Library Juice 1:6 - February 24, 1998
Iraq Supplement Contents: 1. Iraq Update Trailblazer 2. Iraq Crisis Anti-War Page 3. Addendum to SRRT Action Council Statement against war in Iraq 4. Librarians Against War: an open letter 5. London Times story on 'The Accord' ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Iraq Update Trailblazer To: Multiple recipients of list LIS-L <LIS-L[at]POSTOFFICE.CSO.UIUC.EDU> I've added Iraq Update, a Table containing the best of the current background and news links on the Iraq situation, under my Needle Navigator Table on my main page. Hope it helps provide some info on and understanding of this difficult problem. Bye. John John Albee mailto:albee[at]revealed.net Teacher, Davenport Community Schools Website: Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder http://home.revealed.net/albee/ address: 736 Westerfield Road Davenport, Iowa 52806 phone: 319-386-2171 We are all Works In Progress... ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Iraq Crisis Anti-War Page http://www.nonviolence.org/campaigns/iraq.htm ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Addendum to SRRT Action Council Statement against war in Iraq Message to SRRT ACTION COUNCIL MEMBERS in particular: a call for endorsement of an addendum to our statement against war on Iraq In view of the apparent success of Mr Annan in avoiding the out break of armed conflict for the moment, I would like to urge Action Council , in its own name, to sign on to the following. ------------------------------------------- SRRT Action Council thanks all those librarians, library workers and library students who supported our Open Letter: Librarians for Peace, which expressed our collective dismay at the US-initiated plans to bomb the nation of Iraq. We applaud all those who have played a role in staying the hand on the levers of military destruction, including the offices of the Secretary general of the UNI Kofi Annan. We view with alarm, however, the continued build-up of military forces poised to strike at Iraq. We urge our fellow "librarians for peace" to remain vigilant in the face of the on-going military deployment. We on SRRT Action Council voice our support for an end to military preparations. We call for an end to the embargo and sanctions which are crippling the Iraqi people and hitting hardest at the children of Iraq. Mark Rosenzweig ________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Librarians Against War: an open letter February 20, 1998 Librarians Against War: an open letter We speak to you as librarians, members of a humanistic profession whose practice implies commitment to openness, democracy and freedom. We speak to you as believers in the superiority of reason over force and dialogue over violence. Dedicated to an ideal of human progress which attends to preservation and continuity, librarianship is committed to patient, constructive work for a better future. A profession which helps create and maintain space for discourse and argument, for the free speech and dissent so important to a robust democracy, librarianship is also a profession based on mutuality. This includes international cooperation in the service of a world of knowledge which knows no borders. Educators and public servants, scholars and researchers, we are above all a profession of nurturers. Hear us out, though we speak for the moment not of books and databases, but on an issue implicitly our legitimate professional concern. We speak to you of war and of the threat of war. Not of a battle joined of necessity, in self-defense, but of war, planned and plotted with cold calculation against another nation and--less abstractly--against another people. As we write, our government is preparing an air assault on Iraq which will be devastating to the already suffering Iraqi people and which will contribute nothing to the cause of democracy or peace. We do not accept the planned death of countless civilians, the destruction of the infrastructure of their lives and society, as an "acceptable price to pay" or as "collateral damage". We speak in solidarity with our colleagues in the nation of Iraq, in its libraries and schools and universities, who strive for freedom and the end of oppression but in no way wish to see their people suffer another round of punitive military attacks and destruction. No one can truly believe that a "message sent to Saddam Hussein" in the blood of innocents has any effect on the heart of Iraq's dictator. It would be only another a macho demonstration of military superiority, an object lesson in U.S. willingness to use any means, no matter how disproportionate, to pursue its ends. There are forces, among them the United Nations, which are striving for a diplomatic solution to the impasse over site inspections in the sovereign nation of Iraq. We support all such efforts. With colleagues whose names are signed below, the Action Council of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association voices its opposition to the planned US-led attacks on the nation of Iraq. We do so as professionals concerned not only about the health, welfare and development of the Iraqi people, but also with the degrading effects that violence has on the United States itself. Sincerely, Mark Rosenzweig, SRRT Action Council; Hofstra University -and- Jos Anemaet, SRRT Action Council; Oregon State University Library Carol Barta, SRRT Action Council; Barton County Community College Library Samuel Bennett, SRRT Action Council; Kansas City, KS Public Library Sanford Berman, SRRT Action Council; Hennepin County Library Kim Edson, SRRT Action Council; Hennepin County Library Yvonne Farley, Kanawha County Library Dorothy Granger, SRRT Action Council; Pacific Oaks College Al Kagan, SRRT Action Council; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Mark Martin, SRRT Action Council; Temple Archives Michael Miller, SRRT Action Council; Columbia University Veronda Pitchford, SRRT Action Council; University of Illinois at Chicago Frederick Stoss, SRRT Action Council; SUNY/Buffalo Wendy Thomas, SRRT Action Council; Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College Charles Willett, SRRT Action Council; Editor, Counterpoise Other supporters: Joan Annsfire, San Francisco Public Library Bette Anton, University of California at Berkeley/Optometry Library Rebekah Azen, Santa Fe New Mexican News Library Kate Bradley, Bellevue Community College Margo Brault, Louisiana State University Catherine M. Bremer, San Francisco Public Library