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FBIS3-51466_0 | Robaina Denies Secret Relations With U.S. | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Nikola Vadjon] [Text] Luanda, 15 Jan (EFE) -- Cuba does not maintain "even remotely" secret relations with the United States other than the existing contacts, Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina said today in Luanda. The Cuban diplomat was interviewed by EFE before leavi... |
FBIS3-51473_0 | 1993 Crime Shows Increase | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Josefa Bussi] [Text] The highest government and party leaders have said that 1993 was the most difficult year for our country. The lack or absence of basic products and services and the excess of currency, among other problems, affected the people and boosted black market a... |
FBIS3-51474_0 | Social Security Budget To Increase | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The resources which the State Committee for Labor and Social Security has allocated for pensions, retirement benefits, and loans for 1994 is approximately 1.8 billion pesos. This figure surpasses the 1993 expenses, which benefited over 1.383 million people despite Cuba's dire e... |
FBIS3-51475_0 | TRABAJADORES Stresses Social Security `Guarantee' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Social Security subsidies are a guarantee consubstantial with the humane nature of the Revolution and the life-long dream of several generations. This is why they will never be eliminated. This was explained in the newspaper TRABAJADORES, which also explained the difference bet... |
FBIS3-51478_0 | * Unemployment: Men 11 Percent, Women 46.7 Percent | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Margarita Cordero] [Text] About a million individuals capable of working are currently unemployed in the Dominican Republic. According to the population projections drafted in 1991, based on the data on the labor force in the Demographic and Health Survey (ENDESA-91), the ... |
FBIS3-51489_0 | Police Arrest Eight in Connection With 8 Jan Explosion | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "24 Hours" newscast] [Text] On the afternoon of 10 January, the Judicial Police of the Federal District arrested eight people -- seven men and one woman -- who are allegedly responsible for an explosion that took place early on 8 January at the underground parking lot of the... |
FBIS3-51500_0 | Peace Demonstration Held in Mexico City 12 Jan | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Vector 21" newscast] [Text] At exactly 1630 [2230 GMT] this evening [12 January] a demonstration for peace in Chiapas State left the Revolution Monument and headed to El Zocalo Square in Mexico City. Thousands of members of people's organizations, independent worker's union... |
FBIS3-51513_0 | Eighteen Persons Injured in Two Bomb Attacks | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Guatemala City, 20 Jan (NOTIMEX) -- Unidentified individuals detonated a bomb in front of the National Congress and another in front of the National Printing Press [Tipografia Nacional], injuring 18 persons early this morning, voluntary firemen reported here today. The source i... |
FBIS3-51522_1 | Foreign Minister Robaina Continues African Tour Discusses Changing Diplomacy | with capitalists whether we like it or not," he acknowledged. "I am not one of those who believes that all capitalists are bad," but "to trade under the pressure my country is undergoing is extremely difficult," he pointed out. In reference to the U.S. blockade and the fall of the Soviet Union, Robaina explained that "... |
FBIS3-51522_3 | Foreign Minister Robaina Continues African Tour Discusses Changing Diplomacy | aware that Cuba is not the hell it is depicted as being." Robaina explained that "at the government level there is no contact whatsoever, except with the Coast Guard -- border guard contacts with some joint action against drug trafficking. In addition, we are discussing a telecommunications project, but there are many ... |
FBIS3-51529_0 | Menem, Ministers Dispel `Uneasiness' Over Possible `Uprisings' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] (DYN-NA) -- President Carlos Menem and several of his ministers united in an effort to dispel public uneasiness over the possibility of popular uprisings such as those that broke out recently in Santiago del Estero and Chiapas, Mexico. "Poverty has diminished by truly unheard-o... |
FBIS3-51546_0 | Chamber of Commerce Official on U.S. Aid Cut | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The Salvadoran Chamber of Commerce and Industries has expressed support for the decision by the U.S. Congress to reduce economic aid by 70 percent because this will make El Salvador less dependent on the United States. Ricardo Montenegro, president of the Chamber of Commerce an... |
