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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Americas Watch:Ever-Vigilant
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:57:55 GMT

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Americas Watch the Ever-Vigilant


From el diario/La Prensa 12/15/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


Americas Watch Asks Cuba for Sanchez's Release

Dec. 14 the US-based human rights organization Americas Watch
asked for the immediate release of Cuban opposition activist
Elisardo Sanchez and Rodolfo Gonzales, along with 50 others who
are considered [by Americas Watch] to be political prisoners. The
communique released by Americas Watch condemned the threats and
attacks allegedly orchestrated by Cuban authorities as well as
what they termed the arbitrary arrest of human rights workers.

According to Americas Watch, Sanchez, of the Cuban Commission on
Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) was beaten and
arrested on Dec. 20 by security forces. They said Sanchez remained
"almost unconscious" as a result of the beating he received and
was hospitalized in the military hospital "Carlos H. Finlay" in
Havana, Cuba.

Americas Watch said that Rodolfo Gonzaelz, a member of the Cuban
Committee for Human Rigths (CCPDH) was also arrested, although
they say they do not know his whereabouts. Others who were
allegedly attacked were Gustavo Arcos, Jesus Yanes Pelletier and
Aida Valdes Santana. (edlp 12/15/92 from EFE)


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From: Clinton-HQ@campaign92.org (Clinton/Gore '92)
Subject: CLINTON: Gifts press release
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:45:51 GMT

 SUBJECT: Gifts press release
 Posted by: The Office of the President-Elect
 Date: December 12, 1992

      Many friends and supporters have contacted the Clintons asking
 about the appropriateness of sending Christmas gifts to them this
 holiday season.  The Clintons greatly appreciate this expression of
 caring for their family but ask that those who wish to remember them
 this holiday season make gifts to local charities of their choice to
 make Christmas a little brighter for those in need.  The Clintons
 plan to donate gifts they receive to charities and individuals in
 Arkansas.

                               -30-



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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:35:16 GMT



"The dominant technologies of any age shape our often unspoken
assumptions about what is possible and what is likely.
The Constitution, for example, establishes a system of checks and
balances through three branches of government, each designed
to be equal to the other two.

"However, the authors of the Constitution assumed each branch would
communicate with the people primarily through the printed page.  When,
in the middle of the twentieth century, electronic broadcasting
replaced newspapers as the dominant means of mass communication, the
relative prominence of the three branches of government changed, at
least as they are perceived by the people.

"The president, unlike Congress and the courts, spoke with one voice
on radio and, with the emergence of television, projected one face and
personality into the living room of virtually every American home.

"The members of the House and Senate and the Supreme Court were never
seen or heard all together through this medium -- except when they
applauded the president during his State of the Union address.  Thus,
since real political power in a democracy flows from the people, the
new prominence of the president compared to that of the other branches
of government soon amounted to a kind of constitutional amendment by
technology."

  -- Senator Al Gore, in his book, _Earth in the Balance_

[Submitted by: camerons@gilligan.nad.3com.com (Cameron L. Spitzer)]

[I note Gore is honest enough to refer to "real political power *in*
*a* *democracy*" (not in "our system") as "flowing from the people" --
rather than the corporations which own the media, pay for the election
campaigns of our "representatives" and otherwise exercise
far-reaching control over the social and political institutions --HB]


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From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Subject: YEMEN: AI delegate visits
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:17:47 GMT

/* Written  7:18 pm  Dec 13, 1992 by hnaylor@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general */
/* ---------- "YEMEN: AI delegate visits" ---------- */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom 

DATE: 8 DECEMBER 1992

YEMEN: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DELEGATE VISITS COUNTRY

      An Amnesty International staff member is visiting the Republic of Yemen
between 6 and 16 December 1992.  The primary purpose of the visit is to
conduct research into Amnesty International's concerns in the country.  These
include the continued detention of prisoners of conscience, and other
political prisoners; the torture or ill-treatment of detainees; and the
"disappearances" of individuals while in custody in the former Yemen Arab
Republic and People's Democratic Arab Republic in previous years. The staff
member plans to visit the capital city of Sana'a as well as Hudaida, and Aden.

      While in Yemen it is envisaged that he will also meet with government
officials, parliamentarians, lawyers and members of the judiciary. 

      The Amnesty International delegate will not be authorised to make press
statements during his visit. He will report back to the organization's
Secretary General on his return.
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: HONDURAS: MAYOR WHO DEFENDED INDIANS' RIGHTS MURDERED
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:09:04 GMT

/** reg.honduras: 70.0 **/
** Topic: IPS-Dario Urbina murdered **
** Written  9:56 pm  Dec 15, 1992 by jbinder in cdp:reg.honduras **
From: James Binder <jbinder>
Subject: IPS-Dario urbina murdered

Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
print within 7 days of original date only with permission from 'newsdesk'.

