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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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14. IN SYRIA NO PUBLIC FORA EXIST IN WHICH TO DISCUSS CIVIL SOCIETY OR HUMAN RIGHTS. LIKE-MINDED PROFESSIONALS CONSIDER SUCH ISSUES QUIETLY, IN NGO MEETINGS AND THROUGH INFORMAL SOCIAL LINKAGES. IN USIS CIVITAS SEMINARS, SYRIAN LAWYERS, EDUCATORS AND NGO MEMBERS DEBATE HOW TO COORDINATE THEIR ACTIVITIES, AND HOW FAR TO PUSH THE ENVELOPE. A WOMAN LAWYER ACTIVIST TOLD US THAT WHEN SHE USES THE TERM "WOMEN'S SOCIAL CONDITION" THAT SHE CAN SAY ANYTHING TO THE MEDIA, BUT THAT ONCE SHE USES THE TERM "HUMAN RIGHTS" SHE IS BLOCKED FROM SPEAKING. IN A WOMEN'S UNION SEMINAR TO CODIFY SYRIA'S POST-BEIJING WOMEN'S PROGRAM, PARTICIPANTS SAID THEY WERE ALLOWED TO SPEAK ABOUT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS (SYRIA IS A SIGNATORY OF THE CHILD PROTECTION CONVENTION). THESE INDIVIDUALS REPRESENT THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN SYRIA. THEIR ACTIVITIES ARE THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH LIKE-MINDED PROFESSIONALS AIM TO CREATIVELY "CRACK" THE OUTMODED AUTHORITARIAN REGIME. EARLY SECT: SECTION: 01 OF 04 SECTION: 02 OF 04 SECTION: 03 OF 04 SECTION: 04 OF 04 SSN: 3515 3515 3515 3515 TOR: 990711072739 M3953894 990711073030 M3953897 990711073216 M3953898 990711073406 M3953901 DIST: SIT: BABBITT BUSBY GUARNIERI MALLEY NAPLAN RIEDEL SCHWARTZ STROMSETH VACCARO SIT: NSC
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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.