_ From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [CubaNews] CubaNews summary Sept. 12, 2001 CubaNews summary - September 12, 2001 ========================================= Here is some of the coverage of these events as they relate to Cuba and the place Cuba occupies in the world. The media is not blaming Cuba for these attacks. ========================================= CUBA REJECTS TERRORISM IN THE US: September 11, 2001 Cuba rejects acts of terrorism in the United States and offers condolences to the victims THE Cuban government has totally rejected the acts of terrorism reported today, Tuesday, in the United States and has offered its condolences to the people and authorities of that country for loss of life. Foreign Minister Felipe P�rez Roque informed the press that Cuba's historical position is to "totally condemn and reject terrorism wherever it comes from and against whoever it is perpetrated." The Cuban minister made his statement in Havana's Jos� Mart� International Airport a few hours after the attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York, plus the Pentagon and State Department in Washington, which all occurred within minutes of one another. "Our people have had to suffer 40 years of acts of terrorism, so we know the consequences of this type of action," emphasized P�rez Roque. The Cuban minister of foreign affairs stated that the island has notified regional air traffic control authorities that the island is willing to offer facilities in Cuban airports for aircraft in mid-flight, due to the present situation in U.S. airspace. "Our reaction really is one of a feeling of total rejection of this action," reiterated P�rez Roque. Asked about those acts of terrorism being attributed to Palestinian terrorists, the foreign minister indicated that Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian National Authority, was one of the first to expressly condemn what occurred today. Regarding a notion that Cuba was involved, he confirmed: "I do not believe it is necessary to refer to this, and I trust that such a barbaric idea would not occur to anybody." After the news became known on the island normal television transmissions were interrupted and full and detailed information was offered on the incident, described here as "a national tragedy for the United States." (PL) http://www.granma.cu/ingles/septiem2/37terro-i.html JUVENTUD REBELDE: A TRAGEDY FOR THE WORLD http://www.jrebelde.cubaweb.cu/ TRABAJADORES: SADNESS AND PAIN http://www.trabajadores.cubaweb.cu/ THE NEW YORK TIMES: CUBA The government expressed its "pain" and "solidarity" with its longtime adversary and offered air and medical facilities to help. State television took the unusual step of interrupting normal programming to announce the United States "national tragedy" and show CNN's Spanish-language channel live. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Of all the world's nations, only Iraq cheered the terrorism as "the operation of the century." Others that have had harsh relations with America in the past--Russia, China, Cuba, Libya, Yasser Arafat, even the Afghanistan Taliban leaders who have been harboring exiled Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden--reacted with revulsion. HENRY KISSINGER "We do not yet know whether Osama bin Laden did this, although it appears to have the earmarks of a bin Laden-type operation. But any government that shelters groups capable of this kind of attack, whether or not they can be shown to have been involved in this attack, must pay an exorbitant price. http://a188.g.akamaitech.net/f/188/920/15m/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art icles/A14275-2001Sep11.html HOLLYWOOD REACTS WITH CAUTION As the media focused its attentions on yesterday's horrific events, the absence of commercials was one aspect which was quite striking. Cubans, who are privileged to not have commercials on their television wouldn't be able to appreciate this simple phenomenon. http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000073644sep1 2 INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER While at this moment thousands of families are in mourning for the death and injuries of loved ones, the Bush administration is taking advantage of the tragic human toll to strengthen the forces of repression while intensifying the Pentagon's war drive, especially in the Middle East. The only way to respond to today's events is to extend solidarity to the families and friends of those who perished or who were injured at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; build global solidarity with people around the world struggling against war, poverty and exploitation; and deepen the movement to protest new Pentagon aggression. TEXT: http://www.iacenter.org/ SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY Whoever may have carried out the September 11 operations, the destruction of the two World Trade Center towers, and the air attack on the Pentagon -- with the resulting deaths and injuries of thousands of men, women, and children -- these actions have nothing to do with the fight against capitalist exploitation and imperialist oppression. Revolutionists and other class-conscious workers, farmers, and youth the world over reject the use of such methods. We must oppose U.S. military intervention anywhere in the world. We must oppose efforts by Washington to escalate an assault on the political rights of working people and the organizations of our class and its oppressed and exploited allies. TEXT: http://www.themilitant.com/2001/6535/653571.html US ABOUT TO NORMALIZE TRADE WITH VIETNAM HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - The U.S. Senate is likely to consider an agreement to grant normal trading status to Vietnam soon, ``hopefully within a matter of days,'' a U.S. trade official said Wednesday. The bilateral trade agreement, which is expected to sharply boost commerce and contacts between the two former enemies, has already been passed by the House of Representatives. http://news.lycos.com/news/forms/printstory.asp?section=Politics&storyId=241 891&topic=Cuba _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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