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Radio Havana Cuba-23 October 2001
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 23 October 2001
[CORRECTION: Some e-mailed copies of yesterday's (Oct 22) RHC report
were misheaded Oct 21, although all the news was properly datelined,
and the correct headers appear in the reports on our websites
We apologize for the error -- NY Transfer News]
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*CARIBBEAN NATIONS SHARE CUBA'S POSITION AGAINST TERRORISM AND
AGAINST WAR, SAYS PRIME MINISTER OF DOMINICA
*CENTER FOR TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION (ESTI) CELEBRATES 28th ANNIVERSARY
*CHINESE PARLIAMENTARY LEADER TO VISIT CUBA
*HAVANA'S INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR GEARS UP
*JOURNALIST ROBERT FISK ASKS HOW MANY MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL
HAVE TO DIE IN ILL-NAMED "WAR ON TERRORISM"
*TENSIONS ON THE RISE IN COLOMBIA AS REBEL-GOVERNMENT PROCESS ON ITS
DEATHBED
*ARIEL SHARON DEFIES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WITH ATTACKS AGAINST
AUTONOMOUS PALESTINIAN ZONES
*PAKISTANI POLICE ADOPT DRASTIC MEASURES TO PREVENT ANTI-US PROTEST
*VIETNAMESE WAR VETS SAY US ARMY HAS LEARNED LITTLE FROM ITS LAST DEFEAT
*EGYPTIAN NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHES CHILLING PHOTO OF TWO AFGHAN CHILDREN
KILLED BY US BOMBS
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*CARIBBEAN NATIONS SHARE CUBA'S POSITION AGAINST TERRORISM AND
AGAINST WAR, SAYS PRIME MINISTER OF DOMINICA
Havana, October 23 (RHC)-- The Caribbean shares Cuba's position
against terrorism and against war, according to the visiting Prime
Minister of Dominica, Pierre Charles.
Pierre Charles, who arrived in Havana on Saturday for an official
visit, expressed his nation's willingness to contribute to the
international fight against terrorism under the leadership of the
United Nations.
On Tuesday, Pierre Charles presided over the signing of a bilateral
agreement related to the granting of visas. The Caribbean dignitary
also placed a floral wreath at the Jose Marti Monument, located in
Havana's Revolution Square.
Cuba and the Commonwealth of Dominica have long maintained
cooperation relations. Cuba has trained 70 specialists from the
small, Eastern-Caribbean Island. More than 280 others are currently
studying university careers here in Cuba in different sectors and
there are also Cuban doctors offering their services in health
institutions in the Commonwealth of Dominica.
*CENTER FOR TRANSLATION & INTERPRETATION (ESTI) CELEBRATES 28th ANNIVERSARY
Havana, October 23 (RHC)-- Today marks the 28th anniversary of the
Cuban Center for Translation and Interpretation -- known by its
Spanish acronym of ESTI. The Center, established on October 23,
1973, translates documents and speeches into 17 different languages.
According to Laurie Northstrum, one of 46 people who work in the
English-language Department of ESTI, perhaps the most widely-used
language internationally is English.
"For the last few years and especially with this whole process of
what is called "the Battle of Ideas" -- which began with the Elian
case and has continued on -- it has been considered very important
that Cuba's message reaches the world, and that it reaches the world
in as many languages as possible. So, what happens is that as soon as
an editorial is printed, a speech is made or a declaration is issued,
it is immediately translated into seven core languages that we have
here at ESTI".
*CHINESE PARLIAMENTARY LEADER TO VISIT CUBA
Havana, October 23 (RHC)-- The President of the Permanent Committee
of the Chinese Parliament, Li Peng, will visit Cuba next month as
part of an international tour that also includes Argentina, Uruguay,
Algeria and Tunisia.
Li Peng, who is a member of the Permanent Committee of the Chinese
Communist Party's Political Bureau, has presided over the Chinese
Parliament, also known as the People's National Assembly, since March
1998.
