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From: Dr. Jai Maharaj
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CONTENTS: Supplement 122
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1. (WV) WORKERS VANGUARD: Drop the Charges Against the
Cleveland Anti-Duke Four!
2. (LAT) LOS ANGELES TIMES: D.A. to Appeal Reversal of
Pratt's Conviction
3. (IRSP) IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY: Volunteer
Executed in Dublin; IRSP Voice Concern Over
Morris Death
4. (RNS) RAZA NEWS SERVICE: 1848-1998 - March against 150
Years of U.S. Colonialism
5. (A-I) A-INFOS: Italy - Autonomists Attack, Police
Resort to Tear Gas
6. (GLW) GREEN LEFT WEEKLY: Newcastle Protesters
Outnumber Hanson Supporters 3 to 1
7. (WV) WORKERS VANGUARD: Liberals Team-Up with Anti-
Abortion Bigots
8. (WP) WASHINGTON POST: Evidence Links Atlanta Clinic,
Club Bombings, U.S. Says
9. (AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS: [PDS Under Attack] German
Internet-Link Trial Begins
10. (PI) PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: More Black Church
Property Struck by Arson
* * *
* WORKERS VANGUARD *
Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of the Spartacist League
Box 1377, GPO
New York, New York 10116
Tel: (212) 732-7862
E-mail: vanguard@tiac.net
No. 669 - 30 May 1997
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DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST THE CLEVELAND ANTI-DUKE FOUR!
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*
On May 18, David "Klan in s suit" Duke brought his program
of lynch mob terror to Cleveland, where he spoke to a crowd of
200 at the Lithuanian Village restaurant. Duke was invited by the
Hitlerites of the National Alliance, who vow to remove all
nonwhites "from our living area and our breeding area." Some 50
anti-fascists, including members of the International Socialist
Organization, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), the
National Women's Rights Organizing Coalition and Refuse & Resist,
protested outside under the slogan "Shut Down KKK Leader David
Duke!"
An almost equal number of cops were mobilized to defend the
fascist meeting. As the cops taunted the integrated crowd of
protesters to "Come on!", they moved in on Cheryl Lessin, a well-
known supporter of the RCP, throwing her to the ground and
arresting her. The cops then went on a rampage, beating and
pepper-spraying protesters, and driving those who attempted to
leave the rally back into the melee to be beaten again. Lessin
and three others face felony frame-up charges including
"aggravated rioting," "assault on a peace officer" and "fleeing
custody."
All four were held behind bars for nearly a week, with bail
set at an outrageous $100,000 each. One of the arrested
protesters, whose nose had been broken, was denied proper medical
care; another was refused vital prescription drugs; Lessin was
not allowed access to a shower or even a change of clothes. On
Friday, May 23 the four were finally released from jail after
paying a reduced bond. Now they face years in jail on the cops'
frame-up charges. We demand: Drop all charges against the Anti-
Duke Four!
That Duke could get away with spouting his filth in
Cleveland, with its sizable labor and black population, is a sign
of the bankruptcy of the current misleaders of the unions who are
desperately opposed to the kind of social struggle necessary to
smash the Hitler-lovers. Now the National Alliance is planning to
host another race-hate rally on June 4. Labor should have been
out in force on May 18, together with thousands of blacks,
Hispanics and all opponents of fascist terror, to drive the
would-be lynchers back into their sewers. Defend the Anti-Duke
Four! For labor/minority mobilizations to smash the KKK and
Nazis!
*****
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/STATE/topstory.html
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D.A. TO APPEAL REVERSAL OF PRATT'S CONVICTION
_________________________________________________________________
Courts: Garcetti says he will not oppose releasing the
former Black Panther leader on bail.
By EDWARD J. BOYER, Times Staff Writer
Los Angeles Times
Saturday, June 7, 1997
Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti said Friday he will appeal a
judge's decision overturning the 25-year-old murder conviction of
Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, but will not oppose releasing the former
Black Panther Party leader on bail.
That decision means that as early as Tuesday, Pratt could
walk out of jail for the first time in 27 years. Orange County
Superior Court Judge Everett W. Dickey has scheduled a bail
hearing at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Santa Ana Superior Court.
