Time Warner's lawyers said they will appeal the ruling. In the past decade, a number of controversial talk shows have appeared on U.S. television, such as ''The Jerry Springer Show'' and ''The Ricki Lake Show.'' These programs typically feature unknown people who seek to work out or reveal some sort of personal problem or secret, often sexual in nature. Officials from the ''Jenny Jones Show,'' Warner Bros. and Telepictures weren't immediately available to comment further. Time Warner shares fell 11/16 to 71 9/16 in late trading. ©1999 Bloomberg L.P. All rights reserved. Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Trademarks.

To: Machaon who wrote (7299)	5/7/1999 6:22:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

Serbs Say NATO Hit Hospital, Market; 15 Dead 04:49 p.m May 07, 1999 Eastern By Julijana Mojsilovic NIS, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Yugoslav officials accused NATO of bombing a hospital and an outdoor market in the country's third largest city, Nis, Friday, killing 15 people and wounding 70. As residents and officials reported NATO carrying out its most sustained attack on Nis, a senior Yugoslav official reiterated Belgrade's tough stance in the Kosovo crisis. ''We will fight using all means at our disposal for Kosovo to remain part of Yugoslavia,'' Srdja Bozovic, speaker of the upper house of Yugoslavia's parliament, told a news conference during a two-day working visit to Ukraine. ''We will never agree that Kosovo should become part of another country,'' he said. ''We will not agree that some quasi-states, for example, a kind of Great Albania, should be created from chunks of our land or from somebody else's.'' Cranking up pressure on Serbian security forces and their supply infrastructure, NATO underlined that a new peace plan for Kosovo agreed to by the West and Russia did not herald an end to bombing as long as Belgrade did not accept its terms. NATO insists that the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians who have fled Kosovo must be allowed to return with a security presence including NATO to guarantee their safety, and that Belgrade must grant the province wide autonomy. But Bozovic insisted: ''We will never allow occupation of some part of our territory, as we have no right to give up our land to the enemy.'' Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has said he will accept only a non-NATO force with defensive sidearms, a stand rejected by NATO because it says returning ethnic Albanians would not feel safe. In Brussels, NATO said it had attacked a radio relay station and an airfield in Nis but had no indication that bombs also hit the hospital and marketplace. It said it would investigate. Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Milovan Bojic, visiting the scene in Nis, said: ''Is it possible that something like this was done only a day after we came closer to a peace agreement?'' The major Western powers and Russia -- known as the Group of Eight (G8) -- agreed Thursday on principles of a strategy for resolving the Kosovo crisis in their first meeting since NATO began bombing Yugoslavia March 24. The G8 foreign ministers called for Yugoslav troops to leave Kosovo and to be replaced by an armed international force. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott is to fly to Moscow next week to start talks on details of a peace plan. The attacks on Nis, an industrial hub of 250,000 people, came a day after strikes on fuel depots caused huge fires there. Air raids early Friday targeted Nis airport. But just before midday local time, the city's main hospital complex and outdoor market came under NATO bombardment and 15 people were killed and 70 injured, local doctors and municipal officials said. A Reuters news team that went to Nis saw three bloody corpses in a street covered with debris. One was of an old woman killed by shrapnel as she carried home carrots from the market. Police said about 20 unexploded cluster bombs were in the area. Reporters were told to keep to the middle of the street. Dr. Petar Bosniakovic at the city's main hospital said 15 people died in the strike, nine of them in and around the marketplace. Three were killed instantly outside the hospital, and three others died on the operating table, he said. The hospital's pathology clinic was damaged and its walls were pockmarked with small craters that appeared to have been caused by a weapon spreading shrapnel over a wide area. About 10 yellow canisters with parachutes attached were visible on the street leading to the hospital. At least 30 houses in the Nis suburb of Medosevac were destroyed or heavily damaged in an air strike earlier Friday, local district chief Jovan Zlatic said. A Reuters reporter saw one woman weeping in front of her devastated house. ''Look for yourselves and make your own judgements,'' Zlatic told reporters. ''They have destroyed this city without mercy. They did it with a clear conscience but without a sound mind.'' Belgrade has repeatedly accused NATO of aiming at civilian areas to terrorize Serbs. NATO denies it, saying it is targeting only militarily relevant targets but that bombs sometimes stray. The latest round of NATO strikes on day 44 of the campaign also hit a railroad bridge on the main Belgrade-Bucharest line, the hometown of President Slobodan Milosevic, and a television tower already struck twice, according to Serbian media and residents. NATO briefers told reporters that Serbian security forces were now largely pinned down in Kosovo with allied aircraft in action around the clock attacking tanks, artillery emplacements, anti-aircraft guns and border posts. They said fixed, strategic targets were also pounded despite low visibility, including the Horgos bridge in eastern Serbia, fuel depots in Nis, Prahovo and Pirane, an ammunition depot at Surdulica and three airfields. In the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, public transit was running normally for the first time in days after electricity was restored after weekend NATO attacks on power plants that blacked out much of the country. But after three quiet nights in Belgrade, air raid sirens sounded at 9.10 p.m. (3:10 p.m. EDT) Friday and lights suddenly went off again. Residents said they heard strong detonations and saw flashes lighting up the sky from the direction of a power plant in the suburb of Obrenovac that supplies much of the country. Serbian state television broadcasts were repeatedly interrupted Friday, with Serbian media reporting NATO strikes against transmitters in western and northern mountains. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.

