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[Nogradi Judit]

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Tárgy: 
Dátum: 2001. július 1. 5:45


> Dear friends, beste vrienden/innen
>  
> Please read and sign the following important petition. If, for some reason,
> you cannot sign it, please send it back to me. This is a real petition and
> should not be simply deleted. Thank you. Ans
>  
>  
> Subject: Petition
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Subject:     Petition to the United Nations Background 
> Information
> 
> 
> 
> If you decide not to forward this, please send it back to me. This is
> 
> an actual petition, and "signatures" will be lost if you drop the 
> line.
> 
> 
> 
> Please take 3 minutes out of your life to do your part. And be sure 
> to
> 
> include other members of your household who are willing to sign. 
> Oprah
> 
> recently had a show about this atrocity and it was heartbreaking.
> 
> 
> 
> Petition to the United Nations Background Information:
> 
> 
> 
> Madhu, the government of Afghanistan, is waging a war upon women.
> 
> 
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> Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and 
> have
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> been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even 
> if
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> this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. 
> One
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> woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for
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> accidentally exposing her arm(!) while she was driving. Another was 
> stoned
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> to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a 
> relative.
> 
> 
> 
> Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male
> 
> relative; professional women such as professors, translators, 
> doctors,
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> lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and 
> restricted
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> to their homes. Homes where a woman is present must have their 
> windows
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> painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear 
> silent
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> shoes so that they are never heard.
> 
> 
> 
> Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest 
> misbehavior.  Because
> 
> they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either
> 
> starving to death or begging in the street, even if they hold
> 
> Ph.D.'s. Depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached 
> emergency
> 
> levels.
> 
> 
> 
> There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know 
> the  suicide rate
> 
> with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide 
> rate
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> among women must be extraordinarily high:  those who cannot find 
> proper
> 
> medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take 
> their
> 
> lives than live in such conditions. At one of the rare hospitals for 
> women,
> 
> a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on top 
> of
> 
> beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, 
> but
> 
> slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in 
> corners,
> 
> perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear.
> 
> 
> 
> It is at the point where the term "human rights violations" has
> 
> become an understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death 
> over
> 
> their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just 
> as
> 
> much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch 
> of
> 
> flesh or offending them in the slightest way. Women enjoyed relative
> 
> freedom: to work, to dress generally as they wanted, and to drive and 
> appear
> 
> in public alone until only 1996. The rapidity of this transition is the 
> main
> 
> reason for the depression and suicide; Women who were once educators 
> or
> 
> doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely 
> restricted
> 
> and treated as subhuman in the name of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. 
> It
> 
> is not their tradition or 'culture,' but it is alien to them, and it 
> is
> 
> extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule. 
> Everyone
> 
> has a right
> 
> to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women in a Muslim 
> country.
> 
> If we can threaten military force in Kosovo the name of human rights for 
> the
> 
> sake of ethnic Albanians, citizens of the world can certainly express
> 
> peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice committed 
> against
> 
> women by the Taliban.
> 
> 
> 
> STATEMENT: In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of
> 
> women in Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves action by 
> the
> 
> United Nations and that the current situation overseas will not be
> 
> tolerated.  Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere, and it 
> is
> 
> UNACCEPTABLE for women in 2001 to be treated as subhuman and as so 
> much
> 
> property. Equality and human decency is a fundamental RIGHT, not a 
> freedom
> 
> to be granted, whether one lives in  Afghanistan or 
> elsewhere.
> 
> 
> 
> 1) Giuliana D. Black, Daly City, CA, USA
> 
> 2) Mariam Nayiny, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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> 3) Sunaina Gulati-Ruh, Palo Alto, CA USA
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> 4) Megan McCaslin, Palo Alto, CA USA
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> 5) Blake Hallanan, San Francisco, Ca. USA
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> 6) Kit Henderson, Sacramento, CA USA
