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FBIS4-32904_2 | Samper Favors Maintaining Cuban Ties 27 May | forces, can be violated. The violations carried out by the guerrillas must be investigated. Economic Opening We will not do an about face; we will not eliminate the reduction of barriers; we will not change the regulations on foreign investment; and we will not give up what has been gained in the field of mobilization ... |
FBIS4-32923_0 | Amnesty International Member Attacked | BFN [Text] Quito, 27 May (EFE) -- Human rights organizations in Quito today reported that Celso Garbarz, an Italian citizen and a member of the Amnesty International (AI) executive committee, was attacked by unidentified individuals who left him unconscious on a street in a tourist sector of Quito. "Robbery was not the... |
FBIS4-32950_0 | Provincial Officials Discuss Economic Recovery Issues | BFN [Report by Santiago de Cuba correspondent Margarita Pecora] [Text] I can confirm with the conviction provided by facts and without any triumphalism that economic recovery is in the air in Santiago de Cuba. Approximately 500 leaders of this territory's enterprises and organizations have been holding a meeting on eco... |
FBIS4-32954_0 | `Antonio Guiteras' Power Plant Operational | BFN [Text] After some technical difficulties, the Antonio Guiteras Power Plant in Matanzas has incorporated its 330 megawatt unit into the national electric system. Specialists at that plant report that the average output exceeds 270 megawatts and that the recent repairs did away with other problems that obstructed the... |
FBIS4-32956_4 | Journalists Discuss Increase in Prostitution | significance of selling her body. In addition to society as a whole, I think the family is also responsible, for allowing this to happen. And of course, the government can be held partially, although not fully, responsible for this because people often want the government to solve all police problems through repression... |
FBIS4-32959_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 23 and 29 May: Radio Rebelde at 1155 GMT on 23 May reports that Noel Adrian, general director of the Cuban-French enterprise Havana Club Internacional, has annou... |
FBIS4-32959_2 | Roundup of Economic Activity | result in 300,000 quintals of tobacco -- 39,000 more than last year. The tobacco crop accrues $100 million annually for the Cuban economy. Pinar del Rio Province is the source of 70 percent of the national tobacco crop. Radio Rebelde at 0900 GMT on 26 May reports that a Ciego de Avila work group is close to reaching it... |
FBIS4-32974_0 | Private Sector Lists Plans To Increase Exports | BFN [Report by Lucia Domville and Jose Luis Gaona] [Text] Mexico will become an exporting power in the next few years and will be able to take advantage of trade agreements only if a series of measures are incorporated into the government program for the next six-year period. Presidents of business organizations and ex... |
FBIS4-32987_2 | Suggested Improvements to FSLN Outlined | its campaign promises have been and may remain the breeding ground for the risky, spontaneous actions of the masses. They could also turn major segments of the population into the social base of the far right, which speaks the language of populism. We must remember the example of the PLC [Constitutionalist Liberal Part... |
FBIS4-33000_1 | Cavallo Interviewed on Economy, Chilean Ties | between 1992 and 1993. Although this is a negative indicator, we believe it is also an opportunity to quickly increase our economic growth because Argentina may witness a sharp increase in the construction industry, which will absorb quite a lot of the currently idle labor. As is well-known in Chile, the key to reactiv... |
FBIS4-33007_1 | Occurrence of Nationwide Epidemics Highlighted | 1,000, in La Paz four per 1,000, and in Santa Cruz seven per 1,000. In the Provinces of Gran Chaco, Arce, and O'Connor in the department of Tarija, the tendency is toward stability at a high level: 30 per 1,000 inhabitants. The fight against malaria does not seem to be very successful. In Pando recently, health authori... |
FBIS4-33007_3 | Occurrence of Nationwide Epidemics Highlighted | 1959. The endemic area is entirely within the department of Pando. The pathogenic agent is the Machupo virus, carried by the callomis callosus rat. Until 1975, sporadic outbreaks occurred that were characterized by a high degree of mortality. No cases were reported between 1976 and 1992. Recently, a reported new outbre... |
FBIS4-33025_0 | Cuban Exports Increase 1,600 Percent | BFN [Text] Santa Fe de Bogota, 26 May (EFE) -- Cuban exports to Colombia increased by more than 1,600 percent in the first four months of the year, from $1.2 million to $21 million, the Colombian Foreign Trade Institute reported today. The institute said Cuba was the country with the greatest increase in exports to Col... |
