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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: LABOR: MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SIDES WITH VOLKSWAGEN AGAINST WORKERS 
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:43:06 GMT


Topic 201       NNY:Mexican Government Sides 
hrcoord apc.labour       2:32 pm  Aug 25, 1992 
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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord> 
Subject: NNY:Mexican Government Sides 

/* Written  8:46 pm  Aug 23, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua */ 

18. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SIDES WITH VOLKSWAGEN AGAINST WORKERS 
Mexico's Federal Council of Arbitration and Conciliation ruled on 
Aug. 17 that the German auto transnational Volkswagen was free to 
rescind its contract with more than 14,000 workers at its plant 
in Puebla. [ED-LP 8/18/92 from AFP] The labor dispute began last 
month when workers rejected an agreement union head Gaspar Bueno 
negotiated with Volkswagen; dissidents charged that the union 
leadership had received a bribe of $160,000 from management. [ED- 
LP 8/23/92 from EFE] Militants staged escalating strikes starting 
July 21. Protraying itself as the victim of a struggle within the 
union, the company shut the plant down on July 28. (See Update 
#131) The federal labor board's ruling in management's favor came 
after a meeting of some 8,000 unionists on Aug.15 voted 
unanimously to remove Bueno from office and hold new elections. 
[ED-LP 8/17/92 from AFP] Volkswagen has now hired back about 95% 
of the work force--minus the leading dissidents. [ED-LP 8/23/92 
from EFE] 

In other labor news, the representatives of 228 textile companies 
broke off talks with a labor coalition on Aug. 18. The workers 
have been on strike since July 9, with an initial demand for a 
40% pay hike. Although the workers have come down to 15%, 
management refuses to budge from its first offer of 10%. [ED-LP 
8/19/92 from AFP] 

Meanwhile, human rights groups demonstrated outside the 
Republican Convention in Houston to protest the administration's 
treatment of Mexican immigrants. Maria Jimenez, director of the 
Project for Monitoring Immigration Laws, charged that the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) had killed 32 
immigrant workers since 1986, and suggested that the Republican 
Party platform's immigration plank left the way open for 
constructing huge fences along the border. Noting that the US 
government had stressed its good relations with Mexico during the 
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks, Jimenez said: 
"The White House is proud of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but at 
the same time it plans to build one next to Mexico." [ED-LP 
8/23/92 from Notimex] 


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Subject: BUSH: The "Energy President" (II)
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 Kilograms of motor gasoline eonsumed per capita, 1989; and  
average annual percentage growth of oil imports, 1982 to 1988:  
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                    GASOLINE CONSUMED    GROWTH OF OIL  
COUNTRY                 PER CAPITA       IMPORTS (%)  

United States               1,272            7.2  
Canada                        947          -62.1  
Australia                     741          -25.0  
Switzerland                   531            2.0  
Sweden                        515           -8.3  
New Zealand                   485           -4.4  
Germany                       456            1.3  
Netherlands                   437            2.4  
Norway                        433          -20.9  
United Kingdom                421           -7.3  
Finland                       417            0.6  
Austria                       344            0.7  
France                        344           -0.7  
Belgium                       296            1.1  
Denmark                       294           -9.0  
Japan                         254            1.4  
Ireland                       236           -1.5  
Italy                         229           -1.0  
Spain                         195            1.4  

Sources: United Nations, Energy Statistics Yearbook 1989 (New York: United  
Nations, 1991), pp. 194-207. World Competativeness Report 1991, published  
by IMD International, Lausanne, Switzerland, and World Economic Forum,  
Geneva, Switzerland, p. 287.  

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_We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New    
World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.   

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.   
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2  
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    "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.   
    This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The   
    facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But   
    ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."   

                        -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations   

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From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Subject: SOMALIA action materials and news
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Resent-From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse@igc.apc.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:06:28 GMT

/* Written 11:57 am  Aug 23, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */
/* ---------- "SOMALIA action materials and news" ---------- */
A summary of the latest news concerning Somalia available to me is:

Somalians are eating their clothes and goatskin bags to survive.

The aid agencies, such as the International Red Cross and Save the Children_UK
are imploring that government officials "forget the redtape and send a
flood of food aid."

Don Reddin of Save the Children says worrying about security is a "wrong
priority."  He writes, "The majority in Somalia are fighting over food.
There is no civil war any more."

