There is *NOTHING* more lame than a religion bible-thumper. Idiotic, ignorant monkeys. If you hear any bible-thumper use the word "blasphemy" then you know for a FACT they are a monkey. Only monkeys use "blasphemy" in conjunction with any religion. They're dumb and stupid and they make the rest of you dumb and stupid. They're frightened little children cowering in the closet terrified of the real world.
Phew. This one took a lot of damn work to document here.
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Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript of incomplete dialog)
(Up in the CIC)
Colonel Saul Tigh (second-in-command): What have we got? Shipping accident? (Adama hands him the memo)
Gaeta: Combat? Understood. (hangs up the phone) Condition One is set. All decks report ready for action, sir.
William Adama (commander of the interstellar warship Battlestar Galactica): Very well.
Tigh: This is a joke. The fleet's playing a joke on you. It's a retirement prank, come on.
Adama: I don't think so.
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The Event (The Survivors Book One)
Nathan Hystad
Chapter 3
High definition cameras showed the world the many details of the cubes, as they were calling them, and the metal-looking outsides were a stark contrast to the smooth, marble-like look of the smaller, sleeker ships. They weren't sure of the exact size, but estimations put them at three miles per side. Massive. There were five over the United States. Sixteen over China. If I was a betting man, population was the motivation for the amount of *cubes* over the world.
The Event (The Survivors Book One)
Nathan Hystad
Chapter 3
Moscow was in flames. Missiles had been fired at the ships for over an hour, both the huge cubes and the smaller, gray ones, and they hadn't moved or shown any sign of damage.
The Event (The Survivors Book One)
Nathan Hystad
Chapter 3
That's the way we're built. Mob mentality and all of that other Psych 101 stuff I slept through in school," I said, turning the volume up on the TV.
The Event (The Survivors Book One)
Nathan Hystad
Chapter 3
The United States' most popular TV evangelist swore it was the Rapture. God's wrath was now upon us
The Event (The Survivors Book One)
Nathan Hystad
Chapter 3
Looters ran rampant in London, and there were stories coming in about some groups of people found dead in Ohio; presumably a cult ritual.
The Event (The Survivors Book One)
Nathan Hystad
Chapter 3
(flashback: Three Years Ago)
I had no idea what she was talking about, but I knew she was almost gone. Her voice had gotten so quiet, her breathing ragged. "They'll come one day. Appear in the sky." My heart hammered in my chest as she spoke, the words sounded so foreign to me. I glanced over to the night stand and saw the half empty bottle of pills, and assumed she was hallucinating. She tried to take off the necklace, which she had never done before, but I put my hand on hers and stopped her from over-exerting herself. Her eyes were closed and she whispered softly. I had to move in, out cheeks pressed together tightly. "Wear the necklace. When they come...wear the necklace." She coughed hard, but I kept close. I could feel her breath on my face, hardly there at all. "Promise me, Dean. Promise me. When the ships come...wear the necklace."
From 10/5/1940 ( premiere US film "Knute Rockne All American" ) To 3/2/2018 is 28272 days
28272 = 14136 + 14136
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/16/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) is 14136 days
From 11/2/1951 ( Harry Truman - Remarks in Response to the Presentation by Princess Elizabeth of an Overmantel for the White House ) To 3/1/2004 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess: my lease expires at my Redmond apartment and I travel to and arrive at Spokane Valley for the Crossland ) is 19113 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/2/2018 is 19113 days
From 11/9/1985 ( Ronald Reagan - Toasts at a White House Dinner for the Prince and Princess of Wales ) To 3/2/2018 is 11801 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/23/1998 ( premiere US TV episode "The American Experience"::"Reagan" ) is 11801 days
From 1/12/1989 ( Ronald Reagan - Proclamation 5933 America Loves Its Kids Month 1989 ) To 3/2/2018 is 10641 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/21/1994 ( Los Angeles Times "Carter Announces Bosnia Cease-Fire Agreement Balkans: Truce begins" ) is 10641 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 3/2/2018 is 8473 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/13/1989 ( premiere US film "Gleaming the Cube" ) is 8473 days
From 5/2/2014 ( for me personally as Kerry Burgess - Homestead Day 217 - The Homestead Apartments Phase 2 Day 1 - Spokane Valley, Washington State, United States ) To 3/2/2018 is 1400 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/2/1969 ( the first automatic teller machine in the United States was installed by Chemical Bank in Rockville New York ) is 1400 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 3/2/2018 is 7774 days
7774 = 3887 + 3887
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/24/1976 ( Imogen Cunningham dead ) is 3887 days
From 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 3/2/2018 is 5198 days
5198 = 2599 + 2599
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/14/1972 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1972 was United States Apollo 17 Challenger spacecraft United States Navy astronaut walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 2599 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 3/2/2018 is 8526 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/7/1989 ( The New York Times "Vatican Newspaper Faults Rushdie Book" ) is 8526 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 3/2/2018 is 8526 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/7/1989 ( Iran breaks diplomatic ties with United Kingdom because of "The Satanic Verses" ) is 8526 days
First post by me on this topic, future updates possible by me
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-response-the-presentation-princess-elizabeth-overmantel-for-the-white-house
The American Presidency Project
HARRY S. TRUMAN
33rd President of the United States: 1945 - 1953
Remarks in Response to the Presentation by Princess Elizabeth of an Overmantel for the White House.
