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On "The Colonel"
John Mann (1986)Nothing could have prepared the winner of the Yale Series or Younger Poets prize (awarded for her first book, Gathering the Tribes, in 1976) for what she found when she journeyed to El Salvador in 1978. She describes herself in a recent interview in Rolling Stone as a midwesterner with working-class roots teaching and writing in San Diego when, in 1977, Leonel Gomez Vides appeared at her door. A translator of Claribel Alegria's poems, and a worker for Amnesty International, Forche was perhaps ready to accept Gomez's invitation to visit and learn about his small country (on maps, the size of a chestnut); but her recollection of agreeing to go now strikes her as absurdly naive: "I thought I would be the lady in white working in the orphanage for one year who pats the little bottoms! I pictured myself that way, rather heroically." Instead, what she found in several journeys to El Salvador between 1978 and 1980 was twentieth-century reality. The eight poems in Part l of The Country Between Us bear the title "In Salvador, 1978-1980." They represent an immersion (really a kind of baptism) for the poetwhat quickly would become a political education, but more importantly a moral education as well. As she recalled later, "A young writer, politically unaffiliated, ideologically vague, I was to be blessed with the rarity of a moral and political educationwhat at times would seem an unbearable immersion, what eventually would become a focussed obsession. It would change my life and work, propel me toward engagement, test my endurance and find it wanting, and prevent me from ever viewing myself or my country again through precisely the same fog of unwitting connivance." This immersion ultimately issued in an outcry and a transformation.
Having heard the testimony of Latin American survivors, we plunge with the poet into the horror of El Salvador in 1978, 1979, and 1980. Traveling with her guides and mentors, perfecting her education, growing into a witness, she retrieved three of these experiments in completed wholes as poems. "The Visitor," "The Colonel," and "Because One Is Always Forgotten" provide a distillation, pared down with powerful discipline, of what Forche saw. Each involves dismemberment, spiritual or physical; each generates the anguish of individual ruin; yet each engages twentieth-century collective experience.
In the prose poem "The Colonel" torture and literal dismemberment spill out ito the open with a sackful of dried human ears dumped on a dinner table. Like the poet straining to hear the voices crying out in this book, these dismembered ears too can listen: "some of the ears on the floor caught the scrap of his voice." Even the dismembered body parts of the tortured victims become witnesses, ironically revealing Hannah Arendts comment that there are no "holes of oblivion" large enough to bury all the victims of torture and mass murder: one man will remain alive to tell the story. These ears are dead; they do not talk; yet they seem to come alive to listen with the poet.
This single poem, widely noticed, has done more than any other to tell Forchés story of El Salvador. The spectacle of a ruling Colonel spilling a bag of severed human ears onto a table focuses Forchés perceptions in the eight poems of [the section from her 1981 book The Country Between Us entitled] "In Salvador: 1978-1980" on one of her primary themes: the violation of the human body. This man so outrages our sensibilities that we tend to miss the significance of his question to the poet, "Something for your poetry, no?" The Colonel is another of Forchés teachers, forcing her to listen and see. Unbearably menacing in their evocation of linked violence and wealth, the details of this poem constellate quickly to suggest a festering sickness.
Carolyn Forché (from an interview with Bill Moyers)
From John Mann, "Carolyn Forché: Poetry and Survival," American Poetry 3:3 (Spring 1986), 55-56.
Moyers: . . . The Country Between Us. What is the country?
Forché: It's complicated because that book emerged while I was working as a human rights activist in Central America and in the United States and those poems turned out to be very different from the poems I had previously written. They were still first-person lyric narrative free-verse poems, but I didn't realize how much I'd been changed by my experiences in El Salvador until those poems reflected that change.
The country between us is perhaps the distance between one human being and another, how long it takes one human voice to reach another human voice. It's probably also a reference to El Salvador, which was the country that came into my heart when I was just becoming an adult, and the country which probably shaped my moral imagination. But perhaps it is the United States too, because for me the United States is very complex. It was the people of the United States who all through that war were very concerned and who cared about human rights and responded very favorably to all appeals while at the same time the United States was a government that didn't seem to know how to listen to any of that. So I have two countries in my mind: the country of my people and the country of the government that I knew as I was growing into adulthood.
Moyers: Your mention of El Salvador brings to mind "The Colonel." It's the poem of yours most quoted in anthologies and most used in classes. How did it come about?
Forché: I was in El Salvador. It was 1978. Very few Americans who didn't work for the embassy were there. There were a few Peace Corps people, but it was an unusual occurrence for an American to come into the country. I was being taken around and educated about conditions in Salvador by members of Claribel Alegría's family. My presence in the country came to the attention of the military, they were intrigued and wondered if I wasn't also working for the U.S. government because, in a way, everyone thinks that all North Americans there are doing that.
So officers began to want to talk to me. I realize today that they were hoping that the United States would desire their services and pay them for information and intelligence and so on, but I didn't know that then. it became clear to me, however, as I was having these meetings with military officers, that they were very upset about the human rights policy of President Carter. They believed that the United States was being hypocritical in its relation to them: they were still getting support, but they were embarrassed because they were being insulted internationally about their human rights behavior.
On this occasion I was taken to dinner at a very high-ranking officer's house and I don't think he realized that what I said about myself was true--I really was just a twenty-seven-year-old American poet. He got a little intoxicated and angry, and he wanted to send a message to the Carter administration. He wanted me to go back to Washington and tell President Carter, "We've had enough of this human rights policy," and his actions were his way of demonstrating his contempt.
Moyers: He literally poured ears on the floor?
Forché: He poured them on the table. I learned later there were a number of officers who had a practice of keeping bounty of various kinds. Some Vietnam veterans also told me that had happened in Vietnam, so what I saw was not as uncommon as I thought when I first saw it. I remember feeling sick and dizzy, but nothing happened to me. Everything was fine. His wife brought us out into the living room for coffee and tried to make everything better because she felt the dinner party was ruined. But he was not the worst man I met, not even the worst officer. In fact, this officer tried to warn priests when they were in danger.
Moyers: "Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground." Are they listening to something?
Forché: I'm happy you know that about the image, because sometimes people are puzzled, they don't understand why I describe in this way. But there's an expression, "ear to the ground," you know the way you can hear a train coming if you put your ear to the ground? I think that when we're writing a poem, sometimes our associational memory magically makes these connections. There were many such moments writing "The Colonel."
I thought the moon in the poem was just the moon until someone pointed out that it seems to be a white lamp shining in a box in an interrogation room. People have interpreted many features of this poem, but when I wrote it, I was just trying to capture details so that I would remember. I didn't even think it was a poem. I thought it was a piece of a memoir that got mixed up with my poetry book. So when a scholar read the manuscript and said, "This is the best one. This is the best poem," I said, "Oh, no. That's a mistake. That's not a poem." It took me years to accept it as a poem and not just a block of memory.
Moyers: The Colonel, what happened to him?
Forché: He's dead.
Moyers: The victims?
Forché: Dead.
Moyers: But the poem survived, so for whatever consolation it is, memory has a chance.
Forché: Yes. That's the hope.
Moyers: Had I reported that incident as a journalist, I would have been quite literal: who, what, when, where, and why. What's the relationship between these facts as a journalist would report them and the truth that you're trying to reveal?
Forché: Some writers whom I admire very much say that facts often have little to do with the truth. What I was trying to do with this piece, as I finally allowed it to be in The Country Between Us, was to acknowledge that something important had actually occurred. But the poem also contains a truth about the brutality of that situation which seems to reach deeply into people. When I came back to the United States and began reading the poem, I noticed that some people were very moved by it and others were very angered by it. And some people simply didn't believe it, they said it could not have happened.
There was a fierce denial and yet several years later a reporter for The Washington Post interviewed soldiers in El Salvador and they apparently talked about the practice of taking ears and all of that. In fact, one of these soldiers read the news story about his practice of taking ears and was so proud of the story that he actually clipped it out and laminated it and carried it in his wallet. Because now he was famous, you know, for this.
Moyers: That's what can happen to a journalist's account. But the poem is a condemnation.
