29 Jun 2009
29.6.09
Evarist Chahali
KIFO
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NI PIGO KUBWA KWA TAIFA NA PENGO LISILOZIBIKA.KWA MARA NYINGINE,TANZANIA IMEPOTEZA MSOMI MAHIRI WA KIMATAIFA.
NI PIGO KUBWA HASA KWA VILE TAIFA BADO LINA MAPENGO YALIYOACHWA NA WASOMI WENGINE MAHIRI WALIOTANGULIA KWA MUUMBA,KAMA PROFESA CURTHBERT OMARI NA PROFESA CHACHAGE S. CHACHAGE.
MUNGU ILAZE ROHO YA MAREHEMU MAHALA PEMA PEPONI,AMEEN
MUNGU ILAZE ROHO YA MAREHEMU MAHALA PEMA PEPONI,AMEEN
28 Jun 2009
L’Oréal, the French cosmetics giant, whose advertising campaigns proclaim “because you’re worth it”, was found guilty of racial discrimination for considering black, Arab and Asian women unworthy of selling its shampoo.
France’s highest court was told that the group had sought an all-white team of sales staff to promote Fructis Style, a haircare product made by Garnier, L’Oréal’s beauty division.
The word went out that Garnier’s hostesses should be BBR — “bleu, blanc, rouge” — the colours of the French flag. The expression is widely recognised in the French recruitment world as a code for white French people born to white French parents, a court was told, in effect excluding the four million or so members of ethnic minorities in France.
La Cour de Cassation, the equivalent of the US Supreme Court, said that the policy was illegal under French employment law, upholding a ruling given by the Paris Appeal Court in 2007.
The judgment was a significant blow to the image of the world’s biggest cosmetics group, which has spent millions of dollars in global advertising campaigns featuring stars such as Andie MacDowell, Eva Longoria, Penélope Cruz and Claudia Schiffer.
That image already suffered a battering when L’Oréal executives were forced to deny claims that they had lightened the singer Beyoncé Knowles’s skin for a campaign last year. The ruling also hinted at widespread prejudice among French shoppers since L’Oréal believed that they were more likely to buy shampoo from white sales staff, the court was told.
The ruling will fuel anger among black and Arab French people, who complain that they face widespread discrimination when seeking employment.
The court ruled that Adecco, the temporary recruitment agency whose Districom division hired the hostesses, was also guilty of racial discrimination. The Paris Appeal Court had fined both L’Oréal and Adecco €30,000 (£25,500) and ordered them to pay a further €30,000 each in damages to SOS Racisme, the anti-racist campaign group, which brought the case. The court upheld the fines but told the appeal court judges to reconsider the damages.
L’Oréal expressed “disappointment” at the judgment, which ends three years of legal wrangling over the discrimination claims. Adecco declined to comment.
Samuel Thomas, the vice-chairman of SOS Racisme, described the ruling as a “very great victory”. He said: “Whatever the size of the company, none is able to escape prosecution.”
The court was told that a Districom executive had sent a fax to its headquarters in 2000 saying that Garnier’s hostesses should be aged 18 to 22, wear size 38 to 42 clothes (British sizes 8 to 12) and be “BBR”.
Prosecutors said that Garnier wanted to exclude members of the ethnic minorities on the ground that they would be less likely to sell its shampoo in French shops. The court was told that only 4.65 per cent of the hostesses hired for Garnier’s campaign were black, Asian or Arab.
Before the BBR fax went out, the agency had been offering a pool of candidates in which 38.7 per cent were from ethnic minorities, suggesting that they had been blocked during the final stages of recruitment.
Districom employees said that they were given oral instructions to favour white sales staff. But Thérèse Coulange, the deputy managing director of Districom, who sent the fax, said that she had merely wanted hostesses able to “express themselves correctly in French”. She said that the fax had been a personal initiative and not the implementation of company policy.
Laurent Dubois, Garnier’s former managing director, told a lower court that he had “never given the slightest order to discriminate against anyone” and described racial prejudice as “foreign to L’Oréal’s genes”.
France’s highest court was told that the group had sought an all-white team of sales staff to promote Fructis Style, a haircare product made by Garnier, L’Oréal’s beauty division.
The word went out that Garnier’s hostesses should be BBR — “bleu, blanc, rouge” — the colours of the French flag. The expression is widely recognised in the French recruitment world as a code for white French people born to white French parents, a court was told, in effect excluding the four million or so members of ethnic minorities in France.
