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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:58:26 GMT

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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:35:15 GMT



        "The war on the labor-left has been waged with relentless 
        vigor for well over a century" 

           --Patricia Sexton in _The War on Labor and the Left_ 


(From the Introduction:) 

"American labor is unique among developed democracies in two major 
and related respects: Its union movement is weak and declining (as 
measures by membership), and it lacks the kind of labor party that 
flourishes in almost all other democracies. A vast amount of 
literature, in fact, is devoted to the political uniqueness of America 
-- its conservatism and its singular lack of a mass labor, or social 
democratic, or democratic socialist party.. This phenomenon has been 
noted even in the Wall Street Journal, where is was said that a 
European conservative "would be comfortable somewhere in the middle of 
the American Democratic party," 

"Countless explanations of American conservatism have been offered, 
most of them having to do with the presumed conservatism of American 
labor or that group's internal weakness. I will argue here, however, 
that although those popular view have some validity, the source of 
conservatism lies much less in labor than in its adversaries, in 
their unique corporate power and wealth and the use of those resources 
in waging what has been in many ways a uniquely repressive war on the 
"labor-left"  (unions and left of center politics) 

"The casualties of what war mount ever higher in the current era, as 
do the complexity and potency of the strategies used. Historically, 
those strategies have included the use of private and public armed 
force against unionism, dominance of the mass media, the stigmatizing 
of much labor-left activism as "un-American"," manipulation of the 
legal system and labor relations, control of economic policy and the 
globalization of the U.S. economy, and especially the heavy [corporate 
capitalist] influence brought to bear on government policy and on a 
political system that is uniquely inhospitable to challenges from the 
labor-left. 

******************************************************************

The War on Labor and the Left. 
Understanding America's Unique Conservatism_ 
By Professor Patricia Cayo Sexton 
Westview Press -- Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford 
ISBN 0-8133-1062-8  ///\\\ ISBN 0-8133-1063-6 (pbk) 


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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: How USA-Today Lies (3)
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    Most of the $129 million the United States sent in relief aid 
    after the disaster was awarded as loans to home and business 
    owners. [...] 
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****** Oxfam America "Focus on: El Salvador" (1990 or 1991) ****** 
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" A tiny country the size of Massachusetts, El Salvador has five 
million people but few resourdes to support them. A wealthy elite 
controls the military, governemnt, land, and industry. Just six 
families own as much farmleand as 300,000 peasants, much of it the 
country's best land. While the elite lives luxuriously, the majority 
of the people are impoverished: One in four children is malnourished, 
and *half* the population has no access to safe drinking water or 
toilets. With a standard of living that has actually *declined* since 
the early 1980s, most poeple do not have land to farm, and 
underemployhment and unemploeyment hover near 50 percent. 

[My emphasis, on these unmentioned part about the "Cold War Victory" 
--HB] 

			     *** *** *** 

Much aid to El Salvador is also diverted, and programs are notorious 
for waste and corruption, including the resale of U.S. government 
relief food on the black market by Salvadoran officials. The 
devastating 1986 earthquake left about one-fifth of the capital of San 
Salvador without shelter. 

[On Washington's "humanitarian priorities":] 

Most of the $129 million the United States sent in relief aid after 
the disaster was awarded as LOANS TO HOME AND BUSINESS OWNERS. But the 
majority of people left home-less were squatters, refugees, and 
renters, who were ineligible for these loans."[my emphasis --HB] 

"According to a 1987 report by the Institute for Food and Development 
Policy, AID [the U.S. Agency for International Development] admits 
that ...that goal of the agrarian reform was to `pacify rather than 
empower' the rural poor" 


Oxfam America 115 Broadway, Boston, MA 02116 
617 482 1211 

Some PeaceNet accounts:

oxfamcom@igc.org
  Martha Mhlanga, 26 West Street 
  Boston MA USA 02111 
  (617)482-1211 
  (Oxfam Communications) 
  Keys: hunger, famine relief, third world development 
oxfama@igc.org
  Karen Williams, 26 West St. 
  Boston MA USA 02111-1206 
  (617)482-1211 
  (Oxfam America) 
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From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: NEWS: Russian Dumping Continues as Sub Leaks Radiation
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Date: 29 Dec 1992 01:26:53 GMT
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[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
  
                 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
   RUSSIAN DUMPING CONTINUES AS SUB LEAKS RADIATION 
 
LONDON, November 24, 1992 (GP) Following closely on the news
that a sunken Russian nuclear submarine is leaking radiation
into the marine environment, Greenpeace today said new
information reveals the Russian Navy is still intentionally
dumping radioactive waste at sea despite statements to the
contrary made to the London Dumping Convention just a fortnight
ago.
 
