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FBIS3-49268_7 | Kovac Looks Back on First Independent Year | majority. It would be a very unfortunate situation if the parliamentary parties were based on one person and fell along with that person. Slovakia now needs political stability, conditions for peaceful and productive work, an atmosphere of tolerance, understanding, and goodwill. The key to solving our problems lies in ... |
FBIS3-49310_3 | Valentic Views Economic Policy Objectives | have reached 100 percent. [Crnjakovic] In the last three months of this year you have managed to curb inflation. Was it perhaps done in an artificial way? [Valentic] There are no surrogates in economics. We brought inflation down to zero, and it may even become negative in the future. There is no artificial inflation, ... |
FBIS3-49317_2 | `Delta' Involvement in Prazina Murder Alleged | of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina, as for example the action in the village of Grbavica, close to Kojic, in which 28 Croats were brutally killed. The commander of this action was the notorious Zulfikar Alispaga, called Zuk. Mustafa Topalovic-Caco, the commander of the 10th Mountain Brigade at that time, also participat... |
FBIS3-49335_1 | Washington Charge d'Affaires on U.S. Ties | treaties and obligations between the former CSFR and the United States," Peter Burian, charge d'affaires in Washington, told a TA SR reporter. In 1994, the work of the ambassador will be to strengthen economic and commercial contacts. The interest of U.S. firms, such as Westinghouse and others, in investing in Slovakia... |
FBIS3-49401_4 | Further on Tudjman-Izetbegovic Talks in Bonn Cease-Fire Reached; Draft Accord | UN convention on transit trade of land-locked countries, i.e. on the principles agreed upon in a draft agreement on Bosnia-Herzegovina on board the Invincible. In case the Union of the Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina ceases to exist, the Republic of Croatia pledges that it will consider the Bosnian Muslim republic a su... |
FBIS3-49407_12 | Police, Safety, Relations With Bosnia Viewed | has to perform. According to the administrative law from 1991 the police forces in these places should be formed according to the national structure of the population. We shall respect this law. [Barisic] Which international organizations was the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Croatia admitted to and what is the coope... |
FBIS3-49434_2 | Commentary Examines Increased U.S. Interest | the Nordic Battalion, as has been stated so many times before, has been excluded from any armed intervention, the same is not applied to the Americans either. Therefore, regardless of their symbolic number (approximately 300), the U.S. squadron that is operating under the flag of the United Nations in Macedonia has the... |
FBIS3-49435_1 | Bukoshi Asks NATO To Deploy Peacekeepers | abrogation of all human, civil, and national rights of the Albanians in Kosova, the Balkans will ultimately face the serious possibility of a devastating conflict which would not only obstruct the new NATO Partnership for Peace initiative, but would also affect the present structure of NATO itself," says the letter, as... |
FBIS3-49453_3 | Geremek Says NATO Membership Not Urgent | that -- is not so dramatically important at all. That is because it is inconceivable to imagine Poland being attacked by a country.... [Woyciechowski, interrupting] And what about Yugoslavia? Could Croats or Bosnians have pictured somebody attacking them? [Geremek, hesitating] I think what you are saying represents the... |
FBIS3-49470_3 | Commentary Views Disputes With Slovenia | Kupa, that is Kolpa [in Slovene], and the Sutla, that is Sotla [in Slovene], rivers (these two form the border between these neighboring countries). However, the crew fell apart, and two rowers took separate ways. Such an outcome was largely influenced by the Yugoslav, that is the Serbian, aggression, at first against ... |
FBIS3-49529_0 | LDK Presidency Protests Serbian Border Tax | Language: Albanian Article Type:BFN [Text] In a public communique, the Kosova Democratic Alliance [LDK] Presidency condemns the application of a tax of 10 German marks [DM] to cross the border. The communique states that, starting 1 January 1994, another extraordinary obstacle was added. For every exit, even to Macedon... |
FBIS3-49535_0 | Duray Urges `Self-Administration' Over `Autonomy' | Language: Slovak Article Type:BFN [Interview with Miklos Duray, chairman of the Coexistence (Egyutteles) Movement, by Ivan Durcik; place and date not given: "Autonomy Is Parliament's Business"] [Text] [Durcik] The official program of the Komarno rally no longer mentions the possibility of establishing autonomy. If, non... |