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> 7) Kara Myers, San Francisco, CA
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> 8) Ellen Tilden, San Francisco, CA
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> 9) Vanessa Ross, San Francisco, CA
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> 10) Jenna Shaw-Battista, San Francisco, CA
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> 11) Jeanne Racik, B!erkeley, CA
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> 12) Julie Silas,Oakland, CA
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> 13) Renee Longstreet, Tarzana, CA
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> 14) Susan Johnson,Encino, CA
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> 15) Kenneth Johnson, Encino, CA
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> 16) Terri Treas, Los Angeles, CA
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> 17) Amy Retzinger, North Hollywood, CA
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> 18) Babette Crooms, Los Angeles, CA
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> 19) Olivia Kienzel; Santa Barbara, CA
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> 20) Sean Dexheimer, Los Angeles, CA
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> 21) Elio Chavez, Jr., Pasadena, CA
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> 22) Gregory Kastigar, Los Angeles, CA
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> 23) Robert Collie, Los Angeles, CA
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> 24) Jeff Garvin,Brea, CA
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> 25) Tricia Allen, Sherman Oaks, CA
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> 26) Joleen Nordstrom ~ Hollywood, CA
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> 27) Theresa Donahoe - Martinez,CA
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> 28) Jennifer Horn - Concord, CA
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> 29) Roxanne Ryan - Alamo, CA
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> 30) Miriam Tyler- San Jose CA
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> 31) John Burns- San Jose CA
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> 32) Kristin Lynn Minick- Fort Worth TX
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> 33) Jeff Neal- Marietta, GA
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> 34) Anna Neal- Marietta, GA
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> 35) Frances Murley-Fort Worth, TX
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> 36) David Murley-London, England, UK
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> 37) Jillian Dykhouse, Colleyville, TX
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> 38) Bonnie Dykhouse,Colleyville,TX
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> 39) Nancy Williams, Colleyville, TX
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> 40) Georgene Farr, Sterling Heights, MI
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> 41) Joanne Arensberg, Riverview, MI
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> 42) Luann Ouellette, Vermillion, SD
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> 43) Sandie Sullivan, Vermillion, SD
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> 44) Troy Nelson, Minneapolis, MN USA
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> 45) Joseph Miller, Minneapolis, MN USA
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> 46) Kathleen Miller, White Bear Lake, MN USA
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> 47)Jerry Marquis, Mpls. Mn. USA
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> 48) Julie Stokes, Coon Rapids, MN USA
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> 49) Tracy Ford, Blaine, MN USA
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> 50) Sheila Lawrence, Monticello, MN USA
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> 51) Brenda Kitchen, Westlake Village, Calif!ornia,USA
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> 52) Teresa Burke, Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
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> 53) Bruce Ehrlich, Sherman Oaks, CA USA
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> 54) Yllania Francis, Los Angeles, CA USA
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> 55) Drew Hedin, Los Angeles, CA USA
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> 56) Laura Paridon, Laguna Woods, CA USA
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> 57) Jeanie Hagedorn, Des Moines, IA USA
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> 58) Sue Christensen, Des Moines, IA USA
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> 59) Sybil Finken, Glenwood, IA USA
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> 60) Luke Finken, Earth
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> 61) Doug Gerace, Lincoln, NE USA
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> 62) Cheryl Gerace, NE
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> 63) Sheri Lew, CO
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> 64) Raven Grace, Boulder, CO
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> 65) Martha M.Mertz, EL, Michigan
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> 66) Colleen R. Cooper, Okemos, Michigan
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> 67) Barbara J. Sawyer-Koch, East Lansing, MI
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> 68) Margaret A. Meyers, Okemos, Michigan
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> 69) Mary Helen Espes, Okemos, Michigan
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> 70) Maureen Kirchhoff, Allenspark, CO
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> 71) Bart Johnson, Err, France
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> 72) Sharon!O'Connor, Olympia, WA USA