Declining to say on what grounds he would base his appeal,
Garcetti said Pratt's conviction has been upheld through many
appellate proceedings. "Despite this history," he said, "over the
years some have questioned the validity of Mr. Pratt's
conviction."
He said his office conducted an "exhaustive" review of the
case and did not discover any new evidence pointing to Pratt's
innocence.
Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., one of Pratt's lawyers,
called Garcetti's decision to appeal "sickening" and
"ridiculous."
"They can't retry this case for a lot of reasons because of
their own impropriety," Cochran said. "So why appeal it? It's an
act of folly. Once again Mr. Garcetti has succumbed to people in
his own office who are from a different era -- maybe the
Pleistocene era."
San Francisco attorney Stuart Hanlon, who also represents
Pratt, issued a challenge to Garcetti.
"If you're so convinced Mr. Pratt is guilty, then you get in
there yourself and retry the case," Hanlon said. "Let's forget
about the appeal. Let's go to trial in 60 days." At a news
conference Friday, Garcetti hinted that he would not attempt to
retry the case if his appeal is unsuccessful.
"I am very well aware that any case that is nearly 30 years
old has exceedingly difficult problems built in," Garcetti said.
"Add the fact that the accused has already spent approximately 27
years in prison and that makes it obviously even more difficult."
Asked why he would agree to bail for Pratt if he truly
believes he is a murderer, Garcetti said bail was "the
appropriate thing to do. [Pratt] has been in custody 27 years,
[and] substantial issues have been raised."
Pratt was convicted of shooting Los Angeles schoolteacher
Caroline Olsen to death and critically wounded her husband during
a 1968 robbery on a Santa Monica tennis court.
Sensitive negotiations aimed at giving Garcetti a face-
saving way out of the Pratt case have been underway since Dickey
reversed Pratt's conviction May 29, according to several sources
who asked not to be identified.
Moreover, a broad cross-section of Los Angeles' elected and
civic leaders has contacted Garcetti, advising him to drop the
Pratt case, those sources said. The stumbling block to those
negotiations, they said, are members of Garcetti's staff who
believe Pratt is guilty although they privately concede that they
could not win a conviction today with the evidence presented at
Pratt's 1972 trial.
In reversing Pratt's conviction, Dickey ruled that
prosecutors had suppressed "substantial material evidence"
favorable to Pratt.
Dickey said Butler, a former Los Angeles County sheriff's
deputy and a rival of Pratt in the Panthers, lied on the witness
stand when he testified that he was not a law enforcement
informant.
Butler had provided information to various law enforcement
agencies -- including the FBI and Los Angeles police -- for three
years before Pratt's trial, and a retired LAPD captain said
Butler had acted as an agent provocateur.
Butler was the witness who first told law enforcement that
Pratt had shot Olsen and that Pratt had confessed the crime to
him, an allegation Pratt has always denied.
Pratt has steadfastly maintained his innocence, saying he
was in Oakland attending a Black Panther Party meeting when the
crime occurred. He said FBI agents knew he was in Oakland because
the bureau had him under surveillance, an assertion supported by
retired FBI Agent M. Wesley Swearingen.
Neither Pratt's attorneys nor the jury that convicted him
knew Butler was listed in the district attorney's files of
confidential informants. Nor did they know that someone in the
district attorney's office had given him $200 to buy a gun even
though Butler was a convicted felon and prohibited by law from
carrying a gun.
Garcetti said he was proud of the fact that his office
discovered that Butler was listed in his office's confidential
informant files and turned that information over to the defense.
That new evidence formed the basis for Dickey's ruling
overturning Pratt's conviction, the district attorney said.
Garcetti said he wanted to make it clear that "prosecutors
who have handled this case over the years -- from the trial
attorneys to the appellate lawyers -- acted appropriately and
ethically in this case."
To say that "is garbage," Hanlon said. "That is a lie, and
everybody knows it but him."
Cochran said Pratt's lawyers were told Butler was listed as
a district attorney's office confidential informant only after
Pratt filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeking to
have his conviction overturned.
"The only ones in the district attorney's office who deserve
any credit are [investigators] Brian Hale and Steve De Prima,"
Cochran said. Hale found the confidential informant card on
Butler, and De Prima elicited a comment from Butler that someone
in the district attorney's office had given him $200 to buy a
gun.