FBIS3-49555_0 | _o_Societal Impact of Unemployment | Article Type:CSO [Editorial Report] The 30 December Budapest daily MAGYAR HIRLAP reported that the National Federation of Associations of Job Seekers and Unemployed (MAEOSZ) believes that the unemployment problem is growing despite National Labor Affairs Center (OMK) figures that show the opposite. According to the pap... |
FBIS3-49556_2 | Walesa `Disappointed' With West, Prague | from the summit? [Walesa] Then all the moral, political, and military responsibility will fall on Western Europe and the United States. They used to appeal to us to overthrow communism. We got rid of it, the Soviet Union collapsed, and we dissolved the Warsaw Pact. And what has the West done in the wake of all of this?... |
FBIS3-49572_3 | Army Official Comments on Conflicts With HVO | talks? [Divjak] This is an attempt to forcefully solve the problem of Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Yugoslavia, and the Balkans, and not according to the wishes of citizens and nations that have been living here for centuries, but according to the desire of the old lady Europe. Let me remind you that in February 1993, at ... |
FBIS3-49589_11 | Tudjman Discusses Bonn Talks, Boban Role | the consistency of the Croatian policy, the benevolence of the Croatian policy; and that with that Croatia's international position as regards the final phase of the resolution of that crisis on the territory of former Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina has been considerably strengthened. [Correspsondent] Swiss radio. M... |
FBIS3-49592_2 | Berisha Greets Envoys, Reviews 1993 | note that we proved to be determined to solve disagreements through tolerance, dialogue and negotiations, avoiding their aggravation to open conflicts. We also proved our resolution to follow a policy of good neighborliness and friendship with all those neighbouring and non-neighbouring countries that are for such a fr... |
FBIS3-49593_0 | `Significant' 1993 Economic Achievements Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tirana, January 10 (ATA) -- Albanian ministries report that significant achievements have been registered in many sectors of the economy in 1993. A remarkable development was attained in the sector of agriculture. Agricultural and livestock products increased by 15 per cent. Fo... |
FBIS3-49630_8 | Further on `Partnership for Peace' Meetings Havel Assesses Clinton Meetings | Europe. This conceptual tension is rather well known. Did anything change during this visit? I mean, our idea of individual states and some Visegrad cooperation as opposed to the American idea of Visegrad as a relatively well defined region? [Havel] I think that the difference is not as big as it might seem. Individual... |
FBIS3-49654_3 | Silajdzic on `Solid' Support From Pakistan | now, all matters of bilateral and multilateral cooperation will have one basis, namely that a certain ministry in Pakistan or Turkey will have the basis that they could refer to in determining some course of action. They will not need to seek the (?approval) of the president of prime minister. Individual cases will not... |
FBIS3-49667_2 | Report Issued on Walesa's Talks in Prague | a paper declaration, the Polish president added. "We are not anti-Russian. It is not Poland, it is Europe that should be afraid of Russia." We merely want Europe to integrate with our area as quickly as possible, Walesa concluded. Walesa invited the president of the United States to pay a visit to our country in May th... |
FBIS3-49676_0 | Health Situation of Albanians `Deteriorating' | Language: Albanian Article Type:BFN [Text] [Announcer] Since the time when health institutions were usurped by the Serbian regime, the health situation of the Albanian population in Kosova has been continuously deteriorating. Regarding the way health protection functions under the conditions of occupation, let us follo... |
FBIS3-49694_0 | Communists Comment on `Unequal Partnership' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prague, Jan 13 (CTK) -- The main goal of U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit in Europe is to enhance the United States military and economic penetration into East Europe and to build a "foothold" against Russia, Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) Chairman Miroslav Gr... |
FBIS3-49706_0 | Opposition Parties Assess `Partnership' Project | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Bratislava, Jan 13 (CTK) -- The opposition Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) does not consider Partnership for Peace a solution because it does not create any security guarantees for the Visegrad Four countries, KDH Deputy Chairman Frantisek Miklosko told CTK today. Only if t... |
FBIS3-49712_0 | Minister Notes `Model Approach' to Minorities | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Bratislava, Jan 13 (CTK) -- "It especially annoys me that no Slovak is spoken in dozens of south Slovak settlements," Slovak Culture Minister Dusan Slobodnik told CTK today. He was referring to the recommendation made by the Council of Europe (CE) that every citizen be obliged ... |