Forché: It is a condemnation. As a journalist, maybe you wouldn't have been able to use the obscenity, and perhaps you wouldn't have been able to quote him directly. But more than that, I don't think it would've happened to you because I don't think the message was intended for the press. It was intended for a quiet communication back to Washington, and unfortunately they told the wrong person. They told a poet.
Moyers: Lesson for politicians and military leaders: Never talk to poets.
Forché: Never.
From The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets. Ed. James Haba. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Public Affairs Television, Inc., and David Grubin Productions, Inc.
Sharon Doubiago
"The Colonel," the most oft-quoted and reprinted poem of the book is, interestingly, set in prose and the witness breaks down midpoint when the Colonel spills a sack of human ears onto the dinner table: "There is no other way to say this." Who is it that is breaking down here? Not the witness, but the poet with the burden of her U.S. aesthetics. Who is she apologizing to? First and foremost, to us, her fellow poets (or is it to her teachers and critics who will disapprove?). The opening lines of the piece are also addressed to us, I think. "What you have heard is true. I was in his house," as if a poet should not have been, as if to
answer her poet friends who warned her about this. The ears :are like dried peach halves," the poet's only simile here and one I think that undeniably authenticates her experience. We need this simile, for how many of us have had the experience? It brings the ears alive for us, just as the one dropped in the glass of water by the Colonel "came alive." And even he addresses the poet's "problem" as he performs his heinous act. "Something for your poetry, no?"
From "Towards an American Criticism: A Reading of Carolyn Forché's The Country Between Us." American Poetry Review, January-February, 1983.
Terence Diggory
About "The Colonel," in which the title figure dumps a sack of human ears onto the table from which he and Forché have just dined, Forché says that, "I had only to pare down the memory and render it whole, unlined and as precise as recollection would have it. I did not wish to endanger myself by the act of poeticizing such a necessary reportage" (American Poetry Review, July-August 1981). If to "poeticize" means to prettify, Forché's statement is unobjectionable; if however, she means that "The Colonel" is a "reportage" rather than poetry, Forché is disavowing her own very significant role in giving her experience the shape of art. That "The Colonel" has such shape can be demonstrated by quoting its last two sentences, which provide perfect closure to a text in which each word is placed with artful precision: "Some of the ears on the floor caught this scrap of his voice. Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground," Even if we follow Forché's instructions to read "The Colonel" as "unlined," that is, as prose, the repetition in these sentences produces very formal prose indeed. And if, despite Forché's temporary banishment of lineation to the composing room, we read each sentence as a line of poetry, we discover that each is almost perfectly anapestic, thus lending special significance to the crucial disyllabic substitution that compresses the rhythm at the very moment that the ears are seen to be pressed to the ground. In the context of the volume as a whole, the image of ears has a special resonance, for Forché is continually aware of how difficult it is for one person's voice to reach the ears of another, spanning the distance of "the country between us." That her voice reaches us so distinctly is a tribute to her art as well as a measure of the horror to which her art bears witness.
From "Witnesses and Seers," in Salmagundi, Fall 1983, pp. 112-24.
Jonathan Holden
Why is this poem so good? Because the speaker/author's ideological predispositions do not preempt authentic poetic discovery--the discovery of connections between the feel of her individual life and, in this case, objective, historical and economic facts, discovery which is directly carried over into the poem's language and structure, a structure which, by matter-of-factly in a catalogue format juxtaposing such items as "daily papers, pet dogs, a pistol on the cushion . . . gratings as there are in liquor stores," not only links oppression inevitably with bourgeois life but also reveals the profound banality of such evil, a banality epitomized finally by the ears "like dried peach halves" in what might be the Salvadoran equivalent to a brown paper Safeway shopping bag. The poem is "analytic" in precisely the sense that the Simpson poem is. Instead of delivering us a conclusion, it renders the process of analysis itself. Indeed, Forché herself seems to sense how much it is authorial discovery after "pen" has been taken to "paper" which lends this poem its power. Introducing it, she characterizes it as "almost a poeme trouvé." Of course, "The Colonel" is nothing like a "found" poem. The "found" poem simply rearranges some nonpoetic discourse as verse, whereas this poem not only lacks verse, but it is in Forché's own words. It is "trouvé" in a more profound sense, in the sense that all excellent poetry is. In its genuine wonderment and curiosity at the details of the colonel's household, at the way in which bourgeois banalities are stored so casually side by side with the trappings of oppression (as if those furnishings naturally belonged together), it discovers and renders these connections more forcibly than any ideological statement could.
From Style and Authenticity in Postmodern Poetry. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by the Curators of the University of Missouri.
Carolyn Forché
Fifteen years ago, while working as a human rights activist in El Salvador, I had the occasion to dine with a high-ranking officer in General Humberto Romero's military regime. The following aide-memoir was among the seven poems included in The Country Between Us that had to do with human rights in El Salvador.
[Forché quotes "The Colonel"]
In a book celebrated and maligned for extraliterary reasons, this was the most widely discussed and most controversial poem. North American audiences were curious to know whether the events narrated were "true." One critic theorized that I had stolen the central image from an Ernest Hemingway novel, in which bulls' ears were severed after a bullfight. The colonel's gross display of human bounty seemed unimaginably inappropriate in the context of a suburban dinner party, and yet I was credited with having invented this and other details out of whole cloth. An early essay which I wrote on the formation of the death squads in El Salvador piqued serious interest at the New York Review of Books, until its fact-checker learned from the U.S. Department of State that the death squads were a figment of this poet-fantast's unrestrained imagination. I had been beyond the borders of hegemonic reality long enough to have developed a serious delusional condition. In choosing to present truth in a literary form, I had transgressed literature and forfeited the credibility accorded to "objective" and institutionally constrained journalists.
In 1992, I returned to El Salvador for the first time in twelve years. "Those who wanted you dead are dead, I was told. The colonel, too, is dead." While in the capital city, I met Doug Farrah, now of the Washington Post. "You're the poet who wrote the ears poem," he said. "Did you ever see my article in the New York Times?" I confessed that I hadn't. "It's about the ears, and the officer mentioned in the article was so proud of having his name in the New York Times that he had the article laminated for his wallet." In the library after my trip, I found the clipping from May 20, 1986:
Cerro Guacamaya, El Salvador (UPI)
Some Salvadoran soldiers say they have been cutting off the ears of dead leftist rebels to prove casualty counts. "We need something to prove we killed the terrorists," one sergeant said.
The officers of these soldiers say they are trying to end the practice, which they blame on the excitement of the moment.
Reporters traveling with an army unit on a counter-insurgency sweep in the northeastern province of Morazan on May 11 saw a soldier hold up two ears to prove that a guerrilla had been killed during a firefight near Cerro Guacamaya.
Other soldiers said it was not uncommon to cut the ears off the corpses of rebels to verify enemy casualties to commanders. But officers said they frown on the practice.
"Sometimes in battle, my men get excited and cut the ears off the dead terrorists," the lieutenant commanding the army unit said. "It is not something we order, but sometimes the excitement of the moment overcomes them."
As I read, it occurred to me to preserve the clipping myself, as a tangible fragment of that broken world. Perhaps it would one day serve some evidentiary purpose. Later in the trip, I was approached by an emissary from the American embassy, who informed me that I should stick to my poetry. "After all," he assured himself aloud, "nobody reads poetry."
from "The Poetry of Witness" in The Writer in Politics. Ed. William H. Gass and Lorin Cuoco. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University.
Kenneth Lincoln
Her cursed prose poem, "The Colonel," stalks readers with dead, severed ears. "One evening," she relates in terrible witness, "I dined with a military officer who toasted America, private enterprise, Las Vegas, and the 'fatherland' until his wife excused herself and in a drape of cigar smoke the events of 'The Colonel' took place. Almost a poeme trouve, I had only to pare down the memory and render it whole, unlined and as precise as recollection would have it" (APR 1981). Such an unspeakable moment, selected from personal history, is a witnessing check poem. "Simply to keep watch over life," the political historian Terrence Des Pres wrote, as Forche records his search for the lost home in "Ourselves or Nothing."
