The Weekly Telegraph No. 579, August 28-September 3, 2002:
1. Field yields Roman ruins - A mosaic in mint condition has been uncovered by archaeologists at the most important dig of its kind since Fishbourne, reports Catherine Milner. It lies beneath a Wiltshire football pitch.

2. U.S. condemns Mugabe's madness - More examples proliferate.

3. Lionesses don't prefer blonds - in the mane By Roger Highfield Science Editor:
LIONS with the longest, darkest manes suffer from the heat more than their blonder or less shaggy peers but they do better in the hunts for mates. Scientists have found that the lion's mane works much like the peacock's tail; it tells females - and rivals - about a male's health and fitness.

4. Bronze Age had brain surgeons By Roger Highfield:
A BRONZE Age skull discovered on the banks of the Thames may have belonged to one of the first Londoners to have major brain surgery, archaeologists say. They were intrigued by an irregular hole in the man's skull, measuring approximately 1 3/4 by 1 1/4 in. the lack of fractures around the opening ruled out a blow with a blunt instrument. Instead, the bevelled edge suggests that the man had undergone a primitive operation called trepanation. The skull was found on the foreshore at Chelsea by Fiona Houghey of the Institute of Archaeology. Radiocarbon dating placed the skull between 1750 and 1610 BC, the middle of the Bronze Age, so the operation took place nearly 4,000 years ago. Trepanning is probably the oldest form of surgery we know," said Dr. Simon Mays of English Heritage. Chelsea Man would have undergone the operation willingly - the ancients thought that trepanation could cure headaches and migraines. Some imagined that evil spirits caused epilepsy or mental illness and that a hole would allow them to escape. Trepanning would have been done with a scraping tool, probably a flint, using care to avoid piercing the brain. The pain must have been intense, possibly relieved by alcohol or herbal narcotics.

5. Unearthed, the prince of Stonehenge By Roger Highfield:
A PREHISTORIC prince with gold earrings has been found near Stonehenge a few yards from the richest early Bronze age burial in Britain. Earlier this year archaeologists found an aristocratic warrior, also with gold earrings, on Salisbury Plain and speculated he may have been an ancient king of Stonehenge. The body was laid to rest 4,300 years ago during the construction of the monument, along with stone arrow heads and slate wristguards that protected the arm from the recoil of the bow. Archaeologists named him the Amesbury Archer. Now they have found another skeleton from the same period five yards away. The remains are those of a man aged 25 to 30, buried in the same posture, on his left side with his face to the north and legs bent. His grave was bare, containing only the sharpened tusk of a boar, but contained the basket shaped ear-rings. The man may have been the archer's son, the prince of Stonehenge, said Dr. Andrew Fitzpatrick, who led the dig by Wessex Archaeology. DNA testing on their teeth will be carried out to find out if the two bodies are part of the same family. Around 100 artifacts were found in the archer's grave - 10 times as many as at graves from a similar period elsewhere in Britain. The grave is dated to about 2300 BC.

6. Honey is the bee's knees: HONEY may be as good at fighting heart disease as some fruits and vegetables, researchers say. A study of 25 men aged 18 to 68 found that drinking honey and water improved the levels of blood antioxidants, which help to prevent narrowing of the arteries. Honey contains about the same amount of antioxidants as spinach. The range of antioxidants was said to be comparable to those in apples, bananas and oranges.

The Toronto Globe and Mail August 31, 2002 - Obituary: Bill Wassmuth led fight against Aryan Nations
Spokane, Wash. Bill Wassmuth, a former Roman Catholic priest who became a leader in the fight against Aryan Nations and other U.S. hate groups, died Tuesday of Lou Gehrigs disease. He was 61. ... AP

The Toronto Globe and Mail September 2, 2002 - Obituary: Edwin Louis Cole - The man behind the Promise Keepers -
Southlake, Texas. Edwin Louis Cole, considered the father of the Christian men's movement that spawned Promise Keepers gatherings, died Aug. 27 of marrow cancer. He was 79 ... AP