FBIS3-49727_1 | Akashi Hails `Positive Stand' on UNPROFOR | Belgrade. Kontic on his part expressed his satisfaction that a man from Japan, country which has always led a principled policy towards the crisis in former Yugoslavia, had come to head the UNPROFOR. Akashi told Kontic that he was aware that some of the UN Security Council decisions had caused the suffering of the Yugo... |
FBIS3-49753_0 | Minister Protests Shelling of Sarajevo Hospital | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] Sarajevo's state hospital was today hit by three 120-mm artillery projectiles for the fourth time this year. A letter from Bosnia-Herzegovina Defense Minister Hamdija Hadzihasanovic to General Briquemont, commander in chief of the UN Protection Forces [UNPROFOR] for Bosn... |
FBIS3-49760_1 | Iranian Paper Interviews Foreign Minister | rebels. This is an act of treason to the motherland and he is a traitor in our eyes. The Bosnian army is successfully defending Western Bosnia against the Serbs and the forces of the traitor Edic in most difficult conditions and we are trying to approach Edic's command base in Valica Klarosa [name as transliterated]. [... |
FBIS3-49790_7 | Prime Minister Interviewed on Current Issues | far more sensitive way, mainly because his moves are directed at breaking up the movement. But the movement has been built to provide defenses against any external attack and, as such, it is defending itself. I think it is a legitimate defense. Given this situation, just consider the action taken against [Ivan] Lexa [w... |
FBIS3-49823_0 | Deputy Prime Minister Cited on Bosnian Conflict | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Belgrade, Jan 14 (TANJUG) - Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Zeljko Simic on Friday [14 January] pointed at the decisive role played by, as he said, `the hasty and rashly' policy of the European Union in the eruption of the conflict in the former Yugoslav Republic o... |
FBIS3-49833_0 | Ethnic Hungarians Demand Political Autonomy | Language: Hungarian Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] According to Andras Agoston, chairman of the Democratic Community of Hungarians in Vojvodina [VMDK], a new wave of migration may begin, because the Hungarians in Vojvodina feel that their suffering will not end in the near future. Judit Laszlo reports. [Laszlo] [passage o... |
FBIS3-49892_0 | Polls: Hungarian Support for Autonomy Growing | Language: Slovak Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report in the "From Yesterday's Briefings" column: "Christian Democratic Movement: Nagorno Karabakh in Slovakia?"] [Text] According to Frantisek Miklosko, deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement, the course of the Hungarian ethnic minority's rally in Komarno ... |
FBIS3-49901_0 | Serbian Priests Expelled for `Religious Hatred' | Language: Macedonian Article Type:BFN [Report by B. Burnazovski: "Serbian Priests Expelled From Macedonia"] [Text] Kumanovo, 17 January -- The Democratic Party of Serbs and the Association of Serbs and Montenegrins in Macedonia are persistently calling upon the Serbian Orthodox Church [SOC] to send Serbian priests to M... |
FBIS3-49956_0 | Peace Agreement Signed With Yugoslavia Security Council Issues Statement | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] The Croatian Defense and National Security Council held its 35th session in the Presidential Palace today with Franjo Tudjman, president of the Republic of Croatia, in the chair. The Council was briefed on the results of the latest round of Geneva talks on the former Yug... |
FBIS3-49964_0 | EU Mission Head for Reexamination of Sanctions | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Zagreb, Jan 21 (TANJUG) -- The new head of the European Union's (EU) monitoring mission for the former Yugoslavia, Greek Ambassador Konstandinos Yarokostopoulos, said he was in favor of reexamining the further implementation of the U.N. sanctions against Yugoslavi... |
FBIS3-49965_3 | Zhelev Interviewed on Bosnia, Macedonia, NATO | aspect of the problem. The act of recognition, on the other hand, represented the acceptance of this state with its full sovereignty and its borders. [Semo] Do you believe there is now a need -- in order to exert pressure on Belgrade -- to further tighten the embargo or consider air strikes? [Zhelev] This embargo, whic... |
FBIS3-49998_0 | Berisha Supports `Partnership,' Membership | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Tirana, January 15 (ATA) -- On January 14 before noon, Albanian President Sali Berisha received the special envoy of the U.S. President Clinton, Madeleine Albright, U.S. ambassador in the UN Security Council and member of the cabinet of President Clinton, the Albanian Presi... |