November 02, 1951
Your Royal Highness, Princess Elizabeth; Your Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh:
It has been a very great pleasure to have you as our guests.
I am sure I speak for all the people of the United States, and especially for the people of Washington. We have many distinguished visitors here in this city, but never before have we had such a wonderful young couple that so completely captured the hearts of all of us. You will leave many happy memories among the people who have greeted you here.
It is very thoughtful and generous of the King, your father, to send this gift. It is magnificent. I am especially glad that he sent us something for this building, which means so much to the people of the United States.
This overmantel will be placed in the White House, and it will be greatly cherished as a mark of the close ties that bind our two countries together. This country is built upon principles which we have inherited from the British people--our love of liberty, our system of justice which is based upon the English common law, our language-these and many other things give us a strong feeling of kinship.
Over the years, we have built these ties into a remarkable international friendship. We have had our differences in the past, but today it would be just as hard to imagine a war between our two countries as it would to imagine another war between the States of this country. It just couldn't happen.
I hope the day will soon come when the same thing will be true among all the nations of the world, when war will be impossible in the world. That depends in great measure upon how well our two countries stick together and work for world peace. I am sure that we will do a better job for world peace because your visit here has tightened the bends between us.
We want you to come back again. It has been reported to me that you would like to come back again and bring your lovely children.
When you do that, we hope that the restoration of the White House will be finished and you can see this gift installed in its place in the Blue Room. I don't know who the temporary occupants of the White House may be at that time. But you can be sure of this: No matter who they are, you and your family will always be welcome.
As you return to your home, I ask you to take our warmest greetings to the King and Queen. And I would like you to express to the King our gratitude for this beautiful gift and for the sentiment which inspired it.
Note: The President spoke at 12:30 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House.
The remarks of Princess Elizabeth in making the presentation follow:
Mr. President:
"We have spent 2 very happy days as your guests. Before we leave, I am, therefore, very glad to present to you a gift from my father, the King. I feel that this ceremony makes a fitting climax to what has been a delightful and memorable occasion for both of us.
"The renovation of the White House has attracted interest all over the world. Everyone knows how closely it has been bound up with the history of your country and how important it is to your people as a symbol of national pride.
"If it had been impossible to preserve this beautiful building many people in Britain would have shared your disappointment. As it is we are glad to join with you in celebrating its restoration; and my father, who has many happy memories of his own stay in the house, has wished to mark the event with a personal gift.
"It gave the King great pleasure when he found the overmantel which is before you now. The work of 18th century artists, and embodying the finest British craftsmanship, it seems perfectly suited for the place which it will occupy.
"It gives me great pleasure on behalf of my father, to present this overmantel to you. It is his hope, and mine, that it will be a welcome ornament to one of your proudest national possessions and that it will remain here, as a mark of our friendship, so long as the White House shall stand."
The overmantel consisted of a rare pair of English candelabra and a three-part mirror with an oil painting of flowers set above it in a carved gilt frame.
