> 
> 
> The New American
>  November 11, 1996
> 
>                     INSIDER REPORT
> 
> Extradited to UN Tribunal. Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a 73-year-old
> Rwandan living in Texas, was arrested on September 26th for
> extradition to Tanzania, where he will be arraigned before the
> United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The
> former Seventh-Day Adventist minister is accused of genocide,
> complicity to commit genocide, and crimes against humanity.
> 
> In April 1994, hundreds of Rwandan Tutsis sought refuge in a church
> compound over which Ntakirutimana had responsibility; most of them
> were slaughtered by their ethnic rivals, the Hutus. According to
> Alison Desforges of Human Rights Watch, Ntakirutimana "did not use
> his influence to stop [the massacre], and there certainly is some
> indication that he used his influence to make the massacre happen."
> 
> However, Dr. Eliel Nataki, Ntakirutimana's son, insists, "My father
> could not be guilty because he fled the area before the massacres
> started." Nataki also maintains that the war crimes charges were
> filed by people who have seized the family's property.
> 
> Uncovering Soviet Secrets. In the October issue of Commentary,
> former Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky shares some gleanings
> from 3,000 pages of top secret documents from the Central Committee
> of the Soviet Union. Examining the documents, Bukovsky writes, "I
> study the signatures of Leonid Brezhnev, Konstantin Chernenko, Yuri
> Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Dimitri Ustinov, and Boris Pomarev. I
> read their handwritten comments in the margins, their profound
> decisions concerning everything from arrest and exile and murder of
> those they considered undesirable to the financing of international
> terrorism, from disinformation campaigns to the preparation of
> aggression against neighboring countries."
> 
> In 1991, Bukovsky gained access to key Soviet archives, and he
> stored thousands of documents digitally using a computer with a
> hand-held scanner. In 1993, those archives were sealed again and
> will remain locked away for at least another 30 years. Bukovsky
> notes that "only a few years ago, anyone who dared to suggest that
> `the hand of Moscow' was at work in some international development
> or another would have been routinely accused of `McCarthyism' and
> relegated to the status of a pariah. I know; it happened to me. And
> even those disposed to believe the worst of the Kremlin would often
> raise a doubt, lamenting that we would never see the evidence.
> Well, here it is, signed, stamped, and numbered."
> 
> The documents provide such information as:
> 
> Detailed instructions for funding and directing Soviet agents of
> influence abroad, including former Finnish Prime Minister K. Sorsa.
> 
> Proof that the "split" between Moscow and the Italian Communist
> Party (the largest and most powerful in Europe) was a strategic
> fraud.
> 
> A 1979 memo describing the interest of President Jimmy Carter "in
> the making of a joint Soviet-American film on disarmament."
> 
> Memos describing the interest of "one of the largest American
> television corporations" in broadcasting a Soviet-made
> disinformation film on Vietnam - in 1967, while American servicemen
> were fighting Soviet clients in Southeast Asia.
> 
> The evidence of Soviet penetration of Western media sources is
> overwhelming, writes Bukovsky: "So voluminous is material of this
> nature that I finally gave up noting all the instances in which
> Western television companies, those fiercely independent souls,
> willingly agreed to serve as channels for Soviet propaganda, to put
> themselves under the ideological control of the Communist party -
> and to pay hard cash for the privilege."
> 
> It was Bukovsky's intention to publish a book examining his
> findings, and his difficulty in finding an American publisher
> suggests that Soviet ideological influence over Western media
> remains formidable. Bukovsky reports that Random House "asked to
> buy the U.S. rights to my book but then, after five months of
> haggling over my credibility, and attempting to exercise political
> censorship over my conclusions, reneged on its offer."
> 
> Apparently Bukovsky's perspectives aren't compatible with the
> Random House party line, which is, to some extent, dictated by
> Russia's External Intelligence Service (SVR). Soviet analyst J.
> Michael Waller of the American Foreign Policy Council reports that
> "the SVR signed an exclusive arrangement with Crown Publishers, a
> subsidiary of Random House, to provide archival information to
> selected Western authors. A contract envisioned books on the Cuban
> missile crisis, KGB penetration of the British government and its
> intelligence services, KGB operations in Berlin, the assassination
> of Leon Trotsky, and the history of Soviet intelligence. The
> arrangement ensured that the SVR would control all literary
> products by making SVR personnel coauthors with Western writers."
> (Emphasis added.)
