WW News Service Digest #361
1) Rhode Island: Housing Aid Freeze
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2) Philly Cops Attack March for Mumia
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3) Mass Arrest of Jersey Teachers
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4) Thousands Killed by U.S. Bombers
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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted from the Dec. 20, 2001
issue of Workers World newspaper
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RHODE ISLAND: HOUSING AID FREEZE: A COLD-HEARTED
MEASURE
By Mike Shaw
Providence, R.I.
At Travelers Aid of Rhode Island--an agency for the homeless-
-the number of families sleeping on the basement floor there
has tripled from 40 last year to 120 already so far this
year. A homeless shelter in Warwick that recently opened was
instantly filled to capacity.
The monthly cost for a two-bedroom apartment in this state
has increased nearly 16 percent over the past three years,
according to an analysis released Dec. 9 by the Providence
Journal. Waiting lists for subsidized housing are years
long. And people with Section 8 housing vouchers struggle to
find landlords who will take the subsidized rent payments.
The gap between rich and poor is growing faster in Rhode
Island than in any other state and is now the sixth-widest
in the country, according to a study by the Washington-based
Economic Policy Institute. This adds to the problem: Wealthy
people have more money to spend and drive housing prices sky-
high.
Add a worsening recession and rising unemployment and what
was already a serious housing crisis becomes severe.
In the midst of this situation, Gov. Lincoln Almond decided
recently to freeze $5 million in state funds that had been
allocated for affordable housing. The excuse given is that
the state is facing a $70-million budget shortfall.
The $5 million for affordable housing was wrested from the
state last spring through a vigorous mobilization of housing
and homeless advocates. The climax of the campaign was a
large housing rally at the State House, after which the
monies were approved by the legislature for this year's
state budget.
The money would have supported 108 apartments, new and
rehabilitated, for more than 250 people. The governor's
decision to freeze the money also jeopardizes an extra $32
million for the program that would be leveraged by the state
funds. Construction work on the project had already begun.
With the freeze, that essential work is idled.
FOUR PASTORS ARRESTED
Almond's cold-hearted measure provoked immediate
confrontational action. Outraged by his countermanding of
the people's hard-won gains for housing, four pastors tried
to hold an all-night vigil in the State House on Dec. 4.
State police arrested them three hours after the sit-in
began. The four were charged with obstructing a police
officer, a misdemeanor. The arrests marked the first time in
recent memory that Rhode Island clergy members have been
arrested for an act of civil disobedience. Members of the
Rhode Island Coalition Against Homelessness and Direct
Action for Rights and Equality (DARE) supported the
progressive action by the clergy.
In a post-arrest interview with the Providence Journal, one
of the pastors--the Rev. Duane Clinker of Hillsgrove United
Methodist Church in Warwick--stated, "We are concerned about
the propensity to balance the budget on the backs of the
poor without having a discussion or airing with the public."
The governor had told the ministers prior to the action that
he was freezing the money to preserve funds for children's
health care. Clinker retorted, "Children's health care
begins with a roof over their heads."
On the day following the arrests, the Providence Journal
reported that over 50 concerned religious leaders and
housing/homeless activists met to discuss ways to further
the struggle.
"We cannot let this go," said the Rev. Marlowe Washington,
pastor of the Allen AME Church in Providence and president
of the Ministers' Alliance of Rhode Island. "I'm not
accepting this."
He criticized the governor for letting the state pay board-
approved raises for high-level state employees and for
creating a new top tier of sheriff positions. "To allow
these raises when the state is facing a deficit is not
proper. ... We are not having a 'Wild, Wild West' episode
here in R.I. that we need to create a high sheriff position,
especially when you just took $5 million from affordable
housing."
Rev. Clinker picked up a state budget book and read a line
item for a University of Rhode Island athletic facility.
"That's $23 million ... a $5-million increase for an ice
rink, friends. Ice rink? Or people on the streets?"
Suggestions for next steps in the struggle included staging
weekly State House sit-ins; having the homeless and their
supporters demonstrate outside the governor's home in
Lincoln, and supporting the arrested clergy at their
arraignment in Providence District Court on Dec. 14.