FBIS3-50018_1 | Foreign Minister Urges European Cooperation | democracies, the very objectives of the new practical programme will lead them in this direction. Likewise, to earlier NATO membership. "Both the spirit and the letter of the declaration adopted by the NATO summit do strongly reconfirm this valuable outlook. Its first paragraph underlines that the alliance 'is reaching... |
FBIS3-50052_6 | Defense Minister Discusses `Partnership' Plan What is the meaning of the partnership for peace and what does it offer us? What Would the Selective Access to the Structures of the Alliance Mean? "One or two years ago, the countries in the Visegrad group generated a competition as far as access to NATO is concerned. In t... | are the preparations carried out by the Romanian Army to respond to the requirements of partnership, the way they have been presented by the minister of national defense. What Would the Selective Access to the Structures of the Alliance Mean? "One or two years ago, the countries in the Visegrad group generated a compet... |
FBIS3-50086_0 | Entry Visas for Serbian Writer, Choir Approved | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ljubljana, January 22 (TANJUG)--The authorities of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Slovenia have refused to issue entry visas to world renowned Serbian writer Milorad Pavic and the well-known academic choir "Branko Krsmanovic" of Belgrade, who were to take part in a religious c... |
FBIS3-50098_1 | Ministry Denies Decision on T-72 Modernization | decided. The optimum alternatives -- with respect to the future orientation of the transforming Czech Army and, above all, the limited financial resources -- are to be selected by the end of the year 1994. Regarding the new technical concept of the army, the principal document apparently is the "Concept of the Building... |
FBIS3-50127_0 | Jeszenszky Analyzes `Partnership' Prospects | Language: Hungarian Article Type:BFN [Article by Foreign Minister Geza Jeszenszky: "Partnership for Peace -- Slow Return to the West"] [Text] In the period of the cold war, most Hungarians -- including me -- saw NATO as the symbol of hope that communism would not prevail in the West and, as a result, we would also one ... |
FBIS3-50129_2 | Article Views Consequences of Clinton Tour | plans together, then we will have relations with them in which their security will become very important for us. If someone turns back, we can again drop the security barrier used in the past, although we would definitely not like to draw a separation line in Europe again. The Russian leader who claims that we promised... |
FBIS3-50129_3 | Article Views Consequences of Clinton Tour | Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Macedonia are in this drawer; in addition, these countries are important for the foreign policy makers in Washington not because of themselves but because of the Yugoslav crisis. Given certain U.S. global strategic considerations, the same makes Albania slightly special. NATO could get a... |
FBIS3-50135_0 | Finance Minister Explains Economic Program | Language: Albanian Article Type:BFN [Article by Finance Minister Piro Dishnica: "The Introduction of Foreign Capital -- an Important Aspect of Reviving the Economy"] [Text] For Albania and its totally centralized economy, the emergence from the autarkic system was accompanied by very severe economic upheavals and disru... |
FBIS3-50157_2 | Klaus on Friction Between Government, ODS | the world. It is perfectly logical, and it must be so, that the government and parliament are struggling with each other over their powers. It is a normal phenomenon. This week, I spent an entire day in the ODS Deputies' Club, and I have not noticed any adverse relations there. It is not true, and I believe that it is ... |
FBIS3-50252_0 | `Expert' Views CIA, KGB Information Gathering | Language: Hungarian Article Type:BFN [Interview with unnamed intelligence "expert" by Attila Schmidt; place and date not given: "The KGB Is Strong and the CIA Is Rich -- There Were No Star Wars in Hungary"] [Text] Irrespective of their social order, it is extremely important for every country to have a firm economic ba... |
FBIS3-50264_2 | Walesa Discusses European Integration | controlled command system, we might have compelled something. In the system based on economic freedom, however, it is difficult to force the bankers or private businessmen to cooperate. I am convinced that we will show each other what is attractive in our respective countries, and this will be a stimulus for the people... |
FBIS3-50264_5 | Walesa Discusses European Integration | left-wing forces in the Polish Government, moreover, forces that are to a great degree rooted in the communist camp? [Walesa] I have spoken about it a lot, and I have not changed my opinion. After 50 years of the one-party system, people are divided into the active and the passive. The active people are further divided... |