> 
> Gun Grabbing in Mexico. According to the September 16th Christian
> Science Monitor, as the U.S. and Mexico "work to dissolve the
> border under the North American Free Trade Agreement," an
> increasing number of Americans who travel to Mexico with registered
> firearms are finding themselves jailed on charges of "weapons
> smuggling." The March 1994 murder of presidential candidate Luis
> Donaldo Colosio and various guerrilla uprisings have prompted
> Mexican officials to reemphasize the country's ban on importing
> weapons, as well as national and municipal gun-control laws. The
> Monitor noted, "Sentences for possession of firearms in Mexico can
> be for up to 30 years." In 1995, Mexican border authorities stopped
> 110 Americans for weapons possession. One typical case was that of
> Arizona resident Don Tucker, who crossed the border to purchase a
> discount prescription last spring, only to be thrown in jail for
> seven weeks after Mexican authorities found a rifle and a shotgun
> (both unloaded) in the trunk of his car during a random search.
> 
> Of course, Mexico enjoys the sovereign right to its own gun control
> laws, and some Americans have been detained on legitimate gun
> smuggling charges. However, U.S. officials are apparently more
> anxious to insure the sanctity of Mexico's gun smuggling laws than
> they are to protect the rights of Americans traveling in that
> country. Daniel Knauss, assistant U.S. Attorney for Arizona,
> insists that Americans are "fairly chauvinistic. We assume our
> rights go with us [when we travel abroad]. That is not the case."
> Karie Dozer, a spokeswoman for Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods
> (who negotiated Don Tucker's release), emphatically defended
> Mexico's gun laws: "They mean no firearms. They don't want your
> guns in their country. And that is their law. We have to respect
> it."
> 
> Orbital Interdependence. Michael New-style patriots who dream of
> becoming astronauts will be dismayed to learn that service aboard
> an international space station will include service under foreign
> command. According to the Orlando Sentinel, "The United States
> designed the international space station and is paying half its
> construction costs, but when U.S. astronauts arrive there, they
> won't always be in charge. Sometimes they'll have to take orders
> from a Russian cosmonaut or an astronaut from Japan, Canada or the
> European Space Agency."
> 
> In late September, NASA agreed to this arrangement in compliance
> with Russian demands. "Last year, [NASA Associate Administrator
> Wil] Trafton said at a news conference that the United States and
> Russia had agreed that Americans would run the station," the
> Sentinel reported. "But the Russians later said they never made
> such an agreement. Now an international committee will decide who
> is in charge of each station crew.... Those commands could last
> months."
> 
> In the meantime, the Russian company in charge of building the
> station's service module, which will provide life support and
> living quarters for the station, has fallen at least three months
> behind schedule. The service module is scheduled to be launched in
> April 1998.
> 
> Martial Law Madness. Christina Jean Morrison of North Carolina's
> Pender County survived Hurricane Fran, only to be devastated by the
> military personnel who administered martial law in the storm's
> aftermath. The September 9th issue of Jacksonville's Daily News
> featured a photograph of Morrison being handcuffed and arrested by
> three National Guardsmen on charges of "violating state of
> emergency ordinances."
> 
> Morrison offered her side of the story in the September 26th issue
> of the Daily News. "Sticking out Hurricane Fran in Surf City wasn't
> the smartest thing I've ever done, but the aftermath turned out to
> be more dangerous than the storm for this Surf City resident,"
> Morrison wrote. She visited the local police station, where she
> signed up for a house inspection, which was necessary in order to
> have her power reconnected. After asking acquaintances if she could
> help them put their properties back in order, Morrison set off in
> search of groceries, which necessitated a trip across a nearby
> bridge.
> 
> "Before I tried to cross the bridge, I thought to ask a patrolman
> I saw in a parking lot about the requirements for crossing," she
> recalled. "As quickly as I approached the officer, he became
> hostile. Instead of hearing my question, he reprimanded me for
> being off my property. This confused me, as I had just come from
> the police station and nobody had said anything to me there and I
> saw all sorts of other people walking around."
> 
> As she sought to explain that she was simply trying to find water
> and ice, "The officer cut me off in mid-sentence and raised his
> voice, yelling `Get back to your property.'" Morrison threw up her
> hands in exasperation, exclaimed that she was "going home," and
> began to comply with the officer's demand - only to be grabbed from
> behind and thrown face-down in the parking lot. "That's it, you're
> going to jail," the officer shouted as he shoved her into the hands
> of three military personnel.
> 
> "I was charged with violating the state of emergency and resisting
> arrest," she recounts. After being verbally berated and frisked in
> front of at least ten men, she was finally returned to her home.
> The trauma made her physically ill. "I just couldn't believe this
> was happening to me in America," she concluded.