FBIS4-33035_0 | U.S. Withdrawal of Drug Enforcement Aid, Radar `Lacks Logic' | BFN [Text] Lima, 31 May (EFE) -- Oswaldo Sandoval, president of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Peruvian Congress, said today that the U.S. decision to withdraw its airplanes and radars supporting drug enforcement in Peru favors drug trafficking. Sandoval said the U.S. decision "is incoherent, and lacks logic, a... |
FBIS4-33043_6 | Caldera Interviewed on Domestic Issues | are more negatively affected when the value of the dollar rises from 120 to 160 bolivares. The economic recession that exists due to the hike in the value of the dollar, the drop in imports, and the reduction in oil exports has negatively affected economic growth. The impact of this situation is more severe on certain ... |
FBIS4-33052_0 | Central Bank Head on U.S. Dollar, Exchange Rate | BFN [Report by Vicente Briceno from Miraflores Palace; from the "Union Radio News" newscast] [Text] According to Antonio Casas Gonzalez, president of the Central Bank of Venezuela, the U.S. dollar's downward trend is making it very unlikely to implement controls on foreign exchange. Casas has said that although he resp... |
FBIS4-33062_0 | Demonstrators Clash With Riot Police | BFN [Text] Mexico City, 31 May (NOTIMEX) -- A police source has reported that one person was arrested and an unknown number were injured today during a clash between riot police and demonstrators demanding housing in Iztapalapa, in eastern Mexico City. According to the Road and Safety Secretariat [SGPyV], the incident ... |
FBIS4-33063_10 | Reina Discusses Strikes, Other Issues | are the wrong decisions. If it is necessary to make sacrifices, we all have to make them. As for the teachers, one bright spot is that the strike scheduled for today was temporarily suspended. What does this mean? That negotiations are being conducted with willingness to find correct, feasible solutions. Where are we g... |
FBIS4-33063_11 | Reina Discusses Strikes, Other Issues | to reshuffle all of this. Frankly speaking, the problem has not been one of making decisions. Decisions must always be made within the context of knowing that someone will disagree. There are no ideal places or Utopias. What has been ruled out, however, is that people will illicitly profit from these decisions. This is... |
FBIS4-33096_0 | Article Views U.S. Customs Treatment of Goods | BFN [Article by Jorge Witker: "NAFTA: Some Practical Indicators"] [Text] Four months following NAFTA's entry into force, the northern border offers some negative indicators that contrast with the acceleration processes being currently implemented by the government in the tariff and financial areas. The northern border,... |
FBIS4-33099_0 | Central American Leaders Oppose Taking Haitian Refugees | BFN [Text] San Salvador, 1 Jun (ACAN-EFE) -- U.S. President Bill Clinton seems to have knocked on the wrong door when he asked Central America to provide temporary shelter to hundreds of Haitian refugees because, according to what several Central American leaders are claiming, current conditions do not favor this optio... |
FBIS4-33136_3 | Pastrana on Election Results, Runoff | program which we want to implement on 7 August. What the country is tired of seeing is that all coalitions have their bureaucratic side. The country says: Here come the same ones with the same thing. What they seek is positions; what they want is to get votes to reach the presidency. That is what we have to end. That i... |
FBIS4-33139_1 | Asylum Seekers Threaten To Set Themselves on Fire | country. Those who are at the Belgian Embassy must leave the building peacefully. Cuba is reiterating the guarantees given to Belgium that it will not take reprisals, and besides Cuba takes pride that it has not taken reprisals in previous cases." Dated 29 May, or a day after the group entered the residence of Belgian ... |
FBIS4-33141_1 | AIDS Program Developers Meet in Antigua | of managing AIDS programs in the respective countries. The national AIDS program meeting got off to an official start yesterday. As we hear in this dispatch from Debbie Francis, the meeting was declared open by Antigua's Health Minister Hilroy Humphreys. [Begin recording] [Francis] Health Minister Hilroy Humphreys has ... |
FBIS4-33144_1 | Presidential Note Discusses New Currency | aware that inflation seriously and inhumanely affects the poorest, the salary earners, and those who have no protection against price runs and the erosion of salaries. The results of years of chronic inflation can be seen in the low efficiency of the state, in its incapability of furnishing basic services, investing in... |
