From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Short Wave Radio Report...
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 18:38:28 GMT

From: PENN@MITLNS.MIT.EDU (steve penn 26-567, 253-1521 Remember Our Humanity; Science is Not Neutral; MIT War Research Kills.)

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Short Wave Radio Report...

>From WORLD PERSPECTIVES magazine PO Box 3074 Madison WI. 53704; 
compiling short wave radio news from around the world.


ISRAEL
	There are reports that Israeli army units are using local residents as 
human shields during patrols in southern Lebanon.
	Today three youths were tied by rope to an armored vehicle that was 
part of a patrol that was patrolling Israel's so-called security zone.
	A witness said he also saw an incident in which four girls were 
forced to walk in front of another patrol. These measures are believed to be 
aimed at averting bomb attacks on the patrols.  (Radio Havana 3/11)

LEBANON
	The South Lebanese army is allegedly using human shields to ward 
off bomb attacks. The French news agency AFP quotes United Nations 
sources as saying a South Lebanese Army patrol has forced eight elderly 
men to walk ahead of it for about one kilometer.
	The sources say this is the third incident in a month. UNIFIL, the 
UN force in Lebanon, has protested to Israel, which it also accuses of using 
the human shields but the Israeli authorities have denied any knowledge of 
the incidents. (Radio France 3/16) 
IRAQ
	Iraq's Health Minister reports that over 21,000 people have died over 
the past two months as a result of shortages caused by the UN sanctions.
	That figure includes over 8,000 children. The Health Ministry says 
the elderly, women and children are the most effected by the embargo. Aid 
workers visiting Iraq in recent months have reported shortages of medicine 
and food, as well as health problems caused by sewers damaged in the war 
and other infra-structure. (R. Havana 3/10)
	Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has called for the lifting of 
the UN embargo against his country.
	Shortly after meeting with the UN Security Council Aziz said Iraq 
had already fulfilled its obligations under United Nations resolutions and 
was therefore ready to ask the Council to respond by lifting the sanctions.
	The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister is scheduled to appear before the 
Security Council tomorrow to argue charges that Baghdad has not fully 
complied with UN resolutions calling for the destruction of its nuclear 
weapons. (Radio Havana 3/11) 

UNITED STATES
	The Pentagon is planning to sell $2.5 billion worth of weapons to 
Kuwait. The plan was relayed to Congress where little opposition is 
expected since the US arms industry is lobbying hard, saying that selling 
weapons to foreigners could protect US jobs during the economic recession.
	The Pentagon is reportedly considering further arms sales to Middle 
East nations, such as Saudi Arabia, Israel, The United Arab Emirates and 
Turkey. (Radio Havana 3\11)

UNITED STATES
	A campaigning hispanic journalist who criticized anti-Cuban 
terrorists groups has been murdered in New York.
	Cuban born Manuel de Dios Unanue, former executive director of 
New York's chief Spanish daily El Diario La Prensa, was gunned down last 
night by two unidentified men in a restaurant in Jackson Heights.
	New York City police have circulated the theory that he may have 
been killed by a Colombian drug cartel. But observers of the Hispanic 
community point out that he had recently been highly critical of the ultra-
right wing leader of the Cuban-American National Foundation, Jorge Mas 
Canosa, who ferociously opposes any rapproachment between Cubans in 
the US and the island's revolutionary government.
	In October 1990 the murdered journalist made public a secret 
CubanAmerican Foundation document signed by Mas Canosa which 
planned the elimination of individuals and organizations in the US-Cuban 
community who opposed Mas Canosa's supremacy.
	In the secret Document Mas Canosa, who has designated himself 
Cuban president in exile, stated that nothing and nobody will hold him 
back. "We do not wish it but if blood needs to flow then it will flow," said the 
document. (Radio Havana 3/12) 

GREENPEACE
	The environmental pressure group Greenpeace has urged the 
European Community to stop dumping toxic chemical waste in the Third 
World.
	Greenpeace accuses the Community of applying double standards. It 
says the EC signed an agreement banning waste exports to the 69 
developing countries that make up the so-called ACP group.
	But this agreement does not apply to the 75 other Third World 
countries where, according to Greenpeace, European Community 
countries are dumping several thousand tons of highly toxic waste every 
year.
	At the beginning of this week a ship carrying 950 tons of chemical--
waste from Germany arrived at the Egyptian port of Alexandria. The 
Egyptian authorities turned back the shipment, saying that burning the 
waste would have produced highly toxic gasses. (Radio Netherlands 3/12)

CAMBODIA
	The Khmer Rouge has reportedly launched widespread attacks in 
northern Cambodia only days before the arrival in the country of the main 
body of United Nations peace keeping troops.
	UN and diplomatic sources said the Khmer Rouge is attempting to 
capture as much territory as possible before the peace keeping operation got 
underway.
	Observers describe the fighting as the heaviest in Cambodia in more 
than a year. Under a peace plan signed last October by Cambodia's four 
rival factions, including the Khmer Rouge, any fighting or movement of 
troops is banned.
	UN officials have been holding an emergency meeting with the 
Khmer Rouge military representatives of all factions to discuss the 
violations.  The officials said the Khmer Rouge had attacked at least 12 
strategic areas in a well coordinated offensive, they predicted the fighting 
would escalate.
	The first of an expected 22,000 UN peace keeping troops and officials 
arrived in Cambodia on Wednesday to help disarm the rival factions and 
prepare for free elections. (Radio Australia 3/13).

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