Title: HONDURAS: MAYOR WHO DEFENDED INDIANS' RIGHTS MURDERED

tegucigalpa, dec 11 (ips) -- the mayor of the northern honduran
town of yoro, dario urbina, who had distinguished himself as a
defender of the human rights of indigenous people, was shot by
unknown assailants thursday night, according to news media
reports.

he was taken to hospital but died friday morning. the killers
escaped.

in september urbina had told reporters that he could identify
the killers of indigenous leader vicente matute, who was
murdered in may.

at the time of his murder matute was involved in litigation
trying to recover the tribal lands of the tolupanes, or xicaques,
group of indian nations.

mauricia castro, secretary-general of the xicaques tribes
federation, told ips that mayor urbina's murder was related to
the statements he made in september about the killers of chief
matute.

''urbina said he knew who the killers of matute were,'' said
castro. ''that's the reason they murdered him, too.''

she said urbina had accused well-known cattle ranchers and
military people of the yoro area of masterminding matute's
assassination.

she has now asked president rafael callejas and the
parliament to launch a thorough investigation on the murders.

''the real problem is,'' she said, ''that for many decades
some ranchers have been tryinmg to steal the lands belonging
to the xicaques.''

eleven indian tribal groups inhabit honduras, representing
more than 300,000 people. (ends/ips/tr/sp/np/hr/jrd/in/it)



** End of text from cdp:reg.honduras **

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From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: AI UA392/92 CUBA Ill-treatment
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:05:50 GMT

/* Written  4:09 pm  Dec 15, 1992 by hrcoord@igc.apc.org in igc:carnet.alerts */
/* ---------- "AI UA392/92 CUBA Ill-treatment" ---------- */
/* Written  4:00 pm  Dec 14, 1992 by sharrison in igc:ai.uan */
for USA readers:

instead on an embassy, please write to:
Cuban Interests Section
2630 16th St NW
Washington DC 20009

PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the Colorado
office between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm, Mountain Time, weekdays
only, if sending appeals after January 25, 1993.

If you have any questions about this Urgent Action appeal or
the Urgent Action Network in general please contact:

Scott Harrison
Urgent Action program office
PO Box 1270
Nederland CO 80466
303 440 0913 (voice)
303 258 7881 (fax)
sharrison@igc.org (e-mail address)

If you are not a member of Amnesty International USA, we
would like to send you information.
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Subject: NEWS:Mexican Officials Accused in DEA Murder
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:50:40 GMT


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edlp 12/10 Translated and edited by Toby Mailman.  "el Diario/La
Prensa" is a Spanish language newspaper published in New York
City.

MEXICAN OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF CAMARENA MURDER

In testimony on Dec. 9, in the trial of Dr. Humberto Alvarez
Machain and Ruben Zuno Arce, a former bodyguard of drug trafficker
Ernesto Fonscea, Jorge Godoy, described four meetings in which the
kidnapping of Enrique Camarena was discussed.

Camarena was a US DEA agent killed in 1985. Machain and Zuno are
accused of involvement in the killing. Godoy said the meetings in
which Camareno's kidnapping was discussed were attended by heads
of the Guadalajara drug ring, then-Mexican Minister of Defense
Juan Arevalo and then-Minister of the Interior Manual Bartlett
Diaz.  He said that the governor of the state of Jalisco, Enrique
Alvarez del Castillo, and the director of Interpol, Manuel Aldana
Ibarra, also attended some meetings. He said Mexican authorities
located and identified Camarena so that the drug traffickers could
kidnap and kill him.

Mexican officials immediately reacted to the assertions. Bartlett
Diaz, recently elected as governor of the state of Puebla, denied
any involvement in the the case. Dr. Alvarez is accused of using
his medical knowledge to keep Camareno alive while he was being
tortured. (edlp 12/10 from AP)

