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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: LABOR/CENTRAL-AM: US MAY INVESTIGATE GUATEMALAN LABOR VIOLATIONS
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:40:51 GMT

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Topic 196       NNY: US May Invesitgate 
hrcoord apc.labour       8:47 am  Aug 10, 1992 
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From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord> 
Subject: NNY: US May Invesitgate 
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/* Written  7:07 am  Aug 10, 1992 by nicanetny in cdp:reg.nicaragua */ 
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17. US MAY INVESTIGATE GUATEMALAN LABOR VIOLATIONS 

This year the US Trade Representative's Office is expected to finally
order an investigation into labor abuses in Guatemala.  Petitions have
been filed yearly documenting human rights abuses of union organizers
and abuses of labor rights.

Even the US State Department's annual human rights review admits that
20 union leaders fled into exile during 1991 because of death threats
against themselves and their families. US officials say the evidence
has accumulated over the last few years showing that the Guatemalan
government is not taking steps to correct the abuses.

The main goal of the petitions is to force a retraction of US trade
benefits to Guatemala under the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the
Generalized System of Preferences; these benefits have led to an
influx of US garment companies getting their manufacturing done in
Guatemala. [WP 8/1/92] Whatever decision is made on the trade benefits
may soon become irrelevant, however, since Central America is next on
the list for a direct free trade agreement with the US after Mexico
and Chile.


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners(2)
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:16:22 GMT

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** Topic: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners(2) **
** Written  5:13 pm  Aug 12, 1992 by caribdoc in cdp:reg.puertorico **
From: Proyecto Caribeno de Justicia y Paz <caribdoc>
Subject: Puerto Rico:Political Prisoners(2)

                          PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT

[Excerpt]

Isolation from family and the pliitcal community of support has been
a prime weapon used against these men and women. In spite of explicit 
federal regulations mandating that prisoners be placed in prisons as close
to their homes as possible, the U.S places the Puerto Rican political 
prisoners in prisons as far away from their homes as possible.

For years the United States has basically banished indepedence activists,
taking those convicted of pro-independence activity from their country and
forcing service of prison sentences inside the U.S., as it did with Don
Pedro Albizu Campos and other Nationalist Party leaders, as it continued to
do with Pablo Marcano Garcia and Nydia Cuevas, and with Angel Rodriguez 
Cristobal and his fellow Vieques protestors. The most recent example is the
August 30, 1985 arrest in Puerto Rico of eleven activists, who were 
transported out of their country by the U.S. military before they could go
forward on a hearing for bond scheduled to be heard in their own country,
and who were then held in U.S. prisons, some for as long as three years,
before beind admited to bail.

Prison officials also make assignments to prison to intentionally distance
the prisoner under sentence from their families in the U.S. Adolfo Matos,
whose family lives in New York, is in a prison thousands of miles away in
southern California, although there is prison only a few hours drive from
New York, where several of his comrades are imprisoned.

As a result, Adolfo sees his wife and teenage daughters infrequently. One
of his daughters recently made the expensive trip to see her father after
not seeing him for three years. Elizam Escobar, whose son lives in New
York, has repeatedly requested placement in a prison near New York. 

Although hundreds of other prisoners have been assigned to prisons near
New York, authorities tell Elizam they cannot accommodate his wishes because
of "overcrowding". His son was five years old when his father was taken into
custody and in the past eleven years has seen his father on an average of 
less than once a year.

[Sussler, Jan.Condiciones de Encarcelamiento/Conditions of Incarceration,
Ofensiva '92, Rio Piedras:Puerto Rico, p.22-23.]

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From: Nigel.Allen@lambada.oit.unc.edu
Subject: McDonnell Douglas Pays U.S. $1 Million to Settle Dispute
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:49:15 GMT

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

  McDonnell Douglas Pays U.S. $1 Million to Settle Dispute 
 To: National and Business desks, Defense Writer 
 Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, 202-514-2007 
 
   WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice 
announced today that McDonnell Douglas Missile Systems will pay the 
United States $1 million to resolve claims it failed to disclose all 
information and also misrepresented other costs in negotiating three 
contracts with the Navy. 
   Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Gerson, head of the Civil 
Division, said the government's claims stemmed from three contracts 
the Navy negotiated with McDonnell Douglas from 1985 through 1987. 
   In those negotiations, McDonnell Douglas told the Navy it planned 
to manufacture in-house air-launch wing kits for the Harpoon missile. 
The company, in fact, purchased the kits. 
   The government also said McDonnell Douglas falsely represented the 
distribution of engineering labor hours between general engineering 
and design engineering and made other misrepresentations about the 
cost of contractor furnished equipment. 
   The settlement resolves claims the United States could have 
brought against McDonnell Douglas under the False Claims Act and 
Truth in Negotiations Act. 
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: URGENT CALL FOR SENATE ACTION ON IRAQ
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 19:12:52 GMT