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Subject: [WW] Philly Cops Attack March for Mumia
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Reprinted from the Dec. 20, 2001
issue of Workers World newspaper
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AS HUNDREDS WATCH IN HORROR: PHILLY COPS ATTACK
MARCH FOR MUMIA
By Monica Moorehead
Philadelphia
As a thousand supporters of African American political
prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal were concluding an orderly and
spirited national march on Dec. 8, dozens of Philadelphia
police, without warning, brutally attacked the
demonstrators.
Community activists are calling for an independent
investigation of the vicious and unprovoked attack and are
demanding that charges be immediately dropped against all
those arrested.
According to eyewitness reports and video footage, police on
bicycles charged into the rear of the demonstration soon
after marchers turned onto Walnut, heading toward the
Ethical Society where the ending rally was to take place.
Eight protesters were arrested. Most were charged with
serious felonies including assault of a police officer,
rioting, conspiracy to riot and a number of misdemeanors.
Three of those arrested needed hospitalization. The combined
bail of those arrested amounted to an astounding $350,000.
The cops most notably singled out a Vietnamese woman
activist, Hai Au Huynh, who is 5'3" and weighs under 100
pounds. Police reportedly pushed Au Huynh so hard to the
ground that she temporarily lost consciousness.
Although she was standing when she was arrested, between the
time she was arrested and when she was released the
following evening, Au Huynh suffered a broken tailbone.
Despite this savage attack, Au Huynh is reported to be in
good spirits and upbeat. Her bail was set at $8,000. The
district attorney attempted to set the bail even higher, but
he was unsuccessful.
Three police officers pushed another young protester to the
ground. Then one of the cops pulled out his gun and pointed
it at the youth's neck.
Horrified protesters surrounded the cops, chanting, "Let him
go!" and, "Shame, shame." The cop then pointed his gun at
the youth's supporters. The protesters remained united and
defiant.
This reporter then saw at least seven police vehicles pull
up to the scene with sirens blaring--filled with cops who
had their billy clubs and guns drawn. These cops surrounded
a large number of the demonstrators.
Considering how quickly these other cops arrived it was
obvious to many that this ambush was planned, not
spontaneous.
This is the first time in recent memory that a Philadelphia
protest in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal was physically
attacked in public.
Besides Au Huynh, here is a confirmed list of others who
were arrested:
Daniel Valme is a Haitian man from New York City whose bail
was set at $50,000. He was the last person to be released.
Heather Strausberger and Matthew Warfield are activists from
Baltimore. Strausberger's bail was set at $80,000.
Videotaped footage showed her being dragged by the cops with
her skin exposed. She was choking. She also had to be
hospitalized before she was released. Warfield's bail was
set at $68,000 because he was accused of being the
"instigator" of the "riot."
Teishan Latner works with the International Concerned Family
and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal. His bail was set at $10,000.
Jeffrey Daitson is an activist from Chicago. He had the
highest bail--$100,000--supposedly because of prior arrests.
Two others were arrested but were not charged. Tristan
Ahtone is a member of the American Indian Movement in Texas.
Ahtone issued a powerful statement on what he experienced on
Dec. 8. He reported overhearing the cops say that they
wanted to go after the main spokesperson of ICFFMAJ, Pam
Africa.
Rev. Kabutzu Malone is a Buddhist from northern New Jersey.
BLAMING THE VICTIMS OF POLICE RIOT
The Dec. 9 Philadelphia Inquirer carried an article about
the police attack that was thoroughly pro-cop. The article
stated that the demonstrators provoked the "melee" and that
all those arrested were from out of town. This is not true.
Two of those arrested, Au Huynh and Latner, reside in
Philadelphia.
Despite a consistent, bone-chilling rain, people from
Philadelphia, as well as from around the country, came to
demand the immediate release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political
prisoner who has been languishing on Pennsylvania's death
row for almost 20 years.