FBIS3-51547_0 | Foreign Minister Comments | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Boris Zelada; from the "YSU Radio News" newscast] [Text] Foreign Minister Dr. Miguel Angel Salaverria has said our country has not yet received official notification of the reduction in U.S. aid to this country. According to him, since 1985 economic aid has declined and wil... |
FBIS3-51565_6 | Solidarity Party Presents Abridged Platform | of stopping crime, including civic institutions. -- To reinforce the border police, the National Air Service, and the National Maritime Service through adequate training, equipment, resources, and supervision so they can confront drug trafficking organizations successfully. -- To create the community police, incorporat... |
FBIS3-51569_0 | Further on Spread of Disturbances | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Caracas, 29 Jan (AFP) -- Several disturbances affected the Venezuelan capital at noon today. The demonstrators are protesting against an increase in transportation fares and the sales tax, although the application of the latter at the consumer level was postponed until 28 Febru... |
FBIS3-51571_0 | Rioting Spreads | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Caracas, 20 Jan (AFP) -- Student revolts continued on Thursday and spread in the afternoon to Maturin, 400 km east of Caracas, where there were marches and clashes with police, according to reporters on the scene. This morning, there was violence in the small city of Ocumare de... |
FBIS3-51576_0 | Further on Implementation, Suspension of VAT | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Venezuelan media monitored at Panama Bureau have been observed to carry reportage and commentary on reaction to the Venezuelan Government's implementation and subsequent temporary suspension of the value-added tax (VAT). Caracas Venezolana de Television Network in Spanish at 2350 GMT... |
FBIS3-51585_0 | Deputy Foreign Minister on U.S. Support for OAS Headship | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Enelcys Rodriguez Calderon] [Text] The fact that the United States is announcing the name of the candidate it will support for OAS secretary general so far in advance is significant, because it shows that the North Americans' view of the OAS is somewhat different from the w... |
FBIS3-51587_4 | MAS Secretary General Interviewed | government will take. What is the proposal you have in this regard: eliminating the VAT once and for all, and if so, what will you replace it with? What will you do? [Munoz] Let me tell you what we MAS members think, what we have proposed to Dr. Caldera, what we are discussing with him. When I say discussing I mean we ... |
FBIS3-51609_0 | Human Rights Groups Investigate Violation Reports | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Mexico City, 21 Jan (DPA) -- According to an official report issued today in the capital, Mexico's National Human Rights Committee (CNDH) has received 138 reports of homicides, missing persons, illegal arrests, abuse of authority, torture, and solitary confinement since the gue... |
FBIS3-51620_10 | Workers Assemblies Discussed | I agree with you that it is a suggestion that should be studied. However, there are some people who have certain illnesses for which nine days' sick leave would just not be enough. If this system were implemented, then the worker would not be taken care of.... [Recio, interrupts] No. [Roque] No? Then explain it to me. ... |
FBIS3-51621_6 | Current Economic Problems, Future Discussed | offered me Canadian chicken at $2 a pound. I ask myself: Is that Cuba? Does the man who is offering me Canadian chicken at $2 a pound represent the true image of my country? He was a young man. Does he truly represent our country's youth? The other day some Argentine tourists were telling us, you were there when they w... |
FBIS3-51621_7 | Current Economic Problems, Future Discussed | billion in goods. Today it can only import $1.1 or $1.2 billion. There is no doubt this country is experiencing an anguishing and critical material situation. You do not have to be very bright to understand this. This situation unleashes certain types of reaction. This situation creates certain attitudes and feelings. ... |
FBIS3-51623_6 | `Straight Talk' on Economic Proposals | People are wondering: What's cooking? Am I being prepared for something when I am told that these measures could affect me? Are they getting ready to hit me on the head? This has created uncertainty among some. [Roque] But we cannot overlook the fact that measures are measures and someone will always be affected by the... |
FBIS3-51625_0 | New Locally Built `Train-Buses' Begin Operating | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon; from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The Cuban mechanical steel industry kept up the hope over the past few years of economic restriction of manufacturing urban buses with a high percentage of locally made parts. Even though parts are ... |
