>
> Table not piano. But I suppose there are pianos here and there being
> kept for similar resons. Another example: I have several sets of books
> (Complete correspondence of Pope; 10 volumes of the PQ 18th century
> bibliography; OET edition of Campion) that I would not dream of buying
> for any price now but can't bring myself to sell.
>
> Carrol
Back around a decade ago, I helped with abortion clinic defense with activists from NARAL. (Coming back from a ride to somewhere in the San Jose 'burbs, the driver attempted to recruit me to the pro-Enver Hoxha M-L party!) The meetings in the Mission district were hosted by a former cadre of the cult led by alcoholic Marlene Dixon of the Democratic Workers Party. (They attempted to take over NACLA-West Coast office. They put out a good journal though, "Contemporary Marxism, " the journal, "Social Justice, " where Christian Parenti had a good piece recently has some of the same editors like Tony Platt, who was with the radical criminology crowd). One night waiting for the rest of the meeting attendees I needed to pee. On the way to the bathroom were the bookcases. What was there? The Collected Works of Kim Il Sung! Juche lives!
Or dies...[ufp_discussion] North Koreans Reduced to Cannibalism?
> From the United for Peace and Justice listserv, (Re; Fitzhugh MaCrae,btw,
> http://www.adl.org/mwd/oldnews4.asp [yes, I know ADL and the SFPD Roy
> Bullock scandal] New Hampshire Militia Leader Pleads Guilty to Theft
Abstracted from The Boston Globe, wire services
Fitzhugh MacCrae, leader of the Hillsborough Dragoons, a right-wing militia group based in New Hampshire, pleaded guilty on March 3, 1997 to three charges relating to the theft of more than $100,000 in equipment, primarily night-vision goggles, from the United States Army base at Fort Devens in September 1995...)
> http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
>
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:32:40 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Fitzhugh MacCrae <alaidh at yahoo.com>
> To: ufp_discussion at lists.riseup.net, ufpj-disc at yahoogroups.com, v-nv-
> resist at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ufp_discussion] North Koreans Reduced to Cannibalism?
>
> >
> >
>
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/08/wkor08.xml&
sSheet=/news/2003/06/08/
> ixworld.html/news/2003/06/08/wkor08.xml
> >
> >
> > Famine-struck N Koreans 'eating children'
> > By Mark Nicol
> > (Filed: 08/06/2003)
> >
> > Cannibalism is increasing in North Korea following
> > another poor
> > harvest and a big cut in international food aid,
> > according to
> > refugees who have fled the stricken country.
> >
> > Aid agencies are alarmed by refugees' reports that
> > children have been
> > killed and corpses cut up by people desperate for
> > food. Requests by
> > the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be
> > allowed access to
> > "farmers' markets", where human meat is said to be
> > traded, have been
> > turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security reasons".
> >
> > Anyone caught selling human meat faces execution,
> > but in a report
> > compiled by the North Korean Refugees Assistance
> > Fund (NKRAF), one
> > refugee said: "Pieces of 'special' meat are
> > displayed on straw mats
> > for sale. People know where they came from, but they
> > don't talk about
> > it."
> >
> > The NKRAF, an aid body set up in China five years
> > ago which helps to
> > smuggle food and medicines into parts of North Korea
> > off-limits to
> > WFP officials, interviewed 200 refugees for the
> > report.
> >
> > "If a funeral takes place during the day and the
> > burial is performed
> > that evening, the grave may be dug open and the body
> > stolen before
> > morning," said one refugee.
> >
> > Another witness, named only as Lee, 54, said he
> > feared that his
> > missing grandsons, aged eight and 11, had been
> > killed for food. As he
> > searched widely for them, they boys' friends said
> > they had vanished
> > near a market.
> >
> > Mr Lee said police who raided a nearby restaurant
> > found body parts.
> > The business's owners were shot.
> >
> > Gerald Bourke, the WFP's representative in Beijing,
> > said it was
> > difficult for his organisation to substantiate the
> > reports of
> > cannibalism as they were unable to get to the
> > markets. "As in any
> > desperately poor country, it is something we might
> > stumble on," he
> > said. "It's not just a problem for us, but also our
> > donors." Because
> > of the food shortages, many people were having to
> > survive on nine
> > ounces of rations a day - less than half the
> > recommended minimum
> > daily intake.
> >
> > North Korea's ability to feed itself has been hit by
> > floods,
> > deforestation and lack of farm fertilisers and
> > equipment.
> >
> > The WFP says Japan provided 500,000 tons of food aid
> > in 2001, making
> > it the biggest donor, but sent nothing last year.
> > Food aid from
> > America has been cut from 340,000 tons in 2001 to
> > 40,000 tons so far
> > this year. Washington has pledged to send a further
> > 60,000 tons if
> > Pyongyang lifts restrictions on the operations of
> > agencies such as
> > the WFP.
>
>
> =====
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