A memo sent to the head of a newly created Russian Presidential
commission on radioactive waste dumping states the "Northern
fleet dumps annually up to 10,000 cubic meters of liquid, and
up to 2,000 cubic meters of solid, radioactive waste". It also
reveals that 13 nuclear reactors rest in local waters, one more
than information given to Greenpeace this year indicated.
 
The information concerning the submarines is timely.  In an
interview today on the American news station ABC, Russian
scientists and engineers warned that radioactive caesium 137
is already leaking from the sunken submarine "Komsommolets".
However, in the report, Russian navy engineer Captain Tengiz
Borisov said the danger of plutonium leaking from the rusting
torpedo bays is actually far more dangerous.
 
The submarine lies in an area of intense bathymetric activity
which can contribute to the break up of the submarine and
subsequent release of plutonium.  This element, with a
radioactive half life of 24,000 years will contaminate the
marine environment and with it the food chain for thousands
of years.
 
The Komsommolets is the consequence of the deadly legacy of
radioactive waste resulting from the cold war, said John
Sprange, Nuclear Free Seas Campaigner.  "In normal operation the
US and Russian navies have lost 7 reactors aboard 5 submarines
carrying a total of 50 warheads.  In addition the Russians have
disposed of 15 reactors in the Kara Sea.  All these actions have
been protected by a wall of military secrecy.
 
The Komsommolets is the tip of a mountain of waste.  The
Russians will have to dispose of 300 naval reactors by the year
2000.  Whether there is the political, environmental or economic
will to dispose of them safely remains to be seen."  Greenpeace
believes every effort should be made to salvage these
submarines.
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: How USA-Today Lies (1)
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:59:23 GMT

[Following up on "How Newsweek Lies" and other previous posts] 


"USA SNAPSHOTS -- A look at statistics that shape the nation," 
from USA Today, Tuesday, September 8, 1992 displays a farmy 
picto-graph of "Worldwide cereal food aid (in millions of tons)" and 
tells us that "The United States is the major donor of food aid -- 
mostly cereal -- in the world." That's all we are told. 

The following responses, from Oxfam Americas report _Honduras: Why 
Farmers Go Hungry_ ; Oxfam's _Focus on El Salvador_ and the recnetly 
released _We're Number One_ tell the real story. 

Harel Barzilai 
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From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
Subject: Dom.Rep.Frees Mega-Pimp Gang
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Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:08:41 GMT



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Dom.Rep Frees Mega-Pimps

From el diario/La Prensa 12/22/92

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


Prostitution Ring Released in Dominican Republic

A group of foreigners who traffic in Dominican women, selling them
as prostitutes in Europe, were set free on Dec. 21 before charges
could be brought against them, according to the Dominican
Republic's Director General of Immigration, Vice Admiral Victor
Garcia Alecont. The group is headed by Belgian Andres Delvaux and
his wife, Luz Marina Marchete, owners of a travel agency used for
the woman-trafficking.

Some 800 Dominican passports and sets of travel papers were found
in the residence of Pierre Luc Marecl, another member of the
group. Allan Ayan Berlinder and Yan Berlinder are in charge of
recruiting the women, at $30,000 a head.

First news of the group having been set free came form Despradel
Guerrero, Commander of the Police Department of Falsifications.
His department was not involved, he said, because "immigration had
control of the case." The group was released into the custody of
the Belgian consulate.  However, Belgian diplomat Periche Vidal
did not set up any surveillance of the accused in his custody.
(edlp 12/22/92 byline Isabel Butten)


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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 09:35:15 GMT


   "With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two
   positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you
   reject it in favor of Styalinist/Fascist standards."
	--Noam Chomsky., "Force and Opinion," _Z_, July/Aug. '91.

[For more about Z, email harelb@math.cornell.edu]


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Subject: NEWS: Greenpeace "Tickets" Gas-Guzzlers at SF Auto Show
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Date: 29 Dec 1992 01:14:24 GMT
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[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
  
GREENPEACE 'TICKETS' GAS-GUZZLERS AT SF AUTO SHOW
Activists Lock Selves to New Models to Protest Fuel Inefficiency
  
SAN FRANCISCO, November 21, 1992 (GP) Three Greenpeace activists
locked themselves inside show models of new gas-guzzling cars
today at the San Francisco International Auto Show to protest
American automakers' resistance to increased fuel efficiency.
  