FBIS4-33154_3 | Economic Philosophy of PT Adviser Mercadante Seen | value], one of which is inflation in URV terms that is already contaminating the future currency." Dollarization "The backing for the issue of currency is harmful because having parity without convertibility is not safe. In Argentina, the market feels secure because there you can exchange pesos for dollars. In Brazil, ... |
FBIS4-33155_0 | End to Occupation of Ambassador's Residence Sought | BFN [By Javier Rodriguez] [Text] Havana, 2 Jun (PL) -- Today, Acting Foreign Minister Isabel Allende met with a Belgian delegation to discuss the situation created by the illegal occupation of the Belgian ambassador's residence. Foreign Ministry sources told PRENSA LATINA that today at the Foreign Ministry, Allende, ac... |
FBIS4-33165_0 | Article Sees Growing Opposition to U.S. Embargo | BFN [Article for PRENSA LATINA by Cuban journalist and analyst Nicanor Leon Cotayo: "The Snowball Effect"] [Text] Havana, 29 May (PL) -- While high-ranking government spokesmen in Washington reaffirm that the blockade policy against Cuba will not change, disapproval for this official policy is quietly, but consistently... |
FBIS4-33168_0 | Price Hikes Designed To Reduce Circulating Currency | BFN [Text] Havana, 1 Jun (PL) -- As was announced last year, an increase in the prices of cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, and air and maritime transportation fees went into effect today in the first stage of a series of increases aimed at reducing the large amount of currency in circulation. The proposed increase in g... |
FBIS4-33173_0 | Electric Union Announces Kilowatt-Hour Increase | BFN [Text] According to estimates by specialists, 52.2 percent of the population will not be affected by the kilowatt-hour cost increase, and the measure will also help to promote energy conservation. A family unit that uses 150 kilowatts will pay 19 pesos more, since the first 100 kilowatts cost nine cents a kilowatt,... |
FBIS4-33174_0 | Commentary Says Price Hikes To Benefit Society | BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] Today [1 June] marks the beginning of some price and fee increases agreed on by the Council of Ministers Executive Committee to cleanse the nation's domestic finances, which are being burdened by the circulation of a large amount ... |
FBIS4-33179_1 | Journalists Discuss Semantics of Economic Measures | NUEVO HERALD said that the measures being implemented in Cuba have a neoliberal character. Recio asks: "Why avoid using the phrase, package of measures, even if we are talking about a significant group of measures? I believe the reason is precisely to avoid giving the impression that the measures respond to neoliberal ... |
FBIS4-33189_3 | Article Views `Cosmetic' Economic Growth | the third and fourth quarters are no better. Pre- and post electoral uncertainty could hinder the hoped-for economic recovery. Despite minor growth, the trade deficit accumulated a balance of $4.29 billion between January and March, 18.9 percent higher than the same period in 1993 when the economy expanded 2.4 percent.... |
FBIS4-33203_10 | Comparison Between Constitution, Amendments | shall observe only the dictates of their consciences. Magistrates' Explanations As the concept of impeachment is eliminated, it is necessary to modify this article to reinstate the principle of the 1946 Constitution. Constitution Article 145. Political parties shall be able to impeach the legislators and alternates the... |
FBIS4-33220_0 | Amorim: Social Dumping `New Form of Protectionism' | BFN [Article by Maria Helena Tachinardi] [Text] Sao Paulo -- The developed countries are expected to promote a debate on the social question, which ranges from salary policy and labor conditions to the treatment of needy children, within the new World Trade Organization (WTO). Foreign Minister Celso Amorim believes tha... |
FBIS4-33226_0 | Central Bank's Support of Dollar Rate Detailed | BFN [Text] Yesterday, Central Reserve Bank [BCR] President German Suarez reported that "to prevent the nominal exchange rate from dropping, $700 million has been bought from the black market so far this year, $300 million of which was for the executive branch, while the remaining $400 million was for the BCR." He added... |
FBIS4-33235_2 | Article Views Suspended U.S. Radar Operations | that decision. A government spokesman consulted by EL TIEMPO, however, said "it is obvious that if the radars are useless, there is no sense in keeping them or their technicians in Colombian territory." Meanwhile, the authorities know that drug traffickers' illegal flights have been on the rise in the past month due to... |
FBIS4-33235_4 | Article Views Suspended U.S. Radar Operations | aviation students, flight instructors, machinists and operators, doctors, dentists, and other health professionals who deal with or tend combustible or flammable materials and substances, including explosives, toxic, poisonous, corrosive, or radioactive substances, as well as those who bear or ship arms, air traffic co... |
