Month: November 2006

ARMENIAN ORCHESTRA’S BENEFIT CONCERTS IN TEHRAN
IranMania, Iran
Nov 19 2006
LONDON, November 19 (IranMania) – Prominent Iranian musician Loris
Tjeknavorian is to conduct an Armenian orchestra in benefit concerts
at the Mahak Charity Society in Tehran from November 29 to December 5,
MNA reported.
Austrian pianist Gudwig Walsh and violinist Tomas Theodoroff will also
accompany the orchestra in the program, which has been organized by
the Mahak Charity Society, an institute supporting Iranian children
suffering from cancer.
The orchestra is scheduled to perform several pieces by Johann
Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as Kurdish and
Iranian suites and pieces composed by Tjeknavorain during the program.

BOYCOTT AGAINST THE FRENCH PRODUCTS HITS FRANCE BUSINESS IN TURKEY
Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
Nov 19 2006
The Armenian proposal sparked the anti-French campaigns in Turkey.
Many people in Turkey boycott French products.
The consumer unions and societies have listed the French good not
to buy till France changes its ‘anti-Turkish’ attitude. The latest
French mark on the list is Citroen.
The consumer unions call all Turkish people not to buy Elf (Total),
Loreal, Citroen, Renault and other French companies’ products.
France recognised the Armenian claims in 2001 and the French
Parliament accepted a proposal which makes illegal to reject the
Armenian claims. Turkey says “the Armenian claims are just claims,
not verdict of a court”.

KOCHARIAN URGES ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH TURKEY
source: The New Anatolian.
ABHaber, Belgium
EU-Turkey news network
Nov 19 2006
Armenian President Robert Kocharian stated late Thursday that Turkey,
as a candidate for for European Union membership, should follow a
“different approach” on the issue of establishing diplomatic relations
with Yerevan.
Stressing that diplomatic relations should be established without
preconditions and prejudices, Kocharian claimed that although his
country had suggested to Turkey the establishment of diplomatic
relations, Ankara refused. “Our suggestion is still valid,” he said
in a speech at a meeting organized by the Bertelsmann Association
in Berlin, where he also met on Thursday with German Chancellor
Angela Merkel.
Touching on Armenian’s relations with its neighbors, Kocharian also
said, “Turkey, which is an important state in its region, closed its
borders to Armenia. An important country like Turkey should follow
a different approach.”
‘Proposal for historians’ commission is a ploy’
The Armenian president dismissed the Turkish proposal to establish a
joint commission of historians to study the Armenian genocide claims
as a “Turkish ploy” by which he claimed Ankara will try to distance
itself from the core of the alleged issue.
Kocharian made the remarks in response to former German Ambassador
Dietrich Kyaw, who asked him why he had rejected Turkish Premier Recep
Tayyip Erdogan’s proposal of a historians’ commission to examine the
genocide allegations.
Kocharian also stated that Yerevan wants the establishment of a
commission of politicians instead of a commission of historians
and said, “Politicians, not historians, have responsibility for the
‘genocide’.”
‘Nagorno-Karabakh is independent’
Kocharian also claimed that the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh
declared its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union
and the enclave has never been a part of Azerbaijan.
Stating that Nagorno-Karabakh young people have grown up with the
will to live in an independent state and won’t retreat from the ways
things are, Kocharian underlined the need for the concerned sides in
the region to be ready for a solution in Nagorno-Karabakh before the
EU makes new initiatives.
Kocharian stressed that no country that had gained its independence
will give up this right and added, “The people of Nagorno-Karabakh
also fought for for their independence and won it. Therefore they
don’t want to lose it.”
Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous region in Azerbaijan that has been
under the control of Armenian and ethnic-Armenian Karabakh forces
since a 1994 cease-fire ended a six-year separatist war that killed
about 30,000 people and drove about 1 million from their homes. The
region’s final status remains unresolved, and years of talks under the
auspices of international mediators have brought few visible results.
Ankara: Armenia distorts the facts
Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Namik Tan on Friday lambasted
the claim of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, saying, “The claim that
Kocharian’s letter to Erdogan in 2005 did not get a response is
another example of the Armenian aim to distort the facts.”
Bringing up Erdogan’s proposal to setup a commission composed
of Armenian and Turkish historians to study the genocide claims,
Tan said, “While the situation is like that, the Armenian Foreign
Ministry claimed on Nov. 4 that Kocharian’s letter to Erdogan did not
get a response. However, the concerned Turkish and Armenian officials
have gathered three times since April 2005, and our latest proposal
was conveyed to Yerevan this September. Therefore, the latest claim
of the Armenian Foreign Ministry is another example of the Armenian
aim to distort the facts.”