The Weekly Telegraph No. 580, September 4-10, 2002: 2 related articles:
1. Chief Rabbi says he is not a critic of Israel By Alan Philps in Jerusalem: BRITAIN'S Chief Rabbi, Dr. Jonathan Sacks, has told of his regret for "sensationalist headlines" he caused with comments about Israel last week. Dr. Sacks provoked outrage in the Jewish community when he was reported in the Guardian criticising Israel's actions. He claimed the conflict with the Palestinians was "corrupting" society and that the country had got itself in a position "incompatible" with the Jewish faith. But in a letter to his counterpart in Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Lau, he claimed he was the victim of sensationalism. In the note Dr. Sacks said: "As anyone who has read the Guardian interview in full will see, it contains a strong defence of Israel, the strongest that this paper has printed. I deeply regret that sensationalist headlines have been used to portray me as a critic of Israel. I am not. Israel's cause is a moral one.
The above clipping ends with reference to "Outrage: Page 22":

2. Outrage at Chief Rabbi's attack on Israeli policy By Jonathan Petre and Sandra Laville: This is a four-column article, accompanied by a two-column illustrated insert bearing a portrait of Dr. Sacks. The article begins: "BRITAIN'S Chief Rabbi, Dr. Jonathan Sacks, caused outrage in Israel and angered sections of the British Jewish community last week by making veiled criticism of the Sharon government's policies towards the Palestinians. Dr. Sacks, who has consistently defended Israel's right to wage a legitimate "war on terror" against Palestinian militants, questioned whether the conflict was compatible with the ideals of Judaism. Although his interview in the Guardian contained a strong defence of Israel, he said the continuous fighting was corrupting Israeli culture. He also suggested that he would be prepared to hold talks with Islamic fundamentalists who have equated Jews with Satan if it would promote understanding. ... .

The Globe and Mail, September 6, 2002: [A four column article by Dawn Walton, Calgary was headed "Teen who fought transfusions dies - Jehovah's Witness, 17, sought right to make her own decisions in leukemia treatment"]
The 4-column article begins: "Bethany Abigail Hughes, the Calgary teenager whose fight against government-imposed blood transfusions landed her in court and divided her family, died yesterday after a seven-month battle with leukemia. She was 17. ... Of all the labels that defined her, she probably would have preferred legal crusader for children's rights. A few days before she died, she said she hoped her case - about the right to choose treatment - would help prevent other young women from enduring what she had gone through: about 38 blood transfusions but no decent prospect for recovery, and being bounced from court date to court date as well. 'The case caught the attention of the Canadian public on a very sensitive issue,' said Shane Brady, lawyer for Ms. Hughes's mother. 'As time went on and as Bethany continued to express herself in the same way, many people realized they may not have agreed with the choice, but nevertheless realized that it's her choice - and it should be respected.' After seeking medical attention for flu-like symptoms, the grade 11 student, originally from Belleville, Ont., was diagnosed in February with acute myeloid leukemia. Prescribed treatment included chemotherapy and blood transfusions. Her refusal to accept blood products was backed by her mother, Arliss Hughes, her sisters Athalia Larson and Cassandra Hughes, and by their church. The Jehovah's Witness faith prohibits blood transfusions. The Alberta government argued successfully in several courts that Ms. Hughes was not mature enough to make decisions about treatment. Lawrence Hughes, her father, agreed, and was shunned by his church and his family. ... [Summary: the blood transfusions were eventually deemed ineffective treatment and they did not save her life.]

The Weekly Telegraph No. 581, September 11-17, 2002 carried a well presented article by Boris Johnson, headed "If it's war on Saddam, why not on Mugabe? - 'The grim reality is that America is even less popular around the world than it was before September 11'" The heading sums it up.

The Toronto Globe and Mail September 14, 2002 carried a six-column article headed "No longer haunted by the past" which contains an "interview with Evelyn (Gouzenko) Wilson.
She watched the man on TV with the bag over his head talk about his defection from Russia without knowing it was her father, Igor Gouzenko. It wasn't until she was 16 that she learned the truth. Now, in an exclusive interview, the grandmother talks to Doug Saunders about her family's secret." The article will doubtless interest all who remember the times, and have read his autobiography.

The Weekly Telegraph No. 582, Sept. 18-24, 2002:
1. Obituary of Lt-Col Uziel Gal, the Israeli who has died at 78. He invented simple, robust and inexpensive weapons that outperformed others under desert conditions. The "Uzi" is used by military and police forces around the world. (also in Toronto Globe and Mail September 16, 2002)