FBIS4-33255_0 | Minister Authorizes Revamping of DNOCS | BFN [Article by Fortaleza correspondent Flaminio Araripe] [Text] Planning Minister Beni Veras has announced that Regional Integration Minister Aluizio Alves has authorized the revamping of the National Department of Drought Control (DNOCS), reducing the number of directorates from 17 to four. Veras said this process wo... |
FBIS4-33256_0 | Guerrilla Attacks Cause Oil Spill, Leave 3 Dead | BFN [From the "Seven O'Clock Newscast"] [Text] Today, ELN [Army of National Liberation] guerrillas blew up a stretch of the Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline near the municipality of Pelaya in southern Cesar Department. More than 8,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into Gamboa ravine that flows into the Zapatosa marsh. This r... |
FBIS4-33269_1 | Commentary Reviews Nonaligned Support for Cuba | final declaration basic Cuban foreign policy concepts that Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina's delegation expounded in Cairo. Cuba terms as satisfactory the fact that the Cairo Declaration issues an appeal to end the U.S. economic blockade against the island, guarantees the Movement's continuity, and demands the establi... |
FBIS4-33275_0 | SELA Council Rejects U.S. Blockade on Cuba | BFN [From the "Morning Information Review" newscast] [Text] Participants at the 20th Council of the Latin American Economic System [SELA] in Mexico condemned the blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States over 30 years ago. A resolution approved by representatives from 27 of the regional organization's member countr... |
FBIS4-33276_1 | Diplomat Discusses SELA Meeting | Caribbean integration, and on the challenges of the 21st Century. Comrade Ernesto Melendez, president of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation, participated in one of these discussions. He addressed the issue of the 21st Century and the challenges that SELA now faces and its plans for facing these challenges. It... |
FBIS4-33287_0 | PCC Special Plenum Discusses Economic Measures | BFN [Text] Managing and supporting the implementation of the measures approved by the Council of State to mend the national economy were the main issues of the fourth Communist Party of Cuba [PCC] special plenum of Havana. The plenum, chaired by Jorge Lezcano Perez, first secretary of the PCC in Havana, and Finance and... |
FBIS4-33295_9 | AIDS Research, Medical Advances Detailed | are going to. Growth Hormones Manuel Limonta also discussed the CIGB's progress in the control and use of growth hormones. "We have worked on fish, and in this area we really have one of the most advanced groups in the world. We introduced the genetic information contained in the growth hormone in fish. This causes the... |
FBIS4-33295_16 | AIDS Research, Medical Advances Detailed | in ourselves we could not ask anyone else to try. And when we tested the vaccine in children, we applied the same ethical standard. Our own children were the first ones who used the vaccine. Only later did we go to field testing," explains the doctor. This vaccine is now being used in a number of Latin American countri... |
FBIS4-33295_18 | AIDS Research, Medical Advances Detailed | used in biomedicine and biotechnology is Cuba's coral reefs. Since the Cuban revolution has been careful with the nation's ecology, the corals are practically free from pollution. Dr. Gutierrez feels that the corals, in human medicine, are "better than synthetic materials," because synthetic materials introduce molecul... |
FBIS4-33295_19 | AIDS Research, Medical Advances Detailed | converts oxygen into ozone was imported, and Cubans then developed innovative applications for ozone for both therapeutic and industrial uses. At the CIMEQ [Medical and Surgical Research Center] ozone therapy is being used to dissolve components of blood clots. After five years of animal experiments, the treatment was ... |
FBIS4-33316_1 | Sandinists: Torricelli Urging Political Changes | A failure to resolve this conflict may lead to the blocking of an estimated $60 million in U.S. economic aid to Nicaragua this year. "Torricelli did not come to Nicaragua because it occurred to him to defend the North Americans, but to exert pressure in various ways for an alteration of the country's political and econ... |
FBIS4-33339_0 | Indigenous Groups Hold Preparatory Meeting in Cochabamba | BFN [Text] Cochabamba, Bolivia 1 Jun (EFE) -- The preparatory meeting for the "International Decade of the World's Indigeous People" closed today in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with the approval of a document to be submitted to the United Nations. The document contains 53 resolutions vindicating the cultural identity of indig... |