During his stay in Cuba, the Chinese legislator will meet with his
Cuban counterpart, Ricardo Alarcon, and other political leaders with
whom he will review the current state of bilateral relations, as well
as discuss other issues of common interest.
*HAVANA'S INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR GEARS UP
Havana, October 23 (RHC)-- With less than one week away from the
opening of Havana's 19th International Fair, FIHAV 2001, 1200
companies from 60 countries have already confirmed their
participation.
The Havana International Fair is considered to be among the most
important trade events in all of Latin America.
Also within the framework of the fair, the Cuban Minister for Foreign
Investment and Economic Cooperation, Marta Lomas, and Foreign Trade
Minister Raul de la Nuez, will offer lectures and presentations on
Cuba's potential for business, as well as current legislation that
regulates joint ventures on the island.
*JOURNALIST ROBERT FISK ASKS HOW MANY MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL
HAVE TO DIE IN ILL-NAMED "WAR ON TERRORISM"
London, October 23 (RHC) -- Journalist Robert Fisk has asserted
that as the Afghan refugees turn up in their thousands at the
Pakistani border, it is palpably evident that they are fleeing not
the Taliban, but US bombs and missiles. Writing in the Tuesday
edition of the British news daily "The Independent", Fisk said the
Taliban is not ethnically cleansing its own Pashtun population, and
the refugees fleeing the bombs are terrified of the US's "war on
terror" - calling them victims as innocent as those who were
slaughtered in the World Trade Center on 11 September.
Asking where do we stop, the article affirmed that as the casualties
mount with ever more frightful stories of civilians buried under
ruins and children torn to pieces by the bombs, US Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld will not be able to ridicule those deaths much longer
- as he did when television crews were able to find 18 fresh graves
in the devastated village of Khorum outside Jalalabad just over a
week ago.
Fisk wrote that once the winter storms breeze down the mountain
gorges of Afghanistan, a tragedy is likely to commence, one which no
spin doctor or propaganda expert will be able to divert. He said the
figure of 6,000 killed in the World Trade Center remains as awesome
as it did in the days that followed, but what happens when the deaths
in Afghanistan begin to approach the same figure, or double that
figure, or reach 24,000.
This particular war is, wrote Robert Fisk, as Mr. Bush said, going to
be "unlike any other" - but not quite the way he thinks. He concluded
that it's not going to lead to justice or freedom, rather, it's
likely to culminate in deaths that will diminish in magnitude even
the crime against humanity on 11 September.
*TENSIONS ON THE RISE IN COLOMBIA AS REBEL-GOVERNMENT PROCESS ON ITS
DEATHBED
Bogot�, October 23 (RHC) -- Rising tensions between the Colombian
government and leftist rebels are threatening to totally derail the
peace process at any moment. Colombia's Attorney General's office has
issued arrest warrants against the 7 principle leaders of the
Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces for the kidnapping and alleged
murder of a former culture minister late last month.
At the same time, the rebel organization has again conditioned its
presence at peace talks to the government's resolve in fighting
right-wing paramilitaries. Just days ago, guerrilla leaders said they
would not participate in further peace talks as long as the Colombian
military continues penetrating and over flying the demilitarized zone
in the south that has been the site of rebel-government negotiations
- a demand that authorities rejected.
The leader of President Andres Pastrana's Conservative Party, Carlos
Holguin, Tuesday called on Colombians to prepare themselves for an
imminent suspension of the rebel-government peace process and an
intensification of political violence. Observers believe that a
rupture in the peace process will lead to total war in Colombia -
particularly in light of legislative elections in March, presidential
elections in May and the US's war against terrorism, which, according
to some, could also eventually target Colombian guerrillas.
In the face of this possibility, some Colombian news dailies and
commentators and political and humanitarian leaders are calling for
United Nations mediation to promote an urgent gathering between
Pastrana and rebel leader Manuel Marulanda.
