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JINN MAGAZINE
PACIFIC NEWS SERVICE
Issue No. 5.21
10/18/99 - 10/29/99
VOICES: First-Person Essays Linking the Private to the Public
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Reports Showing U.S. Deliberately Bombed Chinese Embassy Deliberately Ignored By U.S. Media
By Yoichi Shimatsu
Date: 10-20-99
Investigative reporters for two prominent newspapers in England and Denmark, working together, have published an account of the May 7 NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy was not a "mistake," as the U.S. has claimed. In fact, they argue convincingly that the action was deliberate and planned. PNS commentator Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times Weekly in Tokyo, is the Hong Kong-based author of a forthcoming report on the media coverage of the bombing.
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Colonialism, Courage: Thoughts On Bringing Pinochet To Justice
By Alfonso Serrano F.
Date: 10-21-99
Following Augusto Pinochet's arrest in London last year, many observers feared possibly dangerous consequences for Chile's transitional democracy. But a year after the former dictator's detention, argues PNS associate editor Alfonso Serrano F., Chile is neither paralyzed nor polarized. Serrano, a native of Chile, is a San Francisco-based journalist.
VECTORS: A Regular Column on the Ideas and Directions Behind Today's News
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Poverty May Be Easier Than Misery To Solve
By Franz Schurmann
Date: 10-18-99
A general consensus exists among global experts on how to solve poverty. But the classic American belief that rising prosperity also means growing happiness is not necessarily borne out by global trends. PNS editor Franz Schurmann, professor emeritus of history and sociology at UC Berkeley, is author most recently of American Soul.
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Sport To You -- Explosive Global Battles Without An Ounce Of Munitions
By Alfonso Serrano F.
Date: 10-18-99
While all eyes in the United States are focusing on the World Series, the world itself is looking at other playing fields. For an astute observer of the international scene, the world of sport reveals significantly global trends. Alfonso Serrano is a San Francisco-based journalist and an Associate Editor for New California Media.
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Agile Advisor's Decision To Resign Signifies More Than Just Another Windshift In The Chaotic Caucasus
By Thomas Goltz
Date: 10-26-99
Azerbaijan is about the size of Maine or Indiana, but rich in oil and gas -- and dazzling in its political volatility. One figure who has managed to survive in this tumult is now resigning -- for reasons that are instructive to anyone interested in Russia's current problems in the region. PNS commentator Thomas Goltz, author of "Azerbaijan Diary" (M.E. Sharpe, 1999) is currently working on a book on ethnic conflict in the post-Soviet Caucasus.
PACIFIC PULSE: The Pacific Century and Its Impact on the Americas
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Wave Of Relief Sweeps Indonesia As Former Opposition Leaders Take Power
By Bramantyo Prijosusilo
Date: 10-25-99
The newly-elected president and vice president of Indonesia can be said to represent more than 30 years of dedicated opposition to the country's ruling forces. For the citizens of that beleaguered nation, they offer hope of unity and progress. PNS commentator Bramantyo Prijosusilo is an artist based in Jogjaharta whose work is currently on exhibit in Oakland, CA at the Pacific Bridge Contemporary South Asian Art Gallery. His e-mail address is maysaroh@hotmail.com.
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India -- Rolling Into The Information Age On A Bullock Cart
By Walter Truett Anderson
Date: 10-28-99
From young village women accessing information on crop prices to techies debugging software systems for U.S. banks, India is making gigantic strides into the Information Age. But how long it can offer a low wage haven for the cyberspace revolution remains to be seen. PNS commentator Walter Truett Anderson is a political scientist and author of numerous books, most recently "The Future of the Self." He also directs the Meridian Project.
THE AMERICAS: The Growing Enmeshment of the U.S. and Latin Worlds
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Mary Jo McConahay, U.S. Based Hispanic Magazine Stands Ground Against Powerful Mexican Family
By Mary Jo McConahay
Date: 10-22-99
Mexican media coverage last week spotlighted a small U.S. publication which has come up against one of the most powerful families in Mexico -- allegedly linked to drug trafficking, money laundering and murder. PNS Associate Editor Mary Jo McConahay reports on the growing controversy involving the Hank family, which is spreading its business empire to the United States.
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Finding Home Truths Far From Home
By Jeff Biggers
Date: 10-27-99
In a remote mountain village in Mexico, a researcher looking into the threatened culture and language of indigenous people receives a letter telling him that his family's homeplace is now lost. The news prompts him to realize the necessity of acting to preserve the heritage of everyday life in any setting. PNS commentator Jeff Biggers has just spent a year in northern Mexico; his writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Newsday and Bloomsbury among other publications.
CIVIL CONFLICTS: Interpretive Reports on Ethnic, Religious, and Inter-National Conflicts Worldwide
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Invisible VIctims -- In High Valleys Off The US Radar Screen, Chechnyans Fleeing Russian Fire Cross Into Georgia
By Thomas Goltz
Date: 10-19-99
Far from the capital city of Grozny -- indeed, far from anywhere -- people fleeing the Russian attacks on Chechnya are moving over the Caucasus Mountains into Georgia. The road is nearly impassable, the national and tribal borders complex, and it is clear that those coming this way must be driven by extraordinary fear. PNS correspondent Thomas Goltz, one of the few Americans familiar with this area, has been writing from the region for more than twenty years.
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