FBIS3-50280_4 | Daily Publishes Komarno Assembly Documents The Possibilities for the Economic Development of the Self-Administrative Regions | the territories where it has lived for thousands of years as an autochthonous community and, in most cases, has also formed the majority of the local population. Proceeding from this, the Hungarian population in Slovakia defines itself as a national community resolved to struggle to ensure that, apart from the individu... |
FBIS3-50281_0 | Foreign Ministry Statement on Minority Policy | Language: Slovak Article Type:BFN [Article by editor Agata Stanekova on the regular briefing at the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs] [Text] Mrs. Daniela Rozgonova briefed us today on the following statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers it natura... |
FBIS3-50300_4 | Ambassador Views Czech-U.S. Relations | the other postcommunist countries? [Zantovsky] It would certainly be naive to think that Mrs. Albright is our man in the U.S. Administration, even though, during Clinton's visit, commentaries were published joking that now, with Karel Kovanda presiding over the Security Council, the Czech Republic is the only country i... |
FBIS3-50320_0 | Embargo Losses Set at $7 Billion | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Bucharest ROMPRES, 26/1/1994 -- Admitted four months ago to the Council of Europe, Romania started its activity as full member of the Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, where it has 10 votes, on January 24. The head of the Romanian delegation, Florin Radulescu-Botica, was el... |
FBIS3-50352_7 | Granic Reports to Chamber of Deputies | on former Yugoslavia. This declaration contains several elements that could be relevant to UN Security Council Resolution 871 -- in case a real peace is achieved -- inter-state relations were mentioned, offices are being opened. It was said that the two sides should be guided by the principles of the UN Charter and the... |
FBIS3-50352_8 | Granic Reports to Chamber of Deputies | two sides and for the efforts outlined in the documents of the international community such as the European Union's action plan and relevant documents of the UN Security Council and General Assembly. The international community has already expressed and will continue to give us support for this policy. If we continue t... |
FBIS3-50359_2 | Walesa Interviewed on Europe Without Borders | visit by President Kovac is the first significant visit in our mutual relations. Will that be amended? [Walesa] Yes, of course. I have said many times that both you and we have numerous domestic problems now and are engrossed in them. It has to be kept in mind, however, that we are building an economic and legal struct... |
FBIS3-50383_0 | Perils of `Unclear' Position on Bosnia Analyzed | Language: Bulgarian Article Type:BFN [Plamen Kulinski commentary: "Policy of Noninterference"] [Text] The disintegration of Yugoslavia, predetermined by its very creation, has tangled the Balkans in a knot that even the most skillful fingers cannot untie. However, there are many people willing to do this. They know wha... |
FBIS3-50417_4 | Olechowski Reviews Foreign Policy Concerns | beside us spoke about those points in which the final version of Partnership for Peace differs from the original draft. Nevertheless, it was certainly we who raised the level of the public debate as high as it was as we articulated clearly what we were striving for. Those negotiations, in any case, should have been hel... |
FBIS3-50431_0 | Deputy Decries U.S. Position | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Morning Paper" newscast] [Text] Carlos Sosa Cuello, PINU [Innovation and Unity Party] deputy has charged that the U.S. position of supporting the clearing up of missing persons cases in Honduras is hypocritical because the people in Washington originally promoted and foster... |
FBIS3-50449_1 | Aylwin Addresses Nation With Year-End Message | must be careful. These achievements which fill us with pride and hope must not make us complacent. Although we have reasons to be optimistic, nothing justifies any sort of vanity or arrogance. We are neither tigers nor jaguars. We are one of the many developing countries in the world greatly limited by the poverty that... |
FBIS3-50466_0 | Radio Reports Situation | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The most important event featured today in Mexico City's newspapers is the following: An armed group, mostly Indians, the self-styled Zapata National Liberation Army [EZLN] -- linked with the Procup [Revolutionary Workers Clandestine People's Union Party] and the Poor People's ... |
FBIS3-50469_2 | Leave San Cristobal | to broadcast their ideas. It was reported in Ocosingo that the peasants have withdrawn from the square but still remain at some radio station. Eyewitnesses mentioned that the runway was set on fire to prevent airplanes from landing. Early this morning some shops in San Cristobal were robbed. The situation in the munici... |
