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1 i i i I I I -A 1 1 I i I- I Is I j- -m i I I Monday August 17 1992 MERCED Cl I UififJC Tonothor TT 1' -v Hmong Times will serve as a liaison to vote through newspaper Sun-Star colabera con registro electoral Sun-Star cosponsors voter registration drive must link current information with guidance from parents leaders and educators in order to sebure a better future for our- selves and our Yang said the California Hmong Times is dedicated to providing local state national and intra-national news In the three languages and welcomes stories and articles that will benefit or entertain readers Love stories informational articles "and letters to the editor can be submitted to the publication by anyone On a bi-monthly basis 10000 copies of the California Hmong Times will be distributed For information call 200-8587 FRESNO The California Hmong Times a Hmong Lao and English multi-lingual newspaper published bi-monthly from the San Joaquin Valley distributed its first 10000 copies throughout California on Augr15 Publisher Lypao Yang said the newspaper will nerve as a liaison for improving the relationship between the Hmong community and others by educating non-Hmong-fipeaking people about the culture religious beliefts and arts of the Hmong we have crane to live in this modern industrial country the daily reading of news is very important to our success and Yang said The Merced Sun-Star in cooperation with El Condlio of Merced County will iponsor Voter Registration Day Aug 19 by inserting postcard voter-registration forms in selected issues of the Merced $un-Star the Livingston Chronicle and the Wednesday Sun The inserts can be used by readers to register to vote directly by mail with the Office of the Secretary of State in Sacramento The postcard registration ales de registro electoral se dirigen sobre todo hacia loa que viven en elnuevo districto de supervisor en Merced County District No 1 Pero si llene un cupoh cualquier lector puede pedir a los periodi-cos que le manden una tarjeta' de registro electoral a su casa Entonces coja su ejemplar del Merced Sun-Star el Livingston Chronicle el Wednesday Sun el dia Aug 19 registrese para votar inserts are targeted toward residents of the newly created Supervisors District No 1 in Merced County but anybody can register through the newspapers that day by simply filling out a request coupon to have a postcard registration form sent directly to their home So pick up your copy of the Merced Sun-Star the Livingston Chronicle or the Wednesday Sun on Aug 19 and register to vote El Merced Sun-Star en co-laberadon con El Condlio de Merced County presentara el Dia de Registro Electoral Aug 19 con la introducdon de una tarjetq postal de registro de votante en dertas ejem-plares del Merced Sun-Star el Livingston Chronicle el Wednesday Sun Los lectores podran regis-trarse enviar las tarjetas por el correo directamente al Secretario del Estado en Sacramento Las tarjetas post Macedonia denied recognition because of name standoff want to get out to the Aegean' says Savas Lavasas executive secretary of the New York-based organization Hie State Department says the United States will support any solution that is acceptable to the EC Greece and Macedonia is an ally and says State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwil-er take seriously concerns regarding its "What is most unfair" Acevska tells National Geographic that Macedonia meets all EC requirements for international recognition We achieved independence peaceably At the request we amended our own constitution stating that we have no territorial ambitions not like Macedonia has started a war unrealistic to think that we could invade Greece is larger more powerful a member of NATO underdeveloped Just forming our own army We have any is employing bully tactics a terrible precedent to set one country imposing a name on says Janusz Bugajski an expert on Eastern Europe at the Goiter for Strategic and International Studies in Washington or later the EC position is going to have to soften This limbo state is potentially very dangerous" new nation that is landlocked and multi-ethnic Greece is concerned that the fighting in former Yugoslavia might spill over to the When largely agricultural Macedonia split from the rest of Yugoslavia last fall it became completely landlocked The nearest and best port is the Greek Mace- donian port of Thessaloniki (Sa-lonica) on the Aegean Sea Greece which oppose an independent nation by any other name officially refers to its northern neighbor as the Republic of Skopje the name of capital should they be so adamant if changing their name would give them a future? They should say in a Papaconstantinou says Prime Minister Constantine Mit-sotakis has offered to open Thessaloniki to Macedonian trade after the name change A non-recognized nation cannot receive international economic aid name is a time bomb! Mr President (Bush) you can defuse read a recent foil-page advertisement in the New York Times The ad was placed by the Pan-Macedonian Association of the United States and Canada an organization of people of Greek descent Macedonians have no right to touch this name They want the name because they By JOY ASCHENBACI1 National Geographic It happen to any of the others not Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Moldova Uzbekistan Croatia Slovenia or Bosnia and Herzegovina Macedonia alone among all the world's newly emerged nations has been denied international recognition because of its name Poorest and most overlooked of the six former Yugoslavian republics the now independent nation of Macedonia has been thrust into international headlines because neighboring Greece says Macedonia has stolen a name identified since antiquity with such renowned Great Macedonians as Aristotle and Alexander the Great In late June the 12-nation European Community (EC) backed member insistence on a name change by declaring that it is ready to recognize the hew country but only a name which does not include the term The Macedonian parliament not yet a year old immediately rejected the decision Mamed national government for the EC demand and handed it a vote of no confidence On July 7 the fledgling Macedonian government fell President Kiro Gligorov had to reconstitute it take away my name you take away my says Ljubi-ca Acevska US representative of the Republic of Macedonia paraphrasing Both Yugoslav and Greek Macedonians are extremely passionate about the name Macedonia After the bloody Balkan wars of 1912-13 the large geographic region of Macedonia whose history has been complex for centuries was partitioned among Greece Serbia (later to become part of Yugoslavia) and Bulgaria Greece got more than AT LAMrphoto Largely agricultural Macedonia stands alone as the only newly emerged nation that has been denied international recognition because of its name Greece says the former Yugoslav republic has stolen a name that has been Greek for centuries areas of old Macedonia is not says Papaconstantinou a Greek Macedonian potential for instability exists in a national security and the stability of the Balkan Peninsula says Nicolaos Papaconstantinou press counselor at the Greek Embassy in Washington Having a nation named Macedonia he contends may lead to a resurgence of grand communist expansionist plan to create a by reuniting the Slavic and Greek half have always considered ourselves Macedonians even before 1946 It is the identity of the Acevska says in her Washington office sofcthenimost republic was for-miliy pamed Macedonia when Marshal Tito formed the modern Yugoslav state in 1946 Macedonians who predominate among the new 2 million people are of Slavic origin and have inhabited the region since the seventh century Hie country is an ethnic mix of Albanians (21 percent) Turks and Gypsies To Greeks the name Macedonia was is and always will be Greek But Macedonia is more than a name: a threat to Even More Big Portraits I If you've experienced a disabling injury or illness or know someone who has you may not know that the quickest way to recovery is to get active right away We understand this and we've designed a whole hospital to help you meet the challenge With all the guidance and caring our specially-trained staff can provide Our team includes a physician trained in physical medicine and rehabilitation and a group of therapists and nurses from many disciplines working together with the patient's doctor to see that recovery is as full and as quick as possible To leant more about our services call 436-360Q for a free evaluation Because when it comes to patients who need our special kind of care we step right up and help urryLJhis Weeki OntytA LA UJhese locations San Joaquin Valley Rehabilitation Hospital Creating Tomorrow's Potential Today 7173 Sharon Avenue Fresno CA 93720 209-436-3600 5 DAYS ONLYI WED AUQ 19-SUN AUQ 23 ALL AREA Kmarts: Wed-Sat 10 AMT PM On Sunday From Store Opening to One Hour Before Closing MERCED ATWATER LOS BANOS tjas Imuwwinl.