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37966 more spooks -- rank: 1000

Annotations to the list of Brit spies is at <http://www.pir.org/mi6.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 17 12:47:03 PDT 1999

37967 DEVELOPMENT OF SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >For example, a New York web site known >as JYA.COM (http://www.jya.com/crypto.htm) offers extensive public >information on Sigint, Comint and cryptography. The site is frequently >updated. Records of access to the site show that every morning it is visited >by a "bot" from NSA's National Computer Security Centre, which looks for new >files and makes copies of any that it finds. Oh that wilderness of mirrors again. JYA stands for John Young, Architect. If ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 17 09:17:16 PDT 1999

37968 Mary Daly unretired? -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web update - May 17, 1999 Feminist Firebrand Seeks Injunction Against Boston College By BEN GOSE Mary Daly, a feminist theologian who has been banning men from her classes at Boston College for 25 years, asked a judge Friday to bar the institution from telling people she has retired. The injunction, which Ms. Daly sought from a state court, also seeks to block Boston College from distributing the school catalog, which doesn't include her courses. A Boston College ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 17 07:35:55 PDT 1999

37969 Russian flight capital -- rank: 1000

The Guardian (London) - May 16, 1999 $150bn capital flight ravages Russia A new crisis, a new premier but firms enriched by the end of communism go on salting cash away abroad, says Simon Pirani Russian prime ministers come and go - Sergei Stepashin is the fourth in 14 months - but the flight of capital is constant. It flows through semi-legal and illegal channels into assets denominated in foreign currencies, and is reckoned to total more than $150 billion during the Yeltsin era so far. This is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 17 07:13:57 PDT 1999

37970 Belgrade's costing; Blair's isolation; Italian troubles -- rank: 1000

Independent (London) - May 16, 1999 BELGRADE TOTALS UP COST OF BOMBING By Dimitrije Boarov in Novi Sad With no end in sight to Nato's air campaign against Yugoslavia, Serb economists say the war has inflicted up to $200bn (£125bn) of damage on the Balkan state, 12 times greater than Yugoslavia's annual gross domestic product and more even than the country suffered in the Second World War. The figures are approximate and do not always tally, as some include Kosovo while others do not. The former ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 20:34:14 PDT 1999

37971 NATO reassessment? -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 17 1999 Nato to reassess its strategy on Kosovo By Alexander Nicoll Defence Correspondent Nato's approach to the Kosovo crisis, under growing criticism for its failure to produce results, will be reassessed over the next few weeks ahead of a series of summits to determine strategy. Nato leaders face increasing pressure as public concern rises over incidents such as the death of scores of ethnic Albanian refugees on Friday following the bombing of Serb positions in the villa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 20:30:45 PDT 1999

37972 Summers & The Planet: A Reminder -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: >Hmm, Summers wrote in a letter to the Economist (which I have in front >of me, but is not dated), about "an internal memo of mine", that "my memo >tried to sharpen the debate on important issues by taking as narrow-minded >an economic perspective as possible", and to "clarify what had been a >rather vague internal discussion". I guess saying that "I didn't actually >write the thing" wouldn't have sounded as good. In t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 20:14:43 PDT 1999

37973 1920s/1990s -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >Dumb question time: I see an inflection point in the 90s trend line >around early 1995. Did they change some tax laws in early 1995, or >could it be related to increased Wall Street confidence due to the >Republican take-over of Congress, or do you think it's just a >coincidence? I don't think there were any significant tax changes, except for the increase on the top 1% that came with Clinton's first budget. More likely is that the Fed tightened for most of 199 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 17:12:26 PDT 1999

37974 doubt cast on NATO alibi -- rank: 1000

[Meanwhile, the Sunday Telegraph reports that Robin Cook is on his way to Washington to "stiffen" NATO's resolve, and to urge Clinton to agree to deploying ground troops.] The Observer (London) - May 16, 1999 WAS SHE A HUMAN SHIELD OR JUST A NATO MISTAKE? By Patrick Wintour and Ed Vulliamy in Washington Severe doubt was cast last night on Nato claims that it had attacked a legitimate military target when it dropped 10 bombs on the village of Korisa, killing 87 civilians and injuring a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 14:57:46 PDT 1999

37975 Summers & the Planet: A Reminder -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >PS -- By the way, who is Lant Pritchett? That's not just some fancy code >for "Larry Summers is a Prick" is it? :o) Pritchett, a World Bank economist, has a very interesting 1995 paper called "Divergence, Big Time," which I wrote up in LBO shortly after it came out. Here's the abstract, from <http://www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/wps1522-abstract.html >. The full paper is at <ftp://monarch.worldbank.org/pub/decweb/Wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 14:41:53 PDT 1999

37976 Summers & the Planet: A Reminder -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > In any case, it is clear that Doug probably >owes Summers one after that "abrasive >prick" remark in Slate, :-). But it's true, isn't it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 14:18:02 PDT 1999

37977 anti-gay regs from Clinton administration -- rank: 1000

[from another list...] Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 07:42:29 -0700 From: Stephen Murray <keelung at ITSA.UCSF.EDU> Subject: proposed FDA regulations prohibiting MSMs from donating sperm =46rom: Leland Traiman <leland at gayspermbank.com> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is trying to prevent gay men from having children. At its Human Tissue Seminar on April 8, 1999 the FDA announced proposed regulations which wou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 14:09:09 PDT 1999

37978 1920s/1990s & 1870s and 1990s -- rank: 1000

JayHecht at aol.com wrote: >Barron's has an interesting analysis of the 1872-1874 stock debacle. > >The NY banks tried to hold it together as the RR financiers went down the >tubes. Since Barron's is rarely worth the $3.... The author, Chris Carolan, is the guy I quote in Wall Street as defining a bear market as a time when money returns to its rightful owners. When I asked him who they are, he said, "Oh, the Rockefellers." Doug ---- Barron's - May 17, 1999 Setting A Bull T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 10:31:37 PDT 1999

37979 Collapse of the Red-Brown Alliance? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >One interesting part of the failed impeachment drive was the rallying by >Zhiranovsky in defense of Yelsin and his calls for Yeltsin to declare the >Communists illegal and disband them. > >This seems to be a rather major break in the red-brown opportunistic >alliance that, while always shaky, had defined much of the opposition to >Yeltsin's policies. Partly, this is obviously a break in ranks due to the >weakness of Yeltsin and falling out as both s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 10:15:52 PDT 1999

37980 Foreign Affairs on KLA -- rank: 1000

I just posted a copy of an article on the history of the KLA from Foreign Affairs to the LBO website. It was written by Chris Hedges, who spent 3 years as the New York Times bureau chief in the Balkans. There's no link to the article anywhere on the site - I want to keep prying copyright violation bots from peeking at it. But you can get it directly from this link: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/KLA.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 16 10:11:46 PDT 1999