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> 73) Nancy Irving, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
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> 74) Martha Lindley, Seattle, WA, USA
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> 75) Judith Alexander, Woodinville, WA, USA
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> 76) Arlene B. Hawkinson, Seattle, WA, USA
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> 77) Christine E. Mobley, Bothell, WA, USA
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> 78) Trudie Breen, CA, USA
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> 79) Catherine Standiford, CA, USA
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> 80) Beverly Truett, AZ, USA
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> 81) Christine Meehan,AZ,USA
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> 82) Janice Gilbert, Valley Center, CA, USA
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> 83) Dawna Upchurch, Anchorage, AK USA
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> 84) Roxanna Groves, Olympia, WA USA
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> 85) Lynda Lynde, Helena, MT USA
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> 86) Constance Gelu, University Place, WA USA
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> 87) Jodi Woolett, Tacoma, WA USA
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> 88) Lisa I. Reeves-Lynden, WA USA
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> 89) Amanda James-Bow, WA USA
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> 90) Kelli J. Smith, New Port Richey, FL USA
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> 91) Chris Poirier, Largo, Fl USA
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> 92) Mike Carpenter, Palmetto, Fl USA
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> 93) Alice Pryor, Melbourne FL USA
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> 94) Ellen Catano, Manchester NH USA
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> 95) Bevely Jennings, Cincinnati OH USA
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> 96) Linda Feely, Norwood,OH USA
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> 97) Sherry Stidham, Norwood OH USA
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> 98) Brittany Brown, Cincinnati OH USA
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> 99) Sandy Brown, Cincinnati, Oh USA
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> 100) Tim Brown, Cincinnati, OH USA
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> 101) Pat Brown, Cincinnati, OH USA
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> 102) Amy Cregger, Memphis, TN USA
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> 103) Kay Emerick, Logan, OH USA
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> 104) Trina Bookman, Logan, OH USA
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> 105) Mary Samuelson, St. Louis, Mo USA
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> 106) Jeannette Ward, Memphis, TN USA
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> 107) Elisabeth Davis, Memphis, Tn USA
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> 108) Rose Klimek, Memphis, TN USA
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> 109) Barbara K. White, Hoquiam, WA, USA
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> 110) Paula J. Eriksen, Palm Harbor, Florida USA
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> 111) Rag!nar Eriksen, Palm Harbor, Florida USA
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> 112) MARILYN KING, CLEARWATER, FL, USA
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> 113) Barbara Stiner,Oldsmar,FL,USA
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> 114) Jac'line Weisgerber,Clearwater,FL,USA
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> 115) Charlotte Beadles, Douglasville, GA, USA
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> 116) Jody Hoadley, Powder Springs, GA, USA
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> 117) Hope Howard, Atlanta, GA, USA
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> 118) Cliff Howard, Atlanta, GA, USA
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> 119) Kay Chicoine, Atlanta, GA USA
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> 120) Mark Chicoine, Atlanta, GA USA
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> 121) Paula King, Lexington, KY,USA
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> 122) Sally Weissman,Minneapolis,Mn,USA
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> 123) Susan Abbott, New Brighton, MN USA
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> 124) Rachel Fine, St. Louis Park, MN, USA
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> 125) Deb Harley,Eden Prairie, MN,Usa
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> 126) Barb Handahl,Faribault, MN,USA
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> 127) Ann Olson,Chamberlain S.D.USA
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> 128) Deb Hunt,Sioux Falls S.D.USA
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> 129) Anne Frankman, Sioux Falls, SD USA
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> 130) Susie Kostel, Tabor, SD USA
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> 131) Julie Anderson, Mount Prospect, IL USA
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> 132) Janet Tilden, Fremont, NE USA
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> 133) Debbie Bowman, Kingston Springs, TN, USA
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> 134) Shari Watkins, Franklin, TN, USA
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> 135) Teresa Beck, Columbia, TN USA
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> 136) Amy Stephens, Brentwood, TN, USA
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> 137) Vicki Warren, Lyles, TN, USA