"The fact is that they had a confidential informant card on
Butler for 24 years and did not tell anybody," Cochran said. "The
fact is that Deputy Dist. Attys. Mike Carroll and Richard
Kalustian (Pratt's prosecutor) knew this man was given $200 to
buy a gun and carry it in violation of the law. He could have
gotten 15 years in prison for carrying that gun, and they didn't
tell anybody."
Copyright Los Angeles Times
*****
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 00:31:56 1997
From: Peter Urban <irsp@netwizards.net>
Subject: Volunteer executed in Dublin
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* IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY *
_________________________________________________________________
VOLUNTEER EXECUTED IN DUBLIN
_________________________________________________________________
June 5th 1997
The following is the text of a statement released to the
Socialist Republican Publicity bureau:
"The Irish National Liberation Army claim John Morris as a
Volunteer of our South Dublin Brigade.
"Volunteer Morris did not die as a result of an exchange of
shots between the Gardai and himself. This was an impossibility
as his firearm was not loaded. Despite knowing this, the Garda
press office have continued to propagate the lie of a 'shoot-out'
- which has been repeated without question by the media.
Volunteer Morris at the time of his death was offering no
resistance to the armed Gardai. Forensic tests will prove that
the shot inflicted to his head was fired from his rear at a
distance of no more than two metres.
This was no more than a state execution of a known
Republican Socialist. It will not be forgotten.
The Staff and Volunteers of the Irish National Liberation
Army offer our sincere and heartfelt condolences to the friends
and family of our brave comrade John."
*
_________________________________________________________________
I.R.S.P. VOICE CONCERN OVER MORRIS DEATH
_________________________________________________________________
Statement from IRSP Ard Comhairle member Gary Adams
06/06/97
Contact No: 042-30538
"The circumstances surrounding the death of INLA Volunteer
John Morris give cause for grave concern.
In the initial reports released by the Gardai following the
shooting they stated that there was an exchange of shots. We now
learn that John Morris carried a firearm that was not loaded.
Another Garda report stated that Mr Morris raised his weapon in a
menacing gesture - yet eye-witnesses contradict this. Early
indications are that John Morris was shot from behind.
Yet despite the very serious questions raised by these
allegations not one 'investigative' journalist has broken from
the Harcourt Square line and pointed up these contradictions.
Indeed, reporters such as the Irish Independent 'security'
correspondent, Tom Brady, have spent this morning doing radio
interviews wherein he speaks of drugs, the Guerin murder and then
sets about assassinating the character of John Morris.
Asking questions about the manner in which John Morris met
his death should not be confused with agreement with either his
activities or his political objectives. On the other hand,
remaining silent sends out a clear signal that state sanctioned
murder is fine so long as the victim is someone with whom we
disagree."
*****
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 22:28:19 -0600
From: frank/RNS <may19@ziplink.net>
Subject: NCMC National 1848-1998 March Against 150 Years
of U.S. Colonialism
-----
* RAZA NEWS SERVICE *
_________________________________________________________________
1848-1998: MARCH AGAINST 150 YEARS OF U.S. COLONIALISM
_________________________________________________________________
*
February 2, 1998 marks the 150th Anniversary of the theft of
half of the Mexican Nation.
In Tucson, Az - the National Chicano Moratorium Committee
(NCMC) is organizing a mass march to aganist the occupation of
Aztlan.
Join us if you are against the attacks that the U.S.
Goverment has perpetuated against Raza since 1848.
Organized by the National Chicano Moratorium Committee.
For more info call:
Xicano Coalition - Tucson (520) 623-7835
Congreso Chicano de la Comunidad - El Paso (915) 532-4148
Committee on Raza Rights - Oxnard (805) 655-6524
Barrio Defense Committee - San Jose (408) 223-0938
Raza Rights Coalition - San Diego (619) 919-4948
NCMC - Los Angeles (213) 261-2286
NCMC - Riverside/San Bernardino (909) 882-4422
NCMC - Orange County (714) 535-0488
*
Raza News Service (RNS): raza@burn.ucsd.edu
Free Ramsey Muniz
Free Josi Lums Now!