The word "colonel," from the Latin for "little column," designates a midrank, upright officer (vertically at attention) in the field. It is suspiciously close, byway of the ear, to "colonial," which derives otherwise from the Latin for "farmer." Forche's little column of words, "The Colonel," carries the news as a kind of freelance prose poem from a Latin American colonial homestraight from the mouth of a military bureaucrat with a gun on the "cushion" beside him (the privilege of terrorism). Suburban order is the flag of the generic Colonel's family: "his wife" clearing the table, "his son" going out for the night, "his daughter" filing her nails. The "pet dogs" complete this domestic coven, all-in-the-family conventional, proper and expected, but for the gun on the pillow.
"WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD is true," the rectangular block of an alleged poem, among six other lineated texts about El Salvador, opens with hushed confirmation. Beginning with full capitals, the first four words could pass for a legal brief or diplomatic report manque (Forche was serving as cultural diplomat on a Guggenheim, The Country Between Us her report to the people). This report is different. It does not look like or sound like a poem, at first, more a newspaper columnflatly descriptive, factual, reportorial. All this changes. The whispers of unspeakable rumor, the conspiratorial fears of oppression, the underground gossip of the streets leak through her reportorial column like small gusts of breath. A factual, mid-level diction breaks with maximal stress the need to tell all, in plain style disbelief and passionately embedded inscription. Hers is an anti-art that is an art of timed witness and indirect revelation. In journalistic wraps of the daily news, justified between margins, the lines carry a tone of clinical horror, echoes of controlled terror: all in the name of decency and diplomatic taste, Pentecostal "rack of lamb, good wine," and hemispheric trade. "His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar."
The Colonel's violence is institutionalized with broken bottles cemented into the walls (to "scoop" a man's "kneecaps," the voice edges toward bloodshed, or "cut his hands to lace," nervously questioning terrorist art). More colloquially, the Colonel's windows are grated "like those in liquor stores." Martial law rules this neighborhood. A "gold bell" calls "the maid," and "The maid" (in repetitious servility) brings green mangoes, salt, breadall uniform, all in order, all "his" orders, a man-made, emotionless, down-home horror under middle-class cushion. A TV cop-show in English imports American greed and violence, the commercial in Spanish capitalizes the local margin. What will happen? the reader wonders. How will this piece work out?
Metric line breaks are embedded in the syntax, curiously disguised not to look like poetry. The lines internally break into hymnal or ballad measure (five, times in tetrameter, "His wife took everything away"), blank verse (sixteen times in pentameter, "The moon swung bare on its black cord over the house"), and Homeric meter (seven times in hexameter, '"There were daily papers, pet dogs, a pistol on the cushion beside him"), only three lines in strictly "free" verse, three to seven beats. Sibilant hissing rhymes interlace the metric sentence endings ("house, English, house, lace, stores, Spanish, terrace, this, faces, themselves, voice") .Within the closing lines, the monosyllables "sack, ears, halves, hands, glass, rights, ears, last, ears, scrap, ears" and "pressed" siphon their vowels into a cluster of atrocities carried home as "groceries." Forche is much more of a poet, or anti-poet, than she lets on here. Her hidden rhymes and rhythms (both words from Greek rhythmus, as mentioned, meaning "flow") conceal the art of conspiratorial witness, the designs of a hushed poetics. "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" Dickinson cautioned, "Success in Circuit lies" (no.1129) .The off-poetic disguise is essential. How can she be an aesthete in witness of the horror? How can Forche appear to be ordering her lines, to be measuring her steps, to be decorating her images, in the face of the Colonel's controlled madness, his butchering orders? This paterfamilias finds it difficult "to govern" these days, to order his household, to keep the margins justified, to muzzle the press, to silence the cries of the disappeared. "Hello," the parrot parrots on the terrace, and the Colonel tells it to "shut up." The poet's co-witness, "my friend" (separate from household pawns), says "with his eyes: say nothing." Timing is all here, the slowly detailed opening, the building of tension with the pistol, glass, and grating, then more swiftly, the pressure of breaking open consciousness through undercurrent and sustained release of detailall in the steadily mounting expectation of a narrative worthy of Chekhov. The poet goes subversive. "She dealt her pretty words like Blades" Dickinson wrote, "How glittering they shone / And every One unbared a Nerve / Or wantoned with a Bone" (no.479).
So the Colonel brings out his grocery sack of ears, as casually as any collector might produce his stamps or chloroformed butterflies. "He spilled many human ears on the table. They were like / dried peach halves. There is no other way to say this." This cannot be said right, the subversive poet knows, no way except by way of a horribly failed speech, a terribly wrong image"like dried peach halves"the unspeakably excoriated simile. Language cannot bear this violence. The word "ear" disappears uncannily in the word "disappear." The disappeared bodies go earless, this wretched simile our evidence that they heard, but did not heed the Colonel's orders. Poetry is hopeless. Metaphor strains, words fail, the imagination shuns the truth, "An Omen in the Bone / Of Death's tremendous nearness" (Dickinson, no.532).
Yet one ear "came alive" in the Colonel's water glass. It's his awful party trick, his bad parodylittle titular column of a military god-man with life-and-death whims. He orders desaparecidos, proved by souvenir ears. "Some thing for your poetry, no? he said." That little Latin-Anglo hinge, "no?" is the dialectal trip wire of the whole poem. Such a small word to reverse field on the expectations of poetry, to trigger an obverse order. The negating disclaimer turns back in moaning o's, "Something for your poetry, no?" This is not so much poetry as anticolonial protest, not so much aesthetics as conspiratorial witness, or art beyond art. The failure of language goes deeper into human failures. Such is a poetry that breaks poetic illusion with the need to speak of the unspeakable, at whatever cost. "As for the rights of anyone, / tell your people they can go fuck themselves."
Foul words fit here. The Colonel comes clean in infamy, the truth no longer slant, but out in bad talk, self-condemned. A fallen, postmodernist diction, lower than any poet has gone before, is orally apt. The unspeakable is disgustingly cursed by his own words. Forche writes in postlyric, questionable witness of "the horror" with us, Conrad's Marlow in the New World, female, south of the border, bringing the news back home. "You, I, his, her, my friend, your people, they"the disparate host of personal pronouns in "The Colonel" points to a complicity of crimes at our door. The poet's careful detailing of this petty CEO thug with a gun leads to our implicative connection, "the horror" at home today, not far south. "Blessed / are those who listen," Linda Hogan says, "when no one is left to speak."
Some of the ears on the floor still beg mercy from a "scrap" of the Colonel's voice. This news comes from the bottom of the text, the prone axis that intercepts the Colonel's upright column and justified margins. Horizontal to his vertical order then, some of the ears lie "pressed to the ground"trampled, still listening underground in resistance, keen to hear, to know, to witness, and to rise up against the Colonel's orders. Latin America is an Hispanicized Native America, fusional Old and New Worlds, "children and exiles of the Americas," Forche writes of Whiteman's Oneida Star Quilt. The nativized ghosts of atrocity speak through intense silence, the quiet of the desaparecidos, the horror weighing the poem's shadows. "There is no other way to say this," the poet says, but this much must be said.
"In every war someone puts a cigarette in the corpse's mouth," the poet makes note, as hard truth haunts her. "I dug maggots from a child's open wound with a teaspoon" (APR 1981). What is too horrible to say reduces her to simile, sacked ears "like dried peach halves," a device that admits its own failure to name things directly. In so failing, the simile breaks a frustrated silence beyond itself. Forche remembers horror with stunned clarity, a poet's post-traumatic stress: "The bodies of friends have turned up disemboweled and decapitated, their teeth punched into broken points, their faces sliced off with machetes. On the final trip to the airport we swerved to avoid a corpse, a man spread-eagled, his stomach hacked open, his entrails stretched from one side of the road to the other. We drove over them like a garden hose." A writer's trope tilts away in pain. "The imagination is not enough," Forche writes of an African Anna, mothering sixteen adopted children, the "smallest one tied to her back by a rag" (The Angel of History). Witnesses must see beyond the darkness. The failures of metaphor to rise above the real, the knots of talk, the breaks in syntax, the slippages in language . . . teach something about the need to go beyond what we think we can say, know, or do, our hands not tied by art, but freed ill responsibility.