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** Topic: URGENT CALL FOR SENATE ACTION/IRAQ **
** Written  6:59 pm  Aug 17, 1992 by mlpedersen in cdp:mideast.action **
URGENT CALL FOR SENATE ACTION ON IRAQ
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO ELECT  A PEACE PRESIDENT
                      For information contact:  FAX 312-282-9033
                                                TEL 312-525-5857
                                                TEL 312-282-9547
 
URGENT MEMORANDUM TO:        Daniel Moynihan
Date:                        August 17, 1992
 
Copies to:                   U.N. Secretary General,
                             H.E.  Boutros-Ghali
 
                             Candidates: George Bush,
                             Bill Clinton, Ross Perot
                             
                             Major News Media
                             National Anti-Nuclear
                             and Peace Organizations      
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Dear Senator Moynihan:
 
      Latest news suggests renewed action in Iraq.  Obviously,
Bush's "war thing" is considered effective political strategy: It
worked for Margaret Thatcher in the Falkands, for Ronald Reagan in
Granada, for Bush in Panama and once in Iraq (and perhaps a second
go 'round in Iraq).  We urge you and your colleagues to IMMEDIATELY 
demand from this President and his own private military machine
(funded with our unaccounted for tax dollars) to present to the
Senate, sources, facts and figures surrounding the new threats that
alledgedly risk our "national security".  How many lives have to be
sacrificed on the altar of American Democracy before the CIA is
abolished?  We dare not count the carnage.  This current outrage by
the CIA to provoke Iraq should strengthen your efforts to eliminate
this "other government" once and for all.  We applaud your efforts.
 
      Sincerely, 
 
      Mary Lou Pedersen and LaVerne Hickey
      for NCEPP
** End of text from cdp:mideast.action **

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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Libya Informs UN OF Sanctions' Toll
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:32:29 GMT

/* Written 11:01 pm  Aug 20, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "Libya Informs UN OF Sanctions' Toll" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: Libya Informs UN OF Sanctions' Toll

From isolem Thu Aug 20 10:59:56 1992
From: Ingrid Solem <isolem>

  The Libyan news agency, JANA, today revealed the contents of a letter
written by Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Bishari to UN Secretary General
Boutros-Ghali.

  In the letter, el-Bishari discloses that hundreds of Libyans have died as
a result of the air embargo imposed on the country by the UN Security
Council.  The fatalities include 150 adults and children, as well as 100
infants who required medical treatment not available in Libyan hospitals.

  Al-Bishari adds that there are at the present time 2,445 patients in need
of specialilzed treatment abroad who are unable to receive it because their
conditions are so serious that they could only be transported by air. 

  Since the Security Council sanctions were put into effect on April 15,
Libya has faced major difficulties in trying to maintain the standards of its
health care system which had been generally acknowledged to be among the best
in the Third World.  Health care is free for all, and an extensive network of
hospitals and clinics has been developed throughout the vast (680,000 sq.
miles), sparsely populated country to serve the 2.8 million inhabitants.

  However, the UN air sanctions have made it impossible to fly in vaccines
and fast-expiring drugs such as radiant iodine (used in treating endocrine
disorders), medicines for treating cancer, hormones and antibiotics, all of
which require speedy shipment and special storage conditions.  Since the
imposition of the UN embargo, tens of babies have died for lack of the
measles vaccine.  Before the sanctions, measles and other immunizable
childhood diseases had been virtually eradicated from the country.

  Another tragedy is being recorded among low birth-weight infants.  Prior to
the sanctions, the neo-natal mortality rate was 26 per 1,000.  Now it has
risen to over 60 per 1,000.  Many of the deaths are attributable to a lack of
spare parts for infant resuscitators and respirators.

  Dr. Abdel-Meguid Abu-Rawy, a neo-natal specialist at Tripoli's el-Galaa
Children's Hospital, commented recently, "Because of the air embargo, we are
really in trouble... The U.N. is imposing a death sentence on children."