Free Alvaro Hernandez Luna
and all Political Prisoners/POWs
*****
From: cyber.joker@ecn.org
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 09:01:15 +0200
Subject: Autonomists Attack, Police Resorts to Teargas
-----
The A-Infos News Service
http://www.tao.ca/ainfos/
*
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AUTONOMISTS ATTACK, POLICE RESORT TO TEARGAS
_________________________________________________________________
St. Mark's Eight Trial
Turmoil in front of the Courtroom
FROM: "La Repubblica" (Rome)
VENICE -- Police charges and turmoil have taken place this
morning in front of the Mestre court where the trial of the
Venetian separatists is going to start. When Fabio Padovan, head
of LIFE arrived, a group of autonomists standing by the court
sought a confrontation and clashes erupted. [LIFE: European
Federalist Entrepreneurs' League, a bosses' racist and
separatist-minded organization inciting "fiscal revolt", FB]
The police intervened with charges and teargas to disband
the demonstration. Later on more LIFE supporters arrived on the
scene holding placards hailing the defendants and waving St.
Mark's flags.
The clashes took place in front of the Mestre courtroom,
where Taradash [Italian MP, member of the fascist-aligned Forza
Italia party] and Padovan had come to assist at the trial of the
eight hijackers of St. Mark's bell tower. During the clashes
various objects were thrown at the two politicians.
Taradash was spat on a few times, while Padovan was kicked
and punched. A policeman is supposed to have been slightly
wounded. Padovan also had a box containing LIFE's stickers poured
down. During the charge one teargas bullet was shot.
A delegation from the social centres including about 20
people had been the first to come in front of the courtroom at
8.00 this morning to assist to the second hearing of the trial to
the people responsible for the assault no St. Mark's bell tower.
Tensions immediately rose at the arrival of a delagation of
about ten members of LIFE, the employers' movement, who limited
themselves to showing some placards at a safe distance from the
autonomists and protected by a gate.
Luca Casarin talked on behalf of the social centres,
defining LIFE's people as "miserable petty bosses and tax
evaders". He added that what LIFE and the right wing are carrying
on is "an attempt to make ethnic warfare explicit, safeguarding
the interests of the few above that of the many". "We don't want
to let" he added, "our land to be in the hands of hordes of
fanatics".
According to the militant of the social centres "it's not
possible that the state responds only with polizia and
carabinieri while a political response is missing".
Franco Rocchetta, historical leader of the Venetian League
[one of the various racist-separatist organisations later
converged in the Northern League, FB], has been "assaulted" by an
autonomist while he was going with his wife, Marilena Marin, to
the second hearing of the trial of the commando of the so-called
Venetian Serenissimo Government.
According to Rocchetta himself, while he was walking down
Via delle Messi, the street leading to the Mestre courtroom, he
was approached by a young person who, after having asked him if
he was Rocchetta, allegedly took a stick at his affirmative
answer, hitting him twice on his head. Rocchetta has been
admitted to hospital for treatment, and then he left without
particular problems.
Six policemen have been wounded during the clashes,
allegedly due to stones thrown by demonstrators against the
police. As far as the autonomists are concerned, their sources
report five wounded, while according to the police this figure is
only three.
FROM ecn-news@ecn.org
Translated by: Franco Barchiesi
E-Mail 029frb@cosmos.wits.ac.za
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* GREEN LEFT WEEKLY *
http://www.peg.apc.org/~greenleft/current/
E-mail: greenleft@peg.apc.org
- Issue #277 June 4, 1997 -
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NEWCASTLE PROTESTERS OUTNUMBER HANSON SUPPORTERS 3 TO 1
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By Alex Bainbridge
NEWCASTLE -- More than 4000 people protested against Pauline
Hanson's May 30 public meeting in Newcastle. The atmosphere was
electric as anti-racists confidently demonstrated that we were
not prepared to accept racism here.
Despite a major campaign in the establishment media to build
up apprehensions about violence, the protest came off without
injuries and with only one arrest. Nevertheless, it was an
opportunity for people to forcefully demonstrate their anger.
The protest -- organised by the Newcastle Anti-Racist
Alliance (NARA) -- clearly outnumbered the 1200 Hanson supporters
the establishment media claim turned up.
"We can claim a major victory tonight", NARA member Geoff
Payne told Green Left. "We have demonstrated once again that
there are more people opposed to Pauline Hanson's racism than for
it. Even the Daily Telegraph had to admit that. We have mobilised
tonight, and we will continue to mobilise as often as it takes to
defeat this current upsurge of racism."