*ARIEL SHARON DEFIES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WITH ATTACKS AGAINST
AUTONOMOUS PALESTINIAN ZONES
Tel Aviv, October 23 (RHC) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is
defying the United States and practically the rest of the
international community, insisting that he will continue what is
being called the largest military offensive against autonomous
Palestinian territories in the West Bank. With Washington now anxious
to end the violence in occupied territories, tensions increased when
Palestinians accused Israel of Monday evening's car bomb
assassination of a Palestinian activist in Nablus.
The US government initially reacted to the military offensive -
launched following the assassination of an ultra right-wing member of
Sharon's cabinet - expressing hopes that the operation wouldn't last
long. But Monday, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker called on
one of Washington's closest allies to immediately cease the military
incursions. But Sharon invoked what he called Israel's right to
self-defense, while Transportation Minister Efraim Sneh said Israel
doesn't take orders from anyone.
*PAKISTANI POLICE ADOPT DRASTIC MEASURES TO PREVENT ANTI-US PROTEST
Islamabad, October 23 (RHC) -- Police in Pakistan erected sandbag
barricades in the city of Jacobabad as Islamic militants threatened
to overrun the local airbase used by US warplanes bombarding
Afghanistan. More than one hundred protesters were arrested, after
authorities detained over the weekend hundreds of Islamic militants
in an effort to prevent an anti-US demonstration in the city.
Authorities had also prevented the leader of the country's largest
Islamic organization, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, from traveling to the site
of the protest. The headquarters of the organization, the
Jamaat-e-Islami Party, had already been surrounded in Karachi,
capital of Sindh Province. Police had also blocked and patrolled all
accesses to the city, arresting Islamic militants arriving to
participate in the protest.
Pakistan's military regime offered Washington at least three airports
to launch attacks against Afghanistan, angering the country's
religious organizations. Violent protests last week in Jacobabad left
one person killed and more than 20 injured.
*VIETNAMESE WAR VETS SAY US ARMY HAS LEARNED LITTLE FROM ITS LAST DEFEAT
Hanoi, October 23 (RHC) -- Vietnamese war veterans have asserted
that US military leaders haven't learned any lessons from the 58,000
soldiers they lost in Vietnam. Seventy-four year-old retired Colonel
Vu Le Thi said Washington will have to change its strategy and
tactics if the US army doesn't want to slowly cave in as it did in
Vietnam.
Now 72, retired Lieutenant Colonel Pham The Hao, - who fought for 15
years against American troops - noted that although Afghanistan is
different from Vietnam, incessant bombardments and even the use of
chemical weapons never dislodged the guerrillas and militia from
their tunnel hideouts in the Vietnamese jungle.
Though US soldiers are better equipped today, he said, they aren't
accustomed to carrying out land operations in regions with harsh
landscapes and climate. Hao said the US army didn't even manage to
stop North Vietnamese military operations along the Ho Chi Minh
Trail. He said he fought against the Americans in South Vietnam,
and that it wasn't difficult routing US soldiers from the zones where
their bombardments had little effect.
*EGYPTIAN NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHES CHILLING PHOTO OF TWO AFGHAN CHILDREN
KILLED BY US BOMBS
Cairo, October 23 (RHC) -- An Egyptian news weekly has published
a chilling photo of two Afghan children killed by US warplanes, which
observers say will fuel the flames of anti-American sentiments in
Islamic countries. The nationalist Egyptian publication "Al Usbua"
has distributed the photo throughout the world.
While state-owned media outlets in Arab countries are more cautious
about what they print, the images of the wounded in hospitals in
Kabul published by independent Arab news sources are increasingly
infuriating Muslim populations. With protests on the rise in
countries like Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait's foreign ministry has
insisted that US warplanes are not taking off from that country.
The Islamic faction in Kuwait's Parliament has nevertheless condemned
the military strikes against Afghanistan. Islamic legislator in
Kuwait, Chaled el Audwa, called the war senseless, affirming that
electricity plants and aqueducts are under attack - forcing
Afghanistan's impoverished population to drink contaminated water.
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