[PEN-L:7764] Re: L-I: African Policy

1999-06-06 Thread John P. Lacny
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote: > Mandela went to China to thank the People's Republic for its unswerving > support against Apartheid through the decades Wait a minute, didn't that include backing the cultural-nationalist PAC in South Africa and UNITA in Angola? Didn't Savimbi

[PEN-L:3806] End Iraq Sanctions NYT Signature Ad (fwd)

1999-02-24 Thread John P. Lacny
There's already an "editorial submission" for nationwide student newspapers; now there's this New York Times ad campaign. Read on; naturally there's no "enclosed envelope" with this e-mail, so if you sign, you'll have to send it in a real envelope, or I suppose you could just contact the

[PEN-L:3703] Re: Serbia

1999-02-22 Thread John P. Lacny
Joseph, I don't have much time, but I should clarify a few things. First off, I am not hewing to the trot line of "military but not political support," or some such thing. You're right that I should clarify this, because there IS a great deal of slander directed again

[PEN-L:3677] Re: [Fwd: VIRUS WARNING!!!!!!!!!!]

1999-02-22 Thread John P. Lacny
This is a hoax. It's been making its way around the Internet, in different forms, for years. John Lacny

[PEN-L:3618] Re: Re: Re: Serbia

1999-02-21 Thread John P. Lacny
On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Joseph Green wrote: > > The point you gloss over is that war is already going on, > and people are already dying, and misery and devastation is already > widespread. Sure. But my point is that bombing Serbia some more is going to cause even more devastat

[PEN-L:3612] Re: Serbia

1999-02-20 Thread John P. Lacny
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Joseph Green wrote: > All outside powers have to be condemned, and our orientation has to be > to the working masses of the region. The Serbian occupation is an > outside force just as much as the big powers are, and the conflict of > the Serbian government with the big pow

[PEN-L:3596] Re: Re: Serbia

1999-02-20 Thread John P. Lacny
Joseph, I know we've had exchanges on this subject on other lists before, but I'd just like to point out that raising the cry "Self-Determination for Kosovo!" at this moment is analogous to raising the cry "Self-Determination for Kuwait!" eight years ago. Sane and reasonable pe

[PEN-L:3583] Re: Re: Serbia

1999-02-19 Thread John P. Lacny
Philip is right that Tom's characterization of the Albanian-Serbian stuff is "not quite accurate." It's completely wrong, in fact, although I don't attribute any ulterior motives to Tom. What happened in Albania was not a stock-market crash, but the collapse of a get-rich-quic

[PEN-L:3332] Demonstration against sanctions

1999-02-13 Thread John P. Lacny
This morning at 10 o' clock, approximately 25 people attended an action/demonstration called by the newly-formed Pittsburgh Mobilization to End the War Against Iraq. (I take full credit and/or blame for the name, once again keeping in mind that warning about tragedies and farces.)

[PEN-L:3331] Re: Re:[Fwd: Listen, Student!]

1999-02-13 Thread John P. Lacny
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Tom Walker wrote: > John Lacny wrote, > > >One more thing, though: historical parallels intended or not, and with > >full knowledge of a certain cautionary warning about tragedies and farces, > >one of the first regional conferences of this organization is going to be > >h

[PEN-L:3233] Re: Re: Re: Back to the land

1999-02-11 Thread John P. Lacny
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Louis Proyect wrote: > To frame this in terms of the Khmer Rouge is completely outrageous and stupid. > Agree for the most part, Lou, but what do you think of the Shining Path? John Lacny

[PEN-L:3216] Re: Re: Re: students

1999-02-10 Thread John P. Lacny
Michael, I was being only half-serious, just playing off the fact that we're both at Pitt. I know that for the most part we students are lovable. John

[PEN-L:3213] Re: students

1999-02-10 Thread John P. Lacny
Mike Yates has written about his experiences teaching at Pitt-Johnstown. I hope profs think more highly of us here at the Pitt main campus! John Lacny