If Hanson returns to Newcastle, Payne said "Tonight's
success means that there will definitely be more people out to
protest against her. What's needed now is an ongoing campaign
against all racism -- especially since the Howard government is
cutting immigration, attacking native title and shackling the
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission."
An extremely broad range of people participated in the
protest, which was jovial as well as militant. Trade unionists
rubbed shoulders with religious leaders, and Aboriginal people
took up the chanting with Asian students. Some people
demonstrated by holding socialist placards while others held
candles. One woman sat in a wheelchair blowing a whistle all
night.
Some people travelled great distances to be at the protest,
including around 200 from Sydney. Nevertheless, claims made in
the Newcastle Herald that 90% of the protesters would be from out
of town were disproved by the outpouring of Novocastrians from
all walks of life.
"The Cultural Stomp -- a celebration of cultures" was also
held in nearby Civic Park on the same day.
Organisers of the Stomp were concerned about the possibility
of violence at anti-Hanson activities. They cited examples of
other Hanson meetings and the August 19 workers' demonstration in
Canberra where "things" had -- supposedly -- "got out of hand" as
reasons to organise the Stomp on a non-political basis.
Unfortunately, Trades Hall Council and many other forces
decided to support this perspective. Two thousand people attended
the Stomp, and there was a high degree of mobility between it and
the protest.
"We thought it was absolutely crucial to demonstrate clearly
our political opposition to what Hanson stands for as well as all
racism", Newcastle Resistance organiser and NARA member Kamala
Emanuel told Green Left.
"Although it may seem an attractive idea, it is naive to
think that simply by providing a non-political `positive
alternative', we will be able to turn the tide against racism.
Cultural activities are essential and historically have given a
big impetus to political struggle, but cannot be an excuse not to
take sides."
"We demonstrated tonight that when it comes to the crunch,
people are concerned about politics and will act when they see
the need", Payne said.
Predictably, Hanson trotted out the tired claim that she was
a victim of attempts to silence her. "In fact anti-racists were
simply demonstrating our right to free speech", Payne said.
"Hanson resorts to this tactic to divert attention from the
fact that she has no real answers."
The Newcastle Anti-Racist Alliance was initiated by the
Democratic Socialist Party in response to Hanson's visit. NARA
included groups like the Hunter Christian Institute for Social
Justice and Research, the International Community Alliance,
Resistance, Newcastle Greens and a range of individuals.
The next major anti-racist event in Newcastle is the Justice
Tour meeting on June 12 (see p. 29 for details). For more
information about NARA, phone (049) 265 328.
Tim Walgers reports from Brisbane that Hanson's attendance
at a One Nation meeting on the Sunshine Coast on May 23 was met
by 200 loud and angry protesters.
The hypocrisy concerning "freedom of speech" was made clear
when police used force to try to silence the protesters. While
Hansonites trampled on the Aboriginal flag inside the venue,
police focused on intimidating and physically abusing the crowd.
Megaphones were taken away from protesters, and two people
were arrested without reason (police were "unsure" what charges
would be brought against the two). At the end of the night, after
Hanson had got into her car, one demonstrator was knocked to the
ground by police and concussed.
*****
* WORKERS VANGUARD *
Marxist Working-Class Biweekly of the Spartacist League
Box 1377, GPO
New York, New York 10116
Tel: (212) 732-7862
E-mail: vanguard@tiac.net
No. 669 - 30 May 1997
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`Down With All Bans - Free Abortion On Demand'
LIBERALS TEAM UP WITH ANTI-ABORTION BIGOTS
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*
Following an earlier overwhelming vote in the House, on May
20 the Senate passed a measure to outlaw a late-term abortion
procedure by a vote of 64 to 36. The Republican bill, which
carried with significant Democratic support, would ban "intact
dilation and extraction" abortions, misleadingly labeled "partial
birth" abortions by bigots. The lopsided Senate vote means the
bill only needs three more supporters to override President
Clinton's anticipated veto.