2. Obituary of Baroness Young, the First Woman to lead the House of Lords who later campaigned against the repeal of section 28. Baroness Young, who has died aged 75, became the first woman to lead the House of Lords, but achieved national prominence as a champion of traditional Christian values when she led the opposition to the repeal of section 28 of the Local Government Act. The steady advance of the homosexual lobby seemed unstoppable when the newly-elected Blair Government announced its intention of removing the legislation which barred promotion of homosexuality in English and Welsh schools. But in alliance with Cardinal Winning in Scotland, she rallied to her side a formidable body of sympathisers in the Lords; she did this by her forthright speeches, and by mounting an exhibition, at the Houses of Parliament, of publicly funded "pro-gay" literature aimed at young people. In interviews with the media, she denied that homosexuality and heterosexuality were morally equivalent, insisting that the Christian family was an essential bedrock for any well-regulated society.
While the Scottish Executive forced through its bill, though with some compromise, the Government's managers at Westminster realised that they would have an easier time in the approaching 2001 general election if they shelved their amendment to section 28 after it was defeated for the second time in the Lords.
A don's daughter, Lady Young was born Janet Mary Baker on October 23, 1926. She was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford. She then went on to Headington School, Oxford, before being evacuated during the Second World War to America, where she was sent to Mount Holyoke College at New Haven, Connecticut, for a year. On returning to Oxford she was accepted at St. Anne's College to read PPE and, in 1950, married Geoffrey Young, who was to become a Fellow of Jesus College and the father of their three daughters. She became a member of Oxford City Council, rising to become Tory group leader. In 1971, a year after Edward Heath became prime minister, she was invited to become a member of the House of Lords. Lady Young was appointed a junior whip in 1972, and in 1973 a parliamentary under-secretary at the Department of the Environment. Later she was vice-chairman and then deputy chairman of the Tory Party. After arriving in Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher duly appointed Lady Young Education Minister. In 1981 she was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and leader of the Lords; in 1982, she became Lord Privy Seal. Once the Falklands war was over, and the 1983 election had passed, Lady Young had to make way for William Whitelaw; she went on to become deputy Foreign secretary and retired from the Government in 1987. Lady Young took up the cause of Christian morality while most Tories were still reeling from the enormity of their defeat in 1997. Her efforts were recognised last year by the Spectator Parliamentarian Award, the Channel 4 Peer of the Year Award, and the Max Beloff Award.

The Globe and Mail Sept. 17, 2002:
1. U.S. walks a fine line to make prisoners talk - Interrogation teams allowed to 'fear-up' terror suspects, but beating them is not OK. By Doug Saunders. You can make him shake with fear, glow with pride or weep with exhaustion. You can deprive him of sleep for days, threaten the lives of family members or offer false promises of freedom and safety. You can tell the most outrageous lies and make the most terrifying threats. But don't call it torture. If you're an American interrogator facing a terrorism suspect - such as the U.S. agents who interrogated al Qaeda suspect Ramzi Binalshibh after his cature in Karachi, Pakistan - you must walk a fine legal line that allows you to stop just short of torture. In practice that line is hard to define, allowing the Americans to engage in a range of questionable practices. At a training camp in Arizona, interrogators (now known as "human intelligence collectors") are trained in methods that stop just short of a Geneva Conventions proscription against degrading methods. And a small but outspoken group of Americans are lobbying to have torture permitted under certain circumstances. ... [The six-column article continues with more details such as the issuance of false reports that captives have talked.]

2. "Massacre a distant memory" heads an illustrated article by Scheherezade Faramarzi in Beirut, about the massacres, twenty years ago, in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon.

3. Obituary: Claude Saint-Cyr - Hatmaker to the Queen fit coronation crown.
Paris. A favourite milliner of many of Europe's crowned heads, including the Queen, has died. Claude Saint-Cyr, whose real name was Simone Naudet, worked with the Queen's couturier in the 1950s and helped her choose the right hats to complement every outfit for official and ceremonial occasions. She was accorded the rare privilege of attending fittings at Buckingham Palace. Ms. Saint-Cyr, who died Sept 3 at age 81, also solved the problem of making the cumbersome crown of William the Conqueror fit on the head of the young Elizabeth. "She lined it with a velvet cushion which made it comfortable but was totally invisible," Jacqueline Dermornex recalled in the French fashion reference work, Dictionary of Fashion in the 20th Century. AP

The Globe and Mail, 18 Sept. 2002 Editorial: "Pyramid-power failure" [Summary: The attempt to probe beyond the small door up the little passageway in the great Pyramid was only able to pierce through one door to see another beyond.] The Weekly Telegraph No. 584, Oct. 2-8, 2002 covered the same subject in a well-illustrated five-column article. The same Weekly Telegraph, alongside this article held a column headed "Iron Age jetty makes Poole the 'oldest port'", notes radio-carbon dating to 250 BC for this large and active port, an access for "wine, spices and olives."