FBIS3-51688_1 | Lack of Control on DEA Activities Questioned | to representatives of the governments with whom it maintains relations. The Vienna Convention establishes that it is not necessary for an embassy to inform a host government on the functions of its embassy personnel because it is understood that their activities will be strictly restricted to diplomatic norms. There is... |
FBIS3-51689_0 | Foreign Official Discusses Falklands Sovereignty | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Buenos Aires, 23 Jan (NA) -- Foreign Ministry Secretary General Andres Cisneros has said that if Argentina continues with its present policies over the Malvinas Islands, "inevitably, some day, it will discuss the issue of sovereignty with Great Britain in a nontraumatic way." C... |
FBIS3-51695_6 | Carles Candidacy Proclamation Speech | the culture of the Panamanian people, and in teaching new careers, professions, and techniques. The educational reform should take into consideration the recommendations and proposals presented by the teachers themselves in a detailed study they have presented in this respect. Our university system is becoming increasi... |
FBIS3-51695_14 | Carles Candidacy Proclamation Speech | community. In the commitment that we have acquired to offer Panamanians an opportunity to a better life, we will give priority to the adequate delivery of the services the state offers the people. This is not an issue of availability of funds. This is a problem of complying with the functions and responsibilities assig... |
FBIS3-51711_2 | * Lagos on Elections, Interparty Relations | an intelligent way of dealing with a dilemma and, in passing, lent tremendous legitimacy to Eduardo Frei in our world. [Gonzalez] We also saw that the PS [Socialist Party]-PPD world is afraid of confrontation. [Lagos] Well...Life has been tough (He laughs mischievously). [Gonzalez] Aren't you afraid of it? [Lagos] No. ... |
FBIS3-51719_0 | Economy Minister Cavallo Interviewed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Interview with Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo by Paz Tejerina, Facundo Landivar, and Eduardo De Simone: place and date not given] [Text] [LA NACION] Industrialists complain because many provinces are prejudiced against removing the tax on gross income. Will cost reduction be merely... |
FBIS3-51719_3 | Economy Minister Cavallo Interviewed | capital. I do not have a target for this. I believe it depends on the will to invest. [LA NACION] Does it not worry you that in the last few months the deficit is above all projections, including the projections of the economic team? [Cavallo] No, because there was no target. Figures were prepared at the request of the... |
FBIS3-51723_0 | Roundup of Economic Reports Through 13 Jan | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities monitored through 13 January. Source is cited in parentheses following each item. Industrial production in 1993 registered its highest level in the past 14 years, despite increases in the unemployment and underemploymen... |
FBIS3-51745_0 | More on TRABAJADORES Analysis of Problems | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 24 Jan (PL) -- The TRABAJADORES weekly, official organ of the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC), in today's edition urges an objective analysis of the problems in each center, instead of extrapolating attention to the national problems. The current financial imbalances mus... |
FBIS3-51747_0 | Council of Ministers Secretary on Slow Economic Recovery | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 14 Jan (PL) -- Carlos Lage Davila, secretary of the Council of Ministers Executive Committee, stated today that Cuba has the potential to accomplish a slow economic recovery despite the current severe limitations in resources. Even though 1994 will be very difficult, ve... |
FBIS3-51748_0 | Workers Propose Bond Issue To Improve Finances | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Alejandro Gomez] [Text] Havana, 12 Jan (PL) -- One of the measures proposed by workers to improve finances is the creation and sale of bonds of the fatherland, which would be purchased voluntarily, without interest or with a soft interest, and redeemable within five to 10 y... |
FBIS3-51788_0 | PRD Clashes With Police Leave 16 Injured | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Good Morning From Mexico" newscast] [Text] On 23 January three clashes between riot police from the General Directorate of Public Security and Traffic and over 200 members of the Party of the Democratic Revolution [PRD] occurred in Tlalmanalco, Mexico State. Sixteen persons... |
FBIS3-51794_0 | Editorial on Economic Adjustments, Workers' Role | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The Cuban newspaper TRABAJADORES today said in an editorial that the key goal of our economy is to be as efficient as possible and that the most reasonable way to achieve this is by reducing costs, increasing productivity, and ma... |