FBIS3-50473_0 | Bulletin No. 2 | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Bulletin No. 2 issued by the Defense Secretariat in Mexico City on 2 January; from an XEW "Special Report" -- read by announcer] [Text] Regarding Bulletin No. 1 issued on this date by this section of the executive branch, and as shooting continues in the vicinity of the military camp... |
FBIS3-50474_0 | Government Bulletin on Crisis | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Bulletin issued by the Government Secretariat in Mexico City on 2 January; from an XEW "Special Report" -- read by announcer] [Text] Today the armed group that had occupied various municipalities in the region of Ocosingo in Chiapas abandoned the city of San Cristobal de las Casas. T... |
FBIS3-50487_7 | President Wasmosy Interviewed | or you do not. I cannot decide if a person is involved in drug trafficking or money laundering if I do not have evidence. If you tell me who is guilty of these crimes and bring the evidence against the person then it is my responsibility to follow it up, but in the meantime I cannot prejudge. [Ruffinellii] Engineer, pl... |
FBIS3-50502_2 | Santiago Trustee Schiaretti Promises Justice | cannot speak about anybody overlooking anything. The province had a balanced situation before. [Espeche] But it has been badly administered for the past 10 years? Was that not known at a national level? [Schiaretti] Yes, but we have a representative, republican, and federal system. The people in the provinces elect the... |
FBIS3-50507_1 | Vice President on Relations With United States | in Fidel Castro's government, observed. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez noted that Bill Clinton's administration "has taken a stand based on the notion that Cuba could collapse in the immediate future. Additionally, it is under pressure from the most recalcitrant sectors of the Cuban-American community and its allies, and it i... |
FBIS3-50509_9 | ANPP Morning 28 Dec Highlights | a social justice incompatible with forms that go against social ownership. Commander, as you mentioned in the Union of Cuban Journalists Congress: Our socialism has to be more efficient with state ownership as the base, linking responsibility and capability, linking the economic sense of control with costs, production,... |
FBIS3-50510_23 | Evening Highlights | "This has to do with international ways of doing things. Many pay every three months or every six months. We have to check and see what has been paid and what has not been paid." Rodriguez states: "That is correct. But that is money the country has to recover. We do not know how much it is, but what we are sure of is t... |
FBIS3-50510_30 | Evening Highlights | usual coach. There are comrades from the provinces who have more up-to-date information on that." Castro: "Great, they will have paid it off in three months. But there are others who do not have stands or coaches and have many ways of making much money." Rodriguez: "We are working on another idea, commander." Castro: "... |
FBIS3-50510_32 | Evening Highlights | has not been mentioned here. "Back then, we had an excess of money on the streets, but we did not have that scarcity of merchandise we are experiencing today. Today we have both things: excess money and a tremendous scarcity of merchandise. [Words indistinct] deficit, but we had things to buy. We had more than enough m... |
FBIS3-50510_46 | Evening Highlights | impractical or too costly. We are discussing this matter from the political viewpoint. We are trying to establish whether or not it is an appropriate move, whether or not it would be a savings. We are discussing the measures' advantages and disadvantages. We are discussing them to get all the information we need, not b... |
FBIS3-50510_52 | Evening Highlights | to increase the price of cigarettes. We had a standing quota and it was not appropriate. The Executive Council had reached specific conclusions, but when we broached this issue with the commission responsible for organizing the last congress, we could not reach an agreement; we could not get a consensus. It was then th... |
FBIS3-50511_0 | Armed Forces Demand `Total Control' Over U.S. Aid Funds | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] La Paz, 15 Dec (ANF) -- Defense Minister Antonio Cespedes and General Moises Schirique, joint chief of staff, have demanded "total control" over the U.S. funds that come to the country as military assistance and within the framework of bilateral agreements to fight drug traffic... |
FBIS3-50519_0 | Rival Gangs Clash in Sabaneta Jail; 100 Killed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From "The News" newscast] [Text] One hundred people were killed at the Sabaneta Jail in Maracaibo as a result of a shooting inside the prison on 2 January; in addition, the inmates torched two cell blocks this afternoon, and shots were heard during the confusion. [Begin recording] [D... |
