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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 5.05
03/01/99 - 03/14/99
VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public
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Being Careful, Being Lucky, Being Alive
By Eve Pell
Date: 03-08-99
These days, careful attention to exercise and diet is considered basic to good character, but the facts of life and death rarely play out in straightforward ways. Thinking about a friend who is dying even though she obeyed all the rules brings PNS commentator Eve Pell to some understandings about living. Pell is the former the number one ranked woman road runner age 60-64 in the United States, and writes a regular column on veteran athletes for Pacific New Service.
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Boon for Indophiles: "Indian Ink"-- A Play Written in Colonial Blue
By Sandip Roy-Chowdhury
Date: 03-11-99
Indian actors are thrilled to be appearing in Tom Stoppard's play "Indian Ink," which just opened in San Francisco. But their deepest hunger is for scripts that reflect their contemporary lives -- not the age old stereotypes of the British Raj. PNS commentator Sandip Roy-Chowdhury is a film critic and contributing editor at "India Currents," a Bay Area magazine.
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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Forget About Left-Wingers and Right-Wingers -- Look for the Dynamists and Stasists
By Walter Truett Anderson
Date: 03-04-99
A spreading fear of change as we approach the new millennium is transforming the old left-versus-right political paradigm, in the view of some Silicon Valley thinkers. In its place they see a new polarization emerging, between dynamists and stasists. PNS associate editor Walter Truett Anderson, a political scientist and author of numerous books including "Reality Isn't What It Used to Be," attended a recent conference to define the emerging movement its adherents call "dynamism."
THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds
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More Than an Apology Needed for America's Rwanda
By Andrew Reding
Date: 03-11-99
Guatemala between 1980 and 1982 was an American Rwanda -- a country ravaged by a genocidal war on the majority Mayan population waged by a military whose officers were trained by the U.S. President Clinton has taken the first step in acknowledging U.S. complicity, but fear will continue to grip Guatemala until a U.N. sponsored genocidal tribunal is held. PNS associate editor Andrew Reding directs the North America Project of the World Policy Institute in New York.
CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World
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Archaic Icons Square Off in Little Saigon -- Uncle Ho Versus the South Vietnamese Flag
By Andrew Lam
Date: 03-02-99
A video store owner in Orange County's Little Saigon provokes a passionate response when he displays a poster of Ho Chi Minh, while teenagers in Hanoi cover the former revolutionary's fading photograph with portraits of Bay Watch starlets. PNS editor Andrew Lam explores the fate of Cold War icons on both sides of the Pacific. Lam is a short story writer and journalist.
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Gleanings From the Ethnic Media #11
By Emil Guillermo
Date: 03-05-99
What does the world look like as reported by California's growing ethnic media? PNS monitors the Chinese-, Spanish-, Vietnamese-, Japanese-, Korean-, Arabic-language news media as well as English-language newcomer and native-born ethnic media published and/or distributed widely in California. "Gleanings from the Ethnic Media" is a regular weekly column compiled by Emil Guillermo, host of "NCM: New California Media TV" (seen on PBS station KCSM-TV60 in the Bay Area); assisted by Pacific News Service and the NCM Network. Just as the alternative news media connected the disaffected populations in the 1960s, so in the 1990s the ethnic media connects the new ethnic majority communities of California -- to one another and to the larger public forum.
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Gleanings From the Ethnic Media #12
By Emil Guillermo
Date: 03-09-99
What does the world look like as reported on the pages of California's growing ethnic newspapers? PNS monitors the Chinese-, Spanish-, Vietnamese-, Japanese-, Korean-, Arabic-language news media as well as English-language newcomer and native-born ethnic press published and/or distributed widely in California. "Gleanings from the Ethnic Media" is a regular weekly column compiled by Emil Guillermo, host of "NCM: New California Media TV" (seen on PBS station KCSM-TV60 in the Bay Area); assisted by Pacific News Service and the NCM Network. Just as the alternative news media connected the disaffected populations in the 1960s, so in the 1990s the ethnic media connects the new ethnic majority communities of California -- to one another and to the larger public forum.
MOVEMENTS: Strategies For Survival, Identity and Direction by People on the Margins
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Murder of Three Activists in Central America-- Unhappy Way to Note New Hemispheric Indigenous Movement
By Jacqueline Keeler
Date: 03-10-99
The murder of three human rights activists working with Colombia's U'wa tribe provides a glimpse of the growing involvement of Northern indigenous people with their kin to the south. PNS correspondent Jacqueline Keeler, a member of the Dineh Nation and the Yankton Dakota Sioux is a Bay Area writer.
CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide
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Big-Time Embarrassment-- Newly Opened Files Show Kissinger Privately Promised Pinochet Support While Publicly Decrying Human Rights Abuses
By Lucy Komisar
Date: 03-01-99
Although he is usually considered to have played a major role in the coup which brought General Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger always kept his distance from Pinochet in public. A newly declassified memo about the only meeting between the two suggests that if secret files on Chile are opened -- as they will be if Pinochet is tried in Spain -- they will be extremely embarrassing to Kissinger. PNS correspondent Lucy Komisar, a New York journalist, is working on a book about U.S. foreign policy and human rights in several countries, including Chile, in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Hunger Haunts Orange Cove as Effects of Freeze Idle Citrus Workers
By David Bacon
Date: 03-03-99
As disasters go, the freeze in California's citrus country did not offer much in the way of photo opportunities -- no flooded towns or buried houses, and the damage to the fruit is invisible from the outside. Those most damaged by the freeze, the workers who pick the fruit, also seem to be invisible, yet their needs are real and their sources of relief sparse. PNS associate editor David Bacon writes widely on immigrant and labor issues.
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