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(fancuUcut RECORD
THURSDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2000
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• 5 p.m,, TOPS Meeting. Fire Hall.
• 3:30-7 30 p.m., Coffee Memorial Blood Drive, City Hall.
• 5:00 p.m., CMS Jr High A CHS JV football games against Sunray, There.
• 12 noon. Lions Club Meeting, Fire Hall.
• 12:30-2:30 p.m., "Combating Underage Drinking" telecast. HCH Confer-
ence Room.
• I p.m., AA Meeting, United Methodist Church, 6th & Main.
• 8:00 p.m., CHS Varsity Football Game against Fritch, There.
• 8:30 a.m.. First United Methodist Church Early Worship Service, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m.. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6:30 p.m
• 10 a.m., Sunday Mass, Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 10 am., CCD
Classes.
• 9 30 a.m , First Christian Church Sunday School. 10:30 a.m., Morning
Worship, 6 p.m. Evening Worship
• 9:30 am., Church of Christ Sunday Bible Class, 10:30 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship. 6 p m., Evening Worship, 7 p m., Wednesday Bible Class.
• 9:45 a.m., First Presbyterian Church Sunday School, Worship Service 11
am.
• 9 30 a.m.. First Baptist Church Sunday School. 10:45 am., Morning Wor-
ship, 6 p.m, Training Union. 7 p.m. Evening Worship.
• 10 am, Assembly of God Christian Education, 6:30 p.m., Evening
Worship
• 10 am . Pentecostal Church Sunday School, 11 am., Morning Worship, 7
pm, Evening Worship.
• 10 a.m.. Central Baptist Church Sunday School, 11 am., Morning Wor-
ship. 6 p.m.. Evening Worship.
• 10:30 am., Believer's Covenant Sunday Worship.
• 12 noon, AL-ANON meeting. Hood Abstract Building
• 10:30-12 noon— I 00-3 00 p.m., Texas Department of Health Immuniza-
tion Clinic, Baker Elementary School Activity Room.
• 12 noon. Rotary Club Meeting. WCTU.
• 8 00 p m , AA A AL-ANON Meetings. (Separate). United Methodist
Church, 6th A Main.
• 10am.-2p.m , Sagebrush Painters. Fke Hall
• 8:00 p.m . "Lighting of the C.“ BONFIRE ALTERNATIVE. Wildcat Sta-
dium, (Fans are encouraged to wear letter fackets or sweaters).
Been Skunked?
Bobble Coffee brought this de-skunklng
recipe to our attention. The formula was
recommended by a vet In Bed Lodge.
Montana and was reprinted from the
Billings Montana Gazette.
Mix a half cup baking soda, one pint of
hydrogen peroxide and a tablespoon of
detergent (double this for large dogs). Use
Vlsine If the dog's eyes are affected.
Carefully apply this mixture on the animal,
working Into the hair, leave on for several hours.
Then, using plenty of warm water, bathe FkJo
once or twice.
Use Fabreze on a sponge for the first bath
(keep away from eyesl) rinsing with clear water.
Then use a nice smeWng shampoo, rinsing wed.
Treat his color wtth Fabreze as wen.
opinion
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The threat wars pose to children
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IInCE AGAIN, Canada—not the United
UStates—took the lead in addressing a global crisis.
Three years ago, it was the Canadian government, in-
cluding Foreign Minister
Lloyd Axworthy, that hosted an international con-
ference on land mines. It finalized the Ottawa Conven-
tion, whose signatories agreed to prohibit the
production, stockpiling, transport and use of
antipersonnel mines.
Land mines kill or maim 26,000 people every year,
according to the International Red Cross and other or-
ganizations that monitor the toll. Most of the victims
are civilians, and many are children. Ratification and
implementation of the Ottawa Convention will bring
that toll down — and significantly reduce it in future
conflicts.
Last week, Axworthy hosted government officials,
representatives of nongovernmental organizations
and teen-agers from more than 120 countries in Winni-
peg to press for greater protection for children from all
the horrors of war. More than 300,000 children under
the age of 18 are combatants in military conflicts
around the world, drafted by both government and re-
bel forces, the United Nations Children’s Fund
reports.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to
UNICEF.
Over the past decade or so, the toll aiso iiyhytf*
more than 2 million children and teen-agers killed in
military conflicts acmes the globe, 4-5 million disabled,
12 million left homeless, 1 million orphaned or sepa-
rated from their parents and 10 million emotionally or
psychologically traumatized.
There is never an acceptable excuse in sacrificing
children,’’ Grace MacheL the author of a 1906 U.N.
study on children and war, told the International Con-
ference on War-Affected Children in Winnipeg. “We
must end this impunity for crimes against children. We
have a responsibility. We cant say it’s not our
buaineas.”
Confronting this global responribdity will not be
easy, largely because of the changing nature of war-
fare in the last quarter of the 20th century, especially
after the end of the Cold War. Ahnost 90 percent of ca-
sualties in military conflicts today are civilians, many
of them children.
Most hostilities around the world now are not
fought between nations but are civil wars between gov-
ernments and rebels or even between rival rebel
forces. The battlefields are often cities and vil-
lages—civilian population centers rather than exclu-
sively military sites. Civilians are either caught in the
crossfire or, in some cases, purposely targeted.
When ethnic cleansing is used as a military lactic,
as in former Yugoslavia and central Africa, entire fam-
ilies are targeted simply because of their ethnicity or
religion.
“Killing adults is then not enough; future genera-
tions of the enemy—their children—must also be elim-
inated,” UNICEF explained.
As one political commentator expressed it in a 1994
radio broadcast before violence erupted in Rwanda,
To kill the big rats, you have to kill the little rata.’”
The Winnipeg conference adopted a declaration
calling for the “end to targeting children,” Reuters
news service reported. The conference also called on
all countries to cut funding to governments and rebel
forces that draft children as soldiers or target them in
combat and on arms-selUng countries to cut off sales of
weapons that can be used by d"”J soldiers.
Beyond that, some conference participants urged
ratification and implementation of the International
Criminal Court, which would have authority to punish
war crimes against children.
Human rights activists charged that the official re-
sults of the Winnipeg conference did not go nearly far
enough in addressing this global crisis, and they are
right
But this is not the end ofthe process. A special U.N.
session on children in September 2001 will consider
the conference’s declaration and supporting evidence,
as well as recommendations for stronger action, in-
cluding strict monitoring, enforcement and
punishment
“We have far too often said that we will not permit
children to be raped, mutilated, recruited, hurt and
forced to lose their childhood” as a result of war,
UNICEF Executive Director Caret Bellamy told the
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