> 
> Strangling Heterosexuality in the Schools. The case of six-year-old
> Jonathan Prevette, the grade schooler from Lexington, North
> Carolina who was suspended for "sexual harassment" after kissing a
> female classmate, is just one example of a larger trend. According
> to the September 25th issue of Education Week, "A small but growing
> number of lawsuits around the country are seeking to hold school
> districts responsible for the sexual harassment of students by
> their classmates."
> 
> The Prevette case follows federal initiatives to crack down on
> "sexual harassment" in the schools: "The U.S. Department of
> Education recently warned districts that they must take stronger
> steps to combat so-called peer harassment, and a similar message is
> emerging from the federal courts. Such cases have yet to result in
> huge damage awards, but education-law experts, citing the history
> of sexual-harassment lawsuits in the workplace, believe the
> likelihood of future costly judgements against districts is high."
> 
> "Sexual harassment" may include any action, gesture, or statement
> that creates a "hostile environment" - and the offense is defined
> entirely by the perceptions of the alleged victim. Thus a grade
> school proto-feminist could scream "sexual harassment!" if invited
> to "play house" with a more traditional male student. However,
> adult educators who seek to lure schoolchildren into homosexuality
> enjoy a special dispensation.
> 
> Writing in the October issue of Chronicles, Eugene Narrett, a
> professor of English at Framingham State College in Massachusetts,
> describes a quiz administered at the local high school. Students
> were asked: "Is it possible heterosexuality is a phase you will
> grow out of? Are you heterosexual because you fear the same sex? If
> you have never slept with anyone of the same sex, how do you know
> you wouldn't prefer it? Is it possible you merely need a good gay
> experience?" Another question in the sensitivity-training
> curriculum asked: "Given the problems men and women face, would you
> want your child to be heterosexual? If they [sic] were, would you
> consider aversion therapy?"
> 
> Arguably, feminist-driven "sexual harassment" policy constitutes a
> subtle but significant exercise in anti-heterosexual "aversion
> therapy."
> 
> Alan Sagner/CPB. On September 17th it was announced that the board
> of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had elected
> New Jersey real estate developer Alan Sagner as its new chairman.
> Sagner told Washington Times reporter Joyce Price, "I'm a liberal
> and proud of it," an admission confirmed by his service in 1992 as
> head of the New Jersey Business Council for Clinton-Gore. Even more
> disturbing, however, was the role he played in co-founding and
> promoting the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), a notorious
> communist front launched in 1960. The FPCC's most renowned member
> was President John F. Kennedy's presumed assassin, Lee Harvey
> Oswald.
> 
> Sagner told reporter Price that the FPCC "was not an organization
> to defend Castro.... It was an organization that said small
> countries ought to be able to resolve their own internal
> differences without undue influence by the United States." No, it
> was an organization to defend Castro. On one occasion, for
> instance, Sagner and his colleagues sought to place a large ad in
> the New York Times defending the Castro regime. When letters
> soliciting funds raised only $600 (according to an FBI report,
> Sagner personally gave $500) for the $3,500 ad, the Cuban
> government, through its mission at the United Nations, supplied the
> balance. The ad ran, stating in part that "there are in the U.S.
> powerful interests bent on frustrating the primary purpose of the
> revolution: to give Cuba to the Cubans." Subsequent activities of
> the FPCC, as summarized by the New York Telegram and Sun for
> December 27, 1963, included "sponsorship of pro-Castro street
> rallies and mass picket lines and direction of an active propaganda
> mill high-lighting illegal travel-to-Cuba campaigns."
> 
> The September 29, 1996 issue of the Washington Times concluded: "At
> a time when the United States was engaged in a deadly conflict with
> Cuba Mr. Sagner was associated with an organization whose purpose
> it was [to] propagandize and build domestic support for Fidel
> Castro's revolutionary Communist government." That, the Times
> noted, is "quite something for a man who will head public
> broadcasting in this country."
> 
> Crime Lab Follies and OKC. According to a Reuters wire service
> report, Timothy McVeigh's lawyers intend to introduce testimony and
> evidence that the FBI's crime lab reports are often sloppy and
> inaccurate. Two foreign forensic scientists, both retained by
> McVeigh's lawyers, reviewed the FBI crime lab reports. According to
> one of the experts, Brian Cuddy of the University of Strathclyde in
> Glasgow, Scotland, "If these reports are the ones to be presented
> to the court as evidence, then I am appalled by their structure and
> the information content." The scientists' statements help to
> support the charges of a former FBI lab supervisor that the cases
> "have been seriously compromised" by the poor quality of work done
> at the FBI crime lab.
> 
> According to McVeigh's attorneys, the prosecution should be
> required to supply the "underlying data, methodologies and
> protocols" which were used in examining the evidence from the crime
> scene.
> 
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