FBIS4-33351_1 | Salinas: NAFTA Prevents Reexport | the San Lazaro Almecatla Power Substation and symbolically inaugurated five other substations and five transmission lines. The president of the Republic said that in the past six years the electric sector increased its production capacity by more than 35 percent. In the company of Emilio Lozoya Thalmann, secretary of e... |
FBIS4-33371_3 | Foreign Minister Discusses Chairing Nonaligned Movement | duty to work for Colombia, and this is a good job and a good campaign. [laughs] [Arizmendi] A few days ago we interviewed Dr. Ernesto Samper Pizano on our program "Caracol's 0600 to 0900" newscast. We also did so on our television program "Face to Face." He told us that you were virtually the only Colombian who can aff... |
FBIS4-33400_0 | Russia Seeks To Renew Agreement With Petroven | BFN [Article by Ana Diaz] [Text] Russia hopes shortly to renew a trilateral trade agreement with Venezuelan Petroleum, Inc. [Petroven] to supply oil to Cuba. Through this agreement Russia will supply up to 70,000 barrels of crude oil per day to the European market, and Petroven will supply an equal amount to the Caribb... |
FBIS4-33403_3 | _O_ Unemployment, Poverty in 1995 Election | percent) and commerce (14 percent). Age did not appear to be a factor. Poverty Rising The monthly PERUPAZ in its April issue decries the Fujimori government's failure to address the serious problem of poverty and says that in spite of the economic successes the government claims, its economic policy impedes any improve... |
FBIS4-33417_0 | Latin American States Reject Invasion of Haiti | BFN [Text] Belem do Para, Brazil, 6 Jun (PL) -- The rejection of military intervention in Haiti as a solution to the political crisis in that country appears to be a majority stand in Latin America. Several Latin American foreign ministers unanimously expressed their opposition to that possibility when they met here ye... |
FBIS4-33420_2 | Article Views Dangerous Emigration Attempts | Socialist bloc. The Cuban economic crisis, the privileges granted to Cubans in the U.S., and the limited revenues through legal means produced an explosive but attractive mixture [coctel] for thousands of people who risked their lives (and may have lost them) in the past years, traveling on improvised vessels, the so-c... |
FBIS4-33420_4 | Article Views Dangerous Emigration Attempts | enter this territory. The United States, which maintains the enclave on the basis of a treaty signed in 1903, does not comply with the provisions of this same document; for example, the provision that establishes that Cubans who illegally cross the demarcation boundary must be returned. Media sources in Miami have esti... |
FBIS4-33427_0 | SELA Resolution Rejects Embargo | BFN [Text] Mexico City, 3 Jun (PL) -- The 20th Council of the Latin American Economic System (SELA) today approved a resolution rejecting the U.S.-imposed economic, trade, and financial blockade instituted against Cuba more than three decades ago. The document, which was studied by ministerial-level delegations, recogn... |
FBIS4-33436_0 | Government Maintains Free Education System | BFN [Report by Miguel Lozano] [Text] Havana, 3 Jun (PL) -- Despite its current economic difficulties, Cuba has managed to keep operational its free education system, which includes a program for foreign students which this year will graduate almost 30,000 graduates from 110 countries. An Education Ministry report shows... |
FBIS4-33437_0 | Children Urge Lifting of Blockade | BFN [By Raimundo Lopez] [Text] Havana, 1 Jun (PL) -- During today's International Children's Day celebrations, Cuban children affirmed that they are confident about their future and asked the U.S. Government to lift the three-decade-long blockade imposed against their country. I foresee a future in which all my friends... |
FBIS4-33447_0 | Minister on Need for Research Funds, Support | BFN [Report by Demetrio Villa Urrutia from Cartagena for the "Doing Radio" newscast] [Excerpts] The 10-person Cuban delegation that will handle the Ibero- American summit on 14-15 June arrived in Cartagena 48 hours ago. [passage omitted] The first official activity before the Ibero-American summit concluded this weeken... |
FBIS4-33451_0 | ANPP Official Discusses Santiago Energy Situation | BFN [Text] Jaime Crombet, vice president of the National Assembly of the People's Government [ANPP], has described Santiago de Cuba's overall energy situation as positive. The thorough repairs conducted at the Rente Electric Plant, which has already reached an output of 315 megawatts or 45 percent of its capacity and h... |
FBIS4-33455_2 | Roundup of Economic Developments | the Communist Party of Cuba has called for a day of sugarcane planting and weeding at the Pepito Tey Complex. Jesus Rodriguez Diaz, provincial PCC first secretary, reported that only 75 caballerias had been weeded during May. Radio Rebelde at 1700 GMT on 2 June reports that approximately 2,000 caballerias of tobacco wi... |
