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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
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Subject: NEWS:Cuban Expelled for REfusing to Defect/ww
Date: 20 Nov 92 21:55:27 GMT
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CUBAN DIPLOMAT EXPELLED FOR REFUSING TO DEFECT

By Carl Glenn

Last week the Bush administration ordered the expulsion of a
Cuban diplomat. The diplomat, Carlos Manuel Collazo, was charged
with spying. The media gave ample coverage to a supposed
"meeting" that Collazo had with a "double agent." However the
capitalist press did not report that days before this supposed
"meeting," a group of FBI agents had accosted the Cuban diplomat
in the street and threatened him with "unfortunate consequences"
if he should refuse to defect.

Collazo is supposedly being expelled for having agreed to talk to
Francisco Avila, alleged to be the "top agent of the Cuban
security services." But in the media accounts it came out that
Avila was not only in charge of naval operations for the
anti-Cuban terrorist organization Alpha 66 but he personally
confirmed having been an employee of the FBI for the last 30
years. The Cuban statement ridiculed Avila's claim that as an FBI
agent he had infiltrated Cuba's security agency.

The Cuban statement asks: "Doesn't Avila's testimony prove that
the FBI has penetrated and controls these terrorist organizations
and knows their plans and puts them into action whenever it
pleases? Doesn't Avila's statements show that these
counter-revolutionaries have a greater loyalty to the FBI then
their own organizations and consider U.S. officials their true
leaders?"

The Cuban news release also points out that the State Department
spokesperson who announced the expulsion of Collazo was none
other than Richard Boucher, who earlier this year openly defended
raids by terrorist commando groups organized and trained in the
U.S.


(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; "workers" on PeaceNet; on Internet:
"workers@mcimail.com".)


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From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Cuba Caravan Alert
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:46:59 GMT

/* Written 10:55 pm  Nov 18, 1992 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Cuba Caravan Alert" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Cuba Caravan Alert

From slandau Sun Nov 15 20:29:03 1992
From: Saul Landau <slandau>

FROM: THE CENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIES
TO: ALL CUBA ACTIVISTS
THE PASTORS FOR PEACE WILL BE CROSSING THE BORDER INTO
LAREDO, MEXICO, WITH THEIR SHIPMENT OF GOODS, INCLUDING 
FOOD AND MEDICINE, FOR CUBA. PLEASE CALL RICHARD NEWCOMBE, 
THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL AT 
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AND URGE HIM TO ALLOW FOR FREEDOM
OF TRADE AND TRAVEL AND LET THE PASTORS SHIPMENT GO THROUGH
HIS NUMBER IS 202 622-2510



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From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Alaska: Oppose Aerial Wolf Control
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:46:24 GMT

/* Written  1:58 am  Nov 20, 1992 by econet@igc.apc.org in igc:en.alerts */
/* ---------- "Alaska: Oppose Aerial Wolf Control" ---------- */
In an attempt to increase hunting opportunities for urban hunters the
Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) approved a plan to
exterminate up to 80% of the wolves over a 20,000 square mile area in
Interior Alaska. Currently about 400 wolves live in this area, but the
plan would eliminate 300 to 350 by shooting them from helicopters. Chris
Smith, Fairbanks regional supervisor for the State Division of Wildlife
Conservation said, "To the greatest extent possible, we will be trying
to remove entire packs at the same time. We want this to be a
professional, surgical program." In 1993 about 1000 wolves will be
killed statewide to maintain the population between 6000 and 7000.  The
dead wolves hides will be sold and other parts will be used for
research.  By the year 2000, ADF&G wants to increase the size of two
caribou herds from 27,000 to 70,000. "We feel we are going to create a
wildlife spectacle on a par with the major migrations in East Africa,"
said David Kelleyhouse, director of the Division of Wildlife
Conservation. "Mom and Pop from Syracuse can come up here and see
something that they can't see anywhere else on Earth."  The caribou
herds have been stable or increasing since wolf control was ended in
1983, according to Vic Van Ballenberghe, a former Board of Game Member.
"I have to question wolf control on that basis alone," he said.

You may want to voice your concern? Contact Governor Wally Hickel and
the Alaska Division of Tourism and tell them you oppose wolf
control and will not consider traveling to a state that murders wolves.

