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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:35:10 GMT


  "It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty will be charged to
dangers, real or imagined, from abroad."

--James Madison

  "...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control
can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that
Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards 'justice,
freedom and democracy' within its domains."

--Noam Chomsky, January 1988

  "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
   The obedient must be slaves."

--Henry David Thoreau, 1847

[Thanks to Peter Shell <pshell@WIENER.PRODIGY.CS.CMU.EDU>]


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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: ARGENTINA: MENEM ASKED TO EXPLAIN THREATS
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:23:06 GMT

/** reg.samerica: 115.0 **/
** Topic: ARGENTINA: MENEM ASKED TO EXPLAIN H **
** Written 10:51 am  Jul 17, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:reg.samerica **
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: ARGENTINA: MENEM ASKED TO EXPLAIN H

/* Written 12:07 am  Jul 17, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.englibrary */
Copyright Inter Press Service 1992, all rights reserved.  Permission to re-
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Title: ARGENTINA: MENEM ASKED TO EXPLAIN HIS ALLEGED ''THREATS''

buenos aires, jul 11 (ips) -- an argentinian parliamentarian has
demanded an investigation into president carlos menem's alleged
threats against those who organise and participate in street rallies
to air their grievances.

socialist deputy alfredo brazo has asked the country's judiciary
to verify if menem's words ''constitute an offence or public
intimidation''.

on friday, argentina's daily newspapers quoted menem who warned
against a repeat of the 'plaza de mayo' incident early this month
where parents, teachers and students protested against a law
establishing compensation for former political prisoners of the past
military dictatorship.

menem had made the statements in a press conference this week in
argentina's northern city of tucuman, where he presided over the
country's 176th celebration of independence.

in tucuman, menem said protests organised by teachers ''are
breeding ground for infiltration by subversives'' and called on
parents to prevent their children from joining such rallies.

he said some participants in the 'plaza de mayor' rally had
''contacts'' with fugitive rebel enrique gorriaran, who was
allegedly responsible for the assassination in paraguay
of former nicaraguan dictator anastasio somoza.

in an interview with ips, bravo said menem ''had lost the ability
to think calmly'' about people's protests after he became the object
of school strikes and massive protest demonstrations in tucuman and
jujuy province along the argentina-bolivia border.

justice minister leon arsalanian denied knowledge of menem's
declarations. but his colleague, defence minister erman conzalez,
confirmed the participation of ''subversives'' in the rallies.

to reassure the people, argentina's minister of the interior jose
luis manzano said the president's statements contained no threats
and were made simply to ''call the people's attention''.

he said the government ''would guarantee for all kinds of
peaceful rallies the way it did during recent protest marches by
teachers and metallurgists''. (end/ips/trd/ff/sfi/cir/92)



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From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Subject: Apartment Owner Charged With Sexual and Racial Harassment
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: Echo Beach
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:19:57 GMT

Press release from U.S. Department of Justice

 Belleville, Ill., Apartment Owner/Manager Charged With Sexual and
Racial Harassment of Tenants
 To: National Desk
 Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, Public Affairs, 202-514-2007

   WASHINGTON, July 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice
filed a civil rights lawsuit against the owner and manager of two
apartment buildings in Belleville, Ill., today, charging him with
sexual and racial discrimination in the rental of housing units.
   The lawsuit charging violations of the federal Fair Housing Act
was filed in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, against Joe
Brawley, the owner and manager of two apartment buildings containing
20 rental units in Belleville.
   According to the suit, Brawley subjected female tenants to
extensive sexual harassment, including pervasive and persistent
verbal harassment, sexual advances and propositions, invasion of
privacy and sexual assault.  The complaint also alleged that Brawley
subjected African-American tenants to pervasive racial harassment,
including persistent verbal and written harassment.
   John R. Dunne, assistant attorney general in charge of the Civil
Rights Division, said, "No American should have to endure sexual or
racial harassment or unwanted sexual advances for any reason.  To be
subjected to sexual or racial harassment by your landlord violates
the principles of equal treatment required by the Fair Housing Act."
   According to Dunne, numerous individuals may have been aggrieved
by the defendants' alleged discriminatory housing practices.  He said
the department will seek compensatory and punitive damages on their
behalf.  The government's complaint also asks the court to assess a
civil penalty to vindicate the public interest.
   A private lawsuit also has been filed in federal court by four
former tenants of Brawley, alleging that he sexually harassed them
while they lived in his apartments.
   "Discrimination in housing on the basis of sex has been unlawful
under the Fair Housing Act for over 15 years and will not be
tolerated.  In this instance we believe we have uncovered unlawful
conduct that has affected the rights of many persons to live in an
environment free of sexual and racial harassment.  The federal
government will employ its resources aggressively to end such
discrimination and to obtain remedies for those tenants who have been
victimized," said Dunne.
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:35:11 GMT