Meanwhile, Clinton has long made it clear that if a few
words in the legislation were changed, he too would support the
ban. To this end, Democratic Senate minority leader Thomas
Daschle put forward an "alternative" bill to outlaw _all_
abortions once the fetus is supposedly "viable except when the
woman's life is endangered or there is no risk of "grievous
injury to her health." Democrats Dianne Feinstein and Barbara
Boxer of California and leading liberal Carol Mosley-Braun of
Illinois proposed a similar ban, but with a slightly better
"health exception"! On the day of the Senate vote, most of the
supposedly "pro-choice" liberals refused to even verbally object
to the Republican measure, as the New York Times (21 May)
reported, "letting the clock tick during most of their allotted
debate time without a single senator on the floor making their
case."
For the past two decades the exercise of a woman's right to
abortion has been severely limited, through denial of Medicaid
funding to poor women, squeal rules requiring women under the age
of 18 to get the consent of a parent or judge, and outright
terror attacks resulting in fewer and fewer hospitals and health
facilities willing to provide abortions. What is immediately at
stake with the current legislation is the first direct rollback
of the Supreme Court's 1973 _Roe v. Wade_ decision legalizing
abortion nationally, as part of a relentless campaign to ban
abortion entirely. Indeed, the Christian fundamentalists who have
been spearheading the anti-abortion drive hail the Senate vote
for bringing them within range of "final victory" in their
reactionary crusade. Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed gloated,
"Clearly the momentum is with us."
As Dr. Warren Hern, a courageous fighter for abortion rights
whose Boulder, Colorado clinic has been fired on by "right to
life" terrorists, notes in an op ed piece in the New York Times
(24 May), "The intent of the bill [is] to keep doctors from
performing _any_ abortion." Hern cautioned that one "would do
well to be suspicious of all such attempts to limit late-term
abortions -- even those `compromise' proposals from legislators
who claim to support abortion rights."
What gives politicians any right to decide when and if a
woman can have an abortion? It should be a purely personal
question, as all individual medical decisions ought to be. We
Marxists say that women should have the absolute right to free
abortion on demand, as part of free, quality health care for all.
Another sinister straw in the wind was the sudden decision
by the board of the American Medical Association (AMA) to support
the Republicans' abortion ban. Only one day before the Senate
vote, the AMA announced its decision, made by 20 board members in
a consensus conference call (it was not reported whether this was
via cell phone from the golf links). It's the capitalist way of
medicine for profit. To be sure, the AMA has a history of
reactionary positions, opposing anything smacking of "socialized"
health care, at one time including Medicare. But you'd think this
doctors' organization would at least take a stand against a bunch
of politicians telling them what they can and can't do when it
comes to medical procedures. In its own way, the medical
profession in this society functions as a kind of elite, arrogant
secular "priestly caste," dispensing high-priced medical care to
the rich, ignoring the poor, and raking in big bucks.
The AMA's decision is a big boost to the anti-abortion
bigots. In many parts of the country, abortions are already
effectively banned because there are no doctors willing to
perform them. And it could get worse. Take Poland, for example,
where abortion was recently legalized after the _Solidarnosc_
government had abolished it. But most women still can't get
abortions there, because doctors in public hospitals refuse to
perform them under the new law's "freedom of conscience" clause,
which was adopted to appease the obscurantist Catholic church.
The recent sordid Senate vote shows that the "lesser evil"
is still plenty evil. Carol Mosley-Braun's proposed abortion ban
couldn't be a clearer example of that. More broadly, it should be
increasingly clear that it will take a fundamental break with all
brands of bourgeois politics to mount a successful challenge to
the wave of reaction sweeping this country. For women's
liberation through socialist revolution!
*****
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-06/05/
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_________________________________________________________________
EVIDENCE LINKS ATLANTA CLINIC, CLUB BOMBINGS, U.S. SAYS
_________________________________________________________________
By Pierre Thomas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 5, 1997; Page A03
The Washington Post
Federal agents investigating two recent bombings against an
abortion clinic and a gay club in Atlanta have concluded that
both were done by the same person or persons, and some evidence
suggests the attacks may be connected to last year's bombing at
Centennial Olympic Park, law enforcement officials say.
Sources familiar with the investigation being conducted by
the FBI and the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms say the agencies believe they are matching wits with
a serial bomber, who they fear will strike again.
For weeks, law enforcement officials have said they
suspected that the abortion clinic and gay lounge attacks were
related. But they acknowledged that those assessments were based
on cursory examinations, not extensive laboratory analysis. Now,
senior investigators say, weeks of intensive scientific analysis
and investigative work have led them to conclude that the attacks
are the work of the same person or persons.