Cathy Camper, Minneapolis Public Library Thomas Carey, San Francisco Public Library Alison Curtis, graduate student, University of British Columbia Kathy Deck, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jan DeSirey, Hennepin County Library Chris Dodge, Hennepin County Library Sherry Durren, graduate student, University of South Carolina Mary Engle, California Digital Library Sean Fitting Sheila Goldmacher, San Francisco Public Library Ann Grafstein Andrea V. Grimes, San Francisco Public Library Mr. Lynn A. Grove, South Central Regional Library Council Elaine Harger, W. Haywood Burns School, PS/IS 176, New York Larry Heiman, New York University Library Amy Holloway, San Francisco Public Library Noha Ismail, Hennepin County Library Janet Jenks, Caltech Library System Judy Kopanic, San Francisco Public Library Stephen LaBash, University of Baltimore Library Yvonne Farley, Kanawha County Library Terry Link, Michigan State University Rory Litwin, graduate student, San Jose State University Carol Liu Annette MacNair, San Francisco Public Library Renee McBride, UCLA Mary Mallory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Donna Mandel, graduate student, San Jose State Mike L. Marlin, URS Greiner Engineering & Environmental Library Brent Miller,California State Library Laura Quilter, Exploratorium Paul Quintanilla, San Francisco Public Library Carol Reid, New York State Library Katia Roberto, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Stephanie Row, San Francisco Public Library Liz Ruhland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Richard Sapon-White, Oregon State University J. Mark Scheu, Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis Ann Sparanese, Englewood Public Library Lisa Stage, the Hearth Community Library Thomas Stuart Judy K. Stuck Geoffrey D. Swindells, University of Missouri-Columbia Theresa Tobin, MIT Library Samuel E. Trosow, graduate student, UCLA Shannon Van Kirk, graduate student, University of Alabama Note: Above institutional affiliations provided for information only. Opinions expressed in this letter are those of the signers, and not necessarily their institutions. ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. London Times story on 'The Accord' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:57:39 -0800 (PST) From: MichaelP <papadop[at]PEAK.ORG> Subject: (en) London Times Hot version of UN-Iraq accord. London Times February 24 1998 IRAQ CRISIS The accord 'Black hole' on inspection procedures remains to be filled FROM JAMES BONE IN NEW YORK THE seven-point Memorandum of Understanding negotiated with Iraq by Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary-General, calls for a "special group" of diplomats and weapons inspectors, headed by a commissioner chosen by the UN chief, to inspect Iraq's presidential sites. But details of the accord, obtained last night by The Times, reveal that key procedures for the inspection of those sites remain unresolved and are to be agreed at an unspecified future date. One Western diplomat called the omission a "huge black hole" in the accord, which will have to be filled with further talks. In the agreement, Iraq pledges to grant weapons inspectors "unfettered access" to all other places in the country. Mr Annan promises to bring the issue of the sanctions on Iraq to the full attention of the Security Council. The UN Special Commission (Unscom), responsible for ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, will work to present its report calling for a lifting of sanctions "expeditiously". The seven-point plan can be summarised as follows: 1. The Government of Iraq reiterates that it will comply with all relevant Security Council resolutions and to co-operate with Unscom in the elimination of banned weaponry; 2. The UN reiterates the commitment of its members to respect Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity; 3. The Government of Iraq pledges to give Unscom immediate, unfettered and unconditional access in accordance with Security Council Resolutions 687 and 715, which set up the weapons inspection regime. Unscom promises to respect legitimate Iraqi concerns about its national security, sovereignty and dignity. 4. The UN and the Government of Iraq agree the following special procedures for entry to the presidential sites specified in an annexe to the memorandum: (a) A special group will be formed for this purpose and appointed by the UN Secretary-General in consultation with the executive chairman of Unscom and the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency. This group will include diplomats appointed by the UN Secretary-General and experts from Unscom and the IAEA and will be headed by a commissioner appointed by the Secretary-General; (b) In carrying out its task, the special group will work according to approved procedures of Unscom and the IAEA and according to special procedures that will be worked out, in accordance with relevant Security Council resolutions, due to the special nature of presidential sites; (c) A report on the activities of the special group will be submitted to the Security Council by the executive chairman of Unscom through the UN Secretary-General. 5. The UN and the Government of Iraq agree that all other areas, equipment, documents, means of transportation and facilities will be subject to Unscom's procedures; 6. Taking into consideration the progress achieved by Unscom in all areas of disarmament and the need to intensify efforts to end its mission, the UN and Iraq agree to improve their co-operation, their efficiency, their activity and transparency to enable Unscom to present its report expeditiously to the Security Council under paragraph 22 of Resolution 687 (lifting the oil embargo), and to achieve this the Iraqi Government and Unscom will implement the recommendations of the extraordinary session of Unscom convened on November 21, 1997. 7. The lifting of the sanctions is of great importance to the people and Government of Iraq, therefore the UN Secretary-General pledges to draw the full attention of Security Council members to the issue. ** NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. ** ------------------------------ __________________________________________________________________ Rory Litwin mailto:rlitwin[at]earthlink.net PO Box 720511 phone: (408) 286-6409 San Jose, CA 95172 http://home.earthlink.net/~rlitwin __________________________________________________________________
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