			The "Communist Threat"

"All sectors of Salvadorian society have been the target of ``death
squad''-style killings...in a great many cases the choice of victim
has been indicator of who lies behind the ``death squads''. Those
targeted have been members of groups perceived to be in opposition to
the government, or to represent a nucleus around whom such opposition
could coalesce, including students, trade unionists, members of
cooperatives, church workers and peasants." [Page 25]

	--Amnesty International, _El Salvador: ``Death Squads'' -- A
	Government Strategy_ 
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: Bush's next Tricks of Trade ?
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:09:00 GMT

...From PeaceNet's trade.news via misc.activism.progressive...



    "The Administration hopes that in addition to good publicity the
    EEP expenditures [entire $1 billion allocated for the next fiscal
    year to be spent all during October] will "empty the bins" enough
    to create temporary shortages which will drive up cash farm prices
    during the fall harvest, immediately before the election."



TRADE NEWS BULLETIN  (trade.news) 
Tuesday, July 21, 1992 
_________________________________________________________ 
GATT News Summary 
_________________________________________________________ 
RUMORS IN DC ABOUT BUSH ELECTION TRADE STRATEGY 

Now that Ross Perot has dropped out of the U.S. presidential  
race, sources say President George Bush will embark on a series  
of political moves on international trade. 

Rumored actions include: 

1.  Plans to to retaliate against the EC over disagreements  
surrounding U.S. corn gluten feed shipments to Europe. 

2.  Plans by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to spend the $1  
billion of Export Enhancement Program (EEP) funds in October,  
one month before the elections.  The funds were authorized in  
the Budget Act, and had been set to cover the entire fiscal year  
beginning in October of this year. 

3.  The Administration hopes that in addition to good publicity  
the EEP expenditures will "empty the bins" enough to create  
temporary shortages which will drive up cash farm prices  
during the fall harvest, immediately before the election. 

4.  Sources close to the Administration claim the GATT talks will  
be put off until next year, and that they will propose a two year  
extension of the Multi-Fibre Agreement (MFA).  The extension  
of MFA goes well beyond the expiration of the fast-track  
authority, which expires in June 1993. 
_________________________________________________________  
Produced by: 
Kai Mander     
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) 
1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303 
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA 

Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982  
E-Mail:kmander@igc.org 
_________________________________________________________ 

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From: Christic Institute <christic@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Rapid Response Alert, 7-27-92
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:25:09 GMT

/* Written  2:56 pm  Jul 28, 1992 by hrcoord in cdp:carnet.alerts */
/* ---------- "Rapid Response Alert, 7-27-92" ---------- */
From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
Subject: Rapid Response Alert, 7-27-92

/* Written  1:19 pm  Jul 28, 1992 by nisgua in cdp:reg.guatemala */
NISGUA
The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala
1314 14th St., NW
Washington, DC  20005
(202) 483-0050

RAPID RESPONSE ALERT
JULY 27, 1992
CONDEG MEMBER MARIO ANTONIO DIAZ EXECUTED BY MILITARY COMMISSIONERS
IN IZABAL

On July 12, in the early morning, individuals who identified themselves as
the authorities entered the home of MARCO ANTONIO DIAZ and shot him in the 
chest, killing him.  The assassins also threatened Diaz's wife and stated that
they would return to kill another man, MARCO ANTONIO GUERRA.  The crime
took place in the town of Crique Grande, in the eastern department of Izabal
Neighbors have stated that local military commissioners carried out the
murder.  Marco Antonio Diaz was a member of CONDEG, the Guatemalan National
Council of Displaced Persons.

(Source:  Comision de Derechos Humanos, 7-27-92)

Activate Your Rapid Response Network To:

Denounce this murder and call for the prosecution of the military commissioners.
Ask that the safety of Marco Antonio Guerra and of the wife of Marco Antonio
Diaz be ensured.

Send Messages To:
Gral. Jose Garcia Samayoa
Ministro de Defensa
Ministerio de Defensa
Palacio Nacional
Guatemala, Guatemala
Telex:  305-5361 COMGUA GU
Fax:  502 2 537472
Telephone:  502 2 21212, ext. 2226

Lic. Juan Jose Rodil Peralta
Presidente de la Corte Suprema de Justicia
Centro Civico
21 Calle
7a. Avenida, Zona 1
Guatemala, Guatemala
Telex:  305-5335
Fax:  502 2 512686
Telephone:  502 2 84323

Note:  Pre-arranged telex messages can be sent via ATI (800-388-5284),
FAXNET (800-831-2202) or Worldlink (800-827-2831).  Send Message 
"NISGUA #24."