  Last week the UN Security Council decided to continue the air, arms and
partial diplomatic sanctions against Libya for an additional four months. 
The United States and Great Britain are known to be pressing for the adoption
of even harsher measures, including possibly a total economic embargo and/or
a sea blockade.
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Written by Ingrid Solem   Langley Hill Friends Meeting   McLean, Virginia
From: rich@PENCIL.CS.MISSOURI.EDU (Rich Winkel)
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Subject: San Fran show on Stree Children in Guatemala
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:17:18 GMT
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Distribution: ba
Organization: PACH

/** reg.guatemala: 82.0 **/
** Topic: San Fran show in Stree ChildrenGua **
** Written 10:10 am  Aug 15, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.guatemala **
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: San Fran show in Stree ChildrenGua

/* Written  7:24 pm  Aug 14, 1992 by hwiley in cdp:ai.ideas */
The Eye Gallery in San Francisco will have a photographic 
exhibit on Guatemalan Street Children.  For more information 
call 415-387-9706 or 510-652-0752.  Here's the info in a 
nutshell, taken from the press release:

7 Photographers Featured in Benefit Exhibit for Guatemalan Street Children

Where: Eye Gallery 1151 Mission Street, SF
When: Benefit Reception August 28, 6-10 pm, program starts 
at 7 pm

Exhibit runs August 26-August 30

A photographic exhibition by 7 locally and nationally known 
photographers documentiong the lives of Guatemalan street 
children.  Benefit reception on August 28th will include a 
program of music, speakers, and a slide presentation.  
Guatemalan music is by the group Ixim Tinamit. Proceeds from 
print sales and the reception go to Casa Alianza/Covenant 
House, an aid organization that provides outreach to street 
children. 

Photographers include Diana Smith and Darcy Padilla, David 
Maung of Impact Visuals, LA-based Jeff Share, NY-based Ed 
Quinn, Miquel Luis Fairbanks, 1990 World Press Association 
Feature Photo Award winner, and Antonin Kratochvil, 1991 
World Press Association Photographer of the World.  Also 
include are several photographs by street children themselves 
through a project of photographer Nancy McGirr. 

This exhibition gives an intimate look into the lives of 
children living on the streets and int he dumps of Guatemala 
City. Recenlty their plight has been highlighted by Amnesty 
International and Americas Watch, deatiling beatings, abuse 
and even assasinations by vigilante death squads, the militayr 
and police.

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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: SOMALIA: New Free Fax Numbers!
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 00:31:49 GMT

/* Written  1:51 pm  Aug 15, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.alerts */
/* ---------- "SOMALIA: New Free Fax Numbers!" ---------- */
From: <peacenet>
Subject: SOMALIA: New Free Fax Numbers!

Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 10:30:38 PDT
Resent-From: Dorothy Morse <dmorse>
Subject: SOMALIA! New Free Fax Numbers!

/* Written  9:57 am  Aug 15, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */
/* ---------- "SOMALIA! New Free Fax Numbers!" ---------- */
The State Dept. no. we have been faxing is "out of service."  Here are
new numbers to try, for free faxing through SUNET (this has been arranged
by Bernhard Helander of the University of Uppsala):

HJ_Cohen@f00912026476301.fax.sunet.se

   (this is to the Bureau of African Affairs of the State dept.)

Mark_Johnson@f00912026470810.fax.sunet.se

   (this is to the Bureau of East African Affairs of the State Dept.)

Herman Jay Cohen of the first no. is Assistant Secretary for African Affairs

Mark Johnson is Director of Bureau of East African Affairs

Other numbers still appearing to work are to the Secretary General of the UN
Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

Boutros_Ghali@f00912129634879.fax.sunet.se


To the Clinton Campaign HQ:  Bill_Clinton@f00915013722292.fax.sunet.se

GOOD NEWS is:  indications are that the State Dept. fax went "offline" because
of the great number of faxes concerned about Somalia.

IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS "THREAD":  The numbers above offer FREE FAXING via
SUNET to all users of Internet and Bitnet, about the Somalia crisis--the
worst disaster in the world, where as many as 5000 people are dying each day,
and where aid has been slow in coming.

Our messages now need to emphasize, among other things, quick action in
moving food, etc., and *sustained* action (i.e., it should not slack off
if public attention moves to other things).  For example,

"We urge massive delivery of food and supplies to Somalia by all means
possible, to all ports and airports in the country (not just to the capital
Mogadishu). Millions of people are in immediate danger of starvation and
there must be no delay.

"Such massive aid must continue without interruption or lessening until the Somalian population
is out of danger."

There are many other posts on this somalian topic, of course, from which you
may get information.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Please remember that AN EFFECTIVE FAX IS POLITE!!
Amnesty International, through years of experience, has found that a serious
polite tone will be heeded.  Threats or rudeness can damage the cause;
please avoid them.
Please see next response for additional suggestion.  Thanks to all who help on 
this.