The disappeared spirits listen mutely in Salvador today, and Forche urges us to heed their brutalized cries. "There is nothing one man will not do to another," she reports of one-meter human cages, La Oscura, in "The Visitor." This is a truth some know, others fear to imagine, most want not to hear in our land of opulent opportunity (as privilege goes) above the poverty line. "To write out of such extremity is to incise, with language, that same wound, to open it again, and, with utterance, to inscribe the consciousness. This inscription restructures the consciousness of the poet" (APR 1988).
from Sing with the Heart of a Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry, 1890-1999. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by the Board of Regents of the University of California.
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The following is from the Sept. 4 City Council meeting. All council members were present.
Mayor Jane Egly presented a proclamation to Dave Thomas and Kevin Mundt commemorating the 20th anniversary of AREO, a gift and home décor shop on Ocean Avenue.
An open house was to be held Sept. 8 to celebrate the anniversary.
Egly commended AREO for it success, thoughtful service to its customers and generosity to Laguna's charities and nonprofits.
Thomas and Mundt expressed thanks to their loyal customers.
The public is allowed to speak on any subject not on the agenda. Speakers generally are limited to three minutes, but the time can be adjusted by the council.
•Thasa Zuziak thanked the council for organizing a very special party for Olympic Gold Medalist Annika Dries, a Laguna Beach resident.
Zuziak said more than 350 people attended the event at the community pool at which Dries signed autographs for two hours.
"That night when we were looking at pictures, [Annika ] said 'It was so much more than I could ever have dreamed of,'" Zuziak said.
Zuziak commended Director of Community Service Ben Siegel, Recreation Supervisor Tom Toman, Pool Manager Adam Gufarotti and his staff for their effort.
City Manager John Pietig said the staff was so enthusiastic about hosting such an event, Gufarotti had even deflated and painted American flags on several water polo balls.
"They would have had a Navy fly-over if it didn't conflict with the city's noise issues with planes," said Pietig, who also commended staff.
Egly said one of the highlights of her very busy month was meeting the gold medalist and showed off the memory banner from London, autographed and presented to the city by Dries. The banner will be displayed at the community pool.
•Bruce Hopping said that while serving in the South Pacific in World War II the ability to swim had saved his life several times. Hopping said the city should require all Laguna Beach children to learn to swim, free of charge in the community pool.
•Jonathan Paul stated the stability of his house at 31885 Circle Drive is threatened by any proposed construction of a patio on the edge of an unsafe cliff on the property below his home.
Paul distributed a geotechnical report by Applied Geotechnical that listed the patio as an area of serious concern and read statements from the report. He said the consultant for the owner of the property below his warned of more problems unless proper measures were taken.
Three bluff failures have been reported, the most recent on Aug. 3, 2011, Paul said.
Paul provided photos and documents supporting his position. He said any further construction on the patio was unsafe and should be opposed by the city.
Pietig said city staff has been working on project for the past year, but has not been able to get an agreement between the property owners on the appropriate action.
Community Development Director John Montgomery said the patio and the house are unfinished and all permits have expired. Staff is reviewing an updated geotechnical report and peer review.
"Any action must be based on accurate information," Montgomery said. "We would not allow the project to continue if it is not safe."
•High Society founder Scott Graham announced that a benefit on behalf of "Let it Flow" to raise money to build water wells in Ethiopia will be held Oct. 4 at Mozambique Steak House.
Graham said "Let It Flow" is a nonprofit organization that provides sanitation and clean water to underprivileged communities around the world.
The benefit will be organized by High Society and will feature appearances by skateboarding icon Tony Hawk, skateboarder Nyjah Huston and Top Chef Dave Martin, Graham told the council.
For more information, visit http://www.livehighsociety.com.
Council members and staff report on events they have attended, people with whom they have met and other items of public interest.
•City Treasurer Laura Parisi announced that the League of California Cities' Revenue and Taxation Committee has been asked to evaluate and comment on resolution, fines and forfeitures and Proposition 31, the California Forward Initiative, "The Government Performance and Accountability Act"; and Proposition 30, The Governor's Tax Initiative, "The School and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012," both on the November ballot.
•City Clerk Martha Anderson announced that interviews and appointments of five residents to the Housing and Human Services Committee would be held Oct. 2. Deadline to submit applications to the city clerk's Office is 5 p.m. Sept. 25.
•Pietig announced the council will meet with the Arts Commission at 4 p.m. Sept. 18.
Included on the agenda:
1. Overview of arts commission programs
2. Cultural arts plan
3. Arts and economic prosperity report
4. Future projects
A joint meeting with the Planning Commission has been rescheduled to Nov. 10.
•Councilman Kelly Boyd told Police Chief Paul Workman that the Police Cadets did a great job directing traffic downtown during the Labor Day weekend.
"I am telling you so you can tell them," Boyd said. "They get better every year and they are fun to watch."
•Councilwoman Toni Iseman, the city's Vector Control representative, reported that Orange County has reported fewer positive findings of West Nile virus due to the vigilance of residents and the aggressive elimination of mosquitoes.
She encouraged residents to get rid of standing water where mosquitoes breed.
For more information, visit http://www.ocvcd.org.
•Councilwoman Elizabeth Pearson encouraged folks to buy tickets to the Bluegrass concert at Aliso Creek Inn scheduled for Saturday. For tickets or more information, visit Laguna Beach Live! at http://www.lagunabeachlive.org.
She also announced that she organized a meeting with the Orange County Transportation Authority chair and city staff to see if there are ways to help the city obtain money for trolleys, senior transportation and the Village Entrance Project.
She and Iseman had met to discuss the Village Entrance Project, and she was very pleased to announce that they agreed on everything discussed.
• Mayor Jane Egly announced that the city had been awarded two grants related to traffic and circulation.
A Caltrans grant was awarded for the update of the transportation element. The Orange County Transportation Authority awarded a grant for a city-side pedestrian safety assessment.
The grants total about $400,000.
Egly credited the grants to the efforts of efforts of Principal Planner Scott Drapkin and Planning Manager Ann Larson.
•Mayor Pro Tem Verna Rollinger reported meeting with Pietig, Director of Public Works Steve May, Complete Streets committee member Chris Prelitz and Egly to discuss a plan for Glenneyre Street, followed by another meeting to discuss the city's energy usage.
•Egly announced that September is Disaster Preparedness Month. The county will be conducting a regional emergency test at 10 a.m. Thursday.
She also announced that anyone who would like their cell phone number as well as their home number listed with the county's automatic alert system could do so by logging into http://www.alertoc.com.
Since the last council meeting, Egly made an appearance as the guest conductor of the Laguna Community Concert Band. She also attended the Miracles For Families graduation at the Friendship Shelter. Participants learned to "stop fighting and start talking," a tactic appreciated by Egly who preaches civility in public service.
She said the Miracles For Families inspires healthy relationships for individuals, parents, couples and youth.
Consent calendar items are approved unanimously in one motion unless a member of the City Council, staff or public "pulls" the item, which then requires opening it for public comment and a separate vote.
Among the items approved unanimously:
Set Oct.16 for interviews and appointments of three residents to the Board of Adjustment/Design Review Board for terms from Feb.1, 2013, to Jan. 31, 2015. Deadline to submit applications to the city clerk's office is 5 p.m. Oct 9.
Items require separate discussion and citizen input, if desired, before the council makes a determination.
Canyon sidewalks sidelined, 5-0
The City Council delayed until December a decision on proposals for a sidewalk and bikeway along the easterly side of Laguna Canyon Road. City staff will spend the interim working with Caltrans to determine options in improvements.
"The canyon ambience doesn't suggest concrete sidewalks," said Mayor Pro Tem Verna Rollinger. "My suggestion is to work with Caltrans on what would comply with the state Complete Street requirements, but be more in character.
"It is important for [Public Works Director Steve May] to determine options before we get too far into this."
The continued item also included directions to staff to work with Southern California Edison on options to underground all overhead utilities along Laguna Canyon Road.
Items require separate discussion and citizen input, if desired, before the council makes a determination.
Appeal denied
The Council denied the appeal of the Design Review Board approval of a 491-square-foot addition to the living area of a home at 2950 Rounsevel Terrace.
Rollinger and Iseman voted against the denial.