The Globe and Mail, 19 Sept. 2002 Gay issue threatens to fragment Anglicans By Michael Valpy Religion and ethics Editor heads a 4-colums illustrated article on the subject. Sub-heading quotes "...To be further divided by the issue of homosexual behaviour would be the ultimate sexualization of the Church, making sexuality more powerful, or more claiming of our attention, than God."

The Globe and Mail, 21 Sept. 2002 displays in colour the Rubens painting "Massacre of the Innocents" recently purchased by Canadian collector Ken Thomson for $117-million.

The Weekly Telegraph No. 582, Sept 18-24, 2002:
1. "New world leader" A short illustrated column states "THE Salvation Army has elected Commissioner John Larsson (above) as its new world leader and 17th General. Commissioner Larsson, 64, is currently second in command to General John Cowans, whom he will succeed in November.

2. First-strike precedent 'set in 1981 nuclear plant attack' headed a four-column illustrated article by David Rennie in Washington
[Summary: The Bush administration outlines its new doctrine of pre-emptive action against Saddam Hussein. As precedent for such action they are looking at the 1981 Israeli strike against a nuclear complex near Baghdad.]

3. "Milosevic trial fails to land fatal blow" heads a three column article by Neil Tweedie and Alex Todorovic in Belgrade

4. "Rock celebrates with message of defiance to Madrid and London" by Colin Randall in Gibraltar. [Summary: The Gibraltar saga continues.]

5. A full page containing several articles concerning conditions in Zimbabwe which relate the ongoing stress and strife in that land, where a former High Court judge can be manacled and held, and a frightened white Zimbabwean woman living in Britain says the government is not giving enough help.

6. Russians find Iron Age tomb: Russian archaeologists have found the tomb of a girl dating from about 2400 BC in the southern Urals, the Interfax news agency said on Sunday. She was buried in a wedding dress and with about 50 items of priceless jewellery. - AFP

7. Paraplegic Reeve's 'remarkable recovery' by Hugh Davies: THE Superman actor Christopher Reeve, a paraplegic since falling off a horse seven years ago, has made a slight but remarkable recovery and is able to wriggle some of his toes as well as the fingers on his left hand... [A two-column illustrated article celebrates this hopeful development.]

8. "Proud Harry vows to keep alive Diana's charity work" heads a front-page illustrated article, marking his 18th birthday.

The Globe and Mail, Sept. 20, 2002:
1. "Book describes Allies' germ warfare program - Britain, Canada, U.S. did tests in 40's, 50's" by Doug Alexander, LONDON -
Iraq's efforts to develop chemical and biological weapons have made the headlines lately, but it is lesser known that Britain, the United States and Canada collaborated to develop an extremely significant germ warfare program in the 1940's and 1950's...Special to the Globe and Mail.

[Summary: The four-column illustrated article develops the topic further, mentioning the book title and author: Britain and Biological Warfare, by Brian Balmer, based on recently declassified British documents, and also a 1989 book on the same theme, Deadly Allies - Canada's Secret War 1937-1947 (ISBN 0-7710-1726-X - Ed.), by John Bryden.]

COMMENT: It is often overlooked that, in 1920, the British were the first to use poison gas on the people of Iraq! Those interested to find out more should use the Internet for a Google search using the key words "British Gas Iraq".

2. UN to probe mass graves in Afghanistan
United Nations. The UN will investigate alleged war crimes and mass graves in Afghanistan, where many people died under suspicious circumstances, a top UN official said yesterday. Up to 1,000 Taliban or al-Qaeda fighters reportedly suffocated in airless container trucks after surrendering to Northern Alliance forces under Uzbek warlord general Abdul Rashid Dostum late last year. Gen. Dostum denies deliberately killing prisoners. Reuters

3. Obituary - Kenneth Hare, 1919-2002, University of Toronto scientist was Canada's leading authority on global warming.

4. Obituary - John Harper - Minister preached to 8 U.S. Presidents Washington. The Rev. John Harper, (was) for 30 years the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square across from the White House. NYT

Science, Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vol. 297, 23 August, 2002, No. 5585, p. 1243, under NetWatch, edited by Mitch Leslie, notes that the British Archaeology Data service (ADS) [ads.ahds.ac.uk] has catalogued thousands of records of sites throughout the country with a huge database on excavations, artifacts and archives.

