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Subject: Guatemala Troops Harass Indigenous/ed-lp
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:47:35 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.


GUATEMALAN TROOPS HARASS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

On Dec. 9 the Communities of People in Resistance (CPR) in
Guatemala denounced the "constant harassment" by army troops
against indigenous populations displaced by the violence in the
jungle areas of the northeastern part of that country. Indigenous
Leaders Eliseo Lope, Paula Ros, Carlon Tun and Marcos Ramirez said
at a press conference in Guatemala City that on Nov. 29 army
troops attacked two small towns in Ixcan, Quiche, along the border
with Mexico, some 300 miles from Guatemala City.

Meanwhile, Rigoberta Menchu is in Oslo, Sweden, to receive her
Nobel Peace Prize. Francis Sejersted, president of the Nobel Prize
committee, said "may your prize serve to renew the peace talks in
Guatemala." (edlp 12/10 from AFP)


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From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: United Mine Workers Leaders to be Inaugurated Dec. 22 in Pittsburgh
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 03:03:30 GMT

 United Mine Workers Leaders to be Inaugurated Dec. 22 in Pittsburgh
 To: National and Assignment desk, Labor Writer
 Contact: Jim Grossfeld, 202-842-7240
          or John Duray, 412-222-9144
          both of the United Mine Workers of America

   WASHINGTON, Dec. 16  -- The top officers of the United Mine 
Workers of America (UMWA) will be inaugurated Tuesday,
Dec. 22 in Pittsburgh, Pa.
   The rank-and-file election last month of UMWA President Richard
Trumka, Vice President Cecil Roberts and Secretary-Treasurer
Jerry Jones was certified today by the UMWA's international
tellers, the officials charged with conducting UMWA elections.
   Trumka, Roberts and Jones were re-elected Nov. 10 with
approximately 80 percent of the vote.  The three union leaders will
be sworn in to serve new five-year terms at inaugural ceremonies at
the Sheraton Station Square Hotel, 7 Station Square Dr., in
Pittsburgh.  The program, which will begin at 11 a.m., is open to
the public and the news media is invited to attend.
   Trumka and Roberts will both begin their third terms as ranking
UMWA international officers.  Jerry Jones, originally appointed to
complete the unexpired term of retired Secretary-Treasurer John
Banovic, now begins his first full term as one of the UMWA's top
international officers.
   Trumka, a native of Nemacolin, Pa., is currently leading the
UMWA in contract negotiations with the U.S. coal industry.  This
week the union leader is participating in President-elect Bill
Clinton's Economic Conference in Little Rock, Ark.
   In addition to Trumka, Roberts and Jones, other officers to be
sworn in Tuesday include 10 union auditors and tellers who were
also chosen in last month's election.  Clemmy F. Allen, Russell
Stilwell, Bobby R. Webb, Donnie Samms and Bob Burchell will take
the oath of office to serve as tellers.  Richard Kulick, Harold
"Babe" Erdos, Freddie Maynard, Jim Stevenson and Hughie MacArthur
will also be sworn in as auditors.  Like Trumka, Roberts and Jones,
the auditors and tellers were elected to five-year terms of office.
   The UMWA has approximately 200,000 members throughout the
United States and Canada.
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Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!

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Subject: Clinton Office Requests Comments
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The Transition Office for President-Elect Clinton needs some feedback
in order to keep this Internet connection open.  If you would
like to see material from the President's Office regularly posted
to Usenet Newsgroups please write Jeff Eller in the
Communications Office of the President-Elect at the following address.


 The U. S. Mail address for the Clinton/Gore Transition Team is:

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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Slick Willy & Ronbo
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:17:58 GMT


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Clinton and Reagan share more than candy

By David Perez

When President-elect Bill Clinton met with Ronald Reagan on Nov.
27, it wasn't to discuss jellybeans, as the media made it seem.
Just what was it they did discuss? Let's hear from the "Great
Communicator" himself:

"When Bill Clinton called on me the other day, it didn't take us
long to find several things we agreed about, such as the
line-item veto and trimming the size of government in some
areas." These are just some of the words appearing in a very
friendly article written by Reagan for the Dec. 8 Wall St.
Journal.