•Conference with legal counsel regarding consideration of whether to initiate litigation related to the Heritage Fields development in Irvine
•Conference with legal counsel regarding pending litigation, with reports from the city manager and city attorney on pending civil litigation and tort claims
Any action taken by the council in closed session must be reported publicly. None was announced.
The council meets next at 4 p.m. Sept. 18 with the Arts Commission. The public meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 505 Forest Ave.
Meeting agendas are available by 4 p.m. on the Thursday prior to the meeting in the city clerk's office in City Hall, 505 Forest Ave. Agendas are also published on the city's web site http://www.lagunabeachcity.net.
Compiled by Barbara Diamond from information provided by the City Clerk's Office.


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CHICAGO — Despite a delay in the closing of the Crunch sale, Marc Tascher and private equity group Angelo, Gordon & Co. are forging ahead with plans for the properties. The group will invest $11 million in capital improvements in the Crunch clubs when they close the transaction with Bally Total Fitness. Tascher expected to finalize the deal by the end of 2005, but due to landlord lease obligations, the deadline was postponed until Jan. 17.
All of the Crunch clubs are in leased buildings, and the main holdup to the sale has been negotiating new club leases with 25 landlords and their attorneys, said Tascher. One of the key closing conditions is to remove Bally from the leases, said Paul Toback, Bally's chairman and CEO.
"That process is still going slower than we would have liked," Toback said. "We still hope to get the transaction through because it's good for the shareholders, and it's good for Bally."
Bally purchased Crunch in 2001 in a cash/stock transaction worth $90 million and is selling the chain for $45 million.
Tascher plans to rebrand the two Gorilla and two Pinnacle Sports facilities included in the transaction as Crunch clubs. The eight other clubs that Tascher owns will also be rebranded with the Crunch name.
"We've gone after the same market, so I won't have to make radical changes," he said. "I'll just need to change the signs and incorporate Crunch programming."
Tascher worked with designer Cuoco Black on a 21,000-square-foot Crunch flagship club in Manhattan, and the project went into full construction in late December. Tascher said he plans to continue with the project even if the Crunch deal falls through.
The battle over Bally's board has been a distraction but hasn't affected the sale as of yet, he said.
"Bally has been working hard to get this deal done," said Tascher. "There has been no change in attitude because of external issues. We're all aware of them, and it creates another unknown. In business you want to control all of the things that affect your business, but in this case, I'm trying not to worry about something that I can't do anything about."


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Managed by Mount 7 Lodges, Smiley Wolf Cabin is a private Rocky Mountain log cabin on a 4 acre lot, 5km south of the town of golden, located a short drive from Kicking Horse Resort and surrounded by five national parks.
The cabin has a generous 1400 sq. ft of living space which has been completely renovated with beautiful log furniture throughout. The cabin sleeps 7 in 4 separate beds - 3 bedrooms with a Queen bed, one of which also has a Twin bed. There are 2 bathrooms; upstairs with a claw-foot tub and washer-dryer and downstairs with a shower.
The kitchen is well equipped with large fridge and freezer, dish-washer, oven, microwave, toaster, coffee maker, all pots, pans, dishes, cutlery and glasses.
The living area is neatly divided into an entertainment area with a 42" Hi-Def LCD TV, satellite TV, a CD/DVD/Blu-ray player, a dining area, and a relaxation area around a wood burning stove. There is also wireless internet.
The cabin has 3 decks for different activities - a BBQ on the front deck, a 7-person private hot tub overlooking the lawn with views of the mountains and a deck upstairs with a hammock.


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Alert your college kid: There's a recall on Hot Pockets.
The voluntarily recall is taking an unspecified number of "Philly Steak" and "Croissant Crust Philly Steak and Cheese" Hot Pockets off the shelves due to the use of recalled meat.
Nestle said it determined "a small quantity" of meat from the California slaughterhouse Rancho Feeding Corp. was used in the recalled Hot Pockets.
The Department of Agriculture said the 8.7 million pounds of beef produced by the facility was from "diseased and unsound animals… without the benefit or full benefit of federal inspection."
The Hot Pockets recall is limited to only the "Philly Steak" and "Croissant Crust Philly Steak and Cheese" products with "best before" dates ranging from March 2014 to December 2014.
No illnesses have been reported.
Consumers are advised to not consume the product and can return the recalled items to their point of purchase for a full refund, or contact Nestlé Consumer Services at 800-392-4057.


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The son of a Philadelphia shopkeeper, John Morgan graduates from The College of Philadelphia and becomes a regimental surgeon of Pennsylvania's provincial troops. Within a few years, he travels to Europe to advance his medical expertise, but soon returns to his alma mater with plans to found a medical school there.
Welcome to What Every Faculty Member Should Know, the starting point for prospective/new faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine.
This guide to information, resources, and policies will help you successfully navigate your academic career path.
We invite you to join with preeminent faculty from around the world in our dynamic journey of achievement. From our celebrated past—full of historic firsts—to our exciting future—groundbreaking research and cutting-edge medical technology—we are constantly advancing the frontiers of science and expanding medical knowledge. The John Morgan Building (symbolic heart of the Perelman School of Medicine)


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Since 1863, the Williams-Kampp/Woodward Funeral Home has taken these words seriously while providing funeral services in their Wheaton location and throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. Our family owned business has been passed down through four generations with each dedicated to providing the integrity and compassion that has become our tradition. With great pride, our family expanded to include the West Chicago area with our Williams-Woodward Funeral Home which has been servicing the area for over forty years.
We offer a complete range of quality services from funerals to cremation, and are experienced at servicing families of different faiths and customs. We invite you to contact us with your questions, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and we are glad to arrange a tour of our well-designed facilities.
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This Scuderia Ferrari keyring is a collector's item commemorating the 2004 Formula 1 season.
Made of zinc alloy, the Scuderia Ferrari Formula 1 keyring is an accurate reproduction of the crankshaft of the car driven by Michael Schumacher, who won the Drivers' Championship in 2004 and led the Scuderia Ferrari team to triumph in the Constructors' Championship. This Formula 1 key ring is decorated with an enameled Shield on a yellow background, created as a separate pendant. A perfect gift idea for enthusiasts and collectors, the keyring is customized with the enameled Shield, made as a separate pendant, and comes in an elegant red box with a relief engraved Shield, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
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Nominal exchange rate regimes and relative price dispersion: on the importance of nominal exchange rate volatility for the width of the border
Based on a broad set of regional aggregated and disaggregated consumer price index (CPI) data from major industrialized countries in Asia, North America and Europe we are examining the role that national borders play for goods market integration. In line with the existing literature we find that intra-national markets are better integrated than international market. Additionally, our results show that there is a large ocean effect, i.e., intercontinental markets are significantly more segmented than intra-continental markets. To examine the impact of the establishment of the European Monetary Union (EMU) on integration, we split our sample into a pre-EMU and EMU sample. We find that border effects across EMU countries have declined by about 80% to 90% after 1999 whereas border estimates across non-EMU countries have remained basically unchanged. Since global factors have affected all countries in our sample similarly and major integration efforts across EMU countries were made before 1999, we suggest that most of the reduction in EMU border estimates has been nominal . Panel unit root evidence shows that the observed large differences in integration across intra- and inter-continental markets remain valid in the longrun. This finding implies that real factors are responsible for the documented segmentations across our sample countries.
Günter W. Beck
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Definitions of inch
n. - An island; -- often used in the names of small islands off the coast of Scotland, as in Inchcolm, Inchkeith, etc. 2
n. - A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic. 2
n. - A small distance or degree, whether of time or space; hence, a critical moment. 2
v. t. - To drive by inches, or small degrees. 2
v. t. - To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. 2
v. i. - To advance or retire by inches or small degrees; to move slowly. 2
a. - Measurement an inch in any dimension, whether length, breadth, or thickness; -- used in composition; as, a two-inch cable; a four-inch plank. 2
The word "inch" uses 4 letters: C H I N.
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SATURDAY, May 30, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- A two-drug combination treatment proved successful in safely slowing advanced non-small cell lung cancer in a recent clinical trial.
