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You can also get in touch w/ CBS and order the 60 Minutes video tape of date May 12, 1996. Make sure you get the correct format: PAL ? As Ranis says, IAC has a tape, Genocide By Sanctions. It contains the '60 minutes' segment. Web site: www.iacenter.org sandeep Rania Masri > > Dear Eric, > > Here's the quote: > > Leslie Stahl: "We have heard that a half million children have died (as a > result of sanctions against Iraq). I mean, that is more children than died > in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?" > > Madeleine Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we > think the price is worth it." > > -- A CBS Sixty Minutes interview between Leslie Stahl and U.S. Secretary > of State Madeleine Albright, on 12 May 1996 > > As for the video footage, the International Action Center might have it on > tape. Phone: 212.633.6646 > > - Rania Masri > > "In a sense, it is a total war against the past. ... History is being > erased, with no possibility of being recovered." -- Professor John Russell > of the Massachusetts College of Art > > "[Babylon] is where you have ... the first examples of writing, the first > villages, the first wheel, the first boats," says Moyad Said, director of > Baghdad's Iraqi Museum. Yet the 20th century turmoil that now engulfs this > troubled region threatens to destroy Babylon's history forever. > > -------- > Iraq Action Coalition > http://leb.net/IAC/ > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. > To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the > whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html