Letting more of the cat out of the bag, Reagan wrote how in the
course of their meeting, "Clinton spoke of his plans to trim the
federal work force through attrition." All, of course in the name
of "cutting bureaucracy" and making government "more efficient."

Permanently reducing the workforce, however, is something that is
not peculiar to just Clinton and Reagan. Every major capitalist
institution--from the giant corporations to the local
governments--is involved in some form of restructuring. Poor and
working people by the tens of thousands are getting the axe, with
no prospect of ever being rehired.

The real symbolism of Reagan and Clinton whooping it up over a
jar of jellybeans is this: cheap candy is really all the masses
should expect.

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From: GDMENDEN%MTUS5.bitnet@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
Subject: Ramya
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:51:55 GMT

From ADC Times, November 1992, p19:

RAMYA VICTORY AT HAND

   The travails of the Arab villagers of Ramya, located next to
the Israeli town of Carmiel, may be coming to an end.  In June
1991, although the Ramya residents hold titles to their land, they
received an eviction order issued by the District Court in Haifa to
make way for Soviet Jewish immigrants.  ADC assisted in a massive
international campaign, conducted in cooperation with the Ramya
Solidarity Committee.

    Although that eviction was put on hold thanks, in part, to
the international campaign, recently the villagers received another
eviction notice.  The Ramya Solidarity Committee contacted ADC
Outreach Director Larry Ekin who helped draft a letter of endorsement
for circulation to various national and local groups, and an
action alert transmitted through the North American Coordinating
Committee network.  The letter received endorsements from peace
groups, solidarity organizations, academic associations, church
representatives, and a number of Jewish organizations played
key roles in soliciting support.

    In late October, the US State Department informed ADC, and
the Ramya Solidarity Committee confirmed, that agreement may be
near.  Israeli Police Minister Shahal intervened to halt the
eviction notice and agreed to mediate a solution.

    Sources close to the Ramya villagers indicated they were
"cautiously optimistic," and expressed their appreciation for
the very strong support that was generated for their cause
from non-governmental organizations around the world.

gdm
From: marks%math.berkeley.edu@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Greg Marks)
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Subject: Re:  Journalism a Dangerous Profession/ed-lp
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:35:23 GMT
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	Not to nitpick on an important and informative post, but while
Freedom House can indubitably be characterized as right wing, I don't
think it can be correctly called a human rights organization, except
insofar as it seeks to ensure that human rights are sufficiently
violated by the U.S.  Its most famous, pseudo-scholarly study showed
that the U.S. media were insufficiently enthusiastic about prospects for
victory in the Vietnam War (in its words, "biased," "Communist dupes,"
etc.).  In fact, the media were considerably more optimistic about
prospects for success than was the Pentagon and the generals in the field.
In other words, Freedom House's standards for jingoistic revelry are very
high.  For more on this subject, see Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman,
"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media," Pantheon
Books, 1988.

				Greg Marks
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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: NYC:Rights and the Rainbow
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:04:27 GMT

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RIGHTS AND THE RAINBOW

The New York City Board of Education has now reinstated an
avowedly anti-gay local school board in Queens. This is a
concession to anti-gay zealot Cardinal John O'Connor, and--most
important--to the reactionary ruling-class forces seeking to
promote divisions among the working class and oppressed groups in
New York.

The only appropriate response is to redouble the effort to build
a strong, united, broad-based struggle to demand an end to
heterosexist education. Children who live in heterosexual
families should be taught that lesbian and gay families exist and
must be respected. Children of lesbian or gay parents should see
their families recognized and valued. And youngsters coming to
terms with their own lesbian or gay identity should receive
support and encouragement in their struggle to come out of the
closet.