In the study, a phase 3 trial involving 768 people with the disease, those who had erlotinib (Tarceva) added to their dose of the bevacizumab (Avastin) saw the progression of the disease slow more than if on bevacizumab alone. People on the combo therapy tolerated the drugs well and survived an average of 4.8 months before the disease grew worse, compared with 3.7 months for those on bevacizumab alone.
Non-small cell lung cancer, often linked to past tobacco use, is the most common of all lung cancers, according to the National Cancer Institute.
"This is the first study to show the addition of erlotinib to maintenance therapy prolongs progression-free survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer," the study's co-author, Dr. Vincent Miller, a thoracic oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, said in a news release from the center. "Knowing which patients will get the greatest benefit from this combination, based on the identification of biomarkers, will be an important next step in this research."
Maintenance therapy aims to slow a disease from getting worse and better the chance of surviving while recovering from stronger chemotherapy treatments, which can weaken and sicken the person.
Miller was to present the findings Saturday at the annual meeting American Society of Clinical Oncology, in Orlando, Fla.
Bevacizumab and erlotinib have previously shown promise in treating non-small cell lung cancer by blocking tumor growth.
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Download 33rd BCS Examination 2012 Application Form
Applicants for the 33rd BCS Exam in Bangladesh can fill out online BCS application form and submit fees from March 8 to April 7, 2012.
The Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) has confirmed that the 33rd BCS Exam application form wll be available on associate organisation Teletalk's website (http://bpsc.teletalk.com.bd).
If the PCS website is fixed in the meantime, the 33rd BCS Exam form will also be made available at www.bpsc.gov.bd.
The 33rd BCS Exam 2012 aims at filling up 4,206 vacant government posts. This time, under the general category, 300 will be recruited for BCS (administration), 89 for police, 69 for tax, 16 for foreign affairs and 566 for general cadres.
The government eyes recruitment of 2,905 under professional/technical cadres including 2,572 doctors through 33rd BCS Bangladesh 2012.
Apart from these, 607 people will be appointed as teachers under BCS (education) and 112 for the teachers' training college by 33rd BCS Exam 2012 Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, this is confirmed by Bangladesh Public Service Commission that 33rd BCS Exam Applications for cadre service jobs have to be submitted through online. 33rd BCS Exam admit cards can also be collected online. This upgradation of online application system in the all future BCS Exams has been appreciated by all levels, as it will low down immense sufferings of the job aspirants.
To made this project successful, PCS has already signed a contract with public-sector mobile phone operator Teletalk.
Download 33th BCS Exam Online Application Advertisement (PDF) – Published on Feb 29, 2012
Things you should know about 33rd BCS Exam Online Application Form:
- 33rd BCS Examination 2012 Application Form will be available online from March 8 to April 7, 2012.
- 33rd BCS Exam 2012 Application form can be filled up through both the PSC and Teletalk website.
- Detailed instructions will be provided online for filling up various parts of the 33rd BCS Exam forms.
- 33rd BCS Exam Applicant's copy will be seen and each applicant given an invoice number on filling up and submitting the form.
- The 33rd BCS Exam applicant can pay the exam fee through Teletalk mobile phone using the invoice number.
- Once the fee is paid, the aspirant will get a registration number for 33rd BCS Exam 2012.
- Then the applicant can download admit card using the invoice and registration numbers for 33rd BCS Exam 2012.
- If anyone loses the admit card, it can be downloaded again using the invoice & registration number of 33rd BCS Exam 2012 .
- Color photos of the 33rd BCS examinees would be affixed to the attendance book apart from the admit cards.
Published Preliminary Circular for 33rd BCS Exam 2012
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A new app from ReFocus is coming to BlackBerry 10 on February 11. Tilt, makes use of the gyroscope in the BlackBerry to notify you of important items when you need them. When the device is flat on a table the screen will remain black, but as you tilt it up colorful blocks will give you information. You can manage notes, news, weather, battery status and more with Tilt.
ReFocus has made a short video for the launch of Tilt.
I'm interested to see how this works in the real world. Will I get tired of being presented with information every time I move the BlackBerry? We shall see.


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To return to the main Release and Transfer process page, please click here
As the parent of a soccer player, you should be aware of our release and transfer process. What is a release and transfer? The formal request to move from one team to another within the same seasonal year.
Within the Cal South Rules and Regulations, a player rostered to a team is bound to that team for the entire seasonal year unless the player requests a transfer or is released.
There is a $25 Transfer fee for completing the release and transfer process which must be paid directly to the incoming league or club.
It is the parent's responsibility to initiate the release and transfer process online and to make sure they contact the coaches of both the releasing and incoming teams.
It is the responsibility of the registrar to collect the player pass and indicate during the online release and transfer process whether or not the Player Pass was collected.
Once the parent has initiated the release and transfer process online, a set of emails and alert notifications will be sent to the registrar and Cal South. Upon final approval by Cal South, the parent and the registrar will receive an email notification. Once the parent has received the approval notification, they should then contact the registrar of their new club or league to ensure that a new Cal South Player Pass is generated.
Release and Transfers During the Fall Roster Freeze Period
If your release and transfer will occur during the Fall Roster Freeze period between August 1 and the first Monday after Thanksgiving, the process will remain largely the same, but with the following exceptions:
• A Release and Transfer is only allowed during this time period when initiated online by the parent and uncontested by both the releasing and incoming club
• There is a maximum of 7 days for the releasing registrar to contest the transfer request online, otherwise the request is deemed approved
• If contested, the parent may appeal. The parent must initiate the appeal process within 3 days and pay the $100 appeal fee (refundable if transfer granted on appeal). Otherwise, the transfer is denied.
• IMPORTANT NOTE: Your local competitive leagues (CSL, Presidio, SCDSL, Central Coast, Bakersfield, LA Futbol Circuit) may have more restrictive player transfer policies. These policies will take precedence during their respective season.
Click here for instructions on how to initiate the Cal South Online Release and Transfer process.


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About the Author: Luke Forgerson serves as DipNote's Managing Editor.
Last week, colleagues throughout the foreign affairs community mourned the passing of Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke, whom Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as one of America's "fiercest champions and most dedicated public servants." The Secretary continued, "He served at every level of the Foreign Service and beyond, helping mentor generations of talented officers and future ambassadors. Few people have ever left larger mark on the State Department or our country. From Southeast Asia to post-Cold War Europe and around the world, people have a better chance of a peaceful future because of Richard's lifetime of service."
The Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development dedicated the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), released last week, to the memory of Ambassador Holbrooke. Secretary Clinton met with employees at the State Department and at USAID to address the QDDR, which provides a "blueprint for elevating American 'civilian power' to better advance our national interests and to be a better partner to the U.S. military." Leading through civilian power means "directing and coordinating the resources of all of America's civilian agencies to prevent and resolve conflicts; help countries lift themselves out of poverty into prosperous, stable, and democratic states; and build global coalitions to address global problems."
Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, demonstrated how the QDDR reminds us how important advancing global health is to our economic and national security. Ambassador Goosby attended the "European Development Days" conference to meet with donor and country partners to discuss our shared health and development goals. He also joined Secretary Clinton, South African International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana Mashabane, and U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Donald Gips for the signing of a landmark Partnership Framework that will guide future efforts to combat HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
In Pakistan, civilian efforts launched a project to help small farmers cultivate sunflowers -- part of ongoing U.S. efforts to assist with flood recovery in Pakistan. President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton Secretary of Defense Gates, and Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman General Cartwright provided an update on broader efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Civilian efforts are playing a critical role in Sudan, where voter registration just concluded ahead of the January 9 vote for the Southern Sudan referendum. Meanwhile, the world's youngest democracy Kosovo held parliamentary elections, and leaders from Southeast Europe gathered to address reducing conventional weapons and munitions stockpiles in the region. This year, Iraq made great strides in overcoming threats from landmines and unexploded munitions dating back to the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Last week also saw an important milestone in the restoration of Iraq's normalized ties to the international community. During a special session chaired by Vice President Biden, the UN Security Council took steps to return Iraq to the legal and international standing it held prior to the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Last week, the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and UNHCR marked a milestone of a different nature: the 40,000th Bhutanese refugee departed Nepal. To date, about 34,000 Bhutanese refugees have been resettled across the United States, the largest group currently being resettled under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. The United States also joined others around the world in recognizing International Migrants Day, a day to reaffirm commitments to tolerance and human rights.
