>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unverified) >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit >Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 22 December 2000 > . >*PARLIAMENTARY SESSIONS END IN THE CUBAN CAPITAL > >*CUBANS CELEBRATE TEACHER'S DAY > >*CUBAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP REAGENTS FOR CHOLERA DIAGNOSIS > >*LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM UNDERWAY IN CUBA > . >*PARLIAMENTARY SESSIONS END IN THE CUBAN CAPITAL > >Havana, December 22 (RHC)-- The 6th Ordinary Session of the Cuban >Parliament wound up Thursday night after a one-day meeting. The 545 >deputies approved the state's budget legislation plus the guidelines >of the economic and social project for the year 2001. > >The state budget includes over 6.2 million dollars for educational >and health programs, retirement benefits and social assistance. > >During the Parliamentary sessions, Cuban Economy and Planning >Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez said that despite the unfavorable >economic situation in the world, Cuba's Gross Domestic Product has >grown to 5.6 of instead of the predicted 4.5. > >The Cuban Parliament granted recognition to the Cuban people for >their battle for Elian Gonzalez' return to Cuba and they agreed to >continue in their battle of ideas. The Cuban Parliament's also >supported the extradition of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his >accomplices who are detained in Panama for entering the country with >false documents and attempting to assassinate Cuban President Fidel >Castro during last month's Ibero-American Summit. > >*CUBANS CELEBRATE TEACHER'S DAY > >Havana, December 22 (RHC)-- Cubans are celebrating, Friday, Teacher's >Day in commemoration of the literacy campaign, which was launched by >the Cuban government in the early days of the Revolution with the >participation of dozens of thousands of young people in the >countryside. > >Meanwhile, Cuban Health Minister Carlos Dotres congratulated the >sector's professors for their role in the well being of the Cuban >people. > >The Cuban official presided at the national activity for Teacher's >Day at the Victoria de Giron School of Medicine in Havana in which >118 professors from the country's health system took part. > >He added that despite the lack of resources resulting from >Washington's blockade against the island, the people's health is the >one of the Cuban government's priority. > > *CUBAN SCIENTISTS DEVELOP REAGENTS FOR CHOLERA DIAGNOSIS > >Havana, December 22 (RHC)-- Cuban scientists developed, for the first >time, reagents for the laboratory diagnosis of cholera. > >According to Gilberto Moya Justiz, specialist in microbiology and >head of the investigative team, the production of the reagents >represents a saving of a quarter million dollars in imports. > >Speaking to Prensa Latina news agency, Moya Justiz explained that >until now Cuba has imported the cholera reagents at a price ranging >between 18 and 36 dollars for every milliliter, or about 30 drops. > >The Cuban reagents will guarantee that the national laboratory >network will have enough of the diagnostic materials in the event of >a cholera outbreak. > > *LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM UNDERWAY IN CUBA > >Havana, December 22 (RHC)-- The Local Human Development Program >underway in Cuba was characterized Wednesday in Havana as a >cooperation project that has gone beyond expectations during a three >party meeting with representatives from Italy, Cuba and the United >Nations Development Program. > >All three parties are attempting to strengthen the mechanisms >and instruments for local economic development, particularly with the >generation of jobs in Old Havana, western Pinar del Rio and eastern >Granma province. > >Thanks to the Local Human Development Program in the western province >of Pinar del Rio local authorities have achieved the restoration of >an aqueduct in the region of Minas de Matahambre, while work has been >done to combat the drought in the eastern part of the island. > In Old Havana, the cooperation project are dedicated to hygiene, >medical emergencies and public lighting. > >(c) 2000 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. All rights reserved. >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >=================================================== >rhc-eng-23467 2000-Dec-22 23:49:33 " JC > > ********* > >from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >subject: One Coup follows another: The end of What? >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 02:43:11 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: One Coup Follows Another: the End of WBAI? >To: undisclosed-recipients:; > >One Coup Follows Another: the End of WBAI? >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit >source: Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen @ mindspring.com> >23 December 00:30 > >Dear Folks, > >Just received a call (followed by 20 emails) that Pacifica National >Board Director Bessie Wash is right now at WBAI radio station >changing the locks and implementing their fascist takeover. Sadly, >reports are that Utrice Leid is helping her, and will replace Valerie >Van Isler as program director by fiat from the top down. > >There is a huge struggle against this. The call just went out for >people to head down to the radio station RIGHT NOW (after MIDNIGHT, >Saturday morning), 120 Wall St. and the East River, 10th floor. > >Some of us are heading there now. GREENS, come join the Brooklyn >Greens and friends! Save our station! >Mitchel Cohen >Brooklyn Greens / Green Party of NY > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >=================================================== >nytcov-12.23.00-02:39:10-25802 " JC > > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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