Alaska Division of Tourism        Governor Walter J. Hickel
Tourism Marketing Council         Third Floor, State Capitol
PO Box E                          PO Box 110001
Juneau, AK 99811                  Juneau, AK 99811
Tel: (907) 563-2289               Tel: (907) 465-3500

Please visit recent topics in the conferences <en.wildlife> and
<en.alaska> for further details and suggestions for action.

(ref.: gpak, mlewis, awhitworth)
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:35:15 GMT


	       =======================================
	       " S o c i a l i s m "   - -   D e a d ?
	       =======================================

    "Is socialism dead? Is capitalism the wave of the future?

    "The short answer is that socialism cannot be dead because it
    hasn't been born yet. No state has ever been organized along
    genuinely socialist lines. This may seem like a cop-out, a way of
    defending socialism by definition, by claiming that no failure
    could ever discredit the socialist project because it wasn't
    "true" socialism.

    "Such a position has its dangers, but it cannot be avoided.
    Socialism must be defined minimaly as a society in which all the
    major institutions are owned and [democratically] controlled  by
    the people, and by all the people: obviously not just
    capitalitsts, but also not just a party claiming to rule on behalf
    of the working class. And by this definition there has never been
    a socialist society."

	Stephen R. Shalom, "Capitalism Triumphant?, Z magazine, April
	1989.

[For more about Z, email harelb@math.cornell.edu]


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From: New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org>
Subject: New LaborNet Conf: <labor.asia>
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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:55:25 GMT

/* Written  3:12 pm  Nov 14, 1992 by labornet@igc.apc.org in igc:labor.announce */
/* ---------- "New LaborNet Conf: <labor.asia>" ---------- */
LaborNet is happy to announce the opening of <labor.asia>, its newest
electronic conference on the IGC Networks. This conference is intended for
news, information and discussion of labor issues in Asia.

This conference opens with all the 1992 issues of "Labor Communications,"
published by The Labor Program of the Asian Center for the Progress of
Peoples in Hong Kong. Francis Tan in Hong Kong has generously contributed
all the 1992 back issues to LaborNet for posting on the APC Networks. 

For more information, please visit <labor.asia> or e-mail <labornet> on
IGC/APC or <labornet@igc.apc.org> if on Internet. 

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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NEWS:Cuba Friendshipment Update 11/20
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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:54:55 GMT



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US/CUBA FRIENDSHIPMENT UPDATE

November 20, 1992

According to a report for the office of IFCO (Interfaith
Foundation for Community Organization), Reverend Lucius Walker,
Executive Director of IFCO and a coordinator of the
Friendshipment carrying material aid to Cuba, was arrested by US
officials on Friday afternoon, November 20. Rev. Walker was able
to cross the border once, carrying some material aid into Mexico.
When he returned to carry more material aid over the border he
was arrested on the US side. Two other men, whose names are not
known at this time, were also arrested. A woman who was reported
to have bitten a policeman was also arrested. It was not clear
who attacked who first. The woman's identity is not known at
this time.

The caravan needs emergency donations of money for legal and
bail fees. Also, the more than 100 participants in the caravan
are waiting in Laredo, Texas, to see how the situation gets
resolved. They must be housed and fed. Tax deductible
contributions can be sent to IFCO/Pastors for Peace, 402 West
145th Street, New York, New York 10031. A demonstration is
planned in New York City for Monday, November 23, details to
follow.

The Friendshipment is asking people to contact their
congressional representatives to demand that the Friendshipment
be allowed to enter Mexico with the material aid. The
congressional switchboard number is 202-224-3121. People can
also contact Mr. Huddleston, the Coordinator of the Office of
Cuban Affairs, 202-647-9272, or FAX 202 736-4476; Richard Newcomb,
Office of Foreign Assets Control, 202-622-2510 and Michael
Schmitz, Chief Counsel for the Office of Customs, 202-927-6900.
Register your objection to the US government's detaining the
Friendshipment. You may also contact Lawrence Eagleburger, Acting
Secretary of State, in  Washington DC, c/o "Vicki."

The Friendshipment is bringing attention to the inhumane,
more than thirty-year-old embargo the US has placed against Cuba,
and which was recently tightened by the passage of the Torricelli
law. It is carrying powdered milk, bicycles, medicines and
bibles to the people of Cuba. In Cuba the caravan is to be
hosted by various churches.

Watch this space for further updates, or call IFCO at
212-926-5757.

