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So this last item in the following stories tells of attempt on life of
Castro using a chocolate milkshake?
The Hamas years ago wanted to poison the water in the Holy Land?
Sharon when referring to the Arab Oil lands said, they have the oil but
we have the matches - but would the Hamas Light the Matches?
We have batteries taking us to Mars and beyond and yet California might
be reduced to light a candle rather than curse the darkness?
One Step Forward for Mankind, and Ten Steps backward, for California?
We are now going through the sixty and 70 periods again....when they
tell us to turn off our Christmas Lights again, I got news for them - My
House Will be lit up like Las Vegas.
Saba
Friday
Friday, May 25, 2001
World Watch
Amsterdam
Battle was waged in the courts rather than at sea over two controversial
shipments of reprocessed plutonium from France and Britain to Japan.
British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. secured an order from a Dutch court freezing
the bank account of Greenpeace International after arguing that the
environmental organization's protests had caused expensive delays in
preparing the cargo, the first part of a total of 30 tons of plutonium
due to be shipped back to Japan over the next decade after reprocessing
in Europe. In an attempt to head off protests, Britain and France banned
Greenpeace vessels from their territorial waters. The organization views
the shipments as dangerous and a waste of public funds.
Geneva
In a solomonic end to a paralyzing spat, the World Trade Organization
appointed former Prime Minister Mike Moore of New Zealand as director
general for the three years beginning Sept. 1, and Deputy Prime Minister
Supachai Panitchpakdi of Thailand for the three years after that. The
two contenders had been deadlocked for months over the post, which in
the past has been filled without open disagreement among WTO members,
currently numbering 134 states. The deal means that Moore will usher in
the next round of trade negotiations, due to start with a November
ministerial meeting in Seattle.
Gracko
Fourteen Serb farmers were shot dead in central Kosovo in the worst
single revenge attack since peacekeepers entered the province in June.
The massacre raised fears of renewed conflict in the province as the
commander of Yugoslav forces that had fought in Kosovo warned that
Belgrade could reinvade if KFOR is unable to protect Kosovar Serbs.
The Kosovo Liberation Army quickly distanced itself from the slaughter,
described by KFOR commander Lt. Gen. Mike Jackson as "a cowardly act of
brutal and cold murder." The massacre, he said, came "as we were all
beginning to feel real progress on the road to peace."
Gaza
Rebuffing Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam's message that armed
struggle against Israel is no longer viable, the Palestinian National
Salvation Front vowed to continue the fight and rejected any dialogue
with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Sources within Arafat's
mainstream Fatah movement, meanwhile, said he plans to invite the
leaders of the two main hard-line Palestinian organizations--which are
not part of the front--to live in Gaza, where they would be promised the
freedom to express their views. Palestinian officials confirmed that
Arafat plans to meet in Cairo in early August with George Habash, leader
of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Nayef
Hawatmeh, leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, with an eye toward achieving a consensus on the eve of
negotiations with Israel over a final and comprehensive peace.
Tripoli
Libya transferred more than $32 million to France to compensate heirs of
the 170 people killed aboard a UTA airliner blown up over Niger in 1989.
Six Libyans were convicted in French courts for that attack. The Libyan
leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has recently acted to improve his
image, repair old diplomatic ruptures and invite investment and tourism.
Libya has turned over to prosecutors in the Netherlands two suspects in
the 1988 destruction of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which
270 people died, accepted "general responsibility" for the 1984 murder
of a London policewoman, distanced itself from various radical factions
and sought to mediate in the Ethiopian-Eritrean and Congo wars.
Dhaka
Nearly 1 million people were marooned or displaced in Bangladesh as
seasonal monsoon rains continued to fall relentlessly and floodwaters
rose ever higher. Rivers in the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna basins
overflowed, swamping dozens of villages. About 10% of the country has
flooded, mostly in areas of the north and east, leaving at least 19
people dead. In China, emergency workers battled to contain the waters
of the mighty Yangtze River and its tributaries. Officials said at least
240 people have been killed since late June in the 10 provinces hardest
hit by the rising waters, while several hundred more perished in six
other provinces. An estimated 1.84 million people have been evacuated
from floodplains in central and eastern China.