Before the 2:30 p.m. police attack, the protest had begun
with a noon rally at City Hall. Speaker after speaker spoke
about the significance of Abu-Jamal's case legally and
politically.
Pam Africa from ICFFMAJ set the political tone for the day
when she told the growing crowd that it was a victory that
the demonstration was taking place despite the intimidating
efforts of the Fraternal Order of Police to stop the march
from happening.
Native activist Jason Corwin read a statement of solidarity
with Mumia Abu-Jamal from another well known political
prisoner: Leonard Peltier.
Other speakers included poet and Black Panther activist
Zayid Muhammad; welfare rights activist Pat Albright; Olga
San Miguel of the Vieques Support Campaign; Haitian labor
activist Ray LaForest; Suzanne Ross from the New York Free
Mumia Coalition; former South African political prisoner
Dennis Brutus; Larry Holmes, a co-director of the
International Action Center; Esperanza Martell from Pro-
Libertad and others.
A highlight of the rally was the presence of a delegation
from France. A number of them had met with Abu-Jamal Dec. 7
on death row at the SCI Greene unit in Waynesburg, Pa.
The delegation included the first Black African to be
elected to the French Parliament, union leaders and members
of the French Communist Party. Just recently, the Parisian
City Council made Mumia Abu-Jamal an official citizen of
Paris.
Another highlight of the rally was the appearance of Terri
Maurer-Carter, a white stenographer who in 1982 overheard
"hanging" Judge Albert Sabo make a Klan-like remark about
Abu-Jamal's case. Sabo is the judge who sat on the bench
during Abu-Jamal's sham of a trial that lead to his racist
frame-up and eventual conviction.
Carter, in sworn testimony made this past spring, stated
that she heard Sabo make this racist statement.
Carter told the Dec. 8 crowd that she thought that she was
doing the right thing when she brought Sabo's biased remarks
to the attention of other judges and court officials. She
then proceeded to publicly apologize to Abu-Jamal for not
"bringing this to the attention of the right people."
At 13th and Locust Streets, the site where Abu-Jamal's
arrest took place 20 years ago on Dec. 9, a videotape was
shown from a flat bed truck. The tape allowed everyone there
to see and hear Arnold Beverly, a hit man for the mob,
confess that he had killed Daniel Faulkner, the police
officer Mumia was convicted of shooting.
Since the Common Pleas State Court refused to accept this
confession as evidence proving Abu-Jamal's innocence,
efforts are being made to get the confession out to the
public.
Minutes after the videotape was shown, police attacked the
demonstration.
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Subject: [WW] Mass Arrest of Jersey Teachers
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Reprinted from the Dec. 20, 2001
issue of Workers World newspaper
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SOLIDARITY DEEPENS BEHIND BARS: MASS ARREST OF
JERSEY TEACHERS
By Heather Cottin
Some 228 striking teachers from the Middletown, N.J., school
district walked out of the Monmouth County Jail on Dec. 7
after spending part of the week incarcerated for defying a
court order to return to work.
Although New Jersey has no laws against teachers striking,
Judge Clarkson S. Fisher Jr., acting on the part of the
school board, began arresting the teachers based on an
alphabetical list. He was almost up to the middle of the
alphabet when the more than 1,000-member union agreed to
submit to nonbinding arbitration. The school board made no
such concession.
This was the first mass arrest of U.S. teach ers since 1978,
when 265 striking teachers were arrested in Bridgeport,
Conn.
For the teachers, the straw that broke the camel's back was
the school board's demand that they pay more toward their
medical benefits. This demand would have effectively wiped
out whatever pay increases the teachers had negotiated for
this contract.
But the bosses wanted the teachers to pay their wage
increases back to the district to fund the salaries of other
workers.
"It's become a war," Board of Education Supt. Jack DeTalvo
told a reporter. DeTalvo then got on the phone "to give
instructions to the board's attorney about how to garner the
best coverage on local evening news shows." (Los Angeles
Times, Dec. 8)
The school administrators acted on behalf of a vindictive
Board of Education. Mary Grace Killmer, a calculus teacher
for 30 years, watched her principal point her out to the
court to be served a subpoena for her arrest.