Under Secretary Maria Otero spoke about human rights and civil society at the Organization of American States, and Secretary Clinton participated in the North American Foreign Ministers Meeting in Canada. The first TechCamp brought together 100 people from across the Americas to Chile, where they addressed ways to increase the digital capacity and literacy of civil society groups throughout the hemisphere.
Other public diplomacy efforts connected individuals through sports diplomacy in Vietnam and educational exchanges. Assistant Secretary Ann Stock shared about the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants' mid-year seminar, which brought together 418 individuals who hail from 49 countries and are teaching 31 languages at 230 colleges and universities in 48 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Business and trade represent another means to connect people across borders, and Ambassador David Adelman told us how U.S. Embassy Singapore is helping U.S. companies export their products to Asia. Secretary Clinton recognized U.S. businesses that are improving lives around the world. This year, the Secretary's Award for Corporate Excellence honored Denimatrix for its work in Guatemala, Mars, Inc. for its work in Ghana, and Cisco Systems for its work in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
In other news, President Obama urged the U.S. Senate to ratify the New START Treaty with Russia. Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, every living Republican Secretary of State, NATO allies, and the leadership of the U.S. military have called for START's ratification, and our colleagues in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance provided answers to frequently asked questions about the New START.
Finally, as we approach the end of this year, the DipNote team asked readers, "What were the most significant international events of 2010, and why?" We look forward to seeing your responses, and wish you a happy and healthy holiday season.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Hi Luke,
Season's greetings to you and the staff, may Dipnote live long and prosper...
I saw an interview recently with Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's former Foreign Minister, talking about his friend, the late Amb. Holbrooke's efforts to save the pillars of Herat.
That shortly before he passed on he had managed to get the various ministry's in Afghanistan to get beyond their bearuocratic dysfunctionality to use the funds allocated to re-rout the roadway that traffic was threatening those structures with through the vibration of heavy vehicles.
I was just thinking that when they get done with it, that the locals there might want to name that bypass "Holbrooke's way" because it would not only honor the fellow who helped preserve a wonder of Afghanisatan, it also describes the way in which work-arounds can be found to preserve the legacy of a people, for the people, and by the people.
In the face of imminent danger of collapse.
I have a suggestion on a little follow-up in his honor, in that a phone call be placed to the Italian gov. and see if they couldn't send out the construction contractor that shored up the leaning tower of Pisa and do a little consultation with the Afghan gov. on preserving the structural integrity of those pillars, given their experience.
Maybe the Italian gov would be willing to foot the bill for such an effort in a gesture of good will and international solidarity in preserving cultural heritage.
It's only a long distance phone call...and State's on an unlimited long-distance calling plan right? I am, but I don't have the credentials...(chuckle).
See, if the Sec. of State thinks it might be worth the time to make it, I don't want my idea to come at taxpayer expense if the answer she gets from the Italian gov. is not positive in nature.
By why would they say no if thanks would be earned?
Thought it might be worth the effort anyway, as the "art of the possible" and all.
Take care,
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Ivory Coast...
Level of consciousness of the people through democratic regime change itself from the power of 99%, but 1 percent is considered low. People who love this country, earning the government to provide the physical strength to be good, personally, think that is ignorant. I started this because there is no consistent theory, case by case, I think. In order to invest in Africa in the dispute is thought to show a firm commitment.


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PINE BLUFF, Ark. – Police in the southeast Arkansas city of Pine Bluff say a 107-year-old man is dead after SWAT officers shot back at him during a standoff at a home.
Pine Bluff Lt. David Price tells KATV (http://bit.ly/17hlUlC ) that police officers called to the home Saturday were told Monroe Isadore had pointed a weapon at two people there.
Officers had the threatened pair leave the home and approached a bedroom. Police say Isadore shot through the door at officers but missed hitting them.
More officers were called, including a SWAT team that inserted a camera into the room and confirmed Isadore had a handgun.
Police say SWAT officers released gas into the room when negotiations didn't work. They say Isadore shot at officers and they fired back, killing him.
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Jason Maoz: Ike and IsraelRoundup: Talking About History
Much has been written in recent weeks of the Obama administration's possible tilt toward a more evenhanded U.S. Middle East policy. Contrary to popular perception, however, if such a change were indeed implemented, it would constitute not so much a new and revolutionary approach as it would an old and reactionary one.
It would, in fact, be several giant steps backward to the approach pursued by the U.S. for the first decade and a half of Israel's existence, never more faithfully than during the eight-year tenure of Dwight Eisenhower, who died 40 years ago on March 28 at the age of 78.
Everyone, as the popular slogan went, liked Ike - everyone, that is, but the majority of American Jews, who in the presidential elections of 1952 and 1956 overwhelmingly preferred his Democratic opponent, former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson.
To all outward appearances, Eisenhower was the personification of the typical American at mid-century: a non-ideological moderate uncomfortable with extreme partisans of any ideology; a genial sort whose greatest concerns centered on improving his golf score and reeling in a really big fish.
That might have been the Eisenhower image, but it belied a shrewd political mind and a stubborn streak that vexed friend and foe alike. As would be true of Ronald Reagan three decades later, Eisenhower was often slighted for being nothing more than a jocular pitchman whose aides saw to the serious side of government. Disdain for Ike was a fact of life in academic and literary circles during his presidency and for years after he left office.
Gradually, historians began to develop a new appreciation for Eisenhower. Nostalgia for a more innocent time in America, even among cynical intellectuals, may have contributed to this changed perception. But what really opened eyes in the mid- and late-1970s was the declassification of Eisenhower-era government documents.
Scholars discovered that Ike had been the master of what the historian Fred Greenstein dubbed the "hidden-hand presidency"; that behind the smiling, grandfatherly exterior there lived a highly-competent chief executive who was indeed his administration's ultimate decision-maker.
It follows, then, that the Eisenhower administration's attitude toward Israel - one that can only be described as irritable ambivalence straining for proper cordiality - must have come directly from the man at the top.
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Eisenhower remarked on more than one occasion that, had he been president in the late 1940s, he would not have supported the creation of Israel. He added, however, that since the Jewish state was now a reality, he wished it well. And though it is impossible in all fairness to question the sincerity behind the latter sentiment, the record of the Eisenhower administration toward Israel does at least call it into question.
In the summer of 1952, Senator Richard Nixon, whom presidential candidate Eisenhower had just chosen as his running mate, was only too prescient when he remarked to some friends active in Jewish organizational life that in the event of an Eisenhower victory in November, it would be a mistake to expect Ike's likely secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, to be friendly toward Israel.
Dulles (who would serve as Eisenhower's secretary of state from 1953 until his death in 1959) and his brother Allen (who headed the CIA during the same period) were pillars of the American foreign policy establishment, a rarefied club of well-born WASPs who moved in the kind of circles where the mere sighting of a Jew was an unusual occurrence.
Reports through the years about the extent of their anti-Semitism have often been unreliable, with some of the more negative stories coming from anonymous or questionable sources. But one can say with a reasonable amount of certitude that the welfare of the Jewish people was not something to which the Dulles brothers devoted a great deal of thought.
As for Eisenhower, no serious allegation of personal anti-Semitism has ever been leveled against him. Though he was not known to have had any close Jewish friends - growing up in Abilene, Kansas, he certainly had no contact with Jews in his formative years - he was not a man given to trafficking in casual ethnic or religious slurs.
Eisenhower was genuinely horrified by what he saw when Allied troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps. "The visual evidence of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering," he said about one such camp. "I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give firsthand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda.' "
Long after the war he reminisced about his standard procedure in those days for dealing with officers who made anti-Jewish remarks: The offending individual would be sent on a detailed tour of Dachau or Auschwitz - "and that," said Eisenhower, "would cure him."
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Relations between the Eisenhower administration and Israel got off on the wrong foot soon after Ike assumed the presidency in January 1953. That summer, Israel undertook an ambitious effort to divert water from the Jordan River to irrigate the arid Negev. The project was loudly denounced by Jordan and Syria as an act of thievery that would cost them their share of the river's water.