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

TURKEY EXCLUDES FRANCE FROM DEFENSE FAIR
Source: The New Anatolian
ABHaber, Belgium
EU-Turkey news network
Nov 19 2006
Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul announced on late Thursday that France
hasn’t been officially invited to a defense industry fair over
the French Parliament’s passage of an Armenian bill last month,
introducing punishments to those who question genocide claims.
Gonul, at a meeting publicizing the Eighth Defense Industry Trade
Fair, expressed his displeasure at the French Parliament’s passage of
the bill penalizing those who question Armenian genocide claims with
prison terms up to one year and fines up to 45,000 euros, and said that
they had presented Ankara’s concerns to Paris on numerous occasions.
Gonul stated that Ankara gave a notice to French companies, instead
of invitations, and added, “The French defense minister is a valuable
government member. But he has not been formally invited here. We sent
invitations to other countries.”
The Turkish defense minister’s remarks prompted a French official to
leave the meeting. French Armament Attache Jean Claude Geay commented
to reporters after leaving the meeting in the wake of Gonul’s speech
that an invitation was made to him by a retired general who heads
the Turkish Armed Forces Foundation. “But after hearing the defense
minister’s statement, I realized that staying here for meetings was
useless. That’s why I’m leaving,” he added.
In related news, the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry canceled
the invitation of the a French music company to perform a remembrance
ceremony for Turkish poet and Sufi mystic Mevlana Rumi.
The move of the Turkish Defense and Culture and Tourism Ministries
came a day after Turkish Land Forces Commander Gen. Ilker Basbug
announced that Turkey has suspended military relations with France
over French Parliament’s passage of the Armenian bill.
The French Defense Ministry played down on Thursday Turkish decision
to suspend military ties with France, saying, “France believes that
existing cooperation with Turkey will continue,” and noting that the
suspension was announced by a military commander, not Turkey’s civilian
government. However, no immediate response was made by France to the
latest moves of the ministries.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

H. MEKHDJIAN, 21, MAN WITH GENTLE HEART
By Jessie Mangaliman
San Jose Mercury News,
Nov 19 2006
Friends Recall College Student’s Humility And Caring
Mercury News
Julie Barsoumian has an indelible, vivid image of Harout Mekhdjian.
He was about 3 or 4 years old, standing before his schoolmates at an
Armenian school in Cupertino, reciting a 14th-century Armenian poem
from memory.
“I was very touched,” said Barsoumian, who had known Mr. Mekhdjian
since birth. “He related to a subject that was much bigger than
himself.”
For all who knew and loved Mr. Mekhdjian, that fearless, joyful
enthusiasm to tackle anything big and small was the character that
most defined his young life.
Everyone around him, it seemed, noticed or felt his devotion and
passion for any task that came his way.
Mr. Mekhdjian, a junior at San Jose State University, died Nov. 5
after a motorcycle accident in a parking lot at De Anza Community
College. While trying out a friend’s bike, he hit a curb and was
thrown off. Friends said he died on the way to the hospital. He was 21.
At a wake Nov. 9 at St. Andrew Armenian Apostolic Church in Cupertino,
hundreds of Mr. Mekhdjian’s friends gathered to mourn.
There were his young charges in the Boy Scout troop, the Homenetmen
Ani of Santa Clara Valley, his SJSU business fraternity brothers at
Alpha Kappa Psi, church deacons, Armenian mothers like Barsoumian who
saw him grow to a young adult, his family and all his young friends.
“As tragic as everything was for his family and his friends, it
was a comfort to see how many people came to pay their respects,”
said his cousin, Lena Dakessian, 19, a junior at the University of
California-Berkeley.
“That service confirmed for me how he was a gem, a truly special
person,” Dakessian said.
Born Sept. 23, 1985, in San Jose, Mr. Mekhdjian graduated from Fremont
High School. From a young age, he was a Boy Scout. Later, he became
an active and well-loved troop leader.
“He did this thing. He’d touch your ears and wiggle them,” recalled
his friend, Aleen Koumriqian, 18, who attends De Anza College. “It
meant how much he loved you.”
Mr. Mekhdjian, friends said, was not sparing in doling out his love.
He gave generously, freely.
“He was just the most kind-hearted individual I’ve ever met,” said his
friend Taleen Moroyan, 22, who attends UC-San Diego. “Always smiling,
always positive. I’ll carry that memory with me.”
