NICE THOUGHTS FROM SWITZERLAND - WITH OR WITHOUT A SWATCH :-)
Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations on Tuesday, pledging to respect its traditional neutrality while
pursuing human rights, world peace and the struggle against poverty.

WHAT a lovely touch.. after being postponed.. RAMALLAH, West Bank - For the students who came to the Friends Boys School, a respected private school, it was a day to remember. Daniel Barenboim, the famed conductor and pianist performed Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata, and then invited the Palestinian children to play for him.

BUT MY are we proud of Wellington's Orpheus Choir which got together at a cathedral in the NZ city to sing REQUIEM - a more fitting reflection on Sept 11, 2001, is hard to imagine. Goodonem! And get that recording ready.:-)

THERE'S SOMETHING AWFULLY SICK LYING AROUND .. LIKE AN OPEN WOUND.. AND WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S DRESSING IT.. don't we?
... it was the current US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who visited Iraq in December 1983 as President Reagan's special envoy to restore full relations.Just
12 days after Rumsfeld met Iraq ’s foreign minister the
Washington Post reported on January 1,1984,that the United States “in a shift in policy, has informed friendly Persian Gulf nations that the defeat of Iraq in the war with Iran would be ‘contrary to US interests ’ and has made several moves to prevent that result.”
Rumsfeld visited again in March 1984 for further talks - after the US State Department had issued a statement saying “available evidence indicates that Iraq has used chemical weapons ”.In November 1984 normal diplomatic relations were restored...
-Dickenz-