Mae Brussell's World Watchers International
Bibliography sheet for tape #838 December 28, 1987 Side 1HAPPY NEW YEAR, 1988. WHAT A CRAZY TIME WITH REAGAN AS PRESIDENT !!!!! SOME HEADLINES AS THE YEAR COMES TO A CLOSE. USA GIVES ORDERS TO OTHER COUNTRIES:
"U.S. WANTS AFGHAN PULLOUT IN 1988" WP 12/5/87
"AMERICAN OFFICIALS CONCLUDE GENERAL NORIEGA, PANAMA, SHOULD GO TOMORROW" NYT 12/14/87
"HOUSE VOTE CALLS ON NICARAGUA TO COMPLY WITH DEMOCRATIZATION" DCT 12/9/87
ON THE OTHER HAND, WE COURT, SUPPORT DICTATORSHIPS.
HAITI
"Haiti Crisis made in USA" PDW 12/14/87
"Terrorism in Haiti Leaves Military in Full Control, Democracy Distant", LAT 12/17/87
"Terror Paralyzes Haiti in Wake of Halted Elections" SJM 12/15/87
"Army Officials linked to Haitian Terror, Pappa Doc". SF EX 12/14/87
EL SALVADOR
"Salvadoran Amnesty, Free Killers of American Advisors, 1981" WP 12/15/87 Michael Hammer of Potomac, Mark Perlman of Seattle, with Jose Viera, gunned down.
"Three terrorists who killed six Americans to be freed. US provides Duarte with $448,000,000 in foreign aid" 19 murdered 6/19/1985. Spotlight, 12/21/87
"Two Human Rights Commission members, Rene Cardenas Vargas and Herbert Anaya, gunned down Oct. 16, 1987 and Dec. 10, 1987". WP 12/11/87
Gov't Official heads death Squad", PDW 12/15/87 Col. Reinaldo Lopez Nuila "Commander Aquiles Baires", head of death squad, killed 4 union members.
CHILE
"Free Speech Severely Restricted in Chile", WP 12/5/87
"Chilean Sought by US, Col. Pedro Espinoza Bravo, was serving Chile in S. Africa". WP 12/18/87 Bravo escorted to Chile to prevent being taken to US authorities. Wanted for link of Pinochet to murder of Orlando Letelier, Ronni Moffit.
"Rights Activist tells U.S. tales of horror and Torture, Chile." PDW 12/16/87 E. Fuentes
"Chile's Pinochet, legacy of Executions, Tortures, Kidnappings to quell dissent" DCT 11/13.
HONDURAS
"U.S. Guardsmen Building Road in Honduras", NYT 12/20/98 Since 1984, more than 30,000 US soldiers from 35 states joined in similar construction.
"Six Honduran Drug Arrests" WP 12/16/87 Cuban-Americans, Bolivians, links to Contras, Costa Rica, D.C. teams.
"U.S. to send 2 new jets to Honduras," Mi. H. 12/16/87 "To maintain capability."
JAPAN
"Japan Pledges to Assist in Southeast Asia WP 12/16/87 Meeting tested Corazon Aquino.
"Senate Panel Rejects U.S.-Japan Pact on Shipping Plutonium" WP 12/18/87 US was going to allow several hundred pounds of plutonium in next 30 years. Extremely potent cancer-causing agent, to go in casks "not yet invented".
ECUADOR
"Road building Exercise Educational for U.S. Army". WP 12/26/87 National Guard, cutting 3 miles of road through Amazon jungle, "these could be war stoppers". 400 bulldozers, trucks, 600 troops, 700 mile trek.
PANAMA
"Panama says U.S. Plans Murder, will kill Commander-in-Chief Gen. M. Noriega" PDW 12/17/87
"U.S.-Panama Struggle Intensifies, Hill Sanctions, Near all out conflict" WP 12/16/87
ISRAEL
"Arabs Under Israel's Thumb, Resentment occupies Palestinian camps, West Bank" SFX 12/20 "There's always harassment in the camp, Day and Night, they stop and search young people. Sometimes they hit them, I don't know why".