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Monday, March 18, 2002
Israel, Iraq Focuses
Of Cheney's Visits
The Associated Press
Vice President Dick Cheney, nearing
an end of his tour of Arab countries,
acknowledged Sunday that the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict has become “a pre
occupation for everyone” in the region.
The crisis has blunted Cheney’s effort
to build a case for a tougher stance
against Iraq.
With Cheney ready to head to Israel,
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah
- author of a peace initiative drawing
support - accepted an invitation to visit
President Bush at his Texas ranch.
Cheney delivered the invitation in
person on Saturday night in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia.
The vice president was to meet
Monday with Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon. Cheney has left time on
his schedule for meetings with
Palestinian leaders, a senior U.S. official
said Sunday. The official, speaking on
the condition of anonymity, said there
were no plans for Cheney to see
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat but
would not rule out the possibility.
Cheney has said he will confer with
U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni upon his
arrival in Israel. “I hope he’ll have
something positive to report,” Cheney
said.
The vice president has denied any
linkage between the Israeli-Palestinian
crisis and his search for Arab-world sup
port for a wider war on terrorism. But
on Sunday, he said the crisis had over
shadowed other items on his tour of the
region.
The conflict “is a preoccupation for
everybody in this part of the world,” he
said at a news conference in the presi
dential guest palace in Manama after a
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN
Kim Gandy, President,
National Organization for Women
733 15th St NW, 2nd floor
Washington, D.C. 20005 February 1. 2002
Dear Ms. Gandy:
Please consider two hypothetical scenarios: 1) A male employer informs a 25-year-old female employee that
she will not be considered for promotion unless she allows him to massage her buttocks. 2) A male school
principal informs a 15-year-old schoolgirl that she will be suspended from classes for the next three days,
therefore receiving zero grades on all missed tests and assignments, unless she submits to his spanking her on
the buttocks with a wooden board. What are the essential differences between these two cases? Which of the
two would you consider to be a more egregious violation of a defenseless victim? If you had to choose,
which victim is in more urgent need of protection?
Bear in mind that the beating is more painful and more dangerous than the massage, that the schoolgirl is
probably more dependent on the adults in her world and less resourceful in defending her own interests, and
that the psychological consequences to her are more apt to be long-term, setting her up for future
victimization by other presumed authority figures, e.g., boyfriend, husband, employer—anyone with the
power to demand her compliance and to hurt her if she resists.
At this time, thanks largely to the efforts of such organizations as yours, nowhere in the U.S. are employers
legally permitted to demand sexual favors in exchange for job security or advancement. In the public school
systems of 23 states, however, thinly disguised sexual favors can be, and are being, coerced from students
with impunity. According to the most conservative estimates, legal beatings of schoolchildren number about
1/3 million incidents per year, and many of those beatings are inflicted by adult males on underage females
(though even 18-year-old women are not exempt from being paddled). It is often with threats to these girls’
academic standing—and by extension, their prospects for college admission—that these men prevail on them
to “assume the position.”
The purpose here is not to make a moral distinction between the mistreatment of girls and that of boys. We
consider any deliberate aversive stimulation to the pelvic area of a non-consenting, underage person,
irrespective of gender, to be a sexual violation. The purpose is rather to present the issue in terms of your
particular mission: the protection of women.
Ironically and tragically, to date no major women’s rights advocacy group that we are aware of has addressed
this issue (excepting a 1992 resolution by the Florida chapter of NOW and a story published in Women's
Enews last September). It seems clear to us that one way—arguably the best way—to empower grown
women would be to stop systematically disempowering young girls. That could be achieved with relative ease
and speed. Virtually every other advanced nation, and more than a few developing nations, have already given
schoolchildren statutory protection from disciplinary beatings. Ten European nations and Israel have now
extended that protection to children in their homes. Posted on our Web site is “Rape: Lesson No. 1,” a young
woman’s account of her experience with corporal punishment while a student at a Florida public high school.
It speaks eloquently to this issue and should be read by everyone concerned about violence against women.
You may read and make copies of that document at www.nospank.net/s-rape.htm. You can also see typical
paddling-related injuries at www.nospank.net/whacked3.htm.
In closing, we invite you to share this letter with board members, staff and the membership of your
organization. We hope that you will decide that now is the time to protect schoolgirls from sexual violence
disguised as discipline. To ignore their plight is to do a gross disservice to all women and to all society. Please
keep us apprised of your plans in this regard. You may count on our cooperation in every way.
Sincerely,
Jordan Riak, Executive Director
Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE)
Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
P.O. Box 1033, Alamo, CA 94507-7033. Tel.: (925) 831-1661 Web site: www.nospank.net
meeting with Bahrain’s king, Sheik
Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa.