-- Toby Mailman for NY Transfer News

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From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: New President of Planned Parenthood To Be Introduced Friday
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Organization: NDA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:47:44 GMT

Here is a press release from the Planned Parenthood Federation
of America.

 New President of Planned Parenthood To Be Introduced Friday
 To: National and Assignment desks, Daybook Desk
 Contact: Roberta Synal of the Planned Parenthood Federation
          of America, 212-261-4660

   News Advisory:

   Planned Parenthood Federation of America will announce the name of
a new president to succeed Faye Wattleton at a Manhattan news
conference on Friday, Nov. 20, at 10:30 a.m. at the Rhiga Royal
Hotel, Wintergarden Room, 151 West 54th St. (between 6th and 7th
avenues).  Wattleton resigned earlier this year.
   The federation's new president, who will be introduced at the news
conference by PPFA Chairperson Jacqueline S. Jackson, Ph.D., will
make a short statement and then take questions.
   The announcement culminates a nationwide, seven-month search for
an individual to head the nation's oldest and largest reproductive
health and advocacy organization.  The search scrutinized nearly 100
candidates, leaders in the fields of health, government, family
planning, women's rights and business.
   A continental breakfast will be served.
 -30-
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044

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From: GDMENDEN%MTUS5.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Attempted deportation of Palestinians
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:05:18 GMT

Following letter reprinted from ADC Times Nov. 1992:

Attorney General William Barr
Department of Justice
Washington, DC 20044

Dear Attorney General Barr:

     I am writing to protest the Justice Departments's
continuing attempt to deport Khader Hamide and Michel
Shehadeh, part of a group of seven Palestinian men and a
Kenyan woman arrested in Los Angeles in 1987 and charged with
belonging to a group that advocates "world communism."  The
government's longstanding effort to deport the "L.A. Eight"
violates one of our antion's most hallowed principles--
freedom of speech and association--and threatens the rights
and freedoms of all non-citizens in this country.

    None of the "L.A. Eight" has been charged with any
criminal or terrorist acts.  When asked about the case in
confirmation hearings more than five years ago, then-FBI
Director William Webster testified that "if these individuals
had been United States citizens, there would not have been a
basis for their arrest."  He also stated that after a lengthy
investigation, the FBI had concluded that the "individuals
who were arrested in California had not been found to have
engaged themselves in terrorist activity."

     Yet five years later, the INS is still seeking to deport
all eight.  The INS should have dropped the case, but did
not, in 1989 when a district court declared unconstitutional
the ideological provisions the INS sought to use.  The INS
should have dropped the case, but did not, in 1990 when
Congress repealed the McCarran-Walter Act provisions that
singled out aliens for their political associations.

     Instead, the INS has continued the prosecutions, most
recently substituting charges under the "terrorist activity"
provisions of the Imigration Act of 1990.  The INS
interprets the "terrorism" provisions extremely broadly,
arguing that anyone who raises funds for any organization
deemed "terrorist" is deportable, even if the funds were
raised solely for lawful humanitarian ends.

     The INS's interpretation resurrects the very principle
of guilt by association that Congress repealed, and violates
the First Amendment right to association.  The Bill of Rights
guarantees these rights to all people in this country,
whether citizen or non-citizen.  I urge you to uphold these
freedoms and frop the deportation cases against Hamide,
Shehadeh and all the "L.A. Eight."

Sincerely,


(your name)

Cc:  Representative
     Senator
     Senator

               *                 *                *

    The "L.A. Eight" have a very strong case.  With enough
letters of this sort and a new administration in power, their
efforts to have the charges dropped may well succeed.  gdm
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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Central America news
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:11:05 GMT

/* Written  4:11 pm  Nov 23, 1992 by worldpnews@igc.apc.org in igc:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Central America news" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


GUATEMALA
 The Guatemalan President, Jorge Serrano, was unharmed Nov 18 in a
rocket attack thought to have been carried out by guerrillas on the
presidential ranch, Santo Tomas, located 35 kms south of the
capital.

According to military sources, the attack was carried out by the
Guatemalan National Revolutionary Army. It is not known whether the
president was at the ranch at the time of the attack.