Meantime, the US government says, according to my hometown paper, that
the promised 164,000 tons of food aid will arrive in late fall!
That's because of "customary delays in ordering and shipping" and because
the operation will have to wait until the beginning of the fiscal year,
October 1.

By late fall, of course, untold numbers of Somalians will have died in agony.
In July, the prediction was that 1-2 million would starve to death in 
six months, i.e., by the late fall.

The US government and world governments do seem to be responding to public
opinion. There was knowledge of this Somalian disaster in government
circles, but no action until word of the holocaust got out to the general public.

(The Bush administration, for example, obstructed a plan by the UN in May
1992 to send a 500-person peacekeeping force to Somalia; the Bush
administration said that Congress would not tolerate the expense in an election
year!  Now the Bush administration says food cannot be sent because of
security problems.)

The bottom line is, all who can keep faxing and phoning for massive aid
now can form a lifeline for the Somalian people.

I have consolidated all the posts of phone numbers, free fax numbers, and
regular fax numbers for action on Somalia and will email or fax this
list to anyone who wants it.

If the fax comes out of your machine in reproducible form, please photocopy
it and pass it out in your locality.

Thanks to all who respond so compassionately.
From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: EL SALVADOR: FMLN AGREES TO RESUME DISBANDING TROOPS
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/** reg.elsalvador: 164.0 **/
** Topic: IPS: FMLN Agrees to **
** Written 12:23 pm  Aug 24, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.elsalvador **
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: IPS: FMLN Agrees to

/* Written 12:19 am  Aug 24, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.englibrary */
Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Title: EL SALVADOR: FMLN AGREES TO RESUME THE DISBANDING OF ITS TROOPS


san salvador, aug 21 (ips/brunilda funez) -- el salvador's
farabundo marti national liberation front (fmln) friday announced
that it would resume the demobilization of its troops, suspended
in july, in response to a pledge by the government to fulfill its
commitments to the guerrillas.

the announcement came at the end of two weeks of talks between
the two sides, which agreed in january to end a twelve-year
civil.

both sides said the resumption of the demobilization resulted
from an aug. 13-17 visit to el salvador by special un envoy for
peace missions marrack goulding, who asked them to make greater
efforts to ensure that an oct.31 deadline for disbanding the
fmln's forces was met.

compliance with the demobilization and with a timetable for
the fmln to surrender its weapons to un monitors will be
evaluated on sep. 15.

the fmln, which suspended the demobilization after accusing
the government of not complying with the peace agreement, said it
would resume it on september 21 and was prepared to meet the oct.
31 deadline.

on jun. 30, 1681 guerrillas, 20 percent of the fmln's forces,
laid down their arms. the suspension prevented another 20 percent
from surrendering their weapons on jul. 30.

jorge handal, member of the fmln's high command, said the
reason for the suspension had been the government's failure to
fulfill 43 points of the january peace agreement.

these included providing technical assistance for former
guerrillas and creating a new national civilian police force,
comprising ex-guerrillas, former policemen and civilians.

as a result of goulding's visit, the government has agreed to
fulfill these and other commitments, such as supporting
rehabilitation programmes for former guerrillas handicapped
during the 12-year war.

the fmln has also agreed to present a complete inventory of
its arsenal and hand over 20 percent of its weapons to the un
mission in el salvador, which is monitoring compliance with the
peace agreement, before sep. 15.

the fmln said a first part of its armament had already been
surrendered to the un mission.

president alfredo cristiani said friday there was political
will to continue the peace process and that it was a question of
overcoming the delays. he said the peace process ''can continue
progressing within the time calculated for it.''
(end/ips/trd/so/bf-cs/kb/92)
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From: nyxfer%panix.com@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (N.Y. Transfer)
Subject: MIA Myths Kept Alive by Hollywood
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:36:51 GMT



Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit

POW-MIA myth kept alive by Hollywood

By Andy Stapp

"The Vietnam war is not over yet. And the Americans have tried to
win a victory through movies in order to save face," declared
Radio Hanoi in an Aug. 29 commentary. The broadcast continued:
"The fact was made obvious when the advertisement for the film
`Missing in Action' was released with the sensational words: `The
war won't be over until the last American returns home.' "

Radio Hanoi ridiculed the cottage industry that has grown up in
this country churning out grade B films about U.S. prisoners
supposedly still held in Vietnam. "The POW-MIA myth reached its
peak with the introduction of the second installment of the Rambo
series titled "First Blood,' starring Sylvester Stallone, who has
become a contemporary superman," the commentary said. Stallone
wasn't exactly a superperson during the actual fighting over
there. Like born-again war lovers Dick Cheney, Pat Buchanan, Dan
Quayle and Bill "Bomb Belgrade" Clinton, "Rambo" Stallone
adroitly sidestepped the 1960s military draft.