La Cour de Cassation, the equivalent of the US Supreme Court, said that the policy was illegal under French employment law, upholding a ruling given by the Paris Appeal Court in 2007.
The judgment was a significant blow to the image of the world’s biggest cosmetics group, which has spent millions of dollars in global advertising campaigns featuring stars such as Andie MacDowell, Eva Longoria, Penélope Cruz and Claudia Schiffer.
That image already suffered a battering when L’Oréal executives were forced to deny claims that they had lightened the singer Beyoncé Knowles’s skin for a campaign last year. The ruling also hinted at widespread prejudice among French shoppers since L’Oréal believed that they were more likely to buy shampoo from white sales staff, the court was told.
The ruling will fuel anger among black and Arab French people, who complain that they face widespread discrimination when seeking employment.
The court ruled that Adecco, the temporary recruitment agency whose Districom division hired the hostesses, was also guilty of racial discrimination. The Paris Appeal Court had fined both L’Oréal and Adecco €30,000 (£25,500) and ordered them to pay a further €30,000 each in damages to SOS Racisme, the anti-racist campaign group, which brought the case. The court upheld the fines but told the appeal court judges to reconsider the damages.
L’Oréal expressed “disappointment” at the judgment, which ends three years of legal wrangling over the discrimination claims. Adecco declined to comment.
Samuel Thomas, the vice-chairman of SOS Racisme, described the ruling as a “very great victory”. He said: “Whatever the size of the company, none is able to escape prosecution.”
The court was told that a Districom executive had sent a fax to its headquarters in 2000 saying that Garnier’s hostesses should be aged 18 to 22, wear size 38 to 42 clothes (British sizes 8 to 12) and be “BBR”.
Prosecutors said that Garnier wanted to exclude members of the ethnic minorities on the ground that they would be less likely to sell its shampoo in French shops. The court was told that only 4.65 per cent of the hostesses hired for Garnier’s campaign were black, Asian or Arab.
Before the BBR fax went out, the agency had been offering a pool of candidates in which 38.7 per cent were from ethnic minorities, suggesting that they had been blocked during the final stages of recruitment.
Districom employees said that they were given oral instructions to favour white sales staff. But Thérèse Coulange, the deputy managing director of Districom, who sent the fax, said that she had merely wanted hostesses able to “express themselves correctly in French”. She said that the fax had been a personal initiative and not the implementation of company policy.
Laurent Dubois, Garnier’s former managing director, told a lower court that he had “never given the slightest order to discriminate against anyone” and described racial prejudice as “foreign to L’Oréal’s genes”.
SOURCE: The Times
27 Jun 2009
- 27.6.09
- Evarist Chahali
- KIFO, MICHAEL JACKSON
- No comments
Kifo!
Yaani,licha ya kumaanisha mwisho wa safari ya uhai wa binadamu,kifo huambatana na matukio ya ajabu kabisa ambayo pengine yangepelekea tifu laiti marehemu angeweza kuyasemea.Nikupe mfano hai.Kabla ya kukutana na mauti,marehemu mama yangu aliugua kwa takriban miaka mitatu.Japo kwenye mambo ya imani za kidini tunaambiwa uzima na uhai ni mipango ya Mungu,mara kadhaa mikono ya binadamu wenzetu huhusika kuharibu au kutokomeza kabisa uhai wa binadamu wenzao.Maelezo ya kitabibu yalitufahamisha kuwa marehemu mama alifariki kutokana na sehemu kubwa ya ubongo wake kuathiriwa na mishtuko ya moyo (strokes) miwili aliyopata wakati wa uhai wake.
Mshtuko wa kwanza ulichangiwa na kitendo cha mtu wa karibu na marehemu.Alimfanyia tendo ambalo lilimwacha marehemu akisononeka hadi anaingia kaburini.Ni hadithi ndefu,na kwa vile pengine hapa si mahala mwafaka kuweka kila jambo wazi,nachoweza kukielezea ni namna mhusika huyo (alomtenda ubaya mama hadi akaishia kupata mshtuko wa kwanza wa moyo) "alivyojibaraguza" wakati wa mazishi ya mama Juni 2,2008.
