>from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Radio Havana Cuba-30 August 2000 22:30 > Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 30 August 2000 22:30 > > >*CUBAN CHILDREN READY TO BEGIN NEW SCHOOL YEAR > >*CUBA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON EUROPEAN TOUR > >*EL SALVADOR REQUESTS CUBAN HELP WITH DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK > >*THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MALI TO VISIT CUBA > >*PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION FROM KUWAIT ON ITS WAY TO THE ISLAND > >*OLYMPIC COMMITTE STATEMENT ON WHY HAVANA SHOULD NOT BID ON 2008 >GAMES > >*SOTOMAYOR AND VORONIN GO FACE TO FACE ON THRESHOLD OF OLYMPIC GAMES > >*INFORMATICS IN CUBAN HIGHER EDUCATION > > >*CUBAN CHILDREN READY TO BEGIN NEW SCHOOL YEAR > >Havana, August 30 (RHC)-Everything is set for Cuba to begin its 2000- >2001 school year, on Friday, with an enrolment of 2 million 262 >thousand students. > >To guarantee a successful first day, Cuba's Education Ministry, >teachers, parents, and children are working hard in the maintenance >and refurbishing of over 500 schools, dormitories and laboratories >aimed at improving the living and educational conditions of the >school children. > >The Ministry of Education has informed that school uniforms textbooks >and other school supplies are guaranteed for the upcoming school >year. > >Education continues to be a priority for the Cuban government, >despite the island's economic difficulties. > > *CUBA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON EUROPEAN TOUR > >Stockholm, August 30 (RHC)-Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister, Angel >Dalmau, has wound up a two-day official visit to Sweden as part of a >European tour aimed at strengthening bilateral ties. > >The Cuban official met with European Foreign Ministers, Foreign >Trade officials, the Vice President of the Foreign Relations >Commission of the Swedish Parliament and the Director of the Americas >Department of the Swedish International Cooperation Agency. > >Cuba's Deputy Foreign Minister also met with representatives of >Swedish political parties, parliamentarians and business executives. > >The Cuban diplomat's tight agenda also includes a meeting with >the Cuba-Swedish Friendship Association. His next stop will be >Norway. > > *EL SALVADOR REQUESTS CUBAN HELP WITH DENGUE FEVER OUTBREAK > >Havana, August 30 (RHC)-Cuba is aiding El Salvador in combating an >outbreak of dengue, which has left 15 people dead so far, according >to the Director of the International Relations Department of the >Cuban Health Ministry, Enrique Comendeiro. > >The Cuban official confirmed that the Research Director of Cuba's >Health Ministry, Erick Martinez, is already in El Salvador to help >stop the spread of dengue, which has already affected almost two >thousand people. > >Dr. Martinez told the Salvadoran press that Cuba will do all it can >to help the people of El Salvador stop the epidemic. > >Last May, just before the outbreak of dengue in Central >America, particularly in El Salvador, the mayor of San Salvador, >Hector Silva, announced that they were already in the process of >requesting Cuban aid to create a disease and disaster prevention >program. > > *THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MALI TO VISIT CUBA > >Havana, August 30 (RHC)-The President of the Republic of Mali's >National Assembly, Ali Nohum Diallo, is scheduled to visit Cuba on >Friday. > >He will meet with Cuban counterpart, Ricardo Alarcon, and visit >Havana's Biotechnology Center and the Latin American School of >Medicine among other scheduled activities. > > *PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION FROM KUWAIT ON ITS WAY TO THE ISLAND > >Havana, August 30 (RHC)-A Parliamentary delegation from Kuwait will >arrive in Havana on Saturday at the invitation of Cuba's National >Assembly. > >The delegation will include members of the Kuwait-Cuba >Friendship Parliamentary Group, headed by Dr. Nasar Al Sane. > >The Kuwaiti delegation is scheduled to meet with Cuban Parliament >President Ricardo Alarcon and other Cuban parliamentarians. Meetings >with Government Minister Ricardo Cabrisas, as well as the Minister of >Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Marta Lomas, are also on >the list of activities. > > *OLYMPIC COMMITTE STATEMENT ON WHY HAVANA SHOULD NOT BID ON 2008 >GAMES > >Havana, August 30 (RHC)--The decision to leave Havana out of the >biding for the Olympic Games, for the year 2008, did not take the >Cuban Olympic Committee by surprise, noted today in an editorial in >the Cuban daily Granma. > >On Monday, the International Olympic Committee's Executive Board >listed five cities still in the race for the games. > >They are Beijing, Osaka, Paris, Istanbul and Toronto. Those >eliminated included Havana, Bangkok, Cairo, Kuala Lumpur and Seville. > >The Cuban Olympic Committee says that, once again, the rights of >poor nations to organize Olympic Games have been ignored. > >The note adds that the decision follows the lucrative profit margin >integral to the sports world