The broadcast concluded by noting: "In reality there are
thousands of homeless American Vietnam war veterans now living on
the streets of the United States. They should not be called
missing in action, but rather missing in America."

Most of the 2,226 members of the U.S. armed forces unaccounted
for in the conflict were ground troops blown to bits. A few are
pilots who were blasted from the air in flames. Some went down
into the South China Sea or over impenetrable jungle.

Of course the Vietnamese endured much more formidable casualties.
Washington would like to erase the memory of what the
Pentagon--with its helicopter gunships, Mylai-style massacres,
free fire zones, Agent Orange, white phosphorus and
napalm--inflicted on that poor Asian nation. Sentimental TV shows
like China Beach can't change the truth of what they did. There
are provinces in Vietnam where not a single square mile escaped
saturation bombing. These areas are cratered like the surface of
the moon. At Vinh, a provincial capital, only one building stood
after the B-52 raids ended in 1973.

And hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese are still missing.

(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@igc.apc.org".)

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		=====================================
		" S p e c i a l   I n t e r e s t s "
		=====================================

Regarding those corporations in the business of selling mass audiences
to client companies and businesses, also known as The Free Press, and
one more instance of its employed DoubleSpeak:

"An important semantic development of the past decade that is closely
related to the doublespeak of moderateness and extremism is the new
usage of the concept of "special interests." In earlier years,
special interests meant narrow groups, mainly business groups, who
seek political privilege by lobbying and bribery. Recently, special
interests has come to mean blacks, women, Hispanics, labor, unions,
farmers, and others who add up to a very subtantial majority of the
population. At the same time, business interests are no longer
included in the category -- and by an unspoken new premise their
interests have become synonymous with the National Interest. This
premist is base on the fact that many politicians cannot imagine a
solution to economic problems other than by making things attractive
for business investment; and if they did propose an alternative
solution their campaign funding would dry up ..."

		Edward S. Herman, on "`Moderates' & `Extremists'" in
		his column on "DoubleSpeak," Z magazine, March 1988

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


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>From the New York Times' correction box on 11/9/90:

An article yesterday about a dispute between the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic prelates of Newark rendered a phrase incorrectly in a comment
from the Catholic Archbishop, Theodore E. McCarrick.  He said the
Catholic Church promoted "natural birth control," not "natural childbirth."

mitja@hera.berkeley.edu


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    " [..] I'm not so sure that I would agree with Larry [Agran] that
   it's a matter of _rediscovering_ our democracy.  I think it's a
   question of _refashioning_ our democracy. [..] that which was, was
   never adequate in the first place..[..] The struggle therefore is
   to *finish* the unfinished democracy.  To *perfect* the imperfect
   union [...] in this country.  And so even *before* the cold war it
   was not perfect. [..]  The intervention in the affairs of Central
   America didn't begin with the cold war."

    "Africans in this country, brought to this country in chains, 100
    million Africans brought not because people thought they were
    inferior, not because of racism, but because of *economic
    exploitation* [...]  But not for the first 50 years could all white
    *men* vote, only *white men with property*.  Why?  Because from the
    very beginning, this union, the assumption was, if this country could
    be put in the hands of the propertied classes, if *they* are secure,
    everybody in America is supposed to be secure.

    " [..] you know, if you look at the founding fathers sitting around
    that table, they were all fathers, no mothers sitting around --- [...]
    there were no people there with buckskin britches and coonskin caps
    there.  There were no *workers* sitting at that table.  It was a
    revolution for the aristocracy and for the monied classes from the
    very beginning."

		-Presidential Candidate Ron Daniels


CANDIDATES FORUM, 21 MAY 1992 
OAKES COLLEGE, UC SANTA CRUZ 
LARRY AGRAN (DEMOCRAT), RON DANIELS (PEACE & FREEDOM) 

Transcribed by Don Fong 

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For more info about the Daniels Campaign:

If you have access to ftp, do "ftp pencil.cs.missouri.edu"
login as "anonymous" and do a "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map"
and then "dir *daniels*

Then "get file.name" the files you want.
Then "quit" to get out of ftp and the files will be sitting in your
home directory.