Kuna takriban nyakati tatu hivi katika msiba ambazo kwa hakika zinatia uchungu usioelezeka.Kwangu,kwanza ilikuwa ni wakati wa taarifa kuwa "mama yako amefariki".Kwanza unaona kama ni utani,kisha inakuwa kama ndoto,lakini pindi akili inapofunguka na kugundua si utani wala ndoto,hapo ni bwawa la machozi,sambamba na mayowe ya kilio,na wengine huishia kumfuata wanayemlilia (kifo kinazaa kifo kingine).Pili ni wakati wa kuona maiti,aidha mortuary au wakati wa kuaga maiti kabla ya mazishi.Yaani hapo kumbukumbu zote za uhai wa marehemu zinakurejea.Tatu ni wakati wa kutumbukiza jeneza kaburini na kisha kufukia kaburi.Maneno "wewe xxx (jina la marehemu) mavumbini ulitoka,na mavumbini utarejea" (kwa sie Wakristo) ni machungu na yanaumiza mno!
Nirejee kwenye matukio ya siku ya mazishi ambayo laiti marehemu angeweza kusema lolote muda huo...!Tukiwa makaburini,yule kiumbe niliyemtaja awali kuwa alimtendea mama kitu kibaya kilichopelekea stroke alikuwa ameshikiliwa na watu wawili wakimdhibiti asijitumbukize kaburini!Yaani ungedhani ndio mtu mwenye uchungu mkuuuubwa kuliko hata sie wengine tuliokuwa tunajitahidi kujikaza japo kwa shida.Kwa sekunde kadhaa nilibaki nimeduwaa nikishangaa usanii wa mnafiki huyo.Huyu ni mtu aliyemchukia marehemu mama hadi siku anafariki,sasa iweje leo apandwe na uchungu kiasi cha kutaka kuingia na mama yangu kaburini?Laiti ningekuwa na bastola muda huo pengine saa hizi ningekuwa jela!
Hilo ni tukio la kweli.Ukitaka kushuhudia unafiki wa daraja la kwanza,nenda msibani.Sio kila chozi linalotiririka na yowe linalopigwa ni matendo ya dhati.Kuna wanaolia kutimiza wajibu na wengine "kuua soo".Utamliliaje mtu ulokuwa unamchukia wakati wa uhai wake?How come mauti yawe na thamani zaidi ya uhai?Au hayo yanafanyika kwa vile marehemu hawezi kuamka na kumsuta mtu?
Twende kwenye kifo cha Michael Jackson.Moja ya mambo yatakayokumbukwa zaidi kuhusu msanii huyu ni kipaji chake cha muziki kilichopelekea kupachika "cheo" cha mfalme wa pop duniani.Lakini ni jambo lisilofichika kwamba kwa miaka kadhaa kabla ya kifo chake hapo juzi,Michael alikuwa maarufu zaidi kwa vituko kuliko muziki wake.
Marehemu huwa hasemwi vibaya,na hiyo ni sehemu ya unafiki wa wanadamu wengi.Yayumkinika kusema kwamba Michael,kabla ya kesi ya udhalilishaji wa watoto,aliwapa kisogo watu weusi.Alitumia sehemu kubwa ya maisha yake kutafuta "uzungu" (kuwa mtu mweupe zaidi ya rangi ya mwili).Alipokumbwa na kesi hiyo,sapoti kubwa haikutoka kwa Weupe wenzake" bali Weusi ambao walifumbia macho dharau ya mfalme huyo wa pop dhidi ya asili yake.
Wapo wanaoona kifo cha msanii huyo mahiri kilikuwa kikijijenga kadri siku zinavyokwenda mbele.Hauhitaji kuwa mtaalam wa mwili wa binadamu kugundua kuwa transformation ya Michael kutoka mtu mweusi kuwa mweupe zaidi ya weupe wa kawaida ingeweza kuhatarisha afya yake. 
Kulikuwa na tetesi kuwa alikuwa na kansa ya ngozi,just like tetesi kwamba kuna wakati pua yake "iling'oka"!Ukichanganya na vituko kama kumning'iniza mwanae katika dirisha la chumba kilicho juu ghorofani,kuficha sura yake na masks za ajabu ajabu,nk ni dhahiri kuwa alikuwa anajitengenezea njia ya mkato ya kumrejea Muumba.
