Hi folks ("Dear Fellow Activists"/"Dear AMLers" ??),

As you know, Rich Winkel and I had made contact with the Christic
Institute, via Andrew Lang (now on AML), and they have since been
posting selected Christic updates/alerts from PeaceNet to AML, notably
recently about the covert operations "reform" bill and the Boxer
amendment. I've since contacted Barbara Kohl of Latin American Data
Base (LADB), the source of the Central America Update bulletins which
I enjoyed last year on misc.headlines.unitex (which is no more) and
which are also posted to PeaceNet, I learned. LADB would be happy to
post CA Updates to AML, although we may need to help LADB (which is a
non-profit organization) obtain grants to sustain their work if they
are to stay financially afloat beyond  June 1991, when the current
grant expires. This is a relatively minor point (not LADB's survival,
but overcoming this difficulty, I think); more details to come.

As we establish contacts with more organizations, it will, and perhaps
already is, impractical to have all of this volume appear in our
mailboxes constantly (in fact, there had been earlier problems with
people  posting messages which should be private to AML; I didn't know
of this at the time because, due of an email address problem, I didn't
receive these postings, as I wasn't completely on AML!) I propose
establishing a moderated UseNet newsgroup which will carry regular
posts of information from groups, articles, and AML resource files
(more on this later). As I am very busy keeping up with recent
developments (about which I'll shortly update you; most recently, it
looks like we may get an agreement with PeaceNet for an alt.pach
(Progressive Alliance Clearing House (PACH)) newsgroup on UseNet), I'd
need your help in creating such a newsgroup; someone/s would have to
go through the procedure of collective votes, etc. In the meantime,
I'll go on an advertising blitz on alt.activism etc so more people
find out about AML.

Below is a recent issue of Central America Update -- enjoy.
--Harel

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From:     <LADBAC%UNMB.BITNET> [Dr. Barbara Kohl]
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October 3, 1990

CENTRAL AMERICA UPDATE