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> 138) Linda Lupo, Westland, MI, USA
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> 139) Cathie McClary, Clinton Twp. MI, USA
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> 140) Diane Catellane, Clinton Twp. MI, USA
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> 141) Judy Mellen, Clarkston, MI, USA
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> 142) Donna Waite, Lake Orion, MI, USA
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> 143) Ann Acton, South Lyon, MI, USA
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> 145) Tami Hall, South Lyon, MI, USA
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> 146) Wendy Belsley, South Lyon, MI, USA
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> 147) Gretel Coombs, East Lansing, MI, USA
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> 148) Mike Jones, Lansing, MI, USA
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> 149) Jeff Jones, Atlanta, GA, USA
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> 150) Marion Jones , Atlanta, GA , USA
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> 151) Pat Scott, Enumclaw, WA, USA
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> 152) Bob Panzer, Houston, TX, USA
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> 153) Pat Panzer, Houston, TX, USA
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> 154) Joe Schwartz, Jacksonville AL USA
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> 155) Stefanie Walfield, Fayetteville, NC, USA
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> 156) Liz Dunkley, Milledgeville, GA, USA
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> 157) Christine Dunkley, Milledgeville, GA, USA
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> 156) Mike Dunkley, Milledgeville, GA, USA
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> 157) Randy Parsons, Eatonton, Ga.
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> 158) Bonita Platner, Kirkwood, NY. USA
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> 159) Ralph Platner, Kirkwood, NY. USA
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> 160) Charles Lundquist, Binghamton, N.Y. U.S.A.
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> 161) Tracy Rowe, Hollywood, CA USA
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> 162) Daniel Raphael New York, New York USA
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> 163) Ann Brameier, New York, NY USA
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> 164) Kazuko Tao, Healdsburg, Ca USA
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> 165) Shelley Zavat, Rio Nido, Ca. USA
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> 166) Kendall Smith, Fort Bragg, Ca USA
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> 167) Candi Zizek, Sacramento, California USA
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> 168) Annette Blackwood, West Hartford, CT USA
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> 169) Frank Sentner, West Hartford, CT USA
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> 170) Ann Steadman, Roanoke, VA USA
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> 171) George Steadman, Roanoke, VA USA
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> 172) Elizabeth Byam,Washington, DC USA
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> 173) Mary Dougal,Montclair, NJ USA
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> 174) Kathleen nnen, Champaign, Il. USA
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> 175) Patricia S. Berky, Baltimore, Md. USA
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> 176) .A.Alexander, Portland, Or.
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> 177) Magdi Awad, Old Bridge, NJ USA
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> 178) Melissa Joralemon, NY USA
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> 179) Vida Cofie-Robertson, NJ USA
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> 180) Sema Gurun, NY, USA
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> 181) Sahika Yildirim, UB, Mongolia
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> 182) Ceylan Orhun istanbul-turkey
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> 183) Efsa Kuraner, Istanbul, Turkey
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> 184) Meyzi Barin Istanbul Turkey
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> 185) Marie-Aude Serra, Istanbul Turkey
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> 186) Gil Serra, Istanbul Turkey
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> 187) Brian Wilks, France
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> 188) Lesley Hastie, Oman
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> 189) Ian Hastie, Oman
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> 190) Steve Stafford, Quebec, Canada
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> 191) Kathy Stafford, Quebec, Canada
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> 192) Rodney Smith, Toronto, Canada
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> 193) Ali Matthews, Cowansville, Quebec, Canada
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> 194) Ali Hand, Toronto, Ont. Canada
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> 195) Gillian Johnson, Moncton, NB, Canada
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> 196) Carrie Roth, Truro, NS, Canada
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> 197) Bonnie Boudreau, Newfoundland, Canada
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> 198) Erin Ganahl, San Francisco, CA, USA
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> 199) Natasha Chervenka, Ben Lomond, CA, USA
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> 200) Martine D'Agostino, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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> 201) Nancy Huneke, Oakland, CA, USA
