[ALBSA-Info] RALLY TO FREE KOSOVAS POWS

[Sorkadh Mustafa]

>ALBANIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE
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>P.O. Box 70, Ossining, NY 10562
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>For immediate release
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>Contact: Joe DioGuardi and Shirley Cloyes
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>(914) 762-5530 or (914) 671-8583
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>RALLY TO FREE KOSOVA’S POWS
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>FUNDRAISING RECEPTION FOR JOHN MCCAIN
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>NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 10 --On Friday, February 11, at 10:00 a.m., Senator John 
>McCain will come to Manhattan, in the wake of his victories in the New 
>Hampshire primary and in the New York courts (he will be on our state’s 
>primary ballot in March), for his campaign’s fundraising reception and 
>lunch at the Grand Hyatt Regency Hotel.
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>McCain’s visit to New York—which will be covered extensively in the 
>press--provides us with a unique opportunity to do two things. First, we 
>want to show our support for McCain, because he was one of the few 
>Republican senators who supported the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia, 
>and he is the only Republican presidential candidate who supports our 
>issues.
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>Second, because Senator McCain, a POW during the Vietnam War, understands 
>what it means to be a prisoner of war, we want to bring to his attention 
>the plight of the more than 5,000 Kosovar Albanian prisoners in Serbian 
>jails, who were abandoned by the Clinton administration at the close of the 
>war. (A report released at the end of January by the International Crisis 
>Group revealed that the U.S. Department of Defense, National Security 
>Council, CIA, and Joint Chiefs of Staff dropped the provision from the 
>war-ending agreement demanding the prisoners’ release in an effort to bring 
>an immediate end to the war.)
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>We have reserved tables at the luncheon reception at the Hyatt at 12 noon. 
>If you would like to attend the $250-a-head reception, please phone us. 
>Outside the Hyatt, which is located next to Grand Central Station, at 42nd 
>Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, we will hold a rally showing our 
>support for McCain and calling for the release of Albanian prisoners in 
>Serbian jails. We will also demand the end of the de facto partitioning of 
>Mitrovica.
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>Please bring to the rally American flags, Albanian flags, and signs for 
>McCain and for the release of Kosova’s POWs.
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