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Subject: US Judge Frees Mexican MD Kidnapped by DEA
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:25:25 GMT
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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.


Mexican Doctor Will Not Face Camarena Charges in US Court

On Dec. 14 in Los Angeles, California, US Federal Judge Edward
Rafeedie dismissed charges against Humberto Alvarez Machain, a
Mexican doctor accused of having been involved with the torture
and death of US [DEA] agent Enrique Camarena.

Camarena was kidnapped, tortured and killed by Mexican drug
"barons" in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1985. Judge Rafeedie said that
the only evidence against Machain presented by the prosecutors was
to demonstrate that Machain had been in the house where Camarena
had been tortured. This evidence, he said, "does not reach even
the minimum level to take the case to trial." It was known that
Machain often visited the house where the murder was committed to
give the drug traffickers injections of vitamins and "youth
serum."

Prosecution witnesses against Machain were paid and given immunity
by the US Drug Enforcement Agency, thus discrediting their
testimony. Machain himself was kidnapped from Mexico to face trial
in the US. His kidnapping led to the controversial US Supreme
Court decision that it is legal for the US to ignore extradition
laws and kidnap anyone from any other country to face trial on
charges brought against them by the US.

Seven other people have been prosecuted in US courts for
Camarena's murder, and more than a dozen have been declared guilty
in Mexico. Ruben Zuno Arce, brother-in-law of former Mexican
president Luis Echevarria, will face trial for alleged involvement
in the case. (edlp 12/15/92 from various wire services)

Immediately after the Judge's determination Machain was deported
and flown back to Mexico. (WBAI radio, 12/15/92)


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From: Andrew Lang <lang@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Protest US Troops to Somalia
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:20:03 GMT

/* Written  5:32 pm  Dec 13, 1992 by peacenet@igc.apc.org in igc:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Protest US Troops to Somalia" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Protest US Troops to Somalia

From sjuniper Sat Dec 12 13:52:37 1992
From: Steve Juniper <sjuniper>

Opposition to the US intervention days discredits progressive
thinking and action.  Protesting US "intervention" in Somalia
and/or characterizing it as "only acceptable because the (largely
black) US Marine Corps and Army doesn't mind shooting blacks" is
cockamamie.  

I took particular note of the fact that most or all of the people
I have heard opposing US action there are armchair activists at a
comfortable distance from the Horn of Africa.  Aid officials I
have heard who speak from six months or more of current
experience there all basically support the move.

Sure, we should have done more a long time ago, and we should act
more as part of an international body than as cowboys, and of
course we are at least partly responsible for the situation
there.  There are many things I would do, or have done,
differently, but what is important now is to try to get the
forces involved to make the best of the situation, rather than to
just install another Mobutu or Barre.

Everyone from George Bush to Howard Zinn agree that something had
to be done, and I shared Boutros-Ghali's criticism that the West
was focussing on white Yugoslavia while ignoring black Somalia,
and for several years have been doing what little I could to
encourage action.  The forces there are tools that could be used
well or poorly, and it is extremely unlikely that they could make
matters any worse. 

Best wishes,

Steve
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Subject: Chile:Xtian Dems 93 Candidate
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From el diario/La Prensa 12/14/92

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


Chilean Christian Democrats Announce Candidate for 1993 Elections

The Christian Democratic party in Chile announced on Dec. 13
that Senator Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tangle will be their candidate in
the presidential elections in December of 1993. Aside from being
the head of the party, Frei is the son of former Chilean
president Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964-1970). The party's
president said that among the main tasks for the next government
are to continue the struggle against extreme poverty. He said the
new government will defeat anything which threatens democracy. He
also pointed out that the next presidential term must incorporate
respect for the dignity of the workers as a permanent fact and
clarified the role which the country's youth should develop.
(edlp 12/14/92 from AP)


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Subject: 17 Million Jobless, Underemployed
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:46:52 GMT

/* Written  6:55 pm  Dec 14, 1992 by labornet@igc.apc.org in igc:labor.newsline */
/* ---------- "17 Million Jobless, Underemployed" ---------- */
                 17 Million Jobless, Underemployed


     WASHINGTON (PAI)--The job market showed modest improvement in
November, causing the unemployment rate to edge down to 7.2 percent
from 7.4 percent in October, the Labor Dept. reported.  Still, 9.2
million people sought work and couldn't find it.

     The AFL-CIO called the November decline in unemployment
"positive."  However, the federation added, "a look behind the
overall numbers reveals that the gains in employment are mainly in
part-time work, self-employment, and upaid family work rather than
in full-time wage and salary jobs."

     Factory unemployment is still down nearly 1.5 million from
January 1989, and construction is down 600,000, the AFL-CIO noted,
adding:  "Clearly, the nation needs to put people back to work with
an effective jobs program."

     With 9.2 million jobless, 1.2 million drop-outs who have
stopped looking for work, and 6.6 million on part-time
involuntarily, it meant 17 million people unemployed and
underemployed.

Excerpted from 12/7/92 Press Associates, Inc.
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                       202/638-0444.

