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...Darfur remains the foremost ranking humanitarian crisis on the UN “watchlist,” the new buzzword amongst activists is the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), launched on Thursday. April 7 by Swarthmore college students, Mark Hanis and Andrew Sniderman. The premise behind GIF is that AU forces on the ground in Darfur should be provided with funds to cover their non-lethal weapon needs. At a conference organized in February by the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the Swathmore undergrads sold their idea to students from 92 colleges around the country, who reviewed and reworked this...
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More than one-quarter of america's bird species are in decline, according to a report this week from the National Audubon Society. Issuing its first WatchList since 1997, the Audubon names birds that are imperiled but have not yet been doomed to extinction. The list of 201 species includes the cerulean warbler, which has an Appalachian habitat threatened by mining, and the painted bunting, whose brushland habitat has been gobbled up by sprawl and farming. The decrease in birds isn't good news for humankind, says the Audubon's chief ornithologist, Frank Gill, since birds are indeed the canaries...
...watch lists covered four basic areas. One was international drug traffic. Another was keeping track of potential presidential assassins. The other two areas were terrorism and possible foreign support for civil disturbances. Cryptically, Allen told the Senators that the watchlist monitoring had prevented "a major terrorist act" in an American city. The episode apparently involved a plan by Arab terrorists to hide explosives in a car parked on a New York City street and detonate them when Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who was visiting the city, passed...
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