After graduating from high school, Mr. Mekhdjian attended De Anza,
then later transferred to SJSU, where he studied management information
systems. He completed an internship at the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, but he never boasted about it.
“For all of the things that he was,” Dakessian said, “he was also
modest. And he had so many things, so many good things, that he
could flaunt.”
At the 15th-anniversary celebration of his scout troop, Mr. Mekhdjian
thanked the group for introducing “me to a great horizon of people,
but it also brought me closer to my heritage and culture.”
His grandparents were survivors of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman
Turkey. His parents emigrated from Lebanon.
Like many parents who witnessed Mr. Mekhdjian’s coming of age from
a young boy reciting Armenian poetry, to candle bearer, to church
deacon at St. Andrew, Barsoumian said his sudden death struck at a
small community’s heart.
“I’ve never heard Harout complain about anything being hard or
difficult,” Barsoumian said. “He blossomed from this very sweet boy
to someone who nurtured other people.”
Harout Mekhdjian
Born: Sept. 23, 1985, San Jose.
Died: Nov. 5, 2006, Cupertino.
Survived by: his parents, Manoug and Meline Mekhdjian, two sisters,
Houry and Aline, all of San Jose.
Services: Have been held.
Memorial: The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations can
be made to the Harout Mekhdjian Memorial Trust Fund, in care of St.
Andrew Armenian Apostolic Church, 11370 S. Stelling Road, Cupertino,
Calif. 95014.

SAFAROV GOT CONDITIONAL 8-MONTH SENTENCE IN ADDITION TO LIFE SENTENCE
PanARMENIAN.Net
18.11.2006 15:58 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The trial on the case of Ramil Safarov over the
claim laid by jailers was held yesterday at Pesht Central Court. Judge
Tot Tendeshun chaired the hearing. According to the Azeri Embassy in
Hungary, Embassy officers participated in the hearing as well. After
hearing the testimony of two witnesses, the state prosecutor stated
in his half-an-hour speech that Safarov is indicted for resistance
to officers and inflicting bodily injuries. Safarov got an 8-month
suspended sentence in compliance with the Hungarian Criminal Code,
reports APA.
R. Safarov was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of Armenian
Army officer Gurgen Margaryan in Hungary.

ARMENIANS SEEK DEMOCRATS ASSISTANCE
By Fred Ortega Staff Writer
San Gabriel Valley Tribune, CA
Pasadena Star-News, CA
Whittier Daily News, CA
Nov 19 2006
New Congress to be asked to recognize alleged genocide
LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE – Setrak Sheytanian died long ago, the victim
of a mass killing spree that many consider the first true genocide
of the 20th century.
For decades his family tried in vain to collect on his life insurance
policy, issued by New York Life nearly 100 years ago in Eastern
Anatolia, modern-day Turkey. They finally prevailed last year,
capitalizing on a California law that allows heirs of Armenians
killed by the Ottoman Turks during World War I to sue for unpaid
insurance claims.
No such law exists at the federal level, partly because Washington
has never said the mass killings perpetrated against the Armenians
constituted genocide. But that stance may soon change because of the
shift in power on Capitol Hill.
“We now have a speaker-elect who supports recognizing the Armenian
genocide,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, who along with San
Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi has co-sponsored legislation that
would officially label the killings as part of a campaign of ethnic
cleansing by the Turks. “That is a tremendous ally to have.”
The legislation, along with a similar bill sponsored by Schiff,
was moved forward last year by the House International Relations
Committee. Neither of the bills ever made it to the House floor because
of strong opposition from other members of Congress, including outgoing
Speaker Dennis Hastert.
But the stalled legislation has suddenly been infused with new life,
with Pelosi at the helm of a new, Democrat-controlled Congress.
“Ms. Pelosi has pledged to support the resolution again in the 110th
Congress,” said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for the San Francisco
congresswoman. However, no resolutions on Armenia are included in
Pelosi’s list of top priorities for the first 100 days of the new
Congress, he added.
Armenians contend that up to 1.5 million of their countrymen died at
the hands of the Ottoman Turks between 1915 and 1923.
An official government recognition of the Armenian killings is long
overdue, said Martin Marutian, Sheytanian’s nephew.
“It is very important because we are recognizing genocides in Africa,
the Nazi Holocaust, but not the Armenian genocide, which was the
first one,” said Marutian, 91, of La Ca ada Flintridge. “Newspapers,
including the New York Times, wrote about the genocide at the time.