But the Middletown teachers stood tall against this
onslaught. They defied court orders and showed by their
actions and solidarity that they deserve to be treated with
dignity and respect.
When art teacher Diana Bajor was jailed, her 12-year-old
daughter Allyson cried as she said goodbye to her mother in
a hallway outside the court. "You have to be good. You have
to be strong," Bajor told the girl as they hugged.
(Associated Press, Dec. 4)
The resolve of the teachers strengthened in jail. So the
Board of Education had to resort to a media campaign,
wrapped in patriotism and calling for sacrifice, in an
attempt to divide community support for the strike.
UNITE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION
Whenever workers who provide services--like teachers and
nurses, for example--are forced to go out on strike, their
bosses carry out a propaganda campaign to make it seem as
though the workers don't care about the communities they
serve.
All too frequently the media dutifully spread these lies on
behalf of management. These reports don't give much room to
union members' arguments that they are making the sacrifice
of going out on strike in order to provide better quality
services than their bosses allow them to deliver.
This media slant is aimed at dividing service providers from
the support of the communities they work with. That's what
the Board of Education bosses tried to do to the Middletown
teachers. These teachers got hit with a double-barreled
blast of management and media lies.
Middletown Township, a community of 66,000 people, is about
45 miles from New York City. It was the hardest-hit town in
the state of New Jersey by the World Trade Center disaster.
Three-dozen Middletown residents died in the rubble on Sept.
11. Residents are also reeling from the severe capitalist
recession and layoffs at nearby Lucent Technologies.
The Board of Education bosses exploited the tragic Sept. 11
deaths and the economic suffering in order to whip up the
community, portraying the teachers as unpatriotic, selfish
and privileged.
In fact, the loss of wages or benefits by any group of
workers just emboldens the bosses to cut the remuneration of
other sectors of the working class. The defeat of teachers'
unions would only lead to further erosions in the conditions
of workers in both the public and private sectors of the
economy.
However, the teachers not only didn't buckle, their courage
shone. When Judge Fisher asked a disabled 26-year-old
special education teacher whether he could physically go to
jail, he responded, "I would be honored." (Los Angeles
Times, Dec. 6)
The Middletown union is a local in the 2.6-million-member
National Education al Association, the largest union in the
country. The union is particularly democratic and militant.
It is comprised of both secretaries and teachers, and has
inspired its membership to sacrifice even their freedom in
the struggle for their dignity and rights.
The teachers have returned to work, but if the board refuses
to accept the intervention by the court-appointed mediator,
the union is prepared to continue the struggle.
"You can quote me on this, we're not done with them," jailed
union President Diane Swaim told reporters from jail. (CNN,
Dec. 7)
There's a basis for real unity in this struggle, but it has
to be explored and strengthened with parent-teacher
associations and other community-based and progressive
organizations. Many teachers are also parents. And many
people in the community are workers. During this period,
when the teachers are back at work, they need to close ranks
with the most progressive elements in the community.
A Middletown science teacher summed up what it will take to
win this battle: "The only way you get respect is if you
stand up for yourself." (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 8)
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Subject: [WW] Thousands Killed by U.S. Bombers
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Reprinted from the Dec. 20, 2001
issue of Workers World newspaper
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WHAT THEY WON'T LET US SEE: THOUSANDS KILLED BY
U.S. BOMBERS
By Deirdre Griswold
The planned and deliberate brutality of the Pentagon war in
Afghanistan is a closely guarded secret.
People in the United States are being told practically
nothing about the war's effects on the Afghan people. What
images are we allowed to see on television? Explosions that
produce nothing but clouds of dust. Fuzzy objects in the
crosshairs of bombers that are always identified as
"military targets." Grateful refugees receiving generous
handouts from the West. And the smooth-talking boys of the
Pentagon who make it all sound like a heroic game that will
end when the "evil enemy" has been taken.
But the truth is there have been massive civilian
casualties.