Science, Vol. 297, 6 Sept. 2002, No. 5587, p. 1615 under NetWatch, edited by Mitch Leslie, carried an item on modern, but underused, methods of radar imaging, electrical resistivity and magnetic measurements, used to show buried archaeological foundations of buildings and artifacts.

Page 162 of the same journal, under ScienceScope has a column headed "Anthropologists Win on Kennewick" -
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government must allow scientists to study the bones of Kennewick Man, and ancient skeleton unearthed on the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. The 30 August decision marks a clear victory for a team of eight anthropologists who have fought to gain access to the 9300-year-old skeleton, arguing that it could offer new clues to how people first arrived in America. But the ruling might not end the 6-year legal tussle, as the Justice Department can still appeal the decision. Kennewick Man, known as "the ancient One" to Native Americans, was discovered in 1996. The 380 bones and bone fragments compose one of the most nearly complete sets of ancient remains ever found in North America. Government researchers completed an initial analysis of the skeleton in 1998. But it was placed out of scientific bounds 2-years ago, when then-Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt ruled that a 1990 law called the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act required the skeleton to be given to the five modern Native American tribes that claimed him as an ancestor and sought to have him reburied (Science, 29 September 2000, p. 2257).

In his 73-page ruling, U.S. Magistrate John Jelderks of Portland, Oregon, called Babbitt's decision "arbitrary and capricious." After reviewing some 22,000 pages of documents, Jelderks ruled that there was insufficient evidence to link the skeleton to any modern tribe... . [Further opinions followed.]

COMMENT: The fight is of more than passing interest because a contrary decision would set a precedent to prevent study of any future archaeological remains (which might, if studied, support contrary views regarding other races that might rightly hold an original claim to continental lands and resources)!

Legion Magazine (Royal Canadian Legion) September/October 2002, p. 62, "Flag From Vimy Ridge Coming To Canada" displays a coloured photograph of The Red Ensign that was flown at Vimy Ridge in 1917. It features a shield with the coats of arms of Canada's four founding provinces.

The Weekly Telegraph No. 583, Sept. 25 - Oct. 1, 2002:
1. "The countryside cries freedom"- On Sunday 22 Sept. 407,790 people marched in London to support the rights of small-town and country interests.

2. Heading "Priest 'admitted being IRA bomber'" by Ted Oliver and Jonathan Petre - A priest, who died in 1980, is alleged to have admitted being involved in a bombing in Claudy Village, Northern Ireland, in 1972, in which nine civilians were killed.

3. "Palestinian mob sets fire to Jewish site" heads an account of the torching of Joseph's Tomb on 16 Sept. by a Palestinian mob.

4. "Britain 'can never leave the EU' by Ambrose Evans Prichard, Brussels" According to new proposals in Brussels, Britain will be locked into the EU.

5. "Carey stand on gays widens church split" by Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent - The heading conveys the substance of the article.

Time Magazine, 30 September, 2002 - front cover pictured the Patriarch with the announcement "Abraham - Muslims, Christians and Jews all claim him as their father. A new book explores the challenge of turning him into their peacemaker." A well-illustrated 9-page article noted that he had eight sons, - which might be news to many who only think "Jew" when they hear his name. Arabs claim descent from him through Ishmael.

The Globe and Mail 27 Sept. 2002 displays a photograph and article by Stephen Cunningham, LONDON, covering the presentation of an honorary knighthood to U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, by The Queen.
The Weekly Telegraph, No. 584, Oct. 2-8 2002 covered the same event.

The same Weekly Telegraph carried an article "Forest skulls clue to 30,000 Stalin victims" (which was also covered by The Globe and Mail of Sept. 28 2002).
The Telegraph article, by Ben Aris in St. Petersburg notes "MORE than 60 years after the bloodiest purges of Stalin's rule, Russian human-rights campaigners, a group called Memorial, are uncovering evidence that may at last prove what locals have long believed: that a forest outside St. Petersburg is a huge mass grave." Beginning 6 years ago, they have concentrated on a 3-mile square of forest near the Rzhevsky artillery range. Records show that more than 60,000 residents of St. Petersburg, then know as Leningrad, were shot during the Stalin years... .

The same issue of The Telegraph carried the Obituary of Lady Margaret Barry who has died at 99. She was born Margaret Pleydell-Bouverie on June 26, 1903, the seventh of the 10 children of the 6th Earl of Radnor in Wiltshire, and after marrying Gerald Barry they emigrated to Rhodesia, becoming one of the hardy settlers of that nation. Eventually developing a 2,500-acre farm she ran a clinic there. With World War II, her husband was directed to train a newly-formed Rhodesian battalion attached to the Black Watch. With peace, they returned to Rhodesia. She was elected to the national executive of the Southern Rhodesian Women's Institutes and became secretary of its native affairs' committee. In 1950 she was elected national chairman of the Southern Rhodesian Federation of WIs. She is survived by a son and four daughters.