But it seems like today the U.S. and Turkey have amnesia.”
Marutian recounted the story of his uncle, who he said was killed
along with his wife and two small children when the Turks stormed
their small town of Kharpet in 1915. Marutian’s mother had left
Turkey a year earlier for the United States to join her husband,
and Sheytanian had given her his policy to take with her.
For years, New York Life ignored the policy. But last year, a group
of lawyers – including high-profile attorney Mark Geragos – reached a
$20 million settlement with the company on behalf of scores Armenian
families, including the Marutians.
Geragos said federal recognition of the Armenian genocide might open
the way for similar suits over claims outside of California.
“Hypothetically, if it were to happen federally, there are a number
of legal options that could open up,” said Geragos, who has also
recovered $17 million for claimants from European insurance giant
AXA. He linked the AXA settlement with the recent action by the French
Parliament to formally recognize an Armenian genocide.
Geragos, who is of Armenian descent, also believes that federal
recognition of a genocide could eventually lead to the United States
acting as a mediator between Turkey and Armenia on the issue of land
and monetary reparations.
But others doubt that federal recognition of a genocide would lead
to any substantial results, let alone an about-face by Turkey on the
issue. Vartkes Yeghiayan, another of the lawyers in the New York Life
case, believes passage of the Schiff and Pelosi resolution would be
primarily symbolic.
“The House of Representatives passed resolutions in 1974 and 1985 on
the genocide and President Reagan mentioned the genocide in 1981. And
what happened? Nothing,” Yeghiayan said. “The important thing is for
Turkey to recognize the genocide. I don’t care who else in the world
recognizes it.”
And even with Democrats in control of Congress, any Armenian genocide
resolution could still face considerable opposition.
“We intend to move very quickly on this in the new session, but I
don’t want to minimize the difficulty we face,” said Schiff, who as
a state senator authored the legislation used by Geragos to sue New
York Life. “The Bush administration has opposed recognition, many
in Congress are fighting it and Turkey has some of the best paid
lobbyists available.”
A spokesman for Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ill., a leading opponent of genocide
recognition, said the GOP congressman is against the legislation
because it would only embarrass Turkey and could lead to a souring
of relations with the secular Muslim nation.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Janelle Hironimus repeated the
position of President Bush, who earlier this year referred to the
actions against the Armenians in Turkey as “mass killings,” but
stopped short of calling them genocide.
Any Armenian genocide resolution would certainly lead to repercussions
from Turkey, said Tuluy Tanc, spokesman for the Turkish Embassy in
Washington, D.C.
“The U.S. is an important friend and ally of Turkey, we have a
strategic partnership, and such action would be contradictory to that
partnership,” said Tanc, whose nation has been a key U.S. ally in
battling terrorism. “We don’t think a legislative body like Congress
should express an opinion on such a debatable and controversial issue.”
Turkey cut off military relations with France after that country
recognized the deaths as genocide, although it admits that hundreds
of thousands of Armenians died when the Ottoman Empire forced them to
relocate from Eastern Anatolia during World War I. Tanc said the move
was a necessity during a time of war, when many of Turkey’s Armenian
citizens sided with the invading Russian Army.
“We believe that the intent of the Ottoman government to hurt Armenians
on the basis of their ethnicity has not been proven,” Tanc said.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

TEYMOURIAN ENJOYING TIME AT BOLTON
Persian League, Iran
Nov 19 2006
GOAL – Iranian midfielder Andranik Teymourian may have had minimal
time on the pitch since joining Premier League outfit Bolton Wanderers
but the 23 year-old is enjoying his time in England and aiming for
the Champions League.
“I am satisfied with my current situation at Bolton,” he was quoted
as saying by Iran Sports Press.
“I have not played much, but to establish myself in a league that is
the fastest paced in the world, I need time.”
The Armenian-born star accepts the fact that competition for places
is fierce in the upper reaches of the Premier League.
“The player playing in my position, Ivan Campo, has played very well
and has scored some crucial goals. It is in the nature of football that
a manager does not change a winning team. We have had good results
and we are consequently in 4th place and our goal is to play in the
Champions League next year.”
The former Abu Moslem player is not the only one showing patience,
the Bolton boss is helping him adapt.
“Sam Allardyce told me that he is optimistic about my future. He
also told me how at the start of Thierry Henry’s career in England,
he did not do well in his first few months, but, with time, he was
able to find his best ever form.
“Allardyce told me to be hopeful for the future and I will give my
best effort so that I can perform well for Bolton. I have a contract
here for two years and have no intention of leaving this club.”