FBIS3-50524_0 | Menem Rules Out Justicialist, Radical Coalition in 1995 | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] (DYN-NA) -- President Carlos Menem yesterday [1 January] denied the possibility that a coalition government could be formed in 1995 by factions of the ruling Justicialist Party and the opposition Radicals, despite the fact that they have reached a deal on constitutional reform ... |
FBIS3-50527_12 | * Head of New Secretariat Discusses Goals | is also responsible for relations with peasant organizations. Is it carrying out that activity? [Martha Garcia] I can say that relations with the peasants and Indians will be much more efficient. Until now, there have been only political relations, which have ignored the peasant and Indian bases. Our proposal is to dev... |
FBIS3-50533_8 | Fidel Castro Gives 35th Anniversary Speech | well as regular schools; schools for the handicapped; and art, music, dancing, painting schools. I was saying that these have been 35 years of preparing medical doctors. In fact, we were left with only 3,000 doctors 35 years ago, and now have more than 50,000. We are probably also one of the countries and, perhaps, the... |
FBIS3-50537_0 | Economic Affairs Commission Chairman Interviewed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Interview with Osvaldo Martinez, director of the Cuban World Economy Research Center and chairman of the Permanent Commission of Economic Affairs of the Legislative Assembly, by Barbara Betancourt; date, place not given; from the "Evening Information Review" newscast--recorded] [Text... |
FBIS3-50539_0 | `Alarming Official Figures' on State of Economy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 30 Dec (AFP) -- The state-run television system on 29 December broadcast extensive excerpts of the People's Government National Assembly two-day sessions, which closed on 28 December. As a result, the public learned about alarming official figures on the local economic ... |
FBIS3-50544_1 | Envoy in Nicaragua on Reforms, U.S. Blockade | goals does the country plan to achieve with them? [Lovaina] All of the measures uphold our socialist principles without giving up a planned economy. Although there will be increased participation of foreign capital, state ownership will prevail. Cuba is looking for structures that will allow a better integration into t... |
FBIS3-50544_2 | Envoy in Nicaragua on Reforms, U.S. Blockade | protect the homeland, the revolution, and socialism, as Fidel has stated many times. [Malespin] [Ernesto] Che [Guevara] warned against making the mistake of giving imperialism even a foothold. Has not Cuba done this with these measures? [Lovaina] He said this within a certain context, and what he meant was that no conc... |
FBIS3-50545_0 | `Tense' Situation in San Cristobal Reported | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Juan Carlos Santoyos from San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas State, for the "Panorama Newscast" -- live] [Excerpts] The situtation here in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas State, remains tense even though soldiers have been deployed here in the main square. This is the ... |
FBIS3-50546_0 | Vatican Offers To Mediate | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Panorama" newscast] [Text] We have received a news dispatch that reads as follows: After strongly condemning the violent events in Chiapas State, the Holy See has expressed its willingness to mediate so the activists will lay down their weapons and present their demands thr... |
FBIS3-50563_5 | Article Views President's `Rebelliousness' | a crisis. During the electoral campaign, he threatened to leave Collor's electoral ticket three times. During the presidency he talked about it when he completed one year in office. In an interview, he admitted he was thinking of resigning. Doubting that it was possible, leading politicians checked the Constitution to ... |
FBIS3-50564_13 | Castro Addresses Sixth UPEC Congress | has always been absenteeism. Today we have more of it. However, the objective truth is that there are millions of men and women in this country who are working and fulfilling their duties out of a sense of honor and patriotism. That is why I keep telling myself: The issue is not giving the workers moral and material en... |
FBIS3-50564_18 | Castro Addresses Sixth UPEC Congress | the world would have approved of a war breaking out over a naval base in Guantanamo, an economic blockade, or pirate actions. We could have stopped the economic blockade and closed Guantanamo Base back in 1962, but they did not act and we are still facing those problems. A little bit of equanimity on their part would h... |
