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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: US Ignored Haiti Embargo in 92
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:05:25 GMT


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From el diario/La Prensa 12/23/92

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


US Ignored 1992 Embargo Against Haiti

In spite of the unilateral embargo against Haiti instituted last
year, the United States did more than $104 million worth of
business with that country in the first seven months of 1992.
Robert Geldbarg, an official with the US Department of State
Office of Inter-American affairs, said the failure of the embargo
was a shame for the White House, but that it did not function
because it lacked the backing of the United Nations. France and
some members of the Organization of American States ignored the
embargo. Washington's policy toward ousted president Jean-Bertrand
Aristide has been at best ambivalent. Some people in the US view
Aristide as anti-US and anti-democratic. Others, however, feel
that Aristide must be returned to the presidency of his country,
having been elected in the first free elections in Haiti. (edlp
12/23/92 from NOTIMEX)


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From: ww%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Workers World Service)
Subject: Indian Firm Produces Cheaper AZT
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:16:56 GMT


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Indian company produces cheaper AZT

By Shishir Thadani

An Indian drug company recently announced it could produce the
AIDS-treatment drug AZT and market it at one-quarter the cost
charged to patients in the U.S. But Burroughs-Wellcome, which
produces and sells AZT in the U.S., has moved to prevent
pharmacies around the world from purchasing the Indian drug.

Burroughs-Wellcome has threatened the Indian company with a
patent-violation lawsuit. But Indian patent laws are different
from those in the U.S. Drugs cannot be patented in India; only
the chemical processes used to manufacture drugs can be patented.

The Indian company has an original manufacturing process. In
fact, a company spokesperson said the firm could compete in the
U.S. market and thus begin higher-volume production.

The drug is already being produced and many Third World countries
have expressed interest in purchasing it. Some are considering
setting up local manufacturing plants with the Indian company's
assistance.

As a goodwill gesture, the Indian government has sent subsidized
shipments of the drug to other Third World countries. Public
health officials in Brazil, Thailand and some East African
countries are following this development with great interest.

But the U.S. government and its imperialist allies in Europe and
Japan are bringing tremendous pressure on the Indian government
to change its more progressive patent laws to mirror those in the
U.S.

Washington's tight patent laws in particular retard technological
development and competition and hurt consumers. This is
especially true in the health-care field, and in the case of AIDS
and other life-threatening illnesses this issue becomes a matter
of life and death.

If the U.S. government succeeds in its effort to stymie Indian
production of the drug, it would drastically increase the death
rate because very few Indians are able to purchase drugs at the
monopoly prices charged by the imperialist drug cartels.

Health care costs in the U.S. are astronomical, in large part
because of the patent laws and trade restrictions against
importing drugs from Third World countries. Shouldn't people with
AIDS in the U.S. also be permitted to benefit from technological
developments taking place in India or any other Third World
country?

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
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From: ww%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Workers World Service)
Subject: Mexican MD Freed, US Kidnappers Foiled
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:18:24 GMT

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MEXICAN DOCTOR FREED, U.S. KIDNAPPERS FOILED

By Shelley Ettinger

On Dec. 14 a federal court threw out the government's case
against Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain. The ruling brought to a
close one of the more brazen recent instances of Washington
treating another nation's sovereignty with contempt.

The Drug Enforcement Agency had charged Alvarez Machain, a
Mexican, with involvement in the death of one of their agents. So
U.S. bounty hunters kidnapped him from his country in 1990,
imprisoned him and brought him to trial.

Just months before kidnapping Alvarez Machain, Washington had
aggressively asserted its right to such an operation.

The December 1989 invasion of Panama was based in large part on
the pretense that bombing and occupying that country was
necessary to bring Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega to trial here on
drug trafficking charges. Once the U.S. had established the
"right" to kidnap a foreign head of state, it was emboldened to
kidnap Alvarez Machain.

The violation of Mexican sovereignty ignited a storm of protests
around the world. The Mexican government called it an outrageous
and insulting intrusion into its internal affairs. Other Latin
American countries, especially, echoed Mexico's anger.

The masses of Mexican people remained irate. Most saw the
kidnapping as the latest in the long history of U.S. imperialist
intervention into Mexico. Over 150 years ago the U.S. stole a
vast section of that country, the area that is now the U.S.
Southwest.

The Alvarez Machain kidnapping also remained a sore point in
official relations between the two governments until the Dec. 14
ruling.

Although Judge Edward Rafeedie blasted the prosecution, his
decision was officially based on the lack of any case against
Alvarez Machain. In 1990 Rafeedie had ruled that the kidnapping
violated international law--but the Supreme Court overruled him.

As Alvarez Machain headed home to Mexico, federal prosecutors
prepared to fight another court ruling.  The judge hearing the
Noriega case in Florida held the Panamanian is a prisoner of war
and must be accorded all rights due such prisoners.