Laboratory technicians have produced a list of what
officials say are definitive similarities between the abortion
clinic and nightclub bombings. The design of the bombs was almost
identical, and investigators have matched key components and tool
markings from bomb fragments recovered at both sites, the
officials said. In both incidents, dynamite was used and the
bomber or bombers left secondary bombs to maim or kill incoming
rescue and police personnel.
Investigators trying to determine whether the two bombings
are linked to the Centennial Park attack last July are focusing
on iron shrapnel found in all three attacks. Officials say the
shrapnel apparently came from the same smelter or foundry, adding
that all three attacks involved explosive devices designed to
spray shrapnel in a single direction. The Olympic bombing killed
one person and injured 111 others.
The recent bombings resulted in no deaths.
At 9 a.m. on Jan. 16, a powerful bomb exploded outside a
women's health clinic in suburban Georgia. About 45 minutes
later, a second device placed a short distance away detonated,
injuring seven persons. A car parked near the device shielded
police and rescue personnel who had responded to the bombing.
About a month later, a bomb went off at a popular club
frequented by gays. Four more persons were injured. Once again,
the bomber left a second explosive device that blew the hand off
a robot trying to disarm it.
Federal agents investigating the two bombings have
determined that a letter sent by someone claiming credit for the
two most recent attacks contained specific details about the
bombings that were not generally known. The handwritten letter,
penned under the name "Army of God," suggests the bomber or
bombers are right-wing political extremists who hate the federal
government, abortion providers, gays and minorities. The Army of
God is the name used by a loose-knit collection of militants who
advocate attacking abortion clinics.
The letter writer made clear that the secondary bomb at the
abortion clinic facility "was aimed at the agents of the
so-called federal government, i.e. ATF, FBI marshals, etc. We
declared and will wage total war." Like the Unabomber terrorist,
the letter writer gave a serial number authorities could use to
identify his work in later attacks.
In recent days, Justice Department officials have discussed
how much, if any, of the forensic information they should reveal
to the public in an effort to develop leads to the identity of
the bomber or bombers. In the Unabomber investigation, the FBI
released a lengthy manifesto, and The Washington Post and New
York Times published it jointly. That led a family member to
identify Theodore J. Kaczynski as the Unabomber. Kaczynski has
not yet been on trial for a string of bombings over 18 years
attributed to the Unabomber.
Justice Department officials believe the public could play a
major role in the Atlanta bombing investigations, but they want
to be certain they do not provide details that will aid the
bomber in eluding them or produce copycat bombers.
As of yesterday, officials said, the Justice Department had
made no final decision on whether to hold a news conference to
discuss details of the Atlanta bombings.
Copyright 1997 The Washington Post Company
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/i/
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GERMAN INTERNET-LINK TRIAL BEGINS
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June 6, 1997
Filed at 9:10 a.m. EDT
By The Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) -- A leftist politician went on trial today for
maintaining an Internet home page with a cyberspace link to a
banned magazine that allegedly encourages violence.
The case against Angela Marquardt is part of a broader and
controversial effort by German authorities to keep material
banned in Germany from flowing into its cyberspace.
Marquardt, the 25-year-old deputy leader of the Party of
Democratic Socialism that succeeded the East German communist
party, is accused of being an accessory to giving instructions on
how to commit crimes.
Prosecutors say a link from her home page leads to a banned
leftist magazine ``Radikal,'' where instructions had been posted
on how to build bombs and derail trains.
Marquardt said at the start of the trial in Berlin state
court that she did not post the material personally and had
committed no crime. ``What the prosecutor's office is attempting
here is a war against the Internet,'' she said.
She alleged that the only reason prosecutors have gone after
her is because of her membership in the Party of Democratic
Socialism, whose members are treated like pariahs by mainstream
politicians but have a sizable following among ordinary east
Germans.
German authorities have gone to great lengths to hold
Internet services accountable for the access they provide to
material that violates German law, much of which is produced
outside of German jurisdiction.
While publishing or distributing neo-Nazi or Holocaust
denial literature is illegal in Germany, it is unclear how such
laws can be enforced in the free-for-all atmosphere of the
Internet.