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The Final Countdown (1980)
(from internet transcript)
US Navy commander Dan Thurman - USS Nimitz CVN 68 executive officer: I hear you're on assignment from Tideman Industries to the Defense Department, right?
Warren Lasky: Yeah, that's right.
Dan Thurman: What is your job, Mr. Lasky?
From 8/7/1947 ( Harry Truman - Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill Relating to Garbage Originating Outside the Continental United States ) To 11/9/1985 is 13974 days
13974 = 6987 + 6987
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/19/1984 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: as Kerry Wayne Burgess the E-3 Seaman United States Navy I reported for permanent duty aboard the USS Taylor FFG 50 ) is 6987 days
From 3/20/1928 ( Fred Rogers ) To 4/3/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 14624 days
14624 = 7312 + 7312
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/9/1985 is 7312 days
From 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) To 11/9/1985 is 1926 days
1926 = 963 + 963
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/22/1968 ( the official keel date - USS Nimitz CVN-75 ) is 963 days
From 4/30/1961 ( premiere US TV series episode "National Velvet"::"The Efficiency Expert" ) To 11/9/1985 is 8959 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 8959 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38040
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Toasts at a White House Dinner for the Prince and Princess of Wales
November 9th, 1985
The President. Your Royal Highnesses, Sir Oliver and Lady Wright, and Ambassador and Mrs. Price, ladies and gentlemen, Nancy and I are deeply honored to welcome the Prince and Princess of Wales to the White House. Permit me to add our congratulations to Prince Charles on his birthday, just 5 days away, and express also our great happiness that we have been able to have this affair with Princess Diana, here on her first trip to the United States—that we should be able to share in that first trip.
In his 1941 address before a Joint Session of the United States Congress, Prime Minister Churchill remarked, "I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I might have got here on my own." [Laughter] But Your Royal Highnesses, the reception you've received here suggests that if you had been American, you might well have gotten to this house on your own. [Laughter]
Our two countries are bound together by innumerable ties of ancient history and present friendship. Our language, our law, our democratic system of government, our fierce belief in the God-given right of men to be free—all of these we owe to you. We've stood together through two great world conflicts. Today we go on, shoulder to shoulder, in an alliance to protect freedom and democracy.
This evening we've gathered on a happy occasion, a celebration of the "Treasure Houses of Britain," perhaps the most magnificent exhibition ever mounted and five centuries of British achievement, five centuries of elegance, beauty, and charm; I should add, wit. When Nancy and I toured the exhibition, we were struck by a settee from Balmoral Castle, constructed almost entirely of deer antlers. I've been wondering ever since whether something like that could be done with cattle horns out on the ranch. [Laughter] But one misadventure in the corral one day has taught me that it might be more painful than pleasant, so— [laughter] . The "Treasure Houses of Britain" truly is a great gift from the houses' owners, the British people, and you, the exhibition's patrons. I speak for all Americans when I say a heartfelt "thank you."
Your Royal Highnesses, in the eyes of my countrymen, you and your family hold a place of high honor; your devotion to duty commands our esteem. Americans join our British cousins in looking upon you with affection and respect. And in that same 1941 address, Winston Churchill said: "It is not given to us to peer into the future. Still I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come, the British and American people will, for their own safety and for the good of all, walk together in majesty, in justice, and in peace." And today that noble hope is a glorious reality.
Would you please join me in a toast to Her Majesty, the Queen. To the Queen.
Prince Charles. Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, ladies and gentlemen, if I may say so, Mr. President, you really have touched both my wife and myself most deeply this evening by your extremely kind words. And we can't possibly, both of us, thank you enough for your immense hospitality and your great kindness in having us here this evening and in making us feel so unbelievably welcome.
I would think one of the most marvelous things about coming to the United States is that you have this extraordinary gift for making people feel welcome. And apart from the friendliness with which you greet everybody, it really does warm the heart to come here and be made to feel welcome. I can't tell you what it means to us both. It really does. As you know, we've flown in hesitant stages from Australia and tried to stop on the way in order to regain our strength. And all that's happened is we're suffering terribly from jet lag. [Laughter] And I've yet to discover a foolproof method for actually getting one over the problems of this particular affliction.