Text of Telex Message "NISGUA #24):

Denuncio el asesinato del miembro de CONDEG, Marco Antonio Diaz,
por los Comisionados Militares en Crique Grande, Izabal, el 12 de 
Julio.  Exijo que se castigue a los responsables.  Pido que se 
proteja al Sr. Marco Antonio Guerra y la esposa del Sr. Diaz, quienes
fueron amenazado por los asesinos.

English Translation:

I denounce the assassination of CONDEG member Marco Antonio Diaz by the 
Military Commissioners of Crique Grande, Izabal.  I urge that those
responsible be punished.  I ask that Marco Antonio Guerra and the 
wife of Mr. Diaz, who were threatened, be protected.

Copies of all messages should be sent as solidarity support to:
CONDEG
Edificio Central
7 Av. y 9 Calle (esquina)
Suite 7-12, Zona 1
Guatemala, Guatemala
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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: RESOURCE: Mainstream Newspapers Label-Ready Addresses (autopost)
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:30:05 GMT


The Arizona Republic
P.O. Box 1950
Phoenix, AZ 85001

Arkansas Democrat
Little Rock Newspapers, Inc.
Capitol Ave. and Scott St.
P.O. Box 2221
Little Rock, AR 72203

Arkansas Gazette Co.
Gazette Bldg.
P.O. Box 1821
Little Rock, AR 72203

Birmingham News
P.O. Box 2553
Birmingham, AL 35202

The Boston Globe
135 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02107

Boston Herald
One Herald Square
Boston, MA 02106-2096

Chicago Tribune
435 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611

Chicago Sun-Times
401 North Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611

Christian Science Monitor
203 N. Wabash, Suite 2320
Chicago, IL 60601

Detroit Free Press
Kight-Ridder, Inc.
321 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48231

The Detroit News
615 Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48231

El Nuevo Dia
P.O. Box S 297
San Juan, PR 00902

El Vocero De Puerto Rico
P.O. Box 3831
San Juan, PR 00904

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
111 S. Broadway, 
Los Angeles, CA 90015

Los Angeles Independent
National Media Newspapers
1660 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Los Angeles Times
Times Mirror Square
Los Angeles, CA 90053

The Miami Herald
One Herald Plaza
Miami, FL 33101

The Mobile Press-Register
P.O. Box 2488
Mobile, AL 36630

New York Daily News
New York News, Inc.
220 E. 42nd St.
New York, NY 10017

The New York Times
229 W. 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036

Pittsburgh Press
Box 566
34 Blvd. of the Allies
Pittsburgh, PA 15230

Post
4747 Southwest Frwy.
Houston, TX 77210-4747

Star and Tribune
425 Portland Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55488

The Washington Post
1150 15th St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20071

Time, Inc.
Time and Life Bldg.
New York, NV 10020

Newsweek, Inc.
Att:Linda Marcus
444 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10022

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Subject: Central America news
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:17:52 GMT
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/* Written  4:18 pm  Jul 27, 1992 by worldpnews in cdp:worldp.samples */
/* ---------- "Central America news" ---------- */
From WORLD PERSPECTIVES. Box 3074, Madison, WI 53704

GUATEMALA
 Guatemala's Minister of the Interior, Hurtado, resigned July 23.
He was reacting to harsh criticism for his handling of a two-day
peaceful demonstration by some 500 peasants outside the
Presidential Palace. At least 25 protesters were injured by anti-
riot police.

The demonstrators charged that several children accompanying them
have disappeared during the police attack.

The peasants had gathered outside the government building July 21,
demanding their land back.

Hurtado's resignation was immediately accepted. (R. Havana 7/23)
=================================================================

Guatemalan government and rebel leaders will resume their peace
talks next Aug 3 in Mexico City. The agenda will include three
issues of paramount importance to end the country's armed conflict:
Human rights, the participation of other sectors in the dialog, and
mechanisms to speed up the peace process.

The previous round of peace talks was suspended last April. (R.
Havana 7/23)


MEXICO
 Eleven brainless children have been born in the last two years in
the Mexican municipality of Acuna, on the Mexican-US border. The
Mexican Social Insurance Institute, INSS, has also revealed that
five babies without brains have been born so far this year in the
same area.

