2000 Indonesian political prisoners released

=== [PDF page 1] === Deportation mn$ d:.i»ath IMMMPECTED SNOW 1 threaten Poio Haitians By TOM FOLEY deaft unless a^onoprriPH6!6!^0"^?3^*?the U-S: face Possible deportation and The House Judiciary ^w™?68!0 ttleir witbin tbe nexS; few days. October lo. P ’ d th b 18 scheduled for a floor vote sometime before Haiti is a nation that serves as an example of absolute rep- The President now has the power to “parole” larpe c|nn«, fho r* othe/groups, tadudttng thelNa- S'SKSrgri from Vietn^rThe HR 2^6 bill rfesSsH ,t,onal, Coui?c.l of Churches, have launched a nationwide campaign to try to save the Hai tian refugees. “What we have now legislative emergency,” Swartz said. “Now is i ndeed the time to act. ” The 8,000 Haitians are those who have landed on U.S. shores since 1972, fleeing the dictator ial pro-U.S. imperialist rule of Haiti’s President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. Less than 100 have been granted political refugeee status, though all have applied for it. The Immigration and Natu ralization Service (INS) and the State Department argue that the refugees are “eco nomic refugees,” not political ones. Last January, the Na tional Council of Churches (NCC) won a class action suit halting INS deportations of the Haitian refugees, who face death, torture and/or impris onment on their forced return to Haiti. soon to be voted upon in the Uraeasvl.™ House would eliminate parole The American Committee for IT v the Protection of the Foreign P' Born (799 Broadway, Suite 239, came to the U.S. across hun- New York 10003, Tel.- OR4dreds of miles of open sea in 5058) has urged that people small, overcrowded boats. “write or wire President Carter Numbers did not make it: six at once,” urging him to grant drowned in mid-August only a asylum to the 8,000 Haitian re half-mile off the shore from fugees who came before June Palm Beach, Florida. 30, 1979, as proposed by Con At the time, the influential gressman William Lehman Miami (Florida) Herald ran an (u-r ia i, and and to to assure (D-Fla), assure fair fair editorial demandmg asylum for treatment for Haitian refugees the Haitian refugees, and said who arrive after that date Letthe situation ‘‘cries out for ac- ters and telegrams are now also urgently necessary to members The Congressional Black of the House of Representatives Caucus, the National Urban before HR 2816 comes up for a League and Senator Richard vote. oi? u ) all have accused BOYCOTT s@yra PRODUCTS In a development that shocked nearly everyone — including most weath ermen — snow hit Morristown, N.J., and other Northeast cities late Tues day night and early Wednesday. Snow was reported just north of New York City. Incidentally, the inclement weather has placed a big question mark over the World Series, which was due to begin in Pittsburgh Tuesday, but was postponed because of the wet field. -mmummmm W (3iSD (MGDtaBi buildup Countries throughout the Caribbean have con demned the U.S. military buildup in the region as a threat to peace. Thousands of U.S. troops have been sent to the illegal U.S. naval base at Guan tanamo Bay in southeast Cuba. Guantanmo is less than 90 miles north of Kings ton, capital of Jamaica, where Foreign Minister P. J. Patterson on Tuesday released a joint state ment by four Caribbean nations condemning the U.S. buildup as a direct threat to them and to other countries in the region. The four nations were Jamaica, Guyana, Gre nada and St. Lucia. In Managua, Nicaragua, Humberto Ortega, commander-in-chief of the Sandinist People’s Army, called the U.S. buildup “a serious threat to peace throughout the world.” i°S2s seitt t® ifetaawa Fourteen U.S. B-52 heavy bombers and five aerial tanker refueling plans arrived at Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa Tuesady, the Kyodo Tsushin News Agency reported. Indonesia prisoners freed remote island of Buru, are to be released shortly, it was reported. Indonesian democratic sources welcomed the news as “a positive fact,” but noted that the ex prisoners are deprived of practically all civil rights and must regularly report to the nearest police station. The ex-prisoners have neither jobs nor money, they said. S„ Africa troop buildup South Africa recently increased its military strength in Namibia, the South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) said yesterday. New South African Army units were identified at Grotfontein, Rundi and Katima-Mulilo, ail in northern Namibia close to the Angolan border. Squadrons of Mirage, Impala, Canberra and Buc caneer aircraft were also moved there. SWAPO said reconnaissance flights are being conducted round-the-clock over northern Namibia and southern Angola by the South Africans. Greek Premier visits Prague President Gustave Husak of Czechoslovakia met Tuesday in Prague with Premier Constantine Caramanlis of Greece, who is in Czechoslovakia on an official visit. Caramanlis and Husak discussed the possibilities for further expanding relations. Irairfli tails held Two thousand Indonesian political prisoners were released Tuesday from ‘‘special camps,” Deputy Premier Sadeq Tabatabai of Iran met in Jakarta news reports said. Most had been in the Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday with Abu Jihad, concentration camps since 1965-66. member of the Central Council of al-Fatah and a Another 2,000 political prispng-g, k^ o^thg^, Header in.the Palestine> Liberation Organization (PLO). The Palestinian news agency WAFA said they discussed the situation in southern Lebanon. Earlier, Tabatabai met with President Elias Sarkis and Premier Salim al-Hoss of Lebanon. Tabatabai stressed Iran’s readiness to give Leba non every aid in restoring its sovereignty over southern Lebanon and putting down the Israeli puppet leader Sa’d Haddad. During the talk, snip ers from the reactionary “Lebanese Front” fired* at Tabatabai, but no one was hurt. Malaysian condemns TNCs Trans-national corporations (TNCs) were con demned yesterday by Hohathir Mohamad, Deputy Premier of Malaysia. Mohamad, who is also Trade and Industry Minister, was speaking in Kuala Lumpur before the National State Administration Institute. “Experience shows,” he said, “that the TNCs, eager to get maximum possible profits, do not stop at anything. They try to ‘buy up’ whole govern ments, to turn a nation into a ‘banana republic.’ Malaysia can’t work with the TNC giants because their goals are diametrically opposed to ours.” Hua backs fascist plan Hua Guofeng, chairman of the Maoist clique in Beijing, said Tuesday that China strongly supports “the reunification of Germany.” Hua spoke at a special press conference for reporters from West Germany, Italy, Britain and France. He left no doubt in correspondents^ minds that he meant that West Germany should take oyer the German Dem ocratic Republic and parts of Poland and of the