However, we are greatly looking forward to the opportunity of seeing this exhibition, the "Treasure Houses of Britain," which we are both very proud to be patrons of. And we hear from all sides just how stupendous this particular exhibition is. I think if you go and look at most of the country houses in Britain at the moment, you'll find them completely empty— [laughter] —of all the furniture and pictures, some emptier than others and, no doubt, with rather dirty marks on the walls where the pictures were. I only hope that they manage to get them all back in the right place at the right time. [Laughter]
I'm also very much looking forward, myself, to going to the Congress Library on Monday and discussing something about the Constitution, of which I know you celebrate the bicentenary in 1987. And I was very intrigued to discover that of the 55 delegates that came to the Federal convention in 1787, nearly all of them were in their thirties, which just goes to show what an extremely good age the mid-thirties is. [Laughter] I keep telling myself that because you reminded me about my birthday, and I'm not sure I need reminding. [Laughter]
I would also just like to say that coming, as we have, down from Australia, it is one of the more interesting aspects, I think, of the pioneering spirit of the English-speaking peoples. That here were two great continents—Australia and the United States of America, the former having developed about 150 years later than this great country-and in many ways there are similarities between the two. And I think that one of the things that becomes most obvious about Australia and America is that personal independence becomes a very dominant feature, particularly, I think, in American life. And one Englishman observed in 1796 that Americans tend to pass their lives without any regard to the smiles or frowns of men in power. However, in your case, Mr. President, I'm sure it's completely different.
So, if I may, finally, again say what an enormous pleasure it gives both of us to be here and how proud we are to be able to represent Britain here in America. As you say, it does, I think, emphasize the very strong links that do exist between our two countries—always have done, and I'm sure always will. And in the end, that bond between our two peoples is one of the most important and enduring features of this Earth.
Mr. President, thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 10:09 p.m. in the State Dining Room at the White House.
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
Cornelius: What are you doing?
George Taylor, NASA astronaut, stranded: Reconstructing a past life.
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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorandum-disapproval-bill-relating-garbage-originating-outside-the-continental-united
The American Presidency Project
HARRY S. TRUMAN
33rd President of the United States: 1945 - 1953
Memorandum of Disapproval of Bill Relating to Garbage Originating Outside the Continental United States.
August 07, 1947
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/releaseinfo
IMDb
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Release Info
USA 8 February 1968 (New York City, New York)
USA 27 March 1968 (Los Angeles, California)
USA 3 April 1968
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/quotes
IMDb
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Quotes
[last lines]
George Taylor: Oh my God. I'm back.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0736872/bio
IMDb
Fred Rogers
Biography
Born March 20, 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA
Died February 27, 2003 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (stomach cancer)
Birth Name Fred McFeely Rogers
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/weirdo
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/quotes
IMDb
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Quotes
George Taylor: A planet where apes evolved from men? There's got to be an answer.
Dr. Zaius: Don't look for it, Taylor. You may not like what you find.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/releaseinfo
IMDb
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Release Info
USA 2 April 1968 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
USA 3 April 1968 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
USA 3 April 1968 (limited)
USA 4 April 1968 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
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From 8/14/1989 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: 3-M Manager ) To 7/16/2004 is 5450 days
5450 = 2725 + 2725
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/19/1973 ( premiere US film "Soylent Green" & premiere US film "High Plains Drifter" ) is 2725 days
Other Administrative posts by me on this topic, future Administrative posts by me possible
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http://www.tv.com/shows/stargate-atlantis/rising-1-281227/
tv.com
Stargate Atlantis Season 1 Episode 1
Rising (1)
AIRED: 7/16/04
The Event (The Survivors Book One)
Nathan Hystad
Chapter 3
(flashback: Three Years Ago)
"I promise," I said.
Her breathing stopped, and I held her close to me one last time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032676/releaseinfo
IMDb
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Release Info
USA 4 October 1940 (South Bend, Indiana) (premiere)
USA 5 October 1940
Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Full Cast & Crew
Ronald Reagan ... George Gipp
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Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Quotes
Knute Rockne: Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy."
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-22/news/mn-49011_1_bosnian-serb
Los Angeles Times
Rebel Serbs Threaten to Wipe Out Gorazde : Bosnia: 65,000 citizens face annihilation unless city surrenders. U.N. convoy is halted north of 'safe haven.'
