From aj912@cleveland.Freenet.Edu Sat May 11 23:20:39 1991
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 20:26:07 -0400
From: aj912@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Maurice Maschke III)
To: harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu
Subject: On My News Listings and Amnesty International
Reply-To: aj912@cleveland.Freenet.Edu

     Re:
     Date   : Fri Apr 26 01:37:54 1991
     From   : harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai)
     Subject: I just posted this...
     To     : aj912@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
 
     I'm not sure what you mean by my address, "... to the
     UseNet ...". If you mean my address at the bottom of the
     article [INTERNET: aj912@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Maurice
     Maschke)], that would be fine ... Please let me know on
     this.
 
     On the 'source listings' the Amnesty International
     reference was taken from three multi-medial sources: NBC
     Nightly News, The New York Times and The Cleveland Plain
     Dealer. Points 1, 2, 3 were cited as coming "... from
     Amnesty International ...". The names of the reports were
     not given. NBC reported point 2 in March of 1991. Point 1
     was reported in March 1991 by The New York Times. And
     point Three was reported by The Cleveland Plain Dealer in
     April 1991.
 
     Point 4, 6, and 7 were taken from The New York Times
     Sunday magazine, from an article done on the Dr. Brazleton
     Harvard University Study. The article came out in December
     of 1990.
 
     Point five was brought out by NBC News, and further
     substantiated, through indication, by the Brazleton
     Report. Further, the Council for a Drug Free America
     presented figures of 1500 to 2500 per day being born
     addicted to Crack Cocaine, in the fall of 1990.
 
     Point 8 came from the 1991 Information Please Alamac, page
     73, regarding Tax information, and was supplied by the
     Internal Revenue Service.
 
     Point 9 came to me from my local bank, National City Bank.
     My friend, one of the managers said, (paraphrase) '... The
     American Business Institute is reporting that the
     foreclosure rate on homes in now at approximately 1.5
     paychecks, where the distance used to be almost 30 days,
     ten years ago ...'.
 
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     It has been since December of 1989 that I have been
     annexing multi-media data in the format of database
     listings, using Microsoft Works, sorted according to
     whether the listing has been used or not, and the date
     that it was used. The default is that the listing is
     stored by the date of the listing.
 
     Currently, I have over 800 listings in various what I call
     "Newsbase" data bases that are stored on my News Listing
     Data disks, with each data base being listed in the
     following format: NW<<the date/year>>.wdb.
 
     I have, as of April 26, 1991, sent letters to the
     following addresses:
 
          1. cdp!amnesty@labrea.stanford.EDU - requesting that
             "Urgent Actions Reports" be sent to me on a
             regular basis.
 
          2. peter@eteuv1.una.ac.at - formally requesting a
             membership in Amnesty International. It was cited
             that since AI no longer had an office in
             Cleveland, and since I was beginning to do more in
             the electronic community, I felt that by my being
             granted a membership in AI I could generate more
             support for the organization and help to increase
             the membership through raising local awareness
             regarding the organization and its goals.
 
     If you have any questions, regarding the foregoing, please
     let me know. My goal is quite parallel, and in support of
     yours, and others at PeaceNet, as you know. I am more
     than willing to do just about anything that I can to help
     you, PeaceNet and the fight for Human Rights.
 
     On the "News Listings" ...
 
     I am sending these to you on a daily basis, as I
     distribute them in the Cleveland Area on the FreeNet
     system. There is no problem with when you post them. I
     fully understand, and appreciate your very busy schedule.
     I am only forwarding them to you so that you will have the
     option of posting should you desire and deem them fitting.
 
     Once the 'new group' is open, all that I'll need from you
     is the address for how I am to post my articles. Then,
     I'll be posting one article per day, some days two. These
     articles will be the short (just a few paragraphs) "News
     Listings". For the most part, these articles are taken
     from USA Today, that is supplied on-line at FreeNet. The
     supporting statistics are then taken from the other
     research sources that I eithe have available, or that I
     search out, either at the library or in one of the other
     sources that I have available or find.
 
     Once each week I'll then sending the group a copy of my
     current issue [volume] of "The Wingate Letters". As you
     have seen this is what I call an exercise in rhetoric. The
     basic purpose of The Wingate Letters is to stimulate not
     only the mind of the reader but their emotions as well,
     towards helping them to become more involved in the Human
     Rights fight, and process. Often these articles come from
     direct personal experience. Thus, the stories have their
     complete basis in events that have happened to me
     personally. Often, I support these stories with
     statistics that I either obtain from the Cleveland
     Library, or one of my other sources if it will help me to
     get the reader more involved in the HR fight.
 

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