Kulikuwa na tetesi kuwa alikuwa na kansa ya ngozi,just like tetesi kwamba kuna wakati pua yake "iling'oka"!Ukichanganya na vituko kama kumning'iniza mwanae katika dirisha la chumba kilicho juu ghorofani,kuficha sura yake na masks za ajabu ajabu,nk ni dhahiri kuwa alikuwa anajitengenezea njia ya mkato ya kumrejea Muumba.
Hata hivyo,ni muhimu kutambua kuwa kuna watu waliomfikisha Michael hapo alipofia.Inaelezwa kuwa mwanamuziki huyo alikuwa mhanga wa manyanyaso dhidi ya watoto yaliyokuwa yakifanywa na baba yake mzazi.
Japo mzee huyo,Joe Jackson, alionekana kuwa bega kwa bega na mwanae wakati wa kesi yake (Michael) lakini hiyo haikusaidia kukwepa hisia za baadhi ya wachambuzi wa tabia waliokuwa wakimtuhumu kuwa ndio chanzo cha "kuharibika" kwa mwanae.
Japo mzee huyo,Joe Jackson, alionekana kuwa bega kwa bega na mwanae wakati wa kesi yake (Michael) lakini hiyo haikusaidia kukwepa hisia za baadhi ya wachambuzi wa tabia waliokuwa wakimtuhumu kuwa ndio chanzo cha "kuharibika" kwa mwanae.Yote katika yote,kwa vile wengi wetu tumemfahamu Michael kutokana na kipaji chake cha muziki,huku tukielezwa kwamba huenda kifo chake kimetokana na overdose ya painkillers alizokuwa akitumia ili arejee jukwaani kutuburudisha,ni dhahiri kwamba historia itamtendea haki ya kuendelea kumheshimu kama MFALME WA POP!
Na katika hilo,kuna kila dalili kwamba atarejea kwenye chati za muziki duniani kutokana na kupanda kwa mauzo ya albamu zake kama sehemu ya kumbukumbu.
Na katika hilo,kuna kila dalili kwamba atarejea kwenye chati za muziki duniani kutokana na kupanda kwa mauzo ya albamu zake kama sehemu ya kumbukumbu. 26 Jun 2009
- 26.6.09
- Evarist Chahali
- HEALTH, HIV/AIDS
- No comments
By Gatonye Gathura, Citizen Correspondent, Nairobi
Scientists have found a way of eradicating HIV infection from the human body by "smoking" out the virus from its hideout cells. The new approach is to kill the hideout cells plus the virus.
The current anti-Aids drugs only destroy viruses circulating in the body but some manage to hide in particular immune system cells and continue replicating, hence the patient has to remain on medication throughout.
The new development by a team of American and Canadian researchers is the second indication that a cure for the disease that continues to afflict more than 1.3 million Kenyans and many more globally may finally be within reach.
In February, researchers in California developed a gene therapy with the capacity of eradicate HIV from the body and have since put 12 people on clinical trials. The study is still ongoing though it is said to involve a complex process that could make it very expensive.
Published on Sunday in the Nature Medicine journal, the new study says HIV and Aids can be treated through a combination of targeted drugs together with current anti-retrovirals.
"This radical new therapy would make it possible to destroy both the viruses circulating in the body as well as those playing hide-and-seek in immune system cells, says Dr Rafick-Pierre S�kaly, of the University of Montreal, Canada.
Other participating groups included the universities of McGill and Minnesota and the National Institutes of Health, the latter is the US federal agency responsible for overseeing government-sponsored biomedical research.
Current anti-retroviral treatments are not able to eradicate the virus from the body because some disease agents hide in particular cells where the existing treatments cannot reach. These researchers have now identified these cells and found a way of reaching them.
The new approach, says the team, is to use drugs to kill the cell containing the virus while giving the immune system time to regenerate with new cells. This could much cheaper that the gene-therapy technology.
"Once the virus is hidden in these reservoir cells, it becomes dependent on them: if the cell lives, the virus lives, but if the cell dies, so does the virus. As such, destroying these immune cells will allow for the elimination of the resilient or hidden parts of the virus," says Dr Sekaly.
While the team acknowledges that a product is still several years away before becoming a reality for patients, they are excited of the breakthrough which they say opens the way for therapies that are completely different from current ones.
SOURCE: The Citizen
Scientists have found a way of eradicating HIV infection from the human body by "smoking" out the virus from its hideout cells. The new approach is to kill the hideout cells plus the virus.
