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size=3> <FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Colleagues,</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Given the proclivity [sic] for generations of
planned historical erasure, I fear many people will say: Miller who? McCarthy
what? Paul Robeson--come again? and so on, ad nauseam, ad
infinitum.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I believe that during a speech in Washington last
March/April, with many pooh-bahs present, Miller presented a brilliant speech,
taking a strip(e) off the side of almost every major U.S. politican/leader,
going back to the thirties. I was told the whole text was going to be
published in the Atlantic or Harper's but I have not seen it. I would
grateful if anyone has a print copy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Meanwhile, best of the Winter Solstice to one and
all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pax,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Denis.</DIV>
<H1>Arthur Miller accuses Bush of abusing and curbing civil rights</H1>
<H3>By David Lister Media and Culture Editor / GUARDIAN (UK)</H3>
<H4>22 December 2001</H4>
<P>Arthur Miller, America's greatest living playwright, will speak out against
the Bush administration for abusing civil rights, in a BBC interview to be
broadcast on Christmas Day.</P>
<P>Miller was called before Senator McCarthy's Un-American Activities Committee
in the crusade against supposed left-wingers in 1956 and wrote one of his
greatest plays, <I>The Crucible</I>, in response to it. He says he now fears the
United States is using the war on terrorism to "increase its power over civil
rights". Miller's words make him the highest-profile figure in the American arts
world to take issue with President Bush's stance.</P>
<P>In the interview with the BBC World Service, he refers to Mr Bush's emergency
order that allows non-Americans accused of helping terrorist enemies to be tried
outside normal courts by military tribunals. Twenty million immigrants and
visitors fall within its scope.</P>
<P>Miller says of the new law: "The government now is taking advantage of it ...
and using it as a way of increasing its power over civil rights and so on, by
this business of creating military courts for terrorists."</P>
<P>Asked by Ritula Shah, presenter of <I>The World Today</I>, whether he thinks
the world has changed since 11 September, he says: "The confrontation of a mass
dying is a traumatic experience even for the dullest mind and I think people
were drawn together, but I question whether this is a long-term effect." Asked
how events have forced American attitudes to change, he says: "I think that more
people are prepared now ... to inquire as to why we are so hated in so many
places.</P>
<P>"It comes as a big surprise to a lot of people who have always accepted that
American foreign policy was beneficent." </P><!-- mini index -->
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world together then we can succeed in peace and let each other be different and
have different opinions and different cultures. If there was no diversity then
life would be boring. Imagine me looking exactly like you or acting the same
way! LIFE NEEDS difference and until we realise it then we will not achieve our
hope of world peace!"-Natasha Salter, written on the occasion of her 11th
birthday (20 November 01).</FONT></DIV>
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Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill University<BR>853 Sherbrooke St
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