to which Cuba has always been opposed. > >We call for respect for third world countries' rights to organize >the location of Olympics, if they have the merits, the >infrastructure, experience, organizational capacity and the desire to >hold the games. > >The statement goes on to say that poor nations have the right to >organize modest yet efficient games, accessible to all in which the >top priority would be the games themselves rather than economics. > >We know, stated the Cuban Olympic Committee, that Third World nations >will not be able to organize such games the way they have been >carried out lately, in which immense sums of money are being >allocated simply for the opening and closing ceremonies alone. > >The note comments that such an arrogant attitude promotes the >commercial reality of sports world, involving corruption and market- >oriented policy making within the IOC. > >The world press has been reporting on skyrocketing prices and >speculation concerning the games, including hotel room prices and >other issues. > >The Cuban sports body questioned the future of sports as nothing more >than a commodity, stressing that the island will continue defending >the rights of the poor. > > *SOTOMAYOR AND VORONIN GO FACE TO FACE ON THRESHOLD OF OLYMPIC GAMES > >Nearly a year and a half after the duel between Cuban high jumper >Javier Sotomayor and Russian Viacheslav Voronin, these two athletes >will once again face each other on September 9th. The competition >will take place in Yokohama, Japan, and organizers consider the event >to be a trial run, or, better stated, a trial jump prior to Sydney, >since Charles Austin, olympic champ from the US, will also be on >hand. > >Sotomayor, world record holder, and Voronin, current world champ, >met on March 5th, 1999 during the Maebashi, Japan indoors tournament, >where the Cuban got the gold with 2.36 meters in fewer attempts than >the Russian. The panorama today, however, is quite different. >Sotomayor has returned to competitions and is gaining confidence in >himself, after an unfair sanction by the IAAF following an alleged >doping case during the Winnipeg Pan Am games last year. On the other >hand, Voronin has become the first athlete to jump over the 2.40 >meter mark during the past five years. The Russian athlete, six years >younger than Sotomayor, appears as a very strong opponent for the >Cuban. He has been immersed in a very consistent season with several >jumps over the 2.33 meters. However, experts are putting their money >on the Cuban jumper, who has been the only human being to ever to >jump 2.45 meters, valid for the world record. Sotomayor also has in >his hands the indoor record for 2.43 meters and has jumped over the >2.40 meter mark 21 times. Despite the time he had to spent without >competing due to his controversial doping case, Sotomayor has to be >counted among those with good possibilities at the upcoming games. > >At the Yokohama track and field meet, Cuba will be sending other >star figures like long jumper Ivan Pedroso-- seven times world champ- >- along with hurdle runners Yoel Hernandez and Anier Garcia who will >have Allen Johnson, from the United States, as their most fierce >opponent. Johnson holds the olympic title and owns the best time of >the year with 12.97 seconds. After the Yokohama event, athletes will >travel to Australia for the olympic track and field competitions set >for September 22nd to October 1st. > > *Viewpoint: > >*INFORMATICS IN CUBAN HIGHER EDUCATION > >Despite being a poor nation, submitted to the longest and most >cruel blockade in modern history, Cuba earmarks a great deal of its >scarce economic resources to the acquisition of computers, bound for >the island's 48 universities. With the official inauguration of the >2000-2001 school year this coming Friday, another 700 computers will >have been installed in those centers, half of which are already >connected to the Internet. > >Unlike First World countries, where advanced technology is >generally accessible exclusively to society's upper echelons, >computers in Cuba are available not only to advanced students, but >also for the 130,000 university students registered for the new >school year. > >In line with the policy of the Cuban government to improve education >and professional training on the island, Cuban universities are also >ready to undergo an increase in registration capacity in various >academic majors. The aim is to meet the island's professional needs, >particularly in the economic sector, which, despite difficulties, has >experienced a 4 percent annual growth rate over the past five years. > >More than 630,000 professionals have already graduated from >Cuban universities over the 40 years of the Cuban Revolutionary >experience. Professionals, in addition to academic studies, are >exposed to the highest ethical, moral and patriotic values. Many >graduates have offered their services in remote regions of the world >as part of Cuba's continued efforts to help people in need. > >(c) 2000 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. 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