FBIS3-51796_0 | Matanzas Education Sector To Undergo Streamlining | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Beginning in February, education workers in Matanzas Province will analyze at the base level the need for rational exploitation of the work force in this sector and will advocate higher efficiency for teachers as well as nonteaching personnel. Without implying a reduction in ed... |
FBIS3-51797_0 | Commentary on State Enterprises, Subsidies | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon; from "The Seven O'Clock News" newscast] [Text] At the assemblies convoked by Cuban labor unions due to the need to reorder financially the country and to increase efficiency, workers have insisted on the need to unearth the causes of the insensibility o... |
FBIS3-51801_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity Reported 15 to 21 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 15 and 21 January. Radio Rebelde at 1000 GMT on 15 January reports that a research biochemist at the institute for citrus and other fruit cr... |
FBIS3-51824_5 | Gaviria Interviewed on U.S. Troop Presence | to making our Armed Forces more professional. Not only that, but we would end cooperation, equipment supply, maintenance, and intelligence that allow us to fight crime. [EL TIEMPO] President, but Juanchaco is not the only case. What were the U.S. planes that overflew Barranquilla this weekend up to? [Gaviria] According... |
FBIS3-51834_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments Through 25 Jan | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Cuban economic developments monitored through 25 January. Source is cited in parentheses following each item. The Spanish airline Aviaco sold eight Fokker F27-600 airplanes to the Cubana de Aviacion airlines enterprise for $7.5 million. Th... |
FBIS3-51859_0 | Defense Bulletin Notes Increase in Chiapas Crime | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Bulletin No. 25 issued by the Mexican National Defense Secretariat on 24 January; place not given; from the "24 Hours" newscast] [Text] The National Defense Secretariat [NDS] is still receiving complaints from civilian residents of the war zone. Among the latest complaints are those ... |
FBIS3-51871_0 | Congress Urged To Approve Dual-Purpose Military Goods Bill | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Article by Maria Helena Tachinardi] [Text] The government is waiting for Congress to approve a bill to establish controls on the export and import of dual-purpose military goods (for civilian and military purposes and directly linked services) prior to negotiating our entry into t... |
FBIS3-51889_2 | * Results of Congressional Elections Analyzed | a smooth flow of legislative business in the new session will not be easy. This outlook, although it may seem a bit alarming, is also rather static. We are assuming there will be no breaking of ranks within the parties that have won seats. However, there are reasons to believe this is not very likely. Take COPEI, for e... |
FBIS3-51891_4 | * Extent of Tax Evasion Detailed | bolivars on social security deductions first climbed to 15,000 and last year reached 45,000. "And even though tax hikes were necessary," he said, "the problem is that payroll taxes were the only ones that rose. "The problem is that there is a direct tax on work. This combined with the system of social benefits makes jo... |
FBIS3-51897_0 | National Guard Seizes Control of Town in Wake of Violence | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Los Teques, Venezuela, 26 Jan (AFP) -- Journalists who were eyewitnesses report that today at about 2000 GMT (1600 local time) the militarized National Guard seized control of the streets and avenues of this sleepy community located 20 km southwest of Caracas. Los Teques became... |
FBIS3-51901_1 | Official On Falklands; Relations With Brazil, Chile | the justification is not enough" when he referred to the Malvinas Islands, and he explained that the current policy on this matter is centered on negotiations with Great Britain. Thus, Cisneros answered a series of criticisms by expert Federico Ruiz Guinazu, who maintained that "the Foreign Ministry is mistaken regardi... |
FBIS3-51920_6 | Journalists on Purge of Illegal Wealth | on the radio, and the wealthy know that measures against them are going to be taken, this gives them a chance to seek solutions to their problem. However, you mentioned that the people are aware of all of this. Since the people are the ones calling for the eradication of the wealthy, are asking the authorities to pleas... |
FBIS3-51922_1 | PCC Member On Economic Situation in Pinar del Rio | adopt, and which we are doing, is discussing in each workers' meeting the process being carried out jointly with the Cuban Workers Federation, the workers' parliament in the workplace, discussing the things that can be done there to reduce production costs, to be more effective in our activities. These are the main mea... |