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Timor: US Catholics: Free Xanana
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:03:49 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 319.1 **/
** Written  8:02 pm  Dec 11, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor **
From: Charles Scheiner <cscheiner>
Subject: US Catholic Conference: Free Them!

/* Written  2:25 pm  Dec 11, 1992 by apakabar@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.indonesia */
/* ---------- "US Catholic Conference: Free Them!" ---------- */

   According to a December 11 story by Religious News Service (RNS)
datelined Washington, the U.S. Catholic Conference is pressing the
Indonesian government over the fate of East Timorese resistance
leader, Jose Alexandre Gusmao.
   In a letter to Indonesian Ambassador Abdul Rachman Ramly,
Archbishop John Roach of Minneapolis-St. Paul called on the
Indonesians to release Gusmao and other Timorese resistance leaders
immediately.
   Gusmao, popularly known as Xanana, is the key figure in the the
East Timor resistance movement.
   Talks regarding the status of East Timor, part of the island of
Timor northwest of Australia, are scheduled to begin Dec. 16 under the
auspices of United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali.
The island was formally ruled by the Dutch and the Portuguese. At
independence, the western, Dutch-ruled part of the island became a
province of Indonesia but the East Timorese sought independence. In
1975, the Indonesians invaded East Timor.
   Since the 1975 invasion, an armed resistnce movement, seeking
independence from Indonesia, has erupted in large-scale violence. A
year ago, Indonesian troops massacred dozens of demonstrators at a
Catholic cemetery.
   "You are well aware that the situation of East Timor and the
behavior of Indonesian forces there continue to be of deep concern to
many in this country," Roach said in his letter to the Indonesian
envoy.
   "Those of us who consider ourselves both friends of Indonesia and
supported the legitimate rights of the Timorese people would be very
pleased to learn of the immediate release of these detained persons,"
Roach said.
   Last month, marking the anniversary of the massacre, Roach called
on the U.S. government to pay greater attention to the plight of the
East Timorese.

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

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From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: Federal Judge Revokes Citizenship of Nazi Concentration Camp Guard
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:22:45 GMT

Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

 Federal Judge Revokes Citizenship of Nazi Concentration Camp Guard
 To: National Desk
 Contact: Dean St. Dennis of the U.S. Department of Justice,
          202-514-2007

   WASHINGTON, Dec. 18  -- The Department of Justice
announced today that a federal judge here has revoked the U.S.
citizenship of Anton Bless of Lecanto, Fla., a Nazi concentration
camp guard.
   U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green entered the default judgment
after Bless failed to answer a complaint filed by the Office of
Special Investigations (OSI) of the Criminal Division and the U.S.
Attorney's Office.
   Bless earlier fled from the United States to Germany after being
told the complaint was to be filed, and his attorney informed the
department that his client would not defend himself against the
charges.
   The complaint alleged that Bless, 67, a retired machinist, joined
the Waffen-SS (Armed-SS) in 1942 and served in the SS-Totenkopf
Sturmbann (SS Death's Head Battalion) in the infamous Auschwitz camp
system in Nazi-occupied Poland.
   The complaint said Bless' service in the Waffen-SS -- an
organization adjudged as criminal in 1946 by the International
Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany -- constituted assistance in
the Nazi program of persecution based on race, religion, political
opinion and national origin.  More than 1 million people, among them
at least 960,000 Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz.
   Following the end of world War II, the complaint said, Bless
concealed his service as an SS guard at the Auschwitz camp system
from U.S. government officials at the following times:

   1.  In 1956, when he successfully entered the United States from
       Salzburg, Austria under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953; and

   2.  In 1964, when he successfully applied for naturalized U.S.
       citizenship.

   Neal M. Sher, director of OSI, said revocation of Bless'
citizenship resulted from the department's ongoing efforts to
identify and take legal action against former participants in Nazi
persecution who reside in the United States.  With this case, 44 Nazi
persecutors have been stripped of U.S. citizenship as a result of
OSI's investigations and prosecutions, and 33 persons have been
removed from the United States.
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Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:35:15 GMT


The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of
an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those
mental attitides and values which shape the course of a
nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at
changing official policies and institutions with a view to an
improvement in material conditions has little chance of
genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces
which had produced inequities of the old order would continue
to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of
reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for
freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united
determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices
in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting
influences of desire, ill-will, ignorance, and fear.
 -Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Dissident, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Timor: Hiroshima Xanana Appeal
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:05:19 GMT

/** reg.easttimor: 364.0 **/
** Topic: Hiroshima Xanana Appeal **
** Written  6:05 am  Dec 10, 1992 by jinglis in cdp:reg.easttimor **
      Hiroshima Appeal to Japanese Parliamentarians for East Timor Leader

     Deeply concerned at the arrest on Nov. 20 of East Timorese leader 
Xanana Gusmao and others, and dismayed by the failure of the Japanese
Government to act, citizens in Hiroshima issued an appeal to the members of
the upper and lower houses of the Japanese Diet.  On Dec. 8 a letter was 
delivered to each parliamentarian's diet office, calling on him/her to
press the Japanese government to use its considerable leverage with the
Indonesian Government to secure the release of Xanana and the others and to
persuade Jakarta to engage in peace negotiations under UN auspices to achieve
a peaceful settlement of the East Timor issue.