The United Nations, with the U.S. in full agreement, demanded an immediate halt to the project. The Israeli government refused, and the tone in U.S.-Israel relations was set for the next eight years. The Eisenhower administration, from that early skirmish on, viewed Israel as an unpredictable nuisance at best, a threat to the region's stability at worst.
It was a negative assessment that would be reinforced in the midst of the Jordan River controversy as Israel stumbled into a public relations disaster entirely of its own making.
Incursions into Israel by Arab saboteurs had been going on for several years, and retaliation by the Israeli army was a given. Because these attacks and counterattacks were relatively small-scale operations, carried out not in Israel's cities but in and around the country's borders, they hardly drew the attention of the outside world. That would all change with what happened in an Arab village called Qibya.
In October 1953, a unit of Israeli commandos, under the leadership of a young colonel named Ariel Sharon, crossed over the border into Jordan after Arab terrorists killed an Israeli mother and her two young children. In Qibya, which had been a base for terrorists preparing attacks against Israel, Sharon's men blew up a number of buildings thought to be empty. When it was over and dozens of civilians were found dead in their demolished homes (hundreds of other residents had been allowed to leave the area), international condemnation quickly rained down on Israel. Even the country's staunchest defenders found it difficult to explain away the tragedy.
Rather than leave bad enough alone, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, according to Israeli journalists Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, "instructed Ambassador [Abba] Eban to tell Washington and the UN that the raiders had not been Israeli soldiers but enraged farmers and settlers."
The story was too obvious a concoction. "No one," write Raviv and Melman, "believed that tale, and it only fueled the Eisenhower administration's anger."
The deadly violence in Qibya and the clumsy attempt at deflecting blame, following so closely on the heels of the water diversion dispute, led to the first-ever suspension of U.S. financial aid to Israel. Feeling the pinch, Ben-Gurion finally agreed to put a stop to the water project, and the aid was restored.
Relations between the two countries would be distant though not particularly unfriendly for the next few years, with Washington's attention focused on winning the support of the Arab world in the global fight against Communism.
The Eisenhower administration's main foreign-policy objective was the containment of Soviet expansionism, which in the Middle East meant keeping the Russians away from the oil resources so critical to the West.
For much of Ike's first term the U.S. attempted, with mixed results, to create coalitions of like-minded nations in regions deemed geographically and politically strategic. The linchpin of any such regional alliance in the Middle East was Egypt, and the Americans went out of their way to solicit the affections of the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser.
But Nasser played hard to get, tacking pro-U.S. one day and pro-Soviet the next. Eisenhower, tiring of Nasser's penchant for playing off East against West, decided in early 1955 to back the formation of the Baghdad Pact - a defensive alliance comprised of Britain, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan. Nasser countered by entering into a large arms deal with Czechoslovakia, and the Communists had their first real link with the Arab world.
By flirting with Nasser while naively underestimating his determination to restore Egyptian pride and Arab unity, the U.S. had made a terrible miscalculation.
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On the home front, the Middle East receded from the headlines in the mid-1950s. Americans, when not distracted by the new plaything called television, were focused on the ongoing dramatics of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican who since 1950 had been mesmerizing the country with charges of Communist subversion in high places.
McCarthy wasn't entirely wrong, but he was a blustery, boozy opportunist prone to exaggeration, and as such was an unfortunate spokesman for the anti-Communist cause.
One thing McCarthy apparently was not, though some of his enemies tried to portray him as one, was an anti-Semite. As historian David Oshinsky notes in A Conspiracy So Immense, "[McCarthy] never engaged in anti-Semitic diatribes or made the loaded connection between Jews and left-wing radicalism. Despite the unrelenting hostility of organized Jewry to his crusade, McCarthy still praised the state of Israel [and] condemned the Soviet persecution of Jews. "
"[T]he McCarthyites," concurs Benjamin Ginsberg in The Fatal Embrace, his study of the historical relationship between Jews and government, "had no use for anti-Semitism as a political weapon. Indeed, several of McCarthy's most important aides ... were themselves Jews."
The fact, however, that Jews were over-represented in radical and Communist circles was an uncomfortable reality in 1950s America. Though no anti-Semitic backlash materialized in reaction to the trial and execution of the convicted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, or to the preponderance of Jews called to testify at hearings conducted in Washington by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), many Jews still worried that they were considered less than loyal by non-Jewish Americans - a fear that couldn't help but contribute to a reticence among Jewish groups in confronting the Eisenhower administration over its Mideast policies.
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Eisenhower vowed that his approach to the Middle East would never be dictated by political pressure, which was a polite way of saying he wasn't about to be influenced by the Jews (or, as he so euphemistically put it in his diary, "our citizens of the Eastern seaboard emotionally involved in the Zionist cause").
Unlike Truman in 1948, Ike in 1952 had not needed Jewish votes and knew he would not need them in 1956. He was not shy about pointing to that domestic political reality when Republicans would voice concern about his handling of Israel.
Eisenhower's disregard for domestic politics was more than evident in October 1956, just a month before the presidential election. Egypt's Nasser, in response to the retraction by the United State of an offer to refinance work on the Aswan Dam, had nationalized the Suez Canal Company, which was under British and French ownership. The prime ministers of Britain and France hatched a complicated plan to retake control of the canal by force and somehow convinced Ben-Gurion to have Israel join in.
The operation was doomed from the start. Each of the countries involved had its own motives; the coordination of the actual attack was bungled every which way; and the Soviets threatened to take military action in defense of Egypt while the Americans, furious at Britain, France and Israel, remained silent in the face of Russia's threats.
The Israelis, for their part, had managed to capture the entire Sinai, and enormous pressure was now brought to bear on them to withdraw. Ben-Gurion refused at first, but Eisenhower, who felt Israel had launched an unprovoked attack on Egypt simply because Britain and France were providing a convenient cover, wouldn't stand for it.
The U.S. suspended all financial and technical aid to Israel, and when Ben-Gurion still balked at withdrawing, the administration let it be known it was ready to support a United Nations plan for sweeping sanctions that would cripple Israel's economy in a matter of weeks. There was also talk of ending the tax-deductible status of charitable contributions to Israel by American Jews.
Ben-Gurion finally buckled, and on March 1, 1957, four months after the ill-conceived and short-lived Franco-British-Israeli alliance, the official announcement was made that Israeli troops would leave the Sinai.
(In 1965 Eisenhower would admit to Jewish organizational leader and Republican fundraiser Max Fisher that he had come to "regret what I did. I should never have pressured Israel to vacate the Sinai.")
Secretary of State Dulles boasted that most Americans supported the Eisenhower policy, adding: "I am aware how almost impossible it is in this country to have a foreign policy not approved by the Jews. I am going to try to have one."
It should be noted that those remarks were made at a time when Israel was receiving from Washington a relatively small amount of financial assistance and no military aid at all; a time when Israel existed behind the precarious 1949 armistice lines and Jordan and Egypt controlled, respectively, the West Bank and Gaza; a time when Jewish organizations were keeping a considerably lower profile than would be the case years later (AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations were formed in the mid-1950s, AIPAC to better present Israel's case to U.S. lawmakers, the Presidents Conference to give the Jewish community a more unified voice).
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The final years of Eisenhower's second term were relatively quiet with regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Relations between the U.S. and Israel, which had come close to unraveling in late 1956 and early 1957, gradually returned to where they were pre-Suez, which is to say not particularly close but relatively free of tension and mutual mistrust.
There would be better times ahead in the U.S.-Israel relationship, but it would be years before the two countries could, by any stretch of the imagination, be described as actual friends rather than, at best, friendly acquaintances.
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Randll Reese Besch - 4/3/2009
Too bad you didn't detail subsequent history of when the USA was very closely linked to Israel and the billions poured in and military aid and the protection from the UN that the USA performs. A certain amount of quid pro quo does go on from time to time but it isn't advertised. There is a reason why Israel, Egypt and Colombia are the top receivers of aid from the USA. The way Israel treats the Palestinians, semites too, that is directly related to what the USA does for them. I do not like aid given to any country that entails arms and money to support criminal acts as happens in all three of those countries.
Treating all countries from the same moral and legal perspective doesn't and isn't 'reactionary' as you might suppose from you historical outline.
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