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This Clinton Presidential Library folder holds NSC cables from January 1999 to December 2000, filed under the heading "Flying Saucer or UFO". A withdrawal sheet lists eleven cables that were withheld in full or in part under Presidential Records Act and FOIA restrictions. The released cables include an FBIS summary of a Bogota TV newscast, which notes that a UFO photograph printed by El Espectador was a hoax. They also include a US Embassy Beijing report on Quanzhou, Fujian, and a Vladivostok cable on Governor Yevgeniy Nazdratenko.
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RIGHTS. QUASI-NGO'S AND EPHEMERAL PROFESSIONAL ATTACHMENTS 12. THE MOST INTERESTING AND ELUSIVE SIGNS OF CIVIL SOCIETY ARE SMALL CLUMPS OF PROFESSIONALS WHO COORDINATE THROUGH IO'S AND NGO'S TO PURSUE HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECTS, UNDER THE GUISE OF SUCH GENERIC TITLES AS "WOMEN'S SOCIAL SITUATION." THESE GROUPS DISCUSS SUCH HEALTH ISSUES AS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AS BATTERED WOMEN, AND SUCH LEGAL RIGHTS ISSUES AS INHERITANCE LAWS. PEOPLE OF SIMILAR THOUGHT KNOW OF EACH OTHER AND PURSUE CIVIC SOCIETY GOALS THROUGH BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ACTIVITIES. THEY DO NOT DARE TO FORM CIVIC SOCIETY GROUPS THAT WOULD COMPETE WITH OFFICIALLY-SANCTIONED GROUPS. ONE LAWYER, HOPING TO ESTABLISH A BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL DEFENSE HOT LINE WITH SUPPORT PROMISED BY AN IO, REMAINS FRUSTRATED TO DATE. THE SARG ALLOWS A HOT LINE FOR WOMEN IN MEDICAL DISTRESS, STAFFED BY VOLUNTEER PHYSICIANS AND SOCIAL WORKERS, BUT FORBIDS A LEGAL HOT LINE. IN A RECENT USIS CIVITAS SEMINAR, PARTICIPANTS VOTED DOWN A PROPOSAL TO FORM A COMMITTEE, SAYING THAT UNCLAS SECTION 04 OF 04 DAMASCUS 003515 USIA STATE FOR ARN/NEA-EMILLARD, INR USIA FOR PAGNEW, NEA-DSREEBNY, LHALE, CHUNTER; I/GNEA-AWALDEN; E/NEA-MQUINN, JSEDLINS; E/VGN- AOLEARY, ASHIFLETT E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL, SY SUBJECT: NGO'S IN SYRIA: BUILDING BLOCKS OF CIVIL SOCIETY? ANYTHING OFFICIAL WOULD HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY THE GOVERNMENT. 13. PROFESSIONALS WHO FUNCTION AS INDIVIDUALS AWARE OF ONE ANOTHER'S EFFORTS COULD EASILY FORM A HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP IF THE AUTHORITIES WOULD ALLOW THAT. THE OFFICIAL HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP IN SYRIA IS A GOVERNMENT MOUTHPIECE. THE FREQUENT LECTURES ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN SUCH OFFICIAL ARENAS AS THE ARAB CULTURAL CENTERS, DO NOT ADDRESS DOMESTIC ISSUES EXCEPT AS IDEOLOGICAL REPETITION OF THE COMMITMENT OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO DEMOCRACY. A RECENT SPEECH AT THE DAMASCUS ARAB CULTURAL CENTER, BILLED AS "HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER PRESIDENT ASAD," DEALT SOLELY WITH PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI HUMAN RIGHTS. WE DISTRIBUTE THE DOS HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT HERE AND IT IS WIDELY READ, BUT NEVER PUBLISHED.
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Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 64 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.