The current anti-Aids drugs only destroy viruses circulating in the body but some manage to hide in particular immune system cells and continue replicating, hence the patient has to remain on medication throughout.
The new development by a team of American and Canadian researchers is the second indication that a cure for the disease that continues to afflict more than 1.3 million Kenyans and many more globally may finally be within reach.
In February, researchers in California developed a gene therapy with the capacity of eradicate HIV from the body and have since put 12 people on clinical trials. The study is still ongoing though it is said to involve a complex process that could make it very expensive.
Published on Sunday in the Nature Medicine journal, the new study says HIV and Aids can be treated through a combination of targeted drugs together with current anti-retrovirals.
"This radical new therapy would make it possible to destroy both the viruses circulating in the body as well as those playing hide-and-seek in immune system cells, says Dr Rafick-Pierre S�kaly, of the University of Montreal, Canada.
Other participating groups included the universities of McGill and Minnesota and the National Institutes of Health, the latter is the US federal agency responsible for overseeing government-sponsored biomedical research.
Current anti-retroviral treatments are not able to eradicate the virus from the body because some disease agents hide in particular cells where the existing treatments cannot reach. These researchers have now identified these cells and found a way of reaching them.
The new approach, says the team, is to use drugs to kill the cell containing the virus while giving the immune system time to regenerate with new cells. This could much cheaper that the gene-therapy technology.
"Once the virus is hidden in these reservoir cells, it becomes dependent on them: if the cell lives, the virus lives, but if the cell dies, so does the virus. As such, destroying these immune cells will allow for the elimination of the resilient or hidden parts of the virus," says Dr Sekaly.
While the team acknowledges that a product is still several years away before becoming a reality for patients, they are excited of the breakthrough which they say opens the way for therapies that are completely different from current ones.
SOURCE: The Citizen
- 26.6.09
- Evarist Chahali
- IFAKARA, KILIMO TANZANIA
- No comments
Ifakara katika picha niliyopiga mwezi Mei mwaka jana.Mji una neema ya ardhi yenye rutuba inayokubali kilimo cha mpunga,mahindi,na mazao mengine lukuki.Ungetegemea mapinduzi ya kijani yaanzie sehemu kama hizi lakini kama kawaida ya wanasiasa wetu,maneno meeengi huku vitendo vikiishia kwenye michakato,mikakati,vipaumbele,semina elekezi na ubabaishaji mwingine kama huo.Habari hii hapo chini licha ya kunigusa kutokana na ukweli kwamba wilaya ya Kilombero ndio nyumbani,pia inawakilisha matatizo yanayowakabili mamilioni ya Watanzania wanaotegemea kilimo kama njia pekee ya kuwawezesha kuishi.Isome kwanza:
Mkuu wa wilaya ya Kilombero anaweza hata kuamuru jeshi la polisi likamate wanaouza chakula,lakini haitokuwa ufumbuzi wa tatizo hilo.Bottom line is,watu wanauza akiba ya chakula chao ili kukabiliana na ugumu wa maisha.Unadhani kuna mkulima anayependa kula mbegu?
Kwa mmiliki wa makazi hayo pichani juu,habari za Maisha Bora kwa Kila Mtanzania ni kama utani mbaya kwake.Japo amezungukwa na ardhi kijani yenye rutuba,hajui jioni itakuwaje let alone hiyo kesho au msimu ujao wa kilimo na mavuno.Ukimwambia kuwa kuna kaulimbiu mpya ya
Kilombero, Ulanga wahofia njaa
na Joseph Malembeka, Kilombero
BAADHI ya
wananchi wanaoishi katika wilaya za Kilombero na Ulanga mkoani Morogoro wameiomba serikali kuingilia kati ununuzi holela wa mazao ya chakula unaofanywa na walanguzi sasa.
Ombi hilo limekuja kutokana na ongezeko kubwa la wafanyabiashara kuingia wilayani humo na kununua kwa kasi mpunga ukiwemo uliovunwa na uliopo mashambani.
Wakizungumza na Tanzania Daima juzi, John Lyapi na Selemani Kinana walisema kama serikaliikifumbia macho suala hilo kuna hatari ya wakazi wengi wa wilaya hizo kupata baa la njaa mwaka huu.