The military no longer produce a "body count" at the end of
each day as they did during the Vietnam War. However, as of
Dec. 10, more than 3,500 civilians had died in the U.S.
bombing, according to Prof. Marc W. Herold of the University
of New Hampshire.
Herold has been keeping tabs on casualty reports since the
bombs began falling on Oct. 7. He has done a meticulous job
of tabulating, day by day and place by place, all the
reports of civilian casualties to be found in the world
press.
Herold released the results of his study on Dec. 10 in a
discussion with Amy Goodman, producer of Democracy Now! An
Excel spreadsheet containing the information can be found at
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/.
"I was concerned that there would be significant civilian
casualties caused by the bombing, and I was able to find
some mention of casualties in the foreign press but almost
nothing in the U.S. press," he said.
"These were poor people to begin with," he added. "And, on
top of that, they had absolutely nothing to do with the
events of September 11."
Herold lists the date, number of casualties, location, type
of weapon used and sources of information for each incident.
Here is one such listing for Oct. 11: "Two U.S. jets bombed
the mountain village of Karam, comprised of 60 mud houses,
during dinner and evening prayer time, killing 100-160
people. Sources: DAWN (English-language Pakistani daily
newspaper), the Guardian of London, the Independent,
International Herald Tribune, the Scotsman, the Observer and
the BBC News."
That was at the beginning of the bombing campaign, when the
Taliban were still believed to be strong. But what happened
after they began to flee south and eventually abandoned
Kabul?
BOMBING OF BIBI MAHRU
The bombing continued unabated. In an article entitled "U.S.
Planes Rain Death on the Innocent," Rory McCarthy wrote in
the Guardian of Dec. 1 that the village of Bibi Mahru near
Kabul had been hit several times by U.S. bombers, even
though they destroyed the only military target in the area,
a radar and anti-aircraft position on a hill above the town,
on the first night.
McCarthy saw the damage caused by bombs dropped 10 days
after the radar position had been destroyed. "The deep
craters and pieces of shrapnel indicate that America's
weapon of choice in Kabul was the Mark 82 500-lb. bomb,
which is designed to be guided to its target by the pilot, a
nearby observation plane or a spotter on the ground. But
there was nothing accurate about the 500-lb. bomb which fell
on Bibi Mahru. It killed Gul Ahmad, 40, a Hazara carpet
weaver, his second wife Sima, 35, their five daughters and
his son by his first wife. Two children living next door
were also killed. ... 'My husband was thinking before this
incident that the Americans would bring peace in our
country,' said Arafa, who lost eight members of her family.
'Now I am left with my five daughters and two sons and no
one to look after them.'"
McCarthy also visited a neighborhood in Kabul of workers'
apartment buildings built by the Soviet Union during the
period of the Afghan Revolution, which was overthrown in a
war financed by the U.S. CIA. On Nov. 12, wrote McCarthy,
the last day the Taliban spent in Kabul, "American planes
targeted a military garrison close to the densely populated
Soviet-built Microrayon housing district. Four 50-lb. bombs
hit the area. Only one hit the garrison.
"One landed at the corner of apartment block 33, where a
crowd of children were playing. Nazila, six, was crushed to
death by a concrete block. 'She couldn't run away in time,'
said her father, Abdul Basir. 'We believed because this was
a residential block they wouldn't hit it. We thought they
were hitting their targets accurately.' A second landed in
the road, a third landed on two houses, killing five people,
including a 15-year-old girl."
The Pentagon keeps denying civilian casualties in its press
briefings. The corporate media here--the newspaper and
television bosses who control what gets aired--accept
whatever the military says. They kill any reports on
civilian casualties that come their way.
But reporters from other countries are sending back vivid
accounts of the death and destruction.
WHEN 'NOTHING HAPPENED' AT KAMA ADO
The most direct rebuttal to the Pentagon line came from
Richard Lloyd Parry, who went to the village of Kama Ado in
eastern Afghanistan near the mountainous Tora Bora area
shortly after U.S. B-52s bombed the area.
