Nachricht Nummer : 367 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 42 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 3 January, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 03.01.1994 22:48:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 3 January, 1994 Dobar dan, A few days ago I found the following quote in the daily report of Croatian Foreign Press Bureau: "Mostar, Bosnia-Hercegovina, two women, a child and an elderly man were brought into the Nova Bila hospital last Thursday with symptoms characteristic of chemical weapons' poisoning, namely, coughing, heavy breathing, vomiting, etc. According to Dr. Tabak, there is no doubt that these people, who were wounded by shells fired by the Muslim Army during the Christmas attack on Croat enclaves in Central Bosnia, are suffering from chemical weapons' poisoning." and I look at myself in the last 10 days nearly all my symptoms were precisely the same, slowly it start to get better, only the coughing went on. I haven't been even near the place, at least not much nearer than as far south as Pakrac, only 100 Km more close, but still 250 Km or something away. Neither as far as I know any of the other people who I know who are ill at the moment, even when one has relatives in the mentioned village (but that's no connection). So I am sure our illness is a kind of virus, it has nothing to do with chemical weapons, at least I hope. You start to understand what paranoid means, never see something just as that, but always try to find the deeper ground behind it. Why is this, why is that. I definitely dislike telephones, it was today again such a day that every 3 minute somebody called and I nearly started thinking to open such a special number were you have to pay more to be connected in order to put down our telephone bill. If I get a dollar for every phonecall I wouldn't have any money problems at all. But like the computer phone is also a social network, you hear things, rumours and so, which you otherwise wouldn't grasp at all. And there is a lot going on, not only is it good to hear ones and a while how the humanitarian aid road, the "Humway" as you can call it, south of Split is doing, or at least a few organisation, who found a house on the road from Split to Omis. I haven't been in Split for months, so beside the news you read on the BBS and some phonecalls you wouldn't hear much from what is happening. Most of them surely wouldn't get their story big in the newspapers. I don't know how many organisations how concentrated themselves in those former private hotels and house for rent for the summer session, at least some people in Dalmatia, who are in the tourist industry, got their money this year (for the rest it was again one of the worst tourist summer of the century again, only not in Istra, there the tourist machine was working again). Or what is going on down there in Citluk, don't worry, this Citluk lays near to Mostar and not in north-west central Bosnia or in Croatia near Knin (and probably there are a few more Citluk's). The group from Terra is still down there and mostly busy to prepare the rebuilding from Ravno. Or shortly what is going on in NeXus, how are they doing, as busy as always. I tried to phone ARK, but they can only phone you, that telephone is always occupied (the word phone is change from "Telephone" to some thing which sound as "brzoglas", what should mean about "fast talker"). And tried to get through to Pakrac, but there was some kind of atmospheric cloud in between Zagreb and there, since I couldn't get through (all telephone traffic goes by radio transmitter to Zagreb). I was listening to the tape made from a radio transmission we made from Skorpija live on the radio in the Netherlands, it sounds if we are sitting on the south pole, or far away in the war zone, didn't knew the line was that bad. By the way, the new word for dog (Pas) is now the Croatian translation of the word "an-animal-with-four-legs-with-runs-around-the-house-and- protect-it" and bike in something like "a-thing-with-two-wheels-between- your-legs", Sanja told me last week on the way back from Pakrac, that that is not real Croatian, just a joke, but I am not sure, after that "brzoglas" thing everything is possible. I also check out some things about Lipik, since the beginning I have heard rumours, that the Lipizaner horses, from the famous Spanish riding school in Vienna are coming from the stables in Lipik. Later some people told me that their were Lipizaners in the stables, but that this is the real breading place of them. In the mean time some body else told me that from Lipik the only real Lipizaner came. And I found now also a travel guide who says the same. The more I found out about that region the more interesting it becomes. My main activity last night, since I was kept awake by my own coughing was thinking about the "financial" future of our Za Mir (For Peace) Transnational Network as we have call our system, with host's in Zagreb and Beograd and the backbone and gateway computer in Bielefeld (at Bionic) in Germany. We build it up during 1 1/2 ago and soon we expand it to the other major systems. But it has cost besides the gifts the peace movement in the both cities a hell of a lot money, everything is relative of course. So maybe we can "sell" our information abroad or so, since I don't see a way yet that people, users, in Croatia, BiH and Serbia are able to finance, as soon as we start to ask for some payment from our users some have to stop using it, there is simply not enough money. Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska, Wam ------------------------------------------------------ "Zagreb Diary" can be found on a lot of different electronic networks, it is copyright free and can be ported to any network or other means of communication you like, but please drop my a line, you can reach by sending a message to wam@zamir-zg.comlink.de . Zagreb Diary is dedicated to Tyche, Pjort and Rik, so that they found out what there father have been doing all that time in Zagreb. Financial support for Grassroot relief work in Croatia or BiH can be send to Kollektief Rampenplan (atn. Lylette, Postbox 780, 6130 AN Sittard, Netherlands, tel:. +31-46-524803 and fax: +31-46-516460 or to Zagrebacka Banka, Zagreb, accountnr.: 2440291594, to Kat, Pieter Jan Herman Fredrik, Brace Domany 6 6fl nr3 (postbox 33), 41000 Zagreb. Please notify me if you send or have send any donations. 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