Lyapi alisema kwa sasa walanguzi hao wamevamia zaidi katika tarafa za Malinyi na Mtimbira na kuwarubuni wananchi kuwauziampunga wao kwa sh 5,000 kwa debe na huku wakiwafuatilia hadi mashambani.
Alisema kutokana na wengi wa wakulima kwa kipindi hiki wanatokea mashambani inawawia vigumu kukataa kupokea fedha hizo, kwani wengi wao huwa kama wanaanzamaisha mapya majumbani baada ya kuhamia mashambani kwa muda mrefu.
Naye Kinana mkazi wa Kilombero alisema kila kukicha bei ya mazao ya chakulaimekuwa inapanda na kushuka kutegemeana na kuongezeka kwa walanguzi hususanwakubwa.
Alisema endapo serikali itakabiliana kikamilifu na walanguzi haoitasaidia kuondoshwa chakula kingi wilayani humo na kunusuru janga la njaa.
Kwa mujibu wa wakuu wa wilaya hizo Evarist Ndikilo (Kilombero) na DkRajabu Rutengwe (Ulanga) kwa nyakati tofauti walisema tayari halmashauri zimeagizwa kuwatangazia wananchi kuacha mtindo huo.
Walisema mbali na kupiga marufuku kwa wananchi kuuza vyakula pia wanakusudia kuweka sheria itakayowasaidia, iliwaweze kujikwamua na janga la njaa kwa kutouza vyakula hivyo.
CHANZO: Tanzania Daima
Mkuu wa wilaya ya Kilombero anaweza hata kuamuru jeshi la polisi likamate wanaouza chakula,lakini haitokuwa ufumbuzi wa tatizo hilo.Bottom line is,watu wanauza akiba ya chakula chao ili kukabiliana na ugumu wa maisha.Unadhani kuna mkulima anayependa kula mbegu?
Hivi kwanini hizo trilioni moja na ushee zilizotengwa kukabailiana na msukosuko wa uchumi zisiangalie walalahoi kama hawa?Katika mpango huo ambao bado nina wasiwasi unaweza kuishia kuwa-bailout mafisadi kama si kuzua EPA nyingine,wakulima wa kawaida wamepewa kisogo licha ya hadithi za KILIMO KWANZA.
Ukitembelea Ifakara katika kipindi hiki cha mavuno utapata picha moja ya kusikitisha.Wakulima wa mji huo wanatumia takriban robo tatu ya mwaka kulima mpunga (na kilimo cha mpunga kiko very demanding huku kikitegemea kudra za Mungu kwenye hali ya hewa).Baada ya mavuno,mji huo unafurika wanunuzi wa mpunga na mchele,huku wengine wakiufuata hukohuko mashambani.Kwa vile muda huu wengi wa wakulima huwa hoi kiuchumi,bei ya mpunga na mchele huwa ni karibu na bure.Pia baadhi ya wakulima wenye mahitaji mengine muhimu kama vile nguo,sukari,nk huamua kupokea bidhaa hizo badala ya fedha (barter trade) alimradi siku ziende mbele.Na muda si muda,wakulima hao hujikuta wameuza hadi mbegu na kurejea mahala palepale walipoanzia: hawana hela,hawana chakula.
Tuna wizara ya wajibu wa kushukulikia kilimo,na tuna wizara yenye wajibu wa kuwasaidia wakulima kupata masoko ya kuaminika ya mazao yao.Pia tuna wizara inayowajibika na masuala ya ushirika.Kwa makusudi,wizara hizi zimebaki majina tu japo utasikia zinatengewa mamilioni kama sio mabilioni,sio tu kwa ajili ya "kuleta ufanisi" bali pia huduma za ukarimu-chai,chakula,nk.
Tuna takriban Watanzania wenzetu 50 wenye wadhifa wa uwaziri au unaibu waziri.Sehemu kubwa tu ya fedha za walipa kodi inatumika kuwahudumia waheshimiwa hawa.Lakini ni ukweli usiopingika kuwa utendaji kazi wao ni chini ya kiwango.Walikabidhiwa dhamana ya kutekeleza kaulimbiu ya MAISHA BORA KWA KILA MTANZANIA lakini yayumkinika kuhitimisha kuwa sanasana wamefanikiwa kujitengenezea maisha bora wao wenyewe na "wafadhili wao wa kisiasa".