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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
Subject: "STRONG FAMILY VALUES" (IV)
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:02:30 GMT
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Organization: misc.activism.progressive on UseNet ; ACTIV-L@UMCVMB
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu


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        Percentage of children living in poverty 1984-1987:(3)
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               COUNTRY              IN POVERTY         
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               United States           20.4            

[twice the second highest:]

               Canada                   9.3            
               Australia                9.0            

               United Kingdom           7.4            

               France                   4.6            

               Netherands               3.8            
               Germany                  2.8            
               Sweden                   1.6            

Source: Timothy M. Smeeding, "U.S. Poverty and Income Security Policy
in a Cross National Perspective, October 1991, Luxembourg, October,
1991, Luxembourg Income Study, working paper 70.

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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: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: CHILE: GOVERNMENT REJECTS AMNESTY FOR FORMER PINOCHET AGENT
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: PACH
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:23:06 GMT

/** reg.samerica: 200.0 **/
** Topic: IPS:Chile: Government Rejects **
** Written 10:30 am  Aug 14, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: IPS:Chile: Government Rejects

/* Written 12:22 am  Aug 14, 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: CHILE: GOVERNMENT REJECTS AMNESTY FOR FORMER PINOCHET AGENT

santiago, aug 11 (ips) -- the chilean government has announced
that it will not apply the 1978 amnesty law in the case of
osvaldo romo, a former agent under the military regime of general
augusto pinochet accused of serious human rights violations, who
is currently detained in brazil.

presidential spokesman enrique correa said tuesday that in the
government's opinion, ''the amnesty law does not apply to cases
invloving disappearances,'' a reference to the charges faced by
romo.

the former agent of the dismantled national intelligence
department (dina) is accused of more than 100 serious human
rights violations, including torture, assassinations and forced
disappearances.

romo was one of the most notorious figures of the repression
unleashed against left-wingers between 1973 and 1975, during the
first years of general pinochet's military dictatorship.

chilean legal experts believe romo is likely to be repatriated
within the next few days from brazil, where he has been detained
since his arrest on july 29 in sao paulo state. romo had been
living in brazil under a false name since 1976.

a group of ''surviving witnesses'' of the repression,
representing scores of people who were detained in camps for
political prisoners, said tuesday that 90 of its members were
tortured or imprisoned by romo.

during a press conference on tuesday, members of the survivors
group and residents of la hermida district where romo worked
during the early 1970's, called on the government to take up
court cases pending against romo.

a member of the survivors group, dago perez, said romo had
assassinated his mother, lumi videla, whose body was dumped
outside the italian embassy in 1974, and his father, sergio
perez, a leader of the left-wing revolutionary movement (mir),
who disappeared that same year. (ends/ips/trd/ggr/sfi/cg/92)
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From: World Perspectives <worldpnews@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Somalia & other African news
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Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:22:47 GMT

/* Written  5:23 pm  Aug 21, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Somalia & other African news" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704


SOMALIA
 A leading humanitarian organization says people in remote regions
in Somalia are eating their clothes and goat skin bags in order to
stay alive.

The French organization Medicine Sans Frontiers visited the area
close to the Kenya-Ethiopia border. Afterwards a spokesman said the
situation was horrific and declared that immediate intervention is
necessary. He added 80% of children under five were severely under-
nourished - in other words, starving.

Meanwhile, General Aydeed's faction in Somalia has formed a group
with three other movements. The declaration of the group, called
the Somali National Alliance, said its aim was to restore peace. 

In the meantime, Red Cross chief, Beatrice Megavant(?), has
criticized the international community for not acting quickly
enough to stop people dying of starvation.

In an interview with RFI, she said if Red Cross calls for
international aid had been heeded earlier, the tragedy in Somalia
could have been avoided. (R. France 8/19)


NIGERIA
 Nigeria's college teachers union is urging its members to go on
strike, joining university academic staff on strike since July 20.
University teachers are demanding increased salary and allowances,
better funding of universities and academic freedom. (R. France
8/19)


CHAD
 Thirteen rebel fighters and five soldiers were killed in clashes
Aug 17 in southern Chad, according to a government report saying a
convoy of rebel vehicles fired on a military attachment.

The government and the rebel CSNPD signed a peace accord on June
15. (R. France 8/19)


ANGOLA
 An Angolan army column has come under attack from Unita forces.
According to the Angap news agency, the convoy was attacked by
soldiers with machine guns as it moved toward a town. Angolan army
soldiers were carrying out preparation work ahead of the
forthcoming fusion of the army with Unita, which was agreed in
peace talks in Portugal in May 1991. Four people were wounded in
the attack. (R. France 8/19)

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Other news today on worldp.news:
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Afghanistan, Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala.
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