To: Machaon who wrote (7299)	5/7/1999 6:41:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Nato has confirmed that one of its cluster bombs aimed at an airfield target in the Yugoslav city of Nis may have mistakenly hit a civilian area. Fifteen people died after the daylight Nato strike, which hit a hospital and market place. "This morning [Friday] Nato aircraft carried out an attack against Nis airfield using combined effects munitions [cluster bombs]. Unfortunately, it is highly probable that a weapon went astray and hit civilian buildings," a Nato military statement said. Serb media and witnesses described the attacks on Nis - Yugoslavia's third city - as the heaviest of the campaign. On Friday night, air raid sirens sounded again in Belgrade, and a BBC correspondent in the city confirmed that an attack was taking place - the first on the capital for several days. The Western alliance has been pressing ahead with its bombing campaign, as negotiations with Russia for a Kosovo settlement continue. BBC Correspondent Mike Williams, who visited Nis, says 15 people were killed after bombs hit two areas of the city about 11am. on Friday. >>>> because of stupid decisions by our leaders and politicians at that time.>>> quote Robert Barry 1999 Local officials say 60 have been injured. Our correspondent says he saw bodies lying in the market place and in a residential street near a hospital, with unexploded cluster bombs lying in the gardens of people's homes. The daylight attack hit crowded streets, as people were no longer in the bomb shelters where they had spent the night. news.bbc.co.uk