The powerful midfielder also reflected in the differences between
professional football in Iran and England.
“Things are so organized here that I cannot even talk about the
differences between here and Iran. When a meeting here is set for
12:01, the meeting starts at exactly that time.”

LET’S BUILD WALLS INSTEAD OF BRIDGES: A ONE-WAY TICKET TO HOME
Gianni DeVincent Hayes, Ph.D.
American Chronicle, CA
Nov 19 2006
November 18, 2006
PART I of III
Article 3 of 11 Articles
The Problem 3
Our Elected Officials
I am bothered by the fact that the very people we voted into office
to look after and protect our citizens and Constitution are the very
ones who are destroying it. Are they that comfortable in their jobs,
thinking Americans don’t pay attention to votes, that they can just
discard us?
In the article “Illegals Granted Social Security,” [17] we are told
that “The Senate voted…to allow illegal aliens to collect Social
Security benefits based on past illegal employment–even if the job
was obtained through forged or stolen documents. ‘There was a felony
they were committing, and now they can’t be prosecuted. That sounds
like amnesty to me,’ said Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican
who offered the amendment…to strip out those provisions of the
immigration reform bill. ‘It just boggles the mind how people could
be against this amendment.’ The Ensign amendment was defeated on
a 50-49 vote.” Look at the addenda to this article as to how our
congress-people voted, and be sure to go to for
the most up-to-date information.
Even worse is this [18]: “The US is spending your tax money for
programs to help Armenians secure their borders. ‘US Department
of State’s Export Control and Related Border Security Assistance’
(EXBS) program continues to work with Armenian control officials,
customs, and border guards to improve their prevention capabilities…”
[[email protected]; Wednesday, May 17, 2006. ‘U.S. Assistance to
Armenia–Fiscal Year 2006; Fact Sheet, Bureau of European and Eurasian
Affairs’; Washington, DC; ]. So, we can
spend American taxpayers’ money to secure a small country’s sovereignty
but not the world’s most-again, presumably–powerful nation?
And this [19]: “Immigrants from Mexico and other non-European
Countries can come to this country and get preferences in jobs,
education, and government contracts [under] affirmative action or
racial privilege. Recently, a vote was taken in the U.S. Congress to
end this practice. It was defeated. Every single Democratic Senator
except Ernest Hollings voted to maintain special privileges for
Hispanic, Asian and African immigrants.”
So we should thank our elected officials for keeping our homeland
safe, secure, and sovereign, and who give illegals rights belonging
to hard-working Americans. We also should be in gratitude as well as
to the Presidents Fox and Bush regimes for their much deliberated
plot to destroy America. Don’t forget GATT, NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO and
FTAA-so-called free trade agreements that in actuality strangle-held
us and ruined and will continue to ruin the labor force in our
country. We also have to thank the pro-illegal agents for bringing
about the outsourcing of American jobs and the insourcing of alien
labor to do jobs Americans should have. This is not haphazard. This
is not just a bunch of Mexicans or other illegal aliens individually
and in groups deciding to cross the border for a better life…no,
this is a movement-a well thought out, effectively implemented and
mobilized plan. States Steven Yates, “In the early years of the
21st century, elites in three nations-the United States, Canada,
and Mexico-are busy creating a new political configuration called
the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) [that]
would broaden and deepen the relationship between the three nations
[transactional] created in 1994 through the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) in dramatic ways” [20].
Adds Taft, “These are radical organizations that can be found in many
American high schools and most colleges. They hate America and love
its enemies. They are brimming over with race hatred, anti-Semitism,
and a history of communist leanings and communist support. They have
an irrational anger aimed at their stupid benefactors” [21]. [See photo
at left; from Wally Skalij. LA Times. 05-02-06, taken from The Sun.]
In itself, La reconquista [a radical movement by Mexicans to
“reconquer” parts of U.S.] is in full swing: “‘Demographically,
socially and culturally, the reconquista of Southwest United States by
Mexico is well underway,’ [says] Harvard University professor Samuel
P. Huntington in 2004” [22]. In that same article, author Valerie
Richardson writes, “Then there’s the Mexican Movement, which wants
to ‘reconstruct’ the United States as an ‘indigenous’ nation called
Anahuac” [23]. We can also thank the lobbyists and PR people, who have
ties with the Mexican and American governments, for creating sweet
deals and wonderful positive promotional strategies for the illegal
aliens. And then there are the Spanish-language television channels
that told the half-million-plus demonstrating illegals where to go
to protest, what to bring, and how to do it. “…They were organized,
promoted or publicized for weeks by Spanish-language radio hosts and
TV anchors….In addition, swamping America with illegal immigrants
balkanizes the country, lowers the standard of living and sinks
America into second world status, necessary for the implementation
of a Pax American FTAA system” [24].