German prosecutors are investigating a new joint venture
between America Online Inc. and Bertelsmann AG for providing
access to such banned material on the Internet.
But it's not just extremist propaganda that authorities here
want to keep out of German cyberspace. Peddlers of pornography
are being targeted as well.
Germany's family minister has appealed to the United Nations
to establish international standards that would prevent
pornographers, neo-Nazis and other extremists from using
cyberspace to circumvent national laws.
Last month, Bavarian prosecutors charged the German chief of
CompuServe with being an accessory to the dissemination of
pornography, claiming that the online provider could have blocked
the images.
After its offices in Munich were raided in 1995, CompuServe
blocked access to some 200 electronic message boards it provides
for its 4 million users worldwide, setting off an international
debate over censorship on the Internet.
CompuServe, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, said it lacked
the technical ability to block out only German users.
Copyright 1997 The New York Times Company
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ATS's Radikal Mirror Site:
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats/RADIKAL/index.htm
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http://www2.phillynews.com/inquirer/97/Jun/05/city/
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MORE BLACK CHURCH PROPERTY STRUCK BY ARSON IN GLASSBORO
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`One sanctuary was gutted Friday. Tuesday, a shed behind
another burned. U.S. agents are investigating.'
The Philadelphia Inquirer City & Region
Thursday, June 5, 1997
By Noel E. Holton
INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
GLASSBORO -- Less than a week after First Baptist worshipers
discovered that their historic church had been torched, another
predominantly African American church was threatened by a
deliberately set fire Tuesday morning, authorities said. A
utility shed behind the Church of God's Deliverance, at 25 S.
Academy St., was destroyed, leaving neighbors, church officials
and authorities wondering what possible motivation anyone could
have for setting these fires.
``I just don't understand the type of person that would burn
up a church or anything having to do with a church,'' said the
Rev. Irvin Coleman, pastor of the 84-year-old First Baptist
Church, which was gutted by a fire Friday. First Baptist was
Glassboro's earliest African American church. Members have been
holding services at another site.
In Tuesday's fire, the Police Department started receiving
calls about smoke coming from a 12-by-16- foot wooden-frame shack
behind the Church of God's Deliverance at 9:45 a.m., Police Chief
Patricia Kunchynski said. Investigators from the federal Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Gloucester County
Prosecutor's Office, who are helping Glassboro police on the
cases, said they were sure that the two fires were arsons because
evidence of liquid accelerants was found at both sites.
At a news conference yesterday, Prosecutor Andrew Yurick
said investigators were not certain that the two arsons are
connected. There are no suspects, he said.
``There are similarities between the two fires,'' Yurick
said. ``While we're not ruling out any possibility, we are hoping
that the second fire may be a copy-cat arson, perhaps set by some
juveniles.''
The Church of God's Deliverance, on the same block of South
Academy Street as the First Baptist Church, is housed in a tiny,
white, one-room building that sits between residential homes.
Authorities are convinced that whoever set the fire intended
only to burn the storage facility, which stood about 20 feet from
the church. They do not believe the arsonists meant to damage the
church.
Bonnie Greene, who lives a few doors away from the Church of
God's Deliverance, remembers hearing about the fire early Tuesday
on her police radio scanner. She went out of her house and saw
smoke billowing through the trees and police cars converging.
``It was strange, because I didn't hear anything,'' Greene
said. ``By the time the fire trucks came, that shed was fully
engulfed. It is really a shame. I hope that it wasn't racially
motivated.''
Other neighbors who witnessed the event had their own ideas
about the cause of the fire.
``It may have been racial or it may have been any number of
other things,'' Bruce Boone, a neighbor, said. ``I've heard that
homeless people and people who do drugs sometimes use that shed.
Who knows what really happened.''
African American religious leaders in the area are not only
concerned about the fact that the arsonists may have had a racial
agenda. They are also concerned for the safety of all places of
worship.
``These incidents could be racial attacks or they could be
attacks against religion and the church in general,'' said the
Rev. Clabon Bogan Jr., pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Jehrico, in Deptford.
``It is sad, but until they get to the bottom of this, we
will all have to be careful in the way we go about our daily
routines. I hope there isn't any connection between these two
fires, but we will pray for the best outcome.''
Copyright 1997 The Philadelphia Inquirer
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