edlp 12/11

MACHAIN MAY NOT FACE CHARGES IN CAMARENA CASE

Federal Judge Edward Rafeedie said he may drop the charges against
a Mexican doctor in the case of the torture and death of US DEA
agent Enrique Camarena. He said there was no evidence that the
doctor, Humberto Alvarez Machain, had directly participated in the
kidnapping of the agent. Prosecuting attorneys said that Alvarez
injected Camarena with drugs to keep him alive while he was
tortured by drug traffickers. However, Judge Rafeedie said the
only evidence was that the doctor was at the site, but not that he
had injected anything. Machain supposedly confessed that he had
been at the house but had not participated in the torture. His
defense lawyer, Alan Rubin, said the confession had been obtained
under pressure and could not be used in court. (edlp 12/11 from
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" Few are willing to undertake the tedious task of refuting the
regular flood of lies; they have little access to the public in any
event, and they can always be dismissed by the charge that they are
apologists for the enemy and its actual crimes. This standard device
is sometimes used consciously as a technique to preserve the crucial
Right to Lie in the Service of the State; or, for the more deeply
indoctrinated, it may simply be impossible to conceive of criticism of
the Holy State as anything but support for its official enemies,
principled criticism of the divine institution being unimaginable. In
either case, the discussion shifts to the evil deeds of the official
enemy and the critic can be dismissed as an apologist for these
crimes, as having a "double standard," etc.: the Holy State and the
Right to Lie in its service are secure. The device was, and still is,
used with tiresome regularity with reference to the Indochina wars: a
critic of the US attack against South Vietnam must be a "supporter of
Hanoi," so one can respond to the criticism by producing true or false
charges against Hanoi, and if the critic refutes false charges, that
just proves that he or she is an apologist for Hanoi as originally
claimed and there is no need to consider the original criticism of the
state one serves. The same device is now constantly used in the case
of Central America.

One would think that the transparent silliness of the procedure would
embarrass its practitioners, but evidently this is not the case."

_Turning the Tide. U.S. Intervention in Central America and the
Struggle for Peace_, page 78, by Noam Chomsky. 1985, South End Press,
Boston.


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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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login as "anonymous" and do a "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map"
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Subject: Guatemalan Press Blasts Serrano
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From el diario/La Prensa 12/15/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa" is
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

Guatemalan Press Blasts Serrano

The Council for the the Defense of the Rights of Journalists in
Guatemala responded on Dec. 14 to President Jorge Serrano's
charges that the press was "destablizing the democratic system" of
Guatemala. Serrano also reminded the press that he is the
Commander-and-Chief of the army, and defended that institution,
saying that "when an army is unjustly accused of murder, it is
impeded from the possibility of carrying out its appropriate
function with dignity." The Council denounced Serrano's "threats"
against freedom of expression as well as his accusations that the
press is responsible for "everything bad."

The press considers that Serrano did not keep his campaign
promises and pointed out his "acts of arrogance" such as the
slight he showed to Rigoberta Menchu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, by
not receiving her until three days after knowing about the award.
They also pointed out acts of corruption by the president and
members of his family. (edlp 12/15/92 from AFP)


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From: wheeler@super.org (Ferrell S. Wheeler)
Subject: Shedd/Dolpin Alert
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:38:24 GMT

Shedd/Dolphin Alert

Dolphin Project
Joy Pote-Stanford, Director/Midwest Chapter
P.O. Box 623
Orland Park, IL  60462
Voice: 708/403-1462
Fax:   708/403-5510
 
URGENT!   URGENT!     ACTION ALERT!    URGENT!   URGENT!
 
Informed, reliable sources tell us the Shedd Aquarium plans to
capture the three additional Pacific white-sided dolphins
under Permit #643 issued by the National Marine Fisheries
Service, which is to expire December, 1993.
 
In September 1992 the National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration designated the area where the captures are to
occur a national marine sanctuary, the area being Monterey
Bay, California.  In expressing his pleasure at the
designation, 18th District Representative Leon E. Panetta
says:  "It is my hope that the Monterey sanctuary designation
will provide the Bay's marine mammals with a healthy refuge."
 
Since the captures are scheduled to begin _any day_, it is
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that we express our outrage and demand the
revocation of the Shedd's permit to capture in a designated
refuge for marine mammals.  Claiming to be conservationists,
the Shedd Aquarium should voluntarily surrender this Permit to
NMFS for revocation.
 
PLEASE WRITE AND FAX AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO:
 
Mr. Michael F. Tillman, Ph.D.
Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources
National Marine Fisheries Service/NOAA
1335 East-West Highway, Room #7324
Silver Spring, MD  20910
Fax #301/713-2313
 
Please carbon copy Ms. Ann Terbush, same number; and also Mr.
John Twiss, Executive Director, Marine Mammal Commission, Fax
#202/606-5510.
 
Also, if you know of _anyone_ who would be interested in
getting this permit revoked, please forward this ACTION ALERT
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
 
 

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Subject: The GreenDisk 1#3
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