April 22, 1994 CAROL J. WILLIAMS TIMES STAFF WRITER
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Rebel Serbs issued a surrender-or-die ultimatum to the leaders of Gorazde on Thursday, threatening to annihilate the 65,000 civilians trapped in the U.N. "safe haven" unless the Bosnian government capitulates.
Authorities in Gorazde disregarded the 4 p.m. deadline for surrender.
U.N. Protection Force troops had set off for the beleaguered Muslim pocket earlier in the day, but the peacekeepers were halted 18 miles north of the enclave by a blockade of Bosnian Serb women and children in what appeared to be another attempt at securing a human shield against air strikes.
More than 200 U.N. troops and aid workers were taken captive by Serbian rebels last week after token NATO air strikes failed to halt the deadly offensive against Gorazde but succeeded in angering the defiant Serbs.
Most of the hostages have been released as the rebels maneuver to deter a seemingly serious threat of massive air strikes after a call by President Clinton for determined action to stop the Gorazde carnage.
And the U.N. Security Council early today demanded that the Serbian forces pull back from Gorazde and release any remaining hostages.
But even the more severe warnings from Washington and NATO headquarters in Brussels have had no measurable deterrent effect on the Serbs: U.N. spokesman Maj. Dacre Holloway said they launched a major infantry attack on the southern flanks of Gorazde close to nightfall.
The Serbs demanded in the morning that all government troops and civilians withdraw from the enclave to within a 1.8-mile radius of the city center and threatened to "roll over the civilian population" with every weapon in their arsenal unless the Muslim-led forces complied, a senior Sarajevo official disclosed.
The ultimatum was hammered home to the hungry and terrified population by a barrage of tank and artillery shells that killed at least 47 people and wounded 143, according to foreign aid workers hunkered in basement shelters in the besieged city.
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-21/news/mn-11473_1_bosnian-serb
Los Angeles Times
Carter Announces Bosnia Cease-Fire Agreement : Balkans: Truce begins Friday, he says after shaky start with rebel Serbs. Diplomats remain skeptical.
December 21, 1994 DEAN E. MURPHY TIMES STAFF WRITER
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim-led Bosnian government have agreed to begin a cease-fire on Friday as a small first step toward ending the 32-month civil war, former President Jimmy Carter announced Tuesday.
The modest agreement--one of many proposed cease-fires over the course of the war--came after an unscheduled second round of meetings between Carter and the Bosnian Serb leadership in nearby Pale. Carter called the extra session after conflicting claims about the results of their high-profile talks on Monday threatened to sink his entire peace mission.
Carter announced Monday that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had agreed to an immediate cease-fire, but Karadzic backed away from the claim a few hours later.
The Bosnian government was so angered by the theatrics that President Alija Izetbegovic refused to meet with Carter when he returned to Sarajevo late Monday, choosing to make the former U.S. President wait until morning, sources said.
"We have had this character 2 1/2 years, and he lies every day," said Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic, referring to Karadzic. "Make sure that you know with whom you deal."
Carter, said to be alarmed and betrayed by Karadzic's antics on Monday, made Tuesday's cease-fire announcement in Pale standing shoulder to shoulder with him.
After driving the mountainous road to Sarajevo, Carter repeated the announcement at the airport en route to Belgrade, where he plans to hold talks with Serbian leaders.
"There will be a complete cease-fire in all of Bosnia-Herzegovina, including Bihac, to go into effect at noon on Dec. 23," Carter said. "This cease-fire is to be completely monitored, without interference, by UNPROFOR (U.N. Protection Force) troops, interposing themselves between the opposing military units wherever necessary."
In The Hague on Tuesday, a two-day informal meeting of defense chiefs from 28 countries agreed on measures aimed at strengthening the U.N. force. At a news conference after the meeting, Lt. Gen. H.G.B. van den Breemen, chief of the Dutch Defense Staff, declined to give details on the measures.
It seemed clear the proposals carried at least the potential to make the U.N. force stronger and more effective, but they must still be studied by national governments and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and then approved by the United Nations, which so far has been extremely reluctant to employ force.
Van den Breemen said the chiefs had discussed, and apparently recommended to their governments, the use of aircraft and more firepower to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians trapped by the war.
