Today's Topics:
Love Beijing Style
Subgenius Digest V2 #51
Tycoon urges community-based debate on Middle East
Vice-Presidential Resignation Survey
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 90 16:44:35 PST
From: trainor%bill-n-ted.esd.sgi.com@sgi.com
Subject: Love Beijing Style
To: SubGenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
BEIJING (UPI) -- The Public Security Ministry has ordered police and
other security workers to ``widely, thoroughly and solidly love the
people'' for one month early next year, it was reported Tuesday.
The campaign is part of a determined but frustrating national bid to
rout corruption and arrogance from China's security forces, the object
of widespread public loathing and resentment.
China's flagship Communist Party newspaper People's Daily announced
the new effort in a story headlined: Promote a Campaign to Love the
People -- Build a Secure Environment.
``The central content of the activity is to strengthen the
construction of honesty in government, to correct unhealthy professional
tendencies and to maintain close ties between the police and the people,''
the newspaper said.
A circular issued Monday orders police nationwide to ``widely,
thoroughly and solidly love the people for one month during the 1991 New
Year and Spring festivals,'' the daily said.
The Spring Festival, celebrated in late February, marks the start of
the Chinese lunar new year and is the most festive season of the ancient
Chinese calendar.
The circular ordered security organs to undergo rigorous self-
examination and self-correction and to check what officials refer to as
the ``three chaoses'': unauthorized accepting of funds, meting of fines
and sharing of official costs.
It said police should make special efforts to overcome the public's
impression that they are ``cold and hard,'' without letting up in their
regular duties in other public security campaigns.
These include the ``Hit Hard'' anti-crime campaign, the ``Sweep up
Pornography'' effort and the yearlong battle against the ``Six Evils'' --
prostitution, selling women and children, gambling, narcotics,
pornography and superstition.
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 10:08:43 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Subject: Subgenius Digest V2 #51
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Go to Sunday School for eighty years, die on Mars, O.K.?
Exceptions eternal? Absolute one!!
Anyone out there able to listen to current or near--current Hours of Slack?
Have they been using ``Twin Peaks'' ' many ``Bob'' quotes?
Personal: I 've ordered some stuff from the Foundation, and it 's been
about eleven months, and I haven 't gotten a thing, nor had
any of my mail to them answered. Are they [financially] bankrupt?
Did one of those groups to whom Bob Black gave Stang 's home
address gt him, or at least spook him real bad?
Six months is the Foundation 's previous record for me....
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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 90 23:06:47 PST
From: trainor%bill-n-ted.esd.sgi.com@sgi.com
Subject: Tycoon urges community-based debate on Middle East
To: SubGenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
HOUSTON (UPI) -- Dallas billionaire philanthropist J.R. ``Bob'' Dobbs
Tuesday urged National League of Cities representatives to encourage community
debate on whether the United States should go to war in the Middle East.
Speaking during an NLC annual congress, Dobbs stopped short of making
a recommendation, but suggested that each citizen needs to research the Middle
East culture and the United States' reason for having troops in Saudi Arabia.
``If we have a grand slam win, have we stablized or destablized the
Middle East? Come to your own decisions but don't stand around here brain
dead,'' Dobbs said.
He told mayors and city council members from across the nation to
gauge the grassroots attitude in their own communities about Saudi Arabia and
to make that opinion known to the White House.
``We need to get past the sound bites ... and our president finally
needs to come down with why are we there,'' Dobbs said. ``Is it the right
thing to do, is the goal that great? Is the cause that noble?''
Meanwhile President Bush said Tuesday he does not believe that Saddam
Hussein ``has gotten the message'' of the U.N. resolutions demanding the
withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
On the second day of his six-day Latin American swing, Bush told a
news conference in Uruguay that he agrees with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
who said he did not think sanctions alone will work against Iraq.
Bush said he does not believe that Hussein understands the impact of
the U.N. resolutions condemning his Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait.
Dobbs told NLC participants that the lesson from Vietnam is that U.S.
citizens need to be committed to going to war before troops go into battle.
``We have not committed the nation,'' he said regarding the
possibility of war in the Middle East.
Dobbs created a spectacularly successful sales and computer business
and then lavished a fortune on projects that mirrored his love of patriotism,
loyalty, and hard work.
He has championed many causes and spearheaded efforts in the late
1960s to force North Vietnam to release U.S. prisoners of war.
Dobbs also assembled a team of 15 commandoes to rescue two of his
``employees'' held for ransom in Gasre Prison in Tehran during the Iranian
revolution in 1979, a mission that also freed 11,000 other prisoners.
The story, although obscured for reasons of national security, was
recounted in ``On Wings of Eagles'' by Ken Follett, whose book was the basis
for a five-hour NBC television drama starring Richard Crenna and Burt
Lancaster, broadcast in May 1986.
Dobbs, known to those close to him simply as ``Bob,'' has long since
undergone his Divine Emaculation, and has consequently amassed a personal
fortune in the eleven-figure range. He then pretended to retire from public
life. (It was even rumored in the Pentagon that he had actually fled our
solar system!)
The National League of Cities is the largest organization of municipal
government officials in the nation, including the elected leaders of more than
1,400 communities.
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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 90 10:26:25 EST
From: Christopher Maeda <cmaeda@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Vice-Presidential Resignation Survey
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Praise Bob! I found SLACK in my junk mail yesterday.
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Dear Fellow Republican,
Do _you_ think Dan Quayle should resign as Vice-President?
ABC Television News has reported that a majority (52%) of Americans
think Dan Quayle is unqualified to be Vice-President.
_Well, I don't believe the result of this "poll" for one minute._
[...]
Not only do the liberals hate the fact that Dan Quayle is a
conservative, but what also really bothers them is that Dan Quayle has
become a very successful Vice-President.
[...]
Please, complete your VICE-PRESIDENTIAL RESIGNATION SURVEY and return
it to me at CRNC with your most generous donation immediately. Thank
you and God bless you.
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If you want the full text of this chock-full-o-SLACK epistle, send a
dollar and a SASE to my PO Box.
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