Subject: (8) MAYDAY, MAYDAY AMERICA!
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RADICAL PARTY, THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSPARTY
ABSTRACT: Insert published on payment on the "New York Times" of 28th
Septembre. The text contains a solicitation to join the radical party.
Lastly, it suggests the creation of an interactive link with the Radical
Party via Internet.
(THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 september 1993)
FOR THE RIGHT NOT TO BE KILLED BY THE RULE OF LAW
Death Penalty: Save the most guilty
A large sector of humanity has been against the death penalty for a long
time now. These people will die before it is abolished. To avoid this, it
is necessary to determine the actions that should be carried out by
individual countries and by the U.N. system - the timing and procedures,
midterm objectives, mobilizations, and geographical progression that should
be adopted to achieve this humanistic political objective. In other words,
it is necessary to develop a strategy, a project, and a program of specific
actions and campaigns that will give public opinion more information and
more strength, starting with the minority groups already involved.
The "Hands Off Cain - 'Citizens and Parliamentarians' Leauge for the
Abolition of the Death Penalty Worldwide by 2000" has been applying to this
issue, for the past two years, the method of the Radical Party with which
it is affiliated. We are already achieving results: a motion was
unanimously approved last June by the Italian Parliament in which the
Italian Government engaged itself: a) to do everything in its power to get
the U.N. Security Council to impose a moratorium on death sentences in the
case of "coups d'tat" and civil wars; b) to put on the agenda of the 49th
Session of the U.N. General Assembly a resolution for a universal
moratorium on executions. It is an undertaking that requires tremendous
strength but also great patience and staying power. We must never give up.
Because we all know that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Bernardo Bertolucci, filmmaker and Oscar winner, director of "Little
Buddha", Radical Party member in 1993 and spokesperson for the campaign to
abolish the death penalty worldwide by the year 2000.