And these are only some of the problems we face.
Remember what Theodore Roosevelt said in 1907 on immigration: “In the
first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here
in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he
shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is
an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming
in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can
be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but
is something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but
one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here,
and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole
loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people”[emphasis added].
Look at how our elected officials are representing our views and
our desires:
Voting Records
The information below is presented by “Vote Results: Naming the Heroes
& the Villains,” by Roy Beck, President, ; 05-17-06;
as sent by Virginia Brooks, 05-18-06.
“The Senate…believe[s] that American workers should have to compete
with millions of imported foreign workers. The Sen. Bingaman amendment
put some limits on the damage to the American worker, [but] the 18
Senators[who] … showed that they apparently have no limits…voted
to keep in the bill a provision that the Heritage Foundation announced
on Monday would allow corporations to import more than 130 million
foreign workers over the next 20 years!
Senators McCain and Kennedy are responsible for the original language
that would have led to such an absurd conclusion. NumbersUSA has been
railing against that provision for a year.
Worst Enemies Of The American Worker
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Chafee (R-RI)
DeWine (R-OH)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Salazar (D-CO)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
[No votes: Cochran (R-MS, Lott, R-MS, Rockefeller (D-WV)]
And from: “Remember These Names/Votes on Immigration Bill,” by Joan
Masters; Loops: 05-18-06. Associated Press, Fran Coombs, Managing
Editor, “These are the 55 senators who voted against securing America’s
borders and the five senators who chose not to vote:
Democrats: Akaka, Hawaii; Baucus, Mont.; Bayh, Ind.; Biden, Del.;
Bingaman, N.M.; Boxer, Calif.; Cantwell, Wash.; Carper, Del.;
Clinton, N.Y.; Dayton, Minn.; Dodd, Conn.; Durbin, Ill.; Feingold,
Wis.; Feinstein, Calif.; Harkin, Iowa; Inouye, Hawaii; Johnson, S.D.;
Kennedy, Mass.; Kerry, Mass.; Kohl, Wis.; Lautenberg, N.J.; Leahy,
Vt.; Levin, Mich.; Lieberman, Conn.; Lincoln, Ark.; Menendez, N.J.;
Mikulski, Md.; Murray, Wash.; Nelson, Fla.; Obama, Ill.; Pryor, Ark.;
Reed, R.I.; Reid, Nev.; Salazar, Colo.; Sarbanes, Md.; Schumer, N.Y.
Republicans: Bennett, Utah; Brownback, Kan.; Chafee, R.I.; Coleman,
Minn.; Collins, Maine; Craig, Idaho; DeWine, Ohio; Graham, S.C.;
Hagel, Neb.; Lugar, Ind.; Martinez, Fla.; Murkowski, Alaska; Shelby,
Ala.; Snowe, Maine; Specter, Pa.; Stevens, Alaska; Voinovich, Ohio;
Warner, Va.
Independents: Jeffords, Vt.
Democrats Not Voting: Rockefeller, W.Va.
Republicans Not Voting: Cochran, Miss.; Gregg, N.H.; Lott, Miss.;
McCain, Ariz.
Continue to Article 4 of 4 articles in Part II of a total of 11
articles.
Footnotes
17 “Illegals Granted Social Security,” By Charles Hurt; THE WASHINGTON
TIMES, submitted by Joan Masters: Loops, 0519-06
18 “Border Security,” by Joan Masters [[email protected]]; Loops;
Sent Friday, May 19, 2006
19 California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 4/5/06,
; Sent by L. Bush, 01906.
20 “United States of North America,” by Steven Yates; page 1.
American Opinion Publishing Incorporated; May 1, 2006; submitted by
Joan Masters.
21 “Hey, Gringo, Pack Your Bags and Get Out,” by Investigative
Reporter, John Taft
April 25, 2006.