     Using bicycle locks, the activists secured themselves to
the steering columns of three new models that, according to
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are among the worst
gas-guzzlers in their classes -- the Dodge Stealth, the Ford
Probe and the Pontiac Bonneville -- as the Auto Show opened at
Moscone Center.
  
     Greenpeace transport campaigner Sherri Kimbell said the
protest was meant to send a strong message to the Big Three U.S.
automakers that continued production of inefficient autos is
fouling the air and contributing to global warming.
  
     "The technology exists today to produce safe, fuel-
efficient cars that will help prevent global warming while
saving consumers money," said Kimbell.  "But the Detroit
automakers have consistently resisted calls for greater fuel
efficiency, even though public demand for higher-mileage cars
clearly exists."
  
     According to the EPA, the compact-class Probe gets an
average of 21 miles per gallon and emits 57 tons of carbon
dioxide over its service life; the full-size Bonneville gets 20
mpg and emits 60 tons of CO2; and the sports-model Stealth gets
19 mpg and emits more than 63 tons. The most efficient car in
the U.S., the Geo Metro, gets 55 mpg and emits 21 tons of CO2.
  
     Outside Moscone Center, other Greenpeace activists held
large banners saying "Gas Guzzlers Are Climate Killers" and
"Stop Air Pollution and Global Warming." They also passed out
mock citations for gas-guzzler violations to some of the 200,000
potential car buyers expected in the show's week-long run.
   
     Greenpeace challenged automakers to respond to consumers'
demands and environmental concerns by moving swiftly to bring
technology for increased fuel efficiency to the marketplace.
Under current U.S. law, automakers' fleets must get an average
of 27.5 mpg, but Detroit is lobbying strongly against proposals
to increase the standards to 40 mpg by the year 2001.
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From: ww%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Workers World Service)
Subject: Germany:500,000 March vs Racism
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 08:19:02 GMT


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500,000 Germans protest anti-foreign violence

By John Catalinotto

Continuing to express outrage at the neo-Nazi murders in Germany,
some half-million people demonstrated Dec. 20 in a dozen German
cities. The people took to the streets only hours after racist
arsonists threw firebombs at a refugee center in Greifswald near
the Baltic Coast in eastern Germany.

Greifswald police reported that about 25 refugees from Romania
and several African countries were in the shelter when two
firebombs were thrown onto a balcony. No one was injured in the
fire.

On Dec. 20 more than 120,000 people took part in candlelit
marches in both Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, and 100,000 marched in
both Hanover and Bremen. Another 55,000 marched in Saarbruecken.

These marches follow earlier demonstration of 300,000 in Berlin
in early November and a similar number in Munich earlier in
December. Smaller but still massive marches, rallies and concerts
were held in other German cities.

The ruling parties in Bonn have fueled the rightist attacks by
calling for restriction of immigration instead of condemning the
neo-Nazis. But millions of immigrants and Germans have joined
together to condemn the racists. Smaller groups have formed to
defend refugee shelters from attacks and even to take the battle
directly to the neo-Nazis in their headquarters and hangouts.

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; email: ww%nyxfer@igc.apc.org; "workers"
on PeaceNet; on Internet: "workers@mcimail.com".)


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Subject: Cuba:Election news 12/23 ed-lp
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:05:06 GMT



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From el diario/La Prensa 12/23/92

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


Ninety-Seven Per Cent Turnout in Cuban Elections

Some 97.2 per cent of registered voters cast votes in Cuban
elections on Dec. 20, according to the president of the Election
Commission, Carlos Amat. Fidel Castro said this demonstrated the
people's confidence in the government and that Cuba will survive
the worst economic difficulties the island has experienced in over
thirty yeras. Regional elections resulted in 13,600 new municipal
councils. All the candidates belong to the Communist Party or were
aproved by the Party. Over 200,000 registered voters did not vote.
However, Juan Aizperua, vice president of the Election Commission
said, "This is nothing." One voter, who said to call him Roberto
Hernandez, said he cast an invalid vote as a protest. National and
legislative elections will take place in February of 1993. (edlp
12/22/92 from AFP)




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From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: Today's Quote...
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Orwellian Double-speak of the day:

	"Amory Lovins is Research Director of the Rocky Mountain
	Institute, an organization...seeking `ideas which transcent
	ideology, and harnessing the problems solving power of free
	market economics'"

[From flyer announcing talk by Amory Lovins during anti-James-Bay
activities week, Cornell U., Fall 1991]


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