     In recent years Japan's economic aid to the Suharto regime has grown
to the point where it is now roughly equivalent to Indonesia's defense budget.
This year's pledge, $1.32 billion, is ten times the amount pledged by the
No. 2 donor country, France.

     The letter from East Timor support groups in Hiroshima City and nearby
Kure City refers to the importance of negotiations at the UN on the issue and
states that Xanana is "the most appropriate person to represent the East
Timorese people" at these talks.

     Negotiations between Indonesia and Portugal are scheduled to take place
under the auspices of UN Secretary General BoutrosGhali on Dec. 17.  Mr.
Gusmao's arrest and Indonesian authorities' statements that he will be put
on trial have cast a pall over prospects for the talks.  Over the years
the Foreign Ministry has repeatedly stated that its position on the East Timor
issue is one of "watching the negotiations under the auspices of the Secretary
General."  The Hiroshima citizens action is aimed at garnering parliamentarians'
support for a more active stance by Japan in support of the negotiations.

In addition to the letter to parliamentarians, the Hiroshima groups have
printed and distributed to the public postcards addressed to the Indonesian
Embassy and Japanese Foreign Ministry calling for Xanana's release, as
have a number of other East Timor support groups in Japan.
** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **
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Subject: DEMO VS U.S. IN SOMALIA 12/21 NYC
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Received Dec 15, 1992

                   INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER
                       39 West 14th Street
                           New York, NY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DEC 9

CONTACT: PAUL AHUJA                       PH: (212) 633-6646
     or: BRIAN BECKER                    FAX: (212) 633-2889

       DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST U.S. OCCUPATION OF SOMALIA

                    MONDAY, DEC 21st 5:00 P.M.
                   HERALD SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY

A demonstration will be held Monday, December 21st at 5 pm at
Herald Square 34th & 6th Ave to protest the U.S. military
occupation of Somalia by thirty thousand soldiers. The organizers
contend that a massive relief effort was and is possible without
militarily taking over the entire country.

"After a year of doing nothing, while hundreds of thousands of
Somali people starved, the Bush administration suddenly decided to
militarily occupy Somalia- not so much to feed starving children
but to dominate the Horn of Africa and turn it into a another
strategic military base in the oil-rich Middle East." states
Monica Moorehead, a spokesperson for the I.A.C.

"We would do well to remember the U.S. government, including the
Pentagon and C.I.A. have supported the most racist and reactionary
regimes in Africa, from the apartheid regime in South Africa, to
Mubutu in Zaire, to Savimbi in Angola." states Moorehead.

Moorehead also said that the Pentagon is staging this high-
profile operation to "showcase Pentagon capabilities" in order to
resist growing demands that the "bloated 300 billion dollar annual
budget not be significantlly reduced in the post-cold war era."

"Ironically, Moorehead continues, the initial result of the U.S.
military occupation has been to shut down relief operations by
telling all relief workers to stay indoors for 48 hours, gravely
affecting hundreds of thousands of hungry people, according to the
N.Y. Times. Also, the house to house searches and the disarming of
people who've not been proven to be hostile is pure colonialism."

Moorehead also said that instead of spending billions on military
occupation" the people of Somalia and all of Africa deserve
reparations from western countries that got rich from centuries of
colonialism, plunder and enslavement."


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Subject: Mexican Govt Refutes Camarena Chg
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From el diario/La Prensa 12/14/92

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

Mexican Government Refutes Guilt in Camarena Murder

A communique issued by the Mexican Attorney General's office
on Dec. 13 stated that former Mexican government officials are
presumed to be innocent of charges brought against them by the
US. Manuel Bartlett, former Minister of Government, and Juan
Arevalo, former Minister of Defence, as well as the former head
of the Justice Department, Enrique Alvarez, have been accused by
the US of being involved in the killing of Enrique Camarena, an
agent for the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and of drug
trafficking. Camarena was killed in Guadalajara in 1985 after
having been tortured. The Attorney General's office dismissed as
invalid testimony against the three given by witnesses paid by
the DEA. The communique also said that the case against Alvarez
Machain, being tried in Los Angeles, California, is filled with
holes. The Attorney General's office said firstly that Machain
was kidnapped from Mexico in order to be tried in Los Angelas,
and that the witnesses against him lack crediblity since they
have previous criminal records and have been granted immunity by
the DEA. Macahin, a medical doctor, is accused of having injected
Camarena with drugs to keep him alive while he was being
tortured. (edlp 12/14/92 from AFP)


Mexico Names New Ambassador to US after Clinton Victory

Mexico's president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, named Jorge
Montano as the new ambassador to the US, replacing Gustavo
Petricioli. It is said that Petricioli was a personal friend of
out-going US president George Bush. His replacement was named
after Bill Clinton's victory in the US presidential elections.
Montano is 47 years old, a career foreign service officer who,
since Jan. 1989, has represented Mexico to the United Nations. He
has a law degree from the Mexican National Autonomous University
and a doctorate degree in Political Psychology from the
University of London. (edlp 12/14/92 from AFP)


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