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> 202) Lola Ellwein, Napa, CA, USA
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> 203) Grace Goodman Ross, Napa, CA, USA
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> 204) Wahiba Abu-Ras, Old Bridge, NJ. USA
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> 205) Angela O'Hara, Dublin, Ireland
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> 206) Natalie Garland, IRELAND
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> 207) Marie Conway, Dublin, Ireland
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> 208) Debbie Conway, Dublin
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> 209) Sarah Conway
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> 210) Maria Brown, Dublin, Ireland
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> 211) Emma Mc Namara, Dublin, Ireland
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> 212) Lynda McElherron, Dublin, Ireland
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> 213) Susan O'Donoghue, Perth Western Australia
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> 214) Marcus Theobald, Perth Western Australia
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> 215) Sara Pont, Sydney, Australia
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> 216) Paul Tomes, Sydney, Australia
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> 217) Tremayne Sargeant, Sydney, Australia
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> 218) Claire Tomes, Sydney, Australia
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> 219) John Codrington, Gosford, Australia
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> 220) Davina Montano, Melbourne, Australia
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> 221) Maree Bouchier, Melbourne, Australia
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> 222) Carmela Tremigliozzi, Melbounre, Australia
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> 223) Pascale Polyzos, Melbourne, Australia
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> 224) Skye Callaghan, Melbourne, Australia
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> 225) Joanna Yurcevic, Melbourne, Australia
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> 226) Romina Colak, Melbourne, Australia
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> 227) Tanja Ivacic, Melbourne, Australia
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> 228) Franni O'Donnell, Melbourne, Australia
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> 229) Tara Falconer, Melbourne, Australia
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> 230) Holly Marlow, Sydney, Australia
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> 231) Mike Brewer, Sydney, Australia
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> 232) Kati Macdonald, London, England
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> 233) Leanne Gardiner, Newcastle, Australia
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> 234) Joanne Bulmer, Brisbane, Australia
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> 235) Clare Wilson, Mount Nathan, Australia
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> 236) Judy Renouf, Brisbane, Australia
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> 237) Ann Trezise, Brisbane, Australia
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> 238) William Colledge, Cambridge, UK
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> 239) Deborah Gill Oxford, UK
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> 240) Susan Kingsman, Oxford, UK
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> 241) Julian Marshall, Oxford, UK
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> 242) Michael Bradfield. London, UK
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> 243) Jill Sinclair, london UK
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> 244) Lexi godfrey
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> 245) Sarah Chevalier, London, UK
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> 246) Michele Waldfogel, London UK
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> 247) Chris Cavallo
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> 248) Patty Cox Florida
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> 249) Ruth Gaskins-Crossey, Florida
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> 250) NANCY BRAFF, BOYNTON BCH;FLORIDA
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> 251) Thomas Wright, Boynton Bch, Florida
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> 252) Jane Bryan, Boynton Beach, Florida
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> 253) Rita Galardy, Pompano Beach, Florida
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> 254) Ellen Delany, Boston, MA
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> 255. Fran Gast, Foster, RI
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> 256) Elizabeth Zimmerman, Foster, RI
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> 257) Barbara Scattergood, Bradford, RI
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> 258) Dave Roberts, Adelphi, MD
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> 259} Tim Snyder
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> 260 Dan Snyder
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> 261  Demaris Wehr, Martha's Vineyard, MA.
>  
> 262. Polly Young-Eisendrath, Worcester, VT
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> 263. Adeline van Waning, Amsterdam, NL

> 264. Ans van Blokland, Amsterdam, NL

> 265. Tamara Stajner-Popovic, Belgrade, YU

> 266. Brane Popovic, Belgrade, YU

267. Harsas Judit, Budapest, HUN

268. Andrea Kuti, Budapest, HU

289. Judit Wirth, Budapst, HU

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