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The Decline of America: "Moral Fiber:" Reagan/Bush "Stand Tall"


    "In this connection, I have something to report that is at once
    very promising and very disturbing.  There is a United Nations
    Convention -- a treaty really.  It's called the Convention on the
    Rights of the Child.  This Convention protects children from
    parental abuse, drug trafficking, discrimination, and sexual
    exploitation.  It pledges that each nation will do its very best
    to provide health care and to free children from illiteracy and
    poverty.  So far, 129 countries throughout the world have signed
    or ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  It
    became international law on September 2, 1990.  Only five major
    nations have refused to sign this international treaty.  The five
    major non-signatory nations are Iran, Iraq, Libya, South Africa --
    and the United States of America."

From a speech by media-blacked-out Democratic Presidential candidate
Larry Agran

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Files on Agran by FTP:
(quote is from speech on Health Care)
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If you have access to ftp, do "ftp pencil.cs.missouri.edu"
login as "anonymous" and do a "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map"
and then "dir *AGRAN*

see especially
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar         4015 Mar 12 00:51 AGRAN.environment
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar         6326 Mar 12 00:47 AGRAN.economic.program
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar         7407 Mar 12 00:46 AGRAN.economic-conversion

  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        17318 Feb  8 23:56 AGRAN.middle-east
(includes some re foreign policy)

and 

  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar        20308 Feb  1 23:11 AGRAN.ANNOUNCEMENT
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar         6813 Feb  1 23:10 AGRAN.bio
  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar         1921 Feb  1 23:09 AGRAN.fact-sheet

re Gay Rights see "bio" and also

  -rw-r--r--  1 hbar         9524 Apr  5 20:10 AGRAN.arrest.hum-ryt-forum.speech

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If you don't have access to ftp, let me know and I can email what you
like.

Harel (harelb@math.cornell.edu)

[Note: Agran ran for the Demoratic nomination, not as an independent
(see Ron Daniels, Independent for President, later in this series),
and hence is no longer in the race. However the former campaign will
be continuing work on peace/justice projects.]