At the same time, the racist right wing must not be allowed to
derail the whole move toward a multicultural curriculum. A
gay-positive approach is just one aspect. The "rainbow
curriculum" is basically geared toward providing a
non-Eurocentric, non-racist education to New York's
schoolchildren, most of whom are Third World.

When chief Queens bigot Mary Cummins spews her brazenly anti-gay
rant, she and her backers are really opposing the entire
curriculum. A coalition of all the oppressed communities is the
best way to stymie this attempt to set groups against each other.

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
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From: ww%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Workers World Service)
Subject: NEWS:Mine Bosses Kill 8 More Workers
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:27:19 GMT

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MINE BOSSES KILL 8 MORE WORKERS

By G. Dunkel

Eight coal miners were killed in a methane explosion near Norton,
Va., Dec. 7.

Assistant Secretary of Labor Bill Tattersoll, a high-ranking
administration official, announced the deaths. His intervention
testifies to the seriousness of this accident and its
consequences.

Mine workers say the "accident," like most in U.S. coal mines,
was preventable. The supervisor was known for cutting corners
where health and safety matters were concerned.

The families and friends of the miners entombed in South Mountain
Mine No. 3 kept a three-day vigil in front of the mine. Norma
Bowman, a cousin of two of those killed, told reporters: "Those
boys all knew the risk. But they didn't have any choice."

Now their families and friends won't have any choice either.
Instead of enjoying the holiday season, they will be filling out
all the paperwork for whatever meager benefits they get and
worrying about their own future.

Thirty more workers are now out of a job, too.

No one expects the mine to re-open. Former South Mountain miner
Howard Campbell said, "As far as the company taking care of the
other miners, that's doubtful."

Southwestern Virginia, tucked between Kentucky and Tennessee, is
an area of extremely high unemployment. According to a local
lawyer: "They're mining more coal now than ever, with fewer men.
It's still a single-employer economy."

Labor Department officials didn't say anything about what they
would do for the remaining workers or surviving family members,
who all face poverty and misery now.

All through Appalachia, the people of the coal fields  realize
the dangers of mining. It's their family members who have been
dying. They're angry that all they get from the mine bosses is
suffering, pain and danger--without even a chance for a safe,
steady, good-paying job.

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
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From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Subject: ISRAEL/OT: Hostage & Palestinians
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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 07:29:06 GMT

/* Written 11:29 pm  Dec 19, 1992 by hnaylor@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general */
/* ---------- "ISRAEL/OT: Hostage & Palestinians" ---------- */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom

DATE: 17 DECEMBER 1992

ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES:  AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL STRONGLY CONDEMNS
KILLING OF ISRAELI HOSTAGE, CALLS ON ISRAEL TO STOP DEPORTATION OF PALESTINIAN
DETAINEES

Amnesty International has strongly condemned the killing of Sergeant Nissim
Toledano, a member of the Israeli Border Police who was taken hostage on 13
December 1992 by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and whose body was
found two days later.  The organization had called on Hamas not to ill- treat
or execute him and to release him as he was held as a hostage.  It regrets
that its appeal has failed. Amnesty International is appealing to the Israeli
authorities not to retaliate to the killing of Sergeant Toledano by deporting
hundreds of Palestinians.  Over 400 Palestinians, said by the government to be
supporters of Hamas and other Palestinian groups, were moved during the night
of 16 December to near the border with Lebanon and are now reported to be held
blindfold in buses awaiting deportation.  The Israeli High Court of Justice
has ordered the government not to carry out the deportations until it reviews
the decision.  It is currently meeting to do so. Amnesty International opposes
the detention and forcible exile of individuals when such measures are imposed
solely on account of their political or other beliefs, expressed without using
of advocating violence.
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From: Hilary Naylor <hnaylor@igc.apc.org>
Subject: THAILAND: Gov.critic risks detenti
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:24:21 GMT

