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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 4.03
02/02/98 - 02/15/98
VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public
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A Latino Perspective -- The "Dialogue on Race" is a Sham
By Julio Calderon
Date: 02-11-98
Race is not America's number one problem, despite President Clinton's efforts to make it the focal point of the 1998 elections. The problem, according to PNS commentator Julio Calderon, is politicians who think, or want the public to think, that race is the problem. Calderon, a former TV news reporter in Oakland and Fresno, and past president of the Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA) is an information officer for the State of California.
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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From Iraq to Indonesia -- What Are America's Leaders Up To?
By Franz Schurmann
Date: 02-10-98
While Americans bask in the warmth of good economic news, America's leaders are making forceful moves abroad. In Iraq, Clinton is imposing a moral code with the threat of pulverizing attack if not accepted. However, in Indonesia and Bosnia, he is pursing peace making with justice. PNS editor Franz Schurmann explains the difference between the two approaches and why one will have cataclysmic results while the other will reap rewards. Schurmann, professor emeritus of history and sociology at UC Berkeley, reads widely in the Arab press.
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The New Isolationist Paradox-- Against Saddam, And Against the U.N.
By Sanford Gottlieb
Date: 02-13-98
They are willing to support the United Nations as the basis for attacking Iraq, but generally see that body as a threat to US sovereignty. These "new isolationists" are mostly young Republicans, but they have been joined by the leadership in a trend that has brought expressions of concern from corporate and political leaders. PNS commentator Sanford Gottlieb is author of "Defense Addiction: Can America Kick the Habit?" published by Westview Press, and has worked for over 30 years for private organizations in the field of international arms control.
PACIFIC PULSE: The Pacific Century and Its Impact on the Americas
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Asia's Annus Horriblis -- A Global Crisis That Requires A Global Solution
By Edward Liu
Date: 02-06-98
The Asian financial crisis is not only weakening the global economy but extracting enormous human costs that could probe destabilizing for world peace. To resolve it requires more than pouring in a lot of money through the IMF. At the global level we need a new financial and economic charter much like the UN political charter that will address the root causes of the turmoil. At the bottom Asians must change their business practices and learn to operate in an open and transparent global economy. PNS commentator Edward Liu, an ethnic Chinese born and raised in the Philippines, is a practicing attorney in San Francisco.
THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds
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Chiapas Counterinsurgency Campaign Spreads Fear -- And Refugess -- To Highland Towns
By Mary Jo McConahay
Date: 02-02-98
In the coffee-growing highlands of southern Mexico the human landscape is polarizing in the wake of the massacre of 45 unarmed civilians in one hamlet. Thousands of displaced villagers are swelling the population of so-called "safe" towns, surrounded by federal police and army forces, in an atmosphere of continuing tension. PNS Central America editor Mary Jo McConahay has reported from Latin America for the National Catholic Reporter, Choices, Mother Jones and other publications for over a decade. Photographs/slides by McConahay are available on request from PNS. Call George Gundrey at 415-243-4364.
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The Bees -- Flickering Beacon of Hope in Troubled Chiapas Area of Mexico
By Mary Jo McConahay
Date: 02-03-98
Reports of the massacre of 45 villagers in the Mexican state of Chiapas last December have overlooked the fact that the victims were affiliated with "the Bees." This remarkable organization, now some seven years old, remains pledged to neutrality and nonviolence in a place where neither seems possible. PNS Central America editor Mary Jo McConahay has reported from Latin America for National Catholic Reporter, Choices, Mother Jones and other publications for over a decade. Photographs/slides by McConahay are available on request from PNS. Call George Gundrey at 415-243-4364.
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Bilingual in Chicago-- Chicago Area Schools Servive Angry Controversy and Build A Successful Bilingual Program
By Andres Tapia
Date: 02-05-98
An initiative that would effectively shut down bilingual education programs in California has spurred a sometimes hostile debate over the question of whether it will benefit Hispanic students more than white. However, PNS associate editor Andres Ta pia, recounting his own experience in a similar situation, finds that such a program is a distinct winner for all concerned. PNS associate editor Andres Tapia, a contributing editor of Christianity Today, is a Chicago-based writer.
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Learning From Illegals -- Lessons for an Age of Migration
By Ruben Martinez
Date: 02-09-98
As the world shifts and churns the only certainty is that we're all on the move. Ruben Martinez, an associate editor at Pacific News Service, has been taking lessons on how to survive from "illegals" on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. Martinez is at work on a book about life and death in the borderlands for Metropolitan/Holt.
MOVEMENTS: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins
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These Competitors Are Never Past Their Prime
By Eve Pell
Date: 02-12-98
While the television cameras focus on Olympic athletes that seem impossibly young, and competitors in their late 20s are considered "over the hill," athletes 40 and over -- including some in their 90s -- are a growing presence on tracks and fields everywhere. PNS correspondent Eve Pell reports on the most recent world games for Veteran Athletes. Pell is the number one ranked woman road runner over 60 in the United States, and will be writing a monthly column on veteran athletes for Pacific New Service.
YOUTH OUTLOOK: The World Through Young People's Eyes
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Lessons of Lewinski for Twenty-Something Generation
By YO! Staff
Date: 02-04-98
As the Monica-gate scandal begins to fade from the headlines, twenty-somethings around the country are drawing lessons from it -- as future politicians, students of sexual politics, and survivors of the Washington, DC intern culture. PNS asked three reporters working with our youth projects to share their views.
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