FBIS3-51934_0 | Two Injured in Protest | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Basseterre, St. Kitts, 26 Jan, CANA -- At least two persons were reported to have been injured here Wednesday after police moved to disperse a crowd of opposition St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) supporters calling for fresh general elections. The protest outside government ... |
FBIS3-51941_0 | Continued Reporting on Transportation Strike Ministers Give News Conference | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [News conference by Pablo Vigil, construction and transportation minister, and Government Minister Alfredo Mendieta with unidentified reporters on 25 January in Managua; from the "This Morning" newscast -- recorded] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] [Reporter] Does this mean you will not co... |
FBIS3-51943_0 | Continued Reporting on Transportation Strike Police Report 2 Dead | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Ernesto Garcia from "The Nation Radio Newspaper" newscast] [Text] The National Police [PN] confirmed this afternoon that two people have died and two others were seriously injured, all Hondurans. A police report states the dead as Carlos Mejia and an unidentified Honduran w... |
FBIS3-51946_2 | * Mistakes, Improvements in Economy Discussed | percent and a further erosion of per capita income. Policies and Undesired Effects Unemployment and underemployment rose to over 50 percent of the economically active population; a third of the nation's households are living in extreme poverty. Deregulation and privatization of the economy, intended to reduce state int... |
FBIS3-51950_0 | * Terrorist Attacks in November Dropped Drastically | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [DESCO SPECIAL REPORT No. 31: "Political Violence in Peru Today," issued by Peru's Center for Development Studies and Promotion (DESCO)] [Text] November has seen less political violence than almost any other time during the 13 years of war. During this month, there were 36 subversive ... |
FBIS3-51954_4 | Callejas Addresses National Congress | will be handed over to the new government, which will assume office on 27 January. Diseases which have ravaged the child population were put under control. We have tackled the terrible cholera with determination via prevention drives, the speeding up of construction of latrines, and by making the people aware of the ne... |
FBIS3-51980_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity Reported 24 to 26 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 and 26 January. Source is listed in parentheses following each item: Radio Reloj at 2040 GMT on 24 January reports that accelerated repai... |
FBIS3-51984_0 | UN Consultant Issues Communique Condemning Blockade | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by (Roberto Cavala) from the Havana Convention Center -- live] [Text] This is a last-minute report. I am speaking to the Cuban listeners of this station's live radio news program from the Convention Center where the Board of the Central American Commission for the Defense of H... |
FBIS3-52006_0 | * Minister Views Government Strategy, Drug Policy * U.S. Cooperation | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Edwin Miranda V.; first paragraph is editorial introduction] [Text] La Paz 25 December (LOS TIEMPOS)--The Clinton administration has promised to provide $180 million in 1994 for programs for the fight against narcotics trafficking in Bolivia. Bolivia will be the only South... |
FBIS3-52006_1 | * Minister Views Government Strategy, Drug Policy * U.S. Cooperation | Clinton to Bolivia during the visit by President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada to New York on 28 September, during the most recent meeting of the United Nations General Assembly." Growing External Aid According to the explanation provided, North American aid in the field of fighting against illicit drug trafficking is dire... |
FBIS3-52014_3 | * Amorim Views Principal Events of 1993 | is sizable and will bring benefits. In addition, there is GATT's role in laying down rules, another area in which considerable progress was made. Establishment of the World Trade Organization was another very important advance, since that institution will be able to actually regulate international trade. Brazil partici... |
FBIS3-52016_1 | * New 1994 Budget Proposal Detailed | stages call for adopting the URV [Real Value Unit] and subsequently making it a strong currency. "We are freeing ourselves of the need to use inflation and corruption to balance the budget. We are exchanging those instruments for negotiation, which is the only alternative we have left, since the other choice would be d... |
