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...February Cuba shot down two U.S. civilian planes flown by anti-Castro pilots who lived in Diaz-Balart's district. Like much of the large local Cuban-American population, he is staunchly anti-Castro and pro-Helms-Burton Act, which denies foreigners who profit from Cuba-seized American property the right to visit the U.S. He has no Democratic opponent...
...also involves peril. Wooing Dade County's 678,000 Cuban Americans has resulted in the most volatile period of confrontation with Havana since the 1962 missile crisis. The Pentagon fears it is only a matter of time before another event like February's shoot-down of two U.S. civilian planes by Cuban MiGs sparks a military confrontation between the two countries...
References to protesting civilians as "rock-throwing delinquents" and to the Palestinian civilian police as "vigilante commandos" portray the author's desperate attempt to convince the reader that his personal judgement is the truth. The claim that Palestinian police officers fired "automatic weapons upon the Israelis who armed them" overlooks the fact that these arms were purchased under the Oslo agreement, and with Palestinian money. The images purveyed by such propaganda upholds the political axiom around which Israeli hawks, and their more poorly informed counterparts in the U.S., mobilize: We have tried peace but we can not/will not trust those...
...depots in Iraq in 1991. Who made the decision to risk blowing up the chemical and biological ammunition in situ? Was the risk factor properly appraised, not only with regard to allied troops temporarily present in the vicinity of the destruction site but also with regard to the Iraqi civilian population? If "blowing up" is a correct description of what happened, and if even minute quantities of nerve gas can be a severe health hazard, one shudders at the possibilities of long-lasting contamination of the Iraqi countryside and population. And I cannot help remembering the distressing consequences...
...several U.N. resolutions. It is significant that America's staunch Arab allies like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait did not permit their territory to be used for unleashing missile attacks on Iraq. It is amazing that the world community does not give a thought to the plight of the civilian Iraqi population. VARGHESE POOVAKKATTU Herne, Germany...