PUBLIC FORUM : ROOM FOR REFUGEES.There is a law, instituted by the Eisenhower administration, that ``Refugees who would face death, if returned, should become admitted to the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , later to become citizens of the United States.'' This came up during World War II, where Jews, who would face certain death if returned to Europe, were returned, to death. This was first invoked during the Hungarian uprising Hungarian Uprising can refer to:
Economic conditions are not sufficient reason for asylum. The Kosovars, if returned, will be killed. As such, the United States should let them in, first as refugees, later as citizens. They can't go home again. This great nation always has room for 2 million more. - Barbara Noonan Sylmar Success with Serbs For U.S.-led NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. to succeed in obtaining peace in Yugoslavia, NATO must find a way to win the trust of the Serbian people. Being in a neutral role, and having only sticks for the Serbs (NATO's threats and airstrikes), especially with the latest assaults on Yugoslavia, NATO further alienates the Serbian people, including those who oppose Milosevic's regime. Let's not Let's Not is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in Boston University Graduate Journal in December 1954. It was written for no payment as a favour to the journal, and later appeared in the collection Buy Jupiter. forget that the outcome of Yugoslavia's crisis will have a deep impact on Bosnia's fragile stability and the entire region, including Russia. NATO's ceasing its destruction of Yugoslavia, which is causing enormous collateral damage collateral damage Surgery A popular term for any undesired but unavoidable co-morbidity associated with a therapy–eg, chemotherapy-induced CD to the BM and GI tract as a side effect of destroying tumor cells , will show that NATO cares for the Serbian people, too. Working toward a political solution and rebuilding a country is the only right way toward the 21st century. - Bogolijub Rakic Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. Look who benefits I am increasingly concerned by the fact that we are in an undeclared war An undeclared war is a conflict that is fought between two or more nations without a formal declaration of war being issued. A Declaration of War customarily has to be passed by the legislature. In the United States there is no format required for declaration(s) of war. , that is totally unconstitutional. We are allowing precedents to be set for future practices whereby our president can make unilateral decisions to bomb another nation without the vote of Congress. Examples of this practice in the recent past are Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia, and now Serbia. Who will benefit from this current misuse of power? Certainly not the American taxpayer who will pay for this war for many years to come. Nor will the Kosovo refugees benefit when they have no homes or jobs to return to and find their soil has been contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. with depleted uranium Depleted Uranium (DU) is uranium remaining after removal of the isotope uranium-235. It is primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238. In the past it was called by the names Q-metal, depletalloy, and D-38, but these have fallen into disuse. from Tomahawk tomahawk [from an Algonquian dialect of Virginia], hatchet generally used by Native North Americans as a hand weapon and as a missile. The earliest tomahawks were made of stone, with one edge or two edges sharpened (sometimes the stone was globe shaped). missiles proliferating their entire area. The benefits go to the United States munitions mu·ni·tion n. War materiel, especially weapons and ammunition. Often used in the plural. tr.v. mu·ni·tioned, mu·ni·tion·ing, mu·ni·tions To supply with munitions. manufacturing corporations, the largest distributors of armaments in the world. The United States' supremacy of power and wealth must be used in a humane manner. - Ceil Sorensen Granada Hills Security, not war I am writing this due to the news today (April 27) that Congress is going to use our Social Security surplus for the Kosovo war The term Kosovo War or Kosovo Conflict is often used to describe two sequential and at times parallel armed conflicts in Kosovo. These conflicts were:
This money was put there originally by the people of the United States for their retirement. Since then it has been used by the government for everything they needed extra money for: refugees, social programs. Now you want to use it again to finance a war that Clinton is responsible for and that we should have never been in. When is our Congress going to stand up and work for the people of the United States instead of appeasing the Clinton administration Noun 1. Clinton administration - the executive under President Clinton executive - persons who administer the law ? - Luella Noonan Burbank Enough is enough I have just read Congress is going to use our Social Security surplus for the Kosovo war. They have no right to use the money senior citizens and future seniors have set aside for our retirement. They have used this money over a period of years to aid every refugee that has come into this country and more, and I say enough is enough. It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a the U.S. government took care of its own people. - Dominick Foti Burbank Teen-agers speak out Allowing teen-agers to speak on the front page of your newspaper about the pressures they face daily was a thoughtful, significant and responsible decision on the part of your newspaper. Their words illustrate their individuality amidst their diversity and - most importantly - vividly counter the tendency of some adults to blame and to stereotype ``today's youth'' for the actions of a few. I was also pleased to see that almost three-quarters of the adults polled felt that ``kids face more stress than their parents did when they were young.'' It