FBIS3-52016_4 | * New 1994 Budget Proposal Detailed | are expected to total $3.74 billion, or 0.83 percent of GDP. Employers' and employees' social security contribution: Here the administration estimates that revenues will total $20.6 billion, or 4.55 percent of GDP. Government employees' social security contribution: Government employees are expected to contribute $2.05... |
FBIS3-52017_0 | CNDH Reports on Chiapas Situation | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Samuel Prieto Rodriguez in San Cristobal de Las Casas from the "Good Morning From Mexico" newscast] [Text] The National Human Rights Committee [CNDH] issued from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas State, a report on its work in Los Altos de Chiapas. According to the report... |
FBIS3-52034_0 | Bomb Blasts Create `Unrest' on Eve of Public Workers Strike | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Telepress" newscast] [Text] A terrorist attack which caused a blackout in a large part of Guatemala and diverse acts of violence contributed this Thursday to create a climate of unrest in the country. This has occurred on the eve of a public workers strike, which according ... |
FBIS3-52048_0 | Article Analyzes Washington-Havana Rapprochement | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Moises Perez Mock] [Text] Havana [dateline as received] -- Without 1994 looking like a period of special perspectives for a change in the relations between Havana and Washington -- according to Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina -- the recurring topic today has renewed... |
FBIS3-52048_2 | Article Analyzes Washington-Havana Rapprochement | conflict between the two countries. The analysis -- he said back then -- must start from two basic premises: The impossibility of sidelining the antagonistic interests and values that separate Cuba and the United States (beyond the greater or lesser will for a diplomatic arrangement) and the fact that the accounting of... |
FBIS3-52053_1 | Article Praises New Honduran Administration | of Ronald Reagan and George Bush intervened in Honduran governments, rendering the country a veritable "aircraft carrier" for policies implemented by Washington on the Central American isthmus. Multinational Terrorism These murders -- perpetrated with the advice and participation of Argentine soldiers, Nicaraguan contr... |
FBIS3-52053_6 | Article Praises New Honduran Administration | accessories, thus dealing a harsh blow to their plans to obstruct any changes. Fervently supported by Honduran humanitarian organizations, the revealing document -- which implicates current Armed Forces Chief General Luis Alonso Discua -- was coldly received by spokesmen for the outgoing government and rejected by the ... |
FBIS3-52054_1 | Article Asks Is Cold War Truly Over? | have its territory unconditionally inspected by IAEA officials. This occurred after it was accused of making preparations to construct a nuclear weapon. Although there are ongoing negotiations, the situation in the peninsula continues to be tense. The anti-Korean campaign started at the beginning of 1993. The London SU... |
FBIS3-52054_3 | Article Asks Is Cold War Truly Over? | to the "target" of U.S. intercontinental rockets, said: "We do not only concentrate on the former Soviet Union but also on any potentially hostile country that possesses or that is attempting to possess weapons of mass destruction. It appears the Cold War is not over... definitely not for the Russians either. The Cuban... |
FBIS3-52058_1 | Editorial Urges U.S. Examination of Peruvian Human Rights | policies preserves human rights. He should also reflect on whether it is not actually true that human rights are now more respected than they were four, seven, or 10 years ago. It is true for a simple reason, which we will tirelessly repeat: There is a consistent antisubversive strategy that is based precisely on a sys... |
FBIS3-52060_0 | * Terrorist Attacks in November Dropped Drastically | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [DESCO SPECIAL REPORT No. 31: "Political Violence in Peru Today," issued by Peru's Center for Development Studies and Promotion (DESCO)] [Text] November has seen less political violence than almost any other time during the 13 years of war. During this month, there were 36 subversive ... |
FBIS3-52075_12 | Cristiani on Crime, Peace Accords, Economy | send criminals to court would cause two problems: One, we would be somehow contradicting constitutional norms; two, soldiers are not exactly trained to play a role in public security. They are trained in a completely different area. They do not know how to handle certain cases; for example, they do not know what to do ... |
FBIS3-52075_22 | Cristiani on Crime, Peace Accords, Economy | eight, or 15 colones for lunch plus a bus ride. My specific question is whether you have been working for the poor among the poor. A 1-percent reduction has been the result [words indistinct]. [Cristiani] I would like first to say that someone lives in extreme poverty when he receives no income whatsoever. The most imp... |