FBIS4-33477_3 | Hashemi-Rafsanjani Holds News Conference | the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) as well as bilateral cooperation with India and Malaysia were expanding, he said. The president added that tripartite cooperation among Iran, Pakistan and India could lead to the formation of a great economic grouping in the region and in order to achieve this objective, the ... |
FBIS4-33478_0 | Majles Speaker's Comments on U.S. Imports Discussed | BFN [Commentary by Mas'ud Khaleqi: "And Yet, There Is Room for Concern"-- punctuation as published] [Text] On Tuesday 24 May, the esteemed Majles speaker, who attended a news conference with foreign and domestic correspondents, said in answer to a question put to him by a correspondent of Japan's NHK Television on what... |
FBIS4-33478_1 | Majles Speaker's Comments on U.S. Imports Discussed | American soft drinks and cigarettes? And what dangers can the banning of such imports have on our Islamic homeland? We should also recall that during last year's session of the G-7, the Americans placed the topic of banning the export of technology to Iran on their agenda and insisted--together with the British Governm... |
FBIS4-33483_1 | Rebel Radio Views Political Prisoners | heart-rending acts such as the mass murder of political prisoners, extortion, depriving them of the right to a lawyer, summary trials, rape of girls before their execution, dozens of kinds of psychological and physical tortures, and leaving the world uninformed of the situation of the political prisoners and so on by p... |
FBIS4-33484_3 | Larijani Writes on Events in Middle East | New York is a clear indication of this fear. Thus, the fabrication of a new preoccupation with regard to Iran has been placed on the agenda. Perhaps the most appropriate pretext and in fact, one on which they would have greater control would be some Arab countries in the Persian Gulf. An important point that merits the... |
FBIS4-33487_0 | * Relations With South Africa To Resume | CSO [Text] Tehran, 10 Ordibehesht [30 April] KEYHAN-E HAVA'I News Service -- Following the dissolution of the apartheid regime and the participation of all races in the national elections in South Africa, Iran's political and economic relations with this country, which were cut off in 1980 after the triumph of the Isla... |
FBIS4-33492_0 | Majles Speaker's Comments on U.S. Imports Discussed | BFN [Commentary by Mas'ud Khaleqi: "And Yet, There Is Room for Concern"-- punctuation as published] [Text] On Tuesday 24 May, the esteemed Majles speaker, who attended a news conference with foreign and domestic correspondents, said in answer to a question put to him by a correspondent of Japan's NHK Television on what... |
FBIS4-33492_1 | Majles Speaker's Comments on U.S. Imports Discussed | American soft drinks and cigarettes? And what dangers can the banning of such imports have on our Islamic homeland? We should also recall that during last year's session of the G-7, the Americans placed the topic of banning the export of technology to Iran on their agenda and insisted--together with the British Governm... |
FBIS4-33493_3 | Commentary: U.S., Saudi Arabia Foment Regional Tension | Eastern bloc and communism. While his own country is engaged in a multifaceted war against Islam in various parts of the world, Lake claims that the United States is strongly opposed to the view that the United States should go to war against Islam in the aftermath of the failure of communism. Lake claimed that his cou... |
FBIS4-33498_1 | Rebel Radio Views Political Prisoners | heart-rending acts such as the mass murder of political prisoners, extortion, depriving them of the right to a lawyer, summary trials, rape of girls before their execution, dozens of kinds of psychological and physical tortures, and leaving the world uninformed of the situation of the political prisoners and so on by p... |
FBIS4-33499_3 | Larijani Writes on Events in Middle East | New York is a clear indication of this fear. Thus, the fabrication of a new preoccupation with regard to Iran has been placed on the agenda. Perhaps the most appropriate pretext and in fact, one on which they would have greater control would be some Arab countries in the Persian Gulf. An important point that merits the... |
FBIS4-33502_0 | * Relations With South Africa To Resume | CSO [Text] Tehran, 10 Ordibehesht [30 April] KEYHAN-E HAVA'I News Service -- Following the dissolution of the apartheid regime and the participation of all races in the national elections in South Africa, Iran's political and economic relations with this country, which were cut off in 1980 after the triumph of the Isla... |