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From: ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan)
Subject: Fwd: Indian actors in UAE face death rap
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>From	: Mahesh Yadav in misc.news.southasia
>Source	: Times of India, Aug,12,1992
   
		INDIAN ACTORS IN UAE FACE DEATH RAP
		===================================

 Abu Dhabi, aug,11(AFP).

	A group of 11 Indian actors could face a possible death sentence after
being arrested in United Arab Emirates(UAE) for allegedly insulting Islam, a
Muslim cleric has warned.

	The actors, some of whom live in UAE, stagged the play in the UAE 
emirate of  Sharjah in May and it triggered a public furore that the 
participants offended Jesus and Islam 's Prophet Mohammed.

	"We have received scores of calls expressing dismay at the play. The
 actors have been arrested", a police official told AFP.

	Entiled "ants feast on corpses", the play opens with three corpses
lying on the stage. A villager asks if he can eat on of the corpses, which
scholars who saw the videotape said represented Prophet Mohammed. The other
corpses were Jesus Christ and Karl Marx.

	The actors were arrested in June and had been due to go on trial last
week. However, the case has been adjourned until September.

	The UAE and other Gulf states are among the most conservative Muslim
countries but it was not clear what punishment those actors would get if they
are found guilty. A local Muslim cleric said they could face death.

	"The court is looking into their case and its complications", Sheikh
Mohammed Abdul Razzak told the UAE magzine Al-Islah. "The sentence could be 
death if they were found to have insulted the Prophet on purpose".

	"It is another Satanic verses",Al-Islah said, in a reference to the 
British author Salman Rusdie's book that led to the late Iranian spritual
leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordering the Indian born writer's death.

	Court sources said the actors had denied permission by Sarjah
authorities to stage the play, which was also rejected by Kerala. But they
went ahead with their plans and staged it on May,28 before a large audience
of Indians, including Muslims and Christians, they added.

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Timor: NEW STUDY REVEALS 273 KILLED IN DILI MASSACRE
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/** reg.easttimor: 352.0 **/
** Topic: New Dili massacre death toll **
** Written  4:52 pm  Sep  3, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
New Dili massacre casualty figures
 
The following Press Release was issued in Lisbon today, 3
September 1992, by Jose Ramos-Horta, official spokesperson for
the East Timorese Resistance:
 
 
NEW STUDY REVEALS 273 KILLED IN DILI MASSACRE
 
A new report just released in Lisbon points to a much higher
death toll at the 12 November 1991 massacre of civilians in
Dili: 273 killed, 255 disappeared and 376 wounded is the
finding of several months of investigation carried out in East
Timor by a wide range of East Timorese elements and smuggled
out of East Timor. The report provides the names and ages of
all the persons killed, missing or wounded.
 
Most disturbing, almost half of the killed are 21 years or
younger and almost all are below the age of 30. "This is
deliberate killing of the young people. My God, I am horrified
at these findings. Most are young people. The Indonesians
always claimed that only the older generation are anti-
integration. But now they are killing all our young people
because they too oppose integration," Mr Jose Ramos-Horta,
overseas spokesperson for the East Timorese Resistance, said
in Lisbon today.
 
The release of this study coincides with the airing in Lisbon
of a home-made video interview of five East Timorese survivors
and witnesses of the Dili massacre who say that more than "200
people were killed" and they saw more than 100 corpses being
dumped into the sea. The film was smuggled out of East Timor
and is now being shown on Portuguese television.
 
Mr Ramos-Horta believes that the most likely new "Governor" of
East Timor appointed by Jakarta, Mr Abilio Osorio Soares, is
a "common criminal who personally tortured and murdered
innocent civilians. If his appointment is confirmed, we will
use all diplomatic and legal means to have him arrested if he
ever sets foot in the US or a European country. He is even
worse than Pablo Escobar. The Indonesian authorities by
appointing this man as their new puppet Governor are showing
how lacking in support they are. They cannot even find someone
who like Mario Carrascalao has some air of decency. Now they
have to resort to a true common criminal."
 
The situation in East Timor will deteriorate even further,
unrest will spread, abuses by the military will escalate. The
West and Japan now bear enormous responsibility because they
are the ones who finance the regime to the tune of US$5
billion a year," Mr Ramos-Horta said.
 
[Note: Mr Jose Ramos-Horta is available for further
information on 351 1 (Lisbon) 932-7770.]
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