22 “Mexican Aliens Seek to Retake ‘Stolen’ Land,” by Valerie
Richardson; page 1. The Washington Post. April 16, 2006. Submitted
by
23 Ibid; page 2.
24 “Bush Lobbyist Architect of Mass Immigration Protests?” by Paul
Joseph Watson & Alex Jones; April 14, 2006;
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Dr. Gianni DeVincent Hayes is an internationally recognized author
of 15 royalty-published books ( and
) and over 100 articles and short stories in highly
circulated and commercial newspapers and magazines, such as PARADE,
US, PEOPLE, REDBOOK, WOMAN’S DAY, MOODY, and many others. One of
her novels,”22 Friar Street,” had been under a movie option, and her
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IAN PORTERFIELD: HAVE FOOTBALL WILL TRAVEL FOR A SUNDERLAND LEGEND
The Independent, UK
Nov 19 2006
One of the FA Cup’s greatest giant-killers is in his fifth foreign
posting as a national coach. Simon Turnbull hears about life in Armenia
It is the morning after the night before and Ian Porterfield is just
a little bit weary. Understandably so. The coach of the Armenian
national football team has travelled back overnight from Helsinki,
mulling over the frustration he and his players encountered in the
Finnair Stadium on Wednesday evening. By all accounts, it was not
just a 10th-minute goal by Mika Nurmela that was respons-ible for
beating them in a Euro 2008 Group A qualifying fixture but also the
goalkeeping heroics of Jussi Jaaskelainen.
“If it hadn’t been for him, it would have been a different result,”
the one-time assistant manager of Bolton says of the current Wanderers
and Finland keeper. “He made two wonder saves. It wasn’t a double
save – they were two saves apart – but it was certainly in the Jim
Montgomery class.”
Ah, Jim Montgomery… “Jimmy Monty” and that wondrous Wembley double
save. All of a sudden, down the crackling telephone line from Yerevan
to a small corner of the North-east of England – a distance of 2,331
miles – time travels back some 33 years.
>>From his apartment in Arm-enia’s capital city, Porterfield can see
the outline of Mount Ararat, where Noah’s Ark was said to have come
to rest after the great flood. The view from the English end of the
telephone line – framed on the studywall of this old Roker Park diehard
together with a £4 ticket for Wembley’s North Terrace – happens to be a
snapshot from the day that Jimmy Monty’s double save left Trevor Cherry
and Peter Lorimer scratching their heads beneath the old Twin Towers.
It is a photograph of Porterfield dispatching a right-foot shot
past the despairing David Harvey, the moment time stood still for
Sunderland supporters: precisely 31 minutes and 32 seconds past
three on the afternoon of 5 May 1973. It was the goal that caused
the biggest shock in FA Cup final history and completed the fairytale
story of Sunderland’s transformation under Bob Stokoe’s inspirational
management from Second Division strugglers to trophy-winning 1-0
slayers of Don Revie’s mighty Leeds United.
Not that time has stood still for Porterfield since that glorious
day. In 1974 he came perilously close to losing his life in a car
crash. In 1986 he became manager of Aberdeen, the last man to replace
Alex Ferguson in football management. In 1993 he was the first manager
of Chelsea in the Premier League and the first manager to be sacked
in the Premier League. In the same year he became the head coach of
Zambia after their national team and officials perished in a plane
crash. He guided them to within one goal of the World Cup finals and
remains a national hero.
Now, at the age of 60, the man from the old Fife mining town of
Lochgelly is three months into his fifth foreign posting as a national
head coach. Since August, Porterfield has been attempting to bring
to bear his powers of football miracle-making in the smallest of
the former Soviet republics. Tucked away in the southern Caucasus,
on the border of Europe and Asia, Armenia is a country in a state of
recovery from the devastating effects of genocide, earthquake and
mass migration. For a national football team coach, it is not the
cushiest of outposts.
Simply getting to matches can be an ordeal. “We usually have to fly
into Vienna,” Porterfield says, “then we’ve got six or seven hours’
wait and maybe go on to Germany and wait for another connection from
there. This time we chartered a flight to Helsinki, but we still had
to go via Moscow. It took seven hours.”
Getting a team together can be a problem too. “We’ve got one boy at
Rapid Bucharest who hasn’t been in the team for two years,” Porterfield
says, “and we’ve got another lad in Russia whose team won’t let him
come. When we played Finland at home we only had two midfielders.”
Finland, coached by Roy Hodgson, top Group A with 11 points. Armenia
lie second from bottom with just the one point from four games.