is time for us as a community not only to listen to our young people, but to find ways to make their lives less stressful and their schools safer. - Gene Rothman Culver City MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. bus commitment The trouble with the Daily News' editorials about the MTA is that they are never tethered Attached to a data or power source by wire or fiber. Contrast with untethered. to reality. The April 23 ``Preoccupation Zone'' is yet another example. MTA is spending $1 billion to overhaul the metro bus system, including the purchase of 2,095 new buses. How does the Daily News reconcile that fact with its editorial statement that MTA thinks ``a workable bus system is hugely wasteful and impractical''? The CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the MTA, Julian Burke, persuaded the MTA board 15 months ago to suspend construction of new rail lines, including the Pasadena Blue Line, so the agency could focus on improving bus service. So how can the Daily News claim that the MTA is asking a federal court to scrap the consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. to improve bus service because it ``would interfere with MTA's commitment to fund the Pasadena-to-downtown Los Angeles light-rail line . . .''? The MTA has not appealed the consent decree. It asked the special master, who administers the decree, to clarify and possibly modify his latest recommendation for the MTA to spend more than $400 million on new buses on top of the $1 billion MTA already has committed. It's that additional expense MTA thinks excessive. The Daily News also didn't report that Burke, on April 29, will bring to the MTA board a response and recommendation regarding Councilman John Ferraro's request for $1.3 million to rebuild Lankershim Boulevard. - Marc Littman MTA public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most director Lots of laughs The Daily News' editorial ``Preoccupation zone'' (April 23) talks about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its many current problems. The editorial mentions such words as ``graft-ridden,'' ``inefficient'' and ``corrupt officials.'' But nowhere over the years have I read anything about legal action against those who are described above. If there has been graft (there's a laugh), or corruption (second laugh), why hasn't something been done about it? There's the third laugh. - Frank Barron Van Nuys Experience counts Re ``Women lead team behind JPL's latest Mars probe'' (Daily News, April 18). Surely Suzanne E. Smrekar, JPL (language) JPL - JAM Programming Language. lead scientist for the recent Mars probe mission, was misquoted when addressing writer William Broad's query about the ``youth factor'' for her and two other young women in directing this mission. She was quoted as saying: ``They didn't want people with the old way of thinking because they knew it was really a challenging mission.'' And another quote: ``I didn't have the burden of lots of experience on lots of past projects.'' From whence did Smrekar gain her knowledge for this assignment? Surely there are some JPL ``grayladies'' and graybeards who play some role in this mission or created its foundations. And what about those wizards of space who created the foundation for the Golden Age of Planetary Exploration? What about the ``on the shoulders of giants'' factor? Experience counts. - Phil Neuhauser President Associated Retirees of Caltech/JPL Who's sorry now? Just think, if Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet, bomb making and other obscene things would not be available to us. Instead, I bet he wished he had misspelled ``potato'' and stood up for those nasty words ``family values.'' - B.A. Accosta Tujunga Diamond lane holiday I can understand why the devotees of diamond lanes are so much against Assemblyman Tom McClintock's bill AB 44. They are scared witless wit·less adj. Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish. wit  less·ly adv.wit about having a diamond lane ``holiday'' to even test whether those lanes from hell work or not, because it would show them up for the fools they are. If you remember, it was Adrianna Gianturco, an appointee APPOINTEE. A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power, is the person who is to receive the benefit of the trust or power. of Jerry Brown, who devised and pushed those abominations Abominations is a 3 issues Marvel Comics limited series created by Ivan Velez Jr (writer), Angel Medina (penciller) and Brad Vancata (inker). ran from Dec 1996 to Feb 1997
That ``holiday'' in AB 44 should be activated so that there can be a fair assessment of the wisdom of having the high-occupancy-vehicle lanes. In my mind, the stupidity of those lanes has proved itself time and time again, as I see the results of those underused and dangerous diamond lanes. I say dangerous because those few drivers using them have no way, whatsoever, of knowing if there are problems, stalled cars, accidents, etc. ahead, and the highly-congested lanes next to them are too dangerous to move into (as a result of the congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. caused by the diamond lanes) and that increases the risks for the rest of the drivers on the freeways a hundredfold. - Graydon Wayne Santa Clarita There is help With all that has happened in Littleton, I think it would be a great time to make parents aware that there is help out there for parents with troubled teens. Parents who have kids that are out of control, or that seem like they are on that road, need to know there is a place where they can go to learn how to deal with these children before a tragedy happens! Kids don't just turn this way overnight. They do over a gradual period of time. Sometimes parents just need help from other parents to learn the safest way to approach these kids. The parent support group ``I Love You'' is an organization that saved my children, and my sanity. - Michelle Dybas West Hills |
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