In a scathing, ironic piece in the Independent of London on
Dec. 4 called "A Village Is Destroyed and America Says
Nothing Happened," Parry described the devastation:
"[T]he village of Kama Ado has ceased to exist. Many of the
homes here are just deep conical craters in the earth. The
rest are cracked open, split like crushed cardboard boxes."
Parry said that 115 villagers were killed in the bombing.
But "nothing happened."
"We know this," wrote Parry, "because the U.S. Department of
Defense told us so. That evening, a Pentagon spokesman,
questioned about reports of civilian casualties in eastern
Afghanistan, explained that they were not true, because the
U.S. is meticulous in selecting only military targets
associated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida network.
Subsequent Pentagon utterances on the subject have wobbled
somewhat, but there has been no retraction of that initial
decisive statement: 'It just didn't happen.'"
Parry says that all along the road to Kama Ado he was
"confronted with the wreckage and innocent victims of high-
altitude, hi-tech, thousand-pound nothings." The only fear
he felt while visiting the village was on seeing U.S. planes
fly over. He was afraid that "nothing" might happen to him,
too.
Barry Stoller also wrote about Kama Ado. His account, "U.S.
Bombs Wipe Out Farming Village," appeared in a Dec. 3
Associated Press dispatch that was largely ignored by
newspapers here. "Children's shoes, bits of charred carpet
and cooking pots litter what is left of this hamlet, along
with dead cows and sheep," he wrote. "Here and there are
craters, some 20 feet wide. One holds the tail fin from a
Mk83 1,000-pound bomb. ...
"Witnesses and survivors say U.S. warplanes dropped more
than 25 bombs in four passes over the village on Saturday,"
Dec. 2.
By Dec. 10, the Independent, another London newspaper, wrote
that U.S. bombers were extending "their onslaught on the
mountains in Tora Bora, south-east of Jalalabad, where the
Saudi-born fugitive [Osama bin-Laden] may be making his last
stand. Witnesses said heavy bombing raids were being
launched every 30 minutes." This would make it the most
intensive bombing campaign yet and should boost Professor
Herold's casualty figures even further.
ACCIDENTAL OR DELIBERATE?
It is assumed in the press accounts that these attacks on
civilians are due to error. Of course, accidents do happen.
The pilots have even bombed a few U.S. Special Forces and
Northern Alliance troops. But the broad scope of civilian
casualties catalogued by Professor Herold speaks to
something other than just a few accidents.
"Officials say the Marines are trained to distinguish
'friend from foe' but Afghan truck and bus drivers complain
that their vehicles have been hit from the air on the road
from Herat to Kandahar and Kandahar to Kabul," said the Dec.
10 Independent article.
Villages, cars, apartment blocks, all hit and hit again.
Isn't it reasonable to assume that civilians are the
targets, and that the pilots know it? If so, it wouldn't be
the first time that U.S. pilots have been part of a
conspiracy to keep the public from knowing what was really
going on in a war.
When the U.S. started the secret bombing of Cambodia in
March 1969, phony flight plans were filed to conceal the
pilots' true destination. (See "Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon
and the Destruction of Cambodia," by William Shawcross,
Simon & Schuster, 1979.)
And, of course, there was the brutal bombing of civilians
just two years ago in Yugoslavia.
Everything about this war in Afghanistan reeks of Pentagon
disinformation and the conning of the public. Its very
premise is a lie.
Collapsing the government of Afghanistan, reducing its
cities and villages to rubble, and turning 7.5 million
people into freezing, starving refugees is not going to
protect people in the United States from terrorist acts.
That is absurd. It can only inflame the anger at U.S. world
domination that is already white-hot.
During the Vietnam War, U.S. troops began to realize that
those who cared the most about their welfare were the
demonstrators demanding that they be brought home. This
simple truth must be relearned. The anti-war movement is
determined to save both U.S. and Afghan lives.
It's the Pentagon, the Bush administration and the corporate
billionaires behind them who are risking U.S. civilians at
home and military personnel abroad in a "great game" to
control the riches of Central Asia.
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Date: torstai 13. joulukuu 2001 06:36
Subject: [WW] Venezuela: The Specter of Counter-Revolution