Srinagar
After a brief lull, artillery fire boomed again across the Line of
Control--the de facto border in Kashmir--as India and Pakistan dueled
for control of three mountain ridges still occupied by Islamic
intruders. But most of the lives lost in the continuing Himalayan
turmoil were of civilians living away from the front line. In three
separate attacks on villages in the Hindu-dominated southern region of
the province, Pakistan-backed militants killed 22 people and kidnaped
four others. In response, Indian officials ruled out talks with Pakistan
until it stops "sponsoring terrorism."
Beijing
Accusing the popular Falun Gong organization of "superstitious, evil
thinking" that "sabotages social stability," China banned the spiritual
group after three days of protests by its members. The demonstrations,
in cities around the country, were called after scores of the group's
leading members were arrested. Falun Gong confounded the Chinese
authorities last April with a sudden and silent protest--against media
criticism and harassment of its members--at the government's leadership
compound in Beijing. Falun Gong, a blend of martial arts exercises and
beliefs based on Buddhism and Taoism, is said to have more members than
the Communist Party.
Santiago
Chile's Supreme Court unanimously rejected an immunity appeal by five
now retired military officers linked to the "caravan of death," a group
of officers who visited several Chilean cities in October 1973, carting
off dozens of suspected opponents of the Pinochet dictatorship and
ordering at least 76 executions. Charged with abduction and murder, the
high-ranking officers pleaded that their offenses were committed during
a period covered by an immunity act which until now has shielded former
members of General Augusto Pinochet's regime. The court ruling is
expected to open up a slew of other cases against security officers who
carried out a bloody repression against dissidents after the Pinochet
coup in September 1973.
Bogota
The opening session of substantive negotations aimed at ending three
decades of guerrilla war in Colombia was postponed as the government and
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) disagreed on the role
of international verifiers in a demilitarized area. Blaming the FARC for
the delay, President Andres Pastrana Arango nonetheless defended his
strategy of pulling back troops and police and allowing the rebels to
govern a Switzerland-sized area of southern Colombia so that the peace
process can move ahead. The strategy has come under increasing
criticism.
Caracas
Venezuela's maverick President, Hugo Chavez Frias, courted controversy
right up to the weekend vote for the constituent assembly that is to
write a new constitution--the country's 26th. Chavez maintains that the
revised document is necessary if Venezuela's "corrupt" political system
is to be overhauled. In a country where public officials may not
campaign in elections, Chavez has been promoting members of his leftist
Patriotic Pole organization. After being fined by the National Electoral
Council and barred from hosting his weekly radio program, Chavez called
the talk show as a listener while his top aides played host.
San Cristobal de las Casas
Twenty Mexican Indian supporters of the government were sentenced to 35
years in prison for murder in a 1997 massacre of dozens of other Indians
in a southern village sympathetic to the guerrilla Zapatista movement.
Following the killings in Acteal, in Chiapas state--and a subsequent
international outcry--103 people were arrested, among them soldiers and
policemen accused of aiding the killers or failing to stop the murders.
With 31 people now convicted, 72 face trial later this year. The
Zapatistas seek greater rights for indigenous people.
Havana
A lawsuit against the U.S., filed by several Cuban mass organizations
connected to the government of Fidel Castro, alleged 637 attempts on the
President's life during a 40-year "dirty war" by Washington since Castro
came to power. The schemes are said to have included a poisoned
chocolate milkshake and a lethal powder sprinkled in a scuba-diving
suit. A 1981 dengue outbreak, in which 158 people died, also was blamed
on the U.S., as were the deaths of 3,320 others in a range of incidents
since 1959.
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