To: Machaon who wrote (7299)	5/7/1999 8:26:00 PM
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Mandela Slams NATO and Ethnic Cleansing, Host China Questions Reports (found by lorne) 1999.05.07¡@2:46am Taiwan time updated BEIJING, May 6 (AFP) - South African President Nelson Mandela Thursday slammed both NATO air strikes and ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia during the China-leg of his farewell tour, while Chinese officials expressed skepticism over ethnic cleansing reports from the Balkans. Security was tight as a frail-looking Mandela addressed a capacity crowd at Beijing University for almost one hour, making an impassioned plea to end the NATO bombing of Kosovo, which he characterized as "deeply disturbing." "On the one hand human rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Rights are being violated in ethnic cleansing. On the other hand the UN Security Council is being ignored by the unilateral and destructive action of some of its permanent members," Mandela said. "Both actions must be condemned in the strongest terms," he said, to applause from the audience, of which just a small minority were students. Mandela told the capacity crowd he believed the NATO bombing risked undermining the authority of the UN Security Council. "Can the world afford, at the end of a centruy that has seen so much pain and suffering, to risk damaging the authority of the world body that has the task of maintaining international peace?" he asked. Asked if China was prepared to share Mandela's position on ethnic cleansing, China's foreign ministry expressed doubts about reports of ethnic cleansing and suggested the refugee exodus from Kosovo was a result of the NATO bombing campaign. "There are different interpretations and reports over this. We must make sure what has really happened," ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao said. "We're opposed to ethnic cleansing in any form if there is such ethnic cleansing. With regard to ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, there have been various reports," he said, adding the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia must be respected. Asked if China believed the refugee exodus had been caused by the NATO bombings, Zhu said it could "not be denied that the refugees' exodus took place after NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia." The spokesman added China was "indignant" that "numerous innocent civilians ... have been deprived of the most basic rights of living since military actions began." Mandela, whose country established ties with mainland China only in January 1998 after breaking off relations with Taiwan, is the first South African head of state to visit China. He was greeted by President Jiang Zemin on Wednesday as he began the final leg of his farewell tour, set to be his last international foray before he leaves office in June. Officials close to the tour indicated the "promotion of bilateral trade and investment" would be the focus of the visit, while the issue of China's ongoing human rights violations would be put on the backburner. Mandela used the occasion of the Beijing University speech to call on Asian and African nations to shape a "new world order" that would promote equality, safeguard world peace, and reflect "democratic norms of our age in the decision-making structures of world bodies." "The interdependence of our economies and a global economic system ... sees a widening gap between the richer and poorer parts of humanity," he said. "We must ensure that globalisation benefits not only the powerful but also...those whose lives are ravaged by poverty." chinatimes.com.tw

To: Machaon who wrote (7299)	5/7/1999 8:30:00 PM
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Democracy at work.. Moves to outlaw Turkish Islamic party Merve Kavakci was evicted from parliament for wearing headscarf Turkey's chief prosecutor has begun moves to ban the Islamic Virtue Party on grounds that it is trying to overthrow the country's secular constitution. Opening his case against the party in the constitutional court, Prosecutor Vural Savas said Virtue was trying to replace the constitution with Islamic law. The move follows the resignation of the Virtue Party's chairman, Aydin Menderes, in a growing row over the wearing of a banned Muslim headscarf in parliament by a party deputy. Mr Savas was behind last year's closure of a previous Islamist party, Welfare, which briefly led the Turkish Government. Most of the Welfare party's deputies regrouped in the Virtue Party behind a new leadership and investigations have been under way for some time to establish whether Virtue is a direct continuation of the banned party. The party won more than 100 seats in last month's general election. The role of religion On Sunday, Merve Kavakci, a newly-elected woman Virtue Party deputy, re-ignited debate over the place Islam holds in Turkey when she wore the Muslim headscarf in parliament. Turkey, which is officially secular, regards the wearing of the Muslim headscarf as a political, pro-Islamic statement and has banned them in public institutions. Ms Kavakci and party leader, Recai Kutan, have refused to back down. Dividing the country Announcing his resignation as Virtue chairman on Thursday, Mr Menderes said he felt that Virtue - the third biggest party in parliament - was bent on self-destruction over the issue. He said both sides of the political and religious fence were using the issue to divide the country. "If I thought Virtue could take a fresh and wiser path I would have continued my job," he said. The son of a former prime minister, Mr Menderes, was seen as a moderate voice in the Virtue Party. Party faces investigation Prosecutors are examining whether Ms Kavakci's actions amount to incitement to racial or religious hatred. Angry MPs forced the newly-elected deputy to leave the parliament building before she could take her oath of office. Since then the issue has dominated Turkey, with newspapers probing her past. Reports in the country's mainstream media have attacked her for allegedly calling for an Islamic holy war in Turkey and opposing Turkish plans to join the European Union because it is composed of mainly Christian nations. news.bbc.co.uk