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:35:14 GMT


From Chapter 16 (the Media) in Sexton's _The War on Labor and the Left_:

    During the 1990 national Greyhound strike, the New York Times was
    "the real media culprit," Gavrielle Gemma writes, "printing the
    company's side of the story on wages and union demands" and
    failing to report that Greyhound workers were making the same
    wages they had fifteen year earlier, that maintenance workers with
    seventeen years of experience made only $6.50 an hour, that the
    company was asking workers to pay the full cost of medical
    coverage, and that no worker had been able to join the pension
    plan since 1983. Instead, the Times ran an "unabashed puff piece
    on the Greyhound CEO" and "lies about the figures, giving as
    averages the salaries of drivers who work excessive overtime." The
    media role was clear: "to turn the public against the union in
    support of the company's positions" by denying the strikers'
    legitimate grievances, by portraying them (and only them) as
    violent, and by stressing the inconvenience of the strike to the
    public.

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From:
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_The War on Labor and the Left. 
 Understanding America's Unique Conservatism_ 
By Professor Patricia Cayo Sexton 
Westview Press -- Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford 
ISBN 0-8133-1062-8  ///\\\ ISBN 0-8133-1063-6 (pbk) 


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From: ww%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Workers World Service)
Subject: Panther Freed--after 21 Years
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:41:43 GMT


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Ahmad Abdur-Ahman freed!

By Cheryl LaBash
Detroit

A homecoming celebration filled the Museum of African American
History here with joy Dec. 18. A community that had struggled
hard to win the release of Ahmad Abdur-Rahman rejoiced in the
freedom of "a man who stands for principle, who has sacrificed
for principle."

Rahman was pardoned and released from prison in November, after
21 years.

As part of the Black Panther Party's anti-drug program, Rahman
participated in a drug house raid in 1971. The house, supplied by
a government informant, turned out to house Wayne State
University students.

While Rahman was on another floor searching for drugs, another
anti-drug fighter's gun went off, killing Frank Abramson. Rahman
refused to plead guilty to an act he did not commit.

He was convicted under an unconstitutional Michigan law making
all participants in a felony equally guilty. Rahman was sentenced
to life in prison, the maximum sentence.

The man who shot Abramson was released nine years ago.

At the celebration, Rahman said it was important not to forget
the warriors who have died, been incarcerated, or killed
struggling for the liberation of African people.

He pointed out that there are many political prisoners and
sisters and brothers who are still locked up and don't need to be
locked up. He said he will personally call the governor about
getting them out.

"I want the governor to know," he said, "that even though I'm
glad he pardoned me, I was never a criminal in the first place.
Even though I have spent 21 years in prison, the prison was never
in me."

Ahmad Abdur-Rahman was a political prisoner, targeted by the
government for his participation in the Black liberation struggle
and railroaded to prison for a crime he did not commit. Rahman
was kept incarcerated by a racist system that not forgive or
forget the participants in the struggle for the poor and
oppressed.

Showing tireless endurance, the Committee to Free Ahmad mobilized
wide support, including Frank Abramson's sister, for the parole
hearing in September. This effort finally prevailed.

                               -30-

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From: aforum%moose.uvm.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (autonome forum)
Subject: UK anti-racist news
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:43:46 GMT

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from: ECN London

15 December 1992

ANTI-RACIST NEWS:

-Five thousand people marched against racism in Glasgow on
November 28th in a demonstration called by the Scottish Campaign
Against Racism and Fascism (SCARF). At one point the demonstration
was attacked by 20 fascists. 15 fascists and three anti-fascists were
arrested.

-Asian and African-Caribbean youth in Newcastle (north-east England)
have formed a campaign after the racist murder of 66-year old Aziz
Miah on 14 September. A week after Mr Miah was battered to death
by a racist gang while on his way to a mosque, there was an angry
demonstration from the estate where he lived to the police station. The
Mr Miah Justice Campaign has now been formed, with a newsletter
called Kal Ki Awazz (Voice of Tomorrow).

contact: Mr Miah Justice Campaign, c/o 262 Westgate Road,
Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE4.

-in the West Midlands, police have been harassing the Ahmed family.
In June the family were assaulted and racially abused in their own
home by police who claimed they were investigating a complaint about
noise. Three brothers were arrested and charged, and their 61-year old
mother suffered a cut arm after being pushed by police. Later, she was
also arrested when she went to the police station to enquire about her
sons. A few weeks later, police again forced entry into the family
home, and shook awake a four year old child to ask her where her
father was.