Having held the Finns to a 0-0 draw in Yerevan and pushed them
mightily close in Helsinki, though, Porterfield’s team have been
punching above their weight in a group that also includes Portugal,
Poland, Belgium, Serbia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
“Looking at the quality of the other teams, you have to be realistic,”
the coach says. “We’re looking to come out of the group with
respectability, and to improve as we go along. I always look to the
long term. My main aim when I came here was to build something better
for the future. It’s an interesting challenge. I knew it would be a
difficult one. In the various countries I’ve been to, it’s always
been an against-the-odds situation. But you accept that. Your job
is to get the best out of what you have; not to complain about it,
but to get on with it. I’m enjoying it here. My wife and I have a
wonderful apartment in the heart of Yerevan. The people have made us
welcome. Obviously there’s great progress still to be made in this
country, but I feel one of the best ways to create a good image for
your country is if your football team can make a good impression.”
Porterfield did more than that in his first foreign assignment. He
was awarded the Freedom of Zambia. He has also guided Trinidad and
Tobago to within a whisker of the World Cup finals, been national
coach in Zimbabwe and Oman, and had spells in club management in
Saudi Arabia and South Korea.
“When I left Chelsea in 1993 I’d never worked outside of the UK before
and I had no real desire to do so,” he reflects, “but the chance
came along to go to Zambia because of the tragedy they suffered and
it’s amazing how things have gone from there. I’ve worked in four
different continents in the last 13 years.
“It’s a bit sad, but when you leave the UK the doors seem to get
closed to you getting an opportunity back there again. Why that is
I will never know, because if you go overseas you learn so much from
the different people and the different cultures. It makes you a better
person and a better coach.
“This is my fifth job as a nat-ional team coach and I see it as a
privilege. It’s something to feel proud of, because you’re representing
a whole nation. Although I’m Scots, I’m representing all the people
of Armenia.” Sadly, Porterfield never got to represent his own people
on the international stage. He was on the brink of a Scotland call-up
at the age of 27, in the form of his life as an intelligent, probing,
left-of-centre-midfielder, when he was involved in a car crash on
the outskirts of Sunderland in December 1974. He suffered a fractured
skull and a broken jaw.
“Bobby Brown was manager of Scotland at the time and I was more or less
told that I was going to be picked for the next game,” Porterfield
recalls. “Then I had the car crash and it changed my life. I was
very, very lucky to come out of it, to play football again, to coach,
to do all the activities I do. Most certainly, God was good to me.
“I’ve been helped by a lot of people in football – people like Jack
Charlton, people who have given me good support, good advice. But if it
wasn’t for a man called Dr Kalbag, a neurosurgeon at Newcastle General
Hospital, I don’t think I would be here talking to you just now.”
Thanks to the skills of Dr Ram Kalbag, Porterfield was back in
training at Roker Park within two months. He played for the reserves,
wearing a protective rugby scrum cap, before the end of the 1974-75
season. He made 22 appearances in Sunderland’s Second Division
championship-winning team the next season, but his best days at the
club he joined as a replacement for the great Jim Baxter were behind
him – including one day, of course, that will never be forgotten
on Wearside.
“When you go back to 1973, we had the basis of a good team a bit
before the Cup run,” Porterfield reflects. “We had Jim Montgomery, Dave
Watson, Billy Hughes, Dennis Tueart. These were really top players.
“We had a lot of other good players as well. When Bob Stokoe came
as manager in November 1972 we were probably just short of a couple
of players and he brought them in: Ron Guthrie at left-back and Vic
Halom at centre-forward.
“Bob created a good spirit and we had a team with wonderful ability,
a good balance to it, and a great work ethic. It was just sad that it
got broken up in the years that followed because Sunderland have just
drifted along since then and not achieved what their fans deserve,
and there are no better supporters anywhere – anywhere – than the
Sunderland supporters.
“I don’t know Roy Keane or any of the new consortium but potentially
they’ve got a giant of a club that really should be up there with
the best.” In the meantime, the wonderful memories of a 33-year-old
giant-killing will keep having to suffice.
LIFE & TIMES: The long road from Lochgelly
NAME: John Ian Porterfield.
BORN: 11 February 1946, Dunfermline.
EARLY PLAYING CAREER: Started with Lochgelly Albert. Had trials with
Leeds, Hearts and Rangers before joining Raith Rovers in 1964.
SUNDERLAND CAREER: Signed for £45,000 in 1967. Scored winner against
Leeds in 1973 FA Cup final. Made 254 appearances, scoring 19 goals.
MANAGERIAL CAREER: Roth-erham 1979- 81, Sheffield United 1981-86,
Aberdeen 1986-88, Reading 1989-91, Chelsea 1991-93. National coach
in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Oman, Trinidad and Tobago, and Armenia. Coached
in Saudi Arabia and South Korea.
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From: Baghdasarian