Cheney visited the Bahrain head
quarters of the U.S. Navy’s sth Fleet.
Later, he flew to Qatar for meetings with
that Gulf state’s leaders. Cheney also
greeted U.S. troops stationed at Al-
Udeid air base on the outskirts of Doha,
the capital of Qatar. He was stopping in
Kuwait, the ninth and final Arab state
on his trip, before arriving in Israel.
One Arab leader after another has
counseled Cheney against opening an
Iraqi campaign in the war on terrorism.
Bahrain’s crown prince, Sheik
Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, said
Arabs are more concerned about what
they see as “Israeli violence” against
Palestinians than about the Iraq issue.
Joining Cheney at the palace news
conference, he said he shares U.S. con
cerns about Saddam Hussein’s efforts to
obtain weapons of mass destruction.
But, the crown prince added, “I don’t
think that the strike on Iraq has been
decided yet.” He said his country
prefers pressuring Iraq to comply with
U.N. resolutions, including accepting a
return of weapons inspectors.
Cheney complained about a “specu
lative bubble (over) whether or not the
United States might use military force”
against Iraq. “It would be a mistake to
assume there is only one issue on my
agenda,” he said.
Cheney told reporters that he had
extended Bush’s invitation to visit the
United States in his meeting Saturday
with Abdullah in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
At that session, Abdullah reportedly
told Cheney that Saudi Arabia remains
opposed to attacking Iraq and would not
allow the United States to use Saudi
bases for such an operation.
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ABROAD
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the University, classes around the
globe continued. “Life in Spain
momentarily paused, but it did not
come to a complete stop,” Diana said.
Catherine Jones, a senior history and
Spanish major from Chicago, also expe
rienced the tragedy from an outside per
spective while studying in Spain.
Like many, she instandy contacted
her family. Both her father and her sis
ter worked in downtown Chicago and
she worried about their safety.
The same confusion and anxiety
about future attacks that crossed the
minds of many Americans had also
crossed the Atlantic.
TOWN BUDGET
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Current tax rates of 50.4 cents per
SIOO valuation mean an owner of
$200,000 in property pays SI,OOB each
year to the town. The 4.7 cent increase
would boost that bill by $94.
But now that the state is threatening
to add to the town’s budget stress,
Horton said the council will be forced to
make a decision regarding the increase
in taxes once the staff creates a report.
The council plans to meet with the
town staff soon.
Wiggins said adjusting the budget for
the next fiscal year is going to be a chal
lenge that she hopes will put some cap
ital projects on hold but most likely
won’t include layoffs. “The manager has
been updating us periodically on the
financial situation, and we are awaiting
his next budget presentation where he
will present his recommendation on
how to deal with that,” she said. “As the
budget picture changes he has to adjust
(his recommendations).
“Right now we’re just awaiting the
specifics.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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“It was probably a couple of weeks
before I settled down and felt comfort
able staying in Spain," Jones said.
Officials in the UNC Study Abroad
Office did their best to ease students’
feelings of apprehension. “They offered
as much support as they could,” Diana
said. Students had the opportunity to
discuss their fears with a counselor, and
Diana said a guest came to one of her
classes to speak about Islam.
E-mails from UNC Study Abroad
Program Director Robert Miles
warned the students not to travel and
to guard their identity as Americans.
At a time when patriotism was at its
highest in the United States, Jones said
she felt the need to downplay the fact
that she was American.
Still, Diana said she felt safer in
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Sevilla,Spain, than she would have felt
if she were at home. America was
under attack, not Spain. Diana said that
because her appearance did not reveal
her nationality, she did not feel she was a
target for aggression.
Most people who discovered Diana
was American offered condolences. “It
was good to know that most of the world
supported us,” Diana said. Jones echoed
this feeling. “We were more embraced
than we were threatened,” she said.
Before returning to the United
States, the students had a re-entry
preparation meeting where they dis
cussed the changes at home.
The patriotic flag displays and
increased airport security were popular
topics of conversation.
Jones said her mother’s description
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what she saw when she returned.
Neither she nor Diana were shocked.
“I thought everything would be differ
ent,” Diana said. “Obviously seeing all
the flags everywhere was different, and
airport security was grueling.”
But, she added that the changes
were not as drastic as she expected.
These travelers say they, like other
members of their generation, will
never forget the events or the effects of
Sept. 11. But Jones said her experience
of the tragedy was worlds away from
the average American’s.
She said, “I felt fortunate in a way,
like I had a unique story to tell.”
The Features Editor can be reached
features@unc.edu.
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