FBIS3-50572_1 | Foreign Minister Analyzes U.S. Relations | with in absolute openness. Profound structural reforms translated into liberation of the economy and privatizations have replaced old protectionist practices. Brazil's firm commitment to disarmament and nonproliferation has become the central issue of our foreign policy. This was shown by the government's decision to s... |
FBIS3-50577_2 | `Exclusive' Interview With Castro | not do. [Gawronski] What are the current consequences of all this for Cuba? [Castro] The disappearance of the socialist bloc has been a hard blow to us. Against the U.S. blockade we had been able to benefit from trade with socialist countries, which served as the basis for the development of our economy. The blockade i... |
FBIS3-50578_0 | Article Explains `Logic' Behind Socialist Change | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Exclusive" article by contributing writer Clemente Nicado: "The Logic Behind Change to More Efficient Socialism"] [Text] The year 1993 has entered history as the most difficult year for revolutionary Cuba, but also as the year of significant economic changes promoted by the governme... |
FBIS3-50578_1 | Article Explains `Logic' Behind Socialist Change | holding of foreign currency to improve the government's income by way of the growing segment of the population that receives U.S. dollars from tourism or from relatives living abroad. Some experts affirm that one decision the community pleasantly welcomed was the creation of the Basic Production Cooperative Units (UBPC... |
FBIS3-50580_0 | Pharmaceutical Industry Props Up Economy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Maritza Barranco Rodriguez: "A Trademark Pharmaceutical Industry"] [Text] [No dateline as received] At a moment when the U.S. blockade aimed at making the Cubans surrender out of hunger is being intensified, Cuba's pharmaceutical industry has risen to cover the back of the... |
FBIS3-50580_1 | Pharmaceutical Industry Props Up Economy | technology, over which the highly industrialized nations almost have a monopoly. This is the context into which the Cubans broke some years ago when the island produced a vaccine against the Type B Meningococcic Meningitis (the serotype that produces the most deaths among the infant population) and Type B Hepatitis, wh... |
FBIS3-50580_2 | Pharmaceutical Industry Props Up Economy | of products to treat cancer, to fight infections resulting from the human papiloma virus, and to delay AIDS manifestations in persons with the HIV virus. These products are marketed by Heberbiotec S.A. and their effectiveness has been demonstrated. More than 160 products have been obtained through genetic engineering, ... |
FBIS3-50606_1 | * UIA Demands Postponement of Mercosur Until June 1994 | enormous difference in the cost of electric power, which the UIA believes has resulted from the failure to amortize government investments in the hydroelectric plants that generate over 90 percent of all electricity used in Brazil; 2) the extremely high rate of tax evasion, which Brazilian authorities put at a minimum ... |
FBIS3-50607_0 | Castro Interviewed in Santiago de Cuba | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Excerpt" of interview with President Fidel Castro by unidentified reporters in Santiago de Cuba on 1 January -- recorded] [Text] [Reporter] I am from Santiago de Cuba and I, like my people, recently experienced the same difficult times other eastern provinces experienced. Have you b... |
FBIS3-50609_0 | Commentary Reviews Year, Predicts New Challenges | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Our Opinion" commentary by Ariel Larramendi] [Text] The year is coming to a close and according to political and government leaders: This has been the most dangerous and difficult year we have ever faced in the history of the Revolution. I think, and this is my personal opinion, tha... |
FBIS3-50612_0 | Economic Activity Reported 24 Dec-4 Jan | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 24 December and 4 January. Radio Reloj at 2045 GMT on 24 December reports that Granma Province met its coffee production goal for the presen... |
FBIS3-50612_2 | Economic Activity Reported 24 Dec-4 Jan | time setting a national record for crude oil production." Officials of the oil extraction enterprise of Central Cuba said that of a potential 21 million cubic meters of natural gas, just over 15.5 million cubic meters were used, "which shows that the demand for this fuel is still low. Despite failure to fulfill the inv... |
FBIS3-50613_0 | TRABAJADORES Editorial on Economic Issues | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The 3 January editorial of the newspaper TRABAJADORES points out that the currency excess, caused mainly by the continuous, growing budget deficit, is today the Cuban family's main worry. The article adds that the sudden weakening of the Cuban economy from external factors has ... |
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