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PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE

Issue No. 5.13

06/21/99 - 07/04/99

CONTENTS


* VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public

    Our "Be Your Own Person" Culture Through a Chinese Lens
    By Dorothy Chin
    Date: 06-25-99
    Parents worry deeply these days about the son or daughter closeted in the bedroom obsessed with the Internet. But in a culture where the relentless message is "be your own person," or "do it on your own," adolescent rebellion is encouraged if not inevitable. PNS commentator Dorothy Chin is a psychotherapist and writer living in southern California.

    Freedom Means More Than Nothing Left to Lose
    By Joe Loya
    Date: 07-01-99
    This is a time of year when public spaces resonate with the word of freedom. But how to get free and how to be free are very different issues, as one former prison inmate has learned. PNS associate editor Joe Loya is a California writer currently writing a memoir.


* VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News

    Justice, Vengeance, Peacemeking? Trial in Turkey a Focus for Many Lines of Force
    By Franz Schurmann
    Date: 06-21-99
    The trial of Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), involves much more than the stated charges of murder and treason. In fact, the outcome may reflect agendas in Washington, DC as well as in Europe as much as anything revealed in the courtroom. PNS editor Franz Schurmann is a professor emeritus of history and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of numerous books on foreign politics.

    "United States Adopts Special Battle Plan in Case of Korean War II"
    Translated by Franz Schurmann
    Date: 06-23-99
    The following is translated and abstracted from an article in the June 16, 1999 issue of World Journal, a Chinese-language newspaper with office in the U.S. and Taiwan and a global circulation of 2.8 million. PNS associate editor Franz Schurmann translated this article for the New California Media (NCM) web site (www.ncmonline.com). NCM is a collaboration of over 150 ethnic news organizations which aims to raise public awareness of the ethnic media's growing role in informing California's civic life and to enhance inter-group understanding.

    Some Very Large Hands May Be Rattling the Sabres in Korea
    By Franz Schurmann
    Date: 06-23-99
    The sinking of a torpedo boat, the most serious military encounter in Korea since 1953, brings news of a new plan involving U.S. and South Korean forces. This plan could bring the orderly reunification so many desire -- or lead to chaos and war. A related story offers a summary of this plan as put forth in the Chinese language World Journal. PNS associate editor Franz Schurmann writes extensively on international affairs. He is Professor Emeritus from UC Berkeley and author of "The Logic of World Power" and "The Foreign Politics of Richard Nixon."

    China Deflation -- Greatest Challenge Yet to U.S.-Style Consumer Capitalism
    By Franz Schurmann
    Date: 06-28-99
    Something once unthinkable may be going on in both China and Japan -- people are losing interest in consumption. This produces deflation which economists fear, but may reflect a deeper change could be going on where a billion and a half prosperous people are beginning to seriously question consumer capitalism. PNS editor Franz Schurmann is emeritus professor of history and sociology at UC Berkeley. He speaks and reads both Chinese and Japanese and has written extensively on both countries.


* THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds

    Why Columbia's President Masterminded Meeting of Stock Exchange Chief and Guerrilla Leader
    By Andrew Reding
    Date: 06-30-99
    Last week's meeting between Richard Grasso, president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Colombian guerrilla commander Raul Reyes is not as odd as it first appears to be. In effect, the well-publicized event was directed at an important, but absent, third party, according to PNS commentator Andrew Reding -- the country's economic elite. Reding is senior fellow for hemispheric affairs at the World Policy Institute in New York.


* CALIFORNIA COLLAGE: California as Trendsetter for the Country and the World

    Gleanings From the Ethnic Media #27
    By Emil Guillermo
    Date: 06-22-99
    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

    The Marathoner of Marathoners-- Preacher, Teacher, Artist, Athlete
    By Eve Pell
    Date: 07-02-99
    Only one woman has run the Boston Marathon 30 times, and she is, at 70, a remarkable figure in a number of other ways as well. Margo Fish spoke about her life and thoughts with Eve Pell early this summer. Pell is formerly the number one ranked woman road runner over 60 in the United States, and writes a regular column on veteran athletes for Pacific New Service.


* CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide

    America's Growing Isolation on the Death Penalty and Juvenile Justice
    By Michael Kroll
    Date: 06-24-99
    This month Trinidad and Tobago made headlines by carrying out the first execution in five years. But far more indicative of world trends, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, was Russia's commutation of the death sentences of some 716 condemned prisoners. It's a worldwide trend that is leaving the United States, the self-proclaimed champion of human rights, increasingly isolated. PNS associate editor Michael Kroll writes widely on death penalty issues.


* YOUTH OUTLOOK: The World Through Young People's Eyes

    Clothing Reality-- Learning the Limits of Fashion Freedom
    By Richard Douglass
    Date: 06-29-99
    Clothing offers protection and modesty -- but fashion involves a complext set of signals and responses. Reporters for YO! (Youth Outlook) explore clothing and identity in the next issue -- some by dressing in others' clothing for a day. Richard Douglass, 15, drew on his own recent experience. Douglass is on the staff of YO! (Youth Outlook) a newspaper by and about young people published by Pacific News Service.

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