This is the second attack on Serrano. His plane was fired upon in
Jan, 1991, when it flew over the town of Peten. (Spanish Radio
11/19)


EL SALVADOR
 Hundreds of leftist guerrillas handed in their guns Nov 20 in El
Salvador's UN mediated peace process. Despite the opposition of the
middle range of commanders, guerrilla leaders said they would
demobilize rebels at camps around the country on Nov 20 and 21.

On Guazapa volcano, a central point of combat throughout the 12-
year civil war in El salvador, FMLN rebels have registered with UN
peace keepers and turned in their arms.

Only 35% of the FMLN's 8,000-strong fighting force will remain in
arms. Under UN supervision, the FMLN is scheduled to complete its
demobilization by Dec 15. The UN peace accords require the
government of Alfredo Cristiani to simultaneously carry out
extensive land transfers, electoral and judicial reforms, and to
reduce El Salvador's army size. (Spanish Radio 11/20)

This is the fourth stage of the FMLN's demobilization process,
which must be completed before Dec 15. Only 600 rebels will lay
down their arms between Nov 20-21. Eleven hundred others will
follow suit over the coming weeks.

The FMLN is cautious as far as its demobilization is concerned
after the government announced it was sending troops to protect the
coffee harvest in areas under guerrilla control during the war.
Under the peace accords, the Salvadoran army is to remain within
its bases. (R. Havana 11/20)


NICARAGUA
 The Nicaraguan government of President Violeta Chamorro and the
opposition Sandinista Front agreed Nov 20 to work together to
resolve disputed property claims, a thorny issue which has led to
a freeze in US aid.

According to the finance minister, the two sides have agreed to
create a joint commission to study the cases of those people whose
property was unjustly confiscated and should be returned. (Spanish
Radio 11/20)

===================================================================

          ALSO TODAY ON THE SUBSCRIBERS-ONLY WORLDP.NEWS:

East Timor pro-independence leader captured; Bombs in Peru; Unrest
in Venezuela; Street children in Brazil; Racism in Spain.

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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NEWS:100+ children's bodies exhumed at El Mozote/edlp
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El Mozote: More than 100 children's bodies exhumed

from El Diario La Prensa 11/18

EL SALVADOR: OVER 100 CHILDREN'S BODIES EXHUMED IN EL MOZOTE

     The legal office of the Archbishop of San Salvador said on
November 17 that more than 100 children's bodies were exhumed,
along with five adults, during the first phase of the excavations
being carried out by local authorities and international
anthropoligists in El Mozote, El Salvador.  El Mozote was the
site of the massacre of over 1,000 peasants in 1981 by members of
the elite Atlacatl battallion of the Salvadoran army.  "The body
of the crime is present and the judge has the authority to begin
to call the members of the Atlacatl battallion who are
responsible for the massacre to testify about the case," said the
church source.  The legal office promised to offer an official
diagnosis of the first phase of the investigation within the
next few weeks.

The investigation, which ended on Wednesday, November
18, was part of the judicial process against the elite battallion
which began on October 26, 1990.  Judge Frederico Portillo stated
to AFP that the exhumed skeletons will be carried to the
Institute of Forensic Medicine in Santa Tecla this week.  Luis
Fondenbrider, an Argeinte anthropoligist who is part of the
excavation team, said "It is clear that immeasurable violence
took place in that site." (AFP 11/18)

translated by Toby Mailman, NY Transfer News


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Subject: Today's Quote...
Date: 17 Nov 92 09:35:16 GMT
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	    =============================================
	    S o c i a l i s m   a n d   D e m o c r a c y
	    =============================================

    "Socialism means democracy. And that means elections, free speech and
    press, free political parties and labor unions -- things the Soviet
    people don't have.

    "In the Soviet Union, power has been centralized in the hands of a
    bureaucratic elite. Not only doesn't the Soviet Union deliver
    democracy to the Soviet people, but a highly centralized
    bureaucratic economy cannot meet even many of their basic economic
    needs. Just because the Soviet elites call their system
    "socialist" doesn't make it so. After all, they call it
    "democratic" too. [E.g. East Gernamy's former name, GDR, German
    Democratic Republic --HB].


From  a copy of the DSA's [Democratic Socialists of America]
pamphlet, _12 Myths About Democratic Socialism_, use the GET command
with the file name 12-MYTHS SOCIALSM]

======================================
To get a file named FILE NAME from the
archiver (files are two words  separa-
ted by a space), send the 1-line message

GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L

to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
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Use GET with the file ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a listing of
files available with the GET command.


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