Both the Telegraph and The Globe and Mail of Sept. 28 carried illustrated articles on a noteworthy Victorian masterpiece, Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, by John William Waterhouse; a painting lost for over a century, but re-discovered in a dilapidated Canadian farmhouse. Its value is estimated at £3-million. It is to be auctioned on 27 November at Christie's in London.

The Weekly Telegraph, No. 584, Oct. 2-8 2002 also carried:
1. Afghan opium crop soars - OPIUM cultivation in Afghanistan, once the world's biggest producer, has increased by more than 2,000 tons since the Taliban were driven from power, according to a report by the British charity DrugScope. It said the boom in poppy production, banned by the Taliban, highlighted the urgent need to rebuild the country's infrastructure and wean farmers off the lucrative crop.

2. Terror ruling - Larry Silverstein, the New York property magnate, suffered a further setback in his bid to win insurance claims for both World Trade Centre towers when a New York judge ruled that the attacks were one event and not two. (The Globe and Mail 26 Sept. held a similar account.)

3. Charity workers murdered - SEVEN Christian charity workers were murdered in Pakistan last week by gunmen who raided their office... . (The Globe and Mail 26 Sept. 2002 carried a 6-column illustrated parallel account.)

4. Obituary - John CP Constable. Aged 73. Artist, teacher and campaigner for the preservation for the countryside along the river Stour in East Anglia - country which was immortalised by his great-great-grandfather, the landscape painter John Constable.

5. De la Rue gloom - DE LA RUE, the biggest non-government maker of banknotes, has issued its second profit warning in two months and said it was closing a factory at High Wycombe, Bucks, which employs 350.

The Globe and Mail, 28 Sept. 2002 - "The Bible tells us so - or does it?"
headed a six-column illustrated article, sub-titled thus: Archeologists, historians and others are debating whether people and places in the Old Testament - King David, for instance, or Israel itself - actually existed. Michael Posner, reports, there's a lot riding on the answers. It begins: "Did The Bible's King David - powerful Judean progenitor of the House of David, from whom Jesus and Queen Elizabeth II are said to descend - actually exist?"

[Summary points: Scholars divide into "minimalist" debunkers and "maximalist" defenders. "Centrists" occupy middle ground. "The various sides are sharpening their lances for the forthcoming Bible and Archeology Fest, to be held in Toronto, Nov. 22-24, and featuring scholars from the Sorbonne, Cornell, Hebrew University, Berkeley and Notre Dame among others." A fictional finding means - "the foundation of modern Israel's claim to its status as the Holy Land would be under threat."

"In 1993, a fragment of a monument found at Tel Dan, site of the ancient Israelite city, mentions David and the House of David in Aramaic. Dating to about 100 years after David's death, its discovery marked the first time his name had been found outside the Bible, and it was apparently inscribed by an enemy of his descendants. A Moabite stone found two years earlier contained another reference to the House of David."

"As early as 13 centuries before the birth of Jesus, and 200 years before the birth of David, according to a stele now parked in the Cairo Museum, pharaoah Menapteh boasts of his armies' conquest of Israel. 'Israel is laid waste ... his seed is no more," the inscription reads."]

COMMENT: Recent revelation of the Ossuary of "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" fractured in transit, will doubtless form an added highlight.

A short independent article by The Editor conveys his observations on some possible time-related prophetic links which, at one point, concern this Ossuary. It can be accessed at this point, if desired: "Exodus Times four?"

The Globe and Mail Sept. 30, 2002 carried an excellent article headed "Blessed are the new Bible translations ... Not!" by Ian Hunter which extols the Authorised Version, and decries the modern (since 1970) attempts to create newer substitutes like Today's New International Version (TNIV) "designed to replace the already banal and dumbed-down New International Version (NIV)." Sample verses compare the AV and the TNIV, amply justifying the heading.

The Globe and Mail, Oct. 1, 2002: "U.S. germs fuelled Iraqi bioweapons, records show." [Summary: The U.S., two decades ago, helped Iraq to establish its bioweapons programme. "The transfers came in the 1980's when the United States supported Iraq in its war against Iran.]