FBIS4-33510_5 | Khamene'i Speaks on Khomeyni, Other Issues | was extended by any government. Internally, various kinds of pressure were exerted on the nation and government by political and propagandistic means. This country, this nation, this government is implementing the program to reconstruct the country, especially infrastructural projects, in a manner which has elicited th... |
FBIS4-33510_12 | Khamene'i Speaks on Khomeyni, Other Issues | had imposed themselves on this country, this nation and these bounties of God. Today, with the blessings of the Almighty, the administrators of this country are the people themselves. Today, with the vigilance and endeavors of these people, the best form of popular government in accordance with the will of the people e... |
FBIS4-33511_3 | Commentary: U.S., Saudi Arabia Foment Regional Tension | Eastern bloc and communism. While his own country is engaged in a multifaceted war against Islam in various parts of the world, Lake claims that the United States is strongly opposed to the view that the United States should go to war against Islam in the aftermath of the failure of communism. Lake claimed that his cou... |
FBIS4-33512_3 | Hashemi-Rafsanjani Holds News Conference | the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) as well as bilateral cooperation with India and Malaysia were expanding, he said. The president added that tripartite cooperation among Iran, Pakistan and India could lead to the formation of a great economic grouping in the region and in order to achieve this objective, the ... |
FBIS4-33518_1 | Lula Outlines Foreign Policies | presupposes an end to the military dictatorship and the return of Jean Bertrand Aristide to the presidency. Regarding the Miami meeting, we are concerned about Cuba's absence due to the veto of the U.S. Government, which is hosting the meeting. Such a decision is not compatible with the efforts of rapprochement that ar... |
FBIS4-33544_0 | Russian Parliamentarian Meets With Ambassador | BFN [Text] On 7 June, Ivan Rybkin, president of the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, stated the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba for over three decades is unnatural. Rybkin met with Rogelio Montenegro, Cuban ambassador to the Russian Federation. They broached various issues pertaining to the economic measures Was... |
FBIS4-33547_0 | Emigre Leader on Upcoming U.S. Protest Cited | BFN [From the "Exclusive" program] [Text] Cuban-American organizations, headed by the Cuban-American Committee for Peace, will meet U.S. congressmen on 9 June to denounce the U.S. blockade against Cuba. Committee President Raymundo del Toro says the meeting is an opportunity to support the act of free trade with Cuba, ... |
FBIS4-33550_0 | Commentary Links `Obstinate' U.S. Policy, Isolation | BFN ["Our Opinion": Commentary by Orlando Contreras; from the "Doing Radio" program] [Text] Information from abroad suggests that the obstinate U.S. practice of gambling on and fueling Cuba's collapse loses support every day because of its foundation and illegal nature and that the longer it takes its supporters to rec... |
FBIS4-33551_3 | `Straight Talk' Debates Agricultural Issues | analyses would be different and production would be easier because we would opt for the so-called market economy and the policy of every man for himself. Those 11 million people sometimes multiply because we have hospitals, schools, the so-called social consumption, and the workers' cafeterias, which charge prices that... |
FBIS4-33557_0 | Clandestine Radio Accuses U.S. of Coup, Army Support | BFN [Text] Here is our opinion. A second 1915 is threatening the country. What must we do? When the U.S. Marines landed in Haiti on 28 July 1915, most Haitians in the cities refused to understand. They were always sounding bugles, shouting freedom or death. They were always swearing that they would not let foreigners t... |
FBIS4-33557_2 | Clandestine Radio Accuses U.S. of Coup, Army Support | were previously in power in Haiti. Regarding Aristide, despite all the mistakes his government might have made, President Titide appeared as one of the most honest governments that ever led the country. But the Americans did not agree with this government's social project. So they dismissed it. It therefore looks more ... |
FBIS4-33560_5 | Roundup of Economic Developments | 1994. In a press release, state-owned PEMEX reported that with larger revenues mainly from sales and a reduction in expenditures, the operation and investment budget showed a 570 million new peso surplus as opposed to the budgeted deficit of about 110 million new pesos. (Mexico City LA JORNADA in Spanish 6 Jun 94 p 48)... |
FBIS4-33562_2 | De Leon Marks 1st Anniversary in Office | of pretrial procedures. As for our efforts in seeking peace, our progress is more than significant. One year ago, this process was at a complete standstill. We now have a commission specifically tasked with achieving peace, and we have presented to the Guatemalan people a national negotiation-based peace plan which is ... |