FBIS3-52078_0 | Central Bank President on Decrease in U.S. Aid | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] A 60-percent cut in U.S. financial aid to El Salvador will not have a major impact on the Salvadoran economy, Central Reserve Bank President Roberto Orellana Milla said yesterday. The official pointed out that the country's economy will be sufficiently strong to bear this witho... |
FBIS3-52085_0 | Christian Democratic Leader Questions U.S. Troops' Mission | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Christian Democratic Party (PDC) President Miguel Angel Montaner said that the U.S. offer to send a unit of 600 military engineers to build schools in the country was questioned during President Juan Carlos Wasmosy's last meeting with political leaders. The main objection was t... |
FBIS3-52104_1 | Jordan Insists on Securing Water Rights in Talks | an interview with the Jordan News Agency, Petra, Dr. Haddadin said article three of the agenda of the Jordanian-Israeli bilateral talks, which was concluded recently, states that both sides should get their legitimate share of water sources shared by them. The issue will be discussed in official talks between the two s... |
FBIS3-52183_0 | Unknown Group Claims Attack on SLA | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Marj 'Uyun, Lebanon, Jan 1 (AFP) -- Israel's proxy militia in south Lebanon came under attack on Saturday [1 January] but suffered no casualties, the South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia said. Guerrillas opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns at an SLA po... |
FBIS3-52201_1 | Vatican Recognition Criticized | Israel. Following the end of the war of oil in the Persian Gulf and the beginning of Middle East peace talks, Vatican started extensive efforts to have presence in these talks. However, the Zionist regime had set establishment of official relations as a condition for Vatican's presence in the talks. Nevertheless the es... |
FBIS3-52204_0 | Refugees From Iraqi Marshes Entering Country | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ahvaz, Khuzestan Prov., Dec. 29, IRNA -- 114 more Iraqis residing in marshlands in southern Iraq entered Iranian region of Hur ol-Hoveyzeh in this southern province Tuesday [28 December]. The refugees said that the southern marshlands of Iraq were extremely insecure for the mar... |
FBIS3-52253_0 | Further on Fighting Among Kurds in North PUK Fighting `Islamic Movement' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Paveh, Kermanshah Prov., Dec. 30, IRNA -- Sporadic clashes between forces of Iraq's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Islamic Movement of Iraq's Kurdistan still continues in northern Iraq. PUK forces have called on members of the Islamic Movement to give up and said that t... |
FBIS3-52255_0 | Further on Fighting Among Kurds in North PUK's `Crimes' Condemned | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Jan. 3, IRNA -- Iraq's Islamic Action Organization (IAO) condemned the recent crimes committed by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) forces. In a statement, the IAO severely condemned the killing and execution of ulema, attack on mosques and burning of the holy qura... |
FBIS3-52256_0 | Further on Fighting Among Kurds in North Islamic Movement Claims Towns Seized | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] It has been reported that the clashes which erupted 10 days ago in northern Iraq between forces affiliated with Jalal Talabani and the pro-Iranian Islamic Movement of Kurdistan are continuing. In a statement to ANATOLIA agency in London, the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan declar... |
FBIS3-52257_0 | Further on Fighting Among Kurds in North Talabani Preparing `Large-Scale Attack' | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Baghdad, 3 Jan (INA)--Reports from al-Sulaymaniyah, northeastern Iraq, have said that the Jalal Talabani's clique has assembled a large number of its armed men in Hawraman to launch a large-scale attack on the members of the so-called Islamic Movement of Kurdistan. Earlier, this... |
FBIS3-52258_0 | PUK Commentary on Victory Over Islamic Movement | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Station commentary] [Text] Our talk yesterday should have dealt with the phenomenon of extremism and revanchism [al-salafiyah] in Islam, in view of the danger, difficulty, and [word indistinct] that such radicalism poses to the noble Islamic religion. The rapid succession of events pr... |
FBIS3-52259_0 | Turkish Paper on Islamic Movement in Kurdistan | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Column by Hasan Cemal: "As the Hizballah in Iraq Appears on the Scene"] [Excerpt] An Islamic organization has surfaced in northern Iraq to carry out armed activities in that part of the country. It has identified itself as the Islamic Movement in Kurdistan [Kurdistan Islamci Hareketi... |