/* Written  7:25 pm  Dec 13, 1992 by hnaylor@igc.apc.org in igc:ai.general */
/* ---------- "THAILAND: Gov.critic risks detenti" ---------- */
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 8DJ
United Kingdom 

DATE: 10 DECEMBER 1992

THAILAND: THAI GOVERNMENT CRITIC RISKS DETENTION

Amnesty International wrote to King Bhumibol Adulyadej on 8 December
expressing concern that Professor Sulak Sivaraksa is at grave risk of arrest
and detention as a prisoner of conscience upon his voluntary return to
Thailand on 14 December. The organization called on the Thai Government to
ensure that Professor Sulak Sivaraksa is not detained as a prisoner of
conscience when he returns to Thailand and to ensure that he is at all times
safeguarded from ill-treatment. 

      In September 1991, it was reported that the Thai military authorities
had issued a warrant for the arrest of Professor Sulak Sivaraksa for remarks
he made about the monarchy and the military on 22 August 1991. Following the
issue of the warrant, which includes charges of "lese majest", he went into
hiding and subsequently left Thailand. Amnesty International believes that if
detained on these charges, Professor Sulak Sivaraksa would be a prisoner of
conscience and the organization would demand his immediate and unconditional
release.

      The warrant for Professor Sulak's arrest is reportedly based on remarks
he made on 22 August 1991 during a talk at Thammasaat University. He said that
Thai people should "accept that the King, the Crown Prince and the Princesses
are just ordinary people", and that he believed the King was "open to honest
criticism". Amnesty International believes that his detention for his remarks
about the monarchy would be a violation of the right to freedom of opinion and
expression. The organization is therefore urging that he not be arrested on
these grounds. 

      Professor Sulak Sivaraksa also talked about how General Suchinda and
General Sunthorn had visited Burma for talks with leaders of that country's
military junta immediately before they carried out a military coup in Thailand
on 23 February 1991 overthrowing the elected civilian government. Professor
Sulak asked, "Did they go to Burma to learn how to carry out the coup?" He
also alleged the Burmese and Thai militaries "are actually working together,
in logging, fishing and arms trading." 

      Amnesty International urges that, should Professor Sulak Sivaraksa be
charged with "defamation", he be given a fair trial at which he may be found
innocent - if his remarks are judged to be true or to constitute fair comment
made in good faith about matters subject to public criticism - as is provided
in Thai law. Amnesty International is also urging that Professor Sulak's
physical security be properly safeguarded if he is detained. 
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Subject: LA Cops Move Against So.Central Youths
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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 08:03:51 GMT

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LOS ANGELES COPS MOVE AGAINST SOUTH CENTRAL YOUTHS

By Joyce Chediac

Anger hit the streets of South Central Los Angeles on  Dec. 14 in
response to a police assault on demonstrators.

According to an Associated Press report, protesters assembled at
the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues in the South
Central section, where last spring's rebellion began.

Community activists distributed leaflets protesting the high bail
set for four men arrested and charged in the beating of truck
driver Reginald Denny in the early hours of the uprising. These
men are currently awaiting trial.

As the demonstration was winding down police in riot gear
apparently attacked. They arrested 60 people. Most were booked
for "investigation of failure to disperse."

More than 250 cops, fully riot-equipped, were sent into the South
Central. Enraged community members responded by throwing rocks
and bottles at police cars and breaking windows at a service
station.

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Health Insurance

   The first health insurance plan (such as had been proposed by former
President Truman) was put into operation by that great, creeping Socialist --
Prince Otto von Bismark, chancellor of the German Empire.  It was put into
effect in the year 1884 and was in operation right up to the time of Hitler.
Adolf told them  [the German people]  they no longer needed health insurance,
they would soon become masters of the whole world anyway.

>From  Enjoy, Enjoy!  by Harry Golden [Cleveland and New York: World
Publishing Co., 1960].
From: John.W.Lamperti@Dartmouth.EDU


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