The Sandwell Action Committee Against Racist Police Harassment
have been organising regular pickets of the court where the Ahmed
brothers have been standing trial.

contact: Sandwell Action Committee Against Racist Police
Harassment, c/o Sandwell REC, High Street, West Bromwich.

information from: Campaign against Racism and Fascism, BM Box
8784, London WC1N 3XX (CARF produce a magazine, which is
probably the best regular UK anti-racist publication).

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From: <pnmideast@igc.apc.org>
Subject: MUSLIM CONFERENCES ON APC
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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:59:03 GMT

/* Written 11:09 pm  Dec 27, 1992 by pnmideast@igc.apc.org in igc:gen.muslims */
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There are now TWO conferences devoted to Islam and Muslim-related
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From: rrk@iris3.chem.fsu.edu (Randal R. Ketchem)
Subject: Re: Desperately looking for the book "Numerical Recipes in C"
Keywords: Numerical Recipes in C
Organization: Florida State University -- Structural Biology Program
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 00:25:14 GMT

In article <6563@pdxgate.UUCP> chandana@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (S. Chandana) writes:
>Hi there.
>I am looking for the book "Numerical Recipes in C".
>I am only looking for the algorithms used to find statistical
>stuff.
>
>If any body out there can tell me where to find the book
>or can send me the required algorithms or can tell
>me where to get them (FTP sites) it will be a great help.
>
>			:-)
>
>Thanx,
>Chandana.
>
>My e-mail is "chandana@ee.pdx.edu"

The library at FSU has a copy, so check the libraries around you. You could
do what I did and buy a copy. :-)

Randy

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From: iqbal@seine.eng.ohio-state.edu (Kamran Iqbal)
Subject: Books available for sale
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:07:29 GMT


The following books are available for sale:

Gilbert and Gilbert		Elementary Modern Algebra		$15 obo
Brogan				Modern Control Theory (2nd Ed)		$8 obo
Atherton			Nonlinear Control Engineering		$8 obo
Taub and Schilling		Digital Integrated Electronics		$5 obo
Hamacher, Vranesic and Zaky	Computer Organization (2nd Ed)		$5 obo
Schaum (outline series)		Vector Analysis				$5 obo
Reynolds		Program Design and Data Structures in Pascal	$5 obo

-- 
KAMRAN IQBAL	  | In the name of Allah, the beneficient, the merciful.
Dept of Elec Eng  |  "I bear witness that there is no god but ALLAH,
Ohio State Univ   |   I bear witness that MUHAMMAD is his messenger".
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From: macgregor@master.lds-az.loral.com (Mac Macgregor)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,misc.education
Subject: College Textbook Publishers
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:57:50 GMT
Organization: LDS-AZ

Over the past decade, I have dealt with, reviewed, adopted, considered
adopting, etc. etc. a variety of Computer Survey/Programming/
Systems Analysis textbooks for my Community College courses.

Apparently there have been a lot of mergers and acquisitions
in recent years & it's left me totally confused as to who
publishes what for which markets.  I would appreciate it if
any netters out there could shed some light on who is still
active in the field, who owns who, and why A survived but B
didn't.

Here's my list of the publishers I'm aware of, and the location
of their College Text operations:

Allyn & Bacon Inc. - NJ
Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co. - MA
Wm. C. Brown Co. Pub. - IA
Business Publications Inc. - TX
Brooks/Cole Pub. Co. - CA
Bell & Howell - OH
CBS College Publishing - CA:
			Dryden
			Holt, Rinehart, Winston
			Saunders College
Computer Science Press - MD
Dilithium Press - OR
Dellen Pub. Co. - CA
Harper & Row - CA
Houghton Mifflin - CA
R. D. Irwin Inc. Publishing - IL
Kent - ?
Chas. E. Merrill - OH
Mitchel Publishing
McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. - NY:
			Gregg Division
Mac<illan Pub. Co. - NY
Mayfield Pub. Co. - CA
Prentice-Hall Pub. - NJ
PWS Publishers - MA
South-Western Pub. Co. - CA
Sanders Pub. - NH
Science Research Associates - IL
Van Nostrand Rinehart - KT
John Wiley & Sons Inc. - NY
West Publishing Co. -MN
Wadsworth Pub. - CA
Yourdon Press - NY

Thanks in advance,
Mac
--------------------------------
Mac MacGregor     (602) 925-7112
macgregor@master.lds-az.loral.com
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From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Why is the ARM hardbound but Stroustrup (2nd Edition) still paperback?
Keywords: ARM  Stroustrup
Date: 30 Dec 92 16:06:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: alice.24515
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ




``The C++ Programming Language'' is softbound (except for the German,
Italian, and Russian) translations to keep the price down. I'm told
that Addison Wesley provides softbound copies only of books that might
appeal to large numbers of students and programmers (they are supposed
to be short of money).

The ARM on the other hand were supposed to appeal only to a small
number of ``professionals'' who are supposed to have lots of money
so that they are willing to pay for hardcover.