FBIS3-52259_2 | Turkish Paper on Islamic Movement in Kurdistan | Of course, that accounts for Saudi Arabia's support. The recent weakening of the economy in northern Iraq has had a significant bearing on the strengthening of the Hizballah organization. The gradual worsening of poverty has disappointed the people in the region. Consequently, that state of affairs has nourished Islami... |
FBIS3-52260_0 | Paper Warns on `Foreign Schemes' in Kurdistan | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Baghdad, 30 Dec (INA)--The newspaper AL-'IRAQ has warned against foreign schemes to destroy Iraq's Kurdistan. In an editorial entitled "The Truth Will Prevail," AL-'IRAQ today says this terrible scheme was assigned to agents of the foreigner after they abandoned all nationalisti... |
FBIS3-52291_0 | U.S. Officials Cited on Pan Am Affair | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tripoli, al-Kanun [Dec] 31, JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS AGENCY -- The former head of American intelligence, (CIA), William Webster has said that the accusation made against nationals from the Great Jamahiriya implicating them in the downing of a Pan Am airline, stems from political intent... |
FBIS3-52359_0 | Opposition Urges Caution in Dealings With U.S. | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Damascus, 30 Dec (SANA)--The Iraqi Islamic bloc, which opposes the Iraqi regime, has stressed its desire to bring down the Baghdad regime and set up an alternative regime in a united Iraq that respects the rights of all parties. In a statement issued today, the Islamic bloc note... |
FBIS3-52361_2 | Paper Views Release of Assets in European Banks | facing Iraq as a result of the unjust blockade imposed on it and that the lack of foreign currency has affected efforts to meet the needs of the local commodity and service markets. On the instructions of the Political Command, the Central Bank of Iraq has tried to ease the pressure on foreign currency by taking measur... |
FBIS3-52365_2 | Information Minister on Reopening of Gulf Port | Iraq. He added: We cannot turn back those people, who, we think, have begun to understand the suffering of and injustice inflicted on Iraq and the effect the blockade is having on its people. We responded favorably to them on humanitarian grounds and we hope they will make their voices heard to their governments and to... |
FBIS3-52379_1 | Results of Habibi's Visit to Turkey Examined | of the late Turkish president, Turgut Ozal, in April 1993 many political analysts had expressed the opinion that the period of friendly relations between Iran and Turkey had passed away along with the deceased Turkish president. This group of analysts focussed on a series of parameters which reflected the personal pref... |
FBIS3-52382_0 | Alliance With Iraq, GCC Suggested | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Excerpts] Oil prices continue to fall steadily. During last Wednesday's [29 December] exchanges in European markets, the price of all varieties of crude oil fell to its lowest level in the last five years. [passage omitted] The West's double standard with re... |
FBIS3-52385_2 | Reports on Desire To Resume Ties With Egypt Dismissed | to legitimize the Zionist entity in Islamic public opinion and try to make the international Islamic revival look like a futile attempt that leads nowhere. Since we consider that the Islamic Republic of Iran is the base of the international Islamic revival, spreading doubts and despair among the Islamic public about th... |
FBIS3-52386_1 | Commentary Views U.S. `Threats,' `Pressure' | Nations like a puppet in their hands, the Americans are disgracefully trying to save themselves from the Somali quagmire. THE WASHINGTON TIMES article comes at a time when Secretary of Defense Les Aspin has resigned in view of the defeat of America's unrestrained diplomacy in Somalia and when, under the crushing pressu... |
FBIS3-52393_1 | Energy Official Details Nuclear Achievements | of funds to impede their work. They have built several major parts for a nuclear power plant that were previously imported, and have not let external impediments stand in the way of the smooth operation of their program. Pakistan's first nuclear power plant was supplied by Canada some 20-22 years ago, but due to intern... |
FBIS3-52394_0 | U.S. Accused of Targeting Islamic Countries | Language: Urdu Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The Atom, American Concern, and Islamic Countries"] [Text] The distinguished journal ECONOMIST has disclosed that the United States has decided to intensify surveillance of nuclear facilities in Muslim countries because of fears about the possible proliferation of nuclear ar... |
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