The Mexican institute says that one of 182 children is born
brainless in Acuna. Experts point out that is an alarming figure,
since the standard figure is one of 6,000. They put the blame on
the high level of pollution caused by area industry. (R. Havana
7/23)

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From: nigel.allen@canrem.com (Nigel Allen)
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Subject: Sen. Simon Reaction to President's Signing Of Higher Education
Date: 24 Jul 92 23:22:44 GMT
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Press release from U.S. Senator Paul Simon

 Sen. Simon Reaction to President's Signing Of Higher Education Act
 To: National Desk, Education Writer
 Contact: David Carle of the Office of U.S. Sen. Paul Simon,
          202-224-7115

   WASHINGTON, July 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The big new idea in
the new five-year charter for all federal student aid programs that
President Bush signed into law Thursday is a new "direct loan"
plan that means more college help for middle income families,
easier repayments for some students, and an end to some subsidies
now paid to banks.
   Beginning in 1994, several hundred schools -- perhaps 15 to 20 in
Illinois -- will test direct loans in a pilot program in which all
first-time and older students on those campuses will have lifetime
loan accounts they can draw down directly from the Department of
Education, and some students for the first time will be able to repay
their loans in variable installments based on their after-college
income.  The program also allows the possibility of loan repayments
through IRS withholding.  These reforms -- the savings of direct
lending, universal eligibility, payments based on post-college
income, and IRS collection -- were included in the "IDEA Credit"
plan introduced last year in the Senate by Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.)
and Sen. David Durenberger (R-Minn.)
   The test program is part of an extensive rewrite of the Higher
Education Act.  Simon is a leading member of the Senate Education
Committee and led Senate negotiations on the direct loan issue in the
House-Senate conference that hammered out the compromise version of
the package.  The direct loan issue dominated debate on the package,
and the White House recently dropped its veto threat over the direct
loan idea shortly before Congress gave final approval to the bill on
July 8.
   "This higher education package makes many promises that won't
become real unless they're funded," said Simon.  "But the benefits of
the direct loan plan are real and do not rely on extra funding.  This
is the fresh new idea in this bill, and it will deliver.  It's a
better approach for students, schools and taxpayers.  I wish we could
go farther than a pilot program right now.  The status quo always has
more than its share of soldiers when a major change like this is in
the wind.  But this bill gives us the chance to prove IDEA Credit's
superiority to today's GSL program.  It opens college opportunities
to more students and uses tax dollars more wisely.
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Subject: NEWS:No Democracy in S.Korea/WW
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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 03:52:36 GMT



Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit

                   No democracy in South Korea

                       By John Catalinotto

South Korean authorities held a trial in the Pusan District Court
June 22 and sentenced 33 leading members of the union at the
Hyundai Motors Co. to imprisonment.

They sentenced union head Li Hon Gu and 14 others to prison terms
as long as two years and six months. Eighteen others got terms of
up to 18 months. The unionists were charged with having led
Hyundai workers in a struggle for higher wages.

South Korea's repressive measures against workers get little
coverage in the U.S. media. Washington gives full political and
military aid to the dictatorship in Seoul, and presents it as
having moved toward "democracy."

Far from being democratic, Seoul's regime is based on military
and police force used openly against workers' organizations,
student protests, and most of all against pro-socialist and
pro-communist parties. Anyone sympathetic with the government in
the socialist northern part of Korea is singled out for
especially harsh treatment. The regime uses the National Security
Law and harsh anti-labor laws to enforce this repression.

Among the better known political prisoners is Rim Su Gyong (Im Su
Kyong). In 1989 Rim, a former student in south Korea, attended
the World Youth Festival in Pyongyang in northern Korea in a
daring protest against south Korea's travel ban. When she openly
attempted to cross the demilitarized zone between the two parts
of Korea on Aug. 15 that year, Rim was arrested and charged with
visiting the north. For this "crime" she was sentenced to five
years in prison.

South Korea still holds former soldiers captured during the
1950-53 Korean War. They should have been treated as prisoners of
war and repatriated to the north when the war ended. Because they
fought with guerrilla units, they were treated as terrorists and
held in prison for decades.

Those released from prison in the past few years, like journalist
Li In Mo, have been refused permission to be reunited with
relatives in the north. Li was recently seized when he attempted
to meet with representatives from north Korea who were in the
south on a diplomatic mission.

Starting Feb. 8, The People's Korea, a weekly newspaper published
in Tokyo, began publishing records of the 5,186 prisoners of
conscience arrested in south Korea from 1988 to Nov. 10, 1991. On
that date, there were 1,136 prisoners of conscience still in
jail, mostly students and workers.

                               -30-

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