FBIS4-33570_0 | Government Rejects Demands | BFN [Text] Managua, 7 Jun (NOTIMEX) -- The Nicaraguan Government today rejected demands made by two groups of former soldiers who peacefully and simultaneously occupied the Managua Cathedral and the Venezuelan Embassy in the same city. According to Deputy Government Minister Frank Cesar, the two groups of former soldie... |
FBIS4-33581_1 | Issues Facing New U.S. Ambassador Reviewed | commercial area that must be taken care of lest they deteriorate and acquire undesirable tones. Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky comes with the good disposition of cooperating to find solutions to pending commercial problems, and nothing indicates that he intends to take overly harsh positions. He should find the same open s... |
FBIS4-33593_0 | Minister Seeks U.S. Support To Fight Corruption | BFN [Excerpt] Interior Minister Ramon Escovar Salom has asked Strobe Talbott, U.S. assistant secretary of state, for his country's assistance in fighting corruption, given this struggle cannot be waged within the limits of Venezuela alone and requires the support of major countries to efficiently combat it. Corruption ... |
FBIS4-33594_0 | Senator Calls U.S. Asylum Request `Unusual' | BFN [Report by the Cecilia Canones from the "Union Radio News" newscast] [Text] According to Senator Aydee Castillo de Lopez, president of the Senate Foreign Policy Committee, it is highly unusual for the United States to deny asylum to Haitian refugees, while, at the same time, asking Venezuela to receive them. The se... |
FBIS4-33596_27 | President Eduardo Frei Interviewed | very beneficial for Chile in the long term, as we are an exporting country. President Clinton will be announcing within the next three or four months what countries the United States can achieve these kind of agreements with. Only then will negotiations be undertaken prior to congressional approval. All interested part... |
FBIS4-33604_1 | Gaviria Favors Open Dialogue With Castro Regime | LA VANGUARDIA, Gaviria says that he does not believe it is convenient "to pressure" the Cuban Government and that it is best to help the Caribbean country change its economy. "What we can look into as a possibility--but I do not know if Castro will go along with it--is to work along the lines followed by Spain, Colombi... |
FBIS4-33608_1 | OAS Assembly Meeting Continues 8 Jun in Brazil Mexican Official on Salinas Visit to Cuba | increased considerably. He added that the Mexican Government and investors view Cuba as a "suitable" place for investments under the current commercial conditions which attract investments to the island. He said the National Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext) views Cuba as a safe country for Mexican capital. According to a... |
FBIS4-33638_0 | President-Elect Wants `Adjustment' of Foreign Debt Payments | BFN [Report by Fernando Fernandez from the "RPC Television News" newscast] [Text] President-elect Ernesto Perez Balladares has stated that it is unfair for the incoming administration to have to pay for the current government's inability to meet its obligations with the international financial institutions [IFI's]. The... |
FBIS4-33641_1 | Article Views Problems Facing Economic Program | productive capacity to a point where we can place our products on the international market at more competitive prices. The search for increased factory capacity is weighing heavily on the trade balance deficit, which is an ominous warning for the near future. The possibility of devaluing the peso has been totally ruled... |
FBIS4-33655_0 | Senator Calls U.S. Asylum Request `Unusual' | BFN [Report by the Cecilia Canones from the "Union Radio News" newscast] [Text] According to Senator Aydee Castillo de Lopez, president of the Senate Foreign Policy Committee, it is highly unusual for the United States to deny asylum to Haitian refugees, while, at the same time, asking Venezuela to receive them. The se... |
FBIS4-33656_0 | Minister Seeks U.S. Support To Fight Corruption | BFN [Excerpt] Interior Minister Ramon Escovar Salom has asked Strobe Talbott, U.S. assistant secretary of state, for his country's assistance in fighting corruption, given this struggle cannot be waged within the limits of Venezuela alone and requires the support of major countries to efficiently combat it. Corruption ... |
FBIS4-33659_0 | Colonel on Military's Self-Financing Efforts | BFN [Report by Maria Elena Samper from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] Last year, when Army General Raul Castro, in an interview granted to the newspaper EL SOL DE MEXICO, announced the island's goal of having the most cost-effective Armed Forces in the hemisphere, the Cuban military's efforts -- effo... |
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