Kwa mmiliki wa makazi hayo pichani juu,habari za Maisha Bora kwa Kila Mtanzania ni kama utani mbaya kwake.Japo amezungukwa na ardhi kijani yenye rutuba,hajui jioni itakuwaje let alone hiyo kesho au msimu ujao wa kilimo na mavuno.Ukimwambia kuwa kuna kaulimbiu mpya ya
KILIMO KWANZA anaweza kukushushia ngumi!
On Nixon Tapes, Ambivalence Over Abortion, Not Watergate
By CHARLIE SAVAGE
WASHINGTON — On Jan. 22, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But the next day, newly released tapes reveal, he privately expressed ambivalence.
Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases — like interracial pregnancies, he said.
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding, “Or a rape.”
Nine months later, Nixon forced the firing of the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate affair, Archibald Cox, and prompted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus. The next day, Ronald Reagan, who was then governor of California and would later be president, told the White House that he approved.
Reagan said the action, which would become known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” was “probably the best thing that ever happened — none of them belong where they were,” according to a Nixon aide’s notes of the private conversation.
Those disclosures were among the revelations in more than 150 hours of tape and 30,000 pages of documents made public on Tuesday by the Nixon Presidential Library, a part of the National Archives. The audio files were posted online, as were a sampling of the documents.
The tapes were recorded by the secret microphones in the Oval Office from January and February 1973. They shed new light on an intense moment in American history, including Nixon’s second inauguration, the Vietnam War cease-fire, and the trial of seven men over the break-in at the Democrats’ headquarters at the Watergate complex amid mounting revelations about their ties to the White House.
The tapes also capture more mundane details of life in the White House — conversations about what to pack for a trip, when to schedule a trip to the barber, whether the president’s wife would enjoy going to Trader Vic’s for dinner.
Most segments of the tapes relating to the Watergate scandal, which would lead to Nixon’s resignation 20 months later, have already been released. But there are some new materials that were previously held back because the audio quality was so poor that archives officials could not be certain whether they contained discussion of any classified topics. Improvements in audio technology have allowed archives staff to clear additional ones.
They include a Jan. 5, 1973, conversation between Nixon and his aide Charles W. Colson in which they discussed the possibility of granting clemency to E. Howard Hunt Jr., one of the Watergate conspirators, according to a log compiled by archives staff. Scholars say the same topic was addressed in several other tapes that were previously made public.
The documents also include nine pages of handwritten notes by a domestic policy aide about plans for what the White House would say about the dismissal of the Watergate special prosecutor, Mr. Cox.
The tapes also provide new material about the circumstances surrounding the Paris treaty to end the United States’ military involvement in Vietnam.
A call between Nixon and Mr. Colson just after midnight on Jan. 20 showed that Nixon anticipated, when the treaty was announced, that he would be vindicated for continuing to bomb North Vietnam. He especially relished the hit that he believed members of Congress who opposed the war — whose public statements he pronounced “treasonable” — would suffer.
Several conversations center on the pressure Nixon placed on South Vietnam’s president, Nguyen Van Thieu, to accept the cease-fire agreement. Ken Hughes, a Nixon scholar and research fellow at the Presidential Recordings Project at the University of Virginia, said he was struck by listening on one of the new tapes to Nixon’s telling his national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, that to get Thieu to sign the treaty, he would “cut off his head if necessary.”
Mr. Hughes said the conversation bolstered his view that Nixon, Thieu and Mr. Kissinger knew at the time that the cease-fire could not endure, and that it was not “peace with honor,” as Nixon described it, so much as a face-saving way for the United States to get out of the war. In 1975, North Vietnam would violate the cease-fire and conquer South Vietnam.
The tapes also include a phone call from February 1973 between Nixon and the evangelist Billy Graham, during which Mr. Graham complained that Jewish-American leaders were opposing efforts to promote evangelical Christianity, like Campus Crusade. The two men agreed that the Jewish leaders risked setting off anti-Semitic sentiment.
“What I really think is deep down in this country, there is a lot of anti-Semitism, and all this is going to do is stir it up,” Nixon said.
At another point he said: “It may be they have a death wish. You know that’s been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries.”
The documents also include three newly declassified pages from a National Security Council brief discussing secret Israeli efforts to build a nuclear weapon.
SOURCE: The New York Times
- 26.6.09
- Evarist Chahali
- WEIRD NEWS
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