"We talked about helicopters and armed escort helicopters," he said.
Such escort aircraft would probably be provided by NATO countries.
The tenor of Van den Breemen's remarks hinted strongly that the military chiefs recommended helicoptering supplies over roadblocks and permitting armed escort aircraft to attack anyone attempting to interfere.
The Dutch general also said the agreed proposals would mean adding to the U.N. force's troop strength.
According to Carter's announcement, the cease-fire would last until Jan. 1, during which time the warring sides would negotiate the details of a proposed four-month cessation of hostilities. If the two sides agree to that temporary peace, they will then turn their attention toward transforming the agreement into a permanent end of the war.
"We don't need more negotiations; we need results," one unimpressed Western diplomat said. "One has to be very doubtful this will go anyplace."
The diplomat and others described the process set up by Carter as fragile and ridden with potential pitfalls, especially since the former President failed to resolve what has been the most intractable obstacle to peace: the Bosnian Serb refusal to accept the Contact Group peace plan.
"In that key and critical area, I think they are still 180 degrees apart," a U.N. official said. "The whole basis of negotiations is still in dispute."
The Contact Group plan, drawn up by the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, calls for dividing Bosnia about in half between the Muslim-Croat federation and the Bosnian Serbs.
The Bosnian government and neighboring Serbia have agreed to the international plan, but the Bosnian Serbs, who would have to give up one-third of the territory they now control, have repeatedly rejected it.
The United States and other backers of the Contact Group plan have described it as a take-it-or-leave-it proposal that must be accepted by all sides before any of it can be revised or amended. The Bosnian Serbs have said they would consider the plan only if it could be renegotiated.
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-21/news/mn-11473_1_bosnian-serb/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
Carter Announces Bosnia Cease-Fire Agreement : Balkans: Truce begins Friday, he says after shaky start with rebel Serbs. Diplomats remain skeptical.
December 21, 1994 DEAN E. MURPHY TIMES STAFF WRITER
Unable to reach consensus, Carter included the language from both sides in a written summary of agreements reached during his two-day visit but said he could not "detect any significant difference" between them.
"That is a difference in semantics that I have not been able to overcome," he said, adding after reading a note passed to him by his wife, "and I am obviously not taking sides as to whose language is best."
Carter's admission that he could not distinguish between the two positions sent chills through Bosnian government offices here.
Since Carter announced that he would visit their country, Bosnian officials have openly questioned whether his presence would be used by the Bosnian Serbs to undermine the Contact Group plan.
A U.N. official said that even if Carter secures a cease-fire Friday, it will have come at a high price.
"We're going to wait for the next two days" to see if there is a cease-fire, the official said. "Maybe it holds out a very slim chance of forward momentum, but it comes at the great cost of handing Karadzic a propaganda coup and muddying the international community's stance on Bosnia."
A cease-fire could significantly benefit the people of the Muslim enclave of Bihac in northwest Bosnia, which came under heavy shelling again Tuesday. Unconfirmed reports said there were many casualties in the area, including a 10-year-old boy who was killed.
But for a longer truce to take hold, Carter's deal requires the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers between the two warring sides.
U.N. officials said Tuesday that there are few available soldiers, and NATO military chiefs meeting in the Netherlands did not seem inclined to send additional peacekeepers.
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Woodbridge Press
March 2, 2018
The Event, Book One of the Survivors series is now available on Amazon.
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The Event (The Survivors Book One)
Nathan Hystad
Chapter 3
The streets on this side of town were quiet, and it only took ten minutes to get to my destination. We pulled up and I stopped at the keypad, truck window open. I could hear sirens blasting across the town: a mixture of fire and ambulance, with a hint of police. I pulled the envelope out of my pocket and opened it. The key slid out, as did a small piece of paper. 3691 was written on it. I punched that sequence into the pad and the gate in front of the truck slid open.
"What could we possibly be doing at a storage facility?" There are aliens above us and you're looking for what? A dining room chair?" James didn't hide his annoyance.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-atm-opens-for-business
HISTORY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Sep 2, 1969:
First ATM opens for business
On this day in 1969, America's first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York.
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IMDb
Imogen Cunningham
Biography
Born April 12, 1883 in Portland, Oregon, USA
Died June 24, 1976
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