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collapsed in the mud from fatigue, fear
and stress, Fink said, and others were col-
lapsing as a result of untreated illnesses
like diabetes, seizures and heart failure.
Since her arrival, Fink has inter-
viewed countless refugees in attempts
to learn more about the conditions in
Kosovo. She also has spoken to doc-
tors to learn about the conditions of the
hospitals, patients and the doctors
themselves.
Fink's interviews are part of PHR's
efforts to gather information about the
human rights violations occurring in
Macedonia and Kosovo. The information
is used to create awareness and put pres-
sure on the United States to end these
atrocities, Fink said.
PHR also plans to provide the war
crimes tribunal with this documentation
to help with the prosecution of human
rights violators.
There is a "wide variety of human
rights violations" including massacres,
depopulating areas, lack of medical sup-
plies and executions, Fink said. She told
the story of five eyewitnesses to the mur-
der of 15 people in a small village.
"We're starting to see a pattern," Fink
said.
For a year prior to NATO bombings,
PHR had worked with local doctors who
participated in its program, Fink said.
PHR is now working to locate these doc-
tors. The organization feels responsible
for them, Fink said, and wants to provide
humanitarian aid.
Fink said she visited Kosovo in
December, making ties with the people
there. When the violence erupted, "I had
to see for myself" what was happening,
she said.
PHR has issued a statement that only a
ground protection force will be able to
provide security and the humanitarian aid
needed, Fink said.
She added that college students, even
in the United States, can still help to end
the crisis in Kosovo. Fink said University
students are in a good position to bring
awareness to the issue by holding lecture
series, collecting money for humanitarian
aid and writing letters to Congress.
The University has a "proud activist
tradition,"she said.
People also can make donations to
human rights organizations that provide
aid, support the war crimes tribunal to
ensure that it will get adequate funding
and support the American effort to end
the crisis.
AROUND THE NATION
Court upholds ban on obscene e-mai
WASHINGTON - A federal law aimed at limiting e-mail smut does not vio
late free-speech rights, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. That could be bad
news for people who like to write dirty online and for the proprietors o
"annoy.com."
The court's unanimous decision, issued without an opinion, rejected a compute
technology company's argument that one part of the Communications Decenc c
of 1996 threatens free-speech rights.
The law had been attacked by ApolloMedia Corp., a San Francisco-based firm
that developed "annoy.com" World Wide Website to let people anonymously com
municate their opinions to public officials by using language some might consider
indecent.
The challenged provision of the law makes it a crime to transmit a "commu-
nication which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent with intent t
annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person."
The provision applies to all e-mail, even messages sent from one friend o
acquaintance to another.
A three-judge federal court upheld the law after interpreting it to ban only
obscene material that gets no constitutional protection. The Supreme ri
affirmed that ruling.
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Police to blanket
D.C. for NATO's 50th
WASHINGTON - Bomb squads,
SWAT teams and other federal and local
police will blanket Washington, D.C.
this weekend to protect the leaders of
about 40 countries meeting for NATO's
50th birthday commemoration.
The unprecedented cloak of protec-
tion, intensified because of the NATO
bombing campaign over Kosovo, will
include the first-ever closing of several
Smithsonian museums for security rea-
sons. Police are virtually shutting down
more than two dozen busy blocks in the
city's center.
Strategy sessions and security drills
began six months ago to prepare for
anything from a drive-by shooting or
truck bombing to nuclear or biological
terrorism.
"We are the No. I target in the
world," said Jim Rice, FBI special
agent for terrorism. "But we have
home-field advantage. We know the
streets. We know the skyline. If some-
thing is out of place, we know it"
Altogether, 17 agencies are involved
including riot police and hazardous
chemical units, plus security details fo
each world leader.
"All are prepared to respond to at
emergency,' Secret Service Specia
Agent Jim Mackin said. "Our goal ir
planning was to prevent them *n
having to do that."
Side-impact airbags
pose ris to young
WASHINGTON - Federal regula
tors yesterday released the first tes
results from simulated crashes of hov
side-impact air bags affect childrei
who lean against them or come t<
contact with them because they" Wi
an odd position in the front seat.
Safety experts concluded that al
but one of the 12 cars tested - th
Volvo C70 - posed some sort of risi
of chest, neck and head injuries ti
children who ride in the front seat an
may be too near a side air bag tha
shoots out of the seat or door of th
vehicle.
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Hopwood Awards
Kasdan Scholarship
in Creative Writing
Arthur Miller Award
Jeffrey L. Weisberg Poetry Prize
Dennis McIntyre Prize
Chamberlain Award
for Creative Writing,
Helen S. and John Wagner Prize
Andrea Beauchamp Prize
Robert F. Haugh Prize
Meader Family Award
Naomi Saferstein Literary Award
Leonard and Eileen Newman
Writing Prizes
Paul and Sonia Handleman
Poetry Award
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Kasdan
Film credits include:
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the lost Ark
Body Heat
Return of the Jedi'
The Big Chill
Silvi cdo
The Accidental Tourist
Grand Canyon
The Bodyguard
Wyatt Earp
Mumford
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cause etbnic tensions
ANKARATurkey -Their campaign
offices are decorated with posters of a
"greater Turkey" that includes former
Soviet republics such as Kazakhstan, an
expression of the larger Turkish identity
they want to create. They have no burn-
ing desire to pull closer to Europe, and
they most of all demand a hard line
against Kurdish separatists and their
jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
When members of the far right
Nationalist Action Party captured nearly
20 percent of the vote in Sunday's elec-
tions and positioned themselves for a
likely role in Turkey's next government,
they set the stage for what could be a tur-
bulent debate over this country's attitude
toward its Kurdish minority and its role
in the region.
To members of the party's newly
elected batch of parliamentary deputies,
a group that likely will join the winning
party of current Prime Minister Bulent
Ecevit to form a new government, their
success is a natural outgrowth of the fail-
ure of other parties to protect Turky'
interests.
To others, it is a haunting echo firm
the days when factions from the r ;h
and left openly battled in the streets dir
ing the 1970s - an era that led to0il
itary coup and gained the Nationalis
Action Party a reputation for anti-leI
and anti-Communist thuggery.
WTO approves U.S.
sanctions aganst
GENEVA - The European Unio,
promised to change its banana iteWr
policies after the World d
Organization approved tough U.S
sanctions against European product
yesterday, a victory for Washington ii
the long-running trade dispute.
The United States claims the EU dis
criminates unfairly against banana
imported from U